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Show new not pleased with last fight Charlie Neary returned to Milwaukeo Wednesday morning after his six round draw with Clarence English In Chicago the night previous without a mark on his person to Indicate that he had participated participat-ed In a grueling six-round fistic combat. The Milwaukeo boy Is not satisfied with the showing he made against hi? opponent and attributes the decision of a draw to his being a trll'e nervous and over anxious anx-ious to make good before a strange club. There can be no denial of the fact that Neary s milling was a distinct disappointment disap-pointment to his many local friends and to himself, but It should also be known by the Milwaukee fight fans that the Chicago sporting writers In chronicling the Monday night event did not voice the opinion of tho spectators. It Is true that Iscary did not live up to his reputation and tho Windy Cltw fight fans who had looked to see tho Mllwaukecan make short work of English were surprised at the unsatisfactory un-satisfactory showing of Neary. But notwithstanding not-withstanding this Charlie made a profound pro-found Impression on those who saw him struggle In his first contest outside of tho lines of the State of Wisconsin. Tho men In Chicago that make a practice prac-tice of attending every card of bouts that promises Interesting milling arc more lenient than are the pugilistic writers of tho big city dailies and It can be said without fear of contradiction that Neary pleased the largo crowd with his persistent persist-ent and fearless fighting. Although ho was never Jn danger of being distressed by English, Neary worked like a Trojan to decisively defeat his antagonist, but ho could not land with his stiff blowa except upon the body at closo range After tho affair was over and the largo crowd was filing from the hall nine of every ten of the witnesses spoke most favorably fa-vorably of tho local man. The one expression ex-pression on every tonKUo was: "This Neary Is a great' little fighter and when he has been schooled In the finer points of the sport there aro few men of his weight that can take his measure " Malachy Hogan said that he had given tho decision of draw because neither of tho contestants had advantage enough to merit being returned winner and there was not a dissenting volco In the club when the announcement was mado. Hogan eald also that had the combat gono three or four more rounds Neary would certainly cer-tainly have beaten English and, perhaps, have put him out. |