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Show MANHATTAN CLUB Two real boxing matches, two "grasshopper" "grass-hopper" bouts and a battle royal furnished fur-nished amusement, for over 300 members mem-bers of tho .Manhattan Athletic club .Monday night. Tho batilo royal was tho best yet given, and several times In the contest tho rlngsido spectators had to shift their positions on account of tho "smokes." Tho first bout was a good draw between be-tween Lefty and Gothln. but Rofereo Ryan said Gethin won. The llrvt round was even. In the next two rounds tho gong had much lo do In helping Gcthln to get to his corner, while in the fourth round Gcthln came up weak, but managed man-aged to put it all over the Cyclone by driving in a hard right at the opening of tho round to the chin. This gave Lefty one round tho best of the argument. argu-ment. Voting Sharkey disgraced tho name of the heavyweight of that name by quitting quit-ting in the second round of a whirlwind go with Johnny Gilbert- The latter seomed lo be outclassed In the first round, but came back In tho second and set such a hot pace that Sharkey threw up his hands and hoisted tho white flag. "Look out for Sammy Martin's right" was the word passed around when a hungry-looking "kid" stepped Into Ihe ring with Kid Forbes. Martin not only could box. but gave an exhibition of a new "hop dance." called the "grasshopper whirl " Forbes did not find his opponent, oppo-nent, but made such ferocious rushes that Martin considered his company too fnsl and politely Informed Referee Ryan that he wanted lo live lo see another day and the bout ouded in the third round wilh neither man scratched. Frankle F.riie-and Mlckle Sullivan ran a "boxing fool race," and it is conservatively conserva-tively estimated that the boys covered the full distance marathon of twenty-live miles. They showed too much class, neither being able to land a clean blow during tin four rounds, and they retired with a draw. Bllllo Bell won the battle, royal in the most exciting contest pulled off by the colored population so far. For the til's t tlmo In the history of battle royals each man wanted to win and the contest was a good one. |