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Show DARCY SEES FIRST FIGHT II AMERICA Australian Phenom Not Impressed Im-pressed With Conduct of Ring Battles Here. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Les Darcy, the Australian middleweight champion, witnessed wit-nessed his first ring contest in America In Brooklvn today. In a ringside box he watched Hilly Miske of St. Paul and. George (Knockout) Brown of. Chicago liglit ten hard rounds in eight of which the Ht. Paul man gave the Chicagoan a beating. Miske, who is prominently mentioned men-tioned as an opponent for Darcy, had the advantage of height, reach, and five pounds in weight, but Brown withstood terrific punishment and was still fighrting gamely when the bout ended. Brown won the tirst two rounds. In the sixth Miske landed a right swinging swing-ing uppercut under Brown's jaw, but the Chicago man clinched and stalled out the round. In the seventh Brown took three short arm jolts in the same place, besides some inrd blows on the body, but Miske couid nut get his right over for a knockout. "The arrangements here are rather strange to me," Darcy said. "Both smoking and coaching from the corners are absolutely prohibited in Australia, but both are allowed here. The men in the ring must be weakened by inhaling such a smoke-laden atmosphere." In another Brooklyn club today. Battling Bat-tling Levinsky cleverly outpointed Gun-bont Gun-bont Smith in a ten-round bout. Mike O'Dowd. the t. Paul middle- w'eis'-.t, scored a decisive win over John- I ny (Kid) Alberts or" Hlizabetlt. N. .1.. in. nine out of ten rounds. Their respective weights were l"i4 and l.".r pounds. Johnny Coulon. the Chicago bantamweight bantam-weight and former world's champion, cleverly outpointed Joe Wagner, a local bantam, who defeated Coulon four years a?o, in a ten-round bout here today. Coulon weighed 112 pounds and Wagner |