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Show YOUNG WINNER OIEHJOHMSDI Swede Severely Battered, but Game ; Fighting George Gets Decision. In one of the flrcest and most stubbornly stub-bornly contested fights that have been held at the Manhattan club, Al Young "decisloned" Swede Johnson in a six-round six-round bout. Young started at the very beginning and hit the Swede, and he kept It up throughout. The Swede took them all and came back for more, which he always al-ways got. Young had long margins in every round, except the last, which was even. In the final the Swede did throw In a few shots, but he was too near out to do any damage. dam-age. Young's main reliance was to switch with the left to the wind and a right cross to the face. Johnson depended almost al-most entirely upon a right uppercut. He placed several of these. During the fourth round Young swung a roundhouse blow directly to the Swede's eye,' which opened a long cut, and for the rest of tho fight Young added to the gash, which looked anything but refreshing refresh-ing at the close of the mill. Another Hot One. Another fight which was fiercely contested con-tested was that between Fighting George and "Abie the Yid." This was also a six-round mill, and was nip and tuck for the full distance. The Yid forced the fighting all the way, with George waiting for him. George used a well-placed right uppercut, which bothered the Yid all the way. The first three rounds were a bit close, with George having a slight advantage, ad-vantage, which he kept adding to as the fight progressed. Abie wore himself out trying to keep up with his adversary, and when he did get George cornered, he usually usu-ally got one of George's best. George had every round except the third. During that round the Yid evened honors only to lose them the following round. The decision de-cision went to George. The first of the three six-round mills was between Danny Cummings and Jack Ryan. For four rounds they put up a swell, clever mill with honors about even. The fifth round was a signal for Ryan to let loose, which he surely did, with everything every-thing movable, chiefly a straight left to the face and a wicked right to the stomach. stom-ach. These worried Cummings for the remaining two rounds. During the sixth round, Ryan smothered his opponent with rights and lefts and, although Danny blocked a few, most of them were well directed rights and reached their mark. Ryan, through his good condition and clever ring work, won a popular decision. Pitchfork Knocked Out. Jack White and Soldier Pitchfork, substituting sub-stituting for Battling Johnson, who failed to show, came out for a four-round contest. con-test. The bout was much to the disadvantage disad-vantage of the soldier, for White waded through him like a horse through clover, knocking him down three times in the first round and twine in the second, the last time to be counted out. White never let the soldier set himself, but rushed in with a right cross to the face and a left uppercut, which always found its mark. Bobby Lee and Billy Burns were next for a four-round boiit. They are two heavy swingers. Burns wanted things finished early, and rushed In each round, but gained little by it. Lee was on the defensive throughout the four rounds. Burns tried hard to "get" him, but could not. The referee gave the boys a draw. The curtain-raiser, between Young Davis and Willie Beaton, was a scheduled three-round bout, but Beaton must have had an urgent engagement, for he tuned up during the first for the following round, which he won first by a knock-down and then with a right to the wind, which put Davis out. |