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Show IK1IITIM1 II I. MIJIIT. A airusale far lb I lain wslilil I lianiilanlilt r Che houlti. Niw OiuiA.su, April 0. Andy Iloweuof this city aud Jaok Ilurku of lexas fought tonight fur tbo lightweight light-weight championship of tho Bouth aud a purse of f-,UUU, uf which $WJ went to the loser, before the latest audience tver ussembled Inthuarena ot tho Ulynilo cluti. The fight com-meneed com-meneed at 11,10 p. in. Howell landtd a goo I rlglitaud llurke clinched. Ilurku waa lougbl Into a corner whero tho rouud ended with lljwea In tbu lead. In ttiu second rouud lluiko waa allowed Urst blood but was fought to the roles. Hound 3 llurke scored n good left on his oipuneut neck, but was ai-alu fouiiht to thu ropes. llurke lauded ou tbo heal In tho fourth rouud. llowon landel two fscu bbws. Hound 6 llowon landed soviral rights, and lluiko cllnohtd. lu the sixth, llurke laudeJ a heavy left, ltefereu Dully ctulloned llowon lor foul righting lu clinching lu tho seveuth round. Nothlug was done In Ihu eighth ruunl, but In tbe ninth Iloweu scored a le.t on thu liutd. In tbe tenth llurke landed heavlly,but lie got a hot shot lu return. Nothing wss douo lu the eleventh. Ill thu twelllh Iloweu landed a good luartpuueh. Iu thu llnrtieulh r oth-log oth-log was Uotio. llurke lauded two hot unchea on Howell's head lu the fourteenth. four-teenth. In tho fifteenth, nothing waa done. In Ihu sixteenth and seventeenth the menfojgtit bard, but Ibu home nun fought tout sexeral times. Ilurku caught lluwen right In thu noso In Ihu eighteenth, whleii was thu hard-blow ot thu fight. In thu nineteenth honors were easy, but In tho twentieth Hon en received some hard rc-ius In the face. In the twenty-first llurke lauded several facers, and tbu rouod closed In his favor. Iu tbe twenty-second llurke half fell aud was halt punched down. In the twenty-third Iloweu was knocked down and Hooted again later In the round. In tbe tweuty-fourtli little was done. In the twenty-filth Iloweu was nearly knocked down, but bis opponent failed to follow up the advantage. ad-vantage. In the twenty-sixth to twenty. eighth rounds honots were easy. From tbe twenty-ninth to the thirty-sixth thirty-sixth rouuds notlug but misses characterized charac-terized tho light. Tho men were exceedingly ex-ceedingly clumsy. There was notblug done Hum the thirty-seventh to the forly-fouth aud tbo audience growing weary, l)ugn whittling "Home, Bweet Home." J-'roni the forly.flfth to the forty-eighth tbe fighting grew hot. llowen knocked Hume down lu tbe forty-eighth, but tbu gong eavid tbe fallen man. Iu thu forty-ninth and succeeding rounds llowen went at llurke fast and furiously, but wbllo Ilurku was very weak tbu houio man's Judgmentwaa poor. During Ihu flrty-suvonth the audlenco called lorn draw, but Cap. tain llirrett said there should bono draw when tho fight was not brutal. From tho nfiy-eigbth to thu elxty. seoond round tbu fight looked nueer and many thought It was a fake. At".19 this (Friday) morning the men aru (till lighting, with no prospects pro-spects of thu Immediate termination of the combat. Ilolli are vury weak, and It Is anybody's fight. In rounds soventy-two to eighty-two Inclusive, nothing but poor judgment was displayed dis-played by either ol tho pugilists, and the audience Is growing very weary. Titers seems to be an Immediate I rospuct of the referee rendering a decision de-cision at this hour (3:43 a, m.) TuebuUitC acrtlnue. VlKANA, April 0 Private advices from Hervla Indicate that the political tension Is extreme aud a revolution Is billoed to bo Imminent. Urgent Hletlch, It Is reported, contemplates roslgulng. Hadlcals abstain from all participation In the proceedloga of thu tjkuj. tihlna. |
