Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-01-12 | Page 7 | Silent Roan is Beaten by Markham

SILENT ROWAN IS A BEATEN BY MARKH AM Tommy Markham, who in his home town of Eureka Is oonaldered some pumpkins pump-kins of a fighter, put the quietus on Silent Rowan, who is known as a fair preliminary prelimi-nary man, in the fifth round of what was to have been a ten-round contest at Moroni. Mo-roni. Wednesday night. J . The Silent One evidently could not have heard the call QL-duty with regard to training as he was fat as a hog and entirely en-tirely out of condition. Markham as he haa always done depended entirely on rough tactics and eagerly took two wallops wal-lops to glVe one. Rowan hit Markham about when and whereJie pleased, but had no approachable horse-power, behind the blowa. Markham dropped the mute Ave times during the contest, finally putting put-ting hlra down for the count. The contest was refereed by A. C. Thompson of Mount Pleasant. As usual the men are after another an-other match -for a aide bet of $260 stage money. I