Show HAWKINS HAWiNS FOUGHT TWO DAYS FOR PURSE Edgr Edgren p Describes Battle in iri Which Dal al Was Put to Sleep I S. S in In 91 S t R Round d t. t i 0 By ROBERT EDGREN 41 Copyright by The Press Publishing Co Followers Follower i of boxing today hardly know what real hard fighting is Two nights ago ag we WO in New York saw saw W the sorry spectacle cle provided by Freddy night called light weight champion of the world who ran and held hold and Welsh dogged caled it through ten rounds utterly obsessed with fear of Wilie Ritchie's Ritchie punch h and the possibility of of losing o ing his money earning title Not Not many pun years year ago ngo such S an exhibition would have havo caused any fighter year and especially a a champion to be hissed out of the ring of other when manhood What a contrast to some of the fights days and Wha hold higher position among men nen en th than the mere technical holdina holdina hold hold- ina of a a poorly nearlY defended d ti title le Today i iV y- y atory sot of the ring will 1 be beof oc UTo i two yarned through of a fight hL that was I hO the ays-the n r only one so far lar as m my on record leton On tM the goes gos and ot June I In Bogn n n Francisco ought V for Dal Dat Dl the Hawkins Hawklis light weight and chal- chal cham- cham lre Fred aud a i of ot the Pacific cost coast nune urse of ot O It was In tho the second d K y a righting fighting In lit the ninety first rt round Dal DaF Hawkins fell ln at last for tor for the tho that ten ten-s ten second count that R seems ms if so o long long to od The tho ho spectators tors and BO w short to theman tho the pec It tean man whorls getting it Im I am on giving you ou tho the story In the of Gone Gee McDougl who saw sw the Hero ra I It Is Is Just just as McDougall told I I I f have bavo eo finished reading your article the McCarty bout hout and I on WJ rd found It very Interesting I r have been beena a it fight ight I fan fah ver for tho the past thirty years eals and In that time I have seen een some o othe of or orthe the greatest men mon that ever entered the ring hug Many a time I have lavo stayed UI up all night t to get th the tip tp whore where a battle baue to tako taio That was the thelmo was ras going place time lime when they fought on tho the turf London prize rin ring rules rule with wih baro knuckles Bout Was Wu Best Beat Ev Ever r. r But ut of or all an the tho tights fights I over e witnessed wit wit- hes the tho greatest greatest- was tho the one between be between be- be tween n Dal Dd 1 Hawkins nn and Freddie Bo- Bo gan can They Thc fought h the Golden Gate club In San SUi n Francisco In 1819 I had cub teen Feen Feen both boys bos Fan fight several times be before before be- be It hard for me ne meto meto neto fore this go GO and lind 11 looked c to pick a winner winner I I X used to like to bet beton beton on contenta They The ma made Haw Hawkins Hains 2 to 1 I favorIte and I tl figured urel It ought to be even cn c mane money So I made a get et of or 50 against on Boan Began Bogan The by boys were fl fighting for u n t purse pur of 50 the tho winner to tal take e enIL nil So I r went out where Freddie Feddie WI was training and asked him what h he thought of or tho the b betting batting ne and h ho told mo ma he ht was wasa a cinch I told him about Hawkins' Hawkins dangerous dangerous ci left lef and he told me inc ho had two dan dangerous hands Th Then I 1 told him himI I would give him If I he won He HeId said paid Id You Iou J might might as w well l hand hand ov over r the mone money now as I wilt will wi win I asked aked Freddie eddle how old ho o was and ad he told toldO O Just jus 1 10 The night of or the fight right there ther were werl A tt couple of thou thousand nd members members mem mem- bers present Eddie Grancy Graney was the referee Both hove started a a. a bit cautious for Tor a couple of rounds and then them they started I or orno orno orno no one else elite cv ever r saw sw anything like It I. I No o two men could have Ilava gone bno raster faster than th were going the crowd was yelling all t timed time It I was any ones one's bat bat- bt- bt tie tic te In Itt the fourteenth round Bogan Boan I dropped Hawkins and It looked like It It was vas all 1 over hut but the tha bell ben Just saved Dal and anti he c came mc back In the fifteenth fighting harder hader- hader than ever It 1 didn't R acorn cm em possible the they could last long ton but hut buther they her just kept gol going lu n the the- seventeenth Hawkins dropped cd Bogan three times limes and I 1 would have taken a a dime for tor m my b bet The he nineteenth nine nIne- tenth the thc people thought sure It was wa Up tip with I Bogan an Pl dropped him Just as the first sounded and time gOl ROUST gong sounder er c every Freddie got up Dal would dro drop him He dr dropped hogan Bogan Bogn fourteen times Ures In that round and ard I was to lose 1081 my aty money and mt see Freddie quit a as nt It looked then hen he didn't have c ba a chance The twentieth round he lIe came caine back full ful of br fight and md dropped Dal and you never heard such luch cheering In your our life At AtU Atthe Atthe U the bell bl he looked like le a a winner an and I took took now new nC life le on my bet The fight light wont went on that way nip and tuck until the sixth seventy en round roum when the Ule referee referee ref ucc stepped In and stopped It I and re- re told the b boys to come com b back cl the next night and finish It I. I I went up to the he baths bath to tos to's see e F Freddie at t 4 In hi the morning and what a n looking sight he was I asked him hoW hot he felt and he said paid pid fine CM but he said uld was Hawkins worse ors than he and he told me he didn't think Dal Dat would show up lip DS as the they told him hini Hawkins broke hIs hla hand 1 Didn't Think Hed He'd Show oud you you believe mt me that afternoon after after- noon nol tn jhc te poolrooms they were betting bet bet- tn ting even money Hogan Bogan Bogn would auld not show u up ent out to the training quart t Freddie and tell him about It It and an he was sure fure tor sore He Ho could hadl hardly w walk lk but hut he said Mid he was going to show up P If I they he had to car carry him Into the te ring g He told me to take Uke somo som or Si that moner m ney e whIch I r did I got on OO that way wn When the boys took tok Iol their corners comets that that night you could not nize either of of them n an Indian they were both boh black and blue from their w waist st to to the top of their head and their hands l were so 1 swollen the they had hd a hard time Ume getting the gloves 01 on I lust Just sat sal and looked at them both thinking how ho the they could battle the wa way they looked ho just think how sore and stiff thc they must must sore have nave hen been 1 Ute they were were- on the o gloves u they the the- both tried to smile I will n never never- ver f nt that nIght a as long as I live loc Nothing NothIng was ever er gamer than these two bys boys both right fight to In n b U wj nc to die rather than hose lofe And Aud a all al for a purse de or of 5 and and- the title tte of or J light ht weiGht ot t the c l. l Pacific lc coast The he gong rang and at it they the started ed nc I Both oth or of then them went slow for a few rounds wa warming up P and then the they got Kat to going o n and what wha a battle they standing t to to batte to tc too toe to hit hit- hl- hl ter v n ns' ns hard and as ns as fast a as af the they could Neither and nip Uh and r one tuck tUcle would until give tho the an fifteenth Inch Jt t was ws round Bogan Bocan ogan dropped Dal Dat and you ou ought t to have have eee seen Hawkins trying to o get up un I But t It wg no use U h he WA was wa beaten beMen Hon Bol Ho- Kan n WAS ws Wis read read- to drop himself himsel and n- n ngn the t gamest ring battle I ever saw SW or ever expect to eve see wa was over What at would the bo boys think today to- to day If they ey had ha to make a tl fight that of-that n far I a of or 50 Those h were vere th thc e c 10 oi real ral fighting ln |