| Show YOUNG CORBETT WHIPS RICE RIOE Gets Cots Decision O In Eighteenth Round Fight Was WS Fast Faste CHAMPION FOUGHT lIARD Hire Haw No Nil Hope tip Up the iho Ih I nl II uc 1 to In Sin Slay Hot Springs Ark Arle Jan 14 Young Corbett lice tho featherweight champion I was given the decision n over Austin Au c ot of New London Conn Coun tonight in the tho round of what was waK to have been Jeen a 11 20 contest before the Whittington Park Athletic association Just before the ond of ot the seventeenth round Corbett n r f stiff tift left lert swing awing glancing from tho the stomach h stud and as a n result lice Wes Wils stoic nick and lull all but help lIell loss lesi On the tho calling of or time for tor tics tho be beginning beginning beginning ginning of ot the tho eighteenth round lound Bat Battling thug Nelson Jibes second threw II a towel Into the ring and Mil Corbett was WIlS given gl ven the tho decision AB All an nu tho the fight was Il u dis disappointment disappointment appointment It freely iy predicted that Rice nice would not stay 10 and anti the tho betting lettin wn Wills WUK on this basis The rhue feature of ot the tho contest was ns Rices foot toot footwork work wore Hut But for his success In III dodging Corbetts Corletta vicious lunges lungen he lie would have huo gone down anti and out early in the tho game Nearly every round rotund consisted of ot rushes rush ell and aggressive fighting by Cor bolt belt nail and feinting and dodging lI iy nice flee Once the tio champion went to the floor hi hii foot toot slipping as he ho dodged a n lunge from Rice Illee Wee Itice foil fell to Ills his knees under circumstances but both hoth men wore were on their feet teet In an nn Instant In lUre Ulce landed almost us many blown blowe OH did the tho champion but they tho lacked force torce and seemed se to do ho but slight dam chain damage ewe age In turn landed many face oUd body boll blows blos but bout huts his most swings aings wore were oto dodged or blocked and ani those that Went Vent home had hall no ef or effect feet feel light fight was purely purel to stay the 20 O rounds and he lie fought almost en entirely entire tire on thus the So 50 was as he ho In dodging tho the iu lUilhas hes of or the that sawed the this air nil anti and several times ran Into the ropes rope ropel with force torce At the were vero a number of prominent sporting men mon Before the thoc beginning of ot tho the bout bOllt Manager Mulli Mull Mulligan Mulligan gan of the th association received a n num number number ber lIeI of or telegraphic challenged c from the featherweights In all part of the tho coun COUll country country try to meet mel the winner of or the th match They VIP eio Ie heard with great greal applause from the thue spectators spectator ien en read from tram the thoe ring prior to 10 tho the contest con est |
