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Show I Sports. Without intending to be humorous, the local dailies succeeded in going through some extremely extreme-ly ludicrous specialties in depicting the recent tournament between Mike Schreck and George Gardner. A bell boy falling down a couple of flights of stone steps could not have gone through any more pyrotechnics nor shown any stronger signs of mental uneasiness. The information gained from that source v.ould indicate that Mr. Schreck had done Gardner Gard-ner a great and irreparable injustice in defeating him; that he did the trick with some haymakers that would hardly have been creditable to a Polish Po-lish bricklayer, and that the Dutchman's luck was far in excess of his cleverness. All of which would go to show that Mr. Gardner's Gard-ner's engaging personality had filled them with large consignments of grief over his downfall, or that having predicted that the Lowell punch pilot would be victor, they felt it incumbent upon themselves to apologize for the faulty prognostication. prognosti-cation. The jar which overcame Mr. Gardner's equilibrium is variously described as a "cnance f blow" and "haymaker", indicating that the German Ger-man won the fight while in the throes of the blind staggers. In reality the blow was a right hook to the jaw, calmly, accurately and judiciously delivered, de-livered, which connected at a time when the Dutchman was strong as a mastodon and when Gardner was hazy and weak from the effects of i Schreck's ceaseless and superior milling. Schreck won by a fat margin, and it by no means happened because Gardner was in anything but first-class condition. The Lowell man put up one of the best fights of his ring career, and lost f because he was pitted against a more rugged and iesourcoful fighter, and one whose peculiar style of defense was a perpetual mystery to the ex-light ex-light heavyweight champion. Schreck was always al-ways going away when Gardner landed, and his peculiar stylo of eluding a blow without the aid of a glove made him look about as big as a handful hand-ful of country butter. He beat Gardnej at his own specialty of in-fighting, and emerged from round after round with a margin to his credit. Gardner himself was always a willing mixer, and it is not unlikely that he would still have retained the title of heavyweight champion had he fought the Corn-ishman Corn-ishman in the same sturdy and speedy style of milling that ho exhibited on Monday night. Gardner's Gard-ner's difficulty was in being opposed to a most original and unusual fighter, whose peculiar tactics tac-tics frequently made the Lowell man's swings look positively amateurish. Gardner had the advantage of weight, reach and experience, and it was nothing better than absurd to apologize for his failure to win. While the dailies might still retain their prejudice against Schreck for having punctured the Gardner idol, Salt Lake fight patrons generally would be very glad to see the sturdy youngster here again in a contest with PitzBimmons, Jack O'Brien or someone else of about that caliber. |