Show FIGHT ENDS IN DRAW Joe oe Walcott and Billy Rhodes Fight on Boat in the Missouri 5 5 Kansas City Mo Sept Joo and amid Dilly Billy Rhodes Co fought ht twenty rounds to a haw draw today In what was wa advertised us as a light for tor tho the wel welter weight ht championship The Thc battle to took place on an Island In iii n the tho Missouri river ten miles from Cram Kansas CIl City where the authorities of oC neither either Kansas nor Missouri l has jurIs- jurIs diction Fifteen hundred people were resent It was the cleanest and best exhibition tion lon of or pugilism light goers uel's havo have ever witnessed in this vicinity From the lime tap ap of or time the gong until time the final inning It L was almost an un even een break Both men were In good condition That tho the Kansas Cil City lighter leI was given givon an even break breal in the decision was as due duo to lo his erne cleverness s in blocking and clever covering cov- cov ring ering up UI tactics hout made desperate efforts elTor to lo send home a haymaker but hut Rhodes Invariably ducked out of oC harms harm's wa way or closed In Ina ina a a. clinch In In lighting the Kansan lad had the best hest of it IL Rhodes did thid his hiM most effective fight fight- tug Ing ng In iii the thc eighteenth round When the he gong gong- sent the men to their corners corners corners cor cor- ners at the end of that round Walcott was vas to the had bad from a severe drubbing drubbing drub drub- bing bing- on the thc head and wind received at t close range Tho The negro evened up tImings things In lii the time following round how- how ever ver by giving Rhodes a do lose dose e of ot the thc same amo treatment There Thore was vas not nol a knockdown during luring the Iho entire light Rhodes weighed In at pounds und and ml Walcott alcott at al 14 1 |