| Show I BillY IS EASY WINNER I San Francisco May Jay 15 One min minute minute I ute and thirty seconds or of a scheduled I round contest was dent cleat to demonstrate that Hugo Kelly Kell of Chicago Is no match in speed or skill shill with Billy Illinois Thunderbolt At tho tiro end of or this brief period after half a dozen short shon rallies stood unmarked while Kelly lay unconscious In the tho center of or ortho tho the ring with a deep cut cul over his right eye oyo and his chances chancos for the middle middleweight middlet weight championship gone glimmer grimmer glimmering ing Faster and andl stronger than ho he has appeared since his bin memorable battle battlo with Stanley Stanle Ketchel at Los Angeles virtually toyed with his opponent opponent nent In the th several clinches he ho smothered Kellys attempts at in infighting Infighting infighting fighting and pushed him away owa only to land stinging slinging rights and lefts that found the Italian almost unprotected Kelly lost the battle when wh n land landed landed ed cd his first clean right and left to tho Ule J Jaw He went to the tho noor for the count of or nine and arose without suf sufficient I vitality to resist tho the finishing punches Prior to this P had shot shota I Ia a terrific left hook to the temple which laid open an gash Just above I Kellys Kell s right eye e e The blow was vas the tho opening wedge Kelly appeared to weaken and without an In hi Instants I stants hesitation rushed him to tho the I ropes shooting lefts left and rights Into nisi midsection Kelly fell face downward and was counted out by br I Time Tinte Keeper Hasting As Eddie Ell le Smith counted ten Kelly struggled to raise himself on his el cl elbow elbow bow lIow but the effort exhausted his last spark of vitality and aud ho he lurched back bacle unconscious Seconds carried him to his corner In a state of unconscious unconsciousness ness floss while a hundred spectators climbed into the ring to smother with congratulations I wonderful strength and speed was tho the feature of the tho brief contest Ills His taller opponent appeared weak and awkward by comparison with the tho Kewanee boy and at no stage did Kelly have havo a chance to show his ole clev cleverness erness erm ss Half of tho the ninety seconds was spent In clinches wrestled wres wrestled tied and md flung Kelly about with utter disregard dh robar for the tho Italians greater height Against the tho ropes whither ho he was rushed twice or three times Kel Kelly Kf Kelly l lI ly I was almost hopeless and It was In Inthis inthis this plight that blows were lauded landed The Tho battle battlo which took toole place In tho the open air all was wag witnessed by approximately matel people and was tho the fourth meeting between the tho rival middle middleweights middleweights weights Toda 6 battle was waa practically over before half of the spectators had sot sol settled tied tiel In iii their seats The blows were struck at such a fast clip that they I 1 could be followed only with difficulty and until the tho first knockdown it was not realized that Kelly was so serl seri seriously damaged All of s effective effective tive work was done at short shor range tho the blows tr cling eling but a n few Cew Inches InC 1 and the men standing shoulder to shoulder The Tho fight consisted of but three Important Import nt blows landing all of them i |
