Show THEY FIGHT A DRAW tommy ryan and mack wilks fight seventeen rounds the police stop it because wilks th though au gh game was being pounded into a jelly july 30 tommy ryan cham pion ion welter a eight weight and mack wilks of st t louis fought to a finish before the magic city club tonight to night for a purse of af tl they ie we weighed sighed in today to day at pounds 0 d ea each ll 11 A large crowd was present yr ars from 0 an outside aside points it was 10 before the men appeared in the ring then there was another long wait before frank parmalee was ft as chosen referee the first two rounds were very cautious in the third wilks forced the lighting fighting nothing more was done till the sixth when ryan landed a vicious right 0 on wilks noe nose drawing draw ing first blood in the eighth wilks was quite groggy and arid ryan got in a terrific blow on t the broggy e mouth knocking wilks down in the tile ninth wilks freshened he ile drew blood from ryans noe nose and rushed him up to the twelfth nothing much was done then htyan began rushing again but wilks stood him off whenever be he made a stand kyan ryan punched him in the fifteen and sixteenth sixteen tb wilka wilks was repeatedly upper and arid punched by Kyan but he lie stood game though losing lots ol 01 blood in the seventeenth the police stopped the fight and referee parmalee declared it a draw amid the howls of the crowd htyan unquestionably had the best of the fight figh fig t lie ile was apparently unhurt while wilkes face resembled a raw beefsteak both of his eyes were nearly closed his nose was spread over his iris tace face and arid gashes were visible in his cheeks checks |