THE RING

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 281, 14 July 1888, Page 5

THE RING

A great heavy-weight fight to a finish between Glover of Chicago and McAuliffe of San Francisco, who beat Dick Matthews in ISS6, came ofl in San Francisco on May 21 . It was decided at the rooms of the California Athletic Club before some seven or eight spectators. The fighting was very hard all through, and both men were much used up. Glover at first made the running, doing a lot of rushing, but McAuliffe was too clever, stopping M m well. A waiting fight then followed for a number of rounds. The contest up to the fortieth round was minus of any heavy hitting. The men fought on the defensive, McAuliffe doing the most leading. In the forty-fourth round Glover found that his eyes were rapidly closing, and that the only' possibility of him defeating his opponent was to force the battle. He did so immediately on time beinec called, and sorre hot exchanges followed. McAuliffe ducked cleverly from a hot left hand blow aimed at his neck, and turning quickly he hie Glover a terrible right-hand swinging blow on the neck, which sent the latter to the floor. He got up quickly, and as he was in the act of straightening himself out McAuliffe rushed in upon him and hit him another blow under the chin, which knocked Glover down the second time. The Chicagoan managed to get up again, but he was hardly upon his feet when another blow from McAulihVs left hand sent him against the ropes, and Jim Carr, one of his seconds, pulled him clown to avoid punishment. He got up just as time was called, and McAuliffe struck him, and a cry of ' foul ' was raised. After this the contest was tame until the forty-ninth round, when Glover, scarcely able to see, aorain went at his opponent as savagely as a tiger. He hit McAuliffe a heavy blow on the left eye which raised a mound, and in retaliation McAuliffe planted a stinger on Glover's nose. The latter made one desperate attempt to get home a knockout blow on MeAuliiie's neck, but the latter ducked away ftom it and tui-ning around quickly he hit Glover with all his force with the light fist under the chin and down went the Chicago man like a log, knocked out as stiff ab a poker. Glover was carried to his chair, and it was fully fifteen minutes before ho iccovered his .sense.*, so the fight was awaided to McAnliffe, who won with it a very valuable purse subsciibed by the members of the California Athletic Club. How is this for news ? Says a Yankee exchange : — Jake Kilrain has adopted an English accent, wears English style clothes and weighs 238 pound?. Peter Jackson, the champion ' pug ' of Australia, who is in America at present, cai.nol get a match on. Joe McAuliffe says he will on no account meet him, objecting to Jackson's colour. Jackson challenged Godtiey the coloured champion of America but Godfrey wanted &uch favourable conditions — conditions by which neither men put up any money, and if Godfiey lost he would be #230 the better for it, besides his expenses — that Jackson was not on for business. J. Molloy, a Sydney boxer, announces that ho is prepared to make a match with \V. Murphy, or any New Zealand lightweight boxer, for any part of £100.