The Great Glove Encounter.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3066, 12 December 1878, Page 2

The Great Glove Encounter.

Melboubkb ,B ( y:dhby. ' ' ,': .■ At Thompsoo'i AthletioHall, Melbourne, ,there was:.'m'*prekt_:crom$ v to witness the great glove encounter between Peter Newton, of Melbourne, against Laurence'lFbfey, of Sydaeyv^thfr' latter laying two hundred to one hundred against Newton. Theie; men' are well known light weight champions of the two colonies, and are very equally matched. Foley is aged 27 years? weight height sft _Biin, Newton is, aged 23, weight 9st. 81bs., height 6ft. 9in. Tbe affair'was conducted (t(rtl» rules of the ring.: ' The comb* tauts.were seconded-rPeter Newjtqu by Abe Hicken land JVed Bit ton, 'and "Foliy by John Thompson.and Sam Isaacs: When tjba men entered , the rjng - Ifaeo addressed the audience in a few words, and informed them that^bpkiM matches were' extensively patronised in England, 'andithat when fairly conducted were mo harm. He, contended it shquld.be, so far as he was concerned, the'same in the ' colony of Victoria,' and added that ifthe public kept their seats they would ■•»•>» scientific glore contest; but if there were any unseemly interruption,' th» offending persons would be lurned out;'lAfKwill known; bookmaker consented to, tot at referee. At ten minates^ to 9,; amidst intense excitement* the fight commenced. The first three rounds were olostAy fought, but at the fourth and iifth; both; Hfea fought with rigor, and seemed) to elecTrify the spectators;' Newton's left repeatedly struck Poley's right eye, 1- bat "received heavily on left fear, until'dota quarters, * when the Seconds separate'^ tfale; batants, who'were carried'to their'corners. "A great deal 'of science r wag 11 sh'&ini in the sixth round, and u^,,to\the thirteenth round ' the fighting. r was serere and sharp. At the fourteenth, Newton was knocked clean, offbjsiegg. From this to the>2fch round th^opein fought severely, repeatedly) closing, and being carried to-their corners* [At,this stage some of tbe p?rtisans..of ,the arfa rushed the ring, bat were put out. 'Afout an hour elapsed «pjto the 37th round, Foley forcing'the fighting but at this round his' right Optic showed, symptoms of the eirly-closing movement, of. which his opponent began; to take 1, adr>tange. Foley, however, fought on with iridomitable courage, but his hits were rather open-handed, and both men appeared to be exhausted.' 'At 'the' 48th' round, Inspector Lamer, who 1 had been witnessing the touvaameutrt&ok-npOTtSim^eli the re> ■ponsibility of stopping the contest, which was explained by v JVeI firitton, who wag seconding Peter Nfcwton,' that the caus« assigned by the representatire of law and order for.stopping fun was '.thatjsafficient Eunishment had been administered by oth sides. Though .there was sufficient punishment serred out' to satisfy the reriect glutton, the fight ended in a draw. Though the battle was brought to a premature «onolmion, r Foley declared bj» could fight fo? a week. '