The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1909, Page 14

ES ER NT Shae aE 5 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909, jae \ UP TO DATE { AND NEWSY DRISCOLL MAKES LEACH CROSS LOOK LIKE MERE NOVICE ~—-+¢e Little Englishman Cuts East Sider’s Face to Pieces in Bout at Fair- mont A. C—Comes Out Unscratched Himself. BY ROBERT EDGREN. It didn’t take an expert to decide that Jem Driscoll, of England, whipped Leach Cross at the Fairmont last night. Even an ordinary Reporter could see it with half an eye. Driscoll made Cross look ridiculous, He played caused the east side “coming lightweight champion” ring and fall through the ropes He rattled Leachie hide ead like an ostrich. He tantalized him until Cross lost all control of himself, fouled flagrantly, and tell back on the childish expedient of calling names, Driscoll jabbed and pecked, and straight in the face three times in quick punched and hammered for ten rounds | succession without a return without getting an average of a blow Then vriscoll Got Busy. @ round in return, He left the ring 1 yas all with his hair as neatly parted as it j He to flounder about the with f with the chur until the lat could: only his h Driscoll's from that mo- } nt on, All through the round hi was when the fight began, But Cross nded at will Genesee a na : wea's sight. His left eye was closed | 7, in wolng cout ot) (a lelinel latter and his face was puffed and sodden With |i. ordarto break punishment. lerathemessndinttzest 0, the second Driscol! hammered Cro: Was Great Performance. rin ¢ the shop, ens iy b eae Taken all around, Driscoll's perform- ance—a featerweight fighting a light- welght—was the moat remarkable seen oiding the east sider’s desp [forts to land a p in return |covering his face with bo: } fn any New York club for years, The ming out th endde Uttle curty-haired man from Caraite | nooks, At last he landed a hard right handles himself like a fencing mas-|gquarely on Driacoll's faw, It never ter, He 1s marvelously fast, clever, | teazed him, and for payment Cross go! qhifty on hie feet, and able to give a brace of punches on the chin that punishment and avoid returns. And beyond all that, he Js a little gentleman fm the ring, always absolutely clean and fair. The arena of the Fairmont A. C, was gammed long before the first prelimin- staggered him, In the next about until the ered his face y h up and fight back ocked Crose in ‘ross low and coy: Once Driscoll ary went on. At 8 o'clock there WaEn't thar ft looked like a knak one itu @ seat to be had, and at % when the Teachie weathered tie gale and show opened, there wasn't even room to che round out. Lriteo!l was. mixing etand or kneel on, Men were packed pow, ta sacle theres: tm ao tightly that they couldn't move. | changes, ai i GEA Outside the streets were crowded WIth Way He was Me iCsossiathhls man jostling and pushing to get near gy game—the slam- nibannlb kind the club-house, A large body of police Gross janded two food ones in the Grew a cordon across the street a block fourth Driscoll a score or more way, and none were allowed to pass) y 4, ,n Or eye was a ne avi wnless they could show thelr member- iri rouge), ni riacel ehip cards, For two blocks beyond | ade nis heavier opponent fo that extended @ solid line waiting Impa-| 7. 1s, gavonth Cross manased to land | tiemtly for an impossible chance to get mear the doors, At @ conservative esti- mate, there were at least 2,000 outside @ hard left and right on I and those around the ri a's looked fo that never hada chance to get in at all, [venus Driscoll only 8 nite) ebvcletay Tt deat even the good old days of the oy A togsg now and waa Mee Horton law. Preliminaries Were Good. | In the preliminaries Mike Murray and Timmy Smith boxed a draw. This was) a plain slugging match, Walter Mur- | right over on {t at steady Intervals Sensation In the Eighth. Then came the eighth round with a sensation, They poured a bottie 0% Pom- mery over Driscoll In the res: interval McGovern, ray, a ringer for Terry He likes tt, taken externally. Perhaps it whipped Bammy Kau easily, MUrTAY | Was the wine, perhaps it was the desire fo a remarkably clever boy, with the iio hurry through. In any cate James tore style of an old-time ohampion. Dick into Cross merrily. Leach wrestled. | Miller knocked out Eddie MeMahon (an | side.stepping quickly in his own cor- Ytallan) {n four rounds, A tOw-head ner Driscoll slipped In a puddle of win: named Delaney made a lad announced /A0d fel oo tac ihe chance to get tn as Reynolds quit in the third. Jack Ledberry defeated Jimmy Moran in a good fight. And then, at last, the main event came good smash on the man he hadn't able to and especially when J was on his knees where he couldn't re- turn the blow, stepped in and delit ately sunk his right ewift into Driser en, Cross and Driscoll, in big warm) kidneys, The blow must have hurt Dathrobes, climbed into the ring. Crosa the little Welshman jumped up qu KI objected for ten minutes to the ban- | th, ee Hae ae dages on Driscoll’s hands. The Engl! aniicwithak him half wa’ man, not at all worried, leaned ba his chair and looked at + while Cross became more and more nervous every moment. Finally an exainination of the bandages proved that they were joote and soft, and they were allowed Cross had hander ones himself, When they came together it could @astiy be seon that Cross had at least : ten pounds the best of the weight. Ha iis ¥ jad barely scraped through at 145 pounds ned up and at 8 o'clock, while Driscoll had n cares in with all his clot They were both very careful throug! the first two minutes. Around the ring they went, as light as two cats and as lithe and sudden in movements ‘Three times Cross tried with the right and Driscoll floated out of the way Uke a feather. Then Jem jabbed weighad es on. ‘rls face look pretty Aldn't e+e Side Lights on the Fight As Seen by John Poilock \_ n I ry * cham 2 eter Patri y Wh af ® blows | « face tha as ¢ : contest Tad hustle nessed a ‘ * » contest. As ea 20 | e ty seat int * Bas als an u Everybody, in Wesccheaar, woese Jen Shi cha Beat alia ‘Oaiy ‘Ubi alan toecn | CRoss vooned very iness of his own efforts. | T HE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK MELANCHOLY ToWARD Tue END. Bome Posys LEAWNE STRUCK LAST NIGHT EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN EVEN FOUL BLOWS CAN’T STOP THIS BOY —sit=ts | Daiscouy. 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