A NINETEEN-ROUND FIGHT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 220, 10 November 1888, Page 3

A NINETEEN-ROUND FIGHT.

[concluded.] NINTH ROUND. Gcdfrey came rp and threw out a couple of feelers, bat it was no use. Jackson was dead on to the game. Godfrey led with his left and the blew was neatly stopped. Jackson now made a few lungea for Godfrey’s body, and a- he struck he made a noise which sounded like “ ugh.” Godfrey mockingly repea’ed the “ ugh,” and this not pleasing the Australian, he rushed at Godfrey, and ■cme hurricane fighting was done against the ropes, with Godfrey getting the most punishment. Body and head blows were struck, some heavy enough to fell an ox. After the rush the men sparred for wind, and time was called. TE TH ROUND. Godfrey started to rush matters and gave Jackson his right in the str mach. Then he tried to feign weakness and get in his right, but could not fool the Australian. Hard infighting, in which Godfrey suffered the most punishment, followed. Jackson landed his left on bis opponent’s chin wherever he wanted to, but the blows seemed to lack force. However, the Australian had much the best of it. Godfrey seemed invincible and took the most awful blows without goirg down. ELEVENTH ROUND. The pugilists came up fairly weakened from the heavy work done in the previous round. Godfrey led with his left at Jackson’s neck, but the blow was neatly stopped. Sho.t-arin fighting at close quarters followed, jmth honors equally divided. Godfrey always back into a good position af'.er a rally. saw an opening, and landed his right with a slinging effect on Godfrey’s ribs. Cautious sparring followed, Jackson dropping his left occasionally on Godfrey’s probcpcis, which was fast swelling into a mount£in. Godfrey got in a few heavy counter blows on Jackson toward the end of the round. He retired to his seat smilingly, and laughed when bis seconds looked concerned at his condition. TWELFTH ROUND.

Jackson threw his left neatly against Godfrey’s heart, and then, rushing him to the ropes, gave him several terrible punishing cuts in the face. Godfrey could not respond and had not Jackson fal en weak himself just then the fight would have ended right there. Both recovered wind and sparred a little until suddenly Jackson landed his right with terrible force on Godfrey’s ribs and sent his left on bis neck. The call of time stopped the rally. THIRTEENTH ROUND. Godfrey came up smiling, but his ebony Complexion was much di? figured by the frequent visitations fiom Jackson’s right and left fists. Hr was the first to lead, however, and caught Jackson slightly on the arm. The Aus:raiian pursued his own tactics, and kept sending hot shots on Godfrey’s cheek, which was now swelled to an enormous size. Godfrey fought as game as any man who ever stepped into a ring, and took his medicine like a good fellow. He got in seme good counters on Jackson, but as a return he received some terrible heavy face and body blows. Jackson landed his right with a jab OU the Boston man’s stomach. F.' ÜBTEENTH ROUND. Godfrey again forced the fighting, but could not reach with bis swinging right handers. Once he got in a good punch on the Australian’s right eye which swelled it, but got a punch in the bread-basket in return. In a rally which followed be was knocked dizzy by a blow in the left eye and received six or seven raps before he recovered. Two or three swinging right-handers aimed at Jackton’s bead were avoided by his wonderful dips. Time after time did be try it, but it never reached. The call of time saved him again. Not a few in the audietce wondered why Jackson did not laud bis right on Godfrey’s face. The blows of that arm on the Boston XE’-n’s body were something terrible, and, had thi > landed on tbe ai gle of the jaw, a knockout would have been the result without doubt. FIFTEENTH ROUND. Godfrey came up game, but it was seen that he was weak in the legs. He kept moving away from his opponent, but Jackson kept following him up, and when he got him Dear his own corner he went at him like a tiger. Godfrey was smashed all over the head, face and body, and fell upon the ropes, and finally, being dazed, he made an attempt to sit down in his chair. Jackson kept up the '‘onslaught and smashed the Boston man in a terrible manner with straight arm blows and upper cuts. Time was called just as Godfrey was about to drop to the floor. • SIXTEENTH BOUND. Jackson started in to knock his opponent out, and came very near doing it, but Godfrey slipped out. In a stand-up spar Godfrey landed a smasher on Jackson’s face, but it did not seem to hurt the colonial man, who kept driving his left into Godfrey’s face with monotonous regularity.

Blood was all over his countenance and down his chest, and he looked tbe picture of a defeated pugilist when he went to his corner. His woi derful staging powin were freely commented upon by the audience. When dazed by a blow, he would stand and take smash after smash without attempting to guard, and though so feeble as to be tottering would manage to stay until time was called. SEVENTEENTH ROUND. The men came from their corners well thed cut from the terribly heavy work. Jackson sent in his left and it was stopped by Godfrey’s nose. Godfrey was too weak to hit and he tried as best he could to stop the Australian’s left arm blows. Jackson went at him again, and aueh punishment aGodfrey received no one ever reraembt reu seeing. He got smashed on the jaw, nose, eyes and body, and how he remained on his feet it was impossible to surmise. Godfrey could not do anything but take the heaviest kind of punishment. Be took blows hard and heavy enough to knock down an ox, and when time was called was just able to go to his corner. EIGHTEENTH ROUND. Both men were weak, and Jackson’s left eye looked as- though it were closing. He continued to punch Godfrey as he wished, bat the latter would not go out. He stood with wonderful courage and strength, and though clearly a defeated man, it looked as though he would stand several rounds longer. After two minutes’ fighting Jackson got him cornered and then began to punish him terribly. Right and left came the blows with such rapidity and force that Godfrey’s head bobbed about like a wind guage on a gusty day. Hi. face was a mass of cuts and swellings, anc. he was so weak that he could not hold his hands up to guard. Still he was game, with a certainty of defeat looking him in the face, and smiled as he went to his corner.

NINETEENTH BOUND. Jackson came up again dietilling tbe elixir vita from the old cuts on Godfrey’s face. The latter made a gallant attempt to get his short arm blows on Jackson’s face, but most of them Ml short. He was rapidly getting weak and exhausted and the spectators expected to see him go down at any moment. Jackson finally saw an opening that Godfrey in his tired state left unguarded and with one mighty effort he sent his right at the Boston man’s ribs This blow landed with a thud right over Godfrey's heart and the latter doubled up in pain. Jackson followed this up by planting his left square on his opponent's jaw. Godfrey reeled, and as he turned bis head Jackson swung his right at bis neck. Tbe blow went over and the men clinched. As they parted Jackson followed up his badly wounded game, hud feinting with his left outshot the right and it landed under Godfrey's arm. This blow settled Godfrey, who stretched out his right arm, saying at the seme time, ** I’m listed. You can claim the fight," Those who bad wagered on Jackson shouted themselves hoarse, while his seconds lifted him bodily from the ground and carried him to his chair.

When tbe referee gave his decision in favor of Peter Jackson another shout from the Australian's admirers almost shook the pudding, and then a grand rush was made for the doors leading to tbe street. Jackson retired to his dressing room, comparatively fresh. Tbe only mark apparent upon his countenance was a mouse that almost closed his right eye and a swelled lip which was tinted with carmine. To a question propounded by a Call reporter, Jackson said that he was not hurt internally, although Godfrey got in soma hot ones under his guard during tbe early stages of the contest. In waoiuding hit brief remarks Jackson said I

“ My Gc d, what a head that man has got I I hit him there enough to knock his nob off, but, my golly, he surprised me. He is a good fellow, and I th uk he can whip any man his size in the world. Such a taker of punishment I never met, and I don’t think there is another man living to-day who could stand up to some of the blows I gave him. He fought game, and I think he showed his judgment in giving up the light tv hen he did,”