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The Kellar-maber Fight

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Day
22
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Frank Kellar-Shadow Maber fight at Montreal April 12 ended in a draw, and again the Ypsilanti pugilist demonstrated nis ability to stand lots oí punishment. The fight was for ten rounds as under the Dominion laws such a thing as a finish contest is an impossibility. Maber is an Australian and has a world-wide reputa fion as a pugilist but although it was decided as a. draw Kellar had all the best of it and il" it had been allowed to continue he would have knocked the Kangaroo into a eomatose condition. paddy Ryan, ex-champion, was the referet. The tirst round was in Mab?r's favor, although he showed more agility in getting away than in getting there. In the second round Kellar knocked Maber to his knees where he stayed for niiie seeonds. Getting i.p Kellar punched him a h::rd one thaL almust settled Maber but a clinch savt-d him. In the third round Kellar punched his opponent on the nose so hard that he made him think his glove was his handkerchief. In the fourth round Maber located the geographical position ol Kellar's jugular bul he might just as well have been trying to punch holeb in Ike Davis's majority in the Fu'th ward as hitting Kellar. In the fifth botti men were tired and when Maber hit Kellar on the place where the barber puts the it was like the zephyry brush of a humming bird's wing. In the sixth Maber got in two good ones whare Kellar would have worn his neck-tie if he had not been in ring eostume and the round ended with Maber's head jammed in between Kellar's legs. In the .seventh the nghting was the hottest. Kellar made Maber think that breathing' was not the easicst thing on earth ard both men landed piston-rod drives that drew claret and cured oatarrh. In the eighth Kellar made Maber a subject for a dentist. In the ninth Kellar landed repealedly on Maber's solar complexión. The tc-nth amounted to nothing' and both men seemed desirous oí having it ?. draw The Montreal papers al't statert that a few more rounds would have setileil the Antipodean Shadow.

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