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CROAKE KNOCKED OUT IN 12TH. ROUNDCLINTON MAN MET$ HIS DEFEAT AT GILBERTS.There Was Ho lnUrfcrcnc-*RuhUrt Fight Trial In Progress ir» Cincinnati—Cans tderablo Interest In the Outcome,F.lgin, [||., Feb. 5.—The Croakc-Jaekson priso fight, rroh 11)1 let! at Belvldere today by Governor YaUs, was \m)led off at Gil* btris, Kano couniy,-tarty today. A ape-cSo) train ivjih CV) on board reached ihat little village soon after midr.lKht and adjourned to a hall where a ring u-nq formed and, the JisJii commenced Tb?re are no police save the village marshal and there was no interference Croak*? was knocked out in tho twelfth round.Croake and Jackson wero scheduled to fight IukL night In Getvldere, III. Afl aooti as Lhe light was announced cltlcciio of lielvlUerc raised a protest, and auch pre*-was brought to bear c:i Govexnor Yates that yratorday ha announced that the fight could not take place In 2liinc»is. lie to the sheriff of Boonecounty that he would calk out troopa If necessary, but the sheriff replied that ho had sworn in 1 to deputies and cyuld prevent the mil from being pulled olt without slate: uULThe fight promoters then annnuneed that they wo'jM go across the state llrio Sr.to Wisconsin. Governor LaFo|otte wan Immcdliifily nutIcled. and he -ordered the aherlff of ilt;ock county to prevent tho light ut ii 11 hazards.The h'shtcra then went over Inio Kano county, where the affair was pulled off.Croakc is well known In Ieas MoEne«. He attended a number of the rights held here last inter, aetrne as wwond. Ho fought Jimmy Graham in the baseball park In Jure, winning hi the tenth round. He gained his repul uticm for lighting by winning from Burney Cmmcr*. Perry Queenan and other fighters oj that elaca, Croako was eonsLdcred a prodijjy m Clinton. and it is likely mat the Clinton sports lost hundreds of dollars on the result.Younc Fetor Jackso* won from Kid Parker In Dens'cr in lkvI in iwenty round a. In Jtarrh of the same year he wait j knocked o“t by Parker in seven rounds. I In ISSS ho won from Young Grlffo in five 1 rounds*. J^ist year lie defeat oil Philadelphia. Jack Obrien, who fousht si’verul battles in this city, In thirteen rounds.Hu stood u[ before Mysterious'* Billy Smith for eighteen, rounds In CJevcIaJtd on tho mh of last September.He was born in Baltimore, October *L 1S7.
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Des Moines Capital
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Tue, Feb 05, 1901
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