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LOW TO HEART PUTS OUT WIL LIS PARSONS IN SHELBURN CONTEST.PASS HAT FOR THE PURSEManager Iteady to Call Off Match Because of Poor Crowd—Notes From the Ringside.Shelburn, Ind., October 2G.—Tony Moran of Terre Haute knocked out Willis Parsons of Indianapolis here tonight in the fourth round of a bout scheduled to go six rounds. A vicious blow to the heart won the money for the diminutive Italian and sent Pasons to the land of nod for several minutes.The first three rounds were anything but interesting from a standpoint of clean boxing. Both bov clinched time after time and Referee Britton was powerless to separate them.The attendance was miserably poor and for a time it seemed that there would be no fight. Finally, however, just as Parsons and his manager were starting for the door a member of the club passed the hat and collected enough money to make a purse of $50 which the fighters split, and then entered the ring.Parsons complained all through the fight that Moran was hitting him low, and in the first round the Indianapolis boy took the allotted nine seconds to recover from a stinging punch that landed below the belt.Few Clean Blows.No more than a half dozen clean blows were struck before the knockout. It was rush and clinch from start to finish, with both men guilty of holding on.Parsons, furious at what he considered foul tactics on the part of the Italian, sailed into his shorter opponent as if mad, but Tony’s foot work saved him repeatedly. He was too shifty for the blonde from thecapital city.After three rounds of half wrestling, half fighting, both boys came up for the fourth with a rush.Moran bounded from his corner at the tap of the gong and met Parsons more than half way, and the latter clinched.Britton broke them and they rushed each other again and again, both swinging wildly for a knockout. They clinched a second time and refused to break at the command of the referee, wrho forced his way between the fighters and pushed them apart.When they came back together Tony landed the lick that brought him the coin. They exchanged two or three licks at close quarters and then the Italian’s right shot out and caught Parson’s over the heart.The Indianapolis lad dropped like a bag and oiled over on his back unable to move, much less arise. Britton counted the fatal ten and declared Moran the winner.Parsons was carried to his corner and revived in a few minutes.Parsons Fails to Show.Early in the evening it seemed that there would be no battle, hence the weak attendance.Parsons was due to arrive in Terre Haute at noon and weigh in at 8 o’clock. For some unaccountable reason he failed to show up and the Terre Haute contingent, thinking the fight was off, did not come to Shel-burn.The Indianapolis boy did reach Terre Haute at 5 o'clock, however, and caught the G o'clock car from this place without making known his presence.At 7 o'clock the time set for the Terre Haute fans to leave for the ringside, the word was passed around that Parsons had not come, and that, the show.was off.Main Bout Delayed.When this became known at Shel-burn the news that Parsons was here was telephoned to Terre Haute and the main bout was held off until the bugs from that city had time to reach the battle ground.But when the time came for the men to enter the ring there was something less than $23 in the box office and naturally the fighters did not fancy the idea of exchanging wallops for such a purse.Seventeen different and distinct times, by actual count, Parsons and his gang started for the door, only to be called back each time with the statement that more money would be raised.Finally the solicitors working .among the crowd got together $50 and it was announced the boys would go six rounds for blood and not in a friendly fashion.. But Tony, infuriated at the turn luck had taken against him, made up his mind beforehand that he wouldn’t let the affair go even six rounds, and he waded in to win.Parsons was evidently not in good condition, while Moran showed that he had fitted himself well for the bout.Parsons was the taller of the two and had much the longer reach, but Tony had him outclassed by far at infighting game, and time after time the little Italian ducked in under one of Parson’s wild swings and sent rights and left to the body though the blows lacked the steam to put Parsons down.
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Sullivan Democrat
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 01, 1906
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