St. Paul Daily Globe

EDDIE MYERS WHIPPED.

Knocked Out by Lavigne in Twenty-Three Rounds.

STREATOR, Ill., Feb. 12.-The match between Eddie Myers, of this city, brother of Billy Myers, and George Lavigne, of Saginaw, Mich., was decided in an old skating rink in Dana, a small town on the Santa Fe railroad, seventeen miles south of Streator, before an audience of 500, and resulted in Myers being knocked out in the twenty-third round by a blow on the chin. The fight was of the whirlwind order, each man evidently trying to make quick work of his opponent. Myers showed greater generalship than Lavigne, and numberless times escaped some of the latter's terrific right-handers. Myers hit Lavigne in the mouth in the first round, and claimed first blood, but the claim was not allowed. In the third round Lavigne planted a scorcher on Myers' nose, and first blood was allowed. In every round there was hot fighting, Myers playing for the face and Lavigne hammering Myers' stomach. It was anybody's fight up to the twenty-third round. After sparring for a short time, Lavigne struck Myers a heavy right-hand blow over the heart, which stunned him, and followed it up with another right-hander on the jaw, knocking Myers down, and he was counted out. Myers has not a mark on him today, while Lavigne's face is badly punished and one eye swelled shut and badly cut. Large sums of money changed hands. The sheriff and six deputies started in sleighs to stop the fight, but failed to reach Dana until after the fighters had returned to Streator. The officers say they are going to prosecute the principals, their backers and the seconds.