Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — COWLER PROVED GAME IN LATE BOUT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COWLER PROVED GAME IN LATE BOUT

Australian Took Severe Beating From Billy Miske. St Paul Heavyweight Never Let Opponent Get Set for a Punch—-Mln. neeota Fighter Injured Hie Hand tn Second Round. Tom Cowler, the Australian heavyweight, while he failed to show chatopionship caliberln hit recent bout with Billy Miske of St Paul, proved |o be a game boxer with his heart in the right place, writes Billy Rocap in Philadelphia Ledger. Few men would have gotten up after being sent to the floor like Cowler was in the first round. Miske caught him with a right-hand lead flush on the jaw with all of his 180 pounds back of it The Australian was up at the count of seven. His eyes were glassy, legs a-tremble and his arms dropped to his side. Miske tore in to finish him and Cowler instinctively clinched until he got his bearings. After that round he stood up and took all that Miske could hand out. —And- he took a lot, too—•enough to send half a dozen ordinary men to dreamland. That Miske tried to win by the knockout route no one can deny. He unfortunately injured his right hand in the latter part of the second round, by hitting Cowler on top of the head. The blow practically put Mike’s right hand out of commission, for he was

unable to use It effectively in any of the succeeding rounds. The first punch which Cowler took In the first round exhausted all his steam. His blows lacked force, were ill-timed and his judgment of distance was execrable. That is why Miske beat him in such a decisive fashion. The St. Paul heavyweight never let Cowder get set for a punch. He was on top of the Australian each minute of the 18 they were in action.

Tom Cowler.