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Some wise men had prophesied that there would be a shower of shooting stars last night, but the only shooting stars in Trenton were those that flashed and darted before Dan McConnell's vision during the five rounds he played with Spike Sullivan, in what was to have been a twenty-round bout at the Trenton Athletic Club.
The fifteen-round bout at the T. A. C. last night between Matty Matthews, of New York, and Dan McConnell, of Camden, came to an unsatisfactory ending in the middle of the seventh round, when Referee George Hendley decided that Matthews had fouled, and thereby declared McConnell the winner.
Dan McConnell, of Camden, and Matty Matthews, of New York, will meet tonight at the T. A. C. in a fifteen round bout, which should be a remarkably fine exhibition of the game.