Frank Erne
vs.
Martin Flaherty
20 February 1897
New York Athletic Club
MARTIN FLAHERTY BEATS FRANK ERNE
"Martin Flaherty of Lowell, Mass., defeated Frank Erne of Buffalo in a 20-round at the New York Athletic Club. Erne put up a game battle under tremendous difficulities, as his left eye was cut open in the fourth round and bled in a dreadful manner all through the fight....In the Lowell boy, Erne met a harder game than he had even with Dixon. "
"...Erne ran into a hard right on the eye, cutting it, and they had a fierce mix up near the ropes."
"Erne opened the eighth with a great rush...Flaherty sent a terrible left hook to the bad eye, cutting it open and the blood flowed. But the Buffalo boy came back with a couple of hard swings and honors were fairly even. Flaherty made a mark of the bad eye in the ninth and Erne was covered with gore. Erne was a horrible sight in the tenth and Flaherty was also painted freely with the Buffalo boy's blood."
"Erne was still full of fight in the fifteenth, but was cautioned by the referee against wrestling. In the sixteenth Flaherty landed with terrible force several times on the damaged eye and on the jaw and Frank was very near Queer street when the bell rang. Flaherty put an awful left on the good eye in the seventeenth and had Frank badly punished, but just as the bell rang Frank sent in a right and left that floored Flaherty, who was caught unprepared."
"...Erne cut loose in the last round with a couple of hard swings on the head but Martin drove a couple of hard ones on the body and Erne stayed on the defensive until the bell rang without further damage. The judges agreed on Flaherty as the winner and the decision was received with applause."
-San Francisco Bulletin, February 20, 1897
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