Joe Gans vs. Samuel Allen (1st meeting)

Joe Gans beat Samuel Allen by KO in round 3

• Date: 1895-01-07
• Location: Monumental Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

TWO FIGHTS IN ONE NIGHT.
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Gans, the Colored Champion, Defeats Allen and Brown.

Joseph Gans, the champion colored light-weight of the South, last night defeated Samuel Allen, colored, of Washington, and, without leaving the ring in the Monumental tournament-room, defeated Bud Brown, a colored middle-weight, of Baltimore. Allen was only a punching bag for Gans, who, after taking all the fight out of Allen in the first round, toyed with him in the second and early in the third put him gently to sleep.

Manager Stewart decided the affair no contest, as it was so one-sided.

Then Brown, who was Allen's second, implored Gans to meet him in a ten-round go. Gans looked at his big adversary and quietly remarked: "Get ready and come on."

In five minutes Brown stepped into the ring, and when the spectators saw the big, muscular fellow, standing in such contrast with the little light-weight, their sympathies went at once to the little fellow.

The first blow in the first round was a full swing of Brown's left, which landed on Gans's jaw and nearly floored him. It then looked as if the fight would not last a full round. From that time on Gans displayed the best generalship and made the most scientific struggle yet seen in the Monumental arena. Two or three blows were all Brown could land in the ensuing nine rounds. Gans by dextrous foot, body, head and arm movements kept out of harm's way, but took advantage of every opening, sending his left upon his big opponent's face and his right on the body several times in each round. From the seventh round to the finish Gans had matters his own way.

Despite this he did not forget that first blow and he took no chances of getting another. Gans was fresh at the finish. Brown was nearly done up.

--The Sun, 1895-01-08.