The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-10
DIXON OPENS THE FIGHT
III Is FOR THE FEATHER WEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP.
FOUGHT AT BROADWAY ATHLETIC CLUB
In Round Seven Dixon's Nose Was Broken. In
Round Eight He Went Down Repeatedly
Under Heavy Blows But Was
Game to the Last.
Game to the Last,

New York, Jan. 9.-Terry McGoyern
tonight wrested the featherweight cham
pionship Of the world from George Dixon
who had defended it for nearly nine
years. To save Dixon from knockout,
Tom ORourke. his manager, threw up
the sponge in the eighth round, when
the negro was staggering helplessly,
bleeding and weak, but as game as the
dying gladiator The fight took place
Before a crowd that packed the broadway
Athletic Club, and the victory decided
the ownership of a $4,000 purse.
Dixon was on the aggressive throughout.
The fight by rounds follows:
Round Dixon opened with left
swing for the head. McGovern ducked
and sent his right over the kidneys. Dix
on tried another left and Terry blocked
and drove his right once more to the kid
neys, forcing Dixon to the ropes. They
broke away to the centre of the ring
where Dixon swung his left to the breast.
Terry crowded in, pounding his right ON
the ribs. Dixon tried his left for the
body but Terry stepped inside of it and
sent his right three times TO the body.
Dixon swung his left to the jaw and in
a half clinch Terry worked left and right
to the body and left to the head. Dixon
slipped back, sending a straight left to
the face ana they were in q fast mixup
at the bell.
Round 2.-Dixon opened with left
swing for the head and McGovern duck
ed neatly and drove George back with Il
left ON the body. Dixon planted a left
swing high on the head, but Terry crowd
ed in. sending both hands to the wind.
George Jared Terry's head with a
straight left and followed with a right
JOLT ON the body. They mixed it up
rapidly and Dixon almost put Terry
through the ropes with left on the face.
They came to the center where George
again landed hard left ON the face. I'm
another mixup Terry worked well to the
body and after they broke away George
landed left hard on the face, Mae re-
plying with right ON body.
ENDS IN A CLINCH.
Round 3.-Dixon led left for the head
but Terry got inside of it and sent both
hands TO the ribs and stomach. Dixon
hooked his right to the ear, sending Ter
ry away from him. Both steadied them
selves and Dixon drove his left straight
to the face and sent another ON the same
spot. after which he staggered Mae with
a right swing to the jaw. Dixon played
at the same thing again. with Terry work
ing ON the body A straight left ON the
face and right swing from George al
most dropped Mae to the floor, but Terry
came back with rush and sent right
and left to the body, forcing Dixon to a
clinch
Round 4.-Dixon missed a left lead for
the head and Terry drove his left to the
body following with right hook on the
ribs Dixon tried again, but Terry side
stepped and hooked his left to George
jaw Dixon came back but Terry duck
ed aside. missing the colored lads swings
and used both hands ON the stomach at
close quarters. After they broke Dixon
hooked his left to the neck and Terry
drove night and left to the body. After
a clinch Terry hooked his right to Dix
ons jaw and George staggered away. let
ry followed, forcing Dixon to the ropes
where Dixon clinched and. the referee
had to separate them. When they camF
together Dixon landed left swing on the
neck as the bell rang.
DIXON'S SWINGS BLOCKED.
Round 5.-Dixon opened up with the
usual left swing for the head. but Terry
blocked three of them. Dixon tried
again, swinging left ON the neck and
McCIovern got to the body with both
hands. In clinch George pulled Terry
toward him and McGovern slipped to his
knees but was up instantly. Dixon led
a left to the shoulder and Terry counter
ed with right aud left on the body. Dixon
swung left to the peck, but Terry drove
both hands to the body and the bell found
them clinched. Both returned to THEN
cornrs smiling.
Round 6.-Dixon started as usual with
a left swing for the head. but Mac block
ed it, Dixon sent his left to the neck
and Terry put right to body and left to
chin. Dixon rushed. and With a straight
left to- the face Jared Terry's head Ter
ry rushed yiciously knocking left to head
and driving his right hard to the body,
Terry rushed George to the ropes planting
his left ON the ribs and hooking his right
to the head. Twice Dixon missed left
swings for the head, Terry getting 6nt
side and planting right and left TO the
body. As they broke from a clinch a.
the bell Terry hooked his right TO the
Jaw. and Dixon looked bad as he walked
to his corner.
DIXON'S NOSE BROKEN.
Round Dixon made the lead as us
ual, but failed to land, and Terry drove
left and right to body. Three times
Dixon mixed and Terry sent back a