Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-06
FIGHTS EHD FIGHTERS 'S|
Some Evil Things Being Thought
 About McGovern Battle.

About McGovern' Battle.
 Rumors are Rife That the Little Eel
 low Held Fight off Until Some Bets
 Were Won-Joe Humphries Says the
 Reports and Rumors are False and
 That Herrera Can Give all of Them
 Cards and Spades and Beating
 Kid Carter's Brother Beaten.
 Joseph Humphries, who has been i'll
 California with the McGoyern party, I assisting the champion ill his enjoy
 ment of the pugilisric picnic, is sorely
 grieyed that there has been criticism or |lthe bout with Herrera. Hunphr1es
 raises his voice in indignant protest against the dark suspicion regarding l the contest. In the polished diction which characterized all his announce ments in Eastern rings, Humphfies ,fspeaks his mind as rOilows: That
 fight was on the. level if ever one was.
 Herrera is q dandy and has got such Efellows as Kid Broad, Dave Sullivan,
 Tim Callahan and Joe Bernstein skim .l ned forty blocks. If any of those fel- lows think otherwise Sam Harris will 4 bet any part of S5,U00 Hcrrera can beat them. That Spaniard is the tough I est proposition Terry ever faced. Ernc? .I Why, he didn't take halr the punish ment this fellow did" Sidestepping tho proposition that Herrera has Broad sI ct al. skinned forty blocks it is quite Interesting to read reports of the bout printedfin the San Francisco newspap-.
 CTS. The Evening Bulletin says: "In l the fifth round McGovern showered a. 3 storm Of rights aud leftss on the body of Herrera. Itwas more than the Span- iard bargained for, and he was count.
 ed out before he could get back on his sl feet. At no stage of the, contest did he d figure i'll Ethe fight At the outset Ter I ry terrified him by his furious rushes, T pummeling him all over the ring and
 on the ropes. In brief, Terry took all
 the fight out of him DeTore he had
 scarcely had time to put up his hands.
 Despite the onesidedness of the match.
 the crowd in attendance was something
 enormous The Evening Post takes l more decided ground. It says: .sIc- 1 Govern toyed with Herrera until he i1 wearied of the, amusement and until 1 tour rounds .had gone to the credit of I the Bakersfield boy, when he suddenly sl cut in with vicious swings and jabs
 and nd. ended n what proved tp be one of the
 worst glove contests ever witnessed
 here. From the middle of the second
 round to the beginning of the fifth, in
 Which time ssMcGovernt was plainly.
 for delay, the thousands of supectators
 hissed and set up the cry of fake. It
 was all A1cGoyern could do to prevent
 putting Herrera out in, the. second
 round. He bluffed and failed to fight.
 He cuddled his, head yon Herrera s
 shoulder and sent harmless blows
 about the Mexican's head, hugging him and showing him about the ring-but
 carefully refraining9 from putting his nan s!ll1 out he9n hhen came cam the fifth geund aIld NIcGoyeTn was ready to send, the 1hnsafttter, hnsft sd PrpbablyvveNeH runquestioif-
 ablyTso somebody's four roundu money
 had been saved, and he wanted to have
 the thing over with. So he wadefl in : after his man, hammer and tongs. and this time there was nd fumbling or making googoo eyes McGovern sent fn.- straight rights and Tefts, did some : shortarm work on the stomach and : battered Herrera overi the ear until he went to his knees. There the Bak-
 ersfield oil idol remained until counted out, If anything can be found in those views of men at the rfngside to :. indicate that Herrera is, a dandy, or ! the toughest proposition Terry ever : faced it must be defsIy concealed Ths sb apprehension that America's greatest t pugilist his stopped to trickery seems : to fhaye considerable basis. The aIleg- : ed side bet. between thes managers of t the fighters is absurd on its face. Har- r ris is. said to have wagered S5.OOO to f S3,300 with Carrillo on the result. As ! the Spaniard could have secured three
 or four to che for his money, the gauzi. j. ness of the scheme is apparent. The | chances are that the McQovern party ! made most of their money by bettine [ that Herrera would stay four rounds. Ii | really seems a shame that youngster u with so good record as McGovern s should be smirched ill this manner.