Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-30
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Terry McGovern Makes Short Work of the Spanish Fighter

Mexican Pete in the Chain Gang
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 Whipped-Broad to Fight Young Mccoy aand Gardiner to
 Fight to Finish-About Fighting in
 Louisville.
 San Francisco, May 30.-Terry Me Govern, featherweight champion of the world, knocked out Aurelio Her. rera of Bakersfield, Cal, in five rounds, last night. The Spaniard never had a chance, and was put to sleep with a hard right on the jaw.
 McGovern wagered $5,000 to $3,500 on his success, and he and his friends won much money. The attendance was large, and Herrera's friends were much chagrined.
 Round first: Terry smashes with right on jaw and Herrera goes back. Terry cuffs him with the left, forces him to the ropes and lands on body. Herrera swings wildly, but does not land. Herrera mixes it with Terry. Terry smothers Herrera with left on body and right on face. Herrera re- spends gamely and misses wild one for the jaw; gets right on the body. Terry plants left and right on body at sound of gong. Herrera goes to his corner smiling.
 Round second: Terry swings with right on the body and rushes. Herrera hits Terry with left on the body and gets applause. Herrera puts a left on the face and Terry comes back with left on the body, but misses q right for the head. Terry put left on the body and sent right and left to the face and has Herrera groggy. The Nmen were in the center and hammer ing hard at the gong
 Round third: Terry misses right and left for the head. Herrera plants q left on the body. Terry misses anoth- CT wild swing and Herrera clinches. Terry puts right on the face and jolts Herrera, who clinches. Terry forces Herrera to the ropes and has him all but out. Terry forces the fighting as the bell sounds. Hererar goes to his corner groggy.
 Round fourth: Terry starts off with right for the face and Herrera clinches to save himself. Herrera lands right on the face. The latter comes in with left on the face. Her. rera misses a right for the jaw Ter " comes back with left and right on the head and they clinch. Terry puts stiff left on the body and Herrera misses a left for the jaw Terry misses right for the face and they 'clinch- Terry puts right on the face and Herrera misses q right and left for the face. Terry rushes Herrera to the ropes and the referee separates them. Terry swings right and left on the face and Herrera staggers to his cOrneP as thp bell SOundS
 Round fifth: Terry drops Herrera to the floor and then the latter arose and met him with right and left on the face. Herrera clung to Terry to save himself McGoyern freed himself from his opponents grasp and sent him down and out with a heavy left on the point of the jaw.
 Danny Dougherty won the decision over Kid McFadden In a ten-round bout. Dougherty had the best of il in every round.
 The crowd was larger than that which attended the McGoyern- Gardner fight last month. The increase in the attendance is undoubtedly. due to the popular prices, which are $1, $2 and $3. Herera's Bakersfield admirers, 200 strong, arrived in this city in the morning and brought with them large bundles of money, which they. played at all kinds of odds. Betting on the general result was 4 to 1 in favor of McGoyern.
 The largest wager announced was that between Frank Eckert and Man ager Carrillo. Eckert bet Carillo $1,- 900 even that McGovern would win in- side of six rounds. In case of victory Carillo stood to win $25,000.
 Mrs Carillo, his wife, drew out of the bank $500 yesterday afternoon and put it on the Spaniard at odds of 4 to 1. Before she placed her money she visited the training quarters of Terry, watched him box, and came home fully as sanguine of success as was her hus- band.
 sammy Harris bet S200 against $250 that Terry would win in six rounds
 He made another bet ofg$6O0 against $650 that Terry would also win in the same number of rounds; also SS0 against $200 that Terry would win in three rounds; also $2,000 against $750 that Terry would remain the cham pion. 4s
 McGovern and Herrera weighed in at Harry Corbetts at G o'clock in the afternoon. Herrera was the first to step upon the scales. He was under 126 pounds, the stipulated weight, but not a great deal, as theA bar trembled as he mounted the platform The muscles on his body, limbs and arms stood out in bold relief and Terry re- marked: You're looking great.'
 McGovern was easily pound or two under weight, but looked splendidly trained. If anything, he presented a better appearance than when he weighed in for his fight with Gardner.
 FIGHTER IN CHAIN GANG.
 Colorado Springs, Col, May 3O.--AIex- jean Pete Everett, who won some fame by'defeating Sharkey on a foul, is serv- ing term on the Cripple Creek chain gang. He is working out light fine imposed upon him recently by the pc lice magistrate of Cripple Creek,
 TERRY ARRANGES TWO FIGHTS.
 According to a dispatch received yesterday from San Francisco, Terry McGovern and Tim Heggerty, the champion featherweight of Australia, have been matched to meet at San Francisco before the Twentieth Gen. tury A. c. in q twenty-round bout for the featherweight title on June 14. Terry has also signed articles to tackle either Tim Callahan of Philadelphia or Billy Gardner of Boston, at Hartford on July 4 This melee is also for twen-