Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-27
MCCARTHY SHOWED HIMsELF TO
BE A GAME FIGHTER BUT
DID NOT WIN,
PREDICTED HE WILL
RANK WITH THE BEST
The Fistic Event at Walkerville Was
Good, Clean Contest in
Every Way.

Butte, in addition to being the great
est mining camp in the world can also
claim the distinction of having in its
midst of the bes, fighters in the pu-
gilistic world-.erry Mccarthy of Walk
erville. He is undoubtedly the Terry Nc
Govern of the west and it can, without
fear be predicted. that some day he will
figure with the top notchers among box
ers
Last night in the presence of a large
audience which had hied itself to Walk
ervile Mccarthy fought a 2o-round
draw with Tom Moriarity of Boston. 1t
was one of the prettiest contests ever
Witnessed in Montana. Both men fought
hard. but neither could get in the blow
which would land the money.
Gus Marion acted as referee and no
better man could have been chosen Tom
Green. Nose LaFontise, Mike MURRAY
and Willie Mccarthy were in the Walk
erville lad corner. and Jack La Fontise
was his tim keeper. Ike Hayes and
Charles RelNea were behind Moriarity.
while Fred Began held the watch for him.
both men gave their weight at 1855
pounds.
An Interesting four round so between
Harry Jones Of Butte and Jake Sullivan
of Cente"N!le took place as a prcli,nin-
airy. The men Went at it in lively style
and the dghting was vicious throughout
Tom Ri'ey OF san Francisco who acted
as referee, declared he bout draw.
Referee Marion announced that Nose
La Fontise challenged the winner of the
main event TO fight at 142 pounds, and
both man accepted. Tom Riley also chal-
lengel Nose.
FIR IL Began. the noted eastern light
weight who was matched to fight a pre-
liminary to the Jeffr.es- Rubin contest
in Cincinnati was IN attendance. and
- furnished the Inter Mountain with
~ 70 lowing account of the fight:
1T was a fight worth going mics
ito see and was one CT the prettiest I
ever attended Mccarthy is one of the
gamest ''pugs." that ever donned the
mitts an1 = the making of world bsat-
er. He entered the ring against a pro-
fessonal who ranks high in the estima-
ton of the lovers JI the manly art. and
porved hat he can go some. Mccarthy
is on Of Inc best men l ever saw. He
has al the "a marks of a champion.
gameness ability and staying powers. In
and in 2ction If Terry McGoVern.
Butte is q good fighting town and last
nights crowd showed plainly that hon
est SPORT vii always be patroni2ed
Both men stripped very pretty and
seemed as if they had trained for the
battle of their lives Mccarthy was a
bit ner, oas at the start, but gained con-
fidence quickly and was Johnnie on the
fr5,, II m -
kid AM showed it by his willingness to
pay the ea1ne o. give AMI take.
Both men received and inflicted
frightful nunis hment. McCarthy's blows
were somewhat vicious, While Moriarity's
wo,k was COL and his blows we'll cal
culate1. Mccarthy played for the head,
but the Poston lad watched for an open
ing in the body Mccarthy WAS trained
as fine a S silk or he never could have
stood the body blows which he received.
Several times. I expected him to so down
and out hui he took tbs punishment and
came up for more.
"Severa times. the spectators claimed
foul in favor of one or the other of the
principals owing to some hitting in the
clinches but these wers not allowed, ana
all through, the go was clean and pretty
and full of action.
Mccarthy is a very gentlemanly young
fellow and is Well liked in Walkervllle
where his father and mother reside. They
live across The street from the athletic
club where the fight took place and inn
mediately at the conclusion OF the go,
Jerry hurradly dressed and LEFT the club
room. saying:
I'm going over to see mother. She
ts worrying and believes ! am beat up
Began announced last night that he
was willing to meet any man in the
country, with the exception of Terry Nc
Govern, at 124 pounds.