The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-28
YOUNG CORBETT KNOCKS CHAM
PION OUT IN SECOND ROUND.
CROWD WILDLY CHEERS VICTOR
Little Denverite Easily Disposes Of
Man Who Has So Long Held
Premier Title-Sharkey
Challenges Jefries.

Hartford, Conn.,, Nov. ga new
worlds lightweight champion appears
today.
Young Corbett of Denver won the title
from Terry McGovern. who had so long
defended 1t against al! corners.
The decision came in the second round
when Corbett knocked McGovern out.
His victory was greeted by cheers
from the thousands gathered at Tim
O'Rourke's club, to see the fight.
McGovern was 3 to favorite in the
betting and considerable money changed
hands.
Sharkey said he was ready to box
Jeffries.
Fitzsimmons said he had defeated
sharkey and Rubin and that Jeffries
had flunked. Fitz added that he would
die with the Horton law and devote the
rest of his life to teaching young
Fight by Rounds.
Round 1.--Terry tried his left and sent
a right to the jaw and got to the neck
in clinch. In the mix-up they both got
in lefts and ciinched They exchanged
lefts on the face and, Terry rushing
again, sent left to the body and right
to the head. Corbett was short on leads,
and Terry boosted him to the ropes with
a hard right over the heart. Terry
landed clean right on every effort,
sending his man to the ropes. Corbett
came back pluckily with left on the
body, which was countered with a right
over the heart by Terry. Terry led with
right landing on shoulders, and Corbett
landed hard right over the heart send
ing Terry back. but the Brooklyn boy
came back with a right and left to the
chest and face and the round ended in
one of the hottest mix-ups ever seen in
the ring here. Honors even.
Round 2-Terry rushed in with a left
to the body and clinched and then there
was a rapid exchange of rights and lefts.
Corbett on the defensive met Terry's
rushes with stiff blows and straight left
jabs and with left uppercut, sending
Terry to the floor. Terry took five Sec
Onds of the count and came back like
wild man, throwing left and right wildly
the winds and the boys began slugging
with Terry very wild.
They made a half circle of the ring,
and it looked anybody's fight should one
of the swinging blows land. Corbett kept
his head the better of the two, and while
he had no advantage he seemed to bore
in better and his body blows landed more
frequently than Terry's did. Corbett
kept on forcing Terry half across the
ring. There was no guarding on Terry's
part. He forgot his defense and simply
saw hurricane of blows coming toward
him, one of which, a right swinging up
percut landed squarely on the vulnerable
point and Terry went down and out.
He was not knocked senseless, but he
evidently knew that the championship
honors had fled from him. as he made
wild efforts 10 regain his feet.
Charley White. the referee, counted
off 10 seconds, while Terry struggled
violently to get up.
Corbett stood back at the wave of the
referees hand. although he was evil
IDENTIFY in doubt as to his fallen oppo-
nent's condition.
Terry had given him such a grueling
argument that he was dubious as to
whether the Brooklyn boy would be able
to come up again and renew the battle.
Strenuous Is an easy way to describe
the efforts of the fallen champion to
regain his feet and try to establish or
regain what he felt he had lost, but il
was all over. The Denver boy had got
the punch, landed it, placed t and won
the battle cleanly and cleverly.
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