The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-23
CORCORAN PUT OUT
OWEN ZEIGLER WON LAST NIGHTS
BOUT IN ELEVEN ROUNDS.
THE PACE A HOT ONE.
CoRCoRAN ACTUALLY BEATEN INTO
SUBMISSION.

Either-COrcoran I'm Over Twenty
Bouts Knocked Out But Once Be-
fOre-The Preliminary "A Farce and
Was stopped After Two Rounds.
Tommy Hogan and Billy whistler
to BE the Next Ones.
For the second time in his career Tom
my Corcoran has been knocked out. owen
Zeigler did it last night in the eleventh
round, after one OF the gamest and hard
est fights that Corcoran has ever put up.
Several times he was saved by the gong,
but he has wonderful recuperative powers
as everybody that has seen him in the
ring knows, and after each intermission ne
showed up and stood for all that was
coming to him.
Corcoran was put out of the game not
by any single blow as is usually the case,
but by being actually beaten until he was
no longer able to stand before his oppon-
emit. Zeigler came out of the scrap with
no bruises to speak of, and in other re-
spects but little the worse for the bout.
Corcoran fought in a way that any man
in the business might be satisfied with,
that is so far as gameness goes; but there
is one thing that he has never learned,
yet which his last two mills has shown
the need of; that is the ability to get out
of reach of a blow. Other men side-step,
or back away, but Corcoran stands up
and takes with stoical composure what
ever is coming to him, trusting in the
exchange to do equal damage to his an
tagonist.
The bout last night was a warm one,
from start to finish. Corcoran showed up
well, stood up to his man and did his
share of the leading. He was able to
land, too, but his blows were mostly on
the head and face and did no appreciable
damaged. Zeigler, though, has a terrific
left that, until the second round, when
he hurt it on Corcoran's head, he used
with tremendous force on Corcoran's
breast and ribs, sending in straight
punches that would quickly have put out
of the game any man less strong than Tom.
Even on him they had their ultimate eff
feet, however, for about the third round
his breast looked like raw beef, and his
hard breathing showed that the punches
had taken some of his wind.
The second round was marked by moth
ing special except the injury to Zieglers
hand, which, however, did not prevent
it's use, the right, though, was quite ef-
fective. Just before the end of the round
Corcoran was staggered, but recovered
himself and kept the game going.
The third round was again noticeable
for the puches that Zeigler put in on the
chest and ribs with the left. Corcoran
seemingly unable to block them and max
ing no effort to get away from them. In
this round, too, Zeigler also started the
use of sort of swinging under-cut that
was rather deceptive to Tom and which
usually landed. To Corcoran, however,
belongs the honor of first blood,
as in this round, after a few
seconds, he landed blow on
| the nose that started the claret, though
| not enough to be troublesome. He was
still aggressive, but his blows were not
| hard enough.
| In the fourth Tom was very badly pun
ished; Zeigler landed repeatedly right and
left both to head and body, and received
| in return only light blows from Tom. In
the fifth, Corcoran rallied and, cheered
on by his friends who shouted whenever
| he landed, he began his old time rushes
| forcing Zeiger to the ropes; but Zeigler
| kept hammering away with body blows
that sapped Toms wind still more and
made his blows too weak to be effective.
He rallied again, however, and came back
| with his rushes.
Zeigler backed away from a vicious
swing for the stomach, which Corcoran
followed with a rush that carried his
| man against the ropes. He rushed Zeig-
| Ter to the ropes again before the end of
| the round. Zeigler kept up his work on
the body and Tom was very groggy when
the gong sounded the end of the round.
| In the seventh it was give and take so
far as the landing of punches went, but
| Zeigler's had the force that Corcoran's
lacked, and for the second time the gong
saved Tom. The following round was of
| the same sort, Zeigler put
| ting in stiff punches that
| Tom parried or replied to in a very weak
way in fact it was plainly to be seen
that 1t was a question of very few
minutes before he would be out of the
| game for keeps.
Never has Corcoran put up a gamer
| fight, and though by the time that the
next round was over his face was beaten
| until it looked like a caricature of his
former SELF he still smiled, lunged and
| blocked with such strength as he had,
every once in awhile landing a good one
! by an extra squirt, and continuing so far
as he was able, his rushes. He was so
badly and hopelessly beaten by this time.
though that more than one person near
the ring, and even his opponent himself,
wanted him TO throw up the sponge to
save himself from further punishment.
| With Corcoran, however, there are but
two results to a fight-a victory or
| knock out.
Gathering himself together for a final
effort Corcoran in the tenth, rushed Eel
gler through the ropes, but it was his last
hard squirt for after one minute and twen-
ty seconds going in the next round, he
went down under repeated rights and
lefts to the head, and day until counted
out.
In going eleven rounds against one of
the very best men in the business Cor
coran justified the faith of his friends
1t is currently reported that the major
ity of the sporting fraternity had no idea
that he could do the feat and that quite
a number Of them lost considerable money
by betting that he would not stay ten
rounds.
Requests for matches with the winner
of the bout have been received from both
Jim Judge and Ed Connolly. Zeigler says
that he is willing to meet either, and
has no preference as to which it is.
After the bout Zeigler was asked his
opinion of Corcoran's ability. Hes fair
ly clever" he said, land can staud a
deal of punishment. but that don't count
unless he had administered It as we'll"
The next bout win be on April II. Tom
my Hogan and Billy Whistler will be the
principals.
In ALL Corcoran has had over twenty
fights. most OF them in Savannah. ana
this IL the second time that he has ever