The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-20
QUIT TO SAVE HIS EAR
THAT MEMBER OF CoRCORAN,s
ANATOMY LOST HIM BOUT.
WAS NEARLY TORN OFF.
so TOMMY GAVE UP IN SIXTH
ROUND.

corcoran Had All Better of Bout
Did All the Leading and Had Bet
ter of In-Fighting-Grnce Very
slow and Was Very Rarely Ag-
cressive-Jack Shcehan Knocked
out j. Flanagan in Five Rounds of
very Lively PreIiminary-FeItz in
Good shape and Expects to Win
Coming Battle in st. Louis.
Because his left ear was so nearly
torn from his head that it hung by
only a few shreds, Tommy Corcoran
IN have been a 20-round bout with
Jack Grace last night, and the bout
was given to Grace. 1t was the more
unfortunate for Corcoran as up to the
time he quit he had had all the best
of the bout, in fact had done all the
work, and appeared, barring chance
blow, of being sure of knocking his
man out and that within a very short
time.
The damage to Corcorans ear was
not done by Grace; he merely opened
and made a little worse the old wound
that was inflicted by Owen Zeigler the
last time Corcoran met him in the
ring. Corcoran, after he left the ring
last night, was taken in charge by
doctor who put some eight stitches in
the torn member to get in back in it's
proper place and hold it there.
The bout, during the five and a half
rounds that it lasted, was rather tame,
with some of the recent ones seen here.
1t started off lively enough, Corcoran
punching for the stomach and head
and Grace. in the clinches, trying for
a number of upper cuts, none of which
landed, however, or only with small
force.
The second round though, was nota-
Bile only for a lively mix that lasted
a few seconds and in which the men
made hammer and tongs affair out of
it, each landing on the head several
times. In the third round after con-
siderable sparring Corcoran landed a
hard straight punch to the stomach
and hard left handler to the face;
the latter though it was delivered with
the heel of the glove staggered
Grace.
Again in the following round Tommy
did all the work. all the leading and
having much the better of the in
fighting in which Grace seemed totally
unable to protect his ribs or even to
retaliate. In this round Tommy with
series of rushes sent Grace on a hot
foot around the ring, but Grace rallied
after a bit and, in the mixes that fol-
lowed managed to send in short jolts
on the head and neck. This work he
kept up in the following round until
Corcoran's ear, which had been torn
in the fourth round, became so badly
torn that its owner was forced to quit
the game. The doctor whom Corcoran
consulted about the matter after the
mill, says that the ear will grow back
all right, but that it will not be in
shape for Corcoran to go another bout
for some three or four months.
The main event was preceded by an
exceedingly lively preliminary between
Jack Sheehan and j. Flanagan. This
bout was quite as interesting as the
main affair. Flanagan had the hight,
weight and reach ON Sheehan, but the
smaller boy was in the better con-
dition and after four rounds of very
lively punching managed to knock out
his bigger adversary though not until
HS llIlSelI Hdu DeeH well puInIHeleu.
The knockout took place near the
close of the fifth round. Sheehan had
managed to land several times on
Flanagan's face, work that the victim
liked so little that he began ducking
all leads that appeared to be coming
to the vicinity of the jaw. Sheehan
took advantage of this; he tented
with his right and when Flanagan
ducked sent in a straight and stiff
left-hander to the jaw. This maneuver
ne repeated twice and then in a mix
landed two hard short hooks on the
injured jaw, and Flanagan, dazed, went
down and took the count. He got up
and squared off, but was too weak to
stand the gait and Sheehan, sending
in another pair of hot ones, put him
on Queer Street" for keeps.
Shorty Jenkins was the referee of