Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-18
FIGHTS and Fighters.
Some Interesting Bouts Decided
Last Night.

Young Corbett Has a Hard Time With
.'Crocky' Boyle kid Broad Gets
the Worst of a Referees Decision
Clarence Forbes Is Better Than
Johnny Regain in Six Rounds Bids
for Corbett and McGovern Opened
Tomorrow.
Philadelphia, Nov 1S-One of the
greatest exhibitions Of boxing ever
witnessed in this city between feath-
erweights took place last night in the
arena of the Washington Sporting club.
The principals were Young Corbett.
and "Crockey' Boyle, a local man. It
was boxer against a fighter, and the
former was outclassed. There never
was a minute after the opening round
IN Which Boyle was not pushing his
ieft NIT in the face of the champion
an such disconcerting manner that.
Gorbett acted ike q wild man.
The first round was tame because
Boyle was nervous and kept at fair
distance. Beginning with the second,
however, and until the sound of the
gong in the final round, he rained a
shower of left hand jabs upon Corbett
The latter was wild in his lunges and
showed extremely poor judgment in
distance.
Boyle cleverly ducked and lodged
all of Corbett's terrific swings. Had
one of them landed fairly upon the 10
cal mans jaw, he would have un-
doubtedly been '.out. !"
In the third and fourth rounds Cor
bett gave a childish display of tenn
per because of mis- inability to reach
his clever opponent
As the bout progressed, Boyle
gained confidence and used both of his
hands with telling effect. He did all
the leading after the first round. Not
only was his jabbing the most skillful
seen at this club this year, but his foot
work was equally clever.
Corbett did not land two solid blows
on Boyle's face during the bout. He
devoted his attention to the body, but
did not yisibly distress Boyle. The
champion was in poor condition.
Chicago. Nov 1S.-Clarence Forbes
won the decision over Johnny Reagan
of New York after six rounds of fast
fighting at the Lyceum Athletic club
last night. Both men were clever,
but Forbes proved the faster of the
two and took a decided lead in the, last
three rounds +. "a
In the same ring Kid Broad of
Cleveland and Young Mowatt of Chi
cago went six rounds to a draw.
Broad appeared to have much the bet
ter of the fight and the referees YER
dict was decidedly unpopular Now
att was covered with blood from a
deep cash over his right eye and was
barely able to stand during the last
round. II
In spite of all the rosy reports that
Bill Doherty, the Australian, was a
: fSpheRom" at the fighting game. and
that he would not tfrink of putting I'D
his hands. with anyone who was not
first class upon his arrival in this
country, the announcement is made
that Sam Fitzpatrick intends giving
him the first go'' with George Gard
sner, whom Jack Johnson, an inexper-
fenced heavyweight of California. sig
naly defeated short time ago. Prob
ably Fitzpatrick is doubtful about his
protege's ability and wisely desires to
give him an extended trying-out before
pitting him against men Of undoubted
ability.
Owen Zeigler and Patsey Sweeney
are down for six round ego" at the
Criterion A. O. of Boston tonight.
They are to weigh 142 pounds and the
remuneration will be so per cent of the
gross receipts. Sweeney stands we'll
up in welterweighf society and Zeigler
is said to be as good as ever. There
fore their bout tonight should develop
into something more than the six round
affairs.
For its wind-up tomorrow night the
Apollo A. G. of Chicago will present
Tim Kearns and Art Slmms. The
distance will be six rounds, at 133
in recent battles indicates that the Ak
ron lightweight will have TO do his best
to win.
New York, Nov 1S-Saturday was
the day originally set for the opening
of bids for the contest between Young
Corbett and Terry McGovern, but by
mutual understanding it was decided
to postpone the event until tomorrow.
The proposals will be considered at
Cincinnati instead of this city, for the
reason that the pugilists and their
managers have engagements on the
road and will be in the vicinity of that
city on that date A club in Cincin-
natl warts the contest, but it is possi-
bic that the offer will be ignored, and
that the mill, as already foreshadowed,
win eventually go to San Francisco.
The authorities of Cincinnati, it
seems, are not very partial to pugil-
ism, and rather than go through the
experience of Gus Rubin and Jim JEFF
fries. who had an argument with Ohio
law about two years ago. the managers
will probably select San Francisco.
Manager Sam Harris for McGovern
said yesterday that If he is unable to
go to Cincinnati he will request that
the bids be wired to him for consider
alton. He will try, however, to 20
west.
STEPPED AGAINST A HOT STOVE
A child of Mrs George T. Benson.
when getting his usual Saturday night
bath, stepped back against hot stove
which burned him severely. The child
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