Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-19
FIGHTS AM. FIGHTERS
Much Doing Last Night In Many
Rings Around the Country.

Jock Root Succumbs to the Punches
Of George Gardner Hughey Me-
Govern Furnishes Willie Reed in
Less Than Six Rounds Marvin
Hart Defeats Billy Stift--Joe Choy-
inski to Face Two Mcknight With
Skin Gloves in Paterson Boxing
Bouts in Danbury.
ing match of the season given by the
National Athletic club was held last
night in HadIey's hall. The hall is
/ on the third floor Of a building on.
Main street that. is supposed to seat
$50 people. About 1000 tickets for
the fight were sold. An effort was
made to get 1000 of these people into.
the hall After about 600 had man
aged to get in, Chief Rawlings stopped
any more entering. There was con-
siderable criticism of the license COM
mittee of the city council for allowing
the fight to take place where it did.
This is probably the last fight that will
be allowed in such a hall, as it has only
two small exits, and there is great dam
ger of loss Of life in case of fire alarm
or other excitement
The star bout was between Hughey
| McGovern Of Brooklyn, brother of
Terrible Terry" and Willie Reid at
| 1l2 pounds, twenty rounds Mccoy
Tern was declared the winner in two
minutes and fifty seconds of the sixth
Iround, when Mike Donovan, the box
| ing instructor of the New York Ath-9
/ letic club, threw up the sponge The
! lighting was fast and furious all
through the six rounds and it was
one OF the prettiest bouts ever seen
| between men of the bantam weight.
| This was Reds first professional APP
pearance and he showed that he was a
speedy and scientific. fighter Hugh
ey McGovern carries himself in the
lring exactly like his brother Terry.
There were several good preliminary
bouts. The best was between Joe
Dunn of Hartford and Young Rice of
| AIiddletown. TWAS declared a draw
] in the sixth round.
Pollock was the referee. In the
n preliminaries Jerry Maher of Hartford
Knocked out Kid Leo Of New York in
4 the third round of an eight round bout
4 Art Simms and Eddie Cain, Terry Me-
Governs sparring partners, gave a
three round exhibition
Young .Corbett and Terry Mccoy
ern were introduced to the audience by
Joe Humphreys and made few re-
marks. They shook hands and ex-
pressed the hope that the best man
win in their coming battle.
/ Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug 19.--
i George, Gardner, of Lowell, Mass, last
might decisively defeated Jack Root Of
4 Chicago, who defeated him several
i months ago. in San Francisco, by
knocking him out in the seventeenth
round of a fight remarkable for speed
and gameness under punishment shown
knowledgel 81 Rodes weak Z s \ :
i stomach and disregarded Roots left
jabs, which found his face time and
again. Root showed the effects Of
the body punishment he received as
early as the seventh round and plainly
i lost speed after that round
The end came In the last round.
Gardner rushed his man to the ropes,
planted his left and right to the stom-
ach and the latter went down gasping
for breath. Root got up only TO 60
down the third time He struggled
to his feet. Gardner was on him like
p fash. Gardner worked his left and
right on Roots ribs and the latter sank
slowly to his knees. Then he rolled
lover on his back and his seconds
saved him from further useless pun
ishment by throwing UP the sponge.
The betting before the men entered
the ring was 10 t0l7 on Root.
49, 80 l..ss y.
i Young Corbett has, decided to remain
in New York until tomorrow and did
not leave for the. west yesterday as
he contemplated. The featherweight
champion whiled his time Yesterday
y taking In the sights Of Greater New
4 York and included trip to Coney Is
land.
IL Speaking of his coming mill with
NfcGoyern, Corbett said: sSome PEG
s pie are not satisfied that am a better
man than McGovern. / did the trick
once before and can do it again. |
viii fight him the same way he fights
g me. If McGoyern roughs it SO will I,
4 but If he fights carefully I will fight
carefully too. will have no diff
Guilty in making the weight, as T am
down to 129spounds now.''
Johnny Corbett left for Cincinnati
last night to obtain quarters for his
man. He expects to fit up nice gym
nasium for the champion. Mccoy
ern, it was learned yesterday, will not
remain at Bridgeport as long as he
thought. If is his intention now to
train three weeks instead of one at
his camp in Cincinnati, where he will
finish his labors. He takes the step
In order to get acclimated.
s Danbury, Aug 19.-At the Crescent
Athletic club last, night Charles Seiger
of Hoboken, IN, u, Knocked out Charles
Matthews Of this city III four rounds
The bout was uninteresting. Joe Null
4 yihill of South Norwalk and Frank
Klopp of this city met for the 16O-
pound championship of the state. Null.
yihill was outclassed and Klopp had
him down and out before the end OF
the first round.
Joe Choynski Is to return to the ring
again and viii inaugurate his re-entry
u by meeting two men in one ring on the
s same night at Chicago. According to
a dispatch from the Windy city,
Choynski has signed articles to box
4 Jim Drisco1I and Jack BeauScholta two