The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-18

Salt Lake, March 17.-Jack Clifford
the sturdy California light weight,
knocked out Jack Wade, light weight
| champion of Montana, in the thir-
teenth round of the scheduled 20
round bout at the Salt Lake Athletic
club tonight. The blow that did the
deed was right hook squarely on
| the point of the chin, and Wade did
! not recover for some time after be-
ing dragged to his corner. The fight
was very fast one after the third
round. For the first four rounds Wade
! was the aggressor, though he fought
very carefully, paying great deal of
attention to Clifford's stomach with
the right In the sixth round Clifford
sent Wade to the floor with right
on chin. After that he slowly but
surely fought his way to victory.
Wade went down again in the ninth
| round and was very weak. He came
up surprisingly strong for the tenth,
however, and had Clifford in a bad
way for a moment, but Clifford evened
matters up and in the twelfth round
| Wade went to the floor five times.
The knockout blow came about the
middele of the thirteenth round dur
ing fierce mixup in Clifford's corner
The Fight BY Rounds.
Round AFTER sparring moment
| Clifford rushed and put right hard to
Wades face. Wade sent left and
right to body. Wade missed left for
face and blocked Clifford's left count
er. Wade poked left to Clifford's face,
| Clifford slamming right to Wades
ribs.
Round 2-Wade missed left hook
and ducked Clifford's left swings. In
the mix up Wade tripped and went to
floor but was up in a flash. Clifford
sent left and right to stomach. Wade
responding with hard right to same
Clifford missed left and right for face
and received right in ear and right in
stomach a second later. Wade laid
two more hard rights to stomach and
escaped a return.
Round 3-Wade blocked right lead
for head and right to neck. Wade put
left to face and stomach and ducked
Clifford's swing. Wade put hard
right on stomach and left to face.
Clifford countered on Wade's mouth.
Wade put hard right to ribs and duck
ed Clifford's swing. In the mixup
both landed lefts to face. Wade sent
in hard right to stomach, Clifford
countering with left to chin
Round 4-Clifford put right to
Wade's ear. Wade sent in straight
left on mouth and right to stomach.
Clifford landed hard left on Wade's
mouth. Wade's right hook was low
and Clifford countered on ear. Both
put lefts to face in mixup. Wade's
left found Clifford's ribs and Clifford
sent right to Wade's chin. Wade
landed left on eye.
Round 5-Wade tried left and right
for head but missed. A right for
stomach found it's mark. Clifford put
in hard left to Wade's face, drawing
blood. Wade sent right to ribs and
left to nose and repeated it without
return. Wade missed straight left
and went to floor on his back from a
right. When he arose Clifford sent
in right to ribs, Wade putting in
straight left onN Clifford's mouth.
Wade's right found Clifford's stomach
twice, Clifford coutnering with a hard
right on mouth.
Round 6-Wade put in hard left to
nose and right to ribs. Both landed
hard lefts on mouth in exchange on
ropes. Wade landed two lefts on
nose and right in stomach. Clifford
rushed and put in right twice on
Wades' stomach and brought it up to
nose. Clifford hooked right to Wade's
chin and Wade went down for seven
seconds. They were mixing it as the
bell rang.
Round Wade put left to mouth
twice, Clifford hooking his right to
ear. Both fought rather wildly. Wade
put his left to face and was countered
heavily on cheek. They exchanged
to face. Both landed hard lefts to
chin. Clifford was apparently strong
er as they took corners.
Round S-Clifford rushed but failed
to land. Clifford put right to Wade's