The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
TERRY !. FAIRLY OUT
San francisco Sports Admit That
McGovern Was Decisively
Beaten by Corbett.
The Brooklyn Boy Still Claims the
Featherweight Championship
at 122 Pounds.

The. cleverest thing that Young Corbett
did Tuesday night In the ring at San
Francisco was to go over to McGovern's
corner, after Terry had staggered to his
chair, and say to Sam Harris, after ask
ing McGovern a question, to which the
Brooklyn boy paid no attention. You see
he is still out"
Despite Terry's claim that Timekeeper
Harting only counted nine, and that he
rose before ten counts had been made,
several trained observers at the ringside
say the full count was given. Jim Neil,
a horseman with split second watch.
says: ''Terry did not rise until the four
teenth second Joe, humphrey, time
keeper for McGovern, said: AT the time
Harting was appointed T agreed to count
with him in case a man was knocked
down. We counted together. last night,
and when we arrived at eight seconds
Terry was up andsready to- resume the
battle. To my surprise, however, Eddie
Graney waved us aside and declared Cor
bett the victor. Now, have nothing to
say against Graney, for he is good, hon
est boy but never will stop expressing
my opinion about Harting. He is not on
the level, and he showed it by his action
last night" + r.;'~.
George Harting, who has served as
timekeeper for many fights in San Fran
cisco, said '"rhe timing in San Francisco
was as square as a die. AS soon as Nc
Govern dropped I commenced to count,
and he was still down until twelve had
been called, then he got up, but he was SO
badly dazed that he could not make reply
to gentleman who sat beside me and
| questioned him. He raised a; vacant stare
and he sat in his chair and was still out
| of his mind when the gong sounded for
the conclusion Of the round twenty sec
onds later. Even had iMcGovern: risen be-
| fore the count of ten he would have been
| knocked out by Gorbett,> for there were
still twenty seconds of the round to 60
and Corbett was standing by ready with
another strong right hand to punch
| All the sports who saw the fight. except
| a. few intimate followers Of McGovern
admit that Terry was fairly beaten. ane
| that this defeat was due to Corbett's su
| perior cleverness and GOODNESS. =.
| The vicious nature of the fight was only
revealed yesterdays when the conversation
| between the men was made known by thu
| revelations of Corbett and Referee rGra
ney Corbett througout preserved a con
temptuous attitude toward Terry, ant
when the Brooklyn man was roughing /
in in-f1ghting, Corbett constantly. tauntet
Terry with foul fighting, but told him h
could not win even with those tactics I
required all the persuasion of Sam Harri
to keep Terry from losing his head unde
these taunts. After the fight III the dress
| ing room tneFe was d resumption OF nos
tilities, Terry declaring that he had beel
jobbed out of the fight. This angered Cor
bett, and he shouted:
"You get out of here. hate you and
don't want to see anything more Of YOU
Terry McGovern claims the legi
innate featherweight championship at II
pounds. He declares that Tuesday
fight was special weight and therefor
ought not to carry the championship
The receipts amounted to $20,S52, Q
which the club received sS,340. Corbett'
share of the remainder was $7,506, whil
McGovern got 5000