Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-11
THE PUCILlSTS.
s Denver Ed Martin Meets
 With Quick Defeat

He Was Furnishing Bob Armstrong When His Finish came-Comparison of the Measurements of Jeffries and Corbett-The Jack Root and George
 Gardner Battle. ~
 Boston, June 11.-Bob Armstrong of New York knocked out Denver Ed" Martin at the Tammany A. C., last night. The bout was scheduled to go twelve rounds but the decisive punch was landed in the middle of the third round, and Martin toppled over
 A large crowd was present, and as the big boxers were in fair condition a hard contest was looked for. The pair made 1t very fast fight, and un-l til knocked out Martin had all the bet ter of the milling He jabbed Arm strong at will, following hiM all over the ring. while the latter played for the body continually.
 Armstrong evidently was looking for an opportunity to send his powerful left to the solar plexus, as many of his punches landed in the vicinity of that spot. For the first two rounds 1t looked like an easy win for Martin on points, as his blows did not seem to have sufficient steam behind them to out Armstrong away.
 Martin played a regular tattoo on his opponents body and face, but the steady jabbing did not bother Arm strong a bit and he laid for the opening he wanted When the third round was drawing to a close Martin jabbed with his left and swung the right to the neck. Quick as flash Armstrong drove his left to the body and dropped Martin like log.
 The bout was broken up in the sec ond round temporarily by a side affair. Sandy Ferguson, the Chelsea heavy weight, tried to give Ben Benton fhrashing. Benton is sporting writer and has frequently alluded to Ferguson as "the stubborn child"
 The fighter made a dash at Benton but failed to land hard blow, while Benton and Manager Burrow of the Detroit baseball team thrashed Fergu- son soundly with thetr canes. Earlier in the evening, Ferguson almost came to blows with another sporting man.
 When George Gardner and Jack Root cross arms on July before the Fort Erie club. the merits of long range and close fighting will be on trial.
 Gardner is a mixer. He is never so busy as when working in close and iebting them go with both hands. Root depends more on distance and trusts to left jabs to bring home the thing that buys shoes for the baby. His right is mot strapped to hds side. either, but he tsn't at his best at inhghting.
 Gardner has won the major portion of hie battles by boring in and ripping ID both gloves to the other fellows culinary department. He also has a perclitting to the face.
 The conditions of hhe match. .stipulate that the men weigh dn at 1855 pounds, give or take two pounds, at 9 a. m. This will bring them into the ring in the afternoon well within the light heavyweight limit. They will battle for purse of $T,ho0. with privilege of 90 per cent of the gross receipts up to $15,O00 and 30 per cent of all amounts above that figure. This snug sum of money will be divided on the basis of 65 per cent to the winner and 85 per cent to the loser.
 This will be their third fight. The first took place at San Francisco and went to Root on foul in the seventh round. Their second meeting took place at Salt Lake City and Gardner won after seventeen rounds of hard and fast hghting.
 The general idea of Jim Corbett as compared with Jim Jeffries in size, is that Corbett is a mere srfpling along side the champion. But their respec- tive measurements do not show such a difference.
 Corbett. Jeffries.