The evening world., 1903-04-07
Little Brooklynite Says He Was Not
Counted Out Fairly and His Manager
Will Put Up $4,000 that Terry Can
Still Whip Young Corbett.
Timekeeper Did the Counting Out in
Frisco, Not the Referee, as in the
East, and McGovern Was on His
Feet at the Last Stroke.

Terry McGovern, with Sam Harris. his manager, and the other members
of his party, arrived in New York this afternoon at 100. The ex-champon
was met at the Jerry by his wife and brother, and the crowd drove at once
to The Evening World Office, where Terry talked freely Of his recent battle
in San Francisco.
The Brooklyn fighter is in splendid shape and shows n % marks of his
encounter with Young corbett excepting a mouse" under his eye: He is
firm in his belief that he was not counted out fairly and still thinks he holds
the Denver boy safe.
81 do not mean to say there was any dishonest work" said McGovern.
There was a mistake, and that was all there vas to it.. was far from being
out, and simply tool: the count for a rest The referee could do nothing else
than send me back to my corner when the ttmekeeper announced that l had
been down the limit
II do not think that Mr.. Graney thought me out, but the tmekeeper said
Out and that was all there was to it..
Here in the East the referee does the counting, and had Graney done
so he would never have called m out in the world, Corbett and were
hanging on to each other at the end and when 1 went down took a rest
" know that was up in plenty of time and ready and able to 80 o n with
the fight 1t was anybodys battle up to that time and 1 had s good a
want another chance at him. l won't wait for n fight with him, however,
but will meet anybody at my weight that comes along. want to fight
them all"
Sam Harris wants to bet $4,000 right now that Terry a whip Young
corbett' and is willing to put the money up a any time and with any one
He is certain that his man did not get a fair count when he went down in
the eleventh round of the fight and thinks he could have put his opponent
out in a few more punches.
81 do not wish to discuss the question Of whether or not Terry was
counted out say Harris. Il 40 not wish it to seem that We are trying to
take anything from Young Corbetts victory.
He Ia certainly a great fighter and he has two victories to his credit
over Terry, which is something Of a record, but the mere fact of Mcaov-
ern's losing to Corbett does no mean that he can't nght.
"Te ca beat any featherweight in the country still believe. We will
go right after Yanger, Hanlon and others, and II he wins from them I
think he will be entitled to another chance at Corbett.
I think Terry had all the best of it up to the time corbett "a declared
the winner. All the fighting luck was against him at that. too. He should
have knocked the Denver boy out in the eighth round. Again, in both the
ninth and tenth it looked as II m good punch would win for him.
perhaps his temperament Wa against Inn. He was instructed to keep
after Corbeuts body. to fight in close. However, in the last round he be-
gan to lead for Corbetts head and it was then he got the punch that was
followed by he blows that knocked him down"
There IL no question about the count in the fight" said P. H. Sullivan.
Terys tinekeeper. II know that McGovern was on his feet before ten
seconds elapsed. l was holding the watch for him and could not be mis-
taken.
"of course I protested. but 1t was useless. People do not seem to con.
slider the importance OF the fact that Corbett was declared a winner when
he was. The papers stated that even il 1t had been allowed that he was on
his feet in nine seconds he was 10 dazed that Corbett could easily have pu
him down again.
"supposng that this is the truth and even that Corbett knocked him
senseHss, McGovern could not then have been counted out a Ut eight
seconds of the round remained. The bell would have saved him and he
would have had a whole minute in which to recuperate.
II don't wsh to appear TO be a Kicker, put II IA III uuy a IN
keeper to keep time This did and having done o can naturally see 1t
in only one way, and that is the way my watch told me-"