Evening journal., 1903-04-01

Sank TO the Floor a Badly Defeated
Man.
Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco,
April l-William Rothwell, better
known as Young Corbett," of Den
yer, showed decisively fast night that
his victory over Terry McGovern. of
Brooklyn, at Hartford a year ago last
Thanksgiving, was no flulSe, by de-
feating MoGovern in the 11th round,
after a fight in which there was not a
second Of idleness for either man. In
nearly every round Corbett, fighting
like machine. never overlooking an
opportunity to send home his blows,
had a shade the better of the argu-
ment, and when finally in the 11th
round he got the Brooklyn boy fairly
going he never let up on him until
Terry sank to the floor a badly de-
feated man. Corbett put McGovern
down in the first round for a count
of seven. and repeated It IN the sec
Ond There was some question as to
whether or not McGovern was down at
the count of 10. and for few minutes
it looked as if there would be free
for all fight
The Fight BY Rounds.
Round Both came quickly TO the
center Corbett put left to head, Terry
bored in with left to ribs and got away
iron a left jab. McGovern ducked a
left, but a moment later got a right on
jaw and went for a seven second count.
He was evidently very groggy when
he got up. and Corbett put three lefts
to the nose McGovern rushed des-
perately and opened a cut over Cor
belts eye The men fought furiously
in the clinch. McGovern put his left
Both showed the effects Of the furious
milling as they took their corners.
Round 2-McCovern rushed like
wild bull In an instant Corbett's eye
was open. but Corbett put right upper
cut to Terry's chin. The blows were
80 fast It was hard to keep track of
them. They exchanged rights to jaw.
McGovern put left to nose and got
right to ear. McGovern blocked a
right hook and put left to ear. Nc
Govern slammed right, left and right
TO stomach. and Corbett was groggy.
Round 3-Corbett put five straight
lefts to Terry's mouth. He repeated It.
and then put a right hard to McGov-
ern's ribs, In the clineh that fol
lowed McGovern put right and left to
head. Corbett swung right to jaw and
upper cut right to stomach and chin.
McGovern hooked two rights to stom-
ach and got a right uppercut in on the
ribs. Corbett uppercut to the stom-
ach. McGovern swung right to Cor
belts eye and nearly put him down,
Corbett hooked his left to stomach.
The pace was terrific. Corbett, if any
thing, seemed the stronger.
Round 4-Corbett put two lefts to
nose and hooked one to jaw, getting
left to jaw and right to stomach as a
return. McGovern. seemed unable to
avoid corbett's left jabs. but fought
carefully nevertheless. Corbett hook
ed left to eye McGovern kept com
ing. but got into a clinch. McGovern.
got two lefts to Jaw and put hard
right over heart and another hard right
to Jaw.
Round 54-Corbett missed a right
hook and got three lefts to the ribs. A
clinch and Corbett jabbed three lefts
to Terry's mouth Terry rushed and
planted two rights to Corbett's stom-
ach. getting a right hook on the jaw.
McGovern swung right on nose. bring.
ing the blood Corbett put in a hard
left to the mouth. He missed the
next one. and Terry caught him on the
Jaw as he turned. McGovern got in
three rights to the kidneys and Cor
bett bent under the punishment. Cor
bett put a right to the ribs and Nc
Govern put in two rights to stomach
In the rush that followed McGovern
put left to the jaw. This was decid-
cdly McGovern's round.
Round 6-Corbett jabbed two lefts
to the face and hooked a right to the
stomach. McGovern put right to kid
neys. corbett swung right to ear. Cor
bett swung hard right to kidneys and
got two in, the same place. He missed
q right swing and got hard right to
stomach in return McGovern put a
left to the throat and got hard right
on ear. A clinch, and McGovern put
right TO stomach and ribs.
Round TERRY hooked a light left
to the Jaw. but got hard wallop In
mouth and right in ribs. Corbett put
left to eye and mouth. Corbett put a
hard left in Terry's stomach. Coroett
swung right to the Jaw and put right
uppereut to Jaw twice. Terry was by
this time in distress. Corbett missed
a left twice. McGovern got in left to
jaw. He slipped down and took count
of nine on his knees. The crowd hooteo
vigorously. Corbett missed a right up
percut but swung right to back oi
neck. McGovern put in two hard rights
to ribs, ducked left swing and put II
q left to the stomach.
Round S~They rushed into a clinch
McGcvern put in two rights to stomach
They we're low. and Corbett's seconds
claimed foul 4dcGovern hooked righ
to chest. Corbett hooked right fol
Jaw. but II was blocked McGoverni
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