Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-04-04
YOUNG CORBETT'S VICTORY
HE WHIPPED TERRY M'GovERN
IN ELEVEN ROUNDS.
The Fight at San Francisco Tuesday
Night Was Fast and Furious All
Through-Corbett Fought Like a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Was intense
at Ringside.

Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco
April 2.-William Rothwell, better
known as Young Corbett," of Denver
Col, showed decisively that his vic.
tory over Terry McGovern of Brook.
| Ign at Hartford year ago last
Thanksgiving was no tluke, by defeat
! ing McGovern in the 18th round after
a fight in which there was not a Sec
ond 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 18th
! round, he got the Brooklyn terror
into neutral corner he punished him
so badly that the latter sank to the
moor a badly defeated man. Corbett
put McGovern down in the first round
for a count of seven and repeated 1T
in the second.
There was some question as to
whether or not McGovern was down
utes it looked as il there would be
free for all fight. McGovern tried
to get up, tried hard, and was on his
feet an instant after the timekeeper
counted him out. George Harding,
the club timekeeper, who counted Nc
Govern out, stated after the fight that
the blows that knocked McGovern out
were left and right swings on the jaw
and a right uppercut on the chin.
Harding said McGovern was in a
dazed condition; that when he had
counted nine he motloned to him to
get up, but McGovern was too con-
fused to notice, and was unable to do
so. At the count of 10 McGovern
started to rise, but it was too late,
and the referee awarded the fight to
Young Corbett. Harding said that
McGovern was completely out and
that it was a mercy to him that he
was unable to get up. Corbett was
strong and ready, and had McGovern
risen to his feet he probably would
have been seriously hurt. AS it was,
it was nearly minute after Mccoy
ern had been carried to his corner
before he was able to sit up or I'M
derstand what had happened. The
men in McGoverns corner claimed
that the decision was an outrage.
They said McGovern had been in
structed to fight cautiously, and when
he was knocked down he was to take
the full count, and that McGovern
followed his instructions. They claim
q thn Of bo l.:
and although dazed, knew what he
was doing They also claimed that
he had plenty of fight in ,him and
would have lasted the rest of the
round. Referee Graney's decision
seemed to meet with the approval Of
most of the spectators, as McGovern
was apparently thoroughly beaten.
1T was my own way of winning the
fight" said Young Corbett after the
fight. Il fought cautiously in every
round and felt McGovern weakening
| toward the end of the contest.
caught him with a left on the Jaw
and sent him back against the ropes
He dropped his hands to his side
which was a sure signal to me that
| had won the contest. I went for
him, put rights and left to head and
jaw, and was forced to fight myself
free in the clinch. The final blow
was a right uppercut to the jaw that
put McGovern to the floor for the
full count"
1T was the greatest robbery in the
history of the prize ring" said Nc
Govern. Il had Corbett beaten from
start to finish. | landed on him wher
and where | pleased and surely wouli
have had him out within a few
rounds"