Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-30
voo Over Jerry Mccarthy in
Twenty Round Contest For
Championship.
JERRY WAITED TOO LONG.
Fighting Dutchman" Did All the Lead
iuc For Seventeen Rounds - Grand
Tbeater Packed by Fight Fans

o,.re an audience that packed the
c,a1 tbeater from stage and pit 10 INC
o'a ",,,os, seat In the gallery last nigh''
I ,s,ry Mccarthy Of Salt Lake ana o'to
s,s,on OF Chicago, fought twenty rouhus
S The title Of white welterwelsht cham,
s%o If the world, and after the gong had
p~a aSsa ending the last round, Referee
rSoodore Van Buskirk gave the decision
IA ,be Chicago fighter
The bout was pulled off under the man
or,rnept OF the shamrock Athletic cluO'
81 Kelly manager, and the perform
soce vas voted a success In every par
,cplar By those present. The maleh
asmoperated that there is a large eie-
mem, Of Salt Lakes citizens who delIsnt
/, contests Of this kind, and are WILING
I, mart with their com to see tneul WIN
XXX Are assured that the pUuts are VI
,he s1uare II was the nrsl Hsnl MY
Jnca "CmCdgI JACK Ddly Was pa'u
s,",ow down" the ciuD When ne met
ua.i'sy,bv in The same ring last winter
~ rro,Sd was orderly, ana wnen van
tg.k,rk rendered MS decision, II was re-
l1',"G with cheers. Even some OF NC
'sr,by's most ardent supporters AUNT,
,sS ,eat sleloft earned the decision AM
W., c'ssrIy entitled " II, II was the con-
,'9sIs M UplulOn, however, thdt had inc
S,W continued for a few more ROUNDS
vSartny would surely have worn MS up
-, G,wu and beaten him, lie was
4, stronger of the two, and had the ad-
S.,',e, mat goes TO youth ana weight
NM. several pounds heavier IMAM ste
and when weighing In time came
,,frday afternoon, Jerry refused 10
make his weight known. SleluIl Was W.
Ji lH pounds, the notch required py
n, articles Of agreement Jerry adinll,
iei that he weighed lN poulus' anu
thereby lost his forfeit OF SlD' A,si,o,
condition OF they never coulu nave su"o
The fast pace that was SET. A.. a..
From the tap Of the gong In the nistt
,olnd 10 the seventeenth round slel01
vas me agglessOr, ana did pracucaliy
IN the leadlng. Tie jabbed with LETT,
swung rignt and LETT ana uppercul gut
Terry blocked most cleverly ana by ms
,actics forced Sieloft TO come 10 MN,
Mccarthy depended on counters ehlleig
and seldom came out Of his Famous
crouch. Sleloff kept right at his man ana
he few times that Jerry stood erect any
exchanged wallops with him, had az
The better Of IL with the exception OF
he last three rounds when Mccarthy $
superior strength and weight began 10
tell on the visiting DutChman.
Scion won many friends ny his WORK
ahd the crowd yelled In his favor repeat,,
eiy. He was apparently willing al al
times to mix matters with jerry, but the
latter always dropped into his peculiar
offensive position and depended on coun-
trs Neither man scored kn0CkdoWn'
and the only blood that was drawn came
from Ottos nose and lip In the nrst
round Mccarthy and the spectators
we're simply amazed at the WONDERFUL
ability displayed by Sieloff TO keep up the
iast pace he set at the beginning, and
when the 4 nal gong sounded he was stu
mr from being groggy, In their miS-ups
towards the last OF the fight, both were
extremely wild and missed many vicious
lisht and LETT swings, any one OF when,
U landed on the jaw, would nave meant
payday for the man who landed IL
The Chicago man was quite accurate IN
Dig leading although his blows were
blocked By Jerry The latter, however,
I'D but very little leading until the last
three rounds. and then Sleloft got out OF
barns way by blocking and duckng ~
was Selofs game to maintain the lead
be had Jerry played n waiting game
hoping for an opportunity To land q
Knockout punch. That Is what he played
lot but ne waited too long The proba-
1lllIes ATE that, had Jerry rushed mat
lers from the twelfth round he would