The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
MARVIN HART KNOCKS
 OUT ROOT IN TWELFTH
SUCCEEDS TO THE TITLE or WORLDS HEAVYWEIGHT
 CHAMPION.

Chicago Man Has Best of Flight Unsll
 the Fatal BIow-Powerfn short Ar1n
 Jolt to Body Does Business-Jenrie.
 Referees and 4.OOO People Attend--
 Fair sprinIxIing of Fairer Sex Present
 --Hart Twenty Pounds Heavier z'han
 Root-Fight by Rounds.
 Reno, New, July S.Marvin Hart, ol Louisville, to-day knocked out ''JackP Root, of Chicago. in the twelfth round of fight for the heavyweight cham pionship. The betting odds were to i in favor of Root. The punch which compassed the downfall of the Chica- goan was a short, powerful jolt of the right arm to the body. The blow was delivered with terrific force and 1t caught Root while he was coming up, Root reeled, tottered and fell in a heap. Referee James J Jeffries. towering over the prostrate form of the Chica- goan, counted ten, making Hart heavy weight champion pugiiist of the world He might have counted twenty seconds, for Root was hopelessly defeated, up to this point of the fight Root had an apparent lead over Hart.
 About 4,0OO people paid all the way from $2 to $10 each for seeing the bat tie. There was liberal sprinkiing of Women in attendance. The men step ped into the ringside about twenty pounds apart in weight. Root scaling 170, while Hart weighed 190. The feat ure of the fight. aside from the battle itself, was the appearance of James ,. Jeffries, retired champion of the world, who received $1,o0O for acting as ref ieree
 The purse of s5,oo0, 1t was agreed, should be split on the bases of 6b per cent. to the winner and 35 per cent. to
 the loser. The seconds of Root were
 Battling Nelson. Teddy Alexander and Paddy Mackey. "Bill' Gallagher
 of San Francisco. held the watch Tor I Root. The seconds for Hart were Jack
 Mccormick, 'Deafy' Thompson, Jack
 Roberts and Lee Updyke. Al Updyke
 was timekeeper,
 1 Tn the choice for corners Jack M l Cormiek, Hart's manager, beat K.
 Houseman, acting for Root ans X HIS man s pack 10 the Sl%al. NfSF
 The Fight by Rounds. EIs.Sa
 Round | They rushed Into clinch ! Hart landed right to head, Root coun.
 tered to jaw. They ran into a clinchs
 Root started jabbing Hart and Hart landed straight right to head. Root landed left to Hart's heart Root sent
 right to body and left to jaw, and then : |
 they clinched, Root landed on Hart'a jaw, and sent left to. jaw and left to body. Root uppercuts. They clinchFd. Hart landed left and right to jaw. IT,
 round was about even.
 Round 2Root landed left hard to bhe Jaw, repeated it and rushed into clinch. Root landed right to body and uppercllt
 to body. Hart and Root exchanged : lefts and they elinched. Root shot ls@l !. over right to jaw and crossed right td 2 head hard. Root went to Hart's body { and they clinched. Root missed a hard swing. and kept poking to Hart's body Root missed vicious right swing and ]. Hart landed left hard to body. It was Roots round.
 Round 3They rushed to q clinch 2 Root landed left hard to the jaw, and ' Hart returned to body hard with Tighs e They clinched. Hart missed 9 vieiou; t right swing, and a second later landed
 right hard under heart Hart wal q fighting desperately. Root put left ts q jaw. Hart landed hard to stomach ''-8II Root landed hard right to jaw Thes t clinched. Root sent left to body. The. 5. exchanged lefts to jaw, The rounded s ended, honors about even and both mel I fighting hard.
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