The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-02-17

ing wits.
Reilly turned almost helplessly and
threw out his arm wildly, straighten-
ing out his guard and leaving himself
open to more swings while yainly
trying to reach out for a clinch.
Dropping all semblance of a guard,
Jerry rushed in with a weight and
force which would have driven even
a heavier antagonist of his feet. 1t
was McCarthy's one opportunity and
he was too good a fighter to throw
! it away.
Straight from the shoulder came
that heavy left, to be followed with a
rocking right swing, both blows al
ternating with a rapidity which fair
ly smothered Reilly and drove him
lumberingly from one side Of the
| ring to the other.
All of that splendid, scientific work
by Reilly was gone in a second. His
| finely Judged leads dropped, his Light,
fast footwOrk was transformed into
heavy, staggering, laundering rolls
about the ring and his defense went
| wholly to pieces. The only indica-
ton Of voluntary motion on his part
| were swinging outstretched arms,
| which would at one time be swinging
| wildly in Jerry's direction without ef-
feet, or clinching spasmodicalfy,
| without apparently sufficient direction
to even hold on in a clinch.
Jerry literally kept him up in the
air, rolling him from one side to
the other, stopping only once, when
he rushed him into the ropes and,
| with good readiness displayed,
stepped back to keep away from a
clinch.
AS Jack came away from the ropes
Mccarthy whirled him about with a
left swing, which WIS followed by a
right swing of terrific force. The
blow went clear around Reilly's head
| and landed on the back of his neck,
but was SO steamy that Reilly was
actually knocked down on his knees,
falling to his face toward Jerry.
| Eddie Quinn jumped between the
| fighters and Jack slowly regained his
knees. He was utterly at sea and as
he tried gamely to concentrate his
| senses he looked behind him In an
| effort to locate Jerry, who was stand
ing in front of him, hidden partially
by the referee.
| o o o
| Jack took the full count Of nine
and then came up, staggering back
through dizziness, but apparently
strong on his legs.
Then followed another fierce rush
by Jerry, during which Reilly showed
gameness by trying his best to mix
it up and to stop the rush, but, al
though there was some strength in
the blows, they lacked direction and
effectiveness, Jerry brushing them
aside as love taps.
Jack was again sent bounding back
and forth across the ring and showed
plainly that he did not know what
he was doing or what was happening.
1t was just the last instructive play
at survival of a drowning man.
o Q o
| The right and left swings came
| with terrific rapidity and Jerry never
| stopped for an instant his rushes
which kept Reilly going and finally
battered him to the floor. Jack went
down again in his own corner from
an exactly similar blow, although
practically beaten down and sinking
| when Jerry swung too far around and
| again caught him on the back of the
| neck.
1t looked then as if Jack must give
up, but he showed more intelligence
| in taking the count than could have
been expected.
AS he came to his feet he staggered
back several feet into the ropes, but,
recovering himself slightly, he
brought forth cheers of admiration
as he lunged gamely forward in an
effort to meet the strong rush sof
Jerry half way.
| But the hard, battering blows were
too much.
Right and left Jerry landed agaln,
every blow going in straight and THE
and each seeming sufficient to put
| down ana out Il less piuchy HSitei'
Jack Rolled about the ring again and
went to his knees. while some of
the more excited ones in the crowd
yelled to the referee to stop the
| contest
But it was not time for the
referee to interfere. Although dazed
and staggering. Reilly was apparently
strong on his feet and, once those
fearful rushes were stopped, might
have a chance to stall out the round.
For this reason Referee Quinn could
not interfere and Reil1y's seconds
did not up to them give any indica-
ton of calling a halt.
But no man, daZed and bewildered
as was Reilly. could stand forever
before that awful battery. For two
minutes Jack had fought blindly and
without actually knowing that he
was in the ring.
As he rolled about under the force
of the blows he made one last des-
perate effort to stop Mccarthy by
madly jumping into Jerry and swing
ing wild blows, but was met with a
hard left which sent him staggering
from the center of the ring into the
fatal corner where he received his