The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-22
put as flat as a pancake and a:
as a -mdckerel. 1890 - - --
i. ---McGovern- White Bout.


-McGovern-W White Bout.
The Tattersan Athletic club did land
office business that year. and as its arena
had seating capacity of nearly 10OW
the managers secured the best talent in
the country. Fights We're staged semi
monthly, and as / was its official refe-
rec | had my hands full dealing out de-
cislons. One of its important contests
that spring was between Terry McGovern
and Tommy White, which it staged on
Aprils11. Terry went east after his knock
out Of Santry. but was brought on to
swap punches with White, who at the
time was considered the cleverest eX-
ponent of the art of his weight in the
middle west
The contest, however, was unsatisfac-
tory as they agreed to call it draw
should they be on their feet at the final
gong; and as they decidedly were on their
feet the decision went as per agreement.
White made an excellent showing in the
final rounds and his work brought the
crowd, which packed the huge building.
10 its feet The majority of the pOpuldce
thought Tommy would have defeated Ter
~ had the contest been limited to ten
round instead of six, and were willing
to bet all kinds of money that the Chi
cagoan could defeat the aggressive Brook
Ignite in a twenty-round mill.
The contest brought about a match at
that distance to take place at. COney ISL
and on June y, less than two months at
ter their bout at Tattersalfs. which Terry
won with a Knockout in the third round.
The result of that battle convinced Tom
my's friends that MclioveTn did not let
himself out in the Chicago contest.
Santrys defeat at the hands of Terry
did not mar his reputation to any extent.
as the little champion was considered in
vincible: so a Louisville fistic organiZa-
ton matched Eddie to fight Oscar Gard
ner, one of the toughest and busiest fight
ers in the country in those days. l had
refereed quite number of battles for the
club, and was sent for to Officiate at the
fight
Now. Eddie had it on Oscar at every
department of the game excepting rug
gedness, capacity for punishment. and ag-
gressiveness. so the Chicagoan entered the
ring slight favorite over the redoubt-
able Gardner. Santry demonstrated his
superiority for four rounds. at the end of
which he was a warmer favorite than
when he landed his first blow His good
work, however, counted for naught, as in
the fifth session little Oscar ripped a left
into his stomach with force enough be-
hind it to end the contest.
On July l skipped down to Blooming
ton. ILL.,. to decide a tWenty-rOund con-
test between Harry Forbes and Walter
Bloom, which Harry won hands down,
after which l hiked away to Kansas City,
and on July sat in judgment at a return
battle between Gardner and -Santry. The
contest went the limit of twenty rounds
Santry winning on points. 1t must be
said on behalfSof Gardner that he wholly
was unfit to do himself justice, as his
hands, from continual connecting with Op-
ponents' heads. were sore and puffed al
most as large as boxing gloves.
Close Call for Jack Root.
got back from the Kansas City affair
in time to referee on July 10 Six-rOund
tilt between Jack Root and Dick O. Brien.
The latter was an old-timer at the hit
and stop game, having. previously met
some of the best men in the country at
his weight. He was much shorter than
Jack as round as "a BARREL and appar-
emily in no condition to give Root an ar
gument He demonstrated however that
neither his stature nor his corpulency de-
priyed him of the tricks he had learned
long before Root became pugilistic fac
tor by hanging wallop on Jacks jaw in
the second round that came within two
seconds of ending the fight Jack arose,
dazed and bewildered, and before he
could locate his chubby opponent he was
again on the canvas taking a count He
took all the seconds that was coming to
him and when he regained his feet he cut.
loose at, Dick as if he had not been intro
duced to the floor. The cyclonic manner
in which he sailed into O'Brien took the.
latter by surprise and but for an excel
lent defense he would have tOppled over.
The minutes rest between the second and
third SESSIONS did Root a heap of good and
l doubt if he ever fought better. He.
slammed the fastener all over the ring
and drove him through the ropes in one
of the final rounds.
Dick stood by the guns but the fusiiIade
of blows which Root poured into his an
atomy was more than his rotund body
could stand and it took the best ne had
narrow escape for Jack and one which he
never will forget