Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-13
THE PUGILlSTS
CLEVER JACK
 LAUDS JOSEPH
Dougherty Says Wolcott is Not . Human Being Lewis Gave it
 to Briggs.

Like the good game fighter he is, Jack Dougherty offers no excuse over his defeat by Joe Walcott Instead, Jack tells the story with a large laugh-admitting the laugh is .on himself. hiHn ssss z@
 T thought I had him beaten up that punch" said Dougherty to me last night. But he soaked me on the eye and 1t paralyzed the optic nerve. I wasn't out. but somehow or other got the. idea that my eye had been knocked out of my head and across the ring.
 When the blow, which was left hook, landed on my eye l was stone blind. It knocked me down, but I've been knocked down before, and that did not fease me any. I got up on one hand and groped around for the eye. Things felt as though the eye was gone, and l was in a fearful way. It's not so bad to be knocked out. but when you lose an eye you feel pretty rotten.
 Where's my eye?' yelled to Frank Mulkern, my manager, who rushed over to my assistance.
 ," Its all right. Jack he said. Its in your head
 Don't tell me that yelled. It's somewhere around the floor. You go get 1t and never mind the gate re- ceipts. What do care for money when I'm looking for an eye
 This kept up for several minutes. when suddenly the sight came back. and there were the people filing out of the hall. and the black ape over in his corner taking off his gloves and grinning for all the world like a monkey with bag of peanuts"
 Dougherty's eye was discolored, but this was the only mark he show ed. However. later In the evening he removed his shirt and showed his back. And here were marks that were never made by the fists of mor- tai man or human ape. Wolcott classes with the latter.
 The story of the fight. round by round, told of how wolcott was heat ing Dougherty in the elinehes with chops over the kidneys. Behind this lies the story which Manager Frank Mulkern, who directs Dougherty's fortunes. tells. and which is borne ( out by the Boston newspapers.
 Walcott's right hand was badly injured by a bullet about two years ago To keep the hand stiff. Walcott had a trap made. with heavy leather as the material. The hand was a compact mass of the hardest kind of pigskin. with many layers of tape over 1t when Joe entered the ring.
 Mulkern objected strongly to such measures. but Manager Billy Pierce. for walcott. insisted. and rather than take Dousherty out of the ring Null kern finally gave in to the use of the bunch of leather for a fist.
 The greater part of the leather vas on the percussion side Of the . hand. When the men clinched Wal colt would pound Dougherty over the kidneys with this hand. and every blow brought large blue welts across Jacks back.
 Up 10 the seventh round the fight. with the exception of the first ses- sion. ras all DouEherty. He had Wal colt s,aIIing in the fifth. but the bell saved the black man
 'Tn never fight walcott again as did Tuesday night" said Dougherty yesterday. T made my mistake hy go- ing at his jaw You could hit that fellow with . pile driver on the jaw and he'd laugh at you In the fifth l landed the hardest blov ever start ei ia ny life flush on his iav- He spun around like one of thoes dane inc tsrvixhes yoa see Ia the Far East sAou. Thes out of the mas Of wing