The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-01

From San Diego to humboldt,
California was aroused to action
against the prize ring The breath
hardly had left the boy fighters
body before ministers of San Fran
cisco had conferred and issued a
statement denouncing the sport and
urging the people to cooperate in
forcing state officials to end the
fighting game.
Fight promoters profess to see
in McCarthy's death no more sig
nificance than in the death of an
athlete in any other sport.
Ministers and attorneys declare
it is the result of brutalZing
crime and that had the law been
enforced Mccarthy would be alive.
Mccarthy died of hemorrhage of
the brain superinduced by a basal
fracture of the skull sustained when
his head struck a thinly padded
platform of the ring at Dreamland
rink. physicians say.
In the opening of the sixteenth
round, as though according to pro
gram. Moran cut loose a right
handler to McCarthy's jaw and the
lad went to the mat. He did not
regain consciousness. The autopsy
completed late today showed Nc
Carthy was in good condition.
Heart and lungs were in excellent
shape. The dead fighters face was
battered and bruised, the lips
puffed, eyes and nose abraised and
one ear bruised.
Moran was arrested in his dress
ing room. He spent the night pray
ing for Mccarthy and vowed he
would never again draw on glove.
When told of McCarthys death he
regained his compoSure somewhat,
and later announced that he would
not quit the fight game. Moran's
and McCarthy's seconds were
placed under arrest
Jim Griffith, promoter of the
fight, was booked this afternoon on
charge of manslaughter, but
"Tiv' Kreling, a Moran second, was
still at liberty tonight
When the announcement of Nc
Carthy's death went forth, every
dSSoSidtlOll Ill Vic Idl Stl
cities in California prepared for
mass meetings to denounce the prize
fight game and to ask state officials
to prevent the big fight at Emery
vile, July 4.
Governor Gillett, prior to his de-
parture for Washington, intimated
he would not interfere with the
big fight, suggesting the ministers
apply to the district attorneys if
the law had been violated.
Gillett refused to state positively
whether he would answer the tel
egrams sent him by ministerial
associations.
At Rowardennan, Jim Jeffries
was close mouthed as usual and re-
fused to discuss the possible re-
suits on the big fight of McCarthys
death. Both he and Sam Berger
said that they did not believe the
death would cause such opposition
as to prevent the fight.
The death of Tommy Mccarthy
will not affect the plans of the
promoters of the Jeffries-JohnsOn
fight, according to Jack Johnson
today. Johnson said he looked on
McCarthy's death as an unfortunate
incident in the world of sport, but
of no more significance than deaths
occurring in football, aviation or
automobile racing.
Sporting men here today COM
mented on the admission made by
Moran at the city prison that he
"let Mccarthy stay - rounds
The whole affair has created a
strong sentiment against the fight
ing game here which sporting men
regard as menacing, and the minis
/ tiers declare that they will endeavor
to put the whole game in Califor-
MIA out of the way.
In the churches of this city to-
morrow, the ministers have an
nounced that they will preach
against the fight game and against
the Jeffries-Johnson fight.