Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-28
TOM KENNEDY is
LOSER To MORRIS
Oklahoma Behemoth Shows
Great Improvement, Though
Still Inartistic.
is NEAR TO A KNOCKOUT
New Yorker Pounded Through Ten
Rounds, the Affair Suggest
ing o Grizzly.

New York, Dec. 2S.-Hope on, on
white racel Carl Morris may be it
yet, though probably not soon.
With all the fury of an offended
benemoth, the Oklahoma locomotive
set upon Tom Kennedy at the EN-
pire A. c. last night and gave him
a most inartistic pounding through
10 rounds.
The Sapulpa man must have been
out to get revenge for what Jim
Flynn did to him. Showing marked
Improvement and some agility on his
ponderous feet, he buffeted the
curly-haired New Yorker full sore
every step of the way. At the fin
ish he had Kennedy punched drunk
and Toms face was masked with
blood. A little further and Morris
might have acquired real K. o.
Morris showing was really big
surprise. Kennedy was expected to
outlook him through the early
stages, but Carl beat him to it and
kept the youth riding the ropes so
constantly that Tom had no chance
to box. Morris cuffed him with
weighty blows on both sides of the
head and crowded mighty punches
into his middle.
| CLEAN BREAKS BOTHER MORRIS.
The worst used man in the ring
referee after a wrangle and who had
his hands full trying to pry the mas
todons apart The clean breaks
bothered Morris quite little.
Morris plunged in with gigantic
wallops and during the first, second
and third rounds he had the sup
posedly more agile Kennedy piled
up against the ropes.
The fourth round was fairly even
and in the fifth Kennedy seemed to
recover from his establishment an6
fought back. He had a shade in this
round. In the sixth he found his
footing and lodged some of the
heaves of the Oklahoman, but Carl
kept marching in stolidly, driving
Tom before him with large, open
swings.
LIKE PAIR OF GRIZZLIES.
From then on to the finish Morris
was best, but he had nothing on Tom
in gameness. Carts great left told
. at all times-and he had the greater
punching power. They frequently
'foaked together, head on, in the
middle of the ring and swung like
a pair of grizzlies.
1t was an exciting struggle
Throughout and Morris demonstrated
that he is surely coming along
with some distance to go, however
TROTT AND swARTZ DRAW.
Dayton, Ohio, Dec 2S.-After II
) rounds of fast fighting, the bout here
last night between Sammy Trott o.
Columbus, Ohio, and Yankee Swartl
of Philadelphia was called a draw
1t was evenly contested throughout
, Kid Clark knocked out Lave Safro il
| the eighth round.
: RENO WANTS BIG BATTLE.
: Reno, New, Dec. 2S.-Repor
that Jack Curley favors Nevada fol
the proposed Johnson-Flynn fight de
. yeloped the fact that Reno will vel
/ come it here. "Of course every tax
payer in Reno would do all possibl,
to get the event here" declared on,
of the most prominent business men
: And July 4 next would be time 10
: it. All talk about there being an.
: opposition to amount to anything i
all bosh.'
OWEN MORAN RETURNS.
New York, Dec. 2S.-Owen Moral
the English fighter, arrived from
f lEngland on the Olympic last nigh
? sounding defiance to everybody Il
/ the lightweight division of pugilism
4 81 have come to match with AID WoI
L CAST" said Moran, "and / hope t
2 defeat him or any others who regar,
t themselves as champions To prov
| that l am capable L will take o.
4 other men in Wolgast's class an
l deal with them first, giving ava
> weight to some of them and fightin
. any man at 1913 pounds"