New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-06
STEWART THE VICTOR
Luther McCarthy's white Hope
Aspirations Receive Check.
FIGHTS HARD, BUT LOSES
Badly Beaten in Early Half of
Ten.Round Bout at the
Garden.

Luther Mccarthy had his white hone"
aspirations checked by Jim Stewart in a
ten-round boxing bout at Madison Square
Garden last night. It was a hard fight
from beginning TO end, with the ad-
vantage in favor OF Stewart at the
finish. Tall and built on muscular lines,
a fighter, and he went at his man like q
tiger In the opening round.
AS soon as Stewart got his bearings he
got TO the Westerner and moro than held
his own. From then TO the end OF the
fourth round 1t was all Stewart, who had
his opponent bleeding and In bad way
In the fourth round. When the bell
sounded then Mack" looked all in, 20
much go that hundreds looked 10 see
Stewart finish him during the next thres-
minute session.
On the contrary. Mccarthy came back
strong in the fifth, and actually had the
better Of the sixth. seventh and eighth
rounds. Although the Western fought sg-
gressively to the end. Stewart was never
in danger, and several times worked his
man with vicious right-hand uppercuts,
Stewart got TO his opponent frequently
In the last round and won by Q shade.
He weighed cO&1s pounds and Mccarthy
00A pounds.
George Kirkwood, of 81. Louis, had tAs
better OF a ten-round session with
George CLANCY, of Baltimore. The latter
weighed El15 pounds and Kirkwood e+
pounds. Kirkwood was several Inches
taller than CLANCY, who was finely de-
veloped and hard hitter. As the fight
progressed Kirkwood got to his man and
almost had him out In the ninth round.
They fought hard in the tenth round.
but Kirkwood won easily.
Willie Lewis, weighing Isl pounds and
looking fat, met Freddy Hicks. Of De-
troit. in the second OF the main bouts.
Hicks weighed Is2 pounds. Aggressive
tactics on the part OF Hicks gained
lead on points in the early rounds, but
Lewis braced up In the sixth round, and
In the seventh he held his own fairly
we'll Hicks crossed the local man with
hard rights and also played for the body
in the eighth round.
Lewis rocked the Westerner with a
hard right In the ninth and had the bet
ter OF the exchange. This was Lewiss
round. They fought hard through the
last stand, and toward the finish Hicks
almost sent his man through tho ropes.
II was Hicks's fight
Rarely has the Garden accommodates
a larger crowd than packed the place
last night. AS soon as the doors were
opened a steady stream OF humanity
flowed In. but so rapidly did people gather
that the box Office was unable to supply
the demand fast enough. so that In =
short while a line had formed hall way
around the building. on both 18th and
9th streets. When the first OF the ter
round bouts was staged Il was estimated
that about twelve thousand persons we're
present.
That keen desire existed 20 see Luther
McCarty was apparent from the start
Jim Corbett and Tom Sharkey had sess
close 10 the ringside, and SO did Warren
Barber. the millionaire amateur cham
pion. Al Palzer. looking more MASSIVE
than ever, arrived early.
one OF the hardest six-round affairs ever
seen here-or. at least. in a long time
resulted from the meeting Of Fiddle
Weber. Of San Francisco, and Eddie Nc
Donald, OF this city. They fought most OF
the time head to head. and at times eS-
changed hard wallops that Jared each
other from head TO foot Weber was al
ways the aggressor, but Mcdonald lande5
the cleaner blows and had the better Of
the argument. Bath boys received
great reception at tbs finish.
The second preliminary developed an
other heavy smuggling bee between Bat
Ting" Larry Ryan, who weighed iE
pounds, and Joe Mottof, who was many
pounds lighter. draw would be the
fairest verdict for this rafting good con-