The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-05
M'GOORTY BEATS GIBBONS IN SLOW
 BOUT AT GARDEN
CROWD SORE BECAUSE BOXERS STALL INSTEAD OF MIX
 ING IT.

Eddie McGoorty of Oshkosh, Wis, and Mike Gibbons of St. Paul, Mfna1.,
 widowed through the ten full rounds of what was advertised as the mid
 dleweight championship bout at Mad
 ison Square Garden, New York, last
 night, with the honors, if anything
 that the contest produced might be
 called such, in favor of McGOorty.
 The bout did nothing more than lower,
 in the estimation of a crowd which
 filled the big arnphitheatre to the raft
 CTS, the standard of fighting ability of
 Ketche1's would-be successors.
 It was g badly disappointed crowd
 which filed out Of the Garden at the
 close of the show They had paid @
 ing such action as only stars are sup
 posed to furnish and they saw more action in the contests preceding the
 big event than in the main bout. For
 four rounds the crowd sat in silence, evidently expecting that the boxers
 would soon strike their expected gait Then patience ceased to be a displeasure
 The receipts totaEed about $50, GOO,
 which is the record figure for a bout
 here in recent years. Of this sum the
 Garden A. C., promoters of the affair,
 receive one-half, and the remainder will be equally divided. between the guaranteed Gibbons the sum of S, 5,o0o if the receipts failed to reach $20O00, but he came out clear in this respect and both will draw about S, 800. In the opinion of most of the crowd II was the easiest money that either had ever earned
 The weight announcements furnished a big surprise to the crowd, and there were gasps of astonisflment from all sections of the house when the figures were made known. Many doubts were
 likewise expressed as to the correct. i scales without their boxing rega1ia, and Gibbons was checked off at 14e 3-4
 pounds. McGoorty tipped the beam i've pounds below the figure he was expected to make, and McGoorty, who had caused much doubt as to his abil- ity to get under the middleweight hg- ure, was three full pounds below the mark. He had posted $1,000 as a gua rantee that he would make the 15s pounds ringside, and he evidently went too far in making his forfeit sure Too much weight reducing may have been the cause of the poor showing by both men, as they were plainly finished. They managed to hide their condition somewhat in that usual "tenth-rourld rally, but they were in poor shape physically when they ctim- bed through the ropes.
 As championship contenders, their work in the closing rounds was decid- edly poor. If called upon to go be- yor1d the ten-round limit as they would
 
 tie, if it had been staged outside od New York, it would be hard to guess
 what would have happened. Neither acted in the closing rounds last night as if he might be able to answer many more bells.
 Gibbons much vaunted cleverness was shown at intervals, and McGoor- tvs terrific left hook which laid low the champions of Australia and Eng land. was also on g. vacation during
 the greater part of the encounter. hT, f,r fo eli r one over with enough force to rock Gibbons head, or to drive to the Stom- ach hard enough to make Mikes spine bend somewhat, but never hard enough to cause Gibbons any serious trouble. The Oshkosh boxer did most 1 of his work with a straight left, and he had considerable difficulty getting that over on the elusive Gibbons. McGoorty crowded Gibbons during the latter rounds Of the bout-Some- thing that no other boxer has attempt ed-and the crowding proved enough to bury Mikes cleverness. He tried 1 in vain to get over a decisive wallop but Gibbons was too close