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FATALITIES OF
The PRIZE RING
Death of MCCarty Adds AnOth-
Gr Tragedy TO List.
CAREER OF ARTHUR PELKY.
Man Whose Blow Killed Opponent In
Calgary Recently Is Newcomer-He
Is Slugger Rather Than Scientific
Boxer-FataIity Will Hurt Game.

Boxer-FataIity Will Hurt Game.
/ Arthur Pelky, whose blow caused LII
! Their McCarty's death in the ring in
Calgary, Alberta, recently, is one Of
! the new crop Of heavyweights which
/ sprang up after the defeat of JeffrieS
! by Jack Johnson. He halls from Chic
opee Falls, Mass, and is a powerful
six footer who fights at about 200
pounds. While never a clever boxer,
! he has always been noted as a terrific
! slugger with Il knockout blow, either
right or left hand. He has fought a
/ number of bouts throughout the east,
!. usually meeting third raters with rath-
er Indifferent results. His two bouts
of Importance were against Jess Will
lard in New York last July and Tom
my Burns at Calgary several weeks
l ago.
The death Of McCarty adds another
fatality to long list of fighters killed
in prize ring battles.
Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Con
ReardOn in an exhibition bout at SYRIA
cuse. \. Y, some years ago, and Rear
don never recovered consciousness.
Owen Moran, the English light
weight, killed Thomas McCarty with a
blow in a bout at San Francisco in
1910 Other deaths in San Francisco
include:
Harry Tenney, who died after a clash
with frankie Neil. in 1906; Jimmy Fra
ney. who died from the result Of the
blows of Jimmy O'ConneH. in 1900;
"Ginger' Williams, who was victim
of Kid Kennith's punch ten years ago.
| Max Landy collapsed and died after
Il bout with Joe O'Brien at Brockton,
| Mass, in 1910.
| Frank Cole, Il Philadelphia negro
| boxer, was killed in Il bout with Stan
| ley Rogers in Philadelphia the same
year.
/ Another boxer of prominence who
died after a ring battle was Billy Yer
non, known as the "Haverstraw Brick
maker" Vernon collapsed in a Phila
! delphia bout in the early nineties and
died the next day in hospital.
i Walter C~not, an English bantam
weight died rs. the result Of blows de
/ livered by Jimmy Barry. the American
champion, in bout before the Ma
] tiOnaI Sporting club of London on Dec
| 6, 1897.
Recent deaths include those of Jot
I Ketchell, who died after Il bout Will
Billy Walters at Waukegan, Ill. il
1912, and a French pugiIist nance
/ Palli. who collapsed in a Paris rim;
| during a bout with an English bOXe
lighting under the name of Evernden.
The sudden death of McCarty will
= naturally dampen fighting enthusiasm
- In the United States. But the depres
sion will only be temporary. The III
thinking and the unknowing will at
tribute the tragedy to the barbarity 0
the fighting game.
There will be those who will sit be
hind their Flemish oak desks and cry
ce This sacrifice of human life must b
stopped. 1t is high time that the PROF
er steps be taken against licensed muI
der"
Needless to say, this kind of talk
all rot. Boxing is as legitimate q spol
- rs baseball or golf. We have no MOI
I'd control over accidents than people i
- any other line of sport. The compar;
&c lively meager list of ring f0talitiC
~ shows that boxing is even less hazard
v Gus than many pastimes that are SAN
9; toned by the clergy.
80 The death of Luther McCarty is
er be depored by every man who has Il
p. most remote interest in the welfare
boxing.