Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-30
M'COORTY GIVES
KLAUS A BEATING
$500 Fans See Pittsburgh
Bearcat Victim of Oshkosh
Middle's Attack.
FIGHTING is TERRIFIC
Eddie Takes Clear Shade in Six
Rounds-House Is Worth
$500.

MILWAUKEE, MS, sept oU-EuuiS
McGoorty lived up to his fighting Irish
name last night and gave Frank Klaus
boxing lesson in the rough 10-round
windup of Milwaukees opening boxing
show Besides teaching him les
son in the art of fsticuffs, the Osh-
kosh man handed the Pittsburgh
German a punching as we'll. He took
mauling while doing it and his
face was CORY at the finish. but on
clean work, in fact on everything
that goes to decide a boxing match
on points except aggressiveness,
Eddie was all over a winner. Klaus
course was always fighting.
No sooner was the last bell rung
than Tommy Walsh dragged McGoor-
ty over to us to introduce him as the
new middleweight champion of the
world We can hardly call him that,
but he's as close or closer to it than
anybody else right now, and that's
going some. Besides that, he has
wiped out that Clabby defeat at
Butte.
McGoorty fought last night as we
never have seen him fight before.
Klaus made him fight, but Eddie was
willing. He knew he had to make
good and he battled viciously from the
first bell to the last. He won the
last three rounds, which is proof
enough that he wac the victor, for
Klaus was expected to outfnish him.
When it is considered that Klaus was
some five pounds bigger than he, Ed
dies showing is all the more meritor-
ious.
KLAUS MADE McGOORTY FIGHT.
McGoorty won the battle with his
good left hand. He kept hooking, up
percutting and jabbing with it from
start to finish, and gave a great ex-
hibition of how to time punches. He
caught Klaus time and again on the
chin or squarely in the face with lifts
that whacked when they landed. Oc-
casionally he measured the German
with solid rights. But he was hitting
man who is as tough as whalebone
and who displayed few marks of the
/ half hour of earnest humping. Frank
had a swollen right eye when he went
back to explain things to Manager
Engle at the close McGoorty's old
eyecut opened by Battling Levinsky
in New York, popped open again and
Klaus had his nose and mouth bleed
ing once or twice. But half of the
! face damage came from Klaus head
and elbows.
KLAUS DISREGARDS RULES.
| Klaus was rough from the start.
Under the Wisconsin rules, clean
breaks are in order and holding and
hitting at the same time, of course, is
barred. Frank offended often early
in the fray, and Harry Stout, third
man in the ring. warned him con-
stantly. He stopped the bout for sew
eral seconds in the third round to
caution the Pittsburgh fellow. Nc
Goorty finally told Stout he could not
change the gaff, and Harry let them
maui each other with more freedom
thereafter
Klaus was mark for McGoorty's
punching at long range. He knew it,
and the way he kept pressing his
slim foe reminded US of sturdy old
Battling Nelson. Frank convinced all
that he knew lot about inhghting
too. He had a nasty left that he work
ed at short range to the head last
night, and his right was always busy
seeking holes in the McGoorty body
guard.
McGoorty had one bad round, the
fifth. Klaus started the blood from
the lrlshman's face in this session
and daGed him bit with right hand
smash to the head. But Eddie wealth
cred the storm and come home like
a stake horse.
We must say this for Klaus: The
route was not 10 his liking. McGoortv
cannot claim championship superior
ity over Frank until they meet in a
long battle.
KLAUS FAR OVERWEIGHT,
Klaus and McGoorty weighed in at
Morgenroth's at 8 o'clock. The Pitts.
burgher showed up at the scales 2Ib
pounds overweight. They had agreed
to do $50 at that hour. McGoortv
scaled 1871 and Klaus 1924. Man.
ager George Engle and Klaus looked
perturbed at this, but when McGoortv
and Manager Tommy Walsh allowed
they would not claim Klaus weight
forfeit OF $3.50, the men from Smoka.
, town looked relieved. As il was Nc.
Goorty was put at a decided disad.
vantage. Klaus outgweighed him Az
} pounds at 3 o'clock, and probably
gained more than Eddie by gong time
Al Clarke OF Milwaukee, weighing
1401a, and Young Schrank of Cudabv
Wis, 135 pounds. slugged merriiy
along TO draw in the second bout nj
six rounds.
Eddie Delosh OF Grand RAPIDS and
Al Worgtn OF Milwaukee, middle
weights, fought eight vicious rounds
In the semi-windup Delosh earned
the shade on two clear knockdowns
in the opening round They u,are