The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-11
BY international News Service.

BY International News Service.
3ADISON 3 SQUARE GARDEN,
IN IN NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Willie
V Ritcbie, lightweight champion,
tonight outpointed Leach
Cross of New York in ten rounds Of the
fiercest milling ever seen in this city,
Both men fought like wounded tigers
from the tap Of the gong and Ritchle
won only through his showing In the
last two rounds of whirlwind battling,
during which he landed some terrific
punches against the face and body OF
Cross.
Was Bloody Affair.
The fight was perhaps the bloodiest
ever staged in New York, one in which
both men were covered with blood
from the waist down from the fourth
round on, and one SO fast and furious
that the crowd was on its feet yelling
like madmen during every moment OF
the fighting.
The first and seventh rounds were
even. The second, fifth and eighth
went to Gross. while Ritchie won out in
the third, fourth, sixth. ninth and
tenth, but only by slight margins ex
cept in the third, when he scored
clean knockdowu, one for the count Of
nine and followed with another for
the count of three. In this third round
Ritcbie sent Cross to the mat and he
had barely got to his feet when the
champion drove him against the ropes
and sent him to the mat again, ac-
complishing both tricks with lefts to
cross jaw.
Cross Knocked Down.
To many it looked as though Cross
in going to the mat was executing d
bit of his famous stalllng. The smashes
Ritchle sent against his rival . Jaw
looked like they were powerful enough
to fell an OK. Cross, however, showed
wonderful recuperative powers after
his second knockdown and rushed Ritch-
le with the fury of madman
In the fifth Cross raised a bump on
Ritchie's head aud half closed one of
his eyes, sending tho blood gushing
from Ritchie s mouth and nose and
backed him against the ropes repeat.
edly.
The East Side contingent implored
Gross to land the blow that would have
brought the championship to New York,
but Cross lacked the Morpheus wallop.
Desperate Finish.
Both men began the final round as
badly battered up as any man that
ever swapped punches, but each made
game, desperate effort, swinging
every ounce OF their strength into play,
For half the round it seemed an even
affair, but Ritchie's endurance powers
won the round and the fight for him.
Had Cross been able to stem the
hitehie onslaught in the final ninety
seconds OF the tenth he would have
earned a draw.
Cross was first to enter the ring. fol
lowed n few seconds later by Ritchie.
rousing welcome and then accorded an
equal ovation to Ritchie.
The announced weights were: At 81
p, m:r. Ritchie, l34M; Cross, I34Ib {
rIngside weights were announced:
Rltehie, l37; Cross, 1877.
Crowd Not Large.
The crowd was something of a dis. |
appointment to the promoters. Tt was
expected that the Garden would be
lliied TO ltS capacity. The 81 gallery
seats ana the SO ringside boxes were |
damned, but nrany of the intermediate |
priced seats were vacant when the
tlght began. 1t looked like an $4,000 |
crowd. F'N'0
In the first preliminary, a six.round |
affair, Willie Doyle. weighing 100 |
pounds, Tn outpointed Jimmy Taylor, l1s.
Inc Inc second preliminary, also a six
round slam bang fracas went TO Johnny
hees; l2f pounds, who slightly shaded
zoe Mooney, weighin 124 pounds. In |
15e 1oe seml:flnal Walter Brooks. weighing
~, ontfought Joe Stacey, 126 pounds
in fast and furious ten.round bout
Round l.
cross swung for Rltchie.s body and
FErSca!e Fr,e came back with wild swing FOR
1soss mead Cross rushed RitchIe and
they clinched. Ritchie swung - isr, ~
a orpsss pSsb, head and Cross came back with
mead RitchIe swung a left a. Crnse,s
tSe Ieao and and Cross Cross drove the champion 10
cns eue ropes with rights and Iefts they
uIInched broke. and Ritchie tried an
upPercut: but Cross came back with a left
Srans tnat caught Ritchio In the mouth.
nioss then drove Richie against the
IIOPSs re ,h and hammered him several times
~ IN 'ne lace and the body, Ritchle ducked
oI ons OF Crosss swings and sent full
ss"lns crashing into Cross's Jaw Cross
Dacheo him against the ropes and the