Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Weight-Making Fatal to Boxers
Drying Out Process Is Dangerous

/ the scales at Marry Corbett's cafe on
Ellis street in San Francisco. Nelson
weighed first and failed to raise the
beam. Then Young Corbett stepped
on the scales and It lifted" Teddy
Murphy, who was looking after Nell
sons interests. at the time, raised
an objection and when assured that
Corbett did his best to comply with
the conditions Of the match agreed to
waive objection II Corbett would get
on the.scales and allow him (Murphy)
to know his true weight. This the
little Colorado boy did and to the sur
prise of all he was only half a pound
overweight
For 40 hours before Corbett drank
! only beef tea and refrained from
touching water only to gargle his
throat with. The punishment he en-
dured during this time was tenfold
more severe than he received when ne
stepped into the ring Immediately
after weighing in he left with Alex
Greggains for the latter's home, where
big meal had been prepared for him.
1t was four hours before he need
enter the ring, and Greggains thought
that a good steak would give him
strength. Corbett ate II and relished
every mouthful of It, He also drank
several bottles Of ale Then nausea
| overlook him and he was the sickest
boy you would care to look at. His
stomach refused to hold the nourish-
ment that had been denied II for so
many hours
For time It looked as if he might
be unable to meet Nelson. Greggains,
however, fixed up some lemon and
soda for him and brought him about
all right. Does anyone reading this
believe that Young Corbett was the
same man facing Nelson he was when
he met Terry McGovern and won the
/ title?
MANY a fighter has lost his reputa-
Ava tion through making low weight.
l can recall the closest margin by
which Jack McAuliffe defended and
retained his title cor course, I am
eliminating the SS-rQund bout with
Jem Carney. because McAuliffe should
have been on a hospital cot at that
time instead of in the ring fightingl
It was the time that Jack fought Billy
Meyers the first time-the battle 1t
North Judson, Ind. McAuliffe did his
training at Madison, Wis, under The
charge of Billy Madden.
Three days before the fight he WAS
down TO weight and feeling fine. Then
came several great snowstOrms and
road work became an impossibility
Try as Jack would IN the gymnasium
he could not keep his weight down
and gradually 1t began to creep up on
him. The day before the battle ne
went to Chicago and found himself
four pounds overweight. AS We were
to leave for the scene OF battle at 8
o'clock that night, McAuliffe was in a
sad plight. All day long he lay in the
Turkish bath and mana Fed to get the
extra pounds off. But when he got
into the ring he was weak as a kit
ten, for. remember, after riding most
Of the night on a train he could no.
eat anything for fear Of increasing his
weight, and weighed in at the ring
side al JudsOn.
After fighting three or four rounds.
he knew he could not win, and his
sole thought was on keeping away de-
feat. over 5000, 600 had been bet 81
the ringside on his chances, but in
the tenth round or so he sent word to
Dick Roche and Phil DIVER not TO
bet any more money, that he couldn't
win, but would save their money If
he had 10 stay in the ring for a
month. Only one blow was struck
during the fight; that was when Mey-
ers knocked McAuliffe down. At the
end Of the sixty sixth round Mike
Mcdonald, who refereed it, called it
a draw.