Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-17
Beating CHAMP
PUG Tough JOB
Took Corbett 20 Rounds to
Beat Sullivan, and That's
About Average.
by Frank G. Menke.)

New York, June 16..-Dethroning a
puglllsuc champion is a mighty hard
loD, as the records of the past and
present will show. Not only do many
ispirants offer themselves on the
altar of sacrifice before the crown
snatcher finally arrives, but even then
the dethroning person usually has to
extend bieleeff to the extrame limit
TO send the cid champ into the discard.
ichn l.. Sullivan reigued supreme
in tae heavyweight division for many
years, beating all opponents with
ease Then Jim Corbett came along
and proved himself the master of the
crown weareI, but not before twenty
che rounds CT the most terrific fight
ing cTet seen in America.
Corbett then defended the crowd
AGAINST all corners until freck!ed Bob
tItzsimmCns doomed along the hori-
/ z1n. Bob goc q match with Corbatt
! finally, but it took MIN fourteen OPP
speed rounds 10 lake unto '4nself the
la'rcl thai Corbat5 1ad taken from
E;.rIyan
Jeifrie-, With almost twice tie bulk
lof 11tz, had 10 so eleven furious
rounds before he became the cham
! pion. Jack John1on in his prime in
| 1919, was forced to battle fer r@teen
rounds before he whipped Jeffeiic$, al
Though jeff was thea but o shallow Of
his former self.
Battling Nelson, in the prime OF his
career, met Joe Cans, then on the
down grade, in the lightweight cham
pionship battle year ago. Ifl Cans,
! weakened by age, by too Strenuous
training and by dissipation force.
t'ae wonderful battler to so seventeen
crown from the dusky dome and then
Nelson, after beating all those who
Fad faced him in the interim took on
ID Nolsast the michigan Wildcat"
Constant fighting and added years
had Slapped most of Nelson's strength.
Wolgast, young and fresh. in perfect
condition, won from the Dane after
forty-one rounds Of terrific milling.
But the Dane LIST his title while
still on his feet. Beaten almost to a
pulp, delirious with pain, the old fight
ing instinct would not down, and Nell
son kept on from the thirtieth round
until in the forty-first. Then, when
he was just a bleeding, crushed
wreck of a human being, the referee
led him to his corner and despite the
Dant's mumbled protests, gave the
fight and the crown to Wolgast, who,
too was in a terribly battered condi-
ton.
1t took Willie Richie sixteen
rounds to win from Wolgast-and
then his victory was of a flukey ma
ture. Honors seemed to be about ev-
en- in the fifteenth, the fight looked
good to go to the limit. When the
sixteenth opened Richie swung at
Wolgast and landed. The champion
country and whirlwind mix-up en-
sued, during which Wolgast hit too
low-and the fight was over. The
world was hailing a new champion.
Terry McGovern caught George Dix
on when the negro was on the down
grade and put him out in eight
rounds. Stanley Ketchel beat Joe
Thomas and took the middleweight
championship from him-.but the
fight went thirty-two rounds.
Abe Attell, a champion for many
years, went the limit of tWenty-one
rounds with Johnny Kilbane and lost
his featherweight title on points. 1t
was a battle of age against youth
and the latter won. But the margin
was close. Attell for several years
hefole had been on the down-grade.
Kilbane had been rushing along al
| ton speed. Yet the old boxing master
gave the youth a mighty fight before
/ he relinquished his title.
1t took Frank Erne thirty rounds
to win from Kid (George) Lavignt
even though Erne had youth in his
favor. Jack Dempsey stood up undel
the merciless fusillade OF Fltzslm
mems for thirteen rounds before hi
i took the count.
/ OF course, there are a few excep
ticns to the general rule that cham
pions are hard to heat. Joe Cans
knocked out Champion Frank Ernt
in less than round, and young Cor
/ bett needed less than two rounds K
send Terry McGovern to tho mat ant
take his titla.-' Br+ the exceptions
are rare.
! sta+i.,loian who gathered the
"do5a4 ON all the battles n which
titles changed hands in ali classes
during the last thirty years has dis
J, covered that the average time 7
takes to dathrone q champion Is
!. fraction less than twenty rounds
which shows that champions di
rather hard.