El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-02
CO5E STOPS MUSKOPF IN THIRD;
BOUT ISSHORT BUT SENSATIONAL
Both Men Fight at Furious Pace; Muskopf Staggers
Cose in Second But Bay Stater's Left Lands 'Kayo
in Third Session; Sears and Dougherty Go Six
Rounds To Draw Every Preliminary is Fast
By @BECK7
cTIoN ~ promised ID

CTION was promised the boxing
a fans who attended the boxing
L n card at Camp Cotton on Satur-
day night They got it in large doses.
No better card has ever been staged
in the southwest, and everyone Of the
six bouts was a dingdong affair from
start TO finish.
Johnny Cose, star mittflinger Of the
Ninth Massachusetts. was too clever
and too strong for Harry Muskopf,
pride Of the Seventh infantry, and
while Muskopf went down for the
count in the third round, the bout was
the most sensational that Fl Paso
boxing fans have ever had chance
10 see
Bot4 Out For Knockout.
Both men were out Tor a ~kayo" vic
tory For short time IN the second
round, it seemed that Muskopf was
going 10 put over the haymaker. he
had landed hard right and left swings
TO Cose's jaw and backed the eastern
man around the ring and on 10 me
ropes. COse was apparently little
dazed but he gamely came back strong
with his straight left jabs.
Starting the third round. Muskopf
carried the fight TO COse- Time and
again. the Seventh man beat COSe 10
toe to toe and slug as Muskopf seemed
TO desire. Giving ground Cose met
MuskOpfs furious rushes with straight
let's 10 the point of the jaw These
finally Slapped some Of the stamina
from the Seventh boxer and Cose then
tore in, putting right and left swings
TO the Jaw IN a regular rapid IRE
style a short left hook to the side
Of the Jaw toppled MuskOpf over for
the count
COse's Seconds Commit Foul
It was almost impossible 10 hear the
count tolled off by australian" Billy
Smith, the referee, so great was INT
noise created by the wildly excited
with excitement. Two Of them were
inside the ring before the count OF
six and. technically. they disqualinsd
Cose- Had Nuskopf been able 10 get
TO his feet referee Smith could have
done nothing but award decision TO (
the winner
The action Of Cose's seconds should I
result in a rule limiting the number 1
There are altogether too many men I
climbing into the ring at the Camp I
Cotton bouts Incidentally, some OF 4
these volunteer seconds" are darneo j
nuisance Snd their numerous queries /
Of specta. : and scribes during the I
bouts as " nat do you think Of MIN 4
noW2" don't Lelp the patronage This I
is the only bad feature Of the Camp !
Cotton bouts, which are the pest con-
Quoted the southwest has ever seen {
Sears and Dougherty Draw
Sears and Dougherty went six fast {
and clever rounds to a draw in the I
semfffnal These fellows are really I
clever and brought into play all the .
fine points OF the boxing game Billy !
Smith forgot in the first round, that ]
he was referee. They were trading /
let's and Billy was watching closely /
placed two pretty jabs 10
Sears chin and when he drew back, (
Smith fairly shouted Follow II up,
YOU fool" Then IL came over Billy
that he was q referee But Billy can
not be blamed Any followers Of real
boxing can be forgiven for slight
when these men are
mixing
The first round was even. Dough
erty had slight shade in the second
and Sears svened up in the third
Dougherty had the shade in the
leading, as Sears seemed averse to
taking the aggressive. Sears got his
lab going in the sixth and managed
to even up and earn a draw Any
The classiest left hand jabber yet seen
here, but he relies almost alto
gether on his left and he lets the other
man make the fight Dougherty de-
serves the credit Tor setting the fast
pace on Saturday night and he demon
strated that he has a better assortment
Of ring tricks than his opponent, even I
though he isn't nearly as classy a !
iabber as Sears The decision Of a I
iraw was popular with the crowd.
Lucky Punch Drops Mckenzie
A lucky punch in the fourth round.
when the honors were even. gave :
-Slugger" Goldberg. OF the 23rd in
lantry. ZIG pounds. a knockout victory /
over Corp Mckenzie, of the 34th in
-antry, 1851 pounds, in the first pre-
iminary
Kid" Rhine. Of the Eighth Ohio.
and Thompson, Of the Eighth Massa-
shusetts, met in the second bout
Rhine weighed 132 and Thomson 12S. !
Rhine is a real two-fisted sIugger but
an do little more than swing hard
With both gloves He didn't land very