Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
M'COORTY BEST FIGHTER
HE'S MET, Says BECKETT
british Heavy-Weight Pugilist Tells
How He Conquered American
Boxer at London.
WENT SEVENTEEN ROrSDS
VIII Meet Georges Carpenter. French
Champion, December 4, and Win
ncr of Bout May Clash With Jack
Dempsey for Worlds Title.
NY JOE BECKETT.


I'm this article the British heavy
weight champion tells the Inside"
story OF his recent great fight with
Eddie McGoorty, the American at
olympia, London, a fGh: which all the
critics combine in asserting to have
been the 'gamest" and best fought
battle FOR many. many years. Beckett
VIII fight Georges Carpenter. the
London, December 1, for the champion.
ship OF Europe. The winner will prob
aory meet Jack Dempsey, The AMER
Championship OF tho world next Nay
at Olympia. London.)
LONDON, Oct. 25.-Down they go.
one after another! First it was Billy
and now Eddie MoGoorty has been
every one OF them knocked out II has
oecn busy time for me lately. AID
short rest won't do me any harm.
l think ] have earned and am now
able to Afford it
1t is far cry from my boxing booth
days to these times when I have go:
10 put up with larger share of popu.
iarity than is quite 10 my liking. That
was a good purse ] won from Edd :
McGoorty, and it makes me smile %
think that only 4 very few years ago
mothers show. and hght!ng my hard
est to prevent any OF them winning
the pound she could Ill afford TO give
70 men who kept their fee; against INC
for three rounds.
His Hardest Battle.
My seventeen rounds fght with Nc
Gcorty was the toughest battle Of my
career SO far. and shouldn't be sur
prised II McGoorty would say the same
thing. Both ri US came OUT Of the
contest god deal the worse for wear.
though 1t is astonishing how quickly
one pulls rol.'c again after Turk sh
McGoorty and had never met be-
fore and each OF US had 10 take the
measure oil the other as tho contes;
FOOLS paradise about the American,
and neither was nc abou. me | al
ways admitted TO myself that my op-
notice tina, nc was good enough TO
say afterward tina, / was the best
man he had ever fought. and sup
pose he meant IL can honestly say
beat man have fought.
American showed HIND
The fight was just bcsinning when
McGoorty showed me plainly that he
believed his Quickncss and craft!ness
would be beyond me. He made fatal
mistake In letting me see his hand. SO
10 speak.
From start TO Raish the American told
me as plainly as IL he had shouted !,
that he planned I khock me out with
his long right nook and from start
TO finish ] planned TO proven; him from
landing that blow at all.
His shor, left hooks didn't hur.
much. but took cutie a number OF
them by way OF experiment. 10 md
out how hard he could hit in that
way. He wan,eH me- 10 dodge the lef,
hooks 80 that could then come into
position for the i1'r right hook. In
this. however. disappointed him time
after time in almost every round
Feigned GroSEfness.
Several times let on that I was a
bit sroggy and some OF the newspaper
men referred IN this as II they took
me seriously. That OF course. was
AT the worst l WAS never more than
lust rather uncomfortable when my
nose heG too freely.
In the second round McGoorty did
everything he could 20 box me away,
with the apparent object Of putting
me at sufficient distance TO get in
the fun force OF his right hook.
didn't mind taking his punches at close
at the same distance.
The two left and right hooks with
which finished off my plucky oppon-
ent in tho Reventeenth round were de-
livered at no greater distance than
about foot. But into these hooks !
gave the whole strength Of roy should
ers and back, timing them so that
doubt whether any man alive. after an
hours fierce lighting. could have taken
them without going down.
In the fourth round McGoorty was
retired to my. corner that ! had got
his measure, but ! was still long
way from wanting TO take liberties or
run into unnecessary danger. Though
McGoorty out about the ninth or tenth
round. or failing this. to box him 10
the end and win on points. I was now
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