The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-20
(By Ed Hughes.

l When Georges Carpenter whipped 1 his right to the point of Joe Beck ett's jaw just fifty seconds after the 1 opening gong he scored one of the 1 quickest knockouts on record-but not the quickest.
 l Battling Nelson, never recognized as
 ! heavy hitter, is, oddly enough. the ! holder of the quickest knockout on 1 -ecord. Nelson won this honor in a 1 light with one Billy Ressler at liar l -ey, ulonois, April 5th, 1902. Two | seconds after the opening gong the 1 Dane stretched ROssler on the can 1 ass. The whole thing was over in | welve seconds. The men stood in ! the center of the ring and ignored the handshaBe at the bell which account ed for the Danes ability to compass his mans defeat as rapidly as he did. Needless to say the first fell sWoOp did the trick. DaI Hawkins, who had a most disconcerting knack of twist ing his left a couple of inches when almost outstretched, once put Martin F1aherty away in four seconcs, Nal achy Hogan, it is interesting to note
 refereed both the Nelson Rossler and the Hawkins-F'laherty fights. Hogan has since testified that Nelson's knockout was the quicker. Hawkins and F1aherty fought in one of the preIiminaries to the -F'itzsim- mons bouts at Carson in '97.
 The quickest bantam weight pa1tIe on record was between Terrible Ter " McGovern and PedIar Palmer, at Tukahoe, NJ Y. Terry put the Eng hshn0an away after two and a half minutes of fighting. Long after his prime Terry scored another great one round knockout over Harlem Tommy Murphy. Tommy lasted just one min ute and thirty-two seconds with the Brooklyn Terror.
 Joe Cans, The Old Master was a great finisher. Joe used to lie awake nights and visualize the move ments of Frank Erne, then light weight champion. When the two came together at Fort Erie in 1902 Cans had studied out the Erne fight ing style to the dot. He once said
 that he could have knocked Frank out with his eyes closed because he knew just how many inches Erne
 moved back from a feint and how far he thrust his head forward again. At any rate Cans knocked Erne cold in one minute and thirty-two seconds.
 Bob F'itzsimmons always put over
 the ttcrusher' as soon as he could particularly with dangerous men.
 When he and Maher fought the sec ond time in Mexico, Bob, after wealth ering sinking spe1,'' swung his right to the tip of Peters chin and
 the Irishn1an went down and out. That bout lasted just ninety five sec onds.
 Luther Mccarthy met his death in the first round of a fight with Ar
 thur Pelky at Calgary in 1913. Me Carthy was having things all his own way with Pelky whom he outclassed
 in every particular. Turning his head
 around Mccarthy winked at his sec onds. Just at that moment Pelky
 drove a heavy punch to the jaw. The combination of the punch and the peculiar angle at which McCarthy's head was tilted coused a broken yer
 tebrae in his neck, it was believed. Mccarthy had fractured the vertebrate few days before when he fell from his horse.
 Joe Walcott once polished off tough Matty Matthews in less than round when Matty was seeking the welterwe:ght honors. Kid Mccoy twisted his corkscrew to the point of George La Blanche's chin before the
 first round was half over back in '97. The man who had gained fame | by knocking our Dempsey. the Non pariel with a backhand blow was flattened as cold as a wedge.
 Champion Jack Dempsey's quick
 finish of Fred Fulton in Harrison last year was the most sensational finish of a heavyweight scrap in re- cent years Jack put over his ''bone-
 crusher just eighteen seconds after the. opening gong That was just
 thirty-two seconds faster in locating "the nnint of the iarv'' than Carnero-