The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23

so Munroe took on Jeffries. Early in the affair he landed punch which knocked down the king of pugilists. And to top
 off the evenings sport for the towns folk, he won the money by lasting four rounds with Jeff.
 l The fact that an obscure and unknown
 miner had knocked down the heavy weight champion of the world created a sensation. At once there was clamor
 for match between Jeffries and Nun roe. It was staged on August 26 1904. in San Francisco. Jeffries demonstrated that Munroes punch was the luckiest of lucky punches by knocking out the miner in two rounds.
 But the point is that Munroe, by virtue of having landed a lucky punch, was able to secure a fight with Jeffres anh earn many thousands of dollars because of it. It is safe to say that the one punch that Munroe landed which spilled the champion netted Munroe close to s30 000
 Leach Cross put over a wallop on March 10. 1913, that eventually netted him close to Sl00,000. It happened in his fight with Joe Mandot in New Orleans. / Mandot had Cross in bad way for nine rounds and seemed certain winner. Cross reached up with punch that caught Mandot on the chin and knocked him cold, even IS
 
 to fall. The victory of Cross over Man dot-reestablished the New York Hebrew in the lightweight ranks. It was be- cause of this victory that he eventually was given a fight with Willie Ritchie, which netted him a Dig sum of money Had he lost to Mandot it is a certainty that Cross would never have fought Ritchie and If he did not battle with Ritchie in one of the greatest fights ever seen in New York he would not have gained the prestige that later landed big purses wherever he fought.
 Arthur Pelkeys oDe-punch victory over Luther Mccarthy was a tragic one. The bout was put on in Calgary. Alberta. in 1912 and lasted less than minute. Pelkey. almost unknown up to that time, was pitted against fighter who was ranked as tha greatest white gladiator in the heavy weight ranks. Pelkey's wild wallop dropped Mccarthy and won the fight NcCartv died a short time later. but q coroner's jury decided that 1t was i not from the effects of the blow but due to hemorrhage of the brain This victory gave to Pelkey the right to call himself the white heavyweight 1 champion" He traded on this for a. | number of fights and was able to get | big purses as a consequences
 In 1896. when I announced my re- | tirement from the ring, I awarded the 1 title to Peter Maher. He took on 1 Fob Fitzsimmons In Langtry. Texas. l Fitzsimmons slipped over punch l almost with the ringing of the gong that seemed to start from nowhere | and had no definite purpose Maher 1 pranced right into it and was a knock 1 cut victim The showing of Fitzsim- | mons against Maher influenced me to | give the big Cornishman the battle | which enabled him 10 dethrone me as l the heavyweight champion
 Willie Jackson was almost unknown up to January 1s 1917. Then he went 10 Philadelphia to battle Johnny Dun | dee. As the men entered the ring and | questions were asked "Who is Jack | sonY the crowd was a unit in de- | claring that Dundee had picked an- f other lemon The bell rang and the I fighters stepped to the center of the ! ling. Jackson let loose right-hander I and Dundee was Knockout victim for the first time in his life. |
 The victory over Dundee was sen [ satiorhl achievement for Jackson. It | gave him an international reputation and secured score of bouts He hasn't shown much since that time as a knockout artist. but just the same still retains the glory of having { knocked out Dundee and still gets huge purses for his fistic efforts.
 Dal Hawkins was a fighter long be- fore 1897. but a one-punch victory in | that year gave him national repute l. and made 1t possible for him there f after to secure big purses for all of f his fights His triumph was achieved | in Carson City after my battle with Bob Fitzsimmons had concluded Hawkins was put up against Martin II Flaherty. Almost as soon as he got II within striking range Hawkins let Fl loose for Flaherty. The blow landed fl fairly, lifted Flaherty off his feet and ;rove him backwards nearly forty- tight inches do not know how long III '1aherty was out, but do know that he victory made Hawkins a drawing ard among promoters thereafter.