The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-30
DUNDEE BEATEN,
but GETS DRAW
I WITH JACKSON
Mcfarland Decides After
~ the Judges Fail to
20 Agree.
WILLIE is AGGRESSOR
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LANDS Harder and More Often
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Older Rival.
WILLIE is AGGREssoR


Johnny Dundee fought fifteen rounds to
what "Kid" Mcfarland. the referee.
called raw. 1t revolved upon NC
Partland to render the final verdict be-
cause Thomas Shortell and James Mundy,
the Judges. disagreed.
~ One or the other thought that the
contest ha been evenly fought. while
Ills mate believed that Jackson had won.
MCFARLAND. who really knows fight
and fighters when he sees them. evil
. IDENTIFY declined to assume the response
,.bility of giving the decision to JackscA
'thereupon that part OF the New York
boxing law which provides for decisions
Was. for that bout at least. nullifled.
The fight was fast, furious, exciting.
But from the Jackson side OF the argu-
lilent came most of the speed, most OF the
'efury of attack, most of the power. II
sI1undee earned draw then Jess Willard
game mighty close to getting an even
break with back Dempsey. Johnny fought
n willy battle He made great snow
of speed and cleverness. He jumped
about like kangaroo and bounding
antelope. He bounced against the ropes
rand rebounded, most OF the time nush
.into the Jackson left or right.
brn II the judges and the referee were
giving points for holding it is easy TO
r,,ssee how one of them called 1t draw
srsnd how Mcfarland agreed with MIN.
fssor practically all of the holding and in
sYistent clinching was perpetrated by
il3undee. Only once did Jackson hold, and
,,lben it was not because he appeared TO
he in anything bordering on even mo-
mentary distress. Taken all in all the
decision was rank joke. and will be
Created as such by all those who saw tie
y contest and are thoroughly familiar with
-,fire Army Navy and Civilian Boards
rules, which guide the rendering OF
Verdict in the ring.
- Jackson Forces Fighting.
jackson beat his man to the punch.
He forced the fighting and he hit by
,~far the harder blows. Dundee every
once in q while came through with a
, telling right or left to the head, but for
1.-THE most part his efforts lacked steam.
Johnny has been about for quite while.
He is not getting younger. more spry,
more powerful. Jackson Is his junior
land coming up. while Dundee is going
ghawn. And the fight which Jackson
ewaged was that OF a conner against a
gsnan who is declining.
20. Jackson. in the opinion OF many,
earned ten rounds Dundee only two,
while three were evenly fought. Jack
.son took the first, third. fourth, sixth,
Eleventh, tenth. twelfth thirteenth four
Iteenth and fifteenth. His rival won the
eighth and ninth, while the second, hfth
Ind eleventh rounds Were neither Tor
tone nor the other.
n Both we're trained to the minute. When
they were weighed at 2 o'clock in the
aafternoon Jackson tipped the beam at
1882 pounds, while Dundee was down TO
1913, his best fighting weight
-e.While Dundee was defeated, he must
obe given full credit for having put up
NS6urageous battle for having taken his
fVnSr
stood toe to toe with his younger rival
aust as long as nature would permit him.
rffe was always willing. but the years OF
hard knocks in the ring had taken their
toll and almost every time he was forced
ito terminate too torrid exchanges with
dive into Jackson's most unwilling en-
brace.
'.. Jackson put up good battle. He was
,en top of his man every minute and ne
never backed even for second. But for
those who had seen the master of the
lightweight class, Benny Leonard, only
q few nights previous and viewed the
ffght from an unbiased standpoint Jack
son was quite a disappointment. Per-
haps the comparison with Leonard was
Unfair. At any rate, Jackson does well
20 remain away from the title holder,
Who would chop him to pieces and then
Send him to sleep.
.Oundee AssimiIntcs Punishment.
zr The most impressive feature OF Dun
dee's performance was his ability 10
Efssimilate punishment in tremendous
portions At times it excited wonder
yrent. often 1t made onlookers feel that
fhis native of sunny Sicily was nothing
Human. Dundee's best work wPv done
in the eighth and ninth, in Which he
jumped about bit and hit q bit and
managed to get the better OF Jackson
Thy shade Jackson seemingly was
getting his second wind.
h~Dundee started the eighth fiashily. lie
handed rights and lefts to the head and
few to the wind, but Jackson kept COM
ing In all the time. Johnny did his best
jumpingjack work I'm this round and
damaged to put in a number of telling
BLOWS from rather unorthodox angles.
-tt the bell he had enough points to take
the session by a shade. He continued to
Show the way In the ninth. which opened
with couple of hard lefts to the Jack
son submaxillary. Jackson, stung. came
LACK and fought his man to a standstill
in ring centre. But the Italian had q
little something left for a rally and
sprung IL TO win that session too by a
shade.
Then 1t was Jacksons turn. The
tenth round was easily his best. He
shot from his corner with a right and
then a left to Dundee'S jaw. He drove
left wickedly to Dundees left eye, which
was almost shut. He crashed fusillade
after fusillade to the body and Dundee
stopped. Dundee held, he held tighter.
But Jackson kept coming at him with a
spry which would not be denied. IL was
then that men told their neighbors that
Dundee made the famed Joe Grim lock
like Fred Fulton and his glass jaw.
Those who were not familiar with Dun
dees ability to take II thought that his
iuuietus was near. But Johnny took
them as fast as they came-and held
MThe eleventh found Jackson slowing
up somewhat from his exertions and
Dundee managed to hold him about
t~ven. II was then that the affair was
bhlivened by a passage at words and
Arms between women folk of the fight
ers. There we're few wild shrieks, the
angry tossing of saucy paradise feathers
-End then calm as the combatants went
nut for the twelfth. From that point
on n was Jackson all the way.
The fifteenth session saw Jackson bat
| der his man numerically, but Dundee
1 Kept right with him to the finish And
then II was draw. What decision
When they left the ring Dundee had one
WYE shut, but Jackson had one to corre-
. epond to II. Both were considerably
xvt up. For which they were paid.