New-York tribune., 1921-01-27
st 10 Reach Serni-Final Round in Clas
Moore Orst6glats Montreal
sn l5 Rounds at the Garden
Mccormick, English Light
Heavy Champ. Deals
Out Beating to Howard

fai Moore, of Memphis, won the
luoges' decision over Young Montreal.
OF Boston, in the main fftcen-round
night VIZ" 'aS L
Aoore won by plurality of 3,s42O03
puhches, hitting Montreal with all the
plows known TO the boxing game and a
io' more that nobody ever saw o. heard
ot before. But the combined weight
VI All these punches did not total
enough power TO knock out Montreal
or any other normal fighter.
me 5000 in the Garden did not take
Rindly to Moore's work, even though
RAJ showed wonderful cleveness and
speeo. Neither boy was even breathing
nard when the final bell sounded.
Montreal weighed 1907 pounds and
moore came in at HE pounds. Patsy
haiey was the referee.
Boy Mccormick, light heavyweight
champion of England, defeated Johnny
toward, Of Bayonne, in the fifteen
round semi-fnal bout.
Jess Willard earned $40 900 worth of
cheers from the crowd when he was
introduced from the ring by Joe Hum
phres. Jess acted much more like
democrat last night than he ever did
while champion. Pride feeth after
a fall.
A crowd that nearly filled the Gar
oen saw the carrot-topped Mccormick
give Howard severe beating in almost
every round. Boy scored three knock
Downs, and 1t was only Howard's ex-
perlence that kept him on his feet
to the end.
Mccormick Starts Slowly
Mccormick at first showed an awk-
ward style Of boxing, but it did not
take more tkan a couple of rounds to
make it evident that Boy was going
to De dangerous opponent
After taking couple of juicy left
hand Jabs TO the nose and a jarring
right to the jaw from Johnny's fists,
meant. it. The redheaded English
champion from the cit Of Burnt Cork
Cor Boy IS 100 per cent Irish) had a
way of shifting and ducking as he
worked in close.
And this boy can hand out punch
ing! Ask Howard; he knows. Nc
Cormick is apparently limited to a
round arm punch with his right fist.
He curled these shots over Howard's S
shoulder and many of them landed on
the Jaw or mouth and they hurt, for
Mccormick is one of those loose
punchers who get the full weight of
tiSit hNticS pSuillu CnC DlOW. EcVGfdl
of these wallops Jared Howard cruelty,
although as the rounds went by Johnny
lodged many f these curling hooks by
letting his head so with the punches.
Howard, always a great defensive
ighter,' jabbed the red head back a
hundred times with straight left jab,
but he did not have the kick in his
gloves that was in McCormick's.
Howard was dropped once in the
seventh and twice in the tenth.
Former Olympian Loses
In the first bout of the evening, a
six-round session. the veteran frankie
Conifrey got the referees decision over
Sam Mossberg, former Olympic light
weight champion. The judges had dis.
agreed at the finish, and "Slim" Bre,i-
nan th,n declared frankie the winner
Brennan was quite right.
Mossberg discovered that while he
might he a big toad in the Olympic
puddle, he was only a emall toad in the
professional pond
Paul Doyle and Barney Adair, two
energetic lightweights, were the next
two entertainers, and they put up q
nard working show, although it could
not be called exactly "brotner act.
Doyle had a big lead en- points at the
end of the tenth round, and the Judges
both voted for Paul.
A stiff left jab and right uppercut
We're the chief weapons of attack used
by Doyle and he had Adair we'll marked
un, although Barney invariably bored
in for more-and got it, They weighed
1856 and 1876 pounds, respectively.