The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-24
TELL OF CORY RING
BATTLE FOUGHT BY
LUNDY and GORDON
BY FRANK C. s1ENKE

were tossed many stories or great and \
CORY ring battles of bygone days; ter
rific fist duels which not only have
left an indelible impression upon the
minds of those who saw them, but |
have been written indelibly into prize |
ring history.
And then, when slight pause came, |
Bill Hayes, of Detroit, spoke up and
said:
Il saw fight Is years ago, with |
Tex Richard refereeing which isn't in |
many Of the record books, but which |
was beyond anything I've ever looked
at In my lifetime in the way of tough
ness"
Perhaps you've heard of Bill Hayes
and perhaps you haven't His ca
reer is one entwined with sportive
romance; story of a fight for wealth
in the Goldfield days; of battles for
gold around the nation eliminating fin
ally In success in Detroit where Hayes
now is a contractor-and near the
mulu-millionaire stage.
Looked Like WhIrlwind
In his youth Hayes was a sprinting
whirlwind, splendid amateur boxer,
a football star, satellite on the ball
telds-an ,all around athlete. And in
| that same youth he drifted westward,
| finally to cast his lot with the miners
/. of Goldfield.
Il saw lot of fights before / got
there-and perhaps a thousand or
more since then," related Hayes. 81
guess I've seen every great battle put
| on In America during the last quar-
ter OF century. l saw Cans and
Nelson, Wolgast and Nelson, Jeffries
and Johnson; Dempsey in his every
important mixup. But never have /
seen anything in savagery that COM
pares with the Bobby Lundy-Larry
Gordon affair in Goldfield in 1907.
| There was intense rivalry between
these middleweights. Every man in
the audience knew it was a grudge az
fair But there was something be-
yond the purse and revenge to urge
each boy on to victory. A ton of
money was bet on the battle and be-
fore it began the gamblers had gone
to the boy they had bet on and agreed
to give him a cut in on the winnings.
Start Slugging
with the bang of the first gong,
the boys rushed out like wild men.
They stood in the center of the ring,
neither backing, neither attempting
to block or sidestep- just smuggling
and smashing away at each other.
In the middle of the round Gordon
landed a terrific jaw punch-and
Lundy went down for nine. He got
up, drove Gordon to the ropes, stag
gered Larry. then ran into a wild left
hook-and again Lundy hit the floor
flor nine.
:. "That was only the start Three
knockdowns came in the second. Be
, fore the fifth round was over, II
knockdowns, most of them for a nine
count, had been scored-with honors
: about even. The eyes of both fight
.. ers were closed by that time. The
nose of one was broken; the moutl
, of the other was split Their bodies
had turned a purple red from the
terrific punching.
Yet they had hardly warmed up.
Entire Floor Stained.
along about the tenth the entire
J, floor of the ring was crimson. Blood
scattering from the faces of the
: fighters, had covered Richards shir
q and trousers. It strayed out into thu
!. | crowd in the ringside seats, and man!
. of the spectators were bloodier thai
! most of the present day fighters ar,
. after rs rounds of milling.
after the twelfth round RickarC
~ refused to go near the fighters. H
. stood leaning against the ropes in tn
. corner farthest from them. If tn
scene of battle shifted towards him
Rickard hurried to another corner.
"He made no effort, beyond verba
one, to break the fighters. He ha,
accumulated all the blood he care
\ about. When a knockdown occurred
he counted from where he stood.
And all the while Lundy and Col
don continued to fight with unabate
fury. 1t seemed that only some mil
sr acle was keeping them on their fee
n Their bodies, by the time the fifteent
had arrived, had turned almost black
d. their faces were unrecognizabl
n masses. But on and on they Tough
n toe-to-toe, never backing, never d.
10 Waiting from the original purpose
re win with a knockout.
~ Thirty-two knockdoWns
$, "As the twentieth-and final-roun
lie began, the tabulators discovered the
80 knockdowns already had occurred
u with honors about even. Lundy mad
81 it 81 few second later. Gordon e
y up at nine, CROPPED around, found tn
II chin of Lundy with a right-and mad
l. it 80.
IS "Lundy arose and Gordon fioore
= him again. Then when Lundy got u
= - he made it "a by dropping Gordon wit
u left to the body. YEARLY Gordo
n beat the fatal count of ten-and trie
% to fall into protecting clinch.
: But Lundy backed away and, wit
u the last ounce of strength in h
~ broken body, let loose with a blir
- right. He didn't aim the punch fl
% any particular spot because by tn;
~ time his sight was about gone He jul
= swung wildly. Yet the punch lande
- on the chin of Gordon-and down wei
Gordon, two minutes and twenty sc
N onds after the twentieth round of Il
h scheduled 20-round fight began.
Gordon made desperate effort
II get up-but failed.
;1o "And so it was that Lundy won wi
at a knockout in a fight which was
he one and the same time the create
Id the toughest and the most brutal fig
I've ever seen in % years of seeing {
he the great ones"
~ Copyright 1921 BY King Features
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