New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Bill Brennan
Stops Tracey
La 9th Round
Chicagoan L Puts Over Knock.
Out After Losing Early
Sessions i'm Garden Bout
By Jack Lawrence

Jim Tracey. heavyweight cham pion of
Australia, was Knocked out at Madison
Square Garden last night. after min
ute and 3S seconds of furious and des-
perato milling in the eighth round. No
tighter was ever more glorious in dc
feat than this tall lad from the lar
hung antlpodes. He went down fight
ing to the last. giving all that he had
as the men of his country gave all that
they had on the fields Of France.
II was series OF short right and
left hooks to the chin that ended jim
lracey S amazingly heroic struggle
strength. Even as he fell to take the
rata count he was lunging desperately
and bl!ndly at his opponent His head
MT the floor and he rolled over uncon-
sclous, completely out.
racey opened his eyes fifteen sec
onds later, and as he was helped to his
corner by his seconds he received an
ovation seldom accorded a boxer bv a
New York fight crowd. The fans stood
on their chairs and checred in a burst
OF uncomfortable enthusiasm. The vic
tor was forgotten in the frenzied
dcmonstraton for Tracey.
brennan weighed 1853 and Tracey
is' pounds. Tracey, by superior speed
ana greater boxing skill, had the better
OF the carly milling. and it was not
gan to show to advantage. He dropped
racey in this session.
The seventh was a whir,wind. with
hrst one and then the other having
advantage. Both were groggy and
"abbling about the ring during this
session, and it was his astonishing
gameness here that won the hearts Of
the crowd for the Australian. Time
and again when he seemed on the
tringea Of dreamand ne came back to
slagger Brennan with fierce uppercuts.
Brennan Slow at Start
In the opening session Tracey made
brennan look slow. as he stung the
Chicago man with long left jabs.
Brennan appeared to be fifteen pounds
overweight, the fat rolling over the
tape of his fighting trunks.
Brennan was apparently willing to &C
cept fusillade of left iabs and right
hooks to the body in order to get into
post on to put over one big slam. He
was eppered thoroughly in the second,
and 1t was not until the third was half
over that he managed to get in any
thing that looked like a haymaker. This
shot caught Tracey glancing blow
on the jaw, but it had sufficient force
behind it to send him bouncing back
TO the ropes.
Tracey had all the better of the
fourth, and Brennan was Missed for his
wrestling tactics in the clinches. He
took a couple of drives on the chin
that shook him up just before the bell.
Brennan's superior weight told and
he used it in the clnches. The fifth
was about even, with Tracey landing
the cleaner punches. But in the sixth
Brennan came to life suddenly and be-
gan to bore into his opponent. He
drove him about with short-arm drives
to the body.
Suddenly raising the attack Brennan
drove hard left to Tracey's jaw that
caused him to topple over. He landed
on his side and then sat up to take
the count of nine. He looked to be
all through, but he came back with
a wonderful display of stamina. and
a few seconds later actually had Bren-
nan groggy under desperate series
of swings to the jaw. The fight then
came to a close. after less than min
ute and a half OF the eighth round.
Rather and Malone Draw
Augie Rather, weighing 155M pounds,
and Jock Malone, 151, did the honors In
the ffteen-round semi-fnal. 1t was q
return bout, and there was enough RI
valry between the two boxers to keep
them moving fast all the way. The
tide of battle turned from one to the
other, with each taking considerable lie
punishment, and it was highly salts
factory to the crowd. The bout was
called draw and the decision seemed
TO be as satisfactory as the bout had
been.
Two heavyweights Frank Johns, Of
Brooklyn, and Joe Vidas. Of Philadel-
phia, mingled for a short time in the
bout before the semi-fnal. The con-
test was scheduled to 60 six rounds,
but it did not last two. In the first
rounds Johns dropped Vidas three
times, but Joe refused to stay down,
and after thirty-fve seconds of bat
Ting in the second rounds Johns
dropped vidas for the count. Johns
weighed 1913 pounds, Vidas 1872.
In the four-round opener Gunner
Arnold, Canadian heavyweight, opposed
Yussell Pearlstein. Pearlstein got the
decision. He weighed 1T pounds and
Arnold weighed 1876