The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-20
MAR TIN IS
GHOST Of
TERRY
cannonbaIps Victory Over Abe
GoIdstein Recalls Nc
Governs Fame,
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH.
international News service.


NEW YORK, Dec. 2O.Twenty-
five yeras ago almost to the
month, the Gowanus section of
Brooklyn gave up a bantamweight
champion, whose name has lived
down through ages, McGovern the
Terrible Terry. Last night at
Madison Square Garden, Cannon
ball Eddie" Martin defeated Abe;
Goldstein on points at the end Of
fifteen rounds and g new ban
tamweight champion was born
from the neighborhood, in some
respects a prototype of the once
terrible one.
That is as it should be. The Can.
nanball, man and boy, has lived to
the ripe old age OF twenty-one, with
the picture Of McGovern ever held
before him as an example of what
q fighting man should be. Martin
may lack the ferocity Of attack that
made McGovern famous but he has
the heart, the punch and never for
moment does he stop rushing and
plunging in.
Four times during the third round,
Goldstein crossed a right flush to
the Cannonball's jaw. They were
punches that would have dropped
almost any other fighter in tho
game, but Martin did not go down.
His reply was to plunge in, groggy
though he was, and carry the fight
to Goldstein. Non-plussed, the plat
ter subsequently went on the de-
fensive and lost the decision.
ss.
The verdict, questioned in many
quarters. was 3 close one, but that
y Of no particular consequence.
Is Charley Paddock beat JackSOn
SchOlz by inches, they wouldn't
call 1t dead heat.
Goldstein had jabbed his way to
long lead at the end of the first
six rounds, but the Cannonball, born
Edward B. MARITIME, had dreamed a
dream of a champion who went into
action with fists that never stopped
flying until one man or the other
went down and stayed there. He
was in there to fight fifteen rounds
or less, regardless Of consequences,
and If Goldstein had the advantage
In six rounds. so be It. He had only
begun to fight.
They say OF Martin that he has
only been on the floor once during
his career. The writer can well
believe it.. Unlike McGovern, the
Cannonball seems almost immune
70 a punch on the jaw. This, with
This punch form the ingredients
that created champion. He hasn't
much else but they seem to be.
enough. They carried him from
obscurity to fame in less than two
years of ring fighting. In his brief
career, Martin has taken part in
oixty-four fights and has lost only
two decisions.
After leading through the first
two rounds and part of the third,
Goldstein suddenly flashed a right
to the jaw and almost instinctively
turned toward his corner. He
thought it was the end but Martin
neither went down, as expected,
NOR fell into clinch. He reeled
back and then rushed.
Before he could get his bearings,
Abe let him have two more, but
the young man rushed again. He
was groggy but as game as they
come. To prove it, he caught Abe
on the chin with a hard right
and the latter reeled away and
covered UP.
When his head cleared, he again
maaneuVered the CannOnban into
position and again the right found
the mark on the point Of the chin.
But BY this time, Martin seemed
used to 1t. He was tired, vet
energetic at the bell.
Goldstein was lucky to get an
even break in the fourth. Martin
rushing him off his feet at times.
At this point, Goldstein seemed to
lose. heart and was rocked by sew
eral hard rights in the fifth. He did
better in the sixth, jabbing effect
lively with his left. But his speed
was ebbing fast, and for the next
four rounds, he was unable to hold
Martin off, left hook to the jaw
having Abe in trouble in the
seventh.
The eleventh was a very long
round for Goldstcin, what with
Martins mauling and body punch
ing, but in the twelfth Abe came
back like q had check and he
earned the round by snappy punch
ing, another right sending Martin
reeling against the ropes. Several
more hurt Martin badly in the
thirteenth but the Cannonball all but
COPIED Abe in the following round
with terrific right to the stomach.
He never recovered from. that punch
although he did la2d another hard
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