The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15

NEW YORK. Jar. I4.-srhe law of averages holds that every now and again some unfortunate kid must be Killed in the fight ring. After 4.000 rounds of fighting in Madison Square Garden during the last four indoor seasons, it was time for someone to go. ..s-.Ssss ass..
 a right swing to the head. landed; by Bud Taylor of Terre Haute, Ina, the prize fighters wagged their battered heads Monday and said 1t was just a tough break of the luck for Frankie, although the doctor gave it a highaschool name and went into technical discussionss of blood clots
 pr. Charles E. Norris. chief med ical examiner, exapined the poor, skinny little fellow before they .re- moved him from Bellevue hospital e his home Monday afternoon and safd nobody was to blame. A blow on; the head had ruptured as small blood Fea- sel between the skull and the byRin: S There is no exact scilAek on Stiie number of fatalitfes throiigh bout, the country in the thousanfs of rounds s of boxing that are fought every year, but Dr. Norris thought that such proper regulation that boxing could still be considered fairly safe sport.
 Since boxing was recommended in New York there have been five deaths. New Jersey Is believed to Ave had no more than three. Jerome's passing was particularly distressing to the large crowd that saw the bout, because he had made such a. game battle. He was g. so- ciable, spidery little fellow, 24 years old, who liked to be with friends at night, and his manager had hard time, as a rule, getting him to go home and get the required sleep.
 At one minute the crowd d-saw Je- rome, beaten but not badly marked, making the best of a bad situation, and fighting back at the heavy hitting tow-head from the middle west. The next minute they saw him down for count of nine.
 Bell Saved Jerome. =
 The bell saved him at the end of the. eleventh round and he was hoisted to his corner Jerome hardly recovered, but he insisted on com ing to the mark for the twelfth and final round. Then Taylor pinned him in a corner, bent him over with stopped down. whacked him seven tremendous smashes on his unpro- tected left idney% =a gH z. FE
 Jerome sageed to the .fesin from exhaustion and pain, but floundered up at the count of seven. Taylor leaped in to cut him down, but Je- . rome slumped into the referees arms in collapse, and the blow was stayed His trainer carried Jerome from the ring, threw an sovercoat about the naked figure and whirled through the streets of the east side to Bellevue hospital, where Frankie died 48 hours later.
 Jerome's real name was Doherty. He was,ffghting for more than any body at the ringside Knew when he met Bud Taylor. His young wife had just had a baby girl and there was the doctor. toepay. the nurse, the druggist, the landlord. Frankie had - to take the work" when 1t was of- fered by Tex Rickard. He needed all the money he could get.
 Two hours after the fight as Je- rome lay dying. in Bellevue, Taylor appeared at an all-night resort on Broadway with his wife and several friends to dance. They didn't know Jerome2was in serious trouble.
 He's a fine kid" Taylor said. T said to him afterward, Frankie I said, I'm sorry I had to do it, but you were pasting me with that right hand. and if I took chances you might have knocked me out I stopped in the hospital on the way uptown and the nurse said he was all right" rs