BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 7

BOXING.

A PUGILIST'S DEATH-EFFORT TO STOP BIG FIGHT. By Association-Copyricht San Francisco, April 30. • Further accounts of the boxi'ift match here between Owen Moran and Tommy M'Carthy, the latter of whom died as tho result of a knock-out Mow in tho sixteenth ronnd, show that M'Carthy put up a plucky fight, but was- outclassed. when knocked down, he hit his head on tho floor with terrific force, and kicked convulsively, then rolled over unconscious. A sensation was caused among the immense crowd.

Two physicians were called to tho ring, and discovered a fracture of the skull. Twenty minutes later M'Carthy died. Moran spent tho night in prison,, weeping, and, kneeling and praying for his opponent's recovery. ' . . Methodist ministers in San Francisco have- called a conference, with the object of forcing the Governor to intervene to prevent the Jeffries-Johnson fight. London, May 1. The newspaper "Observer" states. that, in consequence of M/Carthy's death, an effort will be made .in the United States to secure a declaration thai the JeffriesJohnson fight will be illegal.

JOHNSON AND JEFFRIES. ' ' Latest news to the London "Sportsman" up to five weeks ago included the following:— "A telegram from Billy Delaney, at Los Angeles, states positively that on no account will he have anything to say to Jeffries on his preparation for the contest. Delaney is the man who brought out Jim Corbett and Jeffries, and is thought a great deal of as a trainer and manager. He practically matched Jeff to meet Bill Squires, when the latter came from Australia, but after preliminary arrangements had been completed Jeffries declined the issue and fell out with Delaney, who then picked up Al Kaufman and vainly tried to make him a "Jonries has gone on a short hunting and fishing trip outsido Los Angeles. Upon his Teturn he. will form a training oanip near Santa Cruz and do light work •until May with tho big negro heavyweight,' Bob Armstrong, Farmer Burns, Berger, and M'Cormick. Early in June he will be joined by Jim Corbott and Frank Gotch, and a couple of husky middle and heavy-weights. Armstrong, who had been with Johnson for some time, says Jeffries will very easily whip the champion. Other pugilistic experts like Billy Madden, Jack M'Auliffe, Stanley, Ketchell, and Joe Choyinski think differently.

"The latest grievance against Jack Johnson is that he has been keeping too quiet and out of the limelight." Some of tho estimates formed as to the size of the Johnson-Jeffries gate are startling, writes W. W. M'Naughton in the Sydney "Referee." When, a few months ago, Gleason offered 101,000 dols. for the fight, some of the old-time promoters insisted that "Tex" would never get his money back. Now these same fellows are wishing they had tried harder to land the attraction. Coffroth, for one, beliovos tho fight will draw 200,000. ,(!ols., whereas, at bidding time, he did not think one half that amount would be realised. But 200,000 dols. is only a modest guess, as guesses go. I heard a San Francisco lawyer, who has been a light patron for years, give his opinion the other day that Jeffries and Johnson would draw 250,000 dols., and I have heard that still others have prophesied that half a million dollars' worth of tickets will be sold. Tho one thing made clear by these forecasts is that the whole country is intensely interested over the July ring event. People who have never talked fight before are talking it now, and I am wondering what kind of a ferment the public will be in when Independence Day moves round. As to the size.of tho gate, I should think that if it-.-reaches 200,000 dols. it will be as high as it will go. At that, of course, it would break all records. •■ InM'■...»; r< ..,Tr,.. ( .-