PRIZE RING FATALITY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13093, 5 June 1913, Page 5

PRIZE RING FATALITY.

.-:-.. VAUCOUVER, May 26. The. boxing contest at Calgary (Alberta) between Luther. M'Carty and Arthur Pelkey terminated suddenly. M'Carty was knocked Übwn "by 'a chance- blow one minute and 45 seconds from tjie start of the contest, and 'took the count. Eight minutes later -he 'died. Pelkey was arrested. on\a charge 'of manslaughter, and released on £2000 bail. The men .were in a c,llnch r in the first round . when the referee, Edward. Smith, separated them. They . stood, off and spaTred. Suddenly M'Carty was seen .almost to double up At first -it looked like a fighting pose, but he got -Power, and lower, and then collapsed. '•'- The referee, ' assuming' that M'Carty was knocked down, counted him oiitr Pelkey stood on one side, hardly realising what -had;, happoned. The referee became alarmed, and called for' a doctor. ..- PracticaUy the laslk words M'Carty heard were from the pastor of a local church, who entered the ring and spok-e HV favor of boxing. The doctor who attended M'Carty contends that the collapse was due either to organic reart trouble or else" to paralysis of the heart' The'law of Alberta makes It possible fdr the arrest of every spectator oh a charge of manslaughter) and a squad of tlie North-West Mounted Police -has been ordered by a magistrate to make arrests. VANCOUVER. May 28.* ; 1 A post-mortem examination , on the body of Luther M'Carty, ,who was fatally injured during his fight with Arthur Pelkey at \Cnika.ty on Saturday night, disclosed the important fact that his death was due, not to either some organic heart trouble or paralysis of tho heart, as at first reported, but to a dislocated neck. Pelkey absolutely declines to have anything to say about tho .tragedy. . It, is unofficially stated in sporting circle^ that as soon. as. the responsibility for the fatality is fixed Pelkey will go south to Gunboat Smith. >• ■!

i The promoters of tlie M'Carty-Pelkey flght and 'a large ntimbor of those w'ho were present as spectators have been "arrested'.

.' LONDON,, May' 28. ,i ■• A medical student who wasn present at the post-mortem examination 6a, ivi'Carty states that tho cause, of death 'wag a brqken, neck. A blood-vessel at the base of the brain'was found Ho haVe biiyst, arid this, wu? apparently caused By a lefthanded /punch. Commenting upon the death of Luther Jvi'Carty, the American boxer who was killed during his fight 'with Arthur Pelkey at Calgary yesterday, a correspondent writing to the Times says that the fatality would probably not have occurred had M'Carty. been in hard condition, and ihad he not underrated his opponent, who resembles Gunboat Smith in possessing la punch of .unquestionable' severity. M'Carty, the correspondent adds, was thought by 'good judges to he a second Jim Cbrbctt, and wa's" ju.^t beginning to propave. "' ■■- ■" : " _■-- " y . — ■ ■ ■ —■ ■— — — _—_— •