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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924.

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BOXING,

"Jackson looks all through.: 1 think I'll try the rally in the

· REFEREE" "REACHED" BY next round, and 'I am sure I can

GAMBLERS.

CORBETT-JACKSON FIGHT.

knock him."

But Bill advised: "

"Wait another round or two. Then you can't miss. By then he'll be so werk you can push "him over.".

In a recent interview, James T. Corbett is credited with the following accounts of his great bout with Peter Jackson:

So I promised to wait, as directed.

AMERICAN FOOTBALLA

>

YALE CROWD REACHES NEW RECORD.

TRIBUTE TO HAUGHTON,

PURAFLARA

A new attendance record was set for American football crowds. The rest between the 80th and when Yale and the Army battled the 61st rounds was two min was packed to capacity and stand to a 7-7 tie. The huge Yale bowl utes long. "The absence of the ing room was fought for. About referee caused it. Finally be 80,000 spectators paid admission tá sounded-and Peter and I again crowded around the gates trying a climbed back, the bell Wis the stands while over 10,000- MORS"

went to the centre of the ring, to get in. But neither of us made any real fighting effort. I felt I could stow away Peter in that round,

I have fought many fights in my day-lived through many whirlwind rounds, but not single one compares with those first 35 against Peter Jackson on May 21, 1891.

I

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During the latermission the

A large stock of Artificial Wreaths, felt I had it on him in speed, but I had promised Delaney of the field and sounded tapa ini

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I had lost all fear of the negro after the fourth round.

Army bugler stood in the centre cleverness and condition. I

wouldn't. And so I didn't try.

memory of the late Percy D. carried the fighting to him, hop- I don't know if the 61st round immense crowd stood with bared Haughton, Columbia coach. The ping the furiousness of it would really went three full minutes. heads while the Yale band played wear him down and break his It

seemed remarkably short. "Auld Lang Syne." It will be superb fighting spirit. But But as the bell rang, ending it, many years before Yale forgets Jackson, as game as any that ever lived, fought me with tre of the ring, shouted loud and beat Yale year after year through man the referee, standing in the cen- Percy Haughton, as he consistently every ounce of strength in his clear: superbly powerful body.

out the period of his football We slowed down after theit no contest!

"The fight is over--and I call | mentorship at Harvard. 35th round. The pace we had travelled for 105 minutes" was

...Full significance of the beyond human power to endure feree's announcement did not further. Jackson was tired come to me until I noticed that and I, too, had grown weary. Jackson's gloves were being rip-

re-

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DOG'S WARNING:

DAUGHTER LED TO INJURED MASTER,

London, November 9:- The story of how a dog gave warning of an accident to its master was told at an inquest held at Edmonton yesterday upon a man named Strong, aged seventy-nine.

The fighting from the 35th to i ped from his hands and des the 50th round was spasmodic.troyed. I remembered then Each of us would make at least that the referee had talked with one rush per round; each would the men who had bet against Then we'd re- my staying up to 50 rounds with attempt a raliy. lapse into sparring.

Jackson. In the 51st round I hit Jack- The crowd had gone crazy.. son, and, to my surprise, found The place was a bedlam. A that it was with the open glove. dozen riots broke out. Those My hands had become so who had bet on me to last a The deceased's daughter stated numbed that practically all the certain number of. rounds, that her father went into the' feeling was gone.

realizing that "no contest" garden with his dog. Soon after. I knew that I was hitting with meant the, bets they had wonwards the dog came running into an open hand. Yet the hand were bets they couldn't collect, the house barking frantically. was so numb I never could tell became like madmen.

Thinking something was wrong, whether I struck upon an idea My

she decided to follow the dog. It anger of automatically keeping my strength and new vigour. I

led her to the bottom of the garden, fists closed. After the round jumped from my corner

where she found her father lying. was over, I worked the long- made a dash toward the referee.. which he had apparently fallen. in a fit beside the garden, seat off since loosened padding of my He leaped through the ropes His right leg was found to he gloves into my palm. After with Jackson's second helping broken. that when I hit, I would first him and took a chance with the close my fingers over the pad-swirling, ding and then I knew my fist crowd. When Jackson was closed..

to walk down the aisle he top-pneumonia, pled to the floor and had to be through his being confined to bed shown what his condition was following his injury. as the 61st round ended;

A verdict of "Accidental death" vincing beyond a doubt that. I was recorded could

have dropped him in another round or two.

All the time I was trying to save my legs. I knew that if they held out I couldn't lose. And so, through the last eight rounds of the battle, I made "no runaway

from Jackson's

gave me .new

Howling,

and

It was stated that he died a few furious days later at the hospital, death started being attributed to hypostatic which developed

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swings. I'd simply duck or The California Club never WALKING CHAMPIONSHIP. OPEN DAILY FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT, twist my head, sometimes let-staged another contest. ting a punch land; rather than weird, crooked ruling, of the re- use my leg energy.

feree, and the fact that the club As the 60th round ended the officials stood for its killed its referee did one of the strangest popularity and forced the al- things in ring history. He most immediate dissolution of climbed out through the ropes what was then the famous fight and held an animated conversa-club-in-the-world tion with a group at the ring- side which had wagered big sums that. I would not go. 10, 15, 20, 26, 30 or 35, 40 and then 50 rounds with the gaint negro.

I had

gone 60. All the wagers my friends made were won, because whether the fight was won by Jackson, or me, or whether it ended in

a draw, I had travelled

more than

IRISH LIGHT-WEIGHT IS

DEFEATED.

Billy Gilmore, the champion lightweight of Ireland met his Waterloo at the hands of Tommy Brien at Providence R.L in the eighth round of a ten round bout. rounds. And the elique that States with a big reputation and 35 A year ago Gilmore went to the had backed Jackson stood to expected, to wrest the title from

lose perhaps £50,000.

With the 60th round over,

I

sat in my corner and said

to

Billy Delaney: \

Benny. Leonard. He started well with a couple of wins over fairly good men but has met with several severe reverses since then.

which took place on Sunday, The International Walking Race December 7, resulted in a win for WJ. Young, a member of the Irish 'team, for the independent race, and also first place for the entire Irish team. The various nation- alities competing and the order in which they finished were: Irish 14 points; British, 32 points; French 46 points; Japanese, gi points; and Portuguese, no places. At the Balsh of the race trophies were presented by Dr. W. O'Hara, president of the club.

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