BOXING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1114, 26 June 1913, Page 4

BOXING.

CLABBY BEATS M’GOORTY

WINNER DOWN TWICE

(Independent Cable Association.) VANCOUVER, June 16.

Jimmy Clabby earned the decision over Edie M’Goorty at Butte, Montana, yesterday, after twelve rounds of fast fighting. In the first round M’Goorty almost knocked Clabby out. Clabby twice went to the floor, and stayed there for nine seconds eacn time. _ However, he was awarded the decision owing to his superiority at infighting and his aggressiveness. PELKEY ACQUITTED. WHAT CONSTITUTES A PRIZE FIGHT. OTTAWA, June 24. At Calgary the jury acquitted Pelkey of the manslaughter of Luther McCarthy, who died in a boxing contest. Chief Justice Harvey decided that any encounter with fists, even privately arranged, constituted a prize fight. Such a decision practically prohibits boxing in Canada if the authorities choose to interfere. The jury held that Pelkey’s blow did not kill McCarthy. The Judge declared that if the jury had found Pelkey guilty he would not have inflicted any sentence, as the case was obviously one brought in order to define the law governing prize fights. JOHNSON DONE. THE WORST KIND OF WRECK. In regard to Johnson’s showing with Flynn at Las Vegas, the truth is coming out slowly (writes W. W. Naughton to the Referee). The writer, and other old-time singside correspondents, felt satisfied at the time that Johnson’s condition was of the poorest. We believed that if Flynn had kept his head a victory for the white man would have been recorded. This was poohpoohed by-' Johnson and his handlers, but some of these latter are changing their tunc now.

Flanagan, the Toronto man who acted as Johnson’s manager at Las Vergas, told an eastern newspaper mar: recently that Johnson is the worst kind of wreck. Flanagan admits that Johnson was in the poorest shape when he boxed Flynn, and says he is much worse now. According to Flunnagan, any of tho white hopes—or, for that matter, any football player or athlete —could beat the Johnson of to-day, and do it in very few rounds.

On top of this, Marty Cutler, who trained Johnson at Las Vegas, has told a personal friend of the writer that Johnson was a lucky man to escape defeat at La's Vegas, Cutler says Jack had neither strength nor wind, and was fading away in Flinn’s arms when the captain of State police interfered and stopped the fight. I merely mention this as corroborative of the opinion I formed after seeing Johnson in action at Las Vegas. Irrespective of what others tlipnght. 1 felt convinced that Johnson was “all in” when I saw his work in Now Mexico.