Salt Lake Herald | 1897-12-08 | Page 2 | Knock-out Blow Fatal |

Type	issue
Date	1897-12-08
Paper	Salt Lake Herald
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Knock-out Blow Fatal
Type	article
Date	1897-12-08
Paper	Salt Lake Herald
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	2
OCR Text	Show KNOCKOUT BLOW FATAL t Defeated Bantam Croot Dies of His F i Injuries t London Dec 7Walter Croot of New Castle England who was defeated J I de-feated for the bantamweight championship 1 cham-pionship of the world at the National Sporting club last night by Jimmy j Barry of Chicago died this morning I of the injuries received in the contest The knockout blows consisted of severe j punches over the heart and then a I crushing righthander on the jaw I Croot remained unconscious so long I that medical assistance was called It I was found that he had sustained a i severe concussion of the brain He never regained consciousness and expired ex-pired at 9 oclock this morning Barry was arrested and was taken to the Bow street police court The affair has created great excitement in boxing i I circles f j
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