Show I DISAPPOINTMENT HURT HIT M After Being Defeated by Young Corbett He Rapidly Went v Down the Line BY GEORGE SILER Poor Terry McGovern only 27 years and 9 months old and an inmate of or an asylum for the insane It hardly seems credible that one who only a a short while ago a few years was the most talked of man in American pugilism should so s utterly collapse Young strong sturdy full of vitality and the most terrific fighter in the bantam and featherweight class for five years and today a R total wreck That either cither speaks ill for the game same or for traveling the pace that kills Which of the two It certainly cannot be the game as he was never a chop chopping chopping chopping ping block for his opponents so 30 It must be attributed to the pace Terry during his short and success successful successful successful ful ring career engaged in nearly r battles battes and was defeated defeated twice his conqueror being Young Corbett He lost his hi lii first fight to Corbett Corbet on Nov 28 1901 In the second round but received no punishment worth mentioning Punch on Jaw Did It ItA ItA ItA A punch on the jaw sent him to the canvas and when he arose he received another blow on 01 the same spot which put mm him lm out of the tho running The pun punishment punIshment punishment he h sustained In that contest did not affect him in the least leat but the fact he was defeated and lost the championship on which he set great get store tore did di That Tat defeat did more to unbalance his bIn mind than did all aU the punishment that he received in all al of or his battles bates combined He brooded and brooded over that setback He considered it a scratch victory and ad the he quickness of it presumably presumably presumably ably was but when sixteen months later Corbett Corbet repeated the trick at San Francisco Frncisco In eleven rounds he thought differently He however would not credit credi Corbett Corbet being his hi superior and the more he thought of the defeats ad administered administered a ministered by the Denver lad the more he lie brooded over them Misery it i Is Iss IsId s said aid Id loves company And nd misery miser seeks forgetfulness in the flowing bowl and other dissipations I Career as a Bantam Some say hard training and hard fights ara accountable for present pre unfortunate condition but brooding over his two defeats and try tr ing to forget them by traveling along the broad path probably is the direct cause cause The first time I 1 saw Terry was wasat wasat wasat at the Lenox club New York the night he defeated defeated Patsy Haley in n eighteen rounds That was wa March 12 1899 He had met a number of good goo little men prior to that and was considered the fastest and most t terrific fighter of his weight and inches this country ever produced Terry Tem was a bantam in ir those tose days and exactly exact six months after he I beat Haley he knocked out Pedlar Palmer at N Y in the first I round The battle bate was for the worlds words I bantamweight championship and at which I 1 officiated as referee He posed as the champion chapion In that di division vision only four months during which he lie cleaned up every little fighter that had the courage coure to oppose him On Jan 9 1900 he moved up Into the featherweight division as a champion chapion aspirant and won the title tte by defeating George Dixon in eight rounds Knocked George Dixon Out He knocked out the colored lad but Tom Dixons manager tossed up the sponge in token of or defeat before the referee could toll tol off of the re required required required ten seconds Tom did this to prevent the fight being recorded as a knockout knockout but the battle batte went ent down dow in ring history as a K O 0 Terry then the line lne beat Ing lag every ever one Ho was then a well behaved boy hoy and to the best of or my knowledge knowlEdge strictly temperate I re remember r remember member the tho night In Chicago that he knocked out Eddy Santry Sant In the fifth round and a number of his admirers were opening wine bu Terry could not be induced to touch a drop of It After a drinking session Sam Har Harris Harris Harris ris Terrys Terr s manager who looked after his interests must have known know his con cn dion when they matched matched or rather permitted him to engage in fights with wih Murphy Murph Nelson BrItt Brit and Corbett Corbet Fortunately for all concerned he be al es escaped escaped escaped Injury In those contests and this must be b attributed attribute to his wonderful vitality Terry Ter was an honor to the game and the pity is there are not more like he was before he went wrong |