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Show LATEST 'WHITE HOPE' KiCKSOUT MORHIS SPRING VI Ii LO, Mo.. April H. Luther McCarty of Springfield today knocked out Carl Morris of Tulsa, Okla., in the I sixth round of a ten-round bout before I the Springfield Athletic club. Edward W. Cochrane, ' sporting editor of the Kansas Cily Journal, refcreed lh bout. McCarty won with a swinging right to the jaw, which followed a straight loft thai had staggered the Oklahoman. Movrlr. went to the floor for a count of fourteen and even then did not appear to realize that ho had lost. The bout prior to the sixth was even, neither fighter doing much damage. In the first Morris drew blood from Mccarty's Mc-carty's mouth, hut the .Springfield boy retaliated lu like manner In the second. The third was oven, both fighters resorting re-sorting lo short jabs which did no damage. dam-age. In the fourth Morris seemed to have the better of tltc match, forcing the fighting. In the fifth, .however. McCarty canio back strong and proved the better of the two. The sixth round hardly had opened when he landed a left on the engineer's jaw. This was followed by the right, which sent the "white hope" to the mat. Morris had nothing to say after ! Lho fight. I McCarty Is barely twenty years old and Is under the management of "Billy" McCarncy or San Francisco. "1 always knew 1 could beat Morris if given a chance," McCarty said tonight. to-night. "Morris never had a chance to win from the opening to the close of the bout." |