Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 8 | Welsh Gives Cross Win over Shugrue

WELSH GIVES CROSS WIN OMGRUE Champ Says Leach Has Five Rounds to Three for Jerseyite By FREDDIE WELSH By International Iews Service NEW YORK Jan 13-J-each Cross defeated Joe Shugrue in a slas ing ten round bout at Madison Square Garden tonight Leach had five rounds h s op ponent three and two were even Cross forced the fighting something very un usual for him and landed much harder blows than Shugrue In the second and tenth rounds Leach was at his best and rocked the Jersey boy time and again. In fact Shugrue was very tired all dur ng the tenth period Besides carrjino h s us al hard right hand smash Cross for the first time that I e er saw him in act on d s plajed a left hook that had much steam beh nd it Shugrue found Cross a mark for h s left jabs but they fa ed to slow Cross up or make him stop forcing at any time Leach was" the first to lead In t e open ng round and landed a 1 ht left to the head A second later Shugrue jabbed!, and; repeated Both missed wi d swings then Shu rue jabbed with a left and fo lowed with a stra ght left to the face On the breakaway from the c nch Shu grue rocked Cross s head with a short left hook In the second round Cross scored a ha d left hook to the Jaw and repeated w th two more Another left h gh to the head made Shugrue hang on Shu grue stepped back and scored w th a pretty stra ght left Cross m xed it fast and d ew blood from Shugrue s mouth A hot raly fo lowed and at the be Cross wunt; a hard r ght to the Jaw that sent Shugrue to h s co ner dazed Shugrue stabbed the face wit two efts in the sevent and a ot of fiddl ng fo lowed Cross forced the fighting scoring with left and r ght to the head Cross landed a hard left to the head and as he jumped in S ug ue caught him off his ba ance and Leach fell to the floor. It was not a knockdown Leach had a 1 the better of the flgl t ng Shugrue landed r ght and left to the head and followed with a hard r ght swing to the Jaw Cross rushed and swung both hands to the body Shugrue landed a left to Leach s Jaw at he opening of the tenth and Cross shot a r ght and left to t e body Cross missed a vicious right to the head Shugrue landed a left to Leach s Jaw at the open ng of t e tenth and Cross shot a r g t and left to the body Joe peppered away with a straight left to he head and Cross missed a vie ous rlgh to the head Shugrue was t red and a 1 a d left to the stomach backed Joe p Cross s ducking had Shugrue missing with both hands Cross worked his way to close quarters and Jabbed two hard ones to t e body Shugrue jabbed v. th his eft to the face At the bell Crois was pound lng the body hard It was Cross s round.