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Show 01 SAYS WHITE HAD SLIGHT MARGIN Shugrue Gives Chicago Lad Hard Battle; Writers Differ Dif-fer in Opinion. By DAMON ETJNYON. Ey International News Service. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. As long as the mosquitoes buzz over the marshes of their home state, the inhabitants of Jersey City will believe that their favorite son, Joe Shugrue, defeated Charlie White at Madison Madi-son square Garden tonight. Until Lake Michigan goes dry the small posse of Chicagoans present at the ringside will be telling their neighbors that White was the best. It was that close. In the opinion of this writer, White had a slight margin at the close of the tenth round, a round that had behind It twenty-seven twenty-seven minutes filled with more fighting than the Xew York fight fan generally sees in a whole winter. They were fighting fight-ing head to head when the gong ended the ; battle and their reddened gloves met in a i final clasp. They had been fighting that way most of the evening. j-uis tv iiue is a serious, inin-ieggea. thin-lipped lad with the face of a musician and the heart of a swordsman of old France. The Shugrue type is the bulldog, to pick a familiar simile. Rough and rugged and not handsome to look upon, tiie boy from Jersey City knows but one way of traveling when his feet commence to raise the rosin dust. He marches in. He is alwa ys inarching in. He has a queer bounce to his movements, but he never stops moving. So he fought tonight, to-night, and much might be made of his aggression. ag-gression. His nose bleeding, his wet hair flopping on his head and his arms constantly con-stantly swinging with wicked Intent, he kept close to that thin, shirting frame of the Chicago lad throughout the ten rounds, but White had a way of driving his hands through that storm of swings to the scarred face of the Jerseylte. There were no clean knockdowns. Once White slipped and half fell as he Hed from a sweeping body blow. On several occasions the rush of the Jersevman carried car-ried the slim Chieagoan into the ropes. Time after time they met in the center of the ring and hung there in a wild maelstrom of blows while the crowd reared with the lust of battle. There will he many an argument about this fight in the days to come. Opinion was wideiy divided at the finish but there was no division on the proposition that it had been a great fight and that Joseph Shugrue of Jersey City is still just as close to being a champion as Charlie White. About S000 persons groped their wav to the doors of the old Garden through the thick, damp mist of the early evening. even-ing. Joe Monney of New York and Charley ' Barry of Brooklyn, rough young lads of j V-l poundage, fought six noisy, dusty rounds to a draw by way of opening the show. In the second event Howard Morrow of Syracuse, a protege of Tommy Ryan, met Hartley Madden of Jersey City. Mr. Roche stopped this matter in the eighth round. Howard being at that time in a twilight state and covered with red paint. WELSH THINKS JOE SHUGRUE WON FIGHT j By FREDDIE WELSH, World's Lightweight Champion. By International News Service. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. New York, Dec. 29. Notwithstanding White's great showing in. the rlnal round, it is my opinion that Shugrue had slightlv the better bet-ter r.t il WhiU'B trnr.fl c1-.V,.t.t. l.n eighth and tenth rounds was hardly enough. In my opinion, to earn him a draw. The following is as I saw the tight, by rounds: Round One. Shugrue was first to lead a straight left, but White stepped away from him. Shugrue jabbed lightly with his left and followed with two others that missed their mark. White shot a left and right to the nose, opening up a cut on that organ. White hooked with a left to the jaw. White shot two lefts to the jaw and in return received a right on his ear. Shugrue was short with three lefts. They ( had a lively mix against the ropes, with honors even. Shugrue stopped a straight left to the jaw and the round ended with the boys in a clinch. Round even. Round Two. White jabbed with a light left and Shugrue hooked a left to the jaw. Shugrue Shu-grue stabbed another left to the jaw. i Shugrue landed a hard If-ft to t he face ! and in return took two hard left hookfi ; to the head- They exchanged lefts In a lively mix which followed. White landed n. straight left, but was short with a right. As Shugrue came in, bead down, White sent a hard left hook lo the jaw. A red-hot exchange followed. At the bell White hooked a left to the stomach. Round even-Round even-Round Three. Shugrue stabbed with a left to tiie face and then both exchanged left hooks to the head. They exchanged rights and lefts to the head and Shugrue ducked a left .swing that followed. Shugrue aiiot a straight left to the face. They exchanged' ex-changed' lefts and riehts to tlie head and t he last left that White landed slowed Shugrue up f'"(r a second. They again exchanged vicious lefts and rights to the head, with honors even. Shugrue crossed his ripht to the jaw and White was foived to cHrt'-'h. At the bell White hooked hi? left to the jaw. It was a grpat round and T cave Shugrue the shade benuse he did all the forcing and had While backing up at times. Round Four. For a full minute there was verv little I Ashling, and finally White jabbed with f a left. While st:n ted n tisrht for the bodv I .;i:d in rdurn got a hard H-ft to the ,i;iw. i Shucrne ducked a vicious r'uht and thev ' rlinriied. White jabbed with a left, but : f'.-ll short, iinil Shu i.' rue f .-1 -hnrl with) I i it same kind of a punch. White Iiookrd I a hard left to the had and went into a t linch. Shimrue swun. a hard riht to the uody and Charlie slipped to the Hour, l ; Both boys showed the hard pace of the early rounds in this period and it ended with honors even. Round Five. Shugrue shot a hard left to the face. A Jot of wrestling followed, with very little lit-tle fighting. Shugrue worked White to the ropes and swung a right and left to the jaw. A lively exchange followed, ending In a clinch. White swung right and left with full force to Shugrue's head, but it did not slow him up in the leust. They exchanged lefts and went into a clinch. After the breakaway Shugrue shot a hard left to the stomach. White shot two lefts to the face at the bell. The fact that Shugrue took two of White's hardest punches and they never stopped him from boring in entitled him to a shade in tills round. i Round Six. The boys rushed out of their corners and fell into a clinch, neither leading. For the next minute thev did nothing but feint each other out. White jabbed with a hard left and took two hard jabs in return. re-turn. They went into close quarters and Shugrue uppercutted with his right to the wind. Both missed wicked right swings. Shugrue jolted Charlie on the head with a left hook. White landed two left hooks high on the head, but they did little damage. dam-age. It was Shugrue's round. Round Seven. White hooked a hard left to the ribs and they went into a clinch. White jabbed twice with his left and another clinch followed. Shugrue got White In a corner cor-ner and hooked a left tn the head. As they went into a clinch White shot both hands to the body. They exchanged lefts and rights to the head and no damage was done. White shot a straight left to the head, but was short with a right. ; Shugrue sent a double-barreled left to the head and a hard riiht to the stomach. ; At the bell White sent a left hook to the Jaw. making Shugrue hold on. The last punch earned White a draw. Round Eight. They rushed out of their corners and fell into a clinch. After thev broke White shot a stiff left to the body. He followed with another and then hooked the left twice to the ear. White hooked another left to the head. He followed with another left to the stomach and repeated re-peated with the same blow. White jabbed with a light left to the nose and both boys were tired wnen they fell into a clinch. White jabbed with a left and followed wfth a stiff uppercut to the stomach. White sent a hard left to the body and followed it with two hooks to the head and then shot his left to the body. It was all White's round. Round Nine. Shugrue sent a straight left to the face and in a lively mix that followed they e- cnansea lerts to tne head. On a breakaway break-away from a clinch White sent a left to the head. White hooked a hard left to the head and stepped inside of Shugrue's Shu-grue's leads. Shugrue hooked a hard left to the chjn and White missed two right wild swings. Shugrue jabbed his left and followed with a right hook to the head. Shugrue sent another hard left to the head and White was tired when thev went went into a clinch. At the bell White sent a hard right to the head and I called it an even round. Round Ten. White shot a left to the stomach and took a left to the jaw in return. White sent a hard left to the stomach and followed fol-lowed with a right to the head. Both missed wild left swings. White landed a hard left swing to the jaw, but it was a bit too short. It was the hardest punch of the fight. White repeated with another an-other hard left to the head. White hit Shugrue hard again with his left to the face. They oxchanged lefts and rights to the face and White did a lot of damage at close quarters. White sent both hands to the head and Shugrue went to the ropes. They got at close quarters and White shot In some hard bodv blows. This round was all While's, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAYS SHUGRUE WON NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Joe Shugrue of Jersey City outfought Charlie White of! Chicago in a ten-round bout at Madison ! Square garden tonight. Shugrue had the I better of seven rounds. Both men weighed under 133 pounds at tJ o'clock, and their ringpide weights were: Shugrue, V'C-i; White, 1301 It was a clean, fast f If lit. Shugrue forced the pace nearly all the way, while White ' during tne early rounds, wus cool and 1 seemlnglv confident. He met Shugrue's ! rushes with snappy left hooks and' rieht' counters, but he depended matnlv on "his left hand. ' "" ; Shnyrue shot jab after jab to Vrji face i nml White retaliated with left books and ' short right crosses, one of which cut i Shusrue's pose in the opening round t tlnu-s they stood toe to toe in hot mi- 1 tips, but invariably the Jersev url tl.p better of the argument. AM bough honors w ei - .wen in ire f fourth. YM to mumbled off Ids halan.'r. a ud Shugrue caught him with a left swing in- the stomach. In thr Mxth a nd seventh. 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RUNYOW SAYS WHITE 1 SLIGHT III (Continued from Preceding Page ) the f 0ht ng and frequently blocked White s returns c ever j In the e ahth the Ch cago lad showed aggressiveness and sent in some hard blows to the body as well as hooking r ght and left to the head and face t the end of the round he landed a hard left hook far back on the Jaw Th s was White s best round Shugrue kept up h s jabbing tactics in then nth and h ocked cleverly having the best of th s se"s on The f nal round was fu of fast work by both n en White landed some sw f eft hooks to the face and also had the bette of the nf ghting at wh ch he was not so successfu as in the p e lous rounds He sed bot han s to ad a tage aklng the hono e of the round In hurricane stj e SIX WRITERS GIVE WHITE THE VERDICT Bv lnternat onal Psews Service MADISON SQL RE GARDDN SETT TORI Dec 29 Cha e Ml te of Ch cago vas returned a two to one winner o er Joe Shugrue In the op non of n ne newspaper expe ts who sat at the ring s de ton sh Of the n ne wr ters s x of hem gave Wh te a shade The rema nder ga e it to Shugrue Fo owing are the r dec sons Edward TV Sm th Ch cago American Wh te Damon Run on "New To k American R h te W S Farnsworth New York Amer can White Bert Igoe New To k Sun Whl e Don L ons New York I enlng G obe XV h tc I J T4 a he New York Herald Wl te Fredd e es Ne To k Vneca S k ue W am X ee a d New "ior Wo d Shugru Ba as e o New To Mo n ng Te e"iap u T ose o p ked V e d a ed en a e sed n on o fl ad an |