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Show GREB LICKS M'GDQRTY FOR SERVICE TITLE Middleweight Championship Champion-ship Goes to Crack Boxer of Navy. CHICAGO, July 27. Harry Greb of the navy was awarded a decision on points over Eddie McGoorty of the national army at the end of their ten-round boxing bout at Fort Sheridan .late this afternoon. By virtue of the victory, Greb becomes middleweight mid-dleweight champion of the army and navy. . Greb carried the battle to McGoorty all the way. Ha got away to a slow start and took several solid punches from his more experienced opponent before he hit his stride. In the third round, however, one of Greb's right-hand swings closed McGoorty's eye, and from that time the outcome was never in doubt. At the final bell Greb was apparently as fresli as when he started, Taut Mo-Goortv Mo-Goortv was plainly exhausted by his efforts ef-forts in avoiding the navy fighter's swings. 'Thirty-five hundred people, the majority ma-jority of whom were officers and enlisted men from the army and navy, witnessed the bout. Greb is one of the boxing instructors at the Great Lakes naval training station. McGoorty. a corporal in the national army, is boxing instructor at Camp Grant, Rock-ford, Rock-ford, 111. |