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Show English Boxer Puts Out McGoorty in Seventeenth JOE BECKETT. i ! - - ' ' N ' " '"1 By Universal Service. LONDON, Sept. 2. After a stubbornly contested fight Joe Beckett, the Brit-! Brit-! iyh heavyweight champion, knocked out Eddie McGoorty, the American light : heavyweight In tlie seventeenth round of ! what was to have been a twenty-round bout In Olynipia tonight. Right up to the fifteenth round McGoorty Mc-Goorty withstood several attempts by Beckett to force a decision. In the fourth round the referee found both men guilty of holding, and warned them. In the twelfth. McGoorty was warded again for wrestling with his heavier opponent. Up to the tenth both men . were going strong and displaying great skill. I: 'Alien the seventeenth started both !i showed signs of tiring after the gruel-j gruel-j I ing contest. Beckett, with a sudden 1 I spring, landed both a left and right on ! McGoorty's chin, sending the American ! I to the floor, and when he got to his ! I'cet again another blow to the chin I knocked him through the ropes, where i he lay on the outer edge of the ring i and was counted out. jl Fred Fulton. the American heavy-' heavy-' weight, knocked out Arthur Townlcy, the I Welsh heavyweight, in the first round f I of their scheduled twenty-round prellm-1 prellm-1 I inarv after two and a half minutes of j fighting, with a left hook to the jay,-. |