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Show yiU..U:s ...... i. o.o ii j . : GJijSi,7,CASI5Y BOUT; fending In this respect was frequent, and cries of foul came from the crowd. Then ii wa" that Christie dellberaiVly fouled 4-rry with his knee to even matters up. . McCarthy claims that he fought according accord-ing to the rules from the start, and that the technical fouls he committed were no worse than Christie's. George Gibba. who refereed the bout, made this statement: "According: to the agreement. I don't see where Christie can complain of Jerry Jer-ry s holding. I didn't see Christie choked at any time, as he says he was, although both men did a few trifling tricka, such ,as swinging tow in clinches. Thompson, as you know, was reprimanded for wetting Jerry's gloves during the fight and once or twice Christie raised his knee in a menacing men-acing manner that indicated he was displeased, dis-pleased, to say the least; but I saw no good reason for stopping the bout on account ac-count of these little things, and Christie admits that I was right." I QristieYSeconds Elevate ' :tlic Sronsrc In ninth icound, but the Fighter, I Wants to Go On. t ii i i i i i Jack Christie's seconds threw up the P"nge near the end of the ninth round last night and thereby Jerry McCarthy became be-came the welter-weight champion of the ' gtijte. The fight was an unsatisfactory .exhitition. owing to he continual fouling by bcth men, , aud the chances are' that McCarthy would haye lost on a foul had ,i (be fight continued, as the referee was forced to. warm him twice during- the last ' round.- - Eugene Thompson, who vu behind Christie, had no sooner thrown the sponge 'nto the ring 'than friends of both men be-, be-, 1 s-an piling through the ropes, and iq an I instant seconds, principals, spectators and -,re-?'e.e Wer enfsed in a fierce melee. I Christie ignored the formal surrender of iMs seconds, and pushed through the crowd i to reach McCarthy! and he found the. llriKfiman ready for more. v. hen the ring was finally cleared by the police, and the excitement had subsided somewhat, the fighters were rushed to the irEsiiyr-rooms, and here . later another scrap" ensued. McCarthy cimmed the gloves, by right of conquest. Christie refused to surrender surren-der them on the grounds that he did not IiHe the fight outright. Then more trouble trou-ble started. Thompson put an end to the - hostilities, however, by securing a double. Xelson on McCarthy. Christie still has . one pair of glove and McCarthy has the I other. The fight was preceded by three preliminaries.. prelim-inaries.. The last one. between two heavyweights, heavy-weights, was a good exhibition. Christie stated after the trouble was over that McCarthy fouled him repeatedly throughout the fight, by hitting with one hand while holding with the other. In the ;ast two rounds, McCarthy's of-' |