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Show could not open the Mexican's guard wide enough or long enough to land a damaging punch. Several . times Clifford . rusted and bored lit, landing a few In the. face, but nothing to hurt much, and the only puzzle he offered II err era was the clever clev-er way he had of escaping that lightning light-ning right Jab for the body. The yellow yel-low citizen bided his time, changed his plan of campaign and when he got the opening succeeded in fitting the leather to the place where It did the most good. ; ' Young . GIbbs and Jerry McCarthy left this morning for Salt Lake for their match on March 23rd. MEXICAN HERRERA i PUTS CLIFFORD OUT Good Nine-Eound 'Fight Witnessed by Tour Thotuand People; Bet-ting Bet-ting Was Light. BUTTE, Mont, March 17. Jack Clifford, Clif-ford, tha clever little lad who . won so many friends by his ting work In Salt Lake, received his conge In the ninth round of his go with Aurelio Herrera, the Mexican, before the Broadway Athletic Ath-letic club last night. It was a good fight and the Salt Lake boy gave the Mexican Mexi-can several things to ponder upon during dur-ing the night. : " Candor, however, compels the statement state-ment that Herrera was not hurt very much In the fight.- It war the same proposition, as the go. the Mefdcan, had with Tommy Jacobs in Sail; Lake, except ex-cept that Herrera's chance was longer in coming. The same old crouch and the same defense, almost impenetrable, and; presently the other person sank to rest, . ' . . One fact borne home to Herrera early in the fight was that he could not knock Jack Clifford "out with the right punch' that made Tommy Jacobs a piece of history. Time and again Herrera Her-rera shot that right at Clifford a body and aa often Clifford Jumped away from It or blocked It. After the sixth round. Herrera reversed his tactics and began working his left for the head and tthls finally resulted in glvii Wm hU V-nlng. Just after the ninth round oiJertfd. Herrera began rushing and 4. He sent three hard, straight UVts in quick succession to Clifford a jaw and the pair rioted across the ring diagonally to the .opposite corner. Here Herrera opened Clifford's guard with another straight left to the Jaw and like a flash qutckry crossed hia right to the other Jaw. Clifford doubled dou-bled In the middle and sank. The Mexican retreated a few . paces and watched. . Slowly and painfully Clifford dragged himself to his feet and tottered across the ring. Herrera followed and with the utmost deliberation hit the beaten man with a light awing to the Jaw delivered de-livered from behind and over Clifford's xhoulder. Not that it mattered where it came from, because Clifford was helpless. This settled it conclusively and unmistakably, un-mistakably, and Jack Clifford is a long way from being champion of the North- The Broadway theater. . where the contest was held, was filled by nearly 4000 people. But little ringside betting waa observed, "the few bets made showing show-ing Herrera to be a alight favorite. Bomething like S to 4. although a little money went up at even odds. . It Is an even proposition that Salt Lake will have a chance' to refuse a match between be-tween Herrera and Britt. A challenge for the winner of tonight's fight waa read at the ringside. As Britt haa in-dlcated in-dlcated a preference for Salt Lake and a objection to Butte or Portland, it la likely "that the go will be offered to cwit Lake. Toby Irwin also sent a challenge. It Is likely that the winner ; of the Herrerar Britt go would have a chance at the winner of the McGovern-Corbett McGovern-Corbett flSht and the championship. Th rounds of the fight last night were pretty much alike. Clifford did all Vhe hitting in the early part of it, vShile Herrera. a one-round fighter, iuVt covered up and endured the rain of blows Clifford conferred on him. Clifford belabored the Mexican on the head, face, arms, neck, ribs and kidneys, kid-neys, hltttns him in these places almost at will with lutle or u0 return buV |