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Show Matty Baldwin and Johnny McCarthy Fight Twenty Rounds at Salt Palace If you bad been actio oa a committee for beneit rwogrem ud bad irnnH a good card, aaly t e aa f th priacipala ant to bed with an attack of rheumatism, aad bad gottaa another nam hurriedly la kia place, th knockers in the meantime saying you wera buncoing tb public; . If you bad settled down after tbi blow and thought all waa eaay nailing; and then bad ba inform S few houra before the match that two wrestlers, who' bad volunteered their service, bad decided they didnt want to go on, and you had kirmithed about and cot two unprepared boxofs to take their place; And after these and numerous other troubles bad kept too. awake at nights, while yon got aothiag eat of it bnt did your work willingly to help a woman and children in distress, and thea your emergency fighter pot np a abow that the Drat man could hardly have been expected to do, aad the fans all said it waa "great" aad yoor unprepared bez-era bez-era delighted the crowd much more than the wrestlers would have dona, I say, wouldn't it make you glad I ' ' Well, take a look today at Hardy Downing, Harry Heagrea and A. J. Charon, "our efficient pressroom superintendent." superin-tendent." and you will see that nmilee have smoothed ever the erease of worry and they feel well repaid for their trouble in knowing that they can soon turn over to Mrs. Johnston, widow ef Sergeant Henry Jobaatoa, who waa atur- lerrd hv Elmer Dewev. about el 500. The mortgage on the Johnston home amounts ta about il200, so it will be cleared and a world of worry will be removed from ihe mind of aa invalid woman. I Undoubtedly a larger crowd weald have gone to the Bait Palace last night for the benefit prize fight had not Johnny Fravne suddenly been attacked bv rheumatism, neeeaaitating his going to bed. Krsrne had trained faithfully at the sanitarium and the fellows whe follow the boxing game had become vitally interested ia watching bis work- outs. o when it waa annouaced that be could not fight Matty Baldwia many lost intereat in the affair. You all heard murmurings of the discontent when the papera told the public that Johnny McCarthy of San Francisco would arrive here at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and fight that night against a boy who had been ia this altitude over two weeke training. Those who had bought tickets kept thMn, bnt the remarks heard ak the crowd went into the arena showed that a onesided and ridiculous eontost was expected br many; And this same hallucination hal-lucination kept many other away en tirely. Always Sorry When'g Too Lata. Well, they are kicking themaelveee today, to-day, for it ia certain that Johnny Fravne could net have made the bout more exciting, and S to 1 it would not have been nearly so good with him in as it waa . with McCarthy opposing Baldwin. Besides twenty rounds of ripping, slashing fighting ia the main event, there was a thrilling ten-round prelimi-"nary prelimi-"nary and a pretty four round exhibition. exhibi-tion. Referee Tom Painter of Evanstoa, Wyo., called the main event a draw, and the fans about the ringside vocally demonstrated their approval, especially thoee who had a few dollars bet oa McCarthy. The .crowd's svmpathiee were nstnrally with the Pacific coast bov. He had accepted the offer on the spur of the moment, had to ride thirty hours oa a train and climb 4200 feet in altitude and fight a boy conditioned and acclimated. It waa a gam thing to do, considering consider-ing Baldwin ' record. And then McCarthy Mc-Carthy is one of those slashers with a wicked wallop ia either hand aad liable at any etage of the bout to land aa anesthetic. Missed Chase at Knockout. He is of the type that stirs the blood and brings cheers by slowing np the other fellow with a wicked punch just ss the latter looks like a sura winner. And taking all these things into consideration consid-eration and alao the fact that he was more aggreasive in the later rounds than in the early part 'of the battle, would almost justify a draw decision. But calmly and Impartially summing up the fight, giving a maa credit for science, skill and agility as well as for natural punching power, Baldwin had a big shade the better of the affair. Be landed at leant four time as many clean blow a did McCarthy. And there would have been no need for a referee' ruling bad the Boston boy not been too snxiou. The big opportunity earn la the fourteenth round. A the round opened Baldwin sent hi left twice to the face, and McCarthy McCar-thy countered with a right to the body. Matty landed on the sore nose herd with a left and staggered the coast boy. They both miesed with terrific nppereuta. Matty thea aea over a hard right to the iaw and followed with two (tinging blow to th face, a right eboppy overhand blew aad a left wing. McCarthy wa dased aad fell agaiaat tb rope in prim eaaditioa to be finished. Badwia fairly jumped into the air a he sent ap a left that carried disaster ia it had it landed. But Baldwin wai so anxiou to finish hi maa he didat judge cists a re and be fell himself agaiaat the ropea, loia( biaibian. , , . McCarthy Bleeds Pint. Before be could set himself, McCarthy McCar-thy was jvettiag back hie strength and rocked Baldwin' head with a vicious right to th jaw, repeating th blow a second later. At the. bell ihey war ia mid riag awiagiag wildly. Baldwin eootiauelly awed hi left jab to th face with good effect, frequently frequent-ly landing three or four times ia rapid succession oa the bleeding proboscis. McCarthv invariably coua tared with a right over the heart. In the first ronnd Baldwin draw blood from tha nose and had aa advantage. ad-vantage. They mixed it pretty well in the aeeond session and sonars were about even. The third was aaaily McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's ronnd. At th hell h landed a hard left to the face. Th Boston boy wa clever in ducking nader bay-maker bay-maker rights. McCarthy kept work i agon ag-on th short rib aad seat la a eraabing I left to th stomach that slowed aa hi opponent immediately. It wa th 'Frisco fighter's round. Tht fifth was a fast on. Baldwin sent in left to tomach and left to ear and Mac countered coun-tered with right ta head aad right to rib. ' Baldwia' Month Battetwt. Matty got bom with a hard left ta stomach tnd followed with left to the head. McCarthy smashed his man ia the stomach with a wicked left, and as Baldwin jabbed to the noae with a left thev clinched, working oa each ether's kidney. Mae shook th bean eater V head when be fouad the mouth with a right. Baldwia' month wa bleeding as the gong ended the even round. McCarthy jabbed with th reft ta the face twice as tha sixth opened, aad aa they clinched he need the loop th loop with hia right oa Matty1 body. He waa short with a right apparent that had a cure for Ineosnnia in it. . H fonnd th face with left swing, bear-ever, bear-ever, and shot a right to th heart. Baldwin spit blood aa thev clinched and missed with a hard right aa they broke. Mac blocked a left jab aad nppereut with right ta bead, thea abet left twice to swollen mouth, and a second sec-ond later feinted with left aad found the face with bard right It wa McCarthy Mc-Carthy rouad. Baldwia like Whirlwind. Baldwin started in like a hurricane In the seventh. He led with left to the race and they clinched. Then a they broke Baldwin put two rights to tha rlba and two hard rights to tha head, then a right to the body and a left to the bleed. Ing noes, McCarthy fell on the ropea, slipping. He waa bleeding profueely. Baldwin rushed him to the ropea a few seconds later and than they fought back to mldrlng, exchanftng wild swine. It waa Baldwin's round by a big maraia. Baldwin had an advantage also In the eighth, but waa booted when he pinned McCarthy to the ropes holding them him. eelf. He frequently two-timed tha westerner west-erner to the head. They rushed to a clinch In the ninth, but as thsr broke BaMwt landed with left to noae aad followed fol-lowed with right la body and left to noee and waa punished when McCarthy aeat hard left to chin and vldoua right to law. The coast flsrhtsr seemed vary weak after a eueoeaslon of tabs, but rallied aad wae mining It at tha bell. Soma sUnguag blows evened things up. In tha tenth Baldwin clearly woa a lead. He put right over to the ear, left to face twice, right aad left to fare, then left te body and left ta race, working It Ilka a trip hammer. He landed on the ear with a right and Me got home with left to fare. They both missed Aaroe upporcuta. It wa til Baldwin's rouad- , Kow4 Baldwin oro. McCarthy slewed Baldwin a little In the eleventh with a punishing right ta ribs and bead, but tha latter landed blow after blow and won the advantage in the round. They mixed ft In the twelfth and Baldwin Bald-win a right eye seemed bruteee The round waa even. On the theory that constant dripping wear the atone away Baldwin peppered Mc'a feca all through the thirteenth, thir-teenth, shooting the left five time fa rapid Sucre salon to the nor nose and forcing the bead heck. It area Baldwia' round by a good margin, and Me hewed that he wed weakening. Matty would have won la the next round had ha kept a little cooler and been deiiberat when hi man waa In such distress. Th Frisco boy came bark atroturer after a rest and a slugging round ended with honor even. McCarthy waa wild with hla hard swinga. while Baldwin frequently fre-quently landed clean and bad the advantage advan-tage In round sixteen. In the fiercest mid ring rally ef the fight McCarthy landed land-ed a terrlfl right uppercut to the face aa Baldwin waa slipping and th latter fell Into a Corner, but came up smiling. The seventeenth wa McCarthy' round. Bow atcmidg Stood. McCarthy wae short cm several haymakers hay-makers In the next round, but Baldwin landed a let ef clean blows and had his sua tired at the finish. There waa little to choose between them la the nineteenth. nine-teenth. They clinched rime after time la the twentieth and Baldwin ml seed with a left but landed two hard rthte to the ear aad Mo ruehed but missed with a awing. Baldwin aent left to the Jaw, then right and left to face and McCarthy put a left ta the body. Baldwin, put two on th rlbe and McCarthy landed with a rooking rook-ing right to the Jaw. Baldwia missed with left for the stomach. Baldwin had tha honors In nht rounds. Mofesthy In four, while they fought about evenly In eeven. But both were righting strong at the end and there It waa probably better to call It a draw than anything alee, conalderina all tax olraiw stance. - la Baldwin' corner Were amx McLeans, hie manager; Kid Hannon. Fred Waat and Pate Drobach. while McCarthy waa seconded sec-onded by Al White and Jack Parkins of San Francisco; Young Peter Jackson and Tommy Murphy. Good Preliminary. Jack Carpenter and "Kid" Irish furnished fur-nished all kinds ef fun in the ten-round preliminary, which Wlllard Bean called a draw. Irish butted continually. He waa In Una oendKlon. while Carpenter looked soft. The latter did the cleaa fighting, but Irish waa too strong and la tha tenth waa going after Jack In a dee-gemua dee-gemua fashion. Fred Crabbe and Arthur Marker offered of-fered to wrestle an exhibition, but at I o'clock yesterday atemoon Informed the committee that they eeuldn't go on. and In their alaoe Billy Anderson of it. Jo-eeph. Jo-eeph. Mo., and 'Kid" Davis of Salt Lake boxed four rounds. They contributed their service and gav a pretty show. Wlllard Bean made a vary- appropriate speech, thanking all whe bed helped la the benefit, and noted aa master of cera-monlee cera-monlee until the main event started, when he turned over the ring - te Meferee Painter. The entire affair rtae credit te those 'j handled it. r t |