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Show miB THE BECISI Madison Square Garden. Y Nov j 10. Willie Ritchie, lightweight chain i plan, tonight outpointed Leach Cross !of New York in ten rounds of the fier-: fier-: cest milling over seen In this city. Both men fought like wounded ti-, ti-, Kcrs from the tap of the gong and Ritchie won only through his showing : in the last (wo rounds of whirlwind battling, during which he landed some terrific punches against the face and I uouy oi L rcss. The tight was perhaps the bloodl-I bloodl-I est ever staged in New York, one in which both men wen? covered with blood from the wais: down from the tourth round on. and one so fast and furious that the crowd was on its feet yelling like madmen during every moment mo-ment of the fighting. The first aud seventh rounds were ! even. The second, fifth aud eighth went to Cross, while Ritchie won out in the third, fourth, sixth, ninth and tenth, but only by slight margins ex cept in the third, when he scored a clean knockdown, one for the count of nine and folio wed with another lor the count of three. In this third round Ritchie sent Cross to the mat and he had barely got to his feet when the champion drove him against the ropes and sent him to the mat again, accomplishing both tricks with .lefts to Cross' Jaw. Cros3 Knocked Down, To many it looked as though Cross in going to the mat was executing a bit of his famous stalling. The smashes Ritchie sent against bis rival's ri-val's Jaw looked like they were powerful pow-erful enough to fell an ox. Cross, however, showed wonderful recuperative recupera-tive powers after his second knockdown knock-down and rushed Ritchie with the fury of a madman. In the fifth. Cross raised a bunip on Ritchie's head and half closed one of his eyes, sending the blood gushing gush-ing from Ritchie's mouth and nose and backed him against the ropes re peatedlx, The Hast Side contingent implored Cross to land the blow that would I have brought the championship to New York, but Cross lacked the Morpheus Mor-pheus wallop. Both men began the final round is badlv battered up as auy man that ever swapped punches. Out each made t a game, desperate effort, 6wiuglng every ounce of their strength lntc play. For half the round it seemed an even affair, but Ritchie's endurance endur-ance powers won the round and the light for him. Had Cross been able to stem the Ritchie onslaught in the final ninety seconds of the tenth he would have earned a draw. Cross was first to enter the ring followed a few seconds later by Ritchie. Ritch-ie. The Cross supporters gave their idol a rousing welcome and then accorded ac-corded an equal ovation to Ritchie. The announced weights were At 9 p. m . Ritchie. 134 1-4. Cross. 134 1-2; riUgSiue WfiKiiis wen uiuuuuum . Ritchie, loT. Cross. 137. The crowd was something of a disappointment to the promoters. It was expected that the Gardeu would be filled to its capacity. The $1 gallery gal-lery seats and the $10 ringside boxes were jammed, but many of the intermediate in-termediate priced scats were vacant when the fight began. It looked like an $8000 crowd. In the first preliminary a six-round affair, Willie Doyle, weighing 1-0 pounds, outpointed Jimmy Taylor. 118. The second preliminary, also a. six-round slambang fracas went to, Johnny Rees. 1-4 pouniis. who slight-j ly shaded Joe Mooney. weighing 1-4 j pounds. In the semifinal. Walter Brooks, weighing 187, outfought Joo Stacey, IB6 pounds, in a fast and furious furi-ous ten-round bout. oo |