Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — SMITH KNOCKS OUT PELKEY AT FRISCO [ARTICLE]

SMITH KNOCKS OUT PELKEY AT FRISCO

Canadian Takes Count When Gunboat Lands. WOLGAST GO IS STOPPED Referee Gives Cadillac Boy Credit for Knockotit When Redmond Is Seen to Be Helpless—Results of Other Battles. San Francisco Jan. 2. —There were no knockdowns in the Gunboat StnithArthur Pelkey fight until the fifteenth round, and then two in succession brought victory to Smith. The round was still young when Smith, after breaking from a clinch, let fly a full sweep right for Pelkey’s jaw. It was a blow that Pelkey had avoided probably half a hundred times by ducking or allowing his head to roll in the preceding, rounds. But this time the Gunner reached the mark squarely and the Canadian sprawled under the ropes at the ring edge. He tried to gather himself together and directly he arose he lurched toward Smith, intent onclinching.

Smith dealt him a downward chop with the right on the bafck of the head and Pelkey measured his length on the floor for a second time. Game to the last, Arthur tried to run a race with the timekeeper, but was not properly on his legs before the fatal word “but” sounded. Fully 8,000 fans gathered within the inclosure before time was called for the first preliminary. The fighters met in the dressing room at 2 o’clock and shook hands cordially. They eyed each other closely, Pelkey towering above his smaller opponent. Pelkey announced his weight at 205 pounds and Smith said he weighed 180 pounds. Ad Wolgast Wins. Milwaukee, Jan. 2.—Ad Wolgast had a runaway match with Jack Redmond, his old enbtny, and got a complete revenge for past suffering at Jack’s hands by beating him so severely that the referee ftopepd the fight in the middle of the 'fifth round and gave the Cadillac boy the credit for a knockout. Redmond broke Ad’s hand some years ago in Milwaukee and started the series of misfortunes which included Ad’s appendicitis. The fifth round finished the agony. Wolgast continued to rain blows upon Redmond’s almost helpless body, and Referee Stout stopped the bout. Cross Halts Anderson. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 2.—Leach Cross, the Broadway dentist, has redeemed himself on the coast. With his terriflic right he laid Bud Anderson, the Oregon boy, low in the seventh of what was to have been a 20round go here. Welsh Given Shade Over Dundee. New Orleans, Jan. 2. —Ring generalship and ability brought to Freddie Welsh, champion lightweigh of Great Britain, a margin of honors in his ten-round contest with Johnnie Dundee of New York at Pelican park. It was in the tenth round ,that Welsh won the unanimous newspaper vote. Mandot Loses to Fisher.

Cincinnati, Jan. 2.—Fighting as if the combined spirits of the late lamented Wild Bill Hanrahan and Stanley Ketchel had been bequeathed to him and were animating his 133 pounds of steel springs, Earl Fisher of Dayton, 0., shaded Joe Mandot of New Orleans before an insanely cheering crowd of fight fans. Six of the ten rounds were Fisher’s. Flynn Bests O’Connell. La Salle, 111., Jan. 2. —Maurice Flynn of Los Angeles outpointed Jeff O’Connell of La Salle in a ten-round go before the U. N. A. club. f Maha Knocks Out Hicks. New York, Jan. 2.—80 b Maha of Milwaukee knocked out Freddie Hicks of Detroit in the fifth round of their scheduled ten-round bout before the Irving A. C. in Brooklyn. Brewer Draws With Ferns. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 2. —Harry Brewer of Kansas City won a draw with Clarence “Wildcat” Ferns, also of this city, in a ten-round engagement. Doherty and Hughets Draw. Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 2. —Tommy Doherty of Denver and Billy Hughes of Sault Ste. Marie fought six founds to a draw before a large crowd at the Olympic A. C. McCue Shades Bresnahan. Racine, Wis., ( Jan. 2. —Battling fiercely, Matty McCue could do no better than gain a very slight shade over Tommy Bresnahan, the stalwart Pittsburgher. Up to the tenth round It was a pretty even argument, but the tenth found Tommy rushing into successive clinches to stay until the bell. McGoorty Stops Smith. Sydney, Australia, Jan. 2.—Eddie McGoorty, the Oshkosh (Wis.) middleweight, knocked out Dave Smith in the first round of their scheduled 20-round bout here. McGoorty floored Smith three times in the first 90 seconds, Smith taking the full count after the third knockdown. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2 —Jack Dillon of Indianapolis decisively defeated Gus Christie in a ten-round bout here. Dillon was the aggressor all the way and had the better of every round except the sixth, in which Christie went after Dillon in lively fashion and earned the shade.