Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — M’GOVERN LOSES THE FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

M’GOVERN LOSES THE FIGHT.

“Tout* Corb.ti D.IMU Champloa •(' Mt« FMtbtr WrifkU. Hartford, Conn., dispatch: Honors were won and lost with great rapidity when Terrence McGovern passed the feather-weight championship of the world to William Rothwell of Denver, who is better known as “Young” Cqrbett. The battle lasted a short two rounds, but into the four minutes and forty-four seconds that the men actually faced each other there was crowded more fighting than is often seen in a contest that goes the full limit of twenty rounds. From the moment the gong sounded calling the two pugilists together for the first time until the final blow was struck, with the exception of one minute for rest, it was give and take. F i rom one side of the ring to the other the maddened fighters forced each other. A clinch on the ropes would be followed by a sharp exchange of blows in the center of the arena. Again two lithe forms would flit in and out, gloved fists moving with a rapidity that it was difficult for eye to follow.