Moran Faces Manslaughter Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday, May 1, 1910
Efforts to Prevent the Big Mill
Small Bail in Fight Cases
Participants in Fatal bout Arrested and later Allowed Their Liberty
McCarthy’s Death Due to Fracture of Skull
Moran denies that the Battle was Frame-up for Round Betting
Agitation to Suppress Jeffries-Johnson Mill
Owen Moran, England’s champion feather weight, will, according to the statement of District Attorney Charles M. Fickert, stand trial for manslaughter as a result of the death of Tommy McCarthy, the 20-year-old San Francisco lad, who died at St Mary’s hospital early yesterday morning following his knockout in the sixteenth round of his bout with Moran in Dreamland rink Friday night.
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Bob Fitzsimmons has Last Laugh
SAINT PAUL ~ Thursday, MARCH 18, 1897
Corbett put out by the Auburn-Haired Pugilist in the Fourteenth Round
Lanky Fitz reigns over the domain of Queensberry in the stead of “Gentleman Jim”
Up to the fatal round Corbett had the best of the contest and had displayed superior generalship, but was rapidly growing tired.
Fitzsimmons took his punishment and improved in condition under it.
Mrs Fitzsimmons in a fury at the ringside, a dramatic feature of the contest
CARSON, NEV., March 17 — Under a clear sky and in a valley 5,000 feet above the sea, circled by snow-capped mountains, which glistened in the bright sunlight, making a picture such as was never seen before on a n occasion of the kind, James J. Corbett went down to defeat today before Robert Fitzsimmons, who became the champion heavyweight pugilist of the world.
The victory was not gained without a struggle; in fact, victory did not seem possible for Fitzsimmons until the last moment of the battle. He was giving every indication of slowly going to pieces when he deliver a blow n a vital part, and followed it with two others, which sent the Californian to the floor with the agony of pain and despair imprinted on his face, and he was unable to rise within the limit which would save him.
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