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WILL YOUNG CORBETT S DEATHKILL BOXING GAME IN PUEBLO?All Precautions Are Taken By Steel Club OfficialsBoxing As Sport Has Least NumberCasualtiesBy WHITNEY GRANT.Whether the misfortune attendingtho fourth btcel Works club fightcard this month, in which the unfortunate death of one of the boxers occurred; sounds the doom to the boxing game at this club has been one of tho foremost questions among the fans. Physical Director Jones ot tho Steel Works club, when asked whethor the club would stage any boxing bouts in the future, declared that ho was not certain of the future policy of the club, and was -in dined to believe that the fistic program for the season, ended with this month's fight card.It is to be regretted that an in-« ident of this kind should have liap-peiidcd just at the time when the growth and popularity of the boxiau game hero in Pueblo was getting a firm hold on a clean foundation. Tin ever increasing attendance at tin Steel Works' club was character! ti- . in that it interested many sportsmen and fans to these fights principal^ because t.h* knew that tip game wa: handled on the square and that the participants in the different bouts w. re dealt with in a clean and honest manner.Instances in which boxers have met their death in tin fight ring can b* quoted to quite 1 number, but (jnt which will live In the memoirs ofthe fan for a long time. was Arthur l’elky’s knockout victory over l.uth- • McCarthy, at Calgary, Canada. It was a right hand sn ish over tip heart that won the high honors for jvjky and caused McCarthy's d» ith. I'elky knew that bis opponent bad a poor blood pump I’elky has pass'd away, but bis was- a natural death at his home in Michigan last month.Another case of more recent date. ! but with many elements characteristic of fighterfc' fatal endings, was Up bout b»'tween .Mickey Shannon t KaiipupI McMillan) and Al Roberts. Shannon passed to the great beyond ! bc- aiiso of over- \rrtmn coupled with a poor physical condition.Koxing like any of its many kinfolks in the no mo of sports, will claim 1 its number of casualties, but to fis-liana goes the “blackest eye” and a slower healing sore, tin which a longer period of time is necessary it is returned to the fans forbefore a newstart.
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Pueblo Chieftain
Pueblo, Colorado, US
Sun, Mar 06, 1921
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