“Terrible” 特里在慈善醫院去世
On February 22, 1918, 前世界輕量級和輕量級拳擊冠軍“可怕”特里·麥戈文（Terry McGovern）在紐約市的金斯縣醫院去世. 麥戈文（McGovern）在幾天前檢查了麥戈文（McGovern）認為是嚴重的上呼吸道感染.
然而, 醫生診斷出肺炎. 麥戈文（McGovern. 麥戈文從未康復. His mother and wife saw McGovern only a few hours before he died. McGovern was only 37 years old and left a wife and 19-year-old son, Joe.
“Terrible” Terry McGovern in His Boxing Prime
McGovern burst onto the boxing scene in the late 1890s with his unusual punching power for a small fighter. McGovern never weighed more than 128 pounds in his boxing career but knocked out 45 of his opponents on McGovern’s way to 65 victories.
McGovern won his first world title, World Bantamweight Boxing Championship, from Pedlar Palmer on September 12, 1899. McGovern added the World Featherweight Boxing Championship, when McGovern defeated George Dixon on January 9, 1900.
七月 16, 1900, McGovern fought World Lightweight Boxing Champion Frank Erne in a non-title match in Madison Square Garden. The men fought at 128 英鎊. McGovern knocked Erne out in the third round.
McGovern carried out all these victories by the time McGovern was 20 歲. McGovern looked like an unbeatable machine. 然而, Young Corbett knocked McGovern out at the end of 1901. Lighter fighters tend to have shorter careers which end in their 20s.
McGovern fought for five more years but McGovern never won another world title. McGovern divided his time between professional boxing and vaudeville. Newspapers claimed McGovern earned over $200,000 during his career.
McGovern suffered a nervous breakdown in the 1910s, which may have contributed to McGovern’s early death. McGovern would be mentally healthy for a while. McGovern would suffer a setback and need to return to the hospital.
McGovern spent most of his money. If not for his former manager, Sam Harris, McGovern would have died penniless.
Harris started producing Broadway plays after boxing. Harris managed McGovern’s remaining money. Harris gave McGovern’s widow a check for $10,000, the rest of McGovern’s fortune.
Harris also paid for the funeral to preserve McGovern’s remaining money for McGovern’s widow. An early death for a great champion.
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Sources: 紐約論壇報 (紐約, 紐約) 二月 23, 1918, P. 12
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