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Monday 26 November 1917
Olympia A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Joe Lynch W-PTS6 Eddie O'Keefe
Lynch stopped O'Keefe in the 4th round.
Source - next day Philadelphia Evening Ledger
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Friday 21 December 1917
Rhode Island A.C., Thornton, Rhode Island, USA
Joe Lynch L-PTS12 Memphis Pal Moore
The result was 12-round victory for Lynch, not a loss. The report that was quoted at the wiki entry for that bout says "Joe Lynch of New York was given the decision over Pal Moore of Memphis in twelve rounds at the Rhode Island A. C.", but somehow it ended up wrong on the record itself.
Next-day Pawtucket (RI) Evening Times had a full report of the bout, which said: "By a hairline decision after 12 swirling rounds Joe Lynch defeated Pal Moore of Memphis, Tenn., at Thornton last night. ... With the clang of the gong at the end of the 12th round Referee Fitzgerald promptly pointed to Lynch's corner. ... Moore stripped at 116 pounds with his taller rival only a pound heavier..."
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Tuesday 2 April 1918
Armory A.C., Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
Joe Lynch W-KO3 George Kirkwood
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Wednesday 3 April 1918
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Joe Lynch W-KO3 Leo Underwood
Scranton Republican had a staff correspondent reporting the bout from Carbondale, and also had a couple of further write-ups on the subject. The bout on April 3 had never taken place, is a misquoted result of previous day Carbondale bout. The identity of George Kirkwood at the Carbondale bout was doubted.
1918-04-04 The Scranton Republican (Scranton, PA) (page 12)
That Funny Telegram.
The following telegram was forwarded the New York Evening World regarding the Carbondale wind-up:
"Scranton, Pa., April 3.--Joe Lynch knocked out Leo Underwood in the third round here last night. The bout was scheduled for ten rounds. The New York boy outclassed the local lad from the start."
Just who flashed this bit of telegraphy to the Gotham newspaper no one seems to know. However, it's both interesting and amusing. To begin with Scranton was not the scene of the show. And then we understand George Kirkwood, of St. Louis, was advertised as Lynch's opponent instead of Leo Underwood, said to be a local boy, but who is unknown as far as the coal fields are concerned.
There were stories told after the bout that Kirkwood didn't fight Lynch, but these could not be confirmed and as far as can be learned Kirkwood did appear. Tom Sullivan, of the Carbondale Leader, said last night that he is positive Lynch fought Kirkwood. Other Carbondale fans entertain the same views. Yet quite a few of them are wondering who sent the message referred to. No local newspaperman filed it. Wonder if Lynch's manager could enlighten the populace regarding it?
1918-04-12 The Scranton Republican (Scranton, PA) (page 12)
BOXING GAME THREATENED BY CLUBS STAGING BUNCO PROGRAMS
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Boxing Fakirs Are Active; Fans Being Double Crossed
The recent bunco game pulled off on the boxing fans in Carbondale and the misrepresentation enacted on local followers of the sport at Providence Wednesday night, bespeak the need of some kind of local or state regulation of the boxing sport.
In each instance the people paid their money to see phoney programs. In Carbondale an unknown was put on as George Kirkwood, of St. Louis, against a clever boy like Joe Lynch, only to be knocked out in three rounds. In Providence a carpenter said to be from Hazleton, and posing as the real Johnny Krause, of Philadelphia, was put on against Willie Ritchie, of Olyphant, and after a round and a half of fighting staged the nicest job of quitting fans have viewed in some time.
No attempt was made at Carbondale to let the fans know the real Kirkwood did not appear. Instead, the promoters had the unknown announced as Kirkwood, took the fans' money with such a misrepresentation clear in their minds, and let it go at that. At Providence virtually the same conditions prevailed, the club permitting it to be announced that Johnny Krause, of Philadelphia, was appearing against Ritchie, when it was common talk in the Auditorium that the fighter was another fellow who knew nothing at all of the boxing game, and who wasn't good enough to serve as a second for the real Philadelphia Johnny Krause.
Tricks of this kind are going to do the boxing game all kinds of harm. They tend to cause fans to gain a distrust for the sport and once that conditions begins to prevail attendance at even regular boxing shows will fall off. It is necessary, therefore, that something should be done to curb the faking and fooling element. They should be driven from the game altogether. Proper local regulations should help put a stop to them, and if a real boxing commission bill is passed and signed by the governor and a real commission appointed conditions should also be improved.
Let us have no more of the misrepresentation stuff. It is not fair to the fans who pay their money to see advertised programs, or to the promoters who make good their promises and who have been striving for years to build up the fistic game.
Statement by Lewis.
In Carbondale yesterday a promoter announced as Phil Lewis was quoted as having said the boy who fought Joe Lynch in Carbondale recently was the real George Kirkwood. He claims he can produce proof to this effect. On the other hand, we have learned from sources heretofore found perfectly reliable that Lynch's opponent was not Kirkwood.
Another strange thing about this Lynch-Kirkwood affair is that some mysterious individual sent a telegram to a New York newspaper announcing that Joe Lynch knocked out "Leo Underwood, a local boy."
Possibly Lewis can let fight fans know who sent off this mysterious telegram. No Scranton newspaperman filed it because it was not until the day after the bout that the report gained circulation here that the fighter who lost to Lynch was not Kirkwood.