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JOCK MALONE - THE FIGHTER WHO KEPT HIS PROMISE IN BOSTON PART 2 - GO JUMP IN THE RIVER By George D. Blair
Jock Malone is probably best remembered for an incident that took place in Boston in 1924. Malone was booked to fight Welshman Frank Moody on June 15. Malone was a colorful showman as well as a confident fighter, and told the Boston press that if he didn't beat this Moody, he would jump into the Charles River. The statement made good copy and was duly reported to Boston's boxing fans.
A large crowd turned out to see Moody get a ten-round decision over Malone. The next day the disappointed Malone left for St. Paul, without jumping into the river as he had promised he'd do if he lost. On July 29 Malone returned to Boston to meet former middleweight champion Johnny Wilson. Malone predicted victory when he arrived in Boston, but the newspapermen hadn't forgotten Malone's promised bridge jump after the Moody fight and asked, in print, if Malone would jump if he lost to Wilson.
Wilson knocked out Malone in the sixth round that night, only one of three times Malone failed to last the limit. Everyone wondered if Malone would jump this time. Malone would talk to no one, and the papers the next morning got him about jumping. Boston's boxing writers received a message from Malone the next day that he would be at the Charleston Bridge over the Charles River at noon. No one knew if Malone was serious, or if he was just joking.
A few minutes past noon the reporters were there, when Jock Malone, attired in summer dress, including straw hat, walked out on the bridge, climbed the railing and jumped feet first sixty-eight feet into the waters below. When he came up, Jock swam to the shore, came back up to the center of the bridge, and for the second time jumped into the water. When he got to the shore this time the press was there to meet him.
Malone said he wanted to dive head first but that he had a cut over his eye and was told if he went in head first the cut might rip wide open, and since he had a bout scheduled for a few weeks later he decided not to chance it. The fight he spoke of was a ten-round no-decision against Frank Moody in Detroit. Malone got the newspaper decision over Moody. Malone concluded to the newsmen that they could inform their readers that Jock Malone was a man of his word, that twice he lost, and twice he had jumped into their river.
Malone had his last fight, fittingly on March 17, 1930 in St. Paul, when he battled ten rounds to a no-decision against future champion William "Gorilla" Jones. Upon his retirement Malone went to work for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. After retiring from Ford, Malone moved to Brooklyn, where he lived with his mother and sister.
On July 4, 1964, Malone passed away in Brooklyn. Upon his death St. Paul had lost another member of its illustrious and gifted array of world famous boxers.
