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Show WINS nGHTWITH 01 HAND BROKEN LBATJVTLLB. Colo.. Aug. Jl. Howard Baker of Boulder, fighting with a broken hand after the eecond round, defeated Denver Johnny O Keefe In .fourteen rounds of the herdeet kind of milling here laat night. O Keefe fought a game , flaht end received a bed beating. The finish came In one minute of flght-i flght-i Ing In the fourteenth, with a tight to the solar plexus. The bore were even until i the fourth, when Beker ruehed out of his corner and hit O'Keefe on the Jaw with a right awing. O'Keefe fell to the floor for the count of nine end roee to hie feet with Baker after him trying to get In the flniahlng blow. Johnny managed U clinch and etay the round out. In tha ninth round Beker had tha Denver Den-ver boy in a bid way. dropping him with i a right to the Jew. O'Keefe again took the count of nine. Baker rushed again, crowding tha Denver lad all over the ring i trying to put In the knockout blow, but O'Keefe cllnohed end stayed the round. O'Keefe went down twice In the twelfth from hard bloive to the stomach. In the thirteenth Baker put O'Keefe down three tlmea for the count of nine. In the fourteenth four-teenth Baker atarted out to finish hla man and let go a hard right to the Jaw, aendlng O'Keefe to the floor for the count. O'Keefe raised to hla feet and dropped again to the floor, when Baker landed a terrific right to the solar plexue. Johnny gamely roee to hla feet again tha third time, end Baker landed la the earns spot with another stellar blew and put him down. O'Keefe waa hopelessly beaten beat-en and Referee Charlea Burne etepped between the boys before a. knockout and declared Baker the winner. . Toung Cody of Omaha and the Battling Dane of Denver fought the semi-final, iroina six tame rounds to a draw. O'Keefe declared after tha fight that ka waa through and would retire. |