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Show WILLIAMS PUIS OUT MPIIMLFTI1 Short but Stiff Solar Plexus Blow Lays San Francisco Boy Low. By M. H. WALKER. By international News Service. LOS ANGELES?. Jan. 01. Johnny Williums, tlio ' "wotr boy" ot the. ring:, hcored a olean knockout win over JEddlo Campl In the twelfth of a scheduled twcnty.rouiul battle before tlio Pacific Athletic club at Vernon this afternoon. Practlcallv tlio name punch that, humbled hum-bled Jim Corlictt at Carson City dropped tho Kan Francisco bantam to the boards. A left to the solar plexus stopped Campl and sent Williams from tho ring tha top-notch top-notch 116-pound boxer of the world. "Williams had forced Campl to tho norlhwc3t corner of tho ring. The Balti more boy's rteht stabbed toward trie Jaw. Campl's guard moved upward and quickly Johnny swung his left arm with a rapplns motion from his hip. The blow traveled Icsh than flftc-en Inches. Tho loft kIovo settled against. Campl's stomach and the little fellow dropped a3 though touched by a live wire. Quickly Recovers. Flat on his back, Willi not bo much as the twitch of an arm or les muscle. Campl lay, and H'cfcrcn CharlcH F. Ey-ton Ey-ton did not go through the formality of counting, merolv motioning to wll-IJiima wll-IJiima us tho winner Campl was carried car-ried to his corner and In a rnlnuto or uo was able to leavo tlio ring. Imagine a bullermaker trying to drive a rjvet with a tack hammer and you have- a picture of Campl trying to whip Williams with jabs. ;japs and Ught-pownr Ught-pownr swings?. For tlvo rounds Campl outpointed Williams. Wil-liams. Then little Johnny began to warm up to his work. His best punch, a., hard right to the body, landed often nnd It was wiUi thlK waist wallop Uiat lie, stcadUs' beat Campl down until It was' but a matter of mlnutca until Eddie would give up or bo sent to the floor. In Williams'. Favor. From and Including tho sixth round thVj battle wan all In Williams's favor. Ah early us the eighth Johnny had hla man on th run. In tho ninth. Williams Wil-liams beat Campl hcj-osh tho ropes and landed a rain or lefts and rights, when the bet! savod Eddlo. Campl was badly beaten In the tenth and eleventh. But for tho solar plexus punch tho up state boxer might have lasted ono or two rounds. longer, but ho had no chance to win. He Ik outclassed from heel to head by tho good Baltimore, boy. |