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Show MITCHELL IS GIB MDJUMRTS Milwaukee Boy Outfights Joe Welling in Ten Red-hot Red-hot Rounds. By International News Service. RACINE, Wis., Dec. 18. Fighting from the tap of the gong, Richie Mitchell, the Milwaukee idol, outbattled Joe Welling of Chicago here tonight in the fastest ten rounds staged in this state since the1 Redding boxing bill was passed. Twice in the first round Mitchell brought the crowd to its feet by flooring his opponent with two well-directed rights to the chin. The Chicago lad refused to take the count and succeeded in slipping over a right to the jaw toward the close of the first session tliat upset Mitchell. It was ten blistering, blinding three-minute three-minute sessions, and the boys were going at top speed when the bell sounded at the cdose of the tenth round. |