Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-03-24 | Page 8 | California Fighters Make Poor Showing at Legion's Show

CALIFORNIA nfl FIGHTERS MAKE POOR SHOWING AT LEGIONS LEGION'S I SHO I HUMPHREYS t I i 1 GIVEN BOUl OVER Hackle Fails to Stay 1 Single Round Again 1 A fair tall cr crowd wd attended the In fn ural fight card of at the Salt Salt- American l legion post No 2 a at Odeon Odeon- hall hail Friday night but had the pleasure of ot seeing thre tere bouts the other three thre eluding the headliner falling al au alfia fia flat j 1 i iRed Red fled Humphreys young teat feat weight who was brought here herell the Pacific coast upset the d when he took a six round d dover decover dec over Georgia Rivers also from fromi in the main event j bout was slow with neither showing anything to brag abo abc HACKLE 1 jj STAYS DOWN The bout between Jes Jess s ham of ot New York and former Salt bOx Perk Hackle just a light light-In weight of ot Salt Lake was a failure But it wasn't fault In the first round ol ot battle which was the semi up Hackle received a short hoc ho hoc the belt line look looked cd for a soft on the tle canvas can and kneeled do dow do decide which was the best ste st take next He stayed long erto ento er en enl to let the ref referee ree even eyen beat beat counting but walked wanted out of ot th the after Jes was given the fight During the fights the fans b 1 b band and hissed the referee but f l ing the Hackle ackle a athey 1 they broke all records Man Mai Howard C. C Brayton declared Hackle had fought his first ani and fight for him NO FIGHT I J AT ALL I IThe The fight between Maynard J Json son and Bennie Andrews was was wasy r no fI fight ht at all aU In the si se round Nielson who halls hails from na put Bennie on ice He 1 down from a a. blow to the midst and then thea claimed a a. fowl J It Jt billed for six rounds Andre another Pacific coast resident The best bout of ot the between n Pasty Robbins Robbing ot t Francisco and Tommy Rowe o of f Lake Ther They Ther fought a four i draw drav Rowe was Vas least eight or ten tere pounds He Hethe Hern Hea Heathe the San Francisco boy step kept him from becoming ver The fans were pi pIe with the outcome GIVEN TECHNICAL I a KNOCKOUT t. t H A technical knockout was was was' aed a awed aw ed to Harry Pollet over J Jc Jol l Chain In the second round 6 of round four-round preliminary Both Bothi fought until they could hardly their arms lip up Chain it se see did not care whether or not h the fight but just wanted ti to fo termine If It he could take th the then the face He could Mickey Riley knocked out J 1 In the second stanza tanza o ot of scheduled round four-round cui curt raiser The bout was was good as asas as it lasted Lieutenant Thomas E. E Mai l Mallof of ot Fort Douglas was referee Lisle Smith and Roy Cannon judges Musical l selections selections' rendered it rendered during 1