Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-11-20 | Page 4 | Jack Dempsey Proves Real Feature of Weekly Fistic Program

SALT ALl LAM 20 S JACK DEMPSEY PROVES PROVES REAL i L FEATURE REI OF OF mW WEEKLY y ti ELTON DRAW IN 10 ROUND BOUT Mason Given Unpopular Verdict in Best Bout of Poor Card B By Gail Gait Smith It Is certainly a good thing R. R Verne McCullough hid had the roof root of ot othis his arena firmly fixed to the rafters Monday londa evening when the king of ot modern Jack Jack Dempsey Dempsey- crawled through the ropes to act as third man in the round theten ten round scrap between Adrian Elton local b battler and Dave of Denver which ended a draw It has been a long time well time well say since Jack Dempsey was vas here last that last that a b. reception has been ac accorded accorded accorded ac- ac corded anyone as was vas handed the famous Utah mauler last night The walls of the 0 arena fairly shook when Demps Dempsey y arose from his ringside seat and walked up to I greet the handful of ot arena fans and the tho hundreds o of ot radio radl listeners rs who had tuned in to hear ear the ex ex cham chamIon cham- cham pion Ion give a short Speech J DempSey Dempsey Dempsey Demp Demp- sey consented to referee the tIle final fight much to the approval of ot the fans tans who were still hissing McCullough McCullough Mc Mc- Cullough for his decision in the Paul laul Hardy Bobby Mason six round contest st the the on pro pro- gram All in all Dempsey was the whole show for the headline bout which ho he refereed like the rest of the card wasn't much BEST ON CARD The Mason Hardy-Mason battle Was easily the best bout on the program Mason rason was given the decision when one judge and McCullough put their heads together and left leU the other Judge to his own way of ot thinking The other Judge certainly figured j I Hardy who is one of the gamest battlers in the local ring today earned a draw by his his' spectacular comeback after being floored in the second round with one of Masons Mason's wild swings Hardy made Bobb Bobby who really knows nothing but slugging look mighty f foolish for forthe forthe forthe the majority of ot the fight by his clever footwork tn Lu keeping Mason from getting set Everyone knows or at least found out last night that Mason cannot do a thing against a fairly smart battler battier because he has hasto hasto hasto to aim and have plenty of time timeto to do it before he opens fire on his opponent Mason was almost as lost against Hardy as he was against gal 1st the clever Babe Picato a short time S ago FIRST ROUND WAS EVEN The first round of the bo bout t was vas as even with neither doing anything sensational Mason missed several hard swings after Hardy had done the leading on each little n In the second round Mason piled d up quite an advantage when ho sent Hardy to the floor with a hard right I to the chin for the count of ot three Hardy survived the round and had Mason Iason missing frequently Hardy partially evened the fight in the third round terrific body punches that slowed Mason up up several seVeral several sev sev- eral notches Mason tried t to lead but was beaten to the punch on each occasion The fourth round was the slowest one of ot the six Hardy had a 11 slight side due to his hefty punches to Masons Mason's heart In the fifth and nd sixth rounds Hardy had enough edge to even up the fight He had Masons Mason's race face in a bad wa wayA way I A bad cut on Masons Mason's eye g gave ve him I trouble There Is little to lo be said about the tIle main bout other than that Elton and fought their third close bout This fight did not have any more action than the previous encounters between these two fight fight- ers era It seems that Elton knows knows' how to fight and that the Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver battler knows just how to handie handIe handle han I dIe dle a southpaw Practically every round but the third and eighth was even Elton took the shade In the third and in the eighth 1 j I I IVILLA I I VILLA PROVES REGULAR FLOP It If Frisco Villa Is the middleweight champion of New Tow Mexico as he claims then most any local fighter could go down there and show the natives just how it is done Villa i iwas was a flop as a fighter but was very good at swaying back and forth with his head and stomach protected Billy BUly Snide was awarded the round four-round contest due to his blows to Villas Villa's shoulders and el el- el bows Villa struck two blows durIng during dur dur- ing lug the light fight and only landed one of ot these Jimmy Davis got mad at McCullough McCullough Mc Mc- Cullough when the latter refused to let him take taice a count in the third round so he got up and walked out of the ring Juddy LaSalle was awarded the bout but D Davis really had the edge until the time he tried I to quit This This' make one more fighter the fans will not see at the arena again Joe Frisby landed one to Harry Taylors Taylor's wind for a knockout knockout knockout knock knock- out in the first round of the curtain- curtain raiser