Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-01 | Page 11 | 'Laughing Boy' Goes out like a True Champ

ns TKOs E i r. r Lou Ambers in Seventh Round S S S y S S 4 5 S SS 5 5 S 5 5 S S S SI 5 S 5 5 5 95 4 S. S 1 5 5 S. S S S S S t 5 5 4 5 S 'S S 4 S 'S 1 5 5 S 5 S 5 5 t 4 5 S 5 V j 4 5 l. l 4 4 5 4 S S S S 2 z N v i M w M ow v. v V I ILou Lou Ambers goes down for keeps keep'S in ill the seventh round of his scheduled round 10 fight with Lew Jenkins Jenkin Friday night at Madison Square Garden Jenkins stands above Lou ready to put on the finisher but Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight giving Jenkins a T TKO K O 0 victory laughing Boy Goes Out Like a True Champ i NEW YORK March 1 AP They AP-They They wrote Lou Ambers' Ambers obituary today but it was a heros hero's song not a funeral march marchl l' l Because although he was stopped by the dynamite of Lew Jenkins in Madison Square Garden last night the Laughing Boy not only stood up to the Texas Thumper blow for blow but was actually leading the fight when the roof fell on him in the seventh round He wasn't supposed to last five rounds against one of the most dangerous punchers the little men i of the ring have ever known He was supposed to be all washed up and was advised not to take this fight tight for fear it might do him him some permanent hurt He wasn't supposed to do anything except try to keep out of harms harm's way Yet after a slow start he walked right into the bricks the skinny swatter from Sweetwater tossed from the third through the sixth round left-handed left him silly in that stretch and looked more like a champion than Jenkins did until did until the seventh Then after L Lou u had been floored three times and Referee Arthur Donovan had stopped the bout at of the seventh the little Herkimer Herkimer Herkimer Her- Her kimer Hurricane called it quits announcing his retirement as tears streaked his smile and the cheer cheers of the customers still rang in his ears ears all all for him Just to make i it stick his longtime longtime long long- time pal and manager Al said he would sign Laughing Louto Louto Lou Louto to a new year 10 contract just so no one can ever talk him into changing his mind and trying to come back S SAs As for Jenkins he was quite a abit abit abit bit less than terrific in this overweIght overweight overweight over over- weight match in which his world lightweight championship was not noton noton noton on the line against the bouncing battler he won it from last May He had Ambers helpless on the ropes in the second round and let him get away He couldn't get out of the way of Ambers' Ambers left And II finally he ran out of the ring atthe at atthe the finish refusing to talk on the radio or put on his bathrobe and obviously miffed apparently because because because be be- cause the cheers were rocking the rafters for Ambers alone As he left one wise ring-wise veteran sitting at ringside called to him Champions Champions Champions Cham dont don't act like that boy For his next outing Skinny from Texas Will vill take on Bob Montgomery ery a Henry Armstrong type of negro battler from Philadelphia in inthe the Garden March 21 in an over over- weight the-weight go This is the same M Montgomery who floored him al although although although al- al though losing a a close decision to f r fLew Lew in Philadelphia last summer Promoter Mike Jacobs announced their March g together get in spite c cof of a gashed nose pose and a split right eyebrow Jenkins suffered from vl Ambers' Ambers lancing left last night if rt-j rt