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Show AWARDED TO LAFOLTTISE 1 ON GROUND OF FOUL. Young Gibbs Had His Man Going in Good Style at Butte. BUTTE. Mont., Feb. 27.-Young Gibbs of Cleveland, O., lost to Mose Lafontlse, the welter-weight champion of Montana on an alleged foul in the Beventh round of what was scheduled to have been a twenty-round twenty-round contest. Lafontlse dropped to the floor In apparent agony at the close of the seventh, claiming that Gibbs had struck him' in the' pelvic region. The gong saved Lafontlse from being counted out and the seconds carried him to his corner. The referee. Nolan, says he failed to see the alleged foul and It was only after an examination by a physician that the decision was given to Lafontlse. The Montana roan was badly punished and had tho bout gone further It Is believed Gibbs would have won. |