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Show Lewis Gets Nod Over Utah Boxer By JOHN MOONEY R. J. Lewis, a classy llttl middleweight mid-dleweight who currently receive hl mail at Denver, Monday night demoiutrated that he'i still a plenty tough duaky by punching out a clean-cut 10-round decision over Arlington Spiisbury of Cedar City in the main event at McCul-lough'a McCul-lough'a arena. The Denver battler started fast, dropped Spiisbury for a short count In the second and had the verdict well In hand, although a late rally by the Cedar City fox farmer added spice to the bout Lewis Win Six ' The Telegram score sheet gave Lewis the first six rounds, called the seventh and tenth even and gave Spiisbury the eighth and ninth. ' Although Spiisbury was clearly outpointed by the dusky, H.wss the Denver lad who really took the punishment In the first seven rounds Lewis boxed nicely, punched cleanly and sharply, but did not seem to make much of an impression on the Utahn, who rolled with many of the blows. When Arlington decided to shoot the works, though, things really began to happen. Lewis had a comfortable lead on points going into the eighth and relaxed a little. The next thing he knew, a right and left hand had come out of nowhere and landed on his dimpled dim-pled chin. For the next two rounds It was all Arlington, as the silver fox farmer relentlessly pursued the fleeing Lewis, and Lewis wasn't taunting the hunter with the usual cry of the Httle fox. "Yea, yea, you can't catch me." However, much as he would have liked to hang the kayo punch on Lewis, Spiisbury couldn't quite cut (he mustard and the Denver dusky steadied'again m the tenth to gain a draw in that canto. A crowd of about 1300 attended the best-balanced fight card of the season. MeCrae Beats Diamond In the six-round semiwlnd-up, Buddy McCrse, another dusky, stopped Dick Dismond of Salt Lake City in the fifth round of their scheduled six-round contest Although both these midlle-weights midlle-weights have the reputation of taking their clowning more seriously seri-ously than their fighting, the fifth round was enough to make the fana forget all their early scof-fings. scof-fings. Diamond was in hot water all the way, but it wasn't until the fifth that trouble really landed on Smiling Dick. McCrae, a visitor from Omaha and other parts esst, won every round, partly on superior supe-rior punching ability and partly because Diamond landed at least one punch in every rouod 'way below the belt. Dick Takes Thnmplng Salt Lakers who have been hissing hiss-ing and booing Diamond's antics for lo these many months really had a field day In that abbreviated abbrevi-ated fifth, though. A right upper-cut upper-cut straightened him up for a left smash and then a series of rights and lefts sent him reeling helplessly help-lessly for cover. With blood flowing from his smashed mouth and his eyes glassy. Diamond wandered around the ring, stopping now and then to catch a hard right to the button. but-ton. Finally he staggered near his comer and slumped to the floor, while his handlers tossed in the towel. DavtnL Boss Draw Andy Davinl and Eddie Ross carried car-ried their grudge battle to a six-round six-round draw in the other topnotch-r, topnotch-r, but to this corner It seemed as if Davinl had a little of the edge. On The Telegram's score card, Davinl won the first by a mile, the third by a shsde and the fifth and sixth; Ross took the second sec-ond and fourth. However, the Judges, after ascertaining the price of sugar in Honduras, the cycle of the moon and the sign of the Zodiac Zo-diac gave Rosa a draw.- Both boys weiened In as fnnt Sal m i rhtn In the four-round preliminary events, Chrta Crowe 11 of the Murray Mur-ray C C C camp gained a technical techni-cal kay. ever Cecil Holladay of Provo in the third, and Red Hena-ger, Hena-ger, of the aame C C C camp, was given draw with Corky Ramos of Salt Lake City in the first of the two lightweight bouts. |