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Show lIKleirDiry leoclhies Himcfl If IDimg frail Petey Farron for the featherweight feather-weight litle, and his victories over BarneyjRoss and Lou Ambers for the wefler and lightweight championships, cham-pionships, and everything else that he has lone in a decade of making pugilistic history. Referee Donovan suggested after the tenth that Armstrong retire. "You I can't win now and you might ps well let me stop It," Donovan said as Armstrong sprawled on his corner stool. But he only shook his head. His seconds sec-onds gtve hlra a drink of coffee and brandy and syrup and sent him out again, and for that one roundiand that one round alone during the entire evening we looked 1st the Armstrong of old. He buttered Zivlc into a temporary! tem-porary! fog after having lost alt "the previous rounds except the third, and pulled the customers out of their spats and into a Itedlam of hollerirg. Then a doctor entered Armstrong's Arm-strong's corner and looked him over, probably to see that he finally final-ly was through. In any easel when he missed a right-hand swung in the twelttjh and fell on his fare, Donovan stepped In and stopped it. We seem to have overlooked Zivlc altogether. As for h m, he fought a perfect fight, with little fouling and with all his punches calculated to cut and slow Arm-stong, Arm-stong, am he came out o! it as a champio i who must be considered tough and capable until lurther notice, evi'n though he might not have had l rhance with the Armstrong Arm-strong of i couple of years ago. By LAWTON CARVER International Newt Sports Editor NEW YORK. Jan. 18 ,(INS One of the greatest fighters In the history of boxing looked down that lonesome trail from whence there is no returning today. Henry Armstrong Incredibly Is through after a last stand that seldom sel-dom has been equalled for the gallantry of a man trying to punch his way out of bloodshed and physical wreckage in the prize ring. Champions don't come hack. Or, at least, this one didn't, unless It was to tarry moment and catch the next outgoing ambulance. In trying to regain his welterweight welter-weight championship last night, Armstrong was beaten so badly by Frltzie Zivic, the champion. tthat the press was barred from" his dressing room for a half hour , and photographer were not permitted per-mitted to take pictures of him sitting sit-ting in Slump and answering questions In a croaking whisper. But. beaten as he was, and cut and bruised and groping through the fog In his brain and the curtain cur-tain of blood that streamed down his face, Armstrong went out much as he came Into the big time with one great, unforgettable thrill for the witnesses before the fight was stopped in the twelfth round of a scheduled IV A record crowd of 23,190, biggest big-gest ever gathered In Madison Square Carden for any kind of event, filled all the seats and climbed Into each other's collars ,ln the aisles In a tangible tribute 'to what he has meant to boxing,' and another 5000 were turned away by a hastily drawn police line. All this for the valedictory of the little brown gent who was the first ever to win and wear at the same time three world boxing crowns. "You've got to come to the finish some time, and I think I'll give up fighting now," he said finally In the dressing room through the welts and cuts that covered his face. That's the finish of him, and the finish of triple crown-wearers, too. The boxing commission won't let another man hoard so many crowns, even If another who is capable ca-pable of it might come along. Armstrong was even less able last night In trying to regain the welterweight championship than he was in October when he lost It to Zivic. He merely collapsed after the fifteenth round on that occasion. He couldn't even travel that far last night. After 52 seconds of the twelfth. Referee Arthur Ar-thur Donovan stepped in and stopped it to the satisfaction of a crowd that had paid a record gate of $78,242. The crowd had enough, although Armstrong never gave up, and the eleventh round of that fight must be one of the everlasting epics of the mad whirl called sports. That round will stand as the monument monu-ment to Armstrong's greatness, .overshadowing his knockout of. nr vtn in utiuurr vwicn lie lum I I aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaai aaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaai aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ( 0 Jrvlc. He merely Collapsed " """" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa after the fifteenth round on that occasion. He couldn't even travel . that far last night. After 32 seconds of the twelfth. Referee Ar- thur Donovan stepped in and stopped it to the satisfaction of a crowd that had paid a record gate v,, f $78,242. -e"7 "V The crowd had enough, although vy i Armstrong never gave up, and the eleventh round of that fight must "" be one of the everlasting epics of 'T'-w the mad whirl called sports. That f , ,; " w ' "V round will stand as the monu- i ""N v ment to Armstrong's greatness, ,, i V . V lovershadowing his knockout of 1 ' J ' C- 1 (AP Wtrephotoj Henry Armstrong his eyes fast closing, his arms reaching, to stop that murderous left back pedals? away from Fritzle Zivlc, who worj in the 12th round. |
