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Show Pedro Wins By Knockout -Over-Ramey By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES, July 37 UV Pedro MonUnM of Puerto Rico lived up to his brilliant reputation here last night when bo blasted Wesley Runty of Grand Raplda, Mich, out of tho front ranka of tha nation'! lightweights In . ona round. Exploding a left book that traveled trav-eled hardly a foot, Padro acored tha knockout t mlnutea and 40 aeconda after tha opening gong sounded. . Jack Dempaey, brought here to referee tha bout at a reported price of (3000, never earned an eaaler dollar. dol-lar. He tolled off 10 aa Ramey tried vtUsU ie reach hi ice L Crowd Disappointing A crowd of leaa than 15.000 a dls-appolntmont dls-appolntmont to tha promotera aat glued to their eaata at tha abrupt-neea abrupt-neea of tha bout A few momenta before they had aeen Alberto Lovell, the acar faced assassin from Argentina, Argen-tina, lace Clarence (Red) Burman , of Baltimore throughout their 10- rounder. Montanes. 1M. and Ramey, MS, moved out quickly and began tossing toss-ing gloves. Pedro dug a couple of herd punches to the body and Ramey danced away. Montanes caught blm In the center of the ring and let the knockout punch loose. The fight was over. The third main svent proved an upset as Ritchie Fontaine, 130, of Missoula, Mont, dsalt out terrific body punishment to young Jackie Wilson, promising young Pittsburgh negro, to carry eight out of the 10 rounds. Wilson, who has been challenging Los Angeles' Jack Armstrong, hit the canvas in the second and ninth for no counU and was hsngtng on at the final bell. He had been a heavy favorite to win. Absorbs Blows The heavyweight bout saw Bur-man, Bur-man, Jack Dem peer's heavyweight, willing to absorb all the blows Lovell could mete out without going down. Lovell weighed Burman 1S1. Tha Baltimore redhead dropped every round but one as Lovell moved in and out shooting vicious hooks and bard right mashes to the bead. Burman jolted the South American once or twice and slowed him up occasionally with body blows, but he was unable to catch up with him for long. |