Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-07 | Page 23 | Dusky Henry and Ambers Win Battles

Dusky Henry And Ambers WirrBattles By REX V. HKSS - -CLEVELAND. Dec. 7 (.fi-Dusky ' Henry Armstrong, world's champion featherweight, surveyed today an array of 23 knockout victories in his 26 encounters of the current year but also considered the winning ways of Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers. The titleholders were featured in a double windup last night on the annual Cleveland News Christinas toy fund show, which attracted 12,-000 12,-000 fans. Armstrong. 134 li. stopped Tony Chaves. 131, claimant of the Mexican Mexi-can featherweight title. In the Initial stansa of a scheduled 10-round non-championship non-championship bout. Ambers, 138, flashed a lightning left and effective effec-tive right upper-cut to take a 10- lace, 138, of Cleveland. The devastating little victors expect ex-pect to clash In an outdoor show next summer with Ambers' crown at stake. Chaves was down seven times five of them for counts of from four to seven before the bout was stopped after two minutes and It seconds. He wilted under the Los Angeles negro's terrifio right hand punches to the head. Chavei won from Armstrong on a foul In eight rounds last December and stayed nine, rounds with the negro last February before being knocked out The champion from Herkimer, N. Y., had Wallace missing badly throughout the fight. The Cleve-lander Cleve-lander was bleeding from the mouth after the first round and got a bad cut over the left eye In the ninth. Ambers and the willing Wallace put on their best fight in the last two rounds, when they slugged toe , to toe.