OCR Text |
Show : i , v r- i Howard Jabs Post Boxer Eor-Victory By TOM MIR rfJRTKR A vicious left Jab which traveled less than six inches to land over the heart of Kid Dsvis of Fort Douglas a blow so swift and sure that few In the large crowd which packed the arena knew what had happened as Davis' knees slowly buckled and he crumpled to the canvas gave rangy Jack Howard of Spokane a third-round victory to climax the beet program presented since boxing was revived this fall in Salt Lake City. Howard's knockout was the second sec-ond of the evening on a program spiced by the ripping, smashing thud of gloves as each of the It fighters who entered the ring displayed dis-played an abundance of willingness to give and take blows all the way. g-f Bloody Bout Max Young of Springville hammered ham-mered and slashed Kid Cannon, another an-other Fort Douglas boxer, in the first headline event to gain a technical techni-cal knockout In six rounds when Referee Al Ablett stopped the bloody bout. The Howard-Davis affair started With a terrific exchange of short, powerful jabs, forecasting an early end. Howard rocked the soldier with a slamming left to the head as Davis Da-vis waded in after landing two solid blows on the Spokane battler's body. The Kid came back with a stinging right to the side of the face, to rock Howard and make the lanky noxer a bit more cautious. Each boxer attacked more carefully care-fully in the second. Davis trying for body blows, but taking punishment on the face as Howard jabbed away. They mixed it swiftly as the third opened and in a melee near the ropes, after a heated exchange of punches. Howard crossed his left at short range and the soldier slipped lowly to the canvas, down and out. Cannon, who has surprised more than one opponent by his ability to "take It," took plenty on Monday aa he continued his recent habit of driving In with little defense de-fense to take two or three punches In order to land one. He had one good round against Young, when In the third he landed land-ed on the Bprlngvllle boxrr'a midriff mid-riff to start Young back pedaling, hut Cannon wae bl,01.,0,l0w up fast enough to capitalise on the momentary advantage. Young had the best of It as they exchanged smashing blows in the first and second rounds, and even before the end of the Jd non was rocky and md.,"d' After Cannons momentary advantage advan-tage in the third, both took thing. . bit easier. The soldier was unable un-able to land a solid Wow and Young hit and clinched or hit and dodged '"young hammered Cannon fiercely In the fifth and sixth, battering the soldier about the face and head, as ?hVKid. bleeding Pfus.'y but ever game, kept wading in and trying for blows on Young's body. The Springville boxer several times to Referee Ablett to top the fight and, to the loudly Toiced disgust of Cannon and a mixed roar of boos ndjehra Ablett Ab-lett held up Young1 in toke" of victory after Max had slammed three resounding blows to the Kids head. , . Candle Gains Nod Arereasive little Johnny Candia of Garland gained a decision in six round, by cfrrylng the fight to and punching Tiger Griffin when the dusky battler spent most of his time trying to "outsmart" Johnny. The T?gr had little of the fire and punch he displayed I last week in bat-tiling bat-tiling Candia to a draw, keeping his right "cocked" but unleashing it few times, for the most part unsuccess- '"candia kept driving in throughout through-out the bout, .winging punche. to Criffin'. head and body and out-maneuvering out-maneuvering the dusky fighter on numerous occasions to gain a well-earned well-earned nod. Neither fighter was shaken or hurt at any time in a fine exhibition of clever boxing. EM. Holman of Fountain r.reen landed ripping right to the law of Frank Webeter of Fort Douelaa for a firat-round knockout knock-out in a special match. Webster rocked Holman with body blows ae the pair mixed freely from the start, but Holman bided hie time, throwing only five punches at the fort boxer. The fifth, however, was enough to writs finis to the affair. Another soldier went out in short order in a preliminary aa big Red Lund of Salt Lake City pounded the smaller Daniel Boone for a technical techni-cal knockout in the second round. Boone waa unmarked, but was rocked repeatedly by aizxling rights and lefts to the head and the referee atopped the bout. Herb Norton of Magna afco gained a technical kayo when the ; referee stopped the punishing blows hs waa landing on the bead and face of We Freeman of Boise in the third round. A right and left to the jaw sent Freeman down for a four count in the second and he I waa badly battered before the fight was stopped. Billy Ferris of Los Angeles got the nod over Billy Smith sf Salt Lake City in the evening's opener as be shook the Salt Lake City dusky with a vicious attack In the fourth round after leading slightly in the earlier melees. |