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Show SpinaBeats-Diamond SpinaBeats-Diamond in Six Rounds By TOMMIJB FORTES Th drumming of AI Spina's gloves on Dick Diamond's face and body Monday night convinced most of th 100 fan nun bled at Mc Cut tough's arena that th apdy tittle) Portland scrapper is th but lightwreigtht sun in Salt Lake City for a long time. Spina, welshing US to Dick's 1SSM, ha4 things vary much his way after an va fins round. He floored Diamond twice, la the fourth, again la th fifth, and really put the SaH Laker fart his back la th sixth. Dick ni obviously below par and apparently weakened by th reducing re-ducing diet which had trimmed his weight from th usual 141. He amid after the bout he had eaten only ont.meal .fine . Sunday morning. Hs was oa his feet at th finish, but was absorbing plenty of punishment, pun-ishment, and his second towed in th toweL Spina's subbing left kept Dick off balance much of the time, and th Portland boy, who claims the intermountain and Pacifie northwest north-west lightweight titles, bored in relentlessly. re-lentlessly. He hooked his left to Dick's eXomach with telling effect, and crossed ths right to th fact often, while displaying great footwork foot-work and a clever, almost airtight defense. AI was not breathing hard I (ha flninh mi, havin, kun ami. idly hit more than two or three times. K could not be a title bout, Diamond having failed to come In under th lightweight limit of 135 pounds, although It was announced as a tlUs contest. In a iast-minuts substitution bout, replacing the scheduled Babe Marino-Max Young semifinal, Grant Hansen's rushing attacks aimply wore down gams Hy Hansen, Grant, 15, Salt Lake City, won by knockout knock-out In ths fourth after Hy, 148. Ogden, had gone down twice in th third round without being hit A stiff right to th fac finished proceedings. pro-ceedings. Albert Marline. 11 A, Helper, aa exponent of perpetual motion, punched out a decieloa over Andy Davini, 111, Salt Lake City, In six action-packed rounds. Martines won simply because he would not be beaten. He waded into Andy from th first bell, with both hand swinging frsely, and although th Salt Laker had an edge in th first canto because of hi longer reach, he could not stand th fast pace. It was th best bout presented her In many month, and th first Urn Davini had been beaten la th local ring. There was only ons clinch In th sixth when Andy was too tired to even raise hi guard in eelf-protection. Davini landed his left often enough to shaks hi rival, but was unable to alow up th Helper Hurricane From midway in th third round, Martines had Davini back-pedaling aa he hammered fac and body freely and without pause. Andy absorbed more blows than in any thi-e previous bouts her, and th little victor and th loser were given a great ovation as they left th ring. Carl CGara, 153, Pavaon, bond in continually to gain a technical knockout over Kid Chocolate. 131, Reno, when Referee AI Ablett topped th fight In th fourth to prevent th dusky Nsvadan being more seriously punished. After an even first round, O'Gara punched Chocolate all around, and had him down tor an eight-count at th bell in th third. Cecil Daltoa. 11. Spanish Fork, gained th judges' decision in a rather even bout marked by free hitting Grant Erickaon, ISO. Jackson Jack-son Hole, was th loser. Joe Rosso, 13. Crantaville, outpunched Billy Smith, 133, Salt Lake, In th four-round four-round opener which saw Smith us hi knees freely in an attempt to top Rosso' body punching. |