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Show Zwick Lands Quick Kayo On Diamond Phil Zwick has been on big-game hunting expeditions In South Africa, Af-rica, but he didn't need any elephant ele-phant guns or a safari to dispose of Dick Diamond In Monday's headline boxing match at McCul-lough'i McCul-lough'i arena. All It took to kayo Diamond was a short right hook to the Jaw that came midway In the second round. And after that blow, Dickie listened lis-tened to the birdies for the next five minutes, he was that cold. - Zwick, pale and frail looking, landed his right only twice during the brief encounter, and both times Diamond hit the canvas. ' In the first frame. Just before the bell, the "Wisconsin Flash" connected with right cross, but the gong sounded before Referee Al Ablett could start the count. fleers Zwick Diamond knocked Zwick off his feet In the beginning of the second heat,. . . the only blow Dick landed. When Phil got up. Diamond lunged , across thf ring foe tht. killing, but it didn't work out the way Dickie expected. Zwick straightened up and let go with that short right hook which traveled only six or eight Inches, to end the bout. Zwick spotted Diamond 11 pounds In the fracas, as Dick weighed 139rPhll, 128. The semlwlndup Monday was a bloody affair that should have been stopped in the third round, or before. be-fore. Windmill Pearce decialoned Jerry Logan over the six-round route, but there wasn't much glory In It for Pearce. Fearee Pounds Fee Logan was In poor condition a roll of fat sagged over the top of his trunks and Pesrce hsd the edge all the way. He blackened Jerry's eye In the first round; in the second round he pounded the eye some more, and in the third heat Logan was bleeding profusely profuse-ly from cuts on his nose and under his eyes. He continued to bleed during all of the next three cantos and probably prob-ably lost about a pint of blood. Pearce's round-house rights didn't help Logan's cause either. For that matter, though, about all Logan could do during the entire fight was to take It. Jack Hoxwood, Idaho welterweight, welter-weight, declsloned Bob Plhl In six rounds, after knocking the latter down for nine and seven counts In the first heat and again for nine In the third. Phil, an upright boxer, box-er, could do naught against Boxwood's Box-wood's weavlng-ln atyle. Bucky Rouesch, Logan heavyweight, heavy-weight, kayoed Tree-Top Ash in the fifth round, and Johnny Rogers declsloned Tiger Griffin, local dusky, In the four-round opener. |