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Show Boxing Card Provides Fans With Lively Bouts Garth Panter, feature attraction attrac-tion on the Elks Boxing Card Saturday evening, won a TKO victory over Dusty Williams of Reno, Nev., when Williams failed to report at the beginning of the fourth round. Williams, at the close of the third round, doubled-up by a right to the body, was saved by the bell. The blow, a controversial controver-sial one, was considered low by some fans but the decision of the referee, Tony Lambert, gave the TKO victory to Panter. The first three rounds would have been scored in favor of the Nevada Indian on points. But it was more than evident that the blows landed by Williams were not affecting the middleweight contender, Panter. Stalking his prey from the beginning It was apparent that Panter was interested inter-ested in only one thing a knockout. In the seml-wlnd tip Ken Ken- nington of Star Valley, Wyo., won a split decision over Russel Davis, another Indian of Reno. One of the better bouts of the evening, Davis, exceptionally fast and always alert, made it difficult diffi-cult for Kennington to land a solid blow. Davis, constantly alert, was below most of Ken-nlngton's Ken-nlngton's hard thrown punches, but Kennington was the aggressor. aggres-sor. Nearly a toss-up It was one of the best matched fights of the evening. Red Maxwell of St. George lost a decision to Paul Williams, also of Reno, Nev., in what was probably prob-ably the best exhibition of boxing box-ing during the evening; Williams won the referee's decision. Both boys boxed well and on occasion occas-ion they met toe to toe to exchange ex-change blows. Maxwell Issued a challenge to Williams for a rematch re-match on the next Elks Boxing card which is scheduled for July 3. |