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Show Boxing Card Draws Enthusiastic Crowd to Witness Clark's Debut LaMar Clark, making his hea-vywolght hea-vywolght debut in the fistic world, received overwhelming enthusiastic support from lo-can lo-can fans last Saturday evening when approximately 1200 fans turned ou' to see the prominent Cedar City athlete take a unanimous una-nimous decision from John Hicks of Flagstaff, Ariz. In the six rounder Clark threw everything he had at the Aii-zona Aii-zona Indian in an attempt to score a knockout in his first professional pro-fessional fight but managed only to get a single knockdown. Tha came in the fourth round and hicks was up at the count of two, but forced to take the mandatory man-datory eight count. After a hectic first round wi'h both of the heavyweights 'hrow. lng a lot of leather, Hicks came out of his corner and pounded Clark back against 'he ropes with a flurry of lefts and r'ghfs tht. to sav the least, surprised Clark. However, that was it for Hicks; j he spent 'ho rest of the four! rounds seeing how much of Clark's brutal blows he co-ildj absorb. Clark, undoubtedly, j would h vc !:koi n nut the Indian In-dian onto the canvas,' but his efforts fell short. j In the semi-main event A us' in! Bulletts of Cedar Ci'y lost a decision de-cision to Ray Moscr of Fait Lake City. Bulletts. the shorter an' fnr he lighter of the two, could no penetrate the loneer arnc I Mosscr as he took, time nf'ert ime, a left hand in the f 'ce wi'h ; his own jabs falling short. He was game, however, and in Mi?, ouple of flurries that the wi ficrhters pave, h connected for several good rights. In the nnntour ranks Johr"-v Zuniea of Ced.T Citv won a split decision over Pet of Beryl; I Scott McKnight of Minersville won a unanimous decision from Clark Bingham of College of Southern Utah and Harry Heid of CSU lost a decision to Andrew-Richards Andrew-Richards of Richfield. ! Gate for the card sponsored by th- Elks Lodge and the CSU I athletic department was approx-! approx-! imately $1100. ' Promotion of the card was handled by Mayo "Spike" Bybee and It was one of the best efforts in this respect in a number of years. |
