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Show RIVERS LOSES TO BOUT TO MANDOT Los Angeles, Sept. 2. Outgeneraled Outgeneral-ed and outfought In nearly evory round by Joe Mandot of Now Orleans, Joe Rivers, the Lob Angeles lightweight, light-weight, lost the decision to the visitor at the ond of their twenty-round bout today. The Mexican claimant to the highest honors In the lightweight light-weight class was n more novice In the hands of the clever southerner, although ho outweighed Mandot two pounds when they entered the ring. Rivera weighed In at 133 and Mandot 131. Rivera made a much poorer showing show-ing than ho did against Ad Wolgast on July 4. He appeared slow and showed to advantage only In the infighting. in-fighting. In the closing rounds, Man-dot Man-dot oven outfought him In tho clinches. clinch-es. Mandot solved Rivers' defonee early In the bout, landing Btralght lefts to tho face almost continuously without a return. In the eighth he began rocking Rivers' head with right and left swings and in nearly each one of the succeeding rounds ho followed this style of attack. He ' showed great cleverness In blocking and countering. Tho boys spent much of the time in clinches and Referee Eyton waB compelled frequently fre-quently to pry them apart- RlYers had a shade tho better of It In the fourth sixth and eleventh. In the thirteenth Mandot nearly closed tho I Mexican's right eye with a loft j swing and In the next round ho punished pun-ished him soverely with straight lefts and rights. Mandot appeared to be tiring In the sixteenth round and In a fierce slugging match at long and short rango Rivers earned even honors for the round. The seventeenth was almost a repetition, Rivers roughing It toward the close and wrestling Mandot to tho mat at the bell. The nineteenth was Maudotr6. Rivers tried his best to put away the Southerner In the last round hut Mandot cleverly eluded his rushes and swings. The decision In Man-dots Man-dots favor was popular. |