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Show I FREDDIE WELCH DEFEATSRIVERS f By H. M. Walker. Los Angeles, March 17. The lightweight light-weight championship of England, Australia and South Africa, still remain re-main in Wales with heavy anchor Rivers' efforts to outbox Freddie Fred-die Welsh reminded one of a child trying to open a Yale lock with a soup ladle. IWelBh, still the peerless and pleasing pleas-ing performer of old, gave the Call-fornian Call-fornian a scientific beating of twenty twen-ty rounds. Rivers saw more boxing . gloves in one afternoon than evor before in his career, and the smell of leather should sicken him during the remainder of his natural life. Welsh is a most satisfying all-round all-round worker. He stays so far out in front that the referee has merely to nod towards Freddie to render a decision and, at the same Unio, makeB the beating so easy to take that the loser is able (o smile providing ho can think of something funny to smile about, at the finish. Without a single knockdown, staggering stag-gering punch or exciting incident, Walsh pranced through the 20 rounds keeping his rival dangling on the end of a left jab and playing a hard right on the kidneys. On the defensive Frederick was all of a wizard, blocking block-ing Jose's punches in a way that left nothing but elbows, forearms and gloves for Rivers to hit. I Close friends of the Rivers family called one round even, claimed two for the local boy and donated the remaining re-maining seventeen to Welsh. Welsh may be prone to argue that he had the entire twenty rounds to his credit. cred-it. A great many of our best people saw things the same way. Rivers was in strictly first-class physlcial condition and made a rattling rat-tling good uphill fight. Pittod against the cleverest lightweight in the world a man that he couldn't hit with n buggy whip, the Californian tried to make a fight of it every Inch of the way. Rivers mistake was in trying to outbox Welsh. This plan was exactly to Freddie's liking and his showing amounted to a boxing lesson for Jose. iwhen Rivers did start to cut and slash In the thirteenth, lie had the best of luck, reaching the champion's anatomy In a way that brought a look of concern to Welsh's face. Rlv-crs Rlv-crs crimsoned the royal breezer in this round, which was Joe's best session. Again in the fifteenth Rivers stopped stop-ped boxing to Welsh's orders and made the slugging more than interesting inter-esting for the Briton. Jose shaded Fred in the sixteenth also. Aside from these threo rounds Welsh handled the situation just as ho pleased. Ho novcr hurt his man didn't appear to have any such idea but he jabbed, hooked and tickled the Mexican in tho most exasperating manner imaginable. Fifty-nine seconds out of every minute min-ute Welsh kept Rivers standing with his black oyes blinking In the sun. And when all Rivers' efforts to lana had gone wrong and Jose himself had been jabbed, stabbed and slap-j slap-j ped, Welsh would stand and grin at his opponent An outsider coulc have turned an honest dollar by selling sell-ing Rivers an ax. The only blow that Rivers was able to repeat with was a cutting loft jerked across Welsh's face during the clinches. Welsh made no move to come with a "rough" card, he didn't need it Welsh Is the same master workman work-man that we watched wallop Willie Ritchie in this same ring a couple of years ago. When It comes to punching he bears the harmless label, la-bel, but he figures to outbox any lightweight in the world. nn |