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Show oo BOXERS PREPARE FOR LONG BOL'T Rivers and Leach Show Form In Workout for Thanksgiving Thanks-giving Day Fight. By H M. Walker. Los Angeles. Cal.. Nov 24. "The Greaser is as full of fight as a rat tlesnake. His condition, four days before the battle, is perfect to the hour. He hasn't taken a long breath sun v he started " The veteran boxer, lack Root, af ter watching Joe Rivera go through his workout this afternoon In prepa ration tor his twenty-round bout vlih Leach Cross at Vernon on Thanksglv in,, placed this stamp of approval on the Mexican lightweight's condition a condition that has been bothering the Los Angeles ring regulars for ten days past It was twenty minutes past three when Rivers drove up to the pavilion in his new $7500 car. Two minutes later Joe was in the hands of his trainer. Abdul the Turk Through with his preliminaries, Joe took on Solly Burns, for three rounds and at the finish Solly wasn't much to Jook at Young Abe Sherman came next. Rivers went through the entire en-tire workout in dashing style and fin ished without a long breath A half mile down the road, at the Doyle camp, Cross loafed about wait ing for the spectators to come on and give him the "once over." It wati 4:35 when Leach started to box He took on game little Dick Wayne. The bout was supposed to go three rounds but at the end ot the second. Dick bad a supposition of his own and off came the gloves. Heavy Louis Ree6 stuck to Iacb for four rounds of from one to three minutes' duration, the time changing according to how close watches Bro ther Sam kept on Ingersoll, and a heavy bee it was. Cross still shows facial marks, the effect! of his clash with Willie Ritchie, Ritch-ie, but in every way appears to be in budding condition, the word budding being used for the reason that we are tired of saying that a man is in the pink of condition Rivers is a slight favorite in the hotting at 10 to 9. He claimed to bo down to 135 pounds at the finish of his toil today Cross said the same notch would about cover his poundage. |