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Show CHRIS GEORGE IS TOO JTTI FOR LOUIE TUCKER Its a dangerous thing to give weight in a boxing contest, especially if your opponent is as tough and hard-hitting a customer as Chris George. If you don't believe it, ask Lonnie Tucker of Oklahoma, who was saved from being sent to dreamland last night at tho armory by the said George, through a white towel being thrown into the ring. The towel-throwing episode occurred oc-curred in tho fourth round of a scheduled sched-uled ten-round bout, the rag being propelled over the ropes at the order of Tucker's twin-sister, trainer and mnnaefir. Elizabeth. Inst in Httia tn savo Referee Poto Visser from performing per-forming the humanitarian act on his own account. Lonnie was all but out, but he was game to the core and took his lacing in a way that won him many friends. The bout was, in a measure, a parallel paral-lel to the recent Al Young-Lee Morris-sey Morris-sey battle staged at the armory, with tho better boxer getting the best of the opening rounds. But Tucker failed fail-ed to show tho ring generalship that won Morrlssey a draw, against the tougher man. Instead, he felt good and took a chance at mixing with tho Greek at his own game, which was all wrong, as he and the crowd found out by the end of the third round. Tucker showed himself to be a clever clev-er boxer, with a good punch in either hand, in the first two rounds, winning the first and playing oven on the second. sec-ond. Encouraged, he opened tho third by landing a hard left swing on George's nose. This nettled the Greek and ho slammed a right swing onto Lonnie's head. Chris kept up his rush and his superior weight and strength were was clearly noticeable during the next few seconds of the mill. But Tucker managed to keep from being seriously harmed and coming out of a tangle, floored Chris with a left swing to tho jaw. George was up in a second and shortly afterward landed an uppercut on Tucker's chin that proved the beginning of the end. The remainder of the round was a wrestling wrestl-ing contest. The fourth was a one-sided slugging match, with the Oklahoma youth on the receiving end. The finish, was apparent ap-parent and Visser was endeavoring to get Tucker out of tho Greok's one arm clutch, when the towel was thrown into tho ring. After the bout, Miss Tucker announced that she had matched her brother to fight Azavodo, December 18, in Salt Lake City, at 125 pounds ringside. Buss Boyle of Ogden and Bobbie Ross of Los Angeles put up a corking good four-round bout, as the semi-wlndup semi-wlndup of Promoter Dallas' card. The two were evenly matched and their work was the spectacular slugging type that the Ogden fans like to see. Boyle's corkscrew uppercut landed now and then, but Ross took the hard blows without a noticeable quiver. Bus also landed a few swings and left jabs, taking some in return. When tho third round opened, Ross had solved the Boyle problem pretty well and met the Ogden fighter's leads with straight left to the face, that evened up his score. The draw decision deci-sion of Referee E. H. Hayes met with popular approval. The crowd, which was not as large as usual owing to counter attractions, got considerable amusement out of the curtain-raiser, a four-round bout between Jack Ryan and Chick Tre-seder. Tre-seder. The decision was given to Ryan. Al Young challenged the winner of the main event last night and his challenge was accepted by George. This bout will be the headliner next week. Cyclone Workman of Idaho challenged chal-lenged any middleweight and Jim Downing of Tremonton any heavyweight, heavy-weight, in this section of the country. coun-try. Downing said he would prefer Terry Keller or Jack Dempsey'. Workman's Work-man's challenge was accepted by Grant Evans of Ogden. oo |
