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Show LABOR DAY I BOUTS . 4 OKLAHOMA CITT. Okla., Sept. 5 Captain Bob Roper broke up Billy Mlake's string o quich knockouts when he received a druw v.'lth the St. Paul heavyweight at the end of twelve rounds of slow fighting here Monday night. Press compilations fcav- Roper five round', and Mlske three with the' other r.iur .-yen, but Referee lOdward: W. Cochrane, of Kansas City, explained ex-plained he penalized Roper for frequent fre-quent holding and counted It a draw Tho boxers were stopped numerous ; times and warned to "mix It," or th bout would be declared off. j occasionally the two men Inter- J rupted the 12 rounds of cuffing and ( holding with flashes .f action, which turned the hisses of the; spectators Into cheers. Roper did most of the leading lead-ing and filed up points but he Invariably Invari-ably went Into a clinch after Jabbing the St. Paul boxer. Neither man 'van in serious troubl during the bout. After having issuol iepeate.1 warn- 1 irigs. the referee stopped the bout for half a minute In the ninth round and delivered B final ultimatum. The box- f crs went back to work and before the. boll rang Mlsk. shut three hard blows to the jaw, which appeared to bother (the former army map. The bout end-led end-led with both men in good shape, j Country Boy Lance, of Eort Worth. Texas, won from Le- Morrlssey. Ball I lake City, welterweight, on a foul in the first round. GRID STAR KNOCK! i oi I MUSKOGEE. Okla. Sept. 5. Carl 1 Morris of Sapulpa. knOCkOd out Sully. 'Montgomery. Of l-Ort Worth. Texas, In I the second round of a scheduled ten-loiind ten-loiind bout hi r. Mondaj nlrht Montgomery Mont-gomery was a tickle on the Centre college football team last year. The I men are heavyweights. IT LTo poi s Ml I 11 N FORT WORTH, Texas Sept. 5. Prod Pulton, the Minneeota piastei.. W'on a technical knockout over Willie ' Meehan. the San I'ranclsco heavy-weight, heavy-weight, when the bout was stopped by the referee in the fifth round here, i Fulton gave Meehan an awful beat-, beat-, Ing from the second round, cutting the ! coast boxer's ear and batting his face, j to a pulp. BELL SAVES FIGHTER WICHITA. Kan., Sept. 5 Billy I Britton of S. ammon, K;m.. had no trouble in defeating Jack Sager. of Tulsa, Okla.. ln a ten-round bout I here last night Britton took every round and the bell at the end of the tenth saved Sager from a knockout. DR VU fi GKE M R W 1 SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 5. Johnny McCoy, formerly of Cleveland.! 'now or Springfield, defeated Earl Pur! year or Denver. In a ti-n-round bout llT'' Morula, before om- of tin largest .crowds ever attending a locul bout. I Newspaper men were unanimous ln; ! sflvlnc the decision to the local bantamweight. ban-tamweight. RENTROP GETS BELT LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Sept. 5. harles Rentrop. local wrestler, defeated de-feated Joe Turner of Washington. D. C, claimant of the world's mlddlo-1 mlddlo-1 weight championship winning two 1 falls out of three. He was awarded 1 a bnlt to be emblematical of the championship cham-pionship MEYERS THROWS PR! BN 1 CHAPAIGN. 111.. S.-pt 5. Johnny Meyers. Chicago, claimant of the middleweight mid-dleweight wrestling title, defeated Paul Prehn, former Iowa Wrestler nnd now wrestling Instructor at tho University Uni-versity of Illinois, in straight falls here. Prehn was the aggressor but lacked strength to hold advantages when he gained them. Meyers won the first fall with a head scissors and wrist lock and the second with a head scissors and arm lock. 00 |