Show speaking peaking of 0 sports war wa r of words Continue ambers amberst win by ROBERT mcshane S ADLY enough the recent 15 u round lightweight bout which saw s a W the championship pass from henry armstrong to lou ambers bornt pro proved to be little more than a minor incident in an unholy squabble which em embraced braced managers c contestants the national boxing association and referee arthur donovan the was a disappointment in more ways than one to begin with deadeye donovan managed to spot five fouls committed by lill henry defending champion As a result ambers was presented wl with t h live five rounds by official scoring and it 11 has been generally conceded that had not the fouls been called armstrong would have won all these rounds save one don donovant donovans score card read eight and s seven even in favor of the challenger indi indicating c abing that had he tailed failed to rule armstrong guilty in just one of those thos five fatal rounds he might have voted for a draw or else a victory for the defender fullam another judge scored the fight exactly as did donovan bill healy the third judge scored hea heavily ily in v ambers favor giving hm him 11 rounds armstrong three and declaring one even al ambers manager and eddie mead mentor to armstrong added very little to the evenings d decorum both of them w were ere guilty of f violating rules tor for seconds conduct and their continual bickering 0 f j LOU AMBERS with referee donovan between rounds was an unpleasant feature flagrant enough to warrant censure from the commission their repartee was as louder than it was brilliant and at times took the spotlight from the battle itself A plot revealed events prior to the fight were not especially charming mr mead whose conversational speed Is at least equal to his fighters ring pace spent a great deal of ti time a before sinister the match hinting of a sinister plot directed against his man me mead ad claimed in a brief word statement he was warned before the fight that his man would lose five lourds on fouls he also stated that his authority was one of the commissioners fri friends e ads armstrong partisans felt that donovan was all too conscientious in chalk chalking ng up ring infractions in their opinion the title should not have changed hands donovan in clarifying his stand said that he knew that some day henry would lose the lightweight title if he kept punching low donovan was more mor e than backed U up p by bill brown r member n e aber of the new york state stale athletic commission who said instead of penalizing armstrong I 1 would have thrown him out of the ring double loss armstrong who entered the ring holding both the lightweight and w welterweight e Iter weight titles may be shorn of al all chis this honors the ambers bout was billed tor for only the lightweight championship with the pre fight agreements providing that in the event ambers should win they would meet in a return match tor for armstrongs welterweight championship however this agreement may be relegated to the ash heap executive secretary edward C foster of the national boxing association stated that he would ask the N B A at its convention in september to approve ambers as world lightweight and welterweight champion lie he termed the ambers armstrong agreement signed before the new york boxing commission as ridiculous di it was the kind of a fight in which the outcome never will be settled to the satisfaction of everyone judged solely from a statistical standpoint there can be no quarrel with the be Jid jirges decision the five rounds henry lost by low blows were sufficient to relieve him of at least one crown donovan was well within his rights he called thi the shots as he saw them and not even the most rabid armstrong supporter could expect him t to ignore aalthe all the rule infractions so until a return bout settles the si tatter the argument will continue the ambers ambe rs faction can rejoice in a lightweight ight weight championship the Ari AntS tiong strung patriots can claim a moril moral victory |