Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-13
|LANGFORD- JACKSON
FIGHT is A FARCE

the evenings program. and It must have
been that sympathy favored the little
fellow. Rogers outweighed him at least
ten pounds, and had all the best of 1t
in reach, but Jimmy was there to take
beating, even after he had been fioored
with bad wallop on the jaw right In
the opening round.
Royle came back stronger as the fight
progressed, and in the fifth he opened
up and had all the best of it. His game
ness stood him in good stead, for the
last two rounds were I'll his and Tommy
Walsh rendered draw decision, which
was little to the horseshoe for Jimmy.
Abe Again AdvertIses
In between the preliminaries and the
so called big show the Abe Attell pub
licity department was put on and gave
an exhibition. Kid Farmer crawled into
the ring first, and challenged George
Memsic (by request), to meet at 1888
at o'clock on the day of the fight.
Goergie followed an declared his will
ingness to meet anyone In the business
at 1888 pounds, and then Attell came along
and offered to fight George at 1873 if the
latter would first meet Farmer at 13S
Memsic wisely refrained from biting at
the bait, and there was nothing doing
along the lines of match.
Dingies' Fight Rotten
It's shame to waste paper on the
Jackson-Langford farce, so a brief
summary will suffice. The mill opened
with a rush, Young Peter breaking in
to clinch and whanging away with
I,both hands at the kidneys. Sam
showed his skill at the long range
work, while Peter lined up well in the
close stuff.
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ond and shot over a right to the bread
basket that did Pete no good. A few
jabs also helped some, and 1t was an
easy Langford round, In the third Pete
broke fast, and swung both arms like
a windmill, but the only damage done
was cut on Langford's lip. Sam
jabbed back with will, and there was
nothing really exciting recorded.
The fourth and fifth were hte same
except that in the latter Pete went
wrong again, and Sam was forced to
stick around close to keep from fall
ing into haymaker. Sam kept his
opponent open in the sixth and kept
his long left going fast, keeping 1t up
in the seventh Sans shanty, the
foundation for which was laid in the
fourth round, rose rapidly in this
period, and toward the end his left
lamp was nearly closed.
Eyton Interferes
Charlie Eyton had been separating
the men without going between them
up to the eighth, but at last he was
forced to get busy and push the din
giles apart in order to ket them to
break. The crowd began hooting at
this stage of the game, for Jackson had
developed a lovely case of stall.
More boots followed in the ninth, and |
when his seconds began wiping Lang
ford off with the national colors at the |
end of the round there was a small |
sized riot under way. The tenth was |
a good fast round, and Pete was hang |
ing on to keep from being punished |
too severely in the eleventh.
The covering tactics were resorted |
to by Jackson again in the twelfth, but |
along toward the middle of the spasm |
he tore loose and tried with wild |
swings. Sam slipped over a hard right |
to the head, but no real damage was |
done. Pete started the thirteenth like
he meant business, but a few jabs
caused him to cover again. |
Pete Tries for Knockout
Pete caught Langford under the
chin with his elbow in the fourteenth
and swung him over to the mat, trying |
his best to land a knockout as Sam
went down.
In the fifteenth, Pete backed into a cor |
ner and drew Langford after him, but it |
got Jackson nothing, as Sam stood off and |
peppered him. More howls greeted the |
sixteenth, and Pete kept on trying to fin /
ish 1t with punch in the following act. |
He landed several neat blows but they |
did no great amount of damage and all |
Langford had to do was to keep on with |
his long range work, and protect his body
in the clinches
Hosts Greet Stall
Pete's elbow work in the eighteenth was |
something rich, and when he commenced |
to stall the boots from all parts of the |
house were renewed. In the nineteenth, |
Langford landed the real punch of the |
fight when he feinted Peter opened and |
shot over terrific right to the stomach. |
Sam kept after his man and Pete bent |
low, trying to make Eyton think that a
foul had been committed.
The windup was about the same, with
Pete bleeding profusely from the lips.
Sam worked his sniff to advantage, and
Pete was rather the worse for wear at the
end of the putrid battle.
The way things came out is no more
than was expected. All along The Herald
has, contended that the fight as a fight
would not amount to much, and this opin-
ion was more than justified by the way
things went.
Langford Good Fighter
One thing determined, however, is that
Langford is fighter who can make a
whole lot of the white light heavies sit up
and take notice. He did not have much
chance to display hir skill for Jackson
stalled too much, but any time Sammy
starts he is sure to have large following
among the local sports.