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over Corbett also landed stih righ'
cross that staggered the Jap, but II
neither instance could Corbett get In
to finish his man.
Both boys scored knockdowns in the
second round and fought fiercely all
the way, with honOrs even at the end
Jap caught Corbett coming in and with
a right swing knocked Corbett to his
knees. He was up Immediately. A
few seconds later Corbett put the JaI
down with a left hook to the jaw.
The Jap went out for the third round
under a cover and began on the ag-
gressive, dashing at Corbett all doubled
IN to suddenly unwind and wallop ef-
fectively to head and jaw. Corbett
hammered away at the Jap, but could
not break through the cover to any eX-
tent. Occasionally he got through and
walloped hard to head.
The Jap had all the better of the
milling in the fourth round and forced
Corbett to break ground frequently. He
was too clever for Corbett and avoided
all but the left jabs to the face and
nearly always countered with right or
left swings for the jaw.
The fifth also went to the credit of
the Jap, who continued his aggressive
tactics and effective guard, while out
boxing and outslugging the Denver
boy. Corbett was very tired at the
gong.
Corbett rallied in the sixth and all
but got the Jap with a few of his wild
right swings to the jaw. Three times
he had the Jap wObbling and dazed
but could not finish him. He missed
a golden opportunity twice during the
round.
The seventh was the best round of
the battle Corbett seemed to have
things going his way for half the
round, having marred the features OF
the Jap with constant jabbings to the
face that started claret, but Oyama raj
lied and went after Corbett and, after
landing several rights and lefts to jaw,
had the Denver boy wobbly. Both were
so weak they could not land a knock
out punch.
The eighth was a real busy session,
despite that both We're so tired they
could not put enough steam behind
their blows to hurt very much. Cor
bett was more aggressive and probably
had a shade in the furious milling.
Corbett won by the knockout route in
the ninth after putting the Jap to the
floor twice. Both were very weak and
their blows lacked steam, but Corbett
whipped over a wild swing to the jaw
that sent the Jap down, and he took
the count of nine. He arose in a daze1
condition and Corbett rushed him about
the ring until he could get over the
finishing punch, which was a right
swing to the jaw. The Jap fell back
ward and had to be carried to his cor
ner. The fans went wild with joy at
the result, because it had been a fierce
battle all the way with a knockout
imminent in every round.
Rennie Takes the Count
The semi-windup was another ten
round Offering, with frankie Sullivan
and Dave Rennie, a Chicago rough
house artist, in the points. Sullivaa
is the lad who made himself popular
by his great fight with Young McGov-
ern at the last McCarey show. Rennie
| never had fought in a local ring, but
came to the coast with a good record
and showed up in great style in severa
tryout bouts in private. Young Nc
Govern entered the ring and challenged
the winner.
The first round was a world-beater
/ Both boys sailed into each other like
a pair Of setting hens and fought fast
and effective battle, landing frequent
effective blows. Honors were about
even at the gong.
The second round was fully up to the
/ standard they established the preced-
]
Rennie did some good work and showed
a cool head and good generalship scor.
/ ing effectively by clever footwork ant
| countering.
The third was as lively as any pre-.
ceding round. Sullivan got his left tC
the face several times and startet
claret, but Rennie showed good gener
alship and this enabled him to avoiC
much of the vicious leading of Sulli
van, while he also did some effectiv,
work on his own account. Sullivan haC
a shade.
Both used their left to good effect il
the fourth, and before the round wal
half over the claret was running freely
Sullivan had a shade on Rennie a
the gong, although each did some gqbt
work and the round was filed with ac
. tion.
Sullivan took a good lead in the fiftl
and had Rennie in a bad way at thl
gong. Sully made Rennie miss severa
swings and nearly always countere,
most effectively with right crosses t,
. jaw.
Sullivan succeeded In putting over hi
right to the jaw In the first minute o
the sixth round and Rennie sank to tn
floor and was counted out, Renni
came to the scratch for the be
J ginnig Of the round in weakened con
dition and Sullivan went after hin
most energetically. Examination show
that the blow had broken Rennie's law
The windup card was next and tn
scrappers, Fighting Dick Hyland an
Kiddo Dalton, entered the ring in
few moments after the end of the Sui