Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-04
ny j. G. GRIFFIN

even, with the slightest of shades for
Austin.
BY J. G. GRIFFIN
ANY time Rudy Unholz starts he is
worth a bet. More of scream as a
fighter than anything that ever appeared
away from Ringing brothers .big-top
show, he made some of a monkey out OF
George Memsic, and in his own awkward
way scored the most decided hit that
has even been recorded at Uncle Tom s
Cabin.
The things that Memsic lacked to do
business with Mr. Unholz were a jab, a
right cross and the noodle. Early IN
the evening Memsic began to get sore
and Rudy came back at him with some
of the rough stuff in the line of Web
sters blanks. This did not serve to help
George any and after a few rounds I'm
holz kidded him ON every occasion.
AS a treat for the crowd, but not as
a fight, the Unholz- Memsic show was
surely the biggest event the local fight
fans ever had. There was no decision
rendered, but ninety-eight out of every
hundred present gave the Boer credit for
victory. The other two out of every
century had a bet on Memsic, and it
made their eyes sore to see the South
African whrlwind doing things to
George.
Just how to describe Unholz would
take more than the present run of die
tionaries. So clumsy on his feet that
he fell down no less than ten times with
out being hit. and twice going through the
ropes, he managed to evade the greater
part of the punishment directed at him,
and the few wallops he did receive he
brushed away as though they were mos
,quitoes. Memsic was mad enough to
have cleaved the Boer with an ak, but
this did not aid matters and only served
to help the cause of the Boer with the
crowd.
When the South African champion came
out of his corner to open hostilties he
made a hit at once. With a shape that
ought to get the change from any circus
ever under cover and a crablike move
ment that made him look like easy
money, Unholz started out and every
one in the barn thought Memsic would
have a cinch in winning The dope was
screwy, however for the farther he
went the better Rudy got, and in the
last few rounds he was playing with
Memsic.
Fight Is Rough
The fight was one of the toughest ever
seen here. In the second round Unholz
came in with a rush and George met him
with bull~like charge that threw the
Boer to the floor. The men wrestled all
over the ring, and when Unhoz missed
d hard swing and fell to the mat it
looked as though the show was over. He
lit on his hands and face, but the hard
impact with the floor failed to bother
him and he got up in time to shoot a
good hard wallop up against Jimmy
nut at the bell.
The Boer went through the ropes in
the second and still looked easy for
Memsic. but in the third Burns began
his conversational stunt and Unholz came
back with enough to get George excited.
A left to the ribs at the opening of the
fifth round made an awful impression
with George, for the impact of the punch
sounded all over the house. George
stalled and hung on and after the bell
had tolled he and Unholz kept on fight
ing, Memsic rushing his opponent
through the ropes and stopping only
when Eyton went in to separate them.
In the sixth the Boer pounded Mem
sizes ribs in the clinch, and in order to
break George threw him to the floor
Coming from close quarters Memsic
tripped and fell. but Unholz was there
with the helping hand and assisted
George to his pins
In the last four rounds Unholz made a
monkey of Memsic, kidding and laugh
ing at him all the time, and making
faces that might have resulted seriously
if Memsic had been able to deliver the
goods. A hard wallop to the jaw in the
ninth did not bother the Boer, who wiped
his face with his glove and kept after
his man.
The tenth was a scream all the way.
A fierce rally in the Unholz corner found
the South African clear around in back
of Memsic and in a clinch. Unholz lifted
his opponent off his feet and carried him
to the center of the ring, laughing when
George tried to do something.
Had there been a decision rendered
Eyton could not have done otherwise
than to grab Unholz' mitt in token of
victory. Despite his propensity for ring
ing In a lot of cheap comedy and maxi
ing his own fight appear easier, Unholz is
a hard man to hit and his own hard
wallops will keep any of them ducking.
MCGEE Looks Better
Jack MCGEE and Jake Arnold opened
the evenings fun with a six-round fest,
and 1t was probably the best mill of the
program. At the end it looked very much
like MCGEE, and the crowd cheered him
when he left the ring, reserving the boots
which were uncalled for-for Arnold.
MCGEE scored an early lead, and up to
the fifth had things al his own way. In
the middle of that period Jake was nearly
out, but he whipped over haymaker
that took some of the starch out or NC
Gee and evened things up to a consid-
cradle extent. 1t looked as though Nc
Gee would take to the knockout route,
but he braced up at the end of the sixth
and had things where he wanted them.
Kerry Patch, with a crab movement and
lots of rough stuff on tap, provided a
rotten show with Jimmy Austin. The lit
tie Turk was leveling all right, but Ker-
RVS style was hard to solve and he could
not put him out. The fight should be
thrown out anyhow, for it looked like
doped horse after Kerrys seconds got
busy with the bottle toward the end
Danny Webster and Kid Bell put up
the frosty exhibition of the evening
which was Dannies by mile. Just to
show the crowd that they were some
onions, the boys had a pair of scales
dragged into the ring and stepped on
both to weight under whatever mark they
had decided on With the exception OF
the eighth round it was nothing but a
parlor show. with Webster having all the
best of it. Bell is cool boy, but lack OF
aggressiveness. will never get him any
thing around here