The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-05
MORCH WON
IN A WALK
Oklahoma Champion Lowered
C0Iors to the Battling
Sailor.

Good bouts were the rule at the see
ond session of the Aloha Athletic Club s
fistie carnival held last night.
Two of the events went the limit
number of rounds and the third num-
Der on the card ended in a clean knock
out, Sailor Morch putting away Kid
Crawford with grace and despatch.
Joe Castro and Kid Mccullough
squared off in the opening go, four
round contest. Castro is well known
to local ring goers. Mccullough, who
is a soldier, was making his bow TO
a Honolulu house. He has not boxed
in public previous to last night but
shaped well and is a mighty likely nov
ice. He suffered some from stage
fright last night but that viii wear
off and with his willing disposition and
hitting ability shodld do well at the
game if he elects to follow it up.
Castro looked none too fit and relied
in a right swing to win the money for
him, tactics which he has always pur-
sued.
He kept away from his man in the
first round but ever and anon man
aged to slip over good one. McCul-
Tough seemed at sea in the opening
round but this was due to inexperience.
In the second the soldier showed up
better. He was more confident and did
what his seconds told him to. He got
home several stiff blows to the body
and WASH t in the least feazed by jab
to the jaw which he received. The end
of the round saw him trying to upper
cut.
Castro was on the defensive in the
third. He waited for a chance to get
in his haymaker but none seemed to
be Forthcoming. The round was live
ly one. Castro was warned in this
round for hitting low.
Mccullough got his second wind in
the fourth and went after his man.
Castro swung viciously but the Kid got
inside of his fail-like arm and planted
an uppereut which worri ed the ''Smash,
err He played for the body with
telling effect and was on the aggressive
when the gong sounded.
Referee Patton gave the verdict to
Mccullough.
Kupa and Peter Stanley followed
with six interesting rounds Kupa al
most put his man out in the first round
with hard swing to the jaw. Stanley
was game, however, and kept on peg
ging away. He sadly lacks punch.
Had he been able to hit, Kupa would
have been slowed away well inside the
round limit
Kupa played a great game of stall
ing. Every time he was landed on he
went down for the count and then.
coming up fresh, tried to settle his man
with a wicked swing which usually
went mile wide of its mark.
The native sought the boards dozen
times in the six rounds and the decision
which gave the bout, to Stanley was
an eminently just one.
kupa started in at a whirlwind pace
but couldn t keep up the clip. After
dropping Stanley in the first he had a
chance to finish the job but didn t
know how to do it.
He came up very confident in the
second round, but StanIev's left labs
unnerved him, and he was on the run
before the round was over.
kupa went down three times in the
third, but was there with both hands
IN the next round, which closed with
both lads fighting hard.
The fifth saw Kupa as wild as the
wind and dropping whenever pretext
offered. Stanley was going warily and
waiting for an opening.
Stanley mixed things in the sixth
and managed to poke his left to the
face two or three times. a straight left
sent the native down for the count. and
the round ended with both lads wrest
ling.
The referee gave the go to Stanley.
Ihls cleared the way for the main
event, ten-round affair. so it was adj
Vertised. between Kid Crawford, cham
plon of Oklahoma, and Sailor Morch of
Honolulu.
Before the men went into the ring
challenge was announced from Young
Scotty that he would box anv 13S-
pound man in the Territory.
Morch. who weighed 12S pounds. and
who looked lighter than he has ever
done before, didn t take long to size his
man up. Crawford went into the frav
confidently and put light swing to the
face. Moreh. boxing prettily. slipped
over neat right which brought a
troubled look TO the Kid face.
Crawford bored in and tried to get
to bis opponents wind, and while the
men We're at close quarters the sailor
put over a right hook which put the
Oklahoma champion on his back. Craw-
ford was counted ont, and Morch pulled
down the tiy eul Of the purse.
There viii he three COOL bouts Mt
the Aloha Athletic Club next saturday
night particulars of which viii he an
noUuced later.
Fred Smith handled the cong last
night end Mike Patton refereed
throughout the evening.