Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-23
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BY A. f. DUNNING

Two knockouts and two decisions
featured the Pacific Athletic clubs
weekly card last night, and the fans
for once got away at an early hour af-
ter witnessing several stirring battles.
The bouts had been nicely mixed, and
between two contests of lighter men,
which went the full distance, four big
huskies roughed it, both these fights
terminating before the scheduled finish.
Charlie Norvel outboxed Sam Coulter
throughout the ten rounds of their fight
in the main event, and earned so clean
a decision on his superior generalshlp
and snappier, cleaner punches that
there was no question as to the Win
ner. Coulter put up game battle, puI
his best leads were smothered, ana
Norve1 outroughed him and outpointed
him in all but one round, the sixth, in
which he uncorked his right, seldom
used through the half hour of fightlng'
and outslugged NorVeL
sam tried hard to win all the way.
He had outgrown his nervousness ana
took severe lacing, but Norvel
reached him early in the tn-hghtlng'
kept up a steady tattoo on the Wind,
and in the seventh, eighth and nlnth
scored hard to the head. Neither waS
tired at the final bell, and Coulter
fought Charlie even in this session.
Repeater for Russian
Bat Johnson took his old, old beating,
this time at the hands of Jack Geyer.
Bat assimilated everything that was
handed to him, and Geyer being hard
hitter and a fast and clever big man,
Bats share of the beating was no small
portion His face resembled piece OF
very rare and juicy beef before the fight
was stopped by the police in the sew
enth with Johnson groggy but stu
coming in.
Bis. Jim Cameron overwhelmed Jack
Sieberg, and relegated him to the dub
class by administering a fearful pound
ing to the white heavyweight. Sieberg
finally went down for keeps in the fifth,
but the end was clearly foreshadowed
when he took the count six times.
Webster introduced
Coulter and Norvel appeared to be
in good trim. Frank Picato opened the
main event festivities by challenging
any lightweight in the world. Burns
and Flynn were also introduced, pre-
paratory to their ten-round battle, Oc-
tober- %.
Fighting Danny Webster, worlds
bantamweight champion, was intro
duced, plus a big gray overcoat.
Norvel outboxed Coulter in the first,
though neither landed a hard punch.
Sans left jams failed to connect, and
Charlie played several tattoos on the
wind Coulter's failure to use his
right hand any time during the first
two rounds was noticeable. Norvel
fought a pretty two-handed battle, and
drew Sam into leads, countering to
the face repeatedly. Sam landed stiff
left, shooting Charles head back, in
the third, but NOrvel seemed too ex-
perienced for the local boy. In the
fourth and fifth, Norvel assumed a
shade of outboxing his man. Coulter
relied on his left entirely, and received
a series of jolts on the head from the
clever Montanan. Coulter suddenly un-
covered his refrigeratOred right in the
sixth, and outslugged Norval, having
the round by a good margin. Norvel
came back strong and forced the pace
in the seventh, singing Coulter with
several stiff wallops to the jaw. At
this point Norvel had clean lead in
the battle. In the eighth and the
ninth, Norvel continued to jab into
g. victory, for Coulter could not get in
side his defense. Sam made the best
showing of the fight in the last round,
getting in several hard rights, but Nor
vel fought him even in this final
squirt. ~
Decision TO Rogers
Al Rogers won a six-round decision
over Jake Arnold, the Whittier boy, in
the opening bout of the evening.
Rogers outroughed his man and had
him badly worried in the first round.
Arnold recuperated and made a game
fight, winding up with a strong finish,
but Rogers inflicted the greater pun
ishment and had a clear lead in the
round totals. Rogers fought foul
however, and was twice warned by
Referee George Blake for hitting low