Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-15
LANGFORD PUTS
BARRY To SLEEP
Riuht Hook to Jaw in Sixteenth
Round Ends 0ne-Sided
Scrap at Vernon
LOSER NEVER HAD A CHANCE
Chicago Boy Tries to Stall
Through First Half for Win
ming Finish but Fails
LOSER NEVER HAD A CHANCE
BY JAY DAVIDSON


Sam Langford knocked out Jim Barry
in the first half of the sixteenth round
of their scheduled 25-round scrap yes
4erdav afternoon at Vernon, turning
the trick with a short right hook to the
iaw as the finishing touch to a clean
lob. Langford fought all the way,
showing all his usual cleverness in box
ing and blocking and using all his
kgeneralship and Kidding tactics TO
keep him sailing along in front by
,comfortable margin in every round.
,Barry did not try to fight except in
ispots. being content to adhere strictly
to his carefully laid plans to stall
Through ten or fifteen rounds in an
effort to weaken Langford down to a
basis of pugilistic equality, where he
hnight deem it safe to take a chance
at slugging with the demon.
throughout the fight Barry took
Rreat punishment and gave little, II
any, in return, seeking only TO block
Langfords leads and let the black
wonder wear himself out Occasionally
BARRY showed some life and tried to
mix ii. but only for a moment at a
Hime, after which he would crawl back
1nto his shell and let Sam peck away
bat will. When Sam got too energetic
IN his punching, Barry would run into
q clinch and try to wrestle or two
STEP relying upon his thirty pounds
advantage in weight to assist in wear
ing out the black boy
1t was a good fight, and again it was
not. Had Barry opened up and taken
Va chance with Langford, he might have
made a better showing and at the same
time might have been put to sleep con-
siderably quicker than after an hour OF
fighting Langford showed quickly
after the fight started that he would
win by a knockout, and demonstrated
that 1t was only a question of how long
it would require for him to get his
famous right uppercut to working
properly. When it began to work,
Barry was a sure loser.
TENTH ENDS BARRY's HOPES
Although Barry had been terribly
punished in the first nine rounds, the
sudden ending Of the fight did not ap-
pear to be so close as it was. But, 1t
began to loom up in the tenth, when
Barry was put down twice for the
count of nine. After about two min
utes' of wrestling and sparrins, Lang
ford finally put over one of his right
uppercuts, and Barry dropped to the
mat as IL dead. He stayed there for
nine and arose unsteadily, being so be-
wildered that he could not cover up,
but he still knew enough to try to
clnch. Langford would not have it
that way and landed another of this
brand of uppercut, and again Barry
went to the mat for nine. AS he arose
the gong came to his rescue and saved
him and all the money that had been
bet that he would stay ten rounds.
The succeeding five rounds were feat
ured by LangfOrds almost frantic et-
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ly frantic efforts of Barry to stay on
his feet whether he did any fighting OF
not. In these five rounds Langford
hammered Barry in every spot on his
anatomy above the belt but only sell
dom could be get a hook to the Jaw OF
land a square uppercut. Barry took a
world of punishment in these five
rounds, and by staying through the fif-
teenth saved the ffteen-round money.
The end came suddenly in the six
teenth. Barry seemed to be very weak
and unwilling to mix it, but he used
his cover up defense so well for a mln-
ute that it seemed that he might keep
on through at least another round. At
ter pair Of clinches they were broken
apart and Barry did the exact thing
that brought Jim Flynn to the ground
in his fight with LangfOrd last month
rushed out after Langford in a desper-
ate effort at making a rally. LangfOrd
sidestepped and hooked his right flush
TO the jaw, and Barry dropped at his
feet Referee EytOn began the count
and Barry rolled over and sat up, but
could not rise. When the count was
finished Barry's seconds carried him to
his corner and by liberal use of stimu-
lants soon revived him.
RIVERS DEFEATS CORBETT
The first preliminary went the sched-
uled ten rounds with Young Rivers
winning from Red Corbett in every
lound of an uninteresttng bout Cor
bett used a crouch and coverup that
made it impossible for Rivers to get
to him with sufficient force to knock
him out, although he hammered blows
to the head and jaw with great regu-
larity. Corbett opened up in the eighth
and tried to make a standup fight Of
1t, but got considerably the worst of It
and went back 10 his crouch and stone
wall defense After the fight Corbett
explained that he had weighed in with
his clothes on and did not move the
beam when set at I2& pounds While
Rivers stripped and had dimculty IN
doing the agreed weight Corbett or
fered to bet $4,000, more or less. that he
would be the winner if Rivers would do
116 pounds for him.
BLOOM OUTPOINTS ROGERS
The semi-Windup was scheduled as a
ten-rOund affair between AL Rogers and
Morrie Bloom both making 1876 pounds
at 10 o'clock in the morning Ii was a
case of fast and clever boxer against
a game fighter and the fighter won Oh
points easily. Bloom kept a stream of
claret flowing from the nose of Rogers
after the fifth round, and his clever
boxing and generalship forced Rogers
TO swing wildly and miss most of his
leads Rogers put up good finish for
half the final round, but Bloom more
than eVenod mp the hOnors for that ses-
sion in the last minute. Bloom scored
the only kuockdoWn of the fight, work
ing right hook to the jaw in the ninth
that sent Rogers down, but he was up
Immediately. Bloom showed consider
able Improvement in this fight over the
effort he put up in his maiden effort in
the local ring when he lost to Dalton.
The decision Of the referee was ap-
proved by the fans without dissent. as
the Chicago boy had such a good lead
at the end that there was no reasonable
chance to dispute his right to the ver-
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