El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-13
THOMPSON DEFEATS
UNHOLz At SYDNEY
The American Boxer Wins
Easily Over South Afri-
can Lightweight.
(By T. s. Andrews. Special Cores
pOndent)

pO1OCllJ
Sydney, Australia, Nov 10.-The third
of the American boxersJ ohnny Thomp-
son, of Sycamore, nL-made his ap-
pearance at the Stadium last night and
scored a victory over Rude Unholz the
South African lightweight, now of the
states. Unholz was clearly beaten at
the end of the fifth round, and in the
first 40 seconds of the sixth the referee,
Snowey Baker, stopped the contest and
gave the verdict to Thompson.
The victory was not very popular
with the crowd, as Thompson was de-
cidedly heavier than Unholz, and nat
urally the crowd was with the smaller
man. Johnny was SO anxious tn score
q knockout earty, that he lost his head
a bit in the fifth when he hal Rude
about out, and stood almost over him
twice after scoring knockdowns, an3
had to be warned away by the referee,
but no foul was committed and the win
was clean out one for the Sycamore
farmer. From the way the men sized
up in the ring it looked as though John
ny was fully 10 to IL pounds heavier
than Rude. and if he expects to get
down to the lightweight limit for the
American champion he will have to
work very hard indeed, but Johnny
must know that ne can do it or he
would not be willing to post a forfeit
of $1,000 to make the weight for a
match with Wolgast.
Crowd With Unholz.
The crowd was about the same size
that saw Billy Papke defeat Ed Will
liams, but it was all in favor of IN
holz, owing to the difference in weight,
as stated before. The sea voyage over
increased Johnny's weight considerably.
and he has found it hard to reduce In
this climate; in fact. all the Americans
have found it hard to reduce here.
Fight by Rounds.
In the first round Thompson started
after Rude as though he intended to
make short work of it, but the little
fellow was shifty and hard to corner.
Rude jabbed back with a left that
found Johnny's face several times, but
there was not enough power behind
more boy. 1t was Johnny's round by
small margin. In the second they came
to mixing in the center of the ring, and
exchanged wallops for ten seconds,
during which Rudie's nose began to
show claret. This was also Thompson's
round. In the third, Rude made the
best showing of the contest. He fought
clever and kept jabbing his left into
Johnny's face and switching again to
was cut slightly. 1t was shade in ia
vor of Unholz- The fourth began to tell
on Rude and he received a couple of
nasty 1efts to the jaw and rights to the
side Of the head, which made him grog-
gy Thompson had him going and it
looked as though the end was ap-
preaching. In the fifth Johnny went
after his man hard. but received hard
left to the jaw. This did not even halt
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Rudie's jaw with a hard left Rude
went to the mat for the count of eight.
This is where Johnny stood almost over
Unholz until warned away. Upon aris-
ing, Rude bumped into another left, and
went to the canvas again. He was put
down the sixth time. just as the bell
sounded. 1t appeared as though the
seconds would have been wise TO hoist
the towel then, but they permitted their
man to go into the sixth. After receiv-
ing a short left jolt to the side Of the
head Rude went down and the referee
stopped the bout, II being TOO uneven
then.
Knocks Finger Out of Joint.
During the third round, Thompson
knocked the first joint of his right
hand out Of place. and it panied him
until it was pulled back into place after
the contest. 1t will be a week before
he can use it again, but the injury is
not a serious one.
Thompson's next battle will be with
Hughie Meaghan, the local lightweight,
champion, but Johnny will have to do
under 40 pounds or Hughie will not
meet him. Meaghan is a very clever lad
end will give the Sycamore boy much
harder battle, as he will be harder to
get at He also carries good wallop
himself