Arizona republican., 1913-07-19
READ BELLIES
 APPEARANCES
Kid With the Cute Face Makes Al Maxwell Stall to Stay the Ten Spaces in Good Exhibition at the ElkS' Theatcr

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 This is the story of low appear
 ances can be deccitful. It is con l cerncd with the manner in which the ] baby faced Read of Los Angeles be- ! lies his looks. It will also deal with
 the way one Al Maxwell, also of Los l Angeles and subbing for Johnny | Schneider, can take and escape pun
 ishment
 | After having ignored two towels. i flung into the ring by his seconds ! in the fifth contortion of the ten round main event before the Phoenix 1 Athletic club last night, Al Maxwell stayed the limit, took q slew of punish ! ment and lasted long enough. in fact to demonstrate that it takes lot | to put real good boxer on the can 1 vas while d referee can swing his right mitt up and down ten times | There was more mixing in the ten rounds of the main event last night l than one often sees in d twenty round go. Maxwell started out lead ing with his right through the first two rounds, though Read was ob- Viously the stronger of the two Read chiefly distinguished himself with his clever foot work and the>- accuracy of his blows. He had Maxwell best ed in time and distance. But Max was there with that stallng stuff He knew Read had it on him from the start. so after he had felt out a few rounds he contcntcd himself with escaping just as many of those long speedy slams as the referee would allow. At that. he put up a game fight, frequently staying to mix it with Read and often rushing the l = away stuff was classy all through Read landed scarcely a blow that did
 not find Maxwell gliding back Still the Kiddo administered a lot of punishment.
 In the fifth MaxweIrs second mis- took his stalling tactics for mortal weakness. So they chuckcd two | towels into the ring, the same idea having occurred to each at the same time Memsic consulted Maxwell with
 a look and kicked the rags out of the enclosure, much to the approval of both boxers and the audience Max well then started his slip-one-ov and-g getaway stunt. and Read slow
 ed down bit. This round was fol- 1 lowed by an even break. in which Maxwell gave IS much as he took l The seventh was all rushcs from one | side of the ring to the other Max | well classcd good as al sprintCr, and 1 Read was not so far behind but he could land one or two. Maxwell ! would face about with q couple of | haymakcrs and then move on again. ! Read landed better in these long at tempts, and oftener. but he did not l seem to be able to put Maxwell down. | Round eight was a stall on both sides Mcmsic who had declared in the in- ha to break the boxers was kept busy He moved more in that space than 1 in all the rest put together. In the
 ninth it seemed that Read was going after MaX's goat with a wide loop and enthusiastic swing. His best efforts found a shadow to rest upon however, and the fans checred when Maxwell stood at the end of the round.
 1 Maxwell. bad and all as his condi- | tion was. put up game effort to ! stop Read in the tenth. The Kid l,stuck with him, though, and when ! he found no chance the older boy l began to glide away some moro. Read l appeared disgusted that he could not l land securely on the elusive Max. | Once he stopped and swung his arms wide to invite a WallOp. but Max was | foxy. He wouldn't risk that youthful | mitt on his jaw. But Read did man age to place a hearty swat about the
 middle of the round. His right hand met MaXwelrs jaWbone after having | glanced off his shoulder. The fans 1 at the ringside heard a pop as Reads ! thumb bent back under the misdi- rected pressure But for this slight | mishap, he claims, he would have l probably put Maxwell out before the | round was over. As it was, the bell
 found them whanging away at each | others stomachs in one of their close embraces.
 ] The PreIminaries
 But for Kid Cooks broken hand,
 the first preliminary would have lasted the limit. and pretty evenly.
 He stopped in the third.
 Referee Skdmore stopped the sec
 Ond preliminary in the third round, when Young Bill Rivers had Kid 1 Crozier beaten to the quitting point. ! Kid was on the mat with the second | of Rivers knock downs, undecided
 whether to take nine second and get ] back in the game or lie still and call
 it K. c. Skid never so much as
 counted. but motioned the boys to 1 their corners.
 Kid Williams bested Mickey Hogan | in the third preliminary, winning be | cause his wind was better and the i Mick out of condition. Each of these 1 bows scored q nine count knock down, | Hogan in the first and Williams in i the third.