Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-18
KLEMME WASEASl
MARK FOR THE
HILO LION


HILO, June 16.-Turn Ben de Mello
and Kid Klemme out in two mile
race track, put weights on the Lion
and let the alleged San Francisco pug
strip. and chances are even the Hilo
man would punish the heretofore as
piring youngster in less than fifteen
minutes
Anyway the chances are just as
equal for this hypothetical contest as
they were for the ten round boxing
contest staged between these two at
the Armory last Saturday night. Per-
haps this Is not put strong enough to
let you know what actually happened.
Here are a couple of more examples
for your imagination to work upon,
If you didn't see the fighter slaught-
err: Did you ever notice how little
an elephant minds fly upon its hide!
Or did you ever see a full growpT rail-
road engine bump hand car sffi the
That "off the track" expression, by
the way, seems more happily to fit
the Saturday night circumstances than
any of the others. If de Mello had
not kept humping Klemme of the
track, or to be more explicit out Of
the ring, he might have annoyed the
Lion by few feints at his opponents
face.
How many times Klemme went out
of the ring and through the ropes this
article will not attempt to specify. 1t
would have taken a lightning calcu-
lator to keep account. Sometimes it
happened with the same rapidity that
bags OF sugar run out of a chute into
steamer. When 1t came to going
down to his knees, and fat on his
back. Klemme is some little champion.
He has got everything beat in that
line, seen in Hilo, since the circus
came here with troop of clowns.
But Klemme has class in another
way. He3is fast on hiss feet backing
up-although he is no doubt used to
straight course and found the
squared circle" annoying for he
stepped out Of the ring about As fire.
quently as de Melio knocked him out.
Still there is some hope expressed that
Klemme may develop into a racer for
his foot speed is marvellous.
Who ever ribbed up Klemme into
thinking he was a scrapper had bet
ter look out, or the society that pro-
secutes people for inhumanity to chill:
dren is apt to get his number
Charity keeps this report from say
ing what 1t is and the fight fans think
about the staging of such q go by the.
promoters. That the police stopped
the fight after the fifth round, follow
ing the putting to the mat Of the little
boy some six or seven times, and that
all bets were declared OF, deserves
more commentator than anything
else concerned with what was claim
ed to be an evenings sport.
There was laugh in the SCRAP,
though Evidently someone had made
Ben think he was going up against a
clever boxer and he started in with q
Nelson-like grin and a Roosevelt show
ing of teeth to get Kemme's goat
After he had landed 4 singer and
Klemme bounced across the ring like
a rubber ball, de Mello looked about
as foolish as did the spectators. What
Ben thinks about all the time he vast
ed training isn't for publication.
As to Klemme, he says What do
you think of those police stopping the
nght?" It's happy thing they did
or there would have been mighty
good prospect for self-thought fight
er's funeral after another round or
two. A healthy physical constitution.
youth and comfortable fargo gloves
saved him from the hospital as II was.
There is moral buried in ,Klemme's
experience in the ring, but it's an even
bet he can't find 1t. 1t runs something
like this: when your opponent is
any kind of a scrapper, he does not
come back, gently, like a punching
bag"
That Klemme was game cannot be
denied, but you have to forget what
such words as Judgment and brains
suggest, to remember that he did not
show a yellow streak.
The preliminaries were passable.
Serpa and Richardson love-tapped for
three rounds and then Richardson got
offended and hit Serpa nasty clip
on the nose from which he Is still
recovering. A Filipino and Portu-
guese youngster attempted to give a
boxing exhibition and that was all
which has not been told, up to the
time captain of police turned referee