El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-15
Why Not Haze Rain Checks,
Hight Fails to Go S Rounds
Termination of Main Bout by Foul in the Early Stages
Is Not Pleasing to Followers of the Game-Fun Is
All Outside the Squared Circle-A Glimpse
of the Fans in Tiers and Tears
CBy Norman NJ. waIker.)

" HAT Latin-American announcer
should have made one more an
4 nOuncement at the prize fight
Sunday. His lay should have been to
the tune that If the fight did not go
rOunds-the fans would please rise and
get rain shecks at the cubby hole en-
trance TO that bull ring.
The hard working sports, who dug
deep for 81, 81 and even So for the
privilege of watching a bunch of bat
tiers swap punches, went away with
the feeling that they had been given
the Johnnie Russell but they could not
quite agree as to how the dope had
been administered. At best the much
heralded convention Of fistiana, was
an anti climax The program got
away ike a quarter horse, what with
those two battling boys Williams and
Atwood swapping blows like a couple
OF gutter fighters. Then came the
semi-windup between Duffy and sailor
Max Halford, which was a fair ex-
change for the money, barring the big
one which went but four rounds to
foul.
No Fight without Kid Lee.
As usual, the fun was all outside Of
the squared circle of the rOped arena
What would a fight in the Juarez
arena amount to without Kid Lee, so
old that he has false teeth, still sec
oRding whatever boy he could get with
and fighting the battle all over again
IN the corner Of the one he was sec
onding. Then the Big Kid cuts con-
siderable frappe fruit in the Juarez
fights, for he is always there with a
dinky camera so small that it seems a
shame for such a big man to be carry
ing IT. The Kid is the unofficial pho
tographer for this fight organization
and ne snaps away always with the
longing that he Will get a knockout
on his kodak film The Kid is a bear
for this knockout stuff.
Col PcrtIIIO, a Fight Fan.
And Enrique PortiIlo, colonel in the
federal force. sits right down there
at the ringside and roots as hard as
any school boy at a college football
game. Col. POrtillo is no player of
favcrites and he roots for his man,
win, loose or 0arW. Duffy was the
cOlOneIs particular choice Sunday and
he rooted in Spanish, English and Chi
nese for his winner.
Old Doc McCamant is right there by
the ringside at every fight has been
for the past 25 years, and will be IN
I'll they quit having EN-. Doe just
naturally likes a fight and goes be-
cause there are not enough kings
horses and kings men in FL Paso to
keep him away.
A Glimpse Of the Crowd.
Past performers, future hopes. white,
black and tan, and black. camp fol-
lowers and dry goods clerks who 20
IN for fighting because it is such a
manly game-by proxy, are all there.
They are ranged in tiers (also in tears
after a fight around that square plot
Of canvas in the center Of the bull
ring It reminds one of a Pigs in
clover puzzle when lamped from the
peanut gallery seat at the top.
Entry of the Fighters.
The preliminaries have been fought,
the crowd has hooted and cheered the
referees dcisiOn and a calm before the
storm Of the big battle settles over the
Sunday afternoon crowd
From the arched entrance where the
old toro comes out to meet his death,