Arizona republican., 1913-12-06
THERE'S NOTHING ID CHOOSE
 TWEEN MEX AND MAX IN BOUT
Sailor Keeps Garter Away With Copy of Memsic's Left Latter Fast
 but Wild.


 Sailor Max HaIford's lusty left arm deserves a Carnegie hero medal all it's own, for it saved it's owner a most un- holy Walloping last even. The willing little fighting machine that goes by the name of Mexican Kid Carter, as fast as a flash and wilder than whole flock of Salt river geese was unable to put the deep sea fighter in the brig in ten rounds of the classiest mixing that has been seen in Phoenix since George tBeg pardon, no familiarity intended) since Professor Memsic outpointed P Daley in the same arena last fall
 The fight was a draw
 By scoring one good and one shop worn knockdown in the fifth space. and by putting on a burst of speed in the tenth, Max evened up any slight ad vantage that Mex might have gotten during the mill and so drew down an even decision. When the last bell rang. and the crowds began to surge-one toward the door and the other toward the ring, Halford shook off the trainers who Were coming at him with blankets and did a neat back flip right in the middle of the ring. He was cheered to the echo
 The boxing was Carter's.
 0oe Levy NOunSSter had HalfOrd badly beaten for speed. He was work ing all the time. swinging three times to the Sailors once Although he did not land nearly all his blows. he at least followed every lead and countered after each of Halford's head rocking Iefts. Halford was going away every minute of the fight up to the ninth. when he essayed little of that chas- ing stuff on his own hook
 HalfOrd took his fight very seriously The Mex was smiling six inch smile practically all the time The iabbing left to the jaw that Tapped his head back between his shoulder blades. and landed about every time the twain mixed 1t was not husky enough to smear that grin into something less at lractVe. If facial expression ever won 2 nght, then the visitor from the coast chmeS was a long way winner for Max looked like somebody had licked the laSses off his bread. He never. cracked a smile except when he badly bent that of his opponent in the fifth The knock down came with both fight CTS crouching and swinging for the soft place in the pit of the stomach. Hal lords greater reach enabled him +o cut the Mexican a wicked right in the belly, and the Kids feet went ont hack, ward toward Joe Levy's private box The kid fell on his face bu+ got nm without a count. He tried to blow NTax out of the ring with q succession of Wild swings at the face. and when he Jack Tar again passed at that stom- aeh spot. the Mex fell again. There is a suspicion that this last was a Christ 1ah science knock down. and that Car ter only thought he was hit.
 Halford walked backward enough to nave gotten him into all the baseball games of the 1913 season. With tho MeXIcans left toe tapping, tapping tapping out in front, it was time for me Sailor to slide and he did. He lead orr the left to the face as a prelude 1lsucano to every mix the two had. and landed by far the most of his blows 4 man who is in the habit of getting off Ehre"d suspicious every once in a While would say that Halford had earned what his dear teacher taught In the bout with Memsic fair ,,aal l ne aInbldeXtrous manner in which he 1ought was strong reminder Of the ilishIy capitalized scrappings of c. Mem SIC, 70 whom enough respect has been pald Tn the lead ''ppg'' of this narra tive ."
 There was less clinchine than f,, most fights. Whenever they eot io+o one or these here things. one ar the olher would administer a lucky vyaIIo,, 1 ulat would separate the factions moro i successfully than a cock main hammer 1 Ing between the lines of the EInarta l and Carranza minfons. |