El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16
Max Halford VIII Fight With
Frank Fowser In Juarez Sunday
All Fighters Are in Shape
For the Sundy Bouts
Over the River.

~ wv \ 10 weight WIN every muscle
of both principals in splendid
condition, everything is set fol
the Halford-Fowser bout in Juarel
Sunday afternoon. billed to go Il
rounds. Both boys would up boxing
Friday afternoon and only light exer-
else in walking and shadow boxing
was taken by each fighter Saturday.
The preIims are all in excellent condi-
ton, and were pronounced so by DR..
G. B. CaIman, club physician, Friday,
who made a tour of all the camps. This
is the first time this season that three
perliminaries have been booked, ard,
as they are all snappy boys, it seems
certain they viii be popular.
The entire Cottage camp is in good
nature, the result of their two weeks
of stiff training The medicine ball
was tossed Friday for four minutes by
all four boxers, after a light shadow
boxing and rope skipping exercise had
geen gone through. Mat work was
also on the card and all of the fighters
did a turn on the mattress.
FOwser has gone through his first
course of real training in his entire
career and the Welter is in the best
possible condition for the bout. His
left hand is now held out in the fash
ION Oh the ulL ana ESL away Olu sly &c
boxer, and his perfect right is always
in readiness TO slide across to an I'M
protected point
Both Fowser and Halford are dis
tance boxers, who also know quite bit
about infighting and the bout is GER
tain to be fast and snappy throughout
the IS rounds.
A o. Ross, manager of FoWser, de-
clared that he would hand SIS to
frankie Gage If he would step in the
ring against his protege. Besides the
$25 SIS will be placed on FoWser to
win the Is rounds" said Ross, The
weight will be 142 at 10 o'clock, and
we would be glad to meet him in a 20
round bout"
Halford wound up his boxing after
three rounds with Bob York Friday
afternoon. The sailor looked a bit
Overworked Friday evening, but the
Saturday day of rest will probably put
Kid" Reyes and Bob York have
worked with Halford for the past
week, and coupled with the efforts of
trainer Al Drager, he will probably be
in the best of shape and scale under
the specified mark He is naturally a
clever and tough boy, with a hard
punch if he can get it over. In his
with a man Of his own weight
he seems to be an entirely different
boy from the man who fought Cor
don He is excellent at blocking and
his right jab hardly misses Halford's
Judge of distance is also excellent, and
he is there in the clinches.
The snappiest and probably the most
evenly matched preliminaries thus far
will be staged In the curtain raiser,
Kid" Raves and kid" Pena, Mexican
yelters, will inaugurate the show in
four-roUnd contest Next come Bat
ling Dick Evans and kid" Graves,
antamweights, who will battle for
our stanZas. Battling" Burke and
Ohnny Kane who has been clamoring
or a bout in the Juarez arena for
ONE time, viii clash in the semi
7indup.
Evans and Burke have been working |
[ the Cottage camp. Both are about /
he same size, with Burke having a /
eW pounds advantage, and the boys |
ave boxed two fast rounds since Mon /
ay- Evans has rounded into excellent |
hape, his wind having developed He /
the cleverest bantam that has shown 4
camp this season He carries a
tiff punch and knows how to use it.
raves, who is booked to meet Evans, 1
-orked out at the Cottage earlier in
ne evening. Graves is q hard hitting
OXer and is IN excellent condition.
Burke and Kane are both down to /
eight for their contest Burke has /
in two former bouts at /
le arena, and has shown himself to be |
4 aggressive boxer, with cleVerness
, come with experience. There is al
avs a hot battle when Burke fights.
nd there is sure to be one Sunday.
The referee question has not vet
zen settled Fred Sloan has presented
IS objections TO Stewart who handed |
own a verdict against Halford last
Inday. Billy Smith will probably be