The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-18
KNOCkOUTS ABOUND
WHEN PUGS SCRAP
ON BENS0N'S CARD
Bussen, Stegall, Jeffries and
Dillon Force Opponents to
Quit Early in Scheduled
Fights. -

Sleep producers were effective last
night when a fair-sized crowd of fight
fans watched the entertainment pro-
vided by Promoter Benson.
Ray Busssn disposed Of Laugle, his
opponent, in the.second round.
Arthur Stigall stopped Anne Carpen-
ter. before the Richmond boy got
started r~ az
Kid Jeffries@ eorced Chester Meyers
to quit in the seventh round
Tommy Dillon crumbled Victor
Wright with body blows in the fourth.
Laugle and Ray Bussen, two local
boys, were induced to go on at the
last minute in scheduled four-round
and Raging with his honor, the
referee. in the first round Laugle fail
ed to avoid Bussen's sleep producer.
Shortly after the gong had sounded in
the second round Laugle received a
mighty swing in the mouth. He hit
the floor with q smack and fell asleep.
He was not counted out as the state
law prohibits.
The second offering Of the evening
was between Little Arthur Stigall of
Independence, Kan, and Anne Car
penter of Richmond. Anne started out
70 do great guns in the first part Of
the first round. After swinging wild
a couple times Little Arthur began to
get busy and put Anne to the floor
with well-aimed hook to the jaw.
Anne was right up again but got in the
way of two other blows which induced
him to give up.
Meyers Quits Jeff.
Chester Meyers. who promised Ben
son to make Jeff step some in this
meeting again showed the white feath-
er after being numerically walloped
about the ring for seven rounds and
quit again. This will be the last time
he will be matched by Benson.
Fight by rounds:
First-Neither boy did much lead
ing, apparently waiting for the other
to start something. Round even.
Second-Jeff got the first good
blows of the bout when he shot
couple Of hooks to the body and rush
ed Meyers to the ropes. Meyers retail
lated with a heavy crack to Jeff's
head. Round even.
Third-This round was even al
though Jeff was marking Meyers with
stingers to the body. Meyers got in
an occasional blow to the head.
Fourth-Meyers rocked Jeff with
blow to the neck. Jeff began to warm
up and was clearly outclassing his OPP
ponent. Towards the last, Jeff shot a
beauty to Meyers chin and had him
hanging on to save himself Jeff's
round
Jeff Warns Up.
Fifth-Meyers connected with hook
to chin. Jeff coming back with body
blows which were telling on Meyers.
Meyers led in the first part of the
round with Jeff regaining toward the
last Round even.
Sixth-Jeff did all the leading in
this round but Meyers stayed away
and what few blows were struck were
love taps. Round even.
Seventh-Meyers landed to Jeff's
eye. Jeff waded into his opponent
and landed to body, face and every
other old place with the result that
Meyers asked that the proceeding be
stopped as he had enough.
The main 60 of the evening was the
best. Tommy Dillon and Victor
Wright putting up good scrap all the
way through,
First round-They both started
strong with Wright getting the first
blow Dillon, however, seemed to be
OUItT anu gave do luuCu punishment
as he took. Round even.
Dillon Lands x. o.
Second-They started mixing 1t in
earnest; Wright hitting hard to Dill
Ions face who returned with a wick
ed one to the chin. Wright rushed
him to the ropes and some claim was
made that Dillon struck Wright low,
but it was not allowed. Round even.
Third-Dillon got wild and rushed
Wright who calmly put two straight
from the shoulder into Dillon's jaw.
Wright made every blow count in this
round. not missing once. He showed
Dillon the way. 1t was his round
easy.
Fourth-Dillon brought the first
gore of the festivities when he landed
on Wright's nose He followed with
a couple of wicked ones to Wright's
body who crumbled and was unable
to go on. Dillon gets credit for a