The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-05
ROCKIES DECISION IS
GREETED With RIOT
Referee of Welsh-Whte Fight Is As
saulted by Fight Fans at
Colorado Springs.
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comfortable their stay on the pine
benches of the arena The second weIsh's
arm was raised on high and as Freddie
jumped between the ropes and scampered
away to his dressing room, there started
a cushion bombardment aimed at Roche
and the men in Welsh's corner. Cushions
simply rained on and about the ring.
and as many of the hurIers did not have
the best of control, some Of the padded
seats fell far from the Welsh corner
Women as well as the men were struck
with the flying and whirling missiles
Hats were smashed, people were knock
ed down and there were a dozen fights
not on the bill staged about the arena
The ring itself was yard deep in cush-
ions.
The fans were getting angrier every
minute and those close enough were aim
ing their cushions at Roche and Harry
Pollok. Roche had ducked over to the
Welsh corner. There was a swirl of irate
bugs about them, and the situation was
getting more threatening every minute.
Some of the cushions were connecting
with Roche and Pollok. the latter being
staggered couple of times. Just at this
critical time the sheriff and a bunch of
deputies and police fought their way to
the spot. They rescued Roche and took
him outside to a waiting automobile.
Then the bottle throwers got busy and
several of them came close to beaning
Billy before they got the car under way
Roche was in the front seat and the car
was surrounded. A deputy arose in the
back seat and pulled a revolver. He sure
ly would have shot into the crowd had
not one of the officers With him grabbed
his gun hand as the car nosed its way
out Of the jam. This ended one of the
most exciting days in the history of mod
ern championship boxing contests
1t was wonderful demonstration in
favor Of the challenger and took much of
the JOY out of the Welsh victory Nine
out Of ten Of the spectators evidently
thought White entitled to at least a draw
because he was the only fighter in the
ring. They all figured the champion was
boxing solely to retain his crown and not
give them a run for their money, and
Welsh himself admits that they are cor
rect in that deduction. 1t was a rather
hollow win for the Briton under the cir
cumstances and will not hurt White, ex-
cept that Charlie will be cautioned for
boxing waiting battle and opening IN
with his big guns too late in the day.
welsh was given the decision after his
cautious battle on the strength of scoring
a few more points than the other fellow
with two powder puff blows, one a light
lett slap to the face, the other a mild,
chubby right that he used on Whites kid
neys in the clinches. He bumped a little
scao of Charles nose that bled a trife
and pulled up one eye a bit That was
all His defense was the one thing to
admire in him. 1t was perfect.
The writer still sticks to the assertion
he made yesterday-that White could
have won II he fought his fight He did
not give us all that was in him. Charlie
stood back on the heels of his fat feet
during many precious minutes. He was
winning at the finish and would surely
nave conquered the veteran in a longer
fight