Evening journal., 1919-12-13
KEYSTONE BOYS
AGAIN MIX 'EM
Boxing, Wrestling, Song and
Story Make Some
Smoker
BURRIS WINS ON
POINTS OVER STOKES

Those who We're fortunate saoug$
10 be the invited guests OF The Key
stone Field Club at Y NJ. II. A. Hall
last night. proved first ihat supporters
OF real sport are not lacking 10 VIII
-aington. ami second, that they win
,ack the club to the limit in Che cfiort
II Is making to promote sport in his
city.
The Keystone boys put up five snap
py boxing bouts last night aud one
ton notch wrestling session, and The
brand of action shown 10y practically
all Of the men within the ropes proved
hat the old town is no back number
as yet when IL comes 10 turning oui
athletes Last nights exhibitions
marked the star or "a 5000 campaign
for the benefit Of the club.
The most interesting. AS well as the
most laughablc bout OF lhc evening
was the four-r0unG mill between
soldier stokes and Mike Burns, cham
pion welterwoight of Aiyhigln. Stokes
made his usual comical grimaces, and
rushed repeatedly no Burns swinging
his arms like a baseball pitcher, and
glowerlng Ike fcrocious animal ai
his antagonist Burns didn't scare
much by Stokes taciics and let the
Soldier have 10 hot and heavy from
port and starboard batteries. but he
caveman assimilated the iolts. and
vaded back for more. More was forth !
coming. but not matter how hard /
Burns landed, and the blows smackcd /
throughout auditorium. he could I
not seem TO fluster the doughty dough /,
boy
Had any one OF about twenty Of /
Stokes blows landed On Burns Jaw. /
70 would have been all over but the I
flowers, with the skylarks trlling
sweet music. but the Michigan lad .
proved that he was as clever dodger
as ne was a smter, and iho tremeu- /
dous swings whizzed balefully over I
his back
At times the Soldier would cover mp,
looking The picture Of defeated delec-
tlon, then suddenly would uncork a
swing, that made The guests in the
rear Of the auritorium shver in the 4
draught. No decision was given, OF 4
course, but popular decision would :
be that Burns had IL easily on points.
Tn the windup, which was wrest-
ling bout between Johnny Barclay, the .
popular welterweight wrestler, who is .
10 leave Wilmington tomorrow. FOR
Oregon, and his clubmato. Joe Jacobs
The former threw Jacobs with an arm
and body hold in minutes and 3 sec
onds. Joe put up sli6 contest for &,
about i've minutes. but the veteran
proved too much for him. Johnny
Cooper refereed the bouts.
In the semi-windup, Cyro Adam,
amateur champion OF Newark n. j.. and {
Solly Woods, the well-known Brook ]
lyn scrapper OF parts, mixed together 7
with great gusiO, I'm a contest refereed {
by Mike Burns. During the FIRST two {
rounds WOOds got a little the better I
by taking The defensive but the las, &
Two periods were Gyro's by a shade j
Woods, however, was ready TO mix I'm
as any moment, but the superior STAN !
ina and longer reach OF the taller man y
commenced 20 tell before the conclu- y
tlOn OF the four-round bout.
The first prelim brought together
Kid Yodel and Kid Sun. Both boxers
were amateurs, and boxed wide open. !
but there We're some wicked wallops J
stopped during the encounter. Yodel ;
took the offensive throughout the bout. {
and also some stiT punches I'm the ]
bargain, but nothing seemed 90 phase" 9
him, for he gave p little better than 3
was sent flying at him. This match I
started whiz bang and never st0pped {
FOR a moment until the watch was out. I
In the second prelim. two well-buil. }
i25-pOunders, Kid Bicords and Mike S
Bennett, exchanged roundhouse punch
rs until the cows came home. Bennett
took the Initiative during most Of the G
bout, but at times Bicords came back ]
with vengeance. Mike essayed TO \
and a number Of swings which started S
from the canvas, but most Of them only a
threw him of his banance. The scrap q
ended Ike a whirlwnd, with both
nit artists hopping at each other IN q
he center Of the ring |
In the ilrst Semi-nnal. Andy Iolson r
lldr's have much Of a chance against d
frankie Lewis, for the latter made {
punching bag Of his head at ihe start u
IN, so the referee, jack Ward was q
obliged to put an Cad 10 the encounter {
A. the conclusion OF the initial period g
boxing and wrestling wasn't all that {
happened at the Keystone clubs
smoker last night. Denny and Burns n
The widely-known blacK-face ,omcd- {
'sns. climbed mn on The stage. and Kent a
every soul with a sense OF humor con h
fulsed with laughs, filters. shouts and Il
suffaws for fifteen minutes. 4
The crowd wanted Them back az the / 4
conclusion Of the time allotted TO h
them. Ed Paynter accompanied the n
'augh artists, in two songs. q
The entertainment committee mad I
also provided entertainment in The
'orm Of songs by William Seidel and q
n Maloney. Both men were ihe +
lonees Of generous applause K
More than 500 persons witnessed the a
louts. q