Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-23
Shame Rain Vas Cheated
From Causing Cmrcella.
,ion OF Bout That Looked
Good on Paper
SOCCO REAL SOCKER
By LOUIS Fl, JAFFE

COMEBODY failed to function at the
~ Olympia last night. with so fine
an Apache dance as that put ON by
Rocco Kansas and Artie O'Leary. fell
low statemen from New York, the one
In charge of festivities forgot to bring
along the piano player, or some other
apropcs moosiker, to render the neces-
sary selection so that the event could
have been more of a success.
It was somewhat of a success, from
a rough neck dancing standpoint, but
those present really expected to see
boxing bout. IL couldn't be called that
1t was a shame that the show was not
scheduled to be held at one of the ball
parks or any old place in the open
air. For one perfectly good reason the
temperature, like Red Walsh in the
third bout; took an awful flop, causing
the, spectators almost to wilt. And an
other excellent reason was that 1t start
ed to rain just as the bell sounded for
the alleged windup stars to get into
action. We knew It started raining
then because of the added drenching
from a leak in the roof besides that
from the sponge handled by Sam Wal
lace. brother Of Leach Cross and who
handled oLeary.
Looked Good-But Wasn't
Had It been necessary for the
O'Leary- Kansas bout to be called off
because Of the rain there wouldn't have
been any kickers, that is had a fore
sight of the contest been given by some
wise person.
The bout did look good-on paper.
Under ordinary circumstances a boxer;
like O'Leary, and fighter, like Kan
sas, should have put up an interesting
melee. But they didn't. And it was
O'Leary's fault more so than Rocky's.
Kansas, sawed off and hammered
down, stood head and shoulders under
the towering O'Leary, who should have
had little trouble outboxing the Buffalo
cave man. But he didn't.
Instead of standing off and boxing
the aggressive petit pug, O'Leary, who
uses this handle because he isn't Irish
stood fat footed and blocked all of
Kansas. rushes. Then Artie pro
ceeded to hold on. If Bob Folwell was
for he could have learned lot about
tackling. O'Leary made some beautiful
grapples and often he held on so tightly
that Referee Lou Crimson had trouble
in separating the pair.
Kansas Was Victor
For the benefit of those who are sufi =
cientfy interested in a decision it might
be stated that Kansas was the winner.
but it was apparent that nobody cared.
Many of the spectators vacated their
seats as early as the second round and
the downpour on the outside was the
only thing that kept them on the in
side.
There were several good bouts. Able
Friedman, of New York, put up an in :
teresting exhibition in winning from Joe
O,Donnell in the scheduled six rounds
bringing blood from Joey's right eye
in the fifth and more claret from
O'Donnells nose in the sixth. Young
Socco, of Boston, proved himself a
regular socker by making great sock
ing rally in the final frame of his six =
rounder with frankie Clark, thereby
winning by slight margin. This was
Clsrk's> bow of the 1919 20 campaign
The other bout, which wasn't so bad,
resulted in victory for Joe Geiger over
Jack London.
Young Jack Toland collected his
guarantee before he could even work up
a sweat when Red Walsh's seconds
tossed a jersey into the ring. Walsh,
who substituted for frankie McManus,
was ready to- take the high dive anyway.