The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-26
{. CHICAGO
BOUTS ARE
BEST YET
WhirlWind Scraps At New Arena
Are Seen By Big Crowd
Saturday P. NJ.

frankie Mason of Fort wayne dis
played his championship caliber at the
East Chicago arena Saturday afternoon
when he came out victor over Chica go's
flyweight wonder. Jimmy Kelly. in ten
round battle Kelly fought a mighty
good fight and proved to the fans that
he really in what his managers have
been claiming. a future championship
contender at least The bout was the
last OF four, each OF which travelled the
fun ten rounds and each OF which was
full of action.
Kelly showed himself very clever with
the gloves and although he admitted
after the fight that he had never
travelled at such a fast pace he was still
going strong at the finish He had much
the harder fight OF the two since Mason
played the champions game and al
lowed Kelly TO bring the battle TO b..
He was content to wait for the little
Italians attack making no special ef-
fort to do any damage, but always plac-
ing a blow as the opportunity offered.
So little did he exert himself and SO
skiIlfully did he maneuver he was usual
~ IN his own corner at the end Of the
round. making II unnecessary for him
to even walk back 10 his chair, and only
IN the seventh and eighth rounds did
he attempt to hurt his opponent.
During the first half OF the fight Ma
con loafed on the Job much that
Kelly, who was continually on the hop
earned himself a draw through his ag
gressiveness. but at no time was there
any doubt as to who was the master
Mason waited his time and Kelly
would ny in for a left to the stomach
he would be met with a one-two wal
Top. most Of which connected but failed
70 slow up the attacker materially. Ma
son had little difficulty in placing his
blows where he wanted them, but missed
a number when he started 10 tear into
Jimmy in the seventh and eighth. In
the seventh Mason connected with
Kelly's nose and started the blood which
he kept flowing for the rest Of the fight
After this blow the champion stepped in
and although he set fast pace the
young Italian was able to dodge most
of the dan gerous ones and return few
blows himself Again in the eighth
Mason made whirlwind attack. but
Kelly was able to weather il to the
satisfaction of all.
Otto Wallace. the boy who made such
a hit the week before when he fought
Jimmy Hanlon to a standstill. found
that he had taken on more than he bar
gained for and although he put up
great fight was unable to do any dam
age to Jack Lewis of Toledo Lewis,
who usually fights in the weiter weight
class weighed in for the fight az 155.
but he had the reach. heigh and every
thing else in his favor. Wallace kept
him busy and deserves a great deal Of
credit for his aggressiveness even
though Lewis did get away with a shade
Stanley Everett of Pekin. Ill. won a
shade in the first bout of the card when
he gave Johnny Hagen of Chicago a few
pointers in the boxing game. Everett
played the lodging game and. although
Hagen fought hard and landed num-
Der of telling blows came through with
nothing worse than small cut over
the eye. Hagen was badly cut about
the mouth from blows which Everett had
little difficulty in placing after Hagen
had dropped his guard in futile attempts
20 hit the Pekin boy.
Sammy Ford. who substituted for
Young Army against Eddie Raynor of
South Chicago found Raynor too strong
for him and although he tried hard was
unable to protect himself from Raynor's
wicked body punches. Ford worked
dandy uppercut which kept him danger
Gus 10 the end. but a cut eye early in
the bout slowed him up and made it
easy for Raynor TO win.
The crowd was small because Of the
cold weather and threatening rain, but
il would have taken more than bad
weather TO keep Jimmy Kellys throng
Of admirers away. There were between
$500 and 5000 present.
There will he show next SATURDAY.
but Oswego is planning for a big card
in two weeks.