Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-07
BOWLING
WIGGINS WON
OVER LLOYDN
DISTANCE BOUT
Knockout Was Not Scored, but
HOOsier Had Australian
Champ Exhausted.
CHUCK HAD THE SPEED

Complete reports Of the Chuck
Virgins Albert Lloyd bout at Sydney,
Australia, Dec IS, in which the Hoosier
boxer won the heavyweight champion
shin of Australia. reached indianapolis
today and showed how the local youth
put it all over the big fellow in the
title scrap The bout went the limit
of twenty rounds and Virgins was given
the decision by Referee Wallis.
Chuck outfought and outboxed his OPP
moment and had him exhausted at the
finish. nearly putting him away by a
sensational finish in the twentieth round.
According to the account of the scrap, 1t
wasn't necessary for Chuck to wind up
the mill in such a sensational style. be
cause he had the decision al ready Won
Virgins won by beating his opponent
to rushes and punches and there was sell
dom an idle moment al any stage OF the
encounter Whenever Lloyd was lucky
enough to count it only Speeded up Wig
gins more and the Furnishing short arm,
ripping cuts OF the HooSer did consld'
cradle damage to the Australian pride.
CHUCK SCORES
A KNOCKDOWN.
The thirteenth round was the big
stanza and was the hottest and most
strenuous of all. Virgins got Lloyd In
a corner and the Australian slipped to
the canvas in an effort to ward of the
attack of the Yankee. The instant that
Lloyd regained his feet and got on the
defensive Virgins rushed again and
landed a right to the head, which nearly
sent the Australian sprawling. Lloyd re
covered however. for the instant and shot
out to the middle of the ring;
Virgins rushed again and landed a
heavy rs5 On the co4get ana VIRGINS
rushed. Lloyd rallied and fought back:
but Chuck was first in the exchange Of
punches and during the scramble Lloy1
went down for the count of three the Deh
EnnCk6OMn
tralian arose In weakened condition
and was shaking when he Went 10 ms
Permission and came out in fair shape
for the fourteenth round.
WIGGINS KEEPS
Up OLD SPEED.
Thereafter. however. Lloyd tried only
for sleep producer on the Hoosier, but
ne couldn't deliver against the agile
Yankee who, despite a gain Of ten POUNDS
since arriving in Australia, still displayed
wonderful speed for a big fellow, anG
danced about in welterweight fashion.
A resume of the fight by rounds as
clipped from the Sydney Referee OF
Wednesday, Dec. IL, follows
Both were nervously anxious at the
opening of hostilitieS, though eager ana
willing to get closer together Short.
sharp. clinches resulted; They We're noI
idle when so placed; The second round
convinced the ringsiders that, bar acct
dents, Virgins would prove the inter.
He had already established distinct
CHUCK DOES A
DANCING ACT.
In the third. after Virgins had driven
Teighty right to the mp t Ole Re d o%
on the American S ear and II was crossed
again TO the same place and followed ny
heavy right to the head. Virgins WaA
highly wrought. The referee cautioned
OF course, Mr.. Virgins. like his coun-
trywoman-Mr Wigs Of the Cabbage
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do more. Neither could he do less. Chuck
blurted something which, probably, not
even the referee understood, and pro
ceeded to bound about the ring like d
dancing Dervish or a distraught kanga'
roo. It was way he had of throwing
off the sensations of the moment Wiz
gins did this several times, much to the
amusement of the house: During TINS
stage the injury to Chuck's left eye oc,
CURED
Not much happened in the fourth. The
best blow was Ll6yd's solid right to he
ribs. Lloyd had nothing the worse of the
fast. forceful fifth round. Near its. end
he had tue American crowded against the
ropes, but failed to make the most of the
opportunity.
The sixth was easily Virgins round.
He drove a left to the face at close quar-
tiers, sent right and left to the head.
hooked q left to the chin, iabbed a left
TO the face. and hooked the same member
to the head before Lloyd landed punch
"a right to the body.
ACTION SETS
FANS WILD.
The seventh was the most torrid stags
so far, and one of the hottest Of the con
test Virgins did well, and Lloyd also
figured prominently. The house was
Force fell off In the eighth. In the
ninth blood welled from LlOyd,s lips
Wigglns made vigorous play. He bore
Lloyd to the ropes and lodged left ana
right on the face. Lloyd delivered the
last punch, left to the throat. TheS
were fairly busy throughout the tenth
The eleventh was good round, as far as
the combatants were able to make It
such. A lot of stand off sparring and
fnesse had lately been introduced into
the bout. A deal of it was seen during
the twelfth. The thirteenth has already
been described. There was not much be-
tween the boxers in the fourteenth. Lit
tie occurred in the fifteenth. till near the
end, when Virgins got goinS and did
things. 1t was nearly all Virgins
throughout the sixteenth. Lloyd had a
bit the better of the seventeenth. They
mixed the fighting more or less vigor-
ously In the eighteenth and nineteenth
Time for the twentieth saw Virgins
charge furiously and make the pace
strong. Lloyd stood up to him when 1t
looked not over-risky to do so: The
Americans fast finish clinched we'll sue
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