The Arizona copper camp., 1920-03-20
PENA GIVEN
DECISION IN
MAGMA BOUT
Local Champion Is Awarded
Decision on Foul Over AL
McMannus of Tucson at
Superior; Slow Matches
Disappoint Ray Fans.

Dlsappolnt Ray Fans.
Hostilities came to an abrupt end
in the Pena- McMannus fight at the
| Magma club at Superior last Monday
night; the 18th, when the referee
awarded the bout to Pena in the sew
enth round, after McMannus had, ap-
parently fouled him for the third time
We do not like to accuse McMannus
of being unfair, but his persistence in
such tactics, together with the fact
| that Pena. was winning by wide mar
gin, naturally causes us to come to
| the conclusion that he was rightly
judged to have been guilty of fouling
After the bell had rung at the end of
| the second found McMannus appar-
emily uppercut Pena to the face after
Pena had dropped his guard and was
about to return to his corner. Again
| in the sixth round, while Pena was
landing left and right in rapid sue
ceSsiOn to McMannus' Jaw McMan-
nus landed a vicious uppercut in
Pena's groin. Pena fell to the floor
| in pain and the referee started to
count. By an almost superhuman eff
fort Pena arose after the count of
four and continued the fight, but his
face revealed the unmistakatie signs
of the agony he was going through.
The minute rest helped him to pull
himself together, but scarcely had the
seventh round got under way when
McMannus planted another low one
and before Pena could fall, the referee
raised his right hand in token of vic
tory. The first round was even, Pena
had slight shade in theNsecond, the
third and fourth were Pena's by a
wide margin, the fifth was about even,
and up to the time McMannus fculed
Pena in the sixth round, Pena had
things his own way and was landing
lefts and rights to the head and body
so fast we could hardly keep on count
ing the punches.
McMannus took the aggressive from
the first round and practically left his
jaw wide open. In the third round
we counted twenty punches that Pena
landed on the Tucson warriors jaw,
but they didn't please him. If Pena
could develop a punch he would not
be fighting around these mining
camps, but he showed remarkable i'm
provement over his last fight here on
Christmas day, and, punch or no
punch, it is going to take good light
weight to stop him
The semi-windup was a disappoint-
ing affair. Jose Encinas was out
matched in his bout against Eddie
OBrien of Globe, and although out
weighed nine pounds, held on for four
rounds. In the fourth round, when
further punishment of Encinas would
have disgusted every real sport in the
house, Billy Rittenhouse attempted to
stop the fight ty holding the towel up
between the boxers for the simple
reason that they were fighting over
the ropes and Rittenhouse did not
have a chance to throw the towel in
the ring. However, an individual who
has a lot to learn about refereeing
fights, struck Rittenhouse and
knocked him back into the laps of the
ringsiders. Technically, Rittenhouse
was wrong, but there was nothing else
he could do in order to stop the fight,
and the referee proceeded to start =
little fight of his own. AS a referee,
the general impression among the
spectators was that he leaves a great
deal to be desired
The program was allowed to drag
on needlessly and a lot Of time was
wasted with the preliminaries, so that
the main event did not start until
after 1920. Considering that over
sixty fight fans journeyed over the
mountain from Ray to pay their
money and help the game along, at
least reasonable efforts should have
been made to get the fight started
without so much delay. We will be
glad to go over again when Superior
stages another card, but a majority
of the Ray fans would be more pleased
to have the card made little snap
pier, and we also suggest that the
Superior boys pick out another ref
cree for the next program who is not
quite SO belligerent-