The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-01
THE AMER|C CAN LEGION
STAGE CLASSY SHOW
At CONVENT T|0N HALL

The first smoker and boxing con-
test under the auspices of George
r. Anderson Post, American Legion.
held at Convention Hall last night,
was huge SUCCESS, and the man
agement is deserving OF great praise
for the manner in which the whole
affair was conducted.
The house was well filled with en-
thusiastic boxing fans, and the fans
were not confined to the sterner sex
by any means, over one-third Of the
audience was composed Of ladies, who
seemed to have a pretty fair knowi-
edge Of the boxing game. and were
quick with their applause whenever
either of the contestants scored a
good point.
The sport was clean throughout.
not one Objectionable feature marred
the evenings entertainment, and every
person who left the hall $fter the
final event were satisfied that they
had received a run for their money.
II the American Legion continues
10 stage such shows as given last
night, it win not be long before Con-
vention Han will be too small to ac-
commodate the crowds who desire to
attend.
A. preliminary Of four rounds, a
semi windup scheduled for six rounds.
and q battle royal between four dusky
sons Of Ham, beside the main event
of ten rounds between Johnny Lynch
Of this city, and Eddie Huse Of Cali
fornia, was the card for the last
nights show.
In the preliminary Leon Bennett
of Wilson outpointed Carl Ray OF
'rulsa in four tame rounds. Bennett
had considerably the best Of the ar.
gument on points.
The battle royal kept the audience
on their feet the most of the time,
and was thoroughly enjoyed by all,
most especially the ladies Of the audi
ence who were unstinted in their
vocorifous applause for the dusky
Contestants who were mixing things
in the ring.
The scmi-windup scheduled for six
rounds did not go quite the limit
Of one two minute round.
The contestants were Johnny Flem-
ming Of St. Louis and Ray Thoms
Of Wilson.
Thoms was apparently outclassed
and took the count near the end Of
the first round from a left hook to
the wind.
The main event between Johnny
Lynch, and Eddie Huse was good
clean exhibition CT boxing, and the
distance Travelled gave the audience
pretty fair line on the quality Of
the two men.
The men were scheduled to box a
ten-round no decision bout under
Oueensbury rules, and at the end Of
the contest the fans were satisfied
that they had seen two very clever
boys in action.
Lynch carried the fight to Huse in
the opening rounds and scored many
times with very light returns, after
the fourth round he permitted his
opponent who was inclined TO loaf,
10 do q little leading himself, the
result was a pretty contest with the
odds in favor of Lynch on points.
Huyse, who claims championship
honors somewhere on the Pacific
coast, is clever boxer, but where
ne ever got that championship stuff"
was not apparent TO the onlookers
last night.
Johnny Lynch who does not claim
10 be champion Of anything, hit him
with everything in sight but the water
bucket without a return in all but
two of the rounds which were fairly
even, and came out Of the contest
without having his hair mussed while
Huse got a split lip in the opening
stanza-
The punch seemed lacking IN both
men in last nights contest, and moth
ing approaching a sleep wallcp was
uncorked, though several went wild,
more especially those loosened by
Huse who was inclined TO get woozy
when the pace became too hot for
him
However the fans were out to see
clean contest and they certainly
saw one, such exhibitions as staged
by the legion last night, cannot help
but have a healthy effect on the
game in this city. that has been de-
liberately murdered in the past few