The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-08
By Bruce Copeland.

nights battery for the fistic fare at
the Illinois theatre was: Comiskey
md Huse. St Paul Tommy did al
the pitching. He threw everything
bat the footlights. Eddie Huse, the
] highly touted "welterweight cham
4lon Of the Pacific coast" did the
catching and stopped EVERY
THING BUT THE FOOTLIGHT8
Huse's showing was a great dis
!. eppointment' to his many tri-city
admirers. After six weeks Of press
6eenting, It was believed that Huse
had Just claim to enter the top
notch welterweight circle. But last
|, night he proved a second-rater. He
u entirely out Of Com.skey's class.
Grin. Timothy Style.
1 Huse fought like a combination
aOf Joe Grim. the veteran punching
/ bag, and Buck Timothy, the boxing
turtle who lives in his shell. Eddie
spent most OF the evening In his
|. own shell, peeking out from be-
tween his elbows every now and
then to see whether or not the roof
had fallen. Meantime. Comiskey
carried every round by his ag-
kressive, one-two body punches. 1t
WAS a clean shutout for Tommy In
every round.
Comiskey looked heavier and
stronger than ever before. Astute
boxing eyes viewed his class with
great qualification. but most Of the
gallery gods misinterpreted his
snappy mitigating as stalling. and
booed both boys occasionally. They
seemed to forget that Comiskey is
! essentially body and not a chin
puncher. Tommy worked the Glib
bons inside stuff to perfection and
at times 1t looked as II grand old
Mike were there, not his promising
= nephew.
Took EN-; That's All.
: Huse displayed q weakening and
disillusioning propensity to clinch.
Comiskey had to beam his oppo-
nents weight q every round and
smother hire With mfdriff wallops
Of cruel singing power which
would have crushed almost any
other boy than Huse. Assimilation
Of punishment was Huse's only re-
decming feature. but the clientele
became bored very early when ii
was discernible that Huse was no
match for Comiskey.
Comiskey might have looked OIL
-~1~~ - <tvv,oo t.,,f thot uac q ron
dit.on of Huse's own making. Ed
dies awkward style. his wild
punches and constant clinching
would even make Champion Jack
Britton look somewhat. like dsh
at times. Huse was tough to with
/ stand such a beating. He was good
natured throughout the mill and
drew applause for his gameness in
sticking It through. But he was
beaten all the way-badly beaten.
II was the first time in tri-city ring
history that the fans saw boy
tCcmiskey) win every round by an
Overwhelming margin.
Mark for frankie.
The semi-windup proved another
disappointment to the mediocre
house. frankie Scheerbrook Of
Rock Island had been matched with
Eddie Schmidt Of Rockford, but ut
ring time the management an
nounced that Schmidt had can
celled his engagement the day be-
fore and that Kid Gardner, q Camp
Grant doughboy. would do the sub
bing.
Gardner also did the catching for
Schoerbrook and took the count in
the second round. One look at
Gardner should have convinced the
management that he was no match
for the hitting Schoerbrook.
But the management was up
against 1t badly fer an available
opponent for Schoerbrook, so Card
ner was sacrificed.
Randall Kent OF Rock Island dis
played rare punching form against
Mike Phillips Of Moline. in the Sec
ond prelim, stopping his boy in the
fourth round. Young Sowosh of
Moline outfought and outgamed
Slugger Jcffries in the curtain
raise.