Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-09
.LOuGRERY WILL FIGHT WOODS;
 PALMER D|SADL LED BY BEATING
 BY LOCAL MAN IN LAST BOUT

After two matches had been arrang ed and had fallen through in the space of two days, Manager O. s. French, oi the Bisbee Athletic club, has annouac. cd a main event for his card at the Grand theatre tonight which has more possibilities Tn it than any other card he has yet submitted to the fight fans of the Warren district. In this batt!t, which is declared by fans to be of the same standard as the Loughrey Gel mars match, Frank Loughrey, the one big stumbling block to aspiring welter- welshts in this section of .he south, west, will meet Happy Woods, the fuc son boilermaker, who has knocked out Is men in Is fights, and has knocked all of these out before the eud of the sixth round.
 Woods was matched originally eirh Russell Chambers. the speedy " clter- weight of Douglas. On Saturday. how ever, Chambers broke his hand while training. Manager French was in Douglas, and he immediately got in touch with Clyde Branum, nianager of Kid Palmer, who was n Lau il rey there that evening. -imer agreed to substitute in the place of Chambers. which brought out the declaration by Earl Mohan, manager of Happy Woods that his protege was ready and willing to meet anybody in the southwest his weight. Palmer thereupon stepped in do the ring with Loughrey, and won decision, but only at the expense Of such a drubbing that he had to call off the match with Woods. Palmers col lar-bone is perhaps fractured; his nose IS in bad way, and several ribs are tender. French then offered the match to Loughrey, who was practically un- hurt by the ten gruelling rounds he had stepped with Palmer, and the Bear cat accepted without even asking for a ticket for his girl.
 That there must be zip in this battle goes without question. Loughrey has never been hurt by any boxer whom he has met in this part of the country. fTe has heart like lion and capacity Tor punishment that has been contin- ual wonder to even the staunchest of his friends. He has met the best that have come to southern Arizona. and ! he has never failed to give a good ac- count of himself Now ne Is going up against the hardest hitter the welter- weight game in the state has ever known. Woods, when he is feeling right, has a.kick that is marvellous. He knocked out Frenchy Desmarias by hit ting him sQuarely on top of the head He put Sailor McLarney away TOT 4;5 minutes by hitting him on the side Of the head. Fighters who have sampled Shis wallop say that if he hits man right in any spot from his hips to the roots of his hair that he will put that opponent in such shape that all that Is needed is the slow music and appropri- ate flowers. He was defeated, it is true, by Kid Palmer, But this was a de- feat that came through lack of experi- ence, and those who know Woods be- lieye yet that if he had hit Palmer only once he would have sent the Douglas boy home on stretcher. On the other hand, Loughrey has met the best that ever stepped into an American prize ring, and his knees have found the floor only once in years of fighting The simple question is, can Loughrey stand Woods wallop if the latter is in shape to get 1t over, and can Woods stand the rushing, slashing, boring-in tactics that distinguish Loughrey's style of fighting. Those who
 Der the gory Loughrey-C Celmars battle, when the pair stood face to face for ten sizzling rounds and slugged and smashed and slugged again the best battle ever staged in Arizona, are ex- pecting the same kind of fight this evening. Betting has never been so
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