Douglas Island news., 1921-05-13
ELKS' SMOKER
 PLEAsES CROWD
Higley Loses to Collier and Holly wood Knocks Out Johanson
 Saturday Night

Leo Higley of Treadwell. lost the ! heavyweight championship Of Alas ! ka Co Joe Collier of Douglas after |sIx rounds Of hard fighting, and Pat Hollywood Of Che Ready Bullion knocked out Jack Johanson Of Treadwel In Che afth round, In the main and soml-windup events Of Che Elks smoker in Juneau last satur- day night
 Hlgley was apparently not in Che best Of condition for his match, aa when his chance came in Che hfth round. after having his man dazed. he did not have the steam to finish tho Job and In Che sixth showed the lack of training by not being able to block Golfers blows. Collier had Che best Of Che earlier rounds ns he was Che most aggressive and kept suugiug Higley with short punches, while most of the latter's swinga were failing to land. In the third round Wgley slipped partly out Of Che ring and Collier hlt him when he was down. One of Higley's sec- onds rushed into Che ring Co help hls man. SO Referee Tom Mcdonald called the fouls nfty-dfty and had Che men shake hands. In the fourth honors were even, but the nfth was Hlrleys by big margin as he al- most had his man out. Collier came back strong m the sixth and won Che decision.
 Tho Holywood-Johanson bout was really Che premier one Of the cyen- ing. and these two weItorweights went at each other from the tap of the gong like two strange bulldogs. Johanson had improved much In box ing over Che last time he appeared i'm Che ring and carried the fight to his opponent an through Che first four rounds. outpunching him and almost having him slowed away sov- aral times Hollywood was always dangerous. however. and would come out Of some of Che mixups with a punch that was deadly. This is what happened in Che hfth, when he caught Johanson on the solar plexus and put him away for the count.
 Dolly" Gray was the official an- nounccr Of Che evening, and it was just 9 o'clock whom he stepped Into tho ring and read a challenge from the Douglas baseball team to the Ju- neau team for a game to be played any time at an
 The oHicials were announced as Dave Housol. timekcoper; Jack Will son. referee; Tom Mcdonald and s.urd Wallstead. judges for an but Che main event when Macdonald ret- creed and E. c. Adams took his place as judge
 Tho curtain raiser was between Leslie Cashen of Douglas and Young Euenrer of Juneau. Enenger had the |bcst of Che four rounds and got Che decision. Cashen put up a good fight ! but Che other boy was too heavy and strong for him.
 Mario Jurich and sammy Jack son both Of Douglas. furnished the next bout These boys boxed at li5 pounds. JurIch popped sammie one on Che nose in the first round that worried Che native boy and in the second. after several hard blows in tho stomach. sammie called it a day. He was quite badly hurt and was counted out.
 Art smith tore into his man. . Charlie Peters Of Juneau. like a young whirlwind and almost tired himself out in the process. He slow ed down slightly after Che econd round and won the judges decision very handly. Art had his opponent guessing by the windmill action oi his arms
 Sinclair Brown only wasted about thirty seconds on Chuck" @ bis na- tive of Juneau. The men hddleo
 r r , fou- eoeoudH when Brownie came across with a hard left to Chuck's stomach and the show was over. Chuck stayed down fol Che required time.
 Between the bouts there was mu
 sic by Dixie on the plano and l singer of songs. A big good-naturec crowd from an points on Gastlneay
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