The Washington herald., 1922-09-19
KNOCKSOUT.
mick DAUGHERTY
IN BERWYN ARENA
Right Cross in 9Th Round
Stops Baltimorean.
Reno Beats Garcia.
By RAY HELGESEN.

A right cross to the jaw in the
sixth round dropped Mickey Daugh-
erty. of Baltimore. for the count in
his fight with Young Bowen, Wash
ington lightweight. at the Sportland
Heights Arena. Berwyn, Md. last
night. II was the only real solid
blow Bowen landed during the
slightly over five rounds OF milling,
but it caught Daugherty flush Oh
the button and dropped him in his
tracks He was out for fully ten
minutes and had to be assisted to his
dressing room.
Both boys were missing contIn-
ually during the fight. When the
sixth round was about half gone
Bowen shot a left at the head. miss
ed and followed with the blow that
put Daugherty out of the picture.
Bowen's punch carried about a foot.
but Is was straight from the shoul-
der and caught the Baltimore boy
cut of position. He dropped like
a dead weight and had to be carried
to his corner.
Daugherty Had Edge.
What little edge there was up 10
the sixth round rested with Daugh-
left into Bowen's stomach. which the
Washington boy seemed powerless
to stop. When Bowen would cover
his stomach Daugherty switched and
shot swim ging lefts to the head.
The first and second rounds were
even, neither boy doing much ex
cept feel the other out. What few
real punches were started ended in
mid air as both seemed to be away
of when 1t came to gauging DIS
tances correctly.
Daugherty took the third and
fourth rounds by small margins.
mostly because Bowen was unable
to evade his swinging lefts. How
ever. Bowen came back in the fifth
and won this round. In this round
he started carrying the tight to
Daugherty and for the first time
seemed able to judge distances.
The semi -windup. an eight-round
battle between Bob Garcia. Of Camp
Holabird called the Fighting
Mex" and Johnny Reno. Washing
toms clever little lightweight. car
ried more action than all the other
bouts put together. 1t also car
ried more dirty fighting than has
been seer in the Sportlsnd Arena
all summer.
Garcia Discards Rules.
If Garcia eevr knew anything
about the boxing rules of the Mary
land Commission he tossed it to
the winds when he entered the
ring last night. Nothing to COM
pare with his exhibition of dirty
fighting has been seen in a Mary
land ring in a number of years.
Garcia butted his head. used the
kidney punch continuously. hit
coming out of clinches. and did a
few other things which don't ap-
peal to those who favor the manly
art of self defense
Twice at least Garcia butted into
Reno with his head. the first time
drawing blood from his opponents
mouth. At least nifty times the
Mex pounded Renos kidneys.
Warned time after time. he merely
bobbed his head in assent and con-
tinued to pdnch where and when he
pleased.
After the third round Referee
qualify the Mexican. Garcia had
h''lA al 1t l'drN HNl ANNlA'S
during the first three rounds but he
continued to fight as he pleased
Reno. lacking a punch. was clever
enough to keep away from the Bal
timore boy. Garcia's lefts rarely
found a mark and when they did
Reno was going away thus annul-
ling the sting Of the blow.
The final round was all Reno's
He was on top of his man all the
time and had he had an average
punch would have stopped the SOL
dier "sluGger" easily.
At the final gong Garcia offered
to shake hands with Reno but the
latter turned away mutterinG some
thing about a dislike for shakin-
hands with any hut gentlemen. This
made the Mexican feel bad so he
wanted to tight il out right in the
ring. Unfortunately the articles Of
agreement called for only eight
rounds SO this formality was dis
pensed with. The judges gave Reno
the decision unanimously.
In the third preliminary John l.
Smith. of Washington. knocked ou'
Charley Barber of baltimore. in tn.
third round of scheduled six
round bout. Smith had the edge all
the way.