The New York herald., 1922-03-03
WINNING BLOW 50
\ FAST FEW SEE IT
Short, Speedy Uppercut to Jaw
Ends Bout Abruptly and
Amazes Crowd.
SOME CALL IT FRAMEUP
SOME CALL IT FRAMEUP
Victory Virtually Means Bout
With Dempsey for Cham
pionship.
by w. o. McGEEHAN.


and Harry Wills will be fought this
summer. This was settled at Madi-
son Square Garden last night when
Harry Wills, the colored giant, dropped
Kid Norfolk, the Siminianlike light
heavyweight, with sharp right up
percut to the jaw.
The Knockout punch Travelled such
a short distance and with such snake
like speed that few saw it. When
kid Norfolk fell, striking the base OF
his little skull with terrifce force
against the padded mat, the majority
of the watchers thought that it was q
frameup. This opinion seemed to pre-
vail when the crowd was leaving the
Garden.
The little colored man was pressing
against Wills's straight body when the
punch came. Wills paved at him with
The left and lifted the right suddenly
Down went Norfolk, his eyeballs roll
ing. He sauirmed on the mat, turn
ing over as they told off the count.
He was on his knees dazed and bewil-
dered when the final ten was spoken.
The blow which caused so much
skepticism suggested Cans or Johnson.
1t could not have travelled more than
eight inches, but that distance was an
inch or two too far for Norfolk
In the first round 1t resembled con-
srast between an orangutan and a dark
giraffe The Kid made some simian
leaps into the air and once landed light
ly on Wills's jaw. On the second trial
he missed and rolled completely over.
"What Happened Asks Crowd.
Just 26 seconds after the bell rang
Sor the second round it was all over and
one of the most bewilderingly mixed
crowds that ever sat in the Garden was
asking, What happened?" Nobody
saw 1t. That snalky right was faster
than the eye. Jack johnson himself
never made more bewildering finish.
The fact that colorcd boxers have been
known to have made business deals in
the past will increase the skepticism
concerning this bout in the future.
Wills ought to knock them out with
more deliberation.
Jack Dempsey did not arrive in time
TO see the bout. 1t, of course. means
business sor the champion. Dempsey
has said that he would box Wills II the
bout promised house. With this epi-
sode to start the ballyhoo II seems as
though It might f1ll Boyle's Thirty Acres
So some time In July there will be an
other mixed bout for the heavyweight
championship. Norfolk weighed in at
,176. Wills at 211A.
From the looks of the house. a lot OF
the idle rich starting South yesterday
had to make UP their own berths on the
Florida trains. for nearly all the Pull
man porters seemed to be right here in
the house. The human decorations were
strikingly black and white. There has
not been so much interest among the
colored population since the days when
Arthur johnson was king of his division
and unacquainted with the interior color
scheme of jails.
The crowd swarmed into the abattoir
early. An all heavyweight bill prom
Used much action, and the program was
fulfilled in the opening bout between
Jack Reeves of California and Mike
Burke Of Greenwich Village. Though
Mike is Greenwich villager. he was
not raised in a tea room nor fed on art
talk. Far from It.
Certainly II was CORY battle The
lads were fighters and they did not box
They mauled each other into a semi
comatose decision in eight rounds. and
when the judges called it a draw the
multitude said Fair enough" One
could only sit in mute wonder that
human jaws could Withstand all the i'm
pact these two pairs of fists produced.
The second bout was slightly reminis-
cent of the affair between David and
Goliath. Paul Samson, weighing 17g
pounds. was pitted against Farmer
Lodge, weighing 226. Farmer Lodge
dislocated Samson's jaw In the fifth
round and Samson was forced to quit
Sampson was removed to Bellevue
Hospital where surgeons reset his Jaw.
He remained at the hospital
Lodge Looks Like willard.
Farmer Lodge looks little like Jess
Willard and knows just as little as
Willard did when he first came to New
York. His most effective blow seemed
20 be n right swing to the seat OF the
opponents tights.
Tho match was too unequal. IL never
should have been made. Samson is a
mediocre light heavyweight. Game
enough. but had not Chinamau's
chance against the man mountain. Deal
ers in hcavyweights were somewhat in
terested In Farmers first appearance
here. He might be worth something
later The uppercut that ended the figh:
was n crashing blow.
In tho serni-finai the veteran Billy
Miske disposed of Al Roberts In the Sec
ond round in very worAmanlike man.
ner. Mske looked almost as good an he
did In the days when he was battling
around these dlggings before the war.
Roberts is a game enough youngster.
During his ring career he has acted for
the most part as target. He was down
in the first round for nine and down
three times In the second before being
perhaps hn made Miske look better than
he really is.
The last time ] saw Miske was when
ne met Dempsey al Benton Harbor He
was a pale and pasty individual then
and he wore the expression of a man
about 10 be hanged. Dempsey toyed with
him before he mercifully crossed a right
and ended that farce.
!, These preliminaries ended so quickly
1 that Joe Humphreys had time 10 an
tnounce collection for the hungry Of
Russia. II was not particularly pop
ular Brocco. the bicycle rider, was in
Produced and got better hand than the
tolection. All OF the eloquence of the
,ernosthones OF Tammany Hall could
ot keep the crowd quiet.
In the meantime Kid Norfolk squatted
the stairway to the ring. his bullet
nd covered by q blue and white to-
yan hat. Hurry Wills loomed up in
,orner like a black giraffe. Leo +.
" in Kid Norfolks corner looked
as befitted the prospective con-
for the heavyweight champion