Arizona republican., 1922-04-22
Republican Decisions

Republican Decisions
Webber beat Alger, 10 rounds.
Mendoza beat Douglas, 4 rounds.
Cactus Brown beat Battling Sam,
4 rounds.
Young Pete Snowy Johnson. draw
4 rounds.
Rufus Il beat Manuel Portillo, 4
rounds.
BY Ed Harrington
Billy Alger still retains a host of
loyal supporters and an iron jaw,
but his old time stamina, punch and
zip are missing Johnny Webber
took our Billy TO neat trimming
last night walking off with the honors
in nine out of ten rounds with Billy
lucky to get an even break in the
eighth round.
Two judges and Referee Bert Co
lima had little difficulty in deciding
the fight in Webber's favor. and for
once there were no shouts of dis
approval from the fans. Billy's ad-
mirers were disappointed in his
showing last night, but they We're
pulling for him to the last gong and
gave him a cheer even in defeat.
To the fans who have followed AL
gers rise from preliminary boy TO
the best lightweight in the southwest
last nights main event was pathetic.
Billy had no range, was unable to
recover from a punch, was way off
on his judge of distance and his foot
work was gone entirely. Time after
time he missed with his right only
to fall into a right hand uppercut
10 the face. One or two misses in a
round might be excused, but there
was no reason why Billy should fall
into Webber's right hand uppercut
six or seven times each round. ex-
cept that Alger was not in condition.
He blindly walked into Webbers
attack without making a feeble ef-
fort to avoid the blows.
Johnny Webber was a big i'm
provement over the Webber who
fought Billy Mccain. and Alger was
far from the Alger who fought Chet
Neff. Johnny tied Billys hands in
the clinch and had Bill swinging
wild; he took two hard raps on the
chin that looked bad for a few Sec
onds. but Billy lacked the wherewith
to follow and Webber was in again
before Billy had time to get his
bearings Webber never let Alger
stop, boring in with his right upper
cut and smacking a stiff left to the
stomach. Johnny was fast on his
feet and his head was clear at all
times.
The effect of Billy's recent illness
showed in the first round when he
tired, but it was simply lack of con-
dition that had him dazed in the
ring
In the eighth round Billy showed a
flash of his old time fight and the
faithful were on the chairs But the
flash ended as quickly as it ap
peared and Webber held him even in
the session.
Mendoza Douglas Draw
Referee Charlie Garcia got away
with three good decisions and then
wrecked the works by giving Douglas
a draw with Pancho Mendoza in the
four-round semi-final Mendoza
outpointed Jimmy for four rounds
and showed him plenty Of boxing
gloves in every session. Jimmy was
wild and lacked steam in his punches.
The bout simmered of brotherin-
law until the fourth. when Mendoza
uncorked a fusillade to Douglas
stomach that looked like curtains.
The last round made up for the first
three, but there was no excuse for
giving Douglas a draw. Jimmy has
been getting away lucky with the de-
cisions, so one more will not do any
harm.
Sam Sings Swan Song
Battling Sam, the terpsichorean
terror, took plenty OF air in his four
round number with Cactus Brown.
Sam crossed the rail birds and in
stead of taking the first three rounds
he took the first, held the second
even, gave the third to Cactus and
died a natural death in the fourth.
Sam was consistent in his desire TO
elinch: the colored phantom would
rather clinch than fight and he had
plenty of opportunity to cover up last
night Cactus grew peeved in the
third round and Sam knew it. He
tried to hold Brown, but the angry
Mexican Jared loose several times
and raped Sam for the decision.
When the referee gave the bout TO
Brown there was no disputing his
word.
Snowy and Pete Draw
Snowy Johnson crowded Pete too
fast last night and held him to a