Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-03
Bross-NichoIs Fight
Draw; ST. Paul Lads
Left Didn't Show Up
Average Fan Found Headline Bout Slow; Quilter
Knocks Out Wetzel in Second; Savage
and Parker Divide Honors.

by pushing their right hands toward
the ceiling.
Both fighters were in the pink of
condition and weathered their punish
ment well. Bross drove some hard
lefts to Nichols jaw that might have
shattered q less hardened one, but the
st. Paul youth shook his head and
complimented his opponent. Nichols
is an affable youth and talked to Bross
often in the close-ups as though urg-
ing him to put his face up where he
could hit it, but Bross failed to comply
with such a request. Bross showed
an ~iron-clad body in that the vicious
punches to his stomach and kidneys
played to those often vulnerable points
above his hips, but Pete went boring
in and let him play his vicious tattoo
on his ribs without visible suffering.
The boys were game and probably
realized that they weren't furnishing
the thrill that either might be capable
of showing if he were matched with a
different man. They tried hard. but
their fighting tactics were SO alike that
they were in q clinch two-rhirds of the
time. They rubbed heads and faces
and shoulders while the boys around
the ring yelled:
SOAK I'M.
Unable to Show Up Right
Then Referee Fred Andretta would
pull them apart and they would spar,
exchange a couple of blows and fSll
into a clinch again. They can both
be classed as '~'infighters" and two in
fighters matched together make a poor
show. Perhaps it wasn't their fault.
Both are good men and have taken
part in some classy exhibitions. but.
unfortunately. they were unable to
"show" in Tuesday nights encounter.
The boys regretted it, but the crowd
growled.
Billy Quilter and Billy Wetzel,
featherweights, put OF a fast and flu
rious exhibition for two rounds. but
late in the second round Wetzel weak
ened. and by a succession of hard
rights to the jaw. Quilter put him
away for ten counts. The boys fought
hard and the crowd gave them a good
hand.
Kid Leo, the nifty Great Falls light
weight. drew One Round Bill Smith.
a dusky battler who had a 10-pound
edge on Leo. but the little colored
flash spared with him for three
rounds and then battered him into the
ropes for the count.
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Parker of Great Falls fought four
hard rounds to a draw and won the
favor of the crowd. Savage weighed
142 pounds and Parker 1876. but the
Great Falls youth was game and re-
turned blow for blow with his oppon-
ent. This bout spelled action every
minute. and the boys hit hard and
Slick Wins in Half Round
Slick Merrill, the classy old tar baby
of the yesterdays, had little chance to
show before his Great Falls friends
in his scheduled f%our-round 60 with
Jimmy Gray of Portland. After re
peated straight lefts that failed TO
rock the grin from the big coast battler
but rocked his constitution and his
memory. he backed up into the corner
and held UP his gloves, a licked man.
Slick was mad because he didn't get q
to get mad" He won easily
In half a ound
"Nawthin' to it, he said.
He then walked over and hit the big
lad who makes his living Juggling
trunks a couple of clouts on the jaw.
but Jimmy only grinned and admitted
he was no match for a veteran
like Slick.
The preliminary bouts were refereed |
by Bill FIuhr of Belt. end the judges |
were o. F. Wadsworth of Great Falls
and Ed Roleau of Butte. Fred An
of Great Falls refereed the
Inair event and the judges were Bill
Fluhr and o. r. Wadsworth.