The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-11-17
SCHLAFLI
WON IN 4TH
ON FOUL

The boxing card put on here Sat
urday evening as the windup of the
Armistice Day celebration proved to
! be a good one and the fans were more
than satisfied. The attendance was
+ good, but at that the management
failed to pay expenses as expense
had not been spared to make this big
event worth any mans membership
/ fee
The windup of the card, six rounds
of 3 minutes each. between Ad
Schlafli of Seattle and Leo Stokes of
Spoakne, was a humdinger, though it
ended in the 4th round, when Stokes
fouled Schlafli Stokes has quite a
record as a good fighter, though one
writer, St Paul man we believe.
said all he had ever hit was the floor.
Nevertheless he is a good boxer-a
man of fine physical proportions and
| clever with his dukes-and he un-
doubtedly outweighs Schlaf1i by sew
eral pounds, though they were an
nounced as weighing 155 each. The
fight was lively one, both men tear
ing into it with their best. Schlafi.
who had appeared here before, was
the favorite with the audience, and
he proved himself a willing scrapper
and he ought to get on nicely in the
game-if he will only keep his pants
on. Stokes and Schlafi both fight
similarly and do a lot of ''in' fight
ing at which they are both good.
though the concensus of opinion was
that Schlafli had little the best of
it. In this ''in" fighting Stokes
struck low couple times but
without doing any damage. Finally
he seemed to deliver a hard punch
low and Ad jumped back and claimed
foul. The referee, "Punch" Bald
win, introduced as formerly from
Reno, Nevada, pronounced it an acci-
dental foul and gave Schlafi the de-
cision.
The fight by rounds:
/. Both men began carefully and
soon were mixing it with mostly ''in"
fighting, though Ad delivered
couple wallops to the back of Leos
neck which seemed to do no damage.
The round was even.
2. There was again a lot of in
fighting, but Ad got a couple swings
to Leo's jaw and Leo swung several
times but missed most of the time as
Ad ducked. There was still not much
choice, but Schlaf1i had the edge.
8. This was Ads round, he land
ing many blows to head and neck,
though the dark boy was coming
strong and seemed little the worse
for the pummeling. He was hitting
Ad in the close work but doing no
appreciable damage.
4. They mixed and did a lot of
the close work, but separated and
were sparing when Leo cut in with
a low left hand blow and Ad claimed
foul and was given the decision.
Stokes walked to the front of the
stage and stated that he had been
boxing for two years and that this
was the first time a foul had been
claimed against him, stating also
that it was purely accidental and
that he was sorry it had occurred
Stokes is said to be a Portuguese.
The semi-windup started like it
would be good but toward the last it
was disappointing. Fitzsimmons Of
Wenatchee was pitted against Earl
| Miller of Spokane Fitz had a lot of
steam and when he forced the fight
ing delivered some hard blows to his
opponent. but most of the time he
seemed to be kept busy covering up.
Miller, on the contrary. was forcing
the fight, though he could not get in
a very damaging punch.
Round l. Miller placed couple
and Fitz came back hard Fitz slip
ped and nearly hit the floor. They
exchanged light blows and then some
good ones. Miller's round.
Round 2. They fddled around
neither doing much work. Then Fitz
swung to jaw; hit to neck; two to
jaw just before the gong. Not much
choice. however, as Miller was busy
with his short iabs
Round g. Miller forced Fitz TO
ropes. Fitz landed hard one. but
Miller forced him 10 corner. Fitz
then failed TO bore in, was gettino
tired and continually covering up
while Miller chased him about the
arena.
Round 4. Fitz could not get to go
ing and Miller could not hurt him.
The round was tame
Miller was given the decision. 145-
h. class.
I Ernie Daily, Seattle and Jimmy
Cole, Spokane, worked while it lasted
and gave a good exhibition Both men
got in effective punches. but Cole APP