Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-25
Purcell Outp0inted By
Wentz In Liuely Match;
Williams GiUen Decision,
Side Boy Deserves Much
Credit For Forcing The
Fighting, But Lacked De
tense Spence Showed Up
Poorly Riley Absent and
Card Was Shert One Bout

Two boys who SeseaSsG Tn Tie
Gibbons-Stokes card here Msrca W,
came back aS night and turned sAe
tables on their opponents. Sessassas
them d~eoisiveiy. SpeHce. wAs WOE
handily over Williams ca the lSsA,
was badly beaten Friday ssas- &s5
Wentz, after being Knocked cat ss
Jimmy Purcell in the frs roke6 %
their battle administered a hs-S aras-
bing on the East Side boy ssS night
Shy One Match
The card was shy the main match
between Sailor Riley and XII Miner.
due 10 the fact hat Riley WIS absent
from the ring by the Request OF Che.
of Police J. ". Lowe. The chief felt
that Riley would be safer with hun
than he would be in the HaE with
Miller. Despite the tace that the at
fair came up 50 suddenly that sae
promoters were unable 20 tx Ep an
other bout the crowd was immensely
pleased with the show Many seated
that they were better scEA with
the way things turned %, than they
would have been 10 see RRey ry &C
stand up to Miller for SIX rounds
a Clever Bout
The Wentz-Pu-cel bout x7s aSeu.
as satisfying a battle As has been in
the Armcry FOR some Sn- Evenly
matched as to weight AID speed. the
boys battled steadily for SIX rounds
Purcell forcing the fighting TO the
last
The fr< round started well with
the East Sde boy doing all of the
leading, but he xak unable to land
effective blows On Wenu who scored
repeatedly and heavily as Purcell
came In
"a second round WIS even Both
boyE landed hard blows in his &aoza,
while the third yer to Vent In
this round Wentz punished Purcell
badly with sraigh. let's 10 the face.
Purcell bad a shade the best of i,
the fourth round vaen he landed sew
eral heavy blows to the body. a point
which he failed on as often as he
might have
Purcell in Distress
In the eth VENT had the East
Side boy in distress. by landing heavy
lights and lefts to the head and paw.
Purcell vas tired in this round, but
came back gamety in, the sixth and
fought VENT or wen terms
h East Sit boy should get credit
for doing the greater part of the lead
ing and for being q better boxer han
his opponent but his blows lacked
the power that Vents did and by
virtue OF the fact that he did do most
of the leading he received the mos:
punishment.
Wentz is a good in-hghter and at
close quarters pounded Purcell hard
On the body.
Spence Outfought.
In his match with Williams, Spence
did not show up nearly as well as
he has in previous fights. Spence
has always been considered a better
boxer than Williams. but asst night
he was badly outboxed and out
punched The only round in which
he appeared to advantage in wa5
the last one, after he had been hope
less'y ou%tpointed. He came back
strong and gained a shade over his
opponent in that one stanza.
The first round, a draw, started
tame. but the second. third, fourth,
and fifth went to Williams by a wide
margin. Williams had many chances
to put oven the winning punch, but
he was too slow to follow them up
Due to the weather, a SMALL crowd
saw the card.