The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-19
Carl Tremaine Is Beaten In
Bout With Harry Gordon,
Before Crowd Of 100000
Fight Fans
by WESTDROOK PEGLER
Special Dispatch to The Age-HernId

by wESTDROOK PEGLER
Special Dispatch to The A9e-Hernld
RING SIDE, POLO GROUNDS, New
York City, June 1S.-Jimmy Wilde,
great, courageous little fighter from
the Rhondda valley of Wales. was
day night in his last fight as fly
weight champion of the world by
Pancho Villa, the sulphur colored
Filipino kid, who has swept through
the flyweiGht class in the short space
Of two years like measles through
a kindergarten.
Three times little Jimmy, the
skinny. boyish- looking old brawler
who learned his business at the rate
of shilling a round in bare knuckle
bouts. while working as pit boy in
the Welsh coal mines, was knocked
cold. but twice it CHANGED that the
Knockout caught him just a barely
rung for the end of a round. The
punches were ordered and on the
way as the bell rang each time and
it was not in Villas power to stop
them.
The finish came in the seventh with
the tiny Filipino, whose every move
Is poem of feline grace, standing
flat on his soles with his legs wide
spread. and not troubling to defend
himself against anything that Wilde
III desperation might nave DGen aDle
to do. Villa was simply battering
Wilde to Inconsistencies and Patsy
Haley. the referee. would have step
ped in and stopped the massacre but
for the fact that Jimmy had shown
such amazing ability to pull himself
which seemed to be disastrous but
were not.
Second Champ 10 Fall.
The laws OF nature and gravity
have twice asserted themselves over
an old and former great champion on
this very spot over the Giants pitch
Ing box within the last three weeks,
for 1t was here in this ring about
three yards from the spot where poor
exhausted Jimmy Wilde's bloody Wis
age tipped into the resin dust that
Johnny Kilbane passed on his title
70 younger man, Eugene Criqui
But Kilbane took no such beating
and showed not the faintest giimmcr
OF the enormous courage that made
Jimmy Wilde,s trembling little legs
bear him out from his corner for
more suffering round after round,
when he knew there was no hope of
winning.
From the first moment of the first
round when Villa hoisted a far-fetched
left solidly AGAINST Jimmie's waist it
was very plain that Willie in giving
away 10 years advantage to Villa had
given away his championship That
left bent him half double for an in
slant in gesture of cXcruciating
pain and yet it was only the ordinary
Panco Villa left to the body which
frankie Genaro and all the stronger
young flyweights, including several
third raters, have been able to digest
without distress.
Jimmie Has Courage.
Poor Jimmie was in a terrible way
from the start and the only wonder
of the show was that he didn't stay
in his corner and forefeit his title
by a technical knockout after the
second round. when the first of the
three Knockout punches put him to
sleep.
The Polo grounds held world
series crowd for this drama. 1t was
estimated that fully 10000 fans were
present. They stretched away in tiers
of darkness as far as the old favorite
landing place of Babe Ruth's home
runs. The prices were more or less
popular and thus a night battle drew
one Of the greatest fight crowds ever
assembled on Manhattan Island or
Wilde weighed 1924 and Villa 10
1'rcn,nine Fancy.
Carl Tremaine, the French Ca madam
VINO now 1lSnlS out OF
Cleveland where the people hope they
see in him successor to Johnny XII
bane as a champion. came into the
ring Weighing 117M, which was only
pound more than Harry Gordon OF
New York, his company for the eve
ming. Tremaine was confident. not to
say cocky, and began the fight with
more fluff and fancy work than fury
The pair of them rolled into the dust
In round one, when their feet en-
twined. but the shock did no damage
and neither did any other happening
of the round.
But in the second. Tremaine. posing
in a posture of disdain. forgot to re-
move his muctache from the path of
a right swing which creased his face
from ear to ear, and almost knocked
his nose down his larynx. Tremaines
annoyance over this WAS rather up
roarious. but all he could do in re-
tort was offer q pair OF punches to
the body which did no great harm.
rrcmnine.. Preference.
Tremaine. early in the fighting. In
TINA ted he would prefer to get behind
Gordon, Clutch him fast with one arm
fenseless quarter with his free right
mitt The referee, Jack O'Sullivan,
broke up several of these lockstep
marches around the ring but Ire
maine tried it whenever he could from
then on.
Tremaine rushed Gordon in the
fourth round just as the bell sped
them from their corners. \ right
handler that Carl had fetched clear
across the ring with him whanged
into Gordon's middle and doubled
him up and as he rolled along the
ropes, Tremaine flung himself in
again with such wild impetus that
they both shot over the second rope
and onto the straw hats in the press
row.
In the sixth. Tremaine again flung
Gordon into corner and belabored
him with hard smashes, but Gordon
flung up a barrier of forearms and
elbows and wobbled out of it. The
same thing happened again in No.
S, but this time as Tremaine backed
off to- let his man have room to
fall, Gordon flashed right hand
to the chin that dizzied Carl and
sent him leaning against the ropes
with a knee drawn up toward his
chin and his arms covering his head
Tremaine's work became rougher
and wilder as the fight whlrled
along and he found himself taking
a punch for nearly every one he
sent. In the, ninth, while trying an
other attack from the rear, he
and was thrown for somersault as
Gordon reared up to get out of the
clamp. Both took another roll in
the powder. In the tenth and final
round Gordon made Ire maine eat an
overdose of left jabs and the Cleve-
land fighter took badly battered
beak and well-nigh demolished
reputation from the ring with him
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