San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18
KNOCKOUT BY
i PANCHO ENDS
LARUE SERIES
(
San Antonio Flyweight, in
I. Great Shape, Puts
Rival Away.
FLOORED FOUR TIMES
LaRue Hasn't Much
Chance-Rest Of Card
u; Proves Mediocre.
FLOORED FOUR TIMES

supremacy, which has extended over
month and half and brought about
three fights, ended cOnclusively on
, the humanity-packed Soledad Roof
Monday night when Kid Pancho. San
Antonio flyweight. knocked out Gene
LaRue of CovingtOn, KY. advertised
as the Canadian flyweight champion,
in the third round with hard body
wallop.
Pancho, whose physical condition
upon examination Monday was de-
clared to be the best in which he has
ever entered a local ring. was abso-
lutte master of the situation from the
start. He scored a knockdOwn in the
first round with a right to the chin.
a staggering knockdOwn in the second
round with a perfect left hook, and
a third knockdown just before the
finish in the third round.
LaRue leaped 10 his feet unhurt
after the first-round knockdown but
sPancho had him groggy in the second
round with staggering rights TO the
jaw followed by the upsetting left
hook which kept Gene on the floor
for nine waves of Referee Dell COT
fen's arm.
Claimed a Foul.
.LaRue, clipped on the jaw early in
the third round, went down but was
quickly on his feet again. Breathing
hard. he caught a body swing in the
wind and his breath left his body. He
fell to the floor with his mouth gap
ing. Half reclining on one arm. with
legs rigid, he attempted TO claim a
foul. As no foul had been struck
no foul was allowed. The third round
last just ~ seconds.
: The huge crowd took it quietly and
calmly as if it were glad the Pancho-
IaRue competition was at an end
after two queer endings to previous
bouts, one in which LaRue fell
through the ropes and knocked himself
out and the second in which a freak
Ssh double knockout was scored.
There was not a solitary yell of
sfoul.-
LaRue landed some telling punches
in the bout, which wasn't as one-sid-
ed as mere recounting of how the
knockdowns were accomplished might
Indicate. But LaRue is a swinger
and Pancho is a clever puncher, jab-
br and hooker. That left hook that
floored LaRue in the second round
was as pretty a piece of work as
could be executed in the ring. LaRue
went down as if somebody had pulled
a carpet from under him, landing
ehin-first on the canvas.
Ten Rounds In All.
Promoter Shelton's hope of getting
total of II rounds-the distance
each meeting of the boys was sched-
uled for-out of their three fights
was not realized. The total length
of all three fights-which indicates
their ferocity-was less than ten
rounds.
The rest of the card Monday night
was mediocre. Chuck Burns and
Dummy Mahan met in the eight
round semi-windup and the much
heavier Burns mauled out a victory.
but he took no credit with it. He
was awkward, missed scores of swings
And seemed helpless when the weary
deaf and dumb lad put on short but
violent rallies in the sixth and eighth
pounds. WEAKNESS and lack of size
Deat Mahan more than Burns
punches. Mahan was all in after his
last-round rally. But he was not
going TO let Burns floor him. Several
times he got Burns against the ropes
hooked his arms around the bigger
man and grasped the ropes behind
him, effectively pinning his adver.
sary TO them. He had to be broken
from one of these unique clinches
after the last gong sounded.
Johnny Simpson outweighed Mickey
Cromwell somewhat, but Mickey made
up for lack of poundage in pepper
and gave the tough Simpson a violent
session or two before the "Oklahoma
Catcher" could change battery posi
tons and begin to "piteh" n few
Cromwell finally wore out. and helm
less, took a storm of punches r.
chin and body. Groggy, he LASTED
through the second round and cam,
back a little refreshed in the third
but soon went down for the count
Tunney Is a Frost.
Young Spence, well-musclof
heavyweight with more than ordinar,
promise, outclassed Gene Tunnev Jr'
IN scheduled four-rounder. Tnnne,
was no match for the somewhat LARGE
Spence and didn't land an effectiy
blow during his sojourn in the ring
which ended abruptly in the secon
round when both men went throug
the ropes and only Spence came bacl
Windmill Jimmy" Barrere an
Young Jack Dillon, little fellows, e,
hausted themselves with their fire.
swinging in the middle Of their foul
round curtain-raiser and could do Iii
tie more than shove each other abou