San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-21
CIevelander Wins Without
Trouble From Half,
blind Babe. "
CONNERS A SENSATION
Lightning Eddie" Star Of
Evening in Beating
Gilbert.

ess in the American Expeditionary
Forces during the war, won him the
right to meet virtually every leading
from Jimmy Wilde and Joe Lynch
proved it Tuesday night at Beethoven
Hall against Johnny Mccoy. clever
Clevelander, in the ten-round main
event. Mccoy, splGshed with gore
from Asher's much-pummeled nose.
had Asher where he wanted him and
easily won the fight.
Asher's eyes have played him false
If he has any idea he can continue
his career in the ring. Mccoy beat
him badly because he couldn't see.
He had been under a physicians care
here for almost q month because Of
injured eyes, but he announced him
self ready about week ago and
really looked fit and fast in workouts.
The first round Tuesday night in
Dictated that some clever milling might
be in store. The few blows struck
were well-executed jabs and Asher's
footwork was pretty to watch. But
when Mccoy began hitting, it could
be seen bow helpless Asher was. He
failed TO block and his replies were
wild or short. Seemingly. he did
little on the aggressive for fear Of
showing how really incapable Of
judging distance he really was. In
the eighth round he rushed out Of his
corner across the ring against the op-
posite rope without landing on Nc
Coy.
Mccoy Didn't Cut Loose.
Mccoy undoubtedly could have
beaten Babe worse, but he dill not
seem unduly aggressive toward his
helpless opponent until the last round
when he planted left and right jOlts
TO the head without any difficulty at
all. Asher was game.
A year ago a man close TO Asher
told Promoter Shelton he thought the
Babe was through the gentleman
was right.
The rest of Tuesdays. card was
great. 1t was unfortunate that Il
classy main event could not have
topped off such marvellous collec-
ton of preliminaries.
The outstanding bout OF the eve
ming was Eddie Corners violent vic
tory over Kid Gilbert, the left-handcd
local lad. Corners looked light light
ming Sprinkled with hair oil might
look. What's mall part of the action
in that siX-rounder that registered on
the naked eye was as full of fistic
violence as could be desired by the
most devout lover of continual az
gressiOn in the squared circle. The
house went wild as Corners rushed
around the ring. He tore at Gilbert
with arms flying. jerked free Of
ClincheS. sailed in again. danced about
the deliberate and puzzled local lad
and cut up in general in a manner
that caused the fans to stand up and
yell. Gilbert went down for n count
of nine in the last round aud then was
thrown from clinch through the
ropes as the bell rang. Seldom has
Il boxer received such an ovation on
leaving the ring as Corners got.
Blames 1t on Shoulder.
Steve WEIGH, the Arizona Kid, y
went into the semi-windup. scheduled
for eight rounds. against Sam Rico of
San Antonio with court plaster COW
ering wound on his shoulder where
an infected injury had been lanced a
few days ago. After proving hard toI
hit and slamming the shorter-limbed
Rico about considerably, knocking
him down in the second round. WEIGH
was knocked down himself in the
third, bumped his head, rolled over
and did a sOmerSault to regain his
feet and then went down again eX-I
claiming, ooh. my shoulder ~ Any
how. he stayed down for the count
and was assisted TO his corner. giving
Rico the victory on technical
knockout. During the fast milling,
WEIGH fired one from the floor and.
like as not. his next blow dropped
from the direction of the chandeliers.
Just before Welch was knocked down,
Rico cracked him one that caused his
knees to sag. Strengthening, Welch
slammed a right to Rico's paws and
the MeXican's underpinning wobbled
little. Lots of hard Clouts were
exchanged in this mixup.
TOlar Takes a Lot.
In the Six-round curtain-raiser,
Army Kid Jack won over Jack To-
lar. Kid Jack time after time sent
overland rights that made "sqush
ing sound as they connected with
ToIar's jaw. but the battered high
school boy took everything from his
bigger opponent without going down.
Dell Gotten refereed. The house was
we'll filled.
The next Beethoven Hall bill will
be staged Tuesday. March @. when
Kid Pancho and Eddie Corners may
meet in the main event. PanchO fights
Jimmy Russo, whom he met here
twice. in the bull ring at Juarez.
Mexico. on February IS. the bout hav-
ing been postponed, because of the
bad weather, from February Is.
Whether Pancho fights here on March
6 depends on how he comes out
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