The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
HOLLYWOOD AND
 WOOD FIGHT TO
 DRAW SATURDAY
:,;;ain Event Tn Legion Smoker Unnteresting Three
 Bouts Good Sport.

Despite the fact that the Wood Hollywood match, the main event of the evening proved to be tame and uninteresting affair from the stand point of the 300 odd fight fans as sembled, the other three bouts fur nished a lot of sport at the Legion s Smoker at Elks' Hall Saturday even. ing. The main go, fought with the one hand free rule allowed, proved to be a hugging match, devoid of boxing, lacking the appeal of the open style of fighting that appeals to local fans and the judges decision of q draw was not needed
 What action was lacking in the other three events. One of these. the second, ended in a clean knock out, the other two were called draws The semi-windup. between Rudolph and Durkee, was an old fashioned slugging bee, ending in the fourth with both men so exhausted that neither could show more than willing ness.
 Matthews Shows Improvement Young Matthews, who appeared in the Legion's smoker here last Jan uary. showed better form last night than on his first appearance. He went against a little brown brother named Mendez and some of the fans thought he should have had de- cision. Both boys mixed willingly, neither doing much damage in the opener, which was probably Mat thews' on aggressiveness. In the second round, Mendez got over left to the face that jolted Matthews. bringing the first claret The third however, went to Matthews, who made his best showing in this round He did some wicked hitting to the body which had the Filipino worried and tired at the close of the ses- sicn. The judges decision was a draw and the fight was close enough to justify it.
 Beaudin kayos Clark
 The only kayo Of the evening came in the second fight Bill Beaudln slipped a sleep producer to Clark's jaw about one minute after the fourth round started which caused that husky specimen of an Alaska oborig- inal race to forget all about the literacy bill for longer time than the rules permit and when he woke up Beaudin had already pocketed the winners end of the purse.
 Clark looked good enough to give Beaudin a strong argument. The first and second rounds, however, were tame Both fighters walked through the motions to waltz tempo. The third quickened little, going into something like a foxtrot. The fourth started off about the same gait. Beaudin, however, jazzed up without Clark being able to follow. Working his man back near the ropes, Beau din started the old one-two working He lead with a left to the head which Clark tried to duck and did so just in time to poke his chin into a right swing that Beaudin start ed from somewhere near Petersburg. By the time it connected, it had all the clements of disaster Clark promptly did an Annette kellerman, jack-knifing to the canvas, and flop ping to his back. He was out for sey- eral minutes and still groggy when he left the ring.
 slussers Please Fans
 The semi-windup proved to be a sure-fire slugging bee between Durkee and Rudolph. two husky 150'pound- CTS For the entire four rounds gloves flewN around the ring from all angles and directions. As far as both men were concerned it was against the rules to hit below the neck and each worked seriously to spoil the others countenance. Both timed well, that is, they covered and uncovered their faces at the sane particular moment and when one landed, the other did the same thing.
 Rudolph seemed to have the more experience and was inclined to want to fight at long range. Such tactics didn't go littlebit with Durkee, who covered his face and waded in. The first two rounds were apparently even. both landing frequently with lcud-smacking blows that did no par ticular damage. In the third Durkee pushed the going and had Rudolph in distress with frequent punches to the face, all of them landing too high up to do serious injury.
 The fourth round brought the