The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-12
All Speedy
Bouts on
Star ShOU
Big Crowd Present at
Amateur Boxing Card
Last Night

Star city amateur boxing cham
plonHhip results:
Isaac Hun defeated John Wiglan,
e5 pounds. rounds.
larry Harmon defeated Tommy
Lawler. li2 pounds, 3 rounds.
Milton Lowell defeated Alex bed.
derer. 100 pounds. Q rounds.
Leo Barrett knocked out Juclan
Currii, IL pounds. , rounds.
Dick Willis defeated BIZ Wade.
i5s pounds. rounds
Jimmy Dunn Knocked out Jack
Horton. 1916 pounds. rounds.
Fred Burnett defeated Charley
Dunlap. 1871 pounds. rounds.
Jack. o'Donnel defeated owen
Broghn. i75 pounds. 5 rounds.
Dick Butler defeated Al Summer.
Vile. 1875 pounds. rounds.
John Burdnick knocked out Tar.
ian Delaney, 100 pounds. rounds
Tony Cecelli knocked out Jack
Keene. 1856 pounds, rounds.
E,LEvES slam bank battles. re.
II picte with action. knockouts and
real honest maullng. featured The
Star city amateur boxing champion
ship tournament elimination card at
the Austin & Salt gymnasium last
night. a capacity crowd OF some
600 fans damned their way Into the
spacious gym TO witness the scraps
and were not disappointed. 4 couple
OF the matches were worth more
than tho admission price alone.
Every entry was on hand 10 do
his stuff and try 10 capture a city
amateur crown, but all OF them did
no; get an opportunity 10 box las,
night. SO many wero on hand and
the number Of matches 80 numerous
IL Was found necessary TO cut all
but ono OF the fights down 10 three
rounds duration. However. the
matches on tho second elimination
card next Friday night will go the
full four.round route. Several Of
the losers who made good showins'
last night may box on next weeks
bill In the preliminaries.
The four-round battle between
Charley Dunlap and Fred Burnett
was bearcnt from start 10 finish
and tho only bout on the card called
TO 20 four rounds Referee Ted Whit
man found IL such an even affair nj
tho end Of tho third csnto no wa;
forced 10 call for an extra round. per-
mittod under amateur rules, TO dc.
eide the fracas. Burnett won. He
had shade at tho end OF tho third
and went even further TO the front
in tho fourth session. Tho milling
was OF tho give-and-tako variety WITH
Dunlap doing most OF tho taking
However. he would come out OF his
crouching attack every once In a
while with n punch that would al
most upset Burnett. so that cvenet
matters UP.
Tarzan Delaney, Dode Bcrcots
woodsnan. green game youngstor
went down 10 defeat before the on
slaughts of John Burdnick, the de.
mon truck driver. They both tipped
the beams around 100 pounds. Tar.
zan was willing enough to mix mat.
tcrs, but Burdniok was there with Q
left hand that spelled Delaney;
doom. After being knocked dowr
about SIX times Delaney's seconds
threw in the towel.
Jack O'Donnell. n 1T5-pounder
with lots OF class. punched his wa,
10 an easy victory over Owen Bro
gan. O'Donnell had Brogan on thu
verge OF n knockout several times
but the Inter always rallied and fin
lshed the three rounds.
Jimmy Dunn and Jack Horton. box
ing In the 1a5-pound class, put UP on,
OF the best fights OF the evening. Hor'
ton started out like an apparent win
ner. driving Dunn around the rims
with shower OF lefts and rights. Blu
along about the last OF the secont
round Dunn woke UP and when HI
did Horton was done. In the third
Dunn. done went" and finished Hor
ton with u flock OF smashing wallops
Lucien Currit tried butterfl,
waltz against Leo Barrett. but Lee
didn't want TO play nice. Finally Bar
rett buried q few crushers on Lu
cicn's whiskers and tho battle wa
over. Currit wanted to fight bu
Just couldn't. Barrett could bu
wouldn't until he found out that Lu
Glen wasn't going to come any closel
than the waving stage.
Dick Butler. colored boy. put VI
n nice fight against AL Summerville
In the 125-pound class. and wor
hands down. Butler was the aggres
sor throughout and showed as mucl
stuff as anyone in the tournament.
However, tho boy who showed th,
most all-round class among tn,
lighter fighters, was Larney Harmon
brother of Mickey Harmon. Youni
Harmon beat Tommy Lawlcr at IL.
pounds. He stepped around NIGEL,
and shot both hands In with pro
oIsion. Harmon should DO hcart
from.
Tho rest OF tho scraps wcrc al
good. Some better than even tn,
aforementioned 1t was grand ant
glorious for the simon pure boxers
The next round OF Tho Star cit,
amateur championship tournament
being staged under tho direction o
Lonnio Austin. at Austin & Salt,
gym mt Ninth ave. and Olive st. will
DO held next Friday night. The win
nors In last nights fights viii b,
paired up and boys will DO eliminated
until champion Is decided at ever,