San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-03
JUDGES RIGHT IN ONE
OF FOUR DECISIONS ON
BEETHOVEN HALL BILL
Pancho A warded Main
Event and Fans Raise a
Rukus Cheering Russo.

brand new pair Of judges made !
mess Of an otherwise enjoyable Beet
hoyen Hall boxing bill Tuesday night.
They guessed on the winners of four
fights-.he fifth on the program ended
in a knockout-and guessed right only
once. What's more, the guess on the
main events was one of their slip-ups
and, when Referee Dell Gotten lifted
Kid Pancho's hand in token of victory
over Jimmy Russo, Michigan flyweight,
the fans roared and scores of them
swarmed into the ring to tell Russo who
they thought should have received the
decision.
On points, the main event was
close affair but it was certainly not
Pancho's fight. 1t was an unusual af-
fair, like most of the other bouts on
the card, and was, therefore, difficult
to judge on n strict point basis. The
fact remains, however, that Russo, a
composite picture of Patsy Knockout"
Brown, Kid Buck and the Mysterious
Midget and as active as anybody who
ever stepped in q ring, kept moving in
and out and around. so fast in the first
four rounds, fists flying at clo>r quar-.
tiers, that Pancho seemed puzzled and
{ hardly landed a blow, being content TO
stand and let his adversary whirl
around him and flay him with gloves
behind which was plenty OF willingness
but very little wsllop.
Pancho woke up in the fifth and be-
gan taking the fight TO Russo, which
showed up the Jumping Jack somewhat.
However, Poncho could never get set
for damaging blows and it was not IN
~ Al ~ lie hot q SFr n
home any punches that told.
II was announced that each had
weighed Ill pounds just before the
bout.
Jack Willis and Jack Tolar, high
school welterweights and team mates on
the same football team, put on the tea-
ture battle of the evening, siG-round
bout as the semi-windup. IL was a
wicked scrap with many knockdOTns,
slip-downs and staggering punches. 1t
was all Willis fight for three rounds.
Iolar took some terrific clouts, being
knocked down twice. In the fourth
round. however. the aforementioned
and plucky Tolar sent home punch
that floored Willis. Willis sunk down
: three times more in that round. The
next round was also deciSively Tolar's.
In the sixth. Willis came back some
what, but Tolar was still doing most of
! the fighting when he was suddenly
showed through the ropes He fell on
his back and lay there, half in and
half out. Referee Gotten stopped count
ing and, with some difficulty, lifted the
fallen boxer back into the ring, then
waved the boys together again. The
Marquis Of Queensberry and other old
. boxing rule-makers rolled over in their
graves. And on top Of it, Tolar re
ceived the decision. a draw was the
very worst Willis should have received
Neither Bert (alias jack Carrier or
Young Joe Rivers showed anything be-
side q willingness TO take punishment
In their four-round middleweight bout.
Carrier was fairly clever with his
hands but Rivers didn't seem TO be exs
actly himself, to put it mildly, and the
affair was rather farcical. 1t was
called a draw. Carrier won it, with
out doubt, although it wouldn't have
been anything for the record books had
he received the decision.
The scheduled four-rounder between
Ernest Conklin and Jack Brazier was
A wonder. Neither knew or cared a
thing about boxing. Conklin, a power
fully-muscled man who looked more like
A wrestler than a boxer, began throwing
gloves at Brazier from the first and
never stopped a second. There wasn't
a clinch in the round and a half that
the mill lasted. In the second, Brazier
was knocked through the ropes and
counted out as he lay on the stage.
In the curtain-raiser, Bat Barrera III
iustly won a decision from Kid Julius
In four rounds. The slim little fellows
were full OF action and funny tangles
but didn't do much damage.
The Brooke Stephens-Mike Nasquez
bout has been arranged to headline next
Tuesdays show.