San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17
PANCHO WAITS HIS
CHANCE; 1T COMES;
ANOTHER KNOCKOUT
Tony Norman Finished Of
With One Punch in
Eighth Round.

Kid Pancho, San Antonio hyweight,
who packs the knockout punch of a
welterweight, waited his chance to
use that punch on Tony Norman of
Pittsburg for seven and h., rounds
in the Soledad arena Tuesd.J night.
Then, heralded by left he ok that
snapped Norman's head back and
threw his woodworking, piston-like
defense of constantly failing arms out
of gear, the deadly right came over.
Pancho stepped in, shifted to the right
and his glove described a short arc
which terminated at exactly the right
spot on Norman's jaw. The little
Pittsburger collapsed on the canvas
and Referee Dell Gotten waved him a
pleasant good night.
Until Pancho clipped the visiting
scrapper on the chin in the fourth,
sending him momentarily to his knees.
Norman showed the fans an his op-
ponent some speed. They don't come
much shiftier than this lad, but his
jaw does not appear to be of the
strongest and he demonstrated no de-
structive wallop. Pancho staggered
him a little in the thi- but apparent
ly he has been staggered before. for
he knew what to do and he did it
without getting into any mo; trouble
for the time being. The first, second
and sixth rounds were Norman's, the
third, fourth and fifth Pancho's and
the seventh, with few telling blows
struck, was about even. Pancho care
fully measured his man in the eighth
and the end came suddenly, while the
crowd. silent and stunned for a mo-
ment, let out a wild whoop that rever-
berated through the ample hall Promo
ter Shelton is to employ for the winter
months as his fight club.
Pancho and Norman each weighed
under ia pounds. it was announced.
They were weighed in the ring with
all paraphernalia on.
Norman introduced novelty by TAX
ing a swig of milk before the first
bell.
The semi-windup, which was expect
ed to be feature of the card, was a
frost. Johnny Simpson and Sam Rico
pulled their punches instead of putting
on a slambang affair like they did re-
Gently on the Elks' roof. In the fourth
round, Rico received some semi-vicious
pokes on his physiognomy and draped
himself upon the canvas like Cleo
patra refusing the snake-bite medicine.
He got up and then draped himself
again. A couple more pushes and sc
sat down a third time. He was reluc-
tant to rise this time, made a few
funny passes before his eyes and COT
fen's "ten" beat his leisurely attempt
to get to his feet. Simpson, whose
mauling was very unconvincing in
view of his stiff. blood-bringing blows
which laid Rico low couple of weeks
ago, was, of course, awarded the fight
1t was announced as winner-take-all
fight. Mebbe so, mebbo so.
Mickey Cromwell, the wild-eyed
youngster from the army post. took a
two-handed punching joyously from
Windmill Jimmy Barrere, oftimes
sticking out his defenseless chin, sur
mounted by leer, for Barrere to paste
which Barrere did. A couple of
times he reeled from blows and once in
the third round he went down. He
lasted the four-rourd limit, however,
and was planting a few in Barrere's
midriff when the last gong rang. The
Windmill. of course, won by mile.
Kid Williams, newcomer. gave
good exhibition against Jimmy Bass
for a round. then. when Bass dropped
him to his knees in the third round
after pasting him freely for a couple
of sessions. Williams decided he had
enough and did not come up for the
last round. Bass appears to have fu-
ture.
Shelton's next boxing show will be
held Monday. with Eddie Ketchel!
against Vasquez or Chico.