San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-26
WHITE BOXES
R|NGs.ARQUND
BILLY N CAM
Faster, He Beats Cleve-
lander to the Punch
Repeatedly.
PALMER 'KAYOES' LYLE
Navy Feath erweight
Stretched Out Cold; Burns
r.. and Willis Draw.

Tommy White of Texas City upset
some calculations in his bout with
Billy McCann. Cleveland lightweight.
at the Market Hall boxing show
Tuesday night and decisively outpoint-
ed the veteran campaigner about
whose ring accomplishments so much
had been heard but who showed os
comparatively little class in his two
engagements in San Antonio.
White, slightly smaller and not so
ruggedly constructed as his antagon-
ist, was much faster and beat Nc
Cam 10 the punch virtually all the
way. Only rarely did McCann land
Clearly on face or body. his one telling
blow being a flail-like right that he
pounded on Whites side during
.clinches.
1t appears that Mccain has lost the
snap TO his punches and is ever so
slightly muscle-bound in the shoulders
He couldn't bring his fists into action
Tuesday night before White had
dashed in. planting a left to the face
and a right hook to the body, in scores
of instances. Neither was in danger
of a knockout at any time, though
both had Redeemed faces and sides
from the mauling that went on when
they swayed about tightly locked in
clinches.
Jack Willis and Chuck Burns. San
Antonio welterweights, the dearest of
enemies. met again in a ten-round
ssmi-windup and gave the spectators
who like the knock 'em-dead possibili-
ties in any bout-this includes Just
about all the spectators-an enjoy
able half hour.
Draw Only Fair.
At the end of the tenth round, the
points were too even to call it any
thing but draw. Burns couldn't box
with Willie and lost several rounds
for the failure of his vicious swings
10 land anywhere but on arms and
shoulders, if at all, but Burns. as
usual. was the master in most Of the
close-quarters slammipg bees.
Burns was obviously the favOrite
with the crowd probably because Will
lis ring department isn't always quite
according to Hoyle. His football train
ing cropped out in the early rounds
and he rushed Burns across the ring
and into the ropes violently several
times, meanwhile executing a tackle
around the waist. He was also guilty
OF few low blows in the first few
rounds. Of course, this didn't en-
nance his popularity any.
Wills set the pace in the first
round, instructed probably to box his
man. In the second, he was busily
engaged in following out instructions
when Burns suddenly left-hooked him
to one knee. Willis also went to
knee in the third round. his worst of
the fight. but, after his anger had
cooled later, he dropped back into his
boxing style and kept left in Burns
face a good deal of the time.
Not Up to Standard
Burns, who has a future in the ring.
without doubt, as tough slugger If
he can improve his boxing a little, was
not up to form Tuesday night. His
customary ambition" was below par
and he let Willis do much of the work
late in the mill. Burns was wild. too.
and literally dozens of haymakers
went whizzing over Willis head. or
plopped on arms and shoulders-caus-
ing those in the last row of seats 20
yell wildly.
In the tenth, Willis left abbed a
pile of points and was stepping
around merrily making Burns miss
and taking all heavy blows on his
arms when Burns reached far back
and cut loose swing that sent the
lodging Willis to the floor. He was
up at three and Burns failed to fol-
lowed his adyantage-if any.
Willis broke hand on Burns in
the fight.
The anticipated brilliant local en-.
reer of Sailor Johnny Lyle ended in
the last round of a six-round affair
with Rabbit Palmer of the army. The
soldier scored one Of the most con-
elusive knockouts that ever forced a
Il IN chn Ell
> and pack him bodily to the dressing
room. Palmer was stronger than his
sea-going opponent and the fast pace
of the first two rounds began to tell
on Lyle in the third, although he was
holding his own against the wild Rab.
bit up to that time. Palmer's eye was
|. bleeding. In the third, Palmer's maui.
) ing style perceptibly weakened the
, navy's representative and in the fourth
the army put on its first big often.
siye. A crushing right to the chin
stiffened Lyle and he fell forward like
a log. striking ehin-first on the can.
vas. But he managed to get up at thu
count of seven and the bell few sec
onds later saved him.
Left Does the Business.
He was weak in the fifth but cam,
in steadily and managed to stick tn,
lo-iiiu. IN tut clAlus prayed lOl
an opening, then suddenly connected
with left flush to the mouth. Lyl,
fell to the floor in a cloud Of resi-
dust and lay motionless while Del
Gotten counted ten over him, bloot
running from the corners of hi
mouth and his eyes glazed. He wa
still "out" in his dressing room sew
eral minutes later.
Shorty" Graham. squatty 14j
FOUNDER with whir,wind tactics, trie'
for a speed record in his bout witt
Kid Bolado. Bolado had never tough
in the ring before. Graham, at the bell
rushed over to him and began a two
fisted attack. commonly known as
rain Of blows. Bolado never landed I
blow. He was driven into a corne
and hammered TO seat on the floor
"a Graham made a pass at him Will
be was down but Referee Golfer
pllled him away and counted Bolado