San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-12
BUTCHER PAUL
FELLS CALF
S[ATTERY
BY DAMON RUNYON
1925, by Universal Service.

Copyright, 1925, by Universal Service.
YANKEE STADIUM, NEW
YORK. Sept. Paul Berlenbach,
the light-heavyweight champion of the
world, was clubbing Jimmy Slattery,
of Buffalo, all around the ring at the
Yankee Stadium last night, like a
clumsy butcher trying to knock a MIN
Bile calf on the head, when Patsy
Haley, the referee, stopped the af-
fair in the eleventh round.
Slattery was squatted helplessly on
a sagging bottom rope of the ring,
knocked down for the third time that
round, There were flecks, Of blood on
his face. his mouth was open, and his
eyes were very CLASSY.
At each knockdown, Haley stopped
over calling the count in Slattery's
ear, as the timekeeper hammered the
floor to indicate the passing of the
seconds. The white-haired referee
kept looking over to Slattery's corner
with an appealing expression, as if
silently pleading with Red" Carr,
manager of the Buffalo boy, to throw
in towel.
SttEO JIM HIMSELF.
Finally, at the third Touchdown,
Haley took matters in his own hands,
and stopped the fight.
Berlenbach helped assist Slattery
to his corner, and the slim youngster,
who has just turned twenty-one, and
was fighting his first long bout in
New York state, soon revived.
Slattery got the cheers Of a crowd
of 10000 as he left the ring, while
punch EN- Paul, who might here
after be known as "Club EN-" Paul,
got many boos. He made an extreme
ly awkward job of the defense of his
title, even though be won.
He had Slattery drunk and help
less in the second round, and draped
over the second strand of the ropes,
but Paul didn't know what to do
about it. Slattery recovered, and then
proceeded to outlook Berlenbach by a
very wide margin, almost right up to
the finish. Paul seemed to grow
slower with each round, and less eff
fective in his punching.
HE'S NO ARTIST.
There was no artistry to Paurs
work. He called into play some of
the knowledge he acquired as an ANA
teur wrestler, and tugged and hauled
at Slattery with strange holds and
grips. The Buffalo boy, a good box
er Of peculiar type, kept painting
Berlenbach's stolid countenance with
a brushing left hand, and stepping
around in such mastery style that,
after he weathered the second it look-'
ed as if he might win.
Then, in the tenth, Berlenbach
knocked him down for count Of nine,
wrestled him over for another count
Of five, and had him down against
the ropes a third time when the bell
rang at the count of two and saved
| Slattery.
The Buffalo lad took this match
with Berlenbach after both Jack De-
laney and Mike McTigue had TO can
eel the same date with the champion
on account of illness. Slattery was
knocked out by Dave Shade, q well
terweight, in three rounds some weeks
ago, an incident that was the sensa-
ton of the pugilistic year in the East.
1t was believed by Slattery's friends
that this was largely an accident, and
Slattery himself eagerly seized the
opportunity for a comeback.
COULDN'T FELL OK.
He took Berlenbsch's smashes in
the early rounds, and fought back
manfully trying time and again to
clip Paul on the chin. Time and again
he succeeded, too, occasionally rock
ing the Historian, but Paul would
shake his head, like an exasperated
OK, and plod grimly on.
Slattery said after the first that a
left-hand punch in the stomach in the
tenth damaged him more than any
other. aud that Berlenbach kept hurl-
ing him around so he could not re-
cover his wind.
frankie Schoell Of Buffalo, n. T.,
won a judges verdict oves Harry Gal
fund of Brooklyn, in the twelve-round
semi-final match. Schoell wore his
opponent down with n tantalizing left
jab and floored him for the count Of
eight in the eleventh. Schoell weighed
149 and his opponent $50.
Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia
light heavyweight. won a judges YER
dict over Young Marulio of New Or
leans in a fast eight.rounder. Lough-
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