San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-16
CLARKE GIVEN
LAC|NG BY
BURNS
Eleventh Stanza Finds Ex-
soldier Champ Out
on Feet.

= If Allentown Jackie Clarke ever won
4 decision over Young Stribling, h
must have caught that sprightly
youngster just when he was emerging
from the "teething" stage. Either that
or San Antonio has a coming cham
. pion in Chuck Burns.
! Burns whipped the former A. Il. #
\ iniddleweight champ more ways than
! y farmer can 60 to town, for eleven
/ rounds at Beethoven Hall Tuesday
night. The only reason he didn't tack
! on that extra twelfth stanza was that
Promoter-Referee Jack Shelton step
T ped in and decided that the carnage
, had been sufficient for one evening.
For the last three rounds Clarke
! was hanging on desperately. The end
came when it appeared to Shelton that
Clarke Intentionally butted Burns
Z with his head during one of the long
| drawn-out clinches. Clarke declared
! his willingness to continue, but was
waved to his corner.
The visiting scrapper entered the
ring with a badly marked left ear.
BY the time the thing was over it
hooked like an over-stuffed tomato. He
, was q pitiful sight, but game.
As early as the eighth round,
Clarke pleaded illness and asked that
the fight be stopped and he given an
other chance in a few days, after he
had become acclimated. Referee Shell
ton would not agree, however, and
Burns went on shooting in the old
rights and lefts.
!. After the fight had been stopped,
Clarke stepped to the footlights and
proved himself an able speaker in ex-
planning his mediocre showing. He
was suffering, it became known, from
: motor attacksyer." The "motor"
point is not quite clear, but he had
certainly been attacked"
The real jamboree came in the spe-
cial eight-round semi-windup between
the two Palmers, RABBIT" and Leo,
the latter the latest protege Of Mana.
ger Don Curley. And Boy! What a
scrap those two little 122-pounders did
put up.
The first round was fairly even, but
in the second Leo put the rabbit"
down for two nine counts, the first
time the former soldier boxer has
tasted the resin since memory Of man
Tunneth not to the contrary. Leo had
plenty of stuff left for the second
round and sent the Rabbit" to the.
floor three more times, two of them
for long counts. The rabbit" felt
the floor boards come up and hit his
shoulders two more times before the
evening was over, but Leo couldn't pus
over the finishing punch.
Leo proved himself one Of the fast
est, hardest hitting little feather
weights local fans have lamped in a
long time. Only the Rabbits" fight
ing heart enabled him to last the dis
tance.
Johnny Simpson took five rounds of
the other eight-round event from
Mercy Montez. A couple of stanzas
were fairly even, with Montez rally
ing to earn an edge in the third. Both
boys fought hard and had the crowd
on its feet.
Young Simpson was in n helpless
state the last few minutes of his four
round curtain-raiser with Windmill"
Jimmy Barrera, but Jimmy couldn't
topple him over. Simpson took the
first two rounds by a mile, but Bar
rera snapped out of it and gave him
an old-fashioned whaling in the last
two cantos.
Jack Shelton refereed the main
event. Del Gotten handled the pre-
Inns.