Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-22
SENCIO THIRD
PHILIPPINE TO MEET
Death FROM BOUT

Chicago, April 21-[P)-Only one
OF quartette of Filipino young
sters selected by Frank Churchill in
Manila and trained to a boxing bril-
lance that enabled them to contest
upon an equality with the best of
their weight in the world. remains
alive and able to carry on. He is
Pete Sarmiento, the largest of the
group and at that only a feather
weight.
Clever Sencio who died yesterday
in Milwaukee after bout with
Buddy Taylor, Terre Haute, Ind.
challenger for the worlds bantam
weight title, was the third to pass
on in that manner.
Young Dencio was the first He
died after a gruelling fight with
Bert Mccarthy in Melbourne, Aus
tralia. Previously Dencio collapsed
after his fight with Eugene Crioui
of France, former worlds feather
weight champion, but recovered
Then came Pancho Villa, who soar
ed to heights just beyond the reach
of his three little brown brothers
by winning the worlds fyweight
championship, only to die too, after
a fight.
The unusual record of deaths Of
the little Filipinos has caused Chi
cago ring followers to wonder if
there was something in the tropical
makeup to render them unable to
follow the fast pace set by their
white foremen of the roped arena.
Certainly the series of deaths is
without parallel in boxing history,
and each of them followed hard.
smashing contests in which, eX-
hausted to the very verge of death.
none of the Filipinos gave an inch.
but fought terrifically to the final
bell, or, as in the case of Dencio
until a hard smash rendered him
completely hors de)combat.
Sencio and Dencio We're clean liv-
Ing youths, beautifully muscled and
apparently in excellent condition
when they entered the widely sep
arated rings for their last fights.
Villa, the champion, had deviated
slightly from the rigorous path OF
perfect condition, but he had youth.
science, physique and an amazing
energy in his favor when he stepped
into his last ring.
liz ihiSiiI nave survived ndQ he
obeyed his doctors orders. He was
warned not to fight because of an
infected jawbone, but persisted and
died later of blood poisoning after
suffering q terrific betting about the
head. Jimmy McLaren, Il recent
victim, was Villas last opponent.
Villa, ever a lavish spender, never
showed until his last fight the effects
OF the soft life he found so agree
able after his hard little fists began
TO own American dollars. He earned
thousands in his short, meteoric ca
reer, yet the charity of his friends
sent him home to his bride. A fine
monument to his proves adorns his
final resting place in Manila. If
grew from small donations of adj
mirers.
Sencio, likewise survived by a
young bride in the islands, hewed
closely to the line of his chosen
career and was strictly temperate
in his eight months in America. He
was saving, and his great desire to
outshine the Villa star left him NO
time for dissipation. In death. while
he had failed to achieve a cham
pionship as had Villa, he merited
the laudation of sports writer's who.
whlle he yet lived, had written that
he lost to Taylor only because the
Ierre Haute terror is the best boy
of his weight in the world.