San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-02
LEAGUE: PUTS
RIVAL To
SLEEP
Handful of Fans See Big
Fellows in Second
Round Finish.
BRUSH him ! Rust him !"

bsRush him Rush him"
The above, coming in raucous tones
Hom the Drazen throat of "One-Eye
Eonnelly, furnished the rift in the
eute, as it were, and cut short the
marin event at Beethoven Hall Thurs
Esy night.
Connelly. who was seconding Walt
Ress, glowering heavyweight from
North Carolina, shouldn't have yelled
rRnsh him.
Ross took Connolly at his word,
Flushed big Jack League. and thus
paused the handful Of cash customers
~ witness only a round and a halt
81 fighting instead Of the advertised
ten.
z Connolly was responsible for RoSS
Saving been brought all the way VI
from New Orleans to battle League.
So. when ~One-Eyep saw his man drop
Ieague for the count Of nine with :;
seDrking right early in the second
xtanza. he just naturally wanted 10
gre him 20 on in and finish il.
tsS CL0UTED HIM ABOUT.
sr,Ross tried. IS soon as League
!ciambered TO his feet, the visiting
heavyweight organized vicious at
tack on Jacks chin. clouting the biz
ffx soldier right merrily about the
ring. 1t looked as though he might
,Send Jack to the canvas again.
= But, al OF a sudden, League quit
webbing 20 fetch up wallOp from
Ihe right side, and it connected With
Ross jaw,
<. The visiting scra PIPER came 10. even
Finally. and asked what round it was.
81 was all "One-Eye" could d. to
Restrain his protese from going after
feague again, though the bout waS
Hrg over.
,-se1Iad the famous gatc-crashir- see.
md moi urged Ross to Rush him b
lis highly probable that the fans
lspeuld have sesn eight on nine rounds
NJ milling, as League had INTENDED
- demonstrate the little tricks taught
tzsim BY Jack Dempsey. League was
sapplogizing after the fight, as he de
ieiared ii would have taken him about
-four rounds 10 get limbered up and
demonstrate Dempsey's famous "bob
sapd weave"
The first round had looked very
premising. Ross seemed perfectly capa-
BE of giving League all the fight he
WANTED, and roundly outpointed the
}scal mixer in that stanZa. In fact, up
10 and including the time when
League landed so heavily on Ross
jaw, the big ex-soldier resembled to a
marked degree the same League whom
rfoung Stribling mussed up so thor
loushly here several months back.
League will meet Red FitzsimmOns
sas the principal attraction at the
forInal opening Of the new Fort Sam
Houston arena on April %, it was
ANNOUNCED By Lieutenant II. W. Kill
pack, post athletic officer.
KAYO FOR MOORE.
y The semi-windup also was short
And sweet. Jackie Moore, who has
aiseen undergoing course of instruc-
itfon from Cray Miller, Leagues train
~. rocked Eddie Lopez TO sleep in
the second chapter. Moore looked
sgood. He shot his right accurately,
and every time il landed Lopez wished
ii hadn't.
There was an interminable period
OF, battle royals and novelty bouts
Between negroes. Jimmy Barrera
shaded Bobby Tara in the opening
sfour-rounder. -One-Eye" Connolly
made a long-winded speech on his
sprowess as a gate-crasher. BUN
sSpeers sang a while, and somebody
took the ring and rendered a har-
monica solo.
Louie Alberts attended to what
little refereeing was necessary.