San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-20
CLEAN HITTING
G|vES.PANCHO
EASY WIN

They wore out all of Jack Shelton's
boxing gloves at Market Hall Tuesday
night. II all the punches landed dur
ing the two hours and half of ming
ling could have been rolled into one, it
would have had force enough to knock
over the building.
And not the least violent of a string
of furious fights was the windup of
ten rounds between Kid Pancho, old
favorite of San Antonio fans, and Kid
Lencho of Eagle Pass, who aspired to
Pancho's title as the best bantam
weight in this region.
The bout went ten rounds instead of
the proposed twelve, because Pancho,
it was announced, felt rather i'll from
the effects Of a cold and requested the
two-round abbreviation.
The fans who jammed the hall are
now wondering what Pancho would
have done to Lencho if he had had
his health.
Pancho weighed 100 pounds in his
gloves. shoes, etc, just before the bout.
and Lencho, Promoter Shelton said,
weighed 119 IL in his ring rairent.
They we're a match in speed and
willingness, but Pancho was much too
wise for the border boz, hit cleaner
and outboxed Lencho almost the en-
tire distance.
Lencho rushed in, failing his over
hand right and wrestling around with
much vigor. But on each rush. Pan
cho met him with straight and solid
to body or head, frequently
up the effect of these drives
by clouting Lencho across the ring.
BUSY FOURTH ROUND.
There was little doing in the first
three rounds, but excitement reigned
in the fourth when Pancho was pushed
through the ropes, jumped back swing.
ing and knocked Lencho between the
hemp strands. Lencho was back in
an instant and the action was so in
tense that lots of the fans missed
threatened free-for-all at the ringside.
Lencho went down for the count of
eight before the round ended.
Lencho was knocked to his knees
with a one-two in the next round, but
his violence on getting up set Pancho
back on his heels.
Pancho slipped on the wet canvas
in neutral corner in the seventh.
In the eighth, Pancho had a chance
to knock Lcncho out. Jabs and coul-
ters got the Eagle Pass boys nose
bloody and an echoing right had him
groggy just as the bell rang.
The ninth was Pancho's round also,
though Lencho kept coming in. Pan
cho let down in the final round and
Lencho had an edge on the basis of n
flock of wild swings, few OF which
found their mark but without serious
Effects.
Panche won despite the fact that
be had to keep a glove, sometimes two,
close to his waist to grab slipping
trunks. Perhaps it was just as well
that the fight went only ten instead
of twelve rounds.
The eight-round semi-windup ,uncov-
,red a two-handed battler in Cowboy
Dillon, who pasted Otis Forester ia
ACE and body several hundred times,
but could not flatten the rugged San
Antonian.
Foxtrot Pompas, substituting for
Danny Long against Eddie CLANCY.
ought probably the best fight of his
,areer and had an edge over CLANCY
, no demonstrated no damaging punch.
hough he threw many counter blows
nto Pompas' anatomy. Pompas gave
lin everything he could handle for two
-ounds and then held bis own the res,
# the way.
GERMAN KAYOED AGAIN.
In an added fomr-rounder. Albrecht
xoenig, the German lightweight, who
vas trimmed by johnny Merino at
Kelly Field recently, was kayoed by
lever Eddie Lopez in the third round.
xoenig. who can't take them on the
hin, went down four times in all.
AL Mayen. punching clean and hard.
'utpointed the wild-swinging Rabbit
'almer in six rounds. II was rough
nd-ready battle. Palmer was on the
loor in the second round.
Mickey Young clouted game Jimmy
spar TO the canvas five times in the
irst round. On the fifth trip, towel
rom Spar's corner ended the bout.
Next Tuesday night. Shelton plans
! trio of ten-rounders in which Johnny
ierino will meet Bobby Fernandez Of
iexico, Tillic Kid Herman will take
N Walter Warner of Ponca City,
)kla., and Cowboy Dillon will meet
yiccnto SIMILAR Of Max;no