The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-04-21
DIES AFTER
FIGHTING TEN
ROUND BOUT
CLEVER sENcIo sUccUMRs
FOLLOWING TERRIFIC BAT
TIE WITH BUD TAYLOR
IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, April 2l.-Oniy one
Of a quartet of Filipino young
sters selected by Frank Churchill
in Manila and training to a boxing
brilliance that enabled them to
contest on equality with the best
Of their weight in the world, re-
mains alive and able to carry on
Pete sarmiento, the largest Of the
group and at that only feather
weight.
Clever Sencio, who died yester-
day in Milwaukee after a terrific
ten-round bout with Bud Taylor,
Terre Haute. Ind, challenger for
the worlds bantanweight title,
was the third to pass on in that
manner.
Young Denciov was the first.
He died after Q gruelling fight
with Bert Mccarthy in Melbourne,
Australia. Previously Dencio
collapsed after his fight with
Eugene Criqui, Of France, former
worlds featherweight champion,
but recovered. Then came Pancho
Villa, who scared to heights just
beyond the reach Of his three lit
tie brown brothers by winning the
worlds flyweight championship,
only to die too after fight.
The unusual record Of deaths Of
the little Filipinos has caused
Chicago ring followers to wonder
IL there was something in the
tropical makeup to render them
unable to follow the fast pace set
BY their white foemen Of the
roped arena.
Certainly the series Of deaths
IL without parallel In boxing his
tory, and each Of them followed
hard, smashing contests in which,.
exhausted TO the 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 hard smash rendered him
completely hors de combat.
Seneio and Deneio were clean
living youths, beautifully mus
cled and apparently In excellent
condition when they entered the
widely separated rings for their
last fights.
Villa, the champion, had de-
Waited slightly from the rigorous
path of perfect condition. but ne
had youth. science, physique and
nn Amazing energy in his favor
when he stepped into his last ring.
He might have survived had he
obeysd his doctors orders. He
was warned not to fight because
Of an infected jawbone, but per-
sisted snd died later Of blood
poisoning after suffering terri
flc pelting about the head. JIM
my MeLarnin, a recent victim OF
Taylor. was Villas last opponent.
villa, who was always q lavish
spender showed the effects Of the
soft life he found so agreeable af-
ter bis hard little fists began TO
knock down American dollars. He
earned thousands in his short
career. yet charity Of his friends
sent him home to his bride. "A
fine monument to his proves
adorns his final resting place in
Manila. II grew from small do
nations Of admirers.
Sencio likewise survived by a
young bride in the islands, hewed
closely 70 the line Of his chosen
career, and was strictly temperate
in his eight months in America.
He was saving and his great de-
sire 10 outskine the Villa star left
him no time for dissipation.
In death, while he had failed to
achieve a championship as had
Villa, he merited the laudation Of
sports writers. who, while he
lived, had written that he lost to
Taylor only because Taylor is the
best boy Of his weight in the