Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-11
CALEXIC0 ARENA
IS GIVEN GOOD
START BY FANS

! ion, pried off the lid OH its new
boxing arena at Calexico last night,
/ before a large crowd from all parts
of the valley, which turned out to
give the exservice men good
send off.
The affair was successful from
| almost every angle. but Just as the
" talented child fails to perform
when company comes. so the Ca
lexico boys were little unfortun-
ate in having a main event that
wasn't all it should be. But the
other three bouts were sizzlers, and
a IS per cent break on any card is
better than the average.
Calexico's s handsome and excep-
tionally we'll planned arena was
dedicated with appropriate cere
monies. A squad of Boy Scouts,
carrying the national and post col
ors, climbed into the ring, and stood
at salute while the band played the
Star Spangled Banner, and the au-
dience stood at attention.
Then Fred Nebel-Thau, master of
! ceremonies for the evening, took
charge of the program, made a few
announcements, neat little speech
congratulating the Legion boys, in
troduced a singer who gave a couple
Of entertaining numbers, and then
started off the festivities.
! Ordinarily, Il main event gets the
| top spot in boxing story, but in
this one it will show up later for
! the opening scrap between Homer
Gaines and Ed Garcia, started the
card, and the boys put up such Il
good scrap they are entitled to a
little more dope than the prelims
usually get.
The clever colorpd boy WAS too
much for Garcia and took the wind
out of his sails in the first round,
with heavy blows to the head and
body. Garcia showed plenty Of
stamina and though couple of
times it looked like he was tempted
| to seek rest on the canvas, he
wcathcre1 the four rounds and was
on his feet when the fight ended.
Romero Trounced
Calcxico s favoritc red-head,
Benny Romero, got sound thrash
ing from Andy Brooks, of Imper-
ial, the latter getting technical
knockout when Referee Mcmahon
stopped the scrap after 81 seconds
of fighting in the third round. Ben
ny was punch drunk from the first
round and in the second round
Brooks sent him through the ropes,
hauling him back 10 prevent him
landing in the spectators laps.
Brooks was in exceptionally good
form. The colorcd boy was fast as
lightning and went after Romero
from the start.
Too much speed on the part of
Joe CORDOBA, and too much beef
/ adorning the waist lime of Ivy Tan
ner. were tho reasons for CORDOBA
getting the decision in the semi
final Tanner was rugged and will
ing. but could not keep up with The
! speedy Cordoza. They we're we'll
matched and fought good fight
Knockout Brown tried hard to
make fight of the main event, but
Rough-ho Nelson from Phoenix
"hulldoggcd - il all the way
through and caused the fans to boo
continually from the second round
on. Nelson showed nothing but Il
short chubby right hand blow that
did considerable damage TO Brown s
map, and Willingness TO wrcstlc It
at all times. Brown kept himself
we'll protected and cndcavorcd to
make Nelson open mp and fight lie
| succeeded in the ninth and tenth
rounds and rocked Nelson plenty in
| these two stanzas. Brown took thc
decision, aud in the opinion of all
present he earned it, II was the
| third decision taken by Il colorod
boy during the night They might
have made 100 per cent score cx-
ccpt that there was no cOlored box
CT in the semi.final
Billy Mcmahon, officiating as
third man in the ring, did some nice
work. MANY of the fans comment
cd on the way he handled the box
rrs, without any display of offic-
iousncss. Billy knows his business
and it was Il pleasure to see him in
action.
Dick Hoppe aud Al Rniz head
CalcXico 5 card for next week.
One man $ liquor is another man 3