The Washington times., 1927-05-10
PUSH OVER
PENAL TY
ISPA|D
BY Kirk Miller


PHILADELPHIA. Pa, May TO-
Albert Foreman, popular Washing
ton feather ana junior lightweight
title aspirant. is today paying the
penalty Of more than a year Of
easy set.ups, punch-drunk push.
overs and groggy old men. He
realizes that II top honors In either
Of those classes Is to be achieved,
he must begin all over again with
rigorous list Of opponents and
work himself into condition to
meet real contenders.
Louis Kid Kaplan outpointed him
BY 3 wide margin at the arena
last night and saved Foreman fur.
Their ignominy by refusing to wade
in until the tenth round with the
real punishment OF the evening.
Albert made 3 sorry mess Of
his most recent ring appearance
BY getting on the defensive from
the first gong and maintaining
that attitude until the last. SO
furiousIy did the former feather
weight champion pummel Fore
man I'm the final round that
many Of the spectators paused
m their exit expecting Foreman
60 take the floor In the dying
seconds OF the fray.
Defensive fighting doesn't win de-
cisions. and if Foreman didn't know
II before he knows it now. From
the first round it was apparent thar
ali he expected to do against ms
superior opponent was to stay the
roiIte. and with that end in view
he hoped his bicycle, . hign.
wheeled one at that, and stayed
there rather safely excepting az
certain intervals when 1t looked as
though Kaplan might forget him.
self and knock him from his pre-.
carious perch.
What has become Of Foreman's
widely heralded rabbit punch" -
one Of those ''you ask me one now"
questions which only he can an.
swer. He certainly didn't bring II
to Philadelphia with him, nor did
he bring any Of his other tools OF
trade which Washingtonians have
seen him apply in his bouts with
Goldie Ahearn and others.
But Foreman was not what you
would call total loss. While he
was not aggressive in any sense OF
the word against Kaplan, he did
have the former champion missing
pretty much in between the blows.
and there were those In the audi.
ence who were Of the opinion that
Kaplan could have stopped the fight
AZ will. ANYTIME after the first
round.
That opener was even, and
the nearest Foreman came to
taking care Of himself, each
fighter apparently feeling ont
the other. In the second, Kap.
Ian won q wide margin and the
succeeding rounds found that
variance becoming greater and
greater in behalf Of the Now
Englander.
The third found Foreman backing
up without striking blow In his
own defense. The fourth was a
poor session all around, and saw
some cake-waIking which brought
pleas from the fans for some fight.
All Albert wanted to do was to stay
and Kaplan seemed to have no OBJ
lection.
More retreating by Foreman in
the fifth with sharp body jabs to
assist him on his way. Only the
ropes kept him in the ring. The
Kaplan mitigating was gestures
only and carried little voltage. The
sixth was a repetition Of the fifth,
with Foreman showing . flare Of
aggressiveness at the bell
Seventh Foreman peddling nicely
with Kaplan Just teasing, not really
putting on the works.
Eighth-Foreman taking all there
was. which wasn't very much, and
In tn ninth Kaplan put on a real
demonstration of how easy 1t IL to
appear to be fighting but Just some
how or other unable to make hose
blows land.
Tenth-Ah, the tenth. Kaplan
awakes. BUSHES Foreman from the
bell with a rain of let's and rights
to the face, particularly the chin,
and had the Washington lad no
longer able to stay away from his
opponent. plenty bruised up and
bleeding and just about ready to
topple when the chimes sound. Had
Kaplan done his best, the scrap
should have gone about four or
five rounds. That's as sure as
shooting.