Imperial Valley press., 1927-07-30
SPORT NEWS SECTION
LEE AND ALLEGRINI STAGE ONE
WILD BATTLE AT LOCAL ARENA

heavy mitts on Lee and Harry kept
n left working to advantage
throughout the round to win it by
points.
Hits Floor Again
Ad took another trip to the can
vas in the seventh and again it
took him nine counts TO get back
|! into the battle. larry landed q
right to the face to score the knock
down and it looked like curtains a
gain for Ad but he managed to get
back to his feet and withstood a
terrible beating throughout the re,
mainder of the round.
The better condition of Allegrini
stood him in good stead for he came
back in the eighth and from that
time on he had the better of the
scrap. He outfought Harry in the
eighth, scoring several damaging
blows and driving Harry to the
ropes on three different occasions.
In the ninth Harry was forced to
lay off the attack most of the time,
spending his time in trying to keep
away from ADS right. But Harry
was not altogether successful and
a left to the stomach and right to
the head put him on the floor. Har-
ry started to rise Immediately but
it was count of seven before he
was successful in getting both feet
under him. He used the ropes to
climb back into the fight Lee
scored one right to the head just
before the round ended but it was
his last right of the fight for he in
.jured his hand and during the rest
of the battle be only feigned with
the right and resorted entirely to
his left to hit.
Harry kept the left working fast
throughout the tenth. He was fore
ed to keep it beating into Ad to
save himself and he accomplished
his aim. Ad, however, got through
several stiff punches and the round
was about even.
Kid Mex and Tommy Shull bat
tied to a draw decision in great
scrap. Kid Mex opened the fracas
with stiff attack which had Tom
my in trouble in the first round but
Tommy worked himself out of it by
the end of the round, managing to
slip over one good right that bother
ed Kid Mex. 1t was the Mexican S
round.
In the second Kid Mex took pun
ishment but managed to keep Tom
my busy throughout Tommy used
his right to good advantage in this
round and with his left continually
iabbing at Kid Mex face he mcted
out plenty of punishment. 1t was
Tommy S round.
Shull continued his Furnishing tao
ties in the third but in the fourth
Kid Mex who had centered all his
attack up to this time on Shull S
body scored right to the head that
hurt. Kid Mex followed up the ad-
vantage and had the best OF the
round when the bell sounded.
The fifth round was easily
Shull's. He punished Kid Mex
with his left iab, meeting each of
| Kid Mex's rushes with blow
square to the face. He hooked over
right during the round which
| dropped Kid Mex TO knee.
Tommy made the mistake in the
| final round to open up and slug
with Kid Mex and received a bad
cut over his eye which bathed his
face in blood. But Tommy fought
! eamcly on to the finish, Kid Mex
! having the best Of the round.
Fuente Wins Fight
Pedro Conception could use no
deception in his bout with De La
, Fucntc anil the CaleXico boy pound
ed his way to a technical knockout
| in the second round. Conception
showed well at times but after
landing a heavy right to Fuentc :
head in the second he became bit
careless and left and right sent
/ him to the mat. He was up immcdi'
ately but down again almost as
| quickly as he arose. This time hc
| NdN ulEIN NHth 't ''' w 'hiV
, feet and the referee called a halt
to save unnecessary punishment.
In the curtain raiser Monte Hill
and Alberto Mira gave fans wild
swinging exhibition that was q
thriller. Both boys showed gameness
and desire to please and they put
everything they had into the bat
tie. Monte won his way to the de
cisiou by his aggressiveness and
gave the Sandia boy a real trim
ming during the four rounds. Hill
has plenty of promise and with d
little skillful handling should make
good battler, 1t was his frs ap
pearance in the local ring in two
years.
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