Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-08

lighters hands and the crowd yelled,
completely satisfied with the effort OF
the two boys.
Bout two brought Buzz" Whisaker
Of Rodeo, N. M, announced as the
champion in his class for southern
New Mexico, as the contender against
Kid Harvey. a colored gentlemen rof
Douglas and vicinity The negro wis.
a tall, agile fellow, cool and deter
mined in appearance, while Buzz"
looked like a giant with the big show,
being one of the best developed in
muscle who has recently been seen in
ring in Douglas Buzz" who is
said to be cowboy had loyal fol-
lowing and he went in to win. He
appeared to go too fast for about half
of the second round had passed when
smack by the colored man changed
the name of the wearer of the crown
of championship for southern New
Mexico. Buzz" took the count quietly
and then was lifted by his attendants
to the corner and his gloves were re-
moved and by the time that was done
he had recovered from the effects OF
the blow
Young Laselle and Tony Flores were
paired for the third contest. Both
youngsters were active and aggressive
but Laselle required but flslction OF
the second round to land knockout
for Tony another popular result with
! the crowd.
1t was just after this round that
Doc Snyder made his address telling
the people about the press being
against Pyle, the promoter.
Starting the fourth bout which was
between Kid Leache and Speed Ball
Rogers, Snyder promised that it would
be six rounds or less and introduced
the fighters, Leche's weight being stat
ed as 1873 and Rogers announced as
weighing 139. This started fast and
furious and was going good in the
third when Rogers claimed and was
awarded the decision on a blow below
the belt. He was carried from the
ring.
It appeared a reasonable view that
the foul was accidental on the part
of Leche who took the referees de-
cision in favor of Rogers in good
humor.
Before the opening of the nh
event, FRANKIE Mason, of Phoenix, was
introduced as challenging the winner
of the event.
Willard Norton, of Portland, weigh
+ ing 152, and Jack Beaver, of Douglas,
weighing lat, were the principals OF
the main event. 1t was fairly even
contest all the Why through and both
made ineffective efforts on different
occasions when the opportunity mo-
mentarily seemed with them to end it.
Both of them were showing the eff
fects of the work when the final oeli
rang. Friends of Norton pointed OUT
that he was fighting under dlsad-
vantage because of having come here
from the coast and not having peen
here long enough to get accllmated. lie
was, it was agreed on all SIDES, oe-
cided improvement on the last I'M
portation from the coast, Gene Wat
son, who fought Tommy Elks on Fep
ii22
1 There was not as large a crowd, IL
appeared, as there was TT the former
contest although that is only an estl-
mate made from observation as no
announcement of admissions was CIV
en- out. In the audience there was
quite sprinkling of women, both on
the orchestra floor and in the gallery.
The statement of the announcer TO
the effect that the press was against
Promoter Pyle would appear to war
rant a statement from the Dispatch,
since that is the only paper involved
sbv the charge. The Dispatch is neither
tlgainst Promoter Pyle nor any other
agency in promoting fight cards ana
has taken no such. position. Inns
story of this program has been Wrl5-
ten by a representative Of The Dis
patch who paid for his ticket at the
box office and went to the show with
out any chip, on his shoulder or preJu-
dice for or against either Mr.. Pyle Or
anv contender in any event The at
titude of this paper concerning 1lgh1s
is well known to Lieutenant Luongo
of Camp Harry J. Jones and others
and. Mr.. Pyle is the first to nave con-
ceived the notion that The Dispatch
was against him.
AS to the attitude of The Disritch
toward sports in general, its readers
are not in the dark. It's attitude to-
ward he boxing game has been friend
ly. The programs promoted by Mr.
PYLE have been put on by hlm WIN
the apparent purpose of making money
out of them and it may be accepted
as a general principle that The DIS
patch has no particular interest IN
boosting sports program free OF charge
where they are put on with the very
definite purpose of the promoter max
ing money. The Dispatch does not
give local grocers and tradesmen that
consideration, as they pay for their
publicity, being engaged in a money
making enterprise.