Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-14
WYMORE BEATS
HERNANDEZ IN
THRILLING co
Brownsville Boy Stop
ped In Sixth France;
O'Connel, Macy,
Revis Also Win


MERCEDES. Feb. 14.-Dick Wy
more, La Feria's fightin' fool TO-
day 10 sporting the featherNeignt
crown Of the Lower Rio GTande VAT
ley. The diadem j. slightly askew
and he wears Il on a puffed r
tousied head-but he wears 49,.
He won the title By knocking u
Juan "Young" Hernandez, OF Browns
vile, In the sixth round Of q sched-
uled l2-round 20 here last night. INC
end came after a minute and q nan
OF the sixth round, and following i've
and a half rounds Of the most en-
thukiastic milling seen in these parts
In many moons.
A crowd estimated nj APPROXIMATE
~ 1000 persons jammed the new
Ohio street arena, and left, satisilea
that they had seen their money 3
worth in the windup bout.
The end game with dramatic sua-
.denEess. after the little Mexican had
apparently put the fight IN the bag.
They were in a furious miX-up IN
Hernandez corner, when the latter
suddenly pitched forward on hrs lace,
and was counted out NJ he twitcnen
convulsively on the hard floor OF the
ring.
A hard right under the heart
spelled curtains for the gallant little
invader. after he had had a clear lead
on points during az least three of the
rounds preceding the Knockout. %
suddenly did the finishing punen
land that for an instant the crowd
stood breathless. stunned and regret
NnN - AZ. r~A4nn 80 ufrWh 4 munwH-
fest.
Nymore came out fighting in the
first round. but lost the session hv a
shade, due more 70 his own inability
TO land his punches than 20 Herman
dez' own blows. Little damage was
inflicted By either side. although
both moved in fiercely from the first
bell.
In the second session Wymore
found the range and rocked Herman
dez with several body blows. Her
nandez located an old cut on his OPP
ponent's lip in the third round and
brought blood tie had Nymcre's
knees sagging while the La Feria
youth hung grimly from n hard
right to the head in the fourth. In
the fifth he also had slightly the bet
ter Of the going, and was more than
holding his own III the sixth when
the short-armcd little demon from La
Feria crashed q hard right from no.
where that landed directly under the
heart, and left the Mexican a gasping
writhing mass Of humanity on the
floor.
The sixth round also spelled fms
for Speedy Hampton, Fort Brown
middleweight, whose seconds merci-
fully threw in q towel IN that session,
after their man had taken a mauling
at the hands of Jack Revis, Valley
pride. The soldier, q victim OF poor
matchmaking. spent a go0dly portion
Of his time IN the ring, viewing the
proceedings from q recumbent posi-
tion on the floor.
Ken Macy, OF Harrington, stable
mate Of Mymore put The sleep-pro-
Queer 70 hid Preacher, recognized as
a Mission high school student. early
in the first round Of their scheduled
~six-round contest.
Irish O'Connell decisioned Kid
Preston IN 8 four round battle that
gave every evidence of ending early
but didn't. Both boys were imported
from Fort Brown.
When the required number of
negroes for a battle royai failed to
appear q pair of dusky Mercedes citi-
zens we're put into the ring and
mauled and made faces at each other
through four rounds. inflieting some
damage on each other and providing
no little amusement.
It was announced that Jack Revis
VIII meet Bobby Jackson, San An
tonio's trick shoulder expert in the
main event Of a fight card in the
Mercedes arena Feb. 81.