Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-04
SPORT NEWS SECTION
FOUL GIVES GAINES DECISION
IN LAST NIGHTS MAIN EVENT

scrapper. A valley product, he more
than held his own with the Pitts
burghcr, who has had much more
experience. His showing should give
him plenty of confidence.
At the risk of being accused Of
having done everything from caus-
ing the San Francisco earthquake
to blocking the Boulder dam bill,
we will have to stick with Bill
s., Tackctt in his decision on the Ruiz
Griffo semi-final, which went to
Griffo, thereby bringing Tackctt a
chorus of boos (not booze) and
charges of being robbcr, blind,
dumb, crazy and few more.
We were wishing that Ruiz would
knock Griffo S block off. In fact
we wouldn t have cared if Bert
Lemons got a job out of Griffo, but
that sort of stuff docsn t win
fights. Neither do occasional blows
on the shoulder and an ability to
take il and grin. Ruiz is game, but
gameness doesn t win fights. Doubt
crs can ask Mr.. IIeency. Griffo
! landed clean, hard, telling smashes
that wore the Phoenix boy down,
The former is just too clever and
] its too hard for Ruiz.
Ruiz took the second by Il shade
and held Griffo even in the fifth.
He looked IA little better i'll the
sixth but not enough to win him
the fight and aside from that the
tight was Critic 5. Now Wen take
+ ours from the fans.
Another Argument
And just to show that we don t
care one way or the other, we will
state right here that in our opinion
draw decision for Monte Hill and
Wilford Fucntes, would have been
better than giving the verdict to
he latter as Tackctt did. However
+ he saw il that way and if We all
agreed where would the fight boys
get their money!
Monte looked good, plenty good
compared with some OF his former
+ fights. He copped the first round,
j held his own in the second, lost the
third and looked as good as Fuentc8
in the final round, That 5 the way
we saw it. OF course our time is
divided between the timer 5 watch,
looking at the fighters and thinking
thinks, So perhaps we don t know as
much about it as the boys up in
the crow 5 nest, but we have our
+ opinions just the same.
After all this frankness, We can
all be friends when we get around
to discussing the opening fight un.
less some euss gets mean and accuses
us Of giving a short count TO littI.
Mel Perkins Of the Gold Dust twin!
combination.
Mel looked like he might do some
thing when he dumped the otht
twin, Mel Brooks, in the rosin in the
opening round. Brother Brooks j,
very hesitant, but he packs a mule :,
kick in his right mitt, and once his
brain has given the order to let flN
tsuch an order usually takes quite
lot of time) the boy opposite him
is going 10 get hurt.
It took Brooks the greater part
Of four rounds to get in enough mul,
kicks to put Perkic away and hC
lad the latter on the floor about
four times before the ten came
Little Perkic took whale of lot
more punishment than the pictures
show Mr.. lIeency received anC
there was no referee to stop tn,
fight fen him.
Now Homer is booked to figh
tha main event next week Some o'
the cash customers said last nigh
they would read about il in TN
paper. Thanks for the compliment
boys. but we may not write it mex
week, and then again, supposins
Homer puts up a fight like he dic
last night, YOU won / want 10 mis-
rTbaSu NJ