The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-05
FIVE KAY0S IN SIX BOUTS ARE
 CARDFEATURES
Collier Wins from Krauklis Easily-Eldred Shows
 Class in Brady Fight

A crowd that filled AB. hall to capacity tuesday evening cele- brated the return Of the leather pushing same 10 Alaska. when they attended the six bout card staged by the local post of the American Legion and acclaimed the winning battlers. applauded the game losers. and thundered their "boos' at what they con sidefeG he least infraction of the Marquis of Queensbury rdles or those generally conceded to govern spor,5manship.
 One Of the bouts. the scleduled six-round semi-final. between Bob Eldred, local 155-pounder, and Joe Brady Douglas Island native, was worth watching. The others, in- eluding the six-round final, were no better than ordinary prelimi- naries.
 Eldred-Brady Clash
 In their clash Eldred and Brady went at il hammer and tongs from the start with the eariy odds that favored the native slowly but surely swinging to the local mauler as his boxing ability became more and more apparent. Eldied ap. peared to have the reach over Brady and his ability to put too many gloves in the air for Brady proved the deciding factor The bout ended early in the fifth when Eldred socAed Brady in the whisk- CTS so hard the native couldn't pay proper attention either to the specific instructions of the crowd to get up and fight, or to Referee Billy Franks, who seemed to be giving Brady the benefit of T 'Tunney count" That the best man won no one seemed to doubt Eldred smacked Brady down for count of nine in the first round. outpointed him in the second, out boxed him in the third and scored two lnoekdowns in the fourth. The last of those knockdowns in the fourth might have been a knock out but for the bell
 Wins By Knockout
 The scheduled six-round final, between Joe Collier, local 164- pounder. and Wade KrauI1lis, of Ketchikan. wasn't so good for the obvious reason that Krauklis was not good enough for Collier. He had the fighting heart. alright, but while the spirit was willing the flesh wasn't able. At that nc stood Collier off for almost four rounds, which was three too many. Collier scored two knockdowns in the first stanza and one each in the second, third and fourth, be- fore Krauklis fell, more from ex. haustion than from Golfers blows. It was Golfers inability tg finish his man that drew the fighi along after the first roundi
 In the first bout Pedro Ldbeck and Kid Villubes, 124-pound Seat tie Filipinos, tangled in slam bang affair through three rounds before the greater stamina of Vil- tubes told and all the starch was taken from Lubeck. The bell saved Lubeck from a kaye in the third and the referee stopped the fight in the fourth frame and gave VilluDes the nod.
 Anohter Knockout
 Billy Lynch of the cutter Sno- homish knocked out John Done gan, Seattle Filipino, in the second round of the deuce spot, after the battle reached the farcial stage Lynch, a welterweight, scored I knockdowns in the first round, the last one shortly before the bell. In the second frame Donegan was down for counts of nine on two co. casions before the third time and out" Lynch didn't have nearly the tough time the specta- tor sitting next to the writer, had during inc bout
 The third bout of the card, scheduled fou r-round affair, be- tween Frank Toser. and Neal Hal pin. both of the state of Wash 1ngton, ended in the second irene after wierd exhibition Of either boxing or fighting It appeared at