The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-25
BERG KNOCKED
DOWN 9 TIMES
IN 1ST R0U Nd
Fargo Express Will Get Crack
at Sammy Mandell's Title
as Result of Win
LANDS RIGHT TO CHIN
Only the Englishman's Fight
ing Spirit and Stamina Keep
Him in Fight

Chicago, Aug. 26.- (AP) Jack
Berg. the latest and most impress
sive lightweight importation from
England, has met his master in Billy
Petrolle, the Fargo Express"
His lightning rights finding their
mark almost at ease, Petrolle won by
q technical knockout over the Eng
lishman in the fifth round Of their
scheduled 10 round bout before 5000
spectators at Mills Stadium last
night. By his victory, Petrolle has
been promised match with Sammy
Mandell for the lightweight title by
Promoter Jim Mullen Of Chicago.
Only his gameness and willingness
to take it carried Berg to the fifth
round when his seconds mercifully
tossed in the towel. Petrolle caught
Berg on the chin with a crushing
right in the first round, flooring him
for q count Of nine. But Berg came
up and went down nine times before
the gong ended the round. In the
second, he came back to hold Petrolle
almost even, only to receive wither-
ing punishment from that time until
the end.
First Blow Counts
As the gong sounded for the first
round Petrolle danced carefully IN
to the center of the ring, clinched
and then whipped over his lightning
and vicious right. Berg reeied and
fell on his side only to rise after q
count Of eight. Instead Of staying
away from his opponent, however, he
bored in and exchanged blow fol
blow until Petrolle caught him with
another right that floored him again
But up bobbed Berg again, down he
went up again for another count Of
eight, only to come up for more and
trade punches with Petrolle. Nine
times in that round, the game Eng
lishman was floored and the crowd
which was generally for Petrolle
cheered him on. Tie ninth time, he
was saved ly the bell.
Queerly enough, the second round
was the best round Berg had in the
one-sided fight Invigorated by the
short rest, he rushed out and caught
Petrolle with hard right to the
chin and Billy went back on his
heels. He followed up his seeming
~ impossible rally with more rights
and an occasional left and the Fargo
lightweight, realizing his plight
danced out Of his range momentarlly
At the bell, Petrolle caught Berg
with right cross to the face tina.
shook the Englishman and almost
put him out.
Berg was badly dazed as the third
began and Petrolle hammered him
with everything he had but he didn',
fall until the bell when Petrolle
caught him with q series Of right
and left hooks to the chin, which
Hoored Berg. But the bell saved
him again.
Duplicates First
The fourth was another duplica-
ton of the first except that Berg
managed somehow to remain on his
feet. Keeling and helpless, Berg
kept driving in only to meet show.
er Of deadly rights and let's. As
the bell sounded he was stumbling
about the ring, too weak to fight
but ever willing. At the start Of the
fifth and last round, Petrolle crashed
over two more rights and it was ali
over.
Petrolle was damaged considerably
by the Englishman' wallops, but his
bandaged left eye was hardly
touched, SO effectively did he guard
it. The Fargo fighter weighed 1874
l-2 pounds, while Berg weighed 134
Harry Schuman Of Chicago drew
with Mickey McDough, Fargo, N
D., in five rounds at 1872 pounds
Murray Layton Of New York boxel
a five round draw with Harry LARA
bee Of St. Paul at 1875 pounds.