The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-11
BY J. G.. MacGREGOR


doughboys Of Fort Lincoln last
night drove 400 fight fans into hys-
s.erics. Five bouts ended with one
round knockouts, one bout went an
extra round before the Judges
agreed, while the other five feuds
ended with the combatants totter-
ing.
1t rained blows last night at Fort
Lincoln. Blood from fragile nasal
organs spattered about the ring.
Khaki-clad rooters groaned and
howled as their company represent
atives smashed each other around
the ring. Women spectators cringed
as terrific swings felle1 first one
gladiator and then another.
Old timers who have seen some
Of the greatest fights in history as
serted that they had never seen such
an evening packed with fistic enter
tainment of such deadly animosity
and clean craftsmanship as was dis
played last night.
There would have been slaughter
had the regulation four ounce ring
gloves been used. But padded with
eight ounce coverings, the failing
arms of the doughboys last night
stunned but did not render uncon-
scious.
Laurent Surprises Gear
Opening the card, Wally Laurent
earned a clean cut victory over
Charley Gear. Laurent knew the
fundamentals Of jabbing and hooking
and used them to good advantage on
the wild-swinging Gear. Only in
the first minute of the last round
did Gear have any advantage. In
that 60 seconds he swept out his
corner to batter the surprised Lau-
rent about the ring.
Nom Hicks had obviously neve,
stepped in a ring before but he was
game and slugged it out with Carl
Toler. Toler stuck snaky left in
Hicks face time and again. Hicks
grimaced, backed away and then
would wade in with wide lefts and
rights that landed futilely on the
unexposed portions of Toler's anat.
only. Toler won handily.
John Lucky had a promising
name but failed to call upon it in
his slashing match with Cecil Parks
To Parks went the distinction Of
scoring the first real knockout al
Fort Lincoln. Short left and right
hooks to the jaw after two minutes
Of uneven milling found Lucky or
the mat completely befuddled. His
dizzy brain did not fathom the end
Of the battle when Referee o. W.
Roberts waved Parks to his corner
a winner.
One Match Takes Extra Round
John Ambrovitch and Peter Rom.
bach furnished some of the heftiest
smuggling Of the evening. For three
rounds Rombach took the offensive
and pounded away at his muscled
opponent. For three rounds, Am.
brovitch threw his pistons into Rom.
bach's face and body in volleys Of
clean punches. At the end of the
three rounds, the judges called the
bout a draw. In the fourth round
Rombach tired and the Pole jabbet
out decision.
Rufus Haynes put up a game ex'
hibition against Arthur Vadnais bu,
ran up against some deadly swings
After 70 seconds Of hectic mauling
Haynes hit the deck when a dyna'
mite right landed square on thu
chin. Haynes took count Of nine
and then rose to be beaten down
again under tornado Of punches. !,
Steve O'Donnell, grizzled veteran
of IS years ring experience and for.
mer welterweight champion of thu
Orient, showed that punch knowl
edge and ring strategy count. HI
left jabbed Bill Palms wild rushes
drawing q squirt of claret from
Palms nose in the second round, an(
swapping Palm drunk in the third
Palms only chance came in the first
round when he dashed from his cor
ner at the bell to smother O'Donnel
momentarily under 4 wild furry o.
swings. After that the veteran
stood back and beat Palm unmerci
fully.
Kelly Takes the Count
Smiling Bob Fortino, q Jumping
jack that skipped and leered aloni
the ropes, showed class in whipping
John Kelly. Kelly lacked the exper
fence but not the courage and re
peatedly sailed into the hard-punch
ing Italian. Near the close Of tn
first round Fortino stepped insid'
two wild swings and neatly clippe,
Kelly on his china piece. Kelly VA
out.
Bob Nicholson, . serious Scot will
. lusty punch. cracked Geo. Spare
ribs and Uranium with series o
blows that ended in . kayo. In tn
first round, Spare toppled to tn
resin after stopping . hard right. II
took nine, rose and covered to saw