Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-22
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Three Imperial Valley boys
through virtue of the fact that they
began their boxing careers here, are
booked in the three top spots at the
Imperial Valley Athletic club to-
morrow night.
1t is hardly necessary to tell the
fans that the boys are frankie Ar
regon, Bobby Pacho and Andy ARM
strong, and that they are fully capa-
BILE of giving the coast boys match
ed against them, good fights from
start to finish.
frankie Arregon had a number of
fights under his belt before he first
came here several years ago, but he
really found himself in the valley
and in the past two years he has
been practically unbeatable here, as
well as raising Cain with the hopes
Of loIs of boys on the coast. He is
meeting Battling Sikh tomorrow
night, and the advance dope is that
frankie will have to step every
step of the way, if he is to get the
old paw lifted, for Sikh has beaten
such good men as Tommy Elks,
frankie Garcia and Doc Smell.
Pacho began fighting this last
winter. He is a Yuma boy who
sowed up at Calexico one night last
winter and Cap Stevens gave him a
chance to show what he could do.
Pacho soeked his man pronto and
Cap resigned him for another bout.
Pacho kept on sccking them and
Cap kept re-signing him.
when the local arena opened up
this spring Pacho showed he had not
forgotten how to sock and he flat
tened so many tough hombres that
they took him up on the coast to
flatten some more. His last job of
flattening was not finished as he
didn t knock out Wendell Long in
Ontario last week, but he left
Brother Long looking as though he
had been kicked by tractor.
Bobby's next flattening lob Fri
day night is against one Rib Frazier,
said to have kick like an ostrich,
which is considerably worse kick
than the kind produced by the
Missouri mules. Frazier likes 'em
rugged and rough, and he should be
well satisfied Friday night, for
Robert is rugged and he sure Is
rough
Andy Armstrong is lankv color
ed boy who halls from Holtville and
who got off to bad start. They
got him mixed up with Kid Milo of
Mexicali, boy who has a eombina-
tion of dynamite and INT in his
right mitt. 1t got so that they ID
match Milo and Armstrong every
week down in Calexico and every
week Milo would put Andy to
sleeu.
The colored boy kept trying to
lick. Milo even after the local club
opened. He took few more knock
outs but STAYED little longer in
each fight. Then one night he licked
Milo. He didn't knock him out but
he trounced his decisively and broke
the iinx. The victory gave Andy the
confidence he needed.
Two weeks ago he made Battling
Dozier, one Of these coast boys, take
mean evening. ANDY left hooked
and iabbed him to death and Dozier
nearly broke his back tryinp 70 get
over right cross He asked for q
return match and was accommodated
Immediately. Andy is out for IA
knockout this week and Mr.. Dozier
is promising a prize, SO things should
be interesting.
There are two more valley boys
on the card, Pete Casus and Loren
70 Reyes meeting in the opener.
Pete was going good until he ran
into Reyes two weeks ago and took
spanking. Getting spanked doesn I
help boy in the box fight game,
and Pete wants to erase the affair.
REYES is not much on boxing skill
but he is siugger and Pete viii
have a tough time trying 10 get
past him.
The first bout will be called at 2
o'clock, with plenty of free marking
space in the rear of the club.
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