Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-16
P0RTER-D'PUNAY
BATTLE PLEASES
LARGE AUDIENCE
Referee Calls Affair A
Draw With Few Dissent
ing Voices.
(By GOSH,

Folks who could ina fauit WITH
the fight Rito D'Punay and Leon
ard Porter put on in the main
event at the Imperial Valley Ath.
letic club last night, would prob
ably be dissatisfied with stocking
full OF diamoads
The boys marched through IL
rounds of good battling and the af-
fair was called a dead heat by Bill
Taekett, and strange to say, the de-
cision seemed to please practically
everyone. 1t was nip and tuck
match, with neither boxer holding
an outstanding advantage at any
time, except when Porter took two
rounds, the seventh and eighth, III
succession. D'Punay cvened it up
in the ninth and the 10th was a
pretty affair.
Porter scored plenty of punches
throughout the fight, indicating
that D'Punay is not hard to hit,
but there was not enough steam be
hind the eolored boys blows to stop
or seriously hurt the Filipino. The
latter did not connect SO often, but
when he did Porter knew he had
met something.
After aecumulating a nice lead in
the first four rounds of the semi
final, Homer Gaines threw it away
in the last two and allowed Bolo
Boy Mission to take the decision.
Gaines floored his man in the third
round and was shooting things to
perfection in the fourth. Mission
started terrific body attack in
the fifth and put Gaines ON the
floor for no count. The knock
down seemed to rattle Homer and
he left himself wide open for more
blows which Mission rained in ON
him.
The eolored boy was wobbly at
the end of the round and had not
covered when the final round
opened. He tried to slug it out with
the Filipino in this round, but Mis-
sion was too wary for him and
hammered away at Homer's mid
section, having him holding on for
dear life at the end of the round.
There was plainly of action in the
scrap at all times.
Jimmy Alvarado walked away
with the decision over jess Easquez
in the six round special. These
hoys put up Il close battle last week,
hut Jess was not in Alvarado's
class at any time last night. Al
varado fought nice battle, mixing
up his punches and keeping on TOP
of Marquee at all times. The lat
ter was ovcrshooting and missing
his blows continually. tse 2. -
Good Crowd Out I'D.
Bill Tackett. gave Fuente the de
cision in the opener, and we don't
know, why. We figured it fol-
Ma ajhoney without any question and
were surprised when Fuente's hand
was raised. Fuente has slipped a
lot from the fighter he was two OF
three years ago.
There was plenty of action in the
tie scraps, including considerable
number of women who took advant
age of ladies' night and were guests
of the club. They didn't see any
thing that might distress them, as
far as the fights were concerned
and there was not a cushion thrown
at the end of the main event, which
is pretty conclusive proof that
Tackett's decision was right, dc
spite the grumbliBg of few fans
The house was as comfortable as
the old family fireside and it is a
cineh the directors of the club are
s)apping themselves on the back foi
their good judgmcAt in covering
over the arena so that fights can
continue through the winter. The
fans want fights aud will suppor,
them as long as they get the kind
Of cards that have predominateo
since the season opened.
Next week the club has booked
three ITO round events with sli
good men booked to do their stuff
t.h