Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-27
M0NT0YA GIVES
PETE SARMIENTO
BOXING LESSON
BY JIMMY GREENE

Santa Claus left one present for
Ramon Montoya last night and gave
q whole bagfull to Pete Sarmiento.
Ramon's lone present was victory
over the Filipino. Pete's consisted
of about AIS mean, nasty tantal-
izing jabs and hooks, sent 10 him
from Santa Claus and delivered by
Montoya.
Pete used to be up around the
championship contenderS aud ne
knows a thing or two about boxing,
but he took an artistic lacing ana
boxing lesson combined last night.
| He never had a chance and Mon
I toya walked away with every
round.
Using a straight left to keep Pete
off balance at all times, Montoya
jabbed and punched away With his
right and every so often varied the
monotony of the exhibition by do
ing some extra fancy work with
the left. 1t seemed as though Pete
would be able to figure out way
to avoid that left in 10 rounds, but
he just dldnt 90 II.
1t was the old story OF the boxer
and the slugger and the boxer took
the works. Pete kept trying He
never backed up except when
Montoya set him back on his heels;
he missed continually; but he kept
trying A couple of times he I'M
leased attacks designed to put an
end to the tormenting he was re-
ceiving but Montoya tied him up or
danced out of danger. Even Pete
grew disgusted with his own ef-
forts and grinned when a missed
punch threw him up against the
ropes.
Young David, making his first
appearance here in many months
put the kibosh on Pete Suniga IN
81 seconds of fighting in the third
round. And Pete is a mighty good
fighter He's tough. and has q
tendency to throw his punches down
low, the fight being stopped once
when he hit David below the belt.
A couple of more low punches made
David fighting mad
1t was great scrap while it last
ed with both boys willing to give
and take, each figuring that the
other could not put him away. In
this respect it was pleasant reliet
from some of the powder puff
punching that is done in the ring
these days.
David looked awfully good last
night If he can keep up the pace
he ought to be mighty good at
traction here in the next few weeks.
Bobby Rodriguez and Santiago
Atadero substituted in the special
event, Rodriguez getting a knock
out after two minutes of fighting.
but there was plenty of fight packed
into those two minutes. For more
than the first minute he fighting
was all Atadero's.
Fuente Wins
He rained in punches ON Rodri-
guez who did some clever blockipg
which turned awav many of the
blows but no small number found
their mark When Atadero left an
opening Rodriguez shot right
| through it and the battle was ove".
1t took De La FIente couple of
rounds to get wasmed up in the
opening bout and not until the
third round was he able to put away
Francisco Oeero. q willing slugger
who doesn't know any too much
about the game. Oeero was saved
by the bell at the count of eight in
the second round and lasted little
over a minute in the third.
A hatful of fans saw the fights
but they saw their moneys worth.
1t was good card full of real fight
ers and those who missed it missed
plenty
There will be no fights next week,
the directors deciding TO call it off
because of New Years and ali
hands having to comply with the
state law regarding new licenses.