Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-19

the fight at all. Each round the
fans thought, and hoped, that he
would open up and show what has
made him champion of Arizona and
the fighter he really is, but, moth
ing doing.
He did wallop Pacho several
times over the left kidney and in
the stomach, but after that he
would pull his neck in again and
settle down to a sort of endurance
contest. In the meantime
Pacho was getting over some solid
wallops to the jaw and face, with
an occasional blow to the stomach
when he could get past the close
guard put up by Sikh, but he did
not seem to hurt his opponent.
Flurries in the eighth, ninth and
tenth rounds died out quickly, how
ever, and left the affair just where
it had been during the other ses-
sions, rather slow, with one boy
doing all the work and the other,
evidently, refusing to second the
motion and make real tussle of it.
1t was learned this morning that
Battling Skis rather poor showing
last night was due to sore on his
left forearm which seriously handi.
capped him and did not allow him
to put his usual force and snap in.
to his blows. This sore was in the
form of a small pimple, sort Of
boil, which when nil repeatedly
spread the poison it contained
up through the arm, practically
paralyzing the muscles. When ex-
amined after the fight it was dis
covered that this swelling was al
most as large as hens egg and
caused severe pain to Sikh who
stuck to his guns throughout al
though at times he felt as if he
could go no further and must give
up. In view of this much credit
must be given the Battler for the
high degree OF courage he showed
and it explains the rather poor
showing made by fighter who is
known in fistic circles as real
Scrapper.
The six-round semiwindup packed
plenty of action and punches of all
descriptions and came to an end in
the third round with Carl Hagar
on the floor from vicious left to
the stomach and, as he had been
Knocked down three times in the
preceding round and was showing
evident signs of being unable to
weather the storm, his seconds de-
cided to call things off and tossed
in the towel, giving the victory to
Mariana Cebu.
This was a rematch of the bout
of three weeks ago when Hagar
won on foul and for time last
night il looked as if the same fin
ish would be in order again. Cebu
started right out after Hagar and
clouted him several times on the
chin before the San BernardinO boy
could get sat. Then during an in.
terchange of wallops at close range,
Cebu uncorked what seemed to be a
low blow. Hagar sank to the can
vas holding his groin and was in
evident pain. The crowd however
was not at all sympathetic ana
booed him while he was being cal
ried to his corner. An examination
followed and when it was seen thai
not much damage was done by the
blow the fight continued after Ref
cree Tackett warned Cebu to keep
his blows well up out of the foul
territory.
Three lefts to the stomach put
Hagar down for counts of 9, 8, and
!. the last coming just before the
bell. and as he went to his corner
he looked plenty sick and it was
thought for a moment that he
would not answer the next round.
He came out, however, for the third
frame and jumped right IN at his
man, throwing gloves in all direc'
tions. He clipped Cebu Il hcfty
right on the chin which slowed that
fighter up considerably but could
not stand the pace and the next
left that Mariana aimed at his
stomach put him down and prac-
tically out.
That blow which put Hagar
down in the first round will be the
subject for much discussion among
fans for some time. A questioning
of fans in our neighborhood brough;
out divided answers, some claiming
it was very low while others saiu
it was just glancing blow thai
might have been on the line but not
below it. SO there you are, For
ourselves we must confess that the
fighters were in such a position at
the time that it could not be seen
clearly and therefore we would not
hazard an opinion. However that
NAV be, Cebu was careful from then
on to keep his wallops plenty high
and would not take any chance OF
being ruled out again because of a
wild wallop that landed in foul ter
ritory.
Balding Gets Decision
Cecil Balding won the decision
from Andy Armstrong in the six
round special although Andy came
back strong in the last frame after
he had been outpointed through
the rest of the bout. Baldine, n
newcomer in the local arena, showed
the fans that he has plenty of stuff
and knows how to use it, He is
very clever in covering up and made
Andy miss repeatedly. The scrap
pers started out at a pretty fasl
pace and this told when the half
way mark was reached and both
were pretty tired. Andy started
in slapping about the fourth round
and his blows lost most of their eff
fectiveness by these tactics.
Tiger Flowers did all the work
last night to take the four-round