Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-12
BLACK TAKES HARD EARNED
DECISION OVER MONTOYA

right landed in the stomach or added
After the knockdown in the last
round, Black tried frantically for
the finishing punch but Ramon held
him off and kept on his feet until
the bell ended the affair.
Prelim Steals Show
The four-round preliminary be-
tween Tiger Flowers and Kid McXi-
go again stole the show and had the
fans in an uproar continually until
the final round when Flowers, who
was Just completely all in and could
hardly raise his arms, got on his
bicycle and started scootmg around
the ring and did not show any in
clination to mix things up at all.
But for this, we believe, he would
have copped the decision, as he made
things very uncomfortable for the
Kid during the first three rounds but
inst fell down in the crisis.
These two boys put on their reg
uar brand of Il fight-sock, bang,
wallop, with no science to back them
up but just plain bulldog determine
tion to get in there and clean up.
In the opening round, both fell to
the floor during clinch, the canvas
having become very slippery due to
the numerous bugs tramplcd under
foot, and the Kid did not get up
right away, complaining of Il sore
ankle. He was taken to his corner,
the sore member rubbed and then
the battle was on again. Flowers
put the Kid down for two counts of
in this round, each by a stiff wal
lop to the jaw. and ii looked as if
the old battle would soon be over.
hgain in the third frame, he went
down for 9, Knocked through the
ropes and hung on the lowest rope
until time to get up. He was tax
ing plenty of punishment and
showed the effects of II in his bloody
face and a swollen left eye. Both
battlers were just about all in when
the last round opened and one good
Jolt to the button would have put
either or both away for keeps.
Flowers kept turning his back and
lust bumming around when he had
swell chance to collect and the
fans booed him plenty when he
showed no inclination to fight 1t out
in the last round.
Uncle Sam IS big guns got into ac-
ton again last night, and when the
smoke of battle cleared away, X. o.
Brown was found to be n. W. o. l.,
after Leon Limbaco powerful left
connected with Browns jaw, Just
! two minutes after the bout had
opened. Leon, by the way, is the
/ Filipino champion of the Pacific
! Fleet, and packs the hcfticst wallol
( in that left mitt that has been seen
3 here for many days. He gave Brown
: a sample or two early in the round
! which the kayoc artist did not like
: and prepared him for the last one
which spelled curtains. Brown has
Il pair of educated fists, too, but
, he lust couldn t get them into action
/ lagainst Leon, and when the end
came he just dropped on the canvas
and went to sleep. The count was
more or less 4 formality.
In the special round event, Ben
Solomon, substituting for Car
/ Ilagar, who could not appear owing
to sickness, was Knocked out in the
third round of the scheduled sly
round affair by Louie Reyes, the
| Brawlcy maulcr. Solomon showed
an educated left early in the fight
and appeared able to handle himself
in good fashion, but he dropped into
the slapping habit and his blows
| lost most of their force. right tt
the stomach put Solomon down fol
a nine count at the end of the see
I ond round, and when the third frame
opened, Reyes tore in determined t'
put the finishing touches on Just a'
! soon as possible. lie did within two
minutes, a right and then left tC
the jaw topping the colored boy
! over, down and out.