Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-04
BABE ADAMS Is
AGAIN TROUNCED
BY YOUNG DAVID
BY JIMMY GREENE

| best that can be said for Babe
| Adams, who took sound trounc-
! ing for seven rounds from Young
David in the main event of a good
card at the Imperial Valley Ath-
letic club last night.
David repeated history for he
scored a technical knockout over
| Adams last week in the fourth
round. taking three rounds more
to do the job last night, before the
towel came fluttering into the ring
from Adams corner in token of
surrender.
Adams fought gamely in the face
| of grueling punishment from a
! fighting machine. David was the
aggreSsor throughout and kept bor-
ing in constantly, varying the at
| tack from the head to the body,
his punches being short, snappy ana
straight. Adams proved he can
! take them.
In the fourth round David had
him on the ropes and rained a
dozen straight blows on Adams
! jaw. He took 'em and kept on
fighting his dogged, uphill fight
but David carried altogether too
many guns for him.
David scored no count knock
down in the second and on several
other occasions Adams went to the
floor, partly due to bad footing
and at other times to his habit OF
equatting to avoid a blow and los
J ing his balance.
A stinging left hook TO the head
! which he sent home on numerous
occasions was Adams best blow.
Once in the second round it looked
as though he might start some
thing tor he rocked David with this
blow and repeated again IN the
J fifth but on both occasions he failed
to follow up his advantage.
/ Forgetting to guard himself in
the body Adams was an easy tar
get for the crouching David who
took every opportunity to play a
/ tattoo on Adams ribs.
Fans who expected a good fight
saw it, for despite the fact that
David took every round up to the
| finish Adams was always danger.
Gus and kept his supporters hoping
that he would spill his opponent.
| Santiago Lujon and Kid Pancho
set some kind of a record in the
semi-final. For six rounds they
battled away and not once in that
.lme did the referee have to order
them to break to say nothing Oh
putting his hands on them Nor
did he have TO tell them to fight
Once Tackett gave Pancho a slap
on the shoulder in passing them
but it was not an order to break.
Lujon Wins
| Lujon took the decision and he
| earned it by cleaner and heavier
!, punches and more of them, but it
was not a walkaway. Pancho was
with him every minute ready to
swap blow for blow. Lujon has
more speed and 1t set at all times
hitting from any angle.
Each round drew hearty applause
from the spectators and it was Q
good fight to watch. 1t was SC
different from the ordinary clinch
and stall variety that the boys de-
serve plenty of commendation
More fighters like them and there
| would be more people attending
boxing everywhere.
The boys will be seen in q re-
match on winnet-take-all basis in
The near future.
Dick Hays, cowpuncher from
the Lone Star State, took the spe-
cial event from Luis Reyes in q
battle that had the fans on their
mettle all the time. Hard punchers
both of them, but Hays carried
| dynamite in his right. He put
Reyes down for the three and nine
count in the second round and it
looked as though the Brawley' s
boys goose was cooked but he
dragged himself up from the floor
Just in time TO resume fighting.
Again in the third Hays sent hin,
down for the nine count and again
Luis dragged his bulky frame up
from the rosin. He's game, that
| pudgy Mexican boy is. He had
plenty of license to stay where Hays
had put him.
Hays demonstrated beautiful foot
work, wallop that could floor a
mule and the most awkward hand
ling of his body that any fighter
ever had. But he proved that a
tough boy with a wallop is a hard
one to beat
Andy Armstrong and Cecil Jor-
dan went to draw in the opener
and it was the only unsatisfactory
bout on the card. Usually Andy
fights but last night he must have
been up against cousin or some
| thing similar. Tackett had to nag
at them all the time and even then
they did nothing beyond little
slapping.
Just prior to the main event tri-
butte was paid to the memory of
Knute Rockne, gallant sportsman,
as the timekeeper tolled off 10
strokes on the bell while spectators
bowed their head ii keeping with
the tribute that sports OF all lines
has accorded the famous coach.
Next week David fights Babe
Colima Think that over for n