Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-09
ARRECON-EASTER
BATTLE ENDS IN
DRAW DECISION
BY JIMMY GREENE

the ring with frankie Arregon last
night, as a substitute for Young
David, who was barred out by a
bad eye. Before the scrap David
entered the ring, wished both boys
luck in the best ring manners, and
then sat on the side lines.
It's a good thing for Arregon and
Easter that they got David out Of
the ring. He could have trounced
them both with his street clothes
on, done it in half a dozen rounds,
and then could have asked for
more.
They had a fight, Arregon and
Easter did. Bill Tackett, who was
having beautiful "off night"
called it a draw. What margin there
was belonged to Arregon, including
the fouls.
AS main event it was not hot.
In fact, some of the fans thought 1t
terrible, and We'll string along with
them. Both these boys can fight
better than they did and why they
were not made to get in and do
something puzzled more than one
fan.
Time and again Easter hit Are
gon with a blow that couldn't have
made dent in a bowl of custard,
and how he managed to start the
blood from F'rankie's nose is an
other puzzle.
While on the puzzle business, we
wonder why Tackett allowed Are
gon to get away with the worst ex-
hibition of butting that has been
seen in the ring in long time.
Maybe Bill fixed the butting on his
report, but it would have pleased
the fans better if he had done it
in the ring.
Always butter" Arregon did
plenty of it last night, and he didn't
need to. He opened a nasty cut
over Casters eye and the latter
fought the last few rounds of their
eight-round match with face look
ing like tenderloin steak.
Dutch may have something, but
he failed to show it last night. It
might have been southpaw style
that bothered him. He didn't tele-
graph blows-he wrote letters about
them. The match was not good
one, and it was the only poor one
on the card.
Armstrong Gets Raw Deal
Andy Armstrong fought the fight
of his life in the semi final and
had the decision given to Bobby
Ratcliff, who didn't deserve it. The
worst Andy should have received
was draw. Any fighter who had
to stand up under the foul blows
he did, deserved at least that much
consideration.
1t might not have been intention
al, but Ratcliff fouled the colored
boy repeatedly and wasn't called for
1t. Bill Tackett told him a couple
of times to keep them up," but he
could have made it a whole lot
stronger In the interest of fair play.
When folks with southern drawls
switch from roofing for white boy,
to take the part of colored boxer,
it is significant that the white boy
isn't fighting clean and that's what
happened last night.
Aside from the fouls, it was a good
fight. They started off at a fast
clip, with the round about even at
the finish, though the shade, if any,
was Armstrong;. Andy took the
second also and then dropped two
in a row only to come back and
hold Ratcliff even in the fifth and
he trounced him in the sixth. There
was no kick about it being a good
fight.
We think Tackett was away off
on his decisions and his officiating
in the two last bouts, but we are
going to stick with him ON his de-
cision in the Louis Reyes-Art Mon
roy bout, which went to the former
Lots of the fans saw it differently
and booed the verdict, but in our
scoring gave Reyes a clean margin
of victory.
He took the first, had a shade in
the second, dropped the third, took
the fourth and dropped the fifth
when both boys went down for no
count trip to the canvas. Monroy's
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