The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-28
FARGO EXPRESS
DELIVERS PUNCH
TO WIN IN FOURTH
viii Hold Purses of Two Fioht.
ers Until After Completion
Of investigation
FANS WITNESS BOUT
BiIIy's Victory Evens Score With
King Tut at Three VIC
tories Apiece

New York, Feb. 28.-F)-One Of the
few really spectacular battles Madi-
son Square Garden has seen this in.
door season was under investigation
by the New York state athletic COM
mission Saturday.
The boxing solons cooked a some
what suspicious eye in the Garden
Friday night as Billy Petrclle :loored
his arch-rival. Henry Tuttle, other
wise King Tut, three times before
knocking him out In the fourth,
round of their 10-round return scrap:
When it was all over, Commissioner
John ]. Phelan ordered the purses Of
both fighters held up pending an in
quiry. Tut had knocked out retrolle
in "a seconds Of the first round In
their recent meeting at st. Paul.
II don't care to say anything about
it now" said Commissioner Phelal.
II will say that 1t looked to me to be
the sort of q fight that deserves a lit
tie investigation. Our action speaks
for ITSELF"
Tut himself yas a patient in the
Polytechnic hospital where he wa TAX
en- after the bout for observation.
Friends said he had suffered an at
tack Of appendicitis and that an OPP
Grafton might be necessary. ,
Fourteen thousand persons the
largest Garden crowd Of the season.
turned out to see the bout.
Not to be caught mapping twice IN
a row. Petrolle fought cautiously
through the first round which went
to Tut by a wide margin. But Pc
trolle began to gain confidence in the
second round. Midway in this ses-
sion. Billy landed one fairly heavy
clout on the Kings head and he
bounced to the canvass and stayed
there for nine. Petrolle hammered
the Minneapolis slugger all Owe the
ring in the third round and the King
offered little resistance. The cynica!
lads up in the galleries raised a mild
chorus Of booes as Tut ,reeled to his
corner at the end of the round.
The fourth round had just opened
when the blow that possibly led to
the commissions action was delivered.
Perolle, who had punched Jimmy Nc
Larnin into virtual h~elpleSsness with
his left hooks, started M from the
floor that barely grazed Tut's chin
The King, absent-mindedly. perhaps.
sat down and took a count Of nine.
When he arose, Petrolle failed him
with one left after another and fl
nally the Minneapolis blond went
down and stayed there.
"Targo's Billy's' victory evened his
score with Tut, at three victories
apiece. Petrolle weighed 139. Tu,
141h.
Breath Taking Duel
It was a breath-taking duel through
the first three rounds. Tut raced
from his corner at the opening bell
a. II to annihilate the rugged. veteran
from Fargo in even less time than he
took in their most recent meeting.
He chased Petrolle around the ring
and Billy, the chap the faithful saw
batter Jimmy McLarnin into one
sided defeat in his last appearance
here, actually seemed afraid.
Petrolle retreated, covering con-
stantly, while Tut plastered punches
at him from both sides. He smashed
petrolle into the ropes on one side of
the ring and Billy's sole flash in re-
turn "a q right handed drive that
sent the blond flying into the ropes
on the other side.
Once the second session got under
way. however, the scene changed en-
stireiy. Petrolle slipped away from
Tut's swishing right fist and ripped
left hooks to the body and head. One
mot q very devastating clout-
bounced off the Kings head and he
sat down for a count OF nine. Tut
fought back hard, drove Billy to cover
but that same left hook, the very
punch that spelt destruction for Nc
Larnin, had him .wavering by the time
the round ended.