The Washington times., 1934-12-11
BURL SATISFIES
SKEPT|CS Of
COMEBACK
By GINO SINH

Eddie Burl, Florida'S feather
weight veteran, convinced the
few remaining hard-shell skeptics
that he has come back and how,
when he gave Pete Decrease,
tough French Canadian Indian, a
terrific 10.round lacing at the
Riding and Hunt Club last night.
Burl, who had slipped further
and further back among the pre-
liminaries in the past year, sud-
denly burst forth with new life
about a month ago and in four
bouts has cleaned up every
featherWeight of class we'll known
to local fans except Petey Sarron,
considered the District titleholder.
A match between these two is
planned during the Christmas
holidays.
He finished up the job of remov.
ing the last obstacle with a
fine flourish last night when
he completely outclassed the great
little Indian fighter who had
built himself large following
here by his scrappy style.
Piles Into Pete
Burl, never one to waste time
with clever boxing, piled into
Pete from the first bell, whipping
away with both hands continu.
ously to head and body and
smothering Decreases attempts
to land his justly-famed left hook
to the stomach under an ava
lanche of blows.
Up to the seventh round, Burl's
forcing, relentless tactics had
kept Pete completely in check,
but in that round hell broke loose.
Burl charged into Pete shortly
after the gong, battering him to
the floor with a whitening, two
fisted drumfire.
Pete took an eight count ard
then sailed into his tormentor
and for two minutes they IN.
dulged in one of the most hectic
toe-to-toe battles ever witnessed
in local circles. Finally Burl
broke ground and seemed some
what unsteady on his feet as he
walked to his corner after the
bell, the 1900 fans yelling like
mad for both Scrappers.
Flashes in Tenth
DECREASE again flashed brilli.
antly in the tenth but Burl, hav.
ing the fight in the bag, con-
tented himself with countering
and smothering the Indians as.
saut.
Billy Bullock, Washington ace
lightweight, showed blond Nor
ment Quarles, former Southern
Conference lightweight champion,
thing or two about professional
fighting, especially infighting,
but Quarles proved to Bullock
that he was a quick learner, when.
after just about holding his own
through the first five rounds, he
Stormed all over Bullock to win
the sixth by fairly wide margin
for what seemed to be the de-
cision, but the officials called it
a draw. Which was okay with
the fans.
Called 1t DRAW"
Sid Silas. Sixth Marine Re.
serves welterw eight flash,
slammed Roddy Davis, local
welter, around for four of the six
rounds, smashing him hard and
often with a tWo-fisted attack but
the judges, Stan and Eller, said
draw" Referee LaFond dissent.
ing in Silas' favor. Davis did
some excellent work at close
quarters.
Joe Ferrone. fast rising welter-
weight. found Joe Moro, New
York old campaigner. hard man
to reach properly with everything
but left jabs, but he finally con-
nected with a straight right which
dumped MORO on the floor Just
three seconds before the final
bell.
Chester Fouble and Sammy
Sweet staged a rollicking battle
in the four-round opener with
Fouble picking UP a bit Of an
edge.
Francis Stan, Star boxing
writer, officiated as one Of the
judges and did a middling good
job.