Evening star., 1935-12-17
CONVINCING RALLY
CONQUERS WILSON
Foggy Bottom Fighter Wins
in Late RoundS-LanderS
Scores in PreIim.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN

sun, Stlll may not De your lQea
of a first-class welterweight,
L but it was apparent to Wash
ington fight fans today that if the
cocky youngsters comeback march is
to be stopped it will be done by an
imported ringman.
A recent kayo victor over Sid Silas,
the wearer of our quaint l47-pound
championship retained his laurels over
his only other standout local rival last
night with a deciSiveness which
should remove all desire for another
renewal of his fistic series with Bobby
Wilson.
Again drawing a capacity crowd
which so jammed Joe Turner's Arena
that scores of would-be spectators
were turned away, Furr pecked out a
lop-sided 15-round decision which
proved quite as decisive as his knock
out of SilaS. The red-haired Wilson,
his left hook bottled up throughout,
was no match for Phil, although one
of the judges, Carroll Dunn, voted a
weird draw
Referee Denny Hughes and Frank
Schuyler, the other judge, cast their
ballots for Furr, thereby confirming
the opinion of most Scoresheets. The
Stars card gave u rounds to Fur,
two to Wilson and called one even.
Furr Finishes Fighting.
BEGINNING so gingerly that the
sardine- packed fans sent up a
rythmic handicap in deriSion. Furr
opened up in the final six rounds
to batter Wilson around the ring
and remove any doubt as to the ulti-
mate winner.
Wilson, far too slow to cope with
Furr's left jabs and right crosses,
had only his left hook to bank on
and the transplanted Floridian never
had much of a chance to land.
Furr, smartly coached, constantly cir
cled away from Wilson's dynamite
paw. 1t was Phil's second straight
win over his pink-faced rival from
whom he won his claim to the local
welter crown in 1884.
Both Of the rounds awarded Will
son on this observers ScoreSheet were
early ii the fight. After an even first
heat, H1goy was given the second
and fourth heats, but from then on
it was not much of a contest, al
though not until the ninth round did
the boys work up any kind of a
lather.
Storing up confidence, Furr in
creased the tempo in this heat and
took the play away from Wilson, chas-
ing his foe until the final bell. In the
tenth Bobby landed his only good shot,
left hook to Phil's jaw, but Fur
shook it off and came back to win the
round by slight margin.
Body Attack Tells.
HAD Furr planned a body. attack
earlier in the fray he might have
added Wilson to his kayo string, for in
the eleventh he began a barrage of
punches to the tiring Bobby's mid
section
Weakened and hurt by the body
blows. Wilson narrowly escaped taking
count in the twelfth and thirteenth
heats. In both sessions Furr became
punch-weary near the end and Bobby
managed to stay on his feet. Although
tired, F'urr easily retained his mastery
in the final two heats.
The fight, the first of five scheduled
15-rounderS to go the limit since the
legalization of boxing in the District.
crossed nearly S2,600. Fur weighed
1859, while Wilson, who reported at
the weighing-in ceremonies yesterday
afternoon nearly pound over the 147-
pound limit, sweated off enough to
enter the ring at 1852.
Preliminary Card Fast.
HE preliminary card was fast but
not particularly furious, barring
the semi-flnal which found old Billy
Landers climbing from his wheel chair
and fighting one of the best scraps in
recent years to hold Jimmy Lancaster
to draw.
Lancaster, promising youngster,
was outgeneraled and outpuached by
the Norfolk veteran, who seemed to
hold an edge at the end of the four
rounds. 1t was by far the best bout
VI lAlc p4tllIlS.
Three quick kayoes marked the
other four bouts, the odd one ending
with Joe Doty of Washington Winning
unanimous duke over Doug SWEET
nam, another local lightweight, after
four heats. Swetnam was outweighed
by six pounds.
Tony Livington of the Quautico
Marines, won the quickest verdict,
stopping Mike Muskogee, a Baltimore
middleweight, in 1:10 of the first
round. Johnny Miller, Baltimore COL
ored lightweight, put away Johnny
suowden of Washington in 1:25 of the
first round, while Stanford Carrier,
local welter, kayoed Johnny Rose of
Windsor, Canada, in 2:45 of the sec