The Washington times., 1935-03-26


and the Sarron adherents
screeching his victory even be-
fore the slips had been collected.
The scrap wasn't 40 seconds
old before Rivers had WhiSked a
clean left to Sarron's chin which
set Petey down, but only for a
trice. He was up like a rocket
and rushing Rivers the while he
swung his long, hairy arms in
tigerish fashion with the alac-
rity of an Indian club gymnast.
Rivers took the round, as he
did the second, measuring Sar-
ron nicely and refusing to be
Stampeded by his bulldog tactics.
The third saw Rivers a little
more cautions, as Sarron fought
hard into and out of clinches,
but in the fourth and fifth, Sar-
ron became the savage that he
is and swamped Rivers with SO
many wild, helter-Skelter leftS
and rights that the Californian
was utterly unable to collect
himself.
It was in the fourth that
Sarron pulled the most vicious
of his butts, bringing blood TO
Rivers forehead, about which
he protested with one hand
down, only to have Sarron
sweep into him and spin him
up and down the ropes with
pushing, furnishing lashes.
Rivers Takes Chances
With his left straight out
and his right cooked. Rivers,
who kept the center Of the
ring for the most part while
Sarron circled, forfeited op-
portunity after opportunity to
pop Sarron with his very best
weapon. Not that Rivers
wasn't trying, but Sarron's
shifty, ducking. sWirling, wres'
ting maneuverS were too
deity executed for Joe to ever
get the range Of his target for
a prolonged period.
Sarron went into the ring
with a jaded left eye, over
which the skin had barely
healed from his previous en-
counters. It was In the
seventh that Rivers caught up
with this vulnerable CRIB, and
from then through the tenth,
he had Petey bleeding pro-
fusely. A swift right uppe1cut
sent the blood coursing down
Sarron's face, but the Syrian
always seems to fight more
furiously after he is stung. and
Rivers paid well for the iber.
ties he took when Petey boxed
his ears nightly before the
seventh was over.
Both Down in Tenth
In the tenth, both fighters
scored knock-downs, Petey COM
ing in off the rope to bounce
Rivers severely on the floor in
retaliation for a similar episode
Of which Sarron was the victim
in the first. Rivers was barely
back on his feet before he sent
Sarron to the floor in what ap-
peared to be more of a push
than a solid brow. Sarron re-
covered his equilibrium and
gored Rivers into a neutral cor
ner. much as bull descending
upon a toreador.
Washington has never seen a
more torrid exchange and in
due time Master Ahearn may
we'll bring this pair on for an
outdoor fight to give further out
let for the venom each has
stored up against the other.
Rivers will have to overcome
his only fault, as far as I have
been able to detect in the three
observations of him, before he
can defeat the versatile if un.
orthodox Sarron. He must cease
to be a one-punch fighter. Riv-
erS depends too much on that
right uppercut, which Sarron
can get away from nine times
while it is catching up with him
once.
Preliminaries: Roddy Davis
scored a technical knockout over
Patsy Sylvester In the third
round, by means of a stiff right
to Patsy's eye-socket. The writ
ers voted Davis the $40 Joe
Turner award.
Elmore Bezenah and Mickey
Lands drew in six rounds
flies. Kid Ingram won a unani-
nous verdict in six rounds over
Ell Raggone and Popeye Irving
popped George McCaron into
sunderland In the secon d
round.