Evening star., 1935-08-13
LOOKS FAR AHEAD
OF TEMES IN TILT.
Pete Sprains Thumb, but He
Makes Battle All His After
Third Round.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

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T IFE these days for Petey Sarron
is a series of vacations, but be-
tween pleasure jaunts the Bir-
mingham battler managed to
find time to convince Capital ring
worms he still is the best of the
featherweights to fight in this neck
Of the woods
Returned from a sojourn in the
Carolina mountains only last Saturday
and due to leave Thursday for a Cour
of the British West Indies, Sarron
stepped into the ring at Griffith Sta
dium last night to prove his claim to
top feather honors here by giving Joe
Temes a thorough trouncing in a
10-heat affair.
Temes had waited four years to get
into the ring with Sarron. 1t would
have been better had the Florida fist
finger waited another four years, then
decided to forget about it. Joe did
not take one of the 10 rounds last
night. He was somewhat fortunate to
get as good as a tie in two.
1t was not that Joe failed to try to
get somewhere in the argument. The
124-pounder, who had fought to 10
wins and draw since coming up from
Florida last April threw all he had
into the contest. Temes was fully as
good as when he scored his stunning
victory over Roger Bernard, the Flint
fiailer, not so long ago-the victory
that got him the match with Sarron.
Fights With Thumb Sprained.
PUT he certainly was not good enough
to stack up against such a clever
ringman as Sarron. after the even
first round the only chance Temes
had to win lay in landing a lucky
punch. So outclaSSed was TemeS that
Sarron won under wraps. Even the
handicap of a severely sprained left
thumb failed to keep the Syrian
slasher from finishing far ahead.
Sarron suffered the sprain when
he threw a fierce one at Temes' head
in the early going. The injury must
have panied Petey greatly the re-
mainder of the way. for he felt it
plenty after the glove was removed
from his left hand following the
fight. Then the lower joint of the
thumb was swollen to twice normal
size. The sprain certainly must have
affected Sarron's attack throughout
much of the fray.
Temes did all he could to make
o good fight, but the bout was barely
under way when Sarron senSed he
was opposed to a fighter made to
order for him. TemeS persisted in
tearing in, but rarely did he manage
to reach Sarron with a sound blow
Nine-tenths of TemeS' punches that
connected were harmless affairs that
caught Sarron on the back.
Ssrron Merciful BattIer.
TEMES was generally the aggressor,
but. his aggressiveness got him
deal Of punishment, more than
anything else. Sarron would stand
just SO much of the Florida fighters
rushing. then let loose a furry of
fists that popped Joe from all angles.
1t certainly looked as though Sarron
was tempering his fight with mercy,
though, which perhaps was just as
well for Temes.
1t was in the second round that
Temes first abandoned caution and
tore into Sarron. Three times he
stormed at Petey only to be neatly
put back in his place by the doughty
Syrian. Still rushing in, Temes, in
the third round, managed to shoot a
wicked right that raised a goose
egg beside Sarron's left eye. That
must have fired Sarron, for he made
the fight all his own from then to
the finish.
In the fourth Sarron was content
To do nothing more than box Temes,
but in the fifth, when the choral So
ciety back Of third base opened up
with Let Me Call You Sweetheart" !"
Petey opened up with rain of wal
lops that made Joe dizzy. He had
Temes all over the ring in the sixth.
Pete Makes WhirIwind Finish.
TN THE seventh Temes succeeded in
landing two stiff jolts against Sar-
ron's damaged eye, but he took much
in return, for the Syrian was jarring
him with left and right uppercuts as
the round ended. Temes got to Sar-
ron's battered optic again in the
eighth, only to be driven off when
Sarron slung some solid rights.
Temes had no part of the last two
rounds. Sarron swarmed all over his
foe, opening a cash above Joe's right
eye in the ninth and storming the
Greek with good, substantial rights
in the tenth. Petey seemed to be a
little easy on Joe much Of the way,
but he certainly let him have it at
the finish.
More pleasing than the Sarron-
Tenes set-to to the 1920 customers,
who paid $2,433 to look on, was the
six-round semi-final, in which Gene
Buffalo. lightly tinted colored scrapper
of Philadelphia, decisioned Meyer
Rowan, plenty dark boy from New
York. These battlers, just a few
pounds above the lightweight class,
threw fists with abandon but vigor.
Buffalo Pelishes Rowan.
THEY few at one another, hammer
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