The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-02
RIGHT CROSSES
DROP DISTRICT
BOXER THRICE
Archibald Fails
To Catch Foe
BY GnNO SINH

Three brain-a ddling right
crosses plus class with q capital
&C" gave Lou Ambers, world light
weight champion, a comfortable
but far from lopsided margin Of
victory over Washington'S jour
neyman lightweight, Howard
Cowboy" Scott, at Griffith Sta
dunn last night before $500 fans.
Convinced that Cowboys Swats
would do little more than keep
gnats from bothering him, the
Herkimer Hurricane let the local
fighter exhibit his limited fistic
ware to best advantage, playing
the stooge for 10 rounds with
consummate artistry.
When Scott picked UP a bit
Of margin, Ambers would I'M
leash a series Of left hooks to
open a breach on SCOTS left jaw
and then ram home a right cross
"4A4N4A "OO4u NA4OP NOWUOys
After the D. c. fighter had won
the second and third round Lou
dropped him for seven in the
fourth with the cross to even
things. Another knockdown in
the eighth put Ambers ahead
after trailing in the fifth and
sixth.
HAS CROWD IN FRENZY
However, Scott had the crowd
in frenzy in the ninth as he
piled into Lou driving him around
the ring and forcing him to cover
up under sustained body attack.
But to wipe away whatever
Skepticism might exist in the vast
audience, the Herkimer zephyr
blew himself to hurricane pro.
portions in the tenth and final
heat SCOTS head bobbing above
his failing fists like a cork on a
stormy sea. Scott again went
down for eight. Lou, satisfied
that the judges couldn't do him
wrong. helped Cowboy through
the rest Of the round.
The crowd gave Scott a grand
ovation for his courageous stand.
Ambers only smiled. It was q
good work out. Far be it from
him to begrudge the nice young
man who acted as his foil so
neatly the plaudit of his home
town crowd. Such is the heart
and class of champion.
ARCHIBALD MISSES
The glaring lights were too
much for joey Marciente'S optics
and after five futile rounds he
defaulted to Washington'S strange
ly impotent featherweight idol.
Joey Archibald. The Canuck.
ring-worn but ring-wise. though
couldn't punch his way through a
smoke screen, was too slippery q
target for the local killer.
Annoyed no end, Marciente went
down from left push in the fifth.
then slipped to the floor tangled
with Archibald and at the bell a
right shove in the left eye floored
him and he couldn't come out for
the sixth.
Some stones will resist water
and some chins will resist dyna'
mite charges, that was all that
Jumping Irish Johnny Dean, Cap
ital lightweight, proved when he
smacked out a one-sided and up
roarious six-round decision over
Rusty Rossette, of Grand Rapids.
Rossette did fair bit of in fight.
ing but the FISHERS right and left
swings and snappy left jabS
couldn't miss. It was rumored
that one of the fighters blocked a
blow, but at late hour the report
could not be Substantiated. II
either one stopped a punch with
anything but their chins, jaws
stomach or ribs, they are sorry.
they didn't mean to.
MUTUAL DISLIKE
The crowd didn't like Eddie
Saxon, Negro middleweight, from
Syracuse, and Saxon felt the same
way about it and so when Ossie
Stewart, D. C. entry, finally landed
looping right to the jaw in the
third round, Saxon went down and
stayed there. The fans liked him
for that.
Hunter CroStic, Richmond's for.
mer amateur middleweight ace.
cooled off the press row with wild
swings and once or twice made
George Abrams blink but George
bounced enough right hands off
Hunters jaw to win the four-round
nod without a complaint.
The sun-burned mosquito-weight
championship remained in doubt
as 82-pound Hurricane Hall, Of
AnacoStia, missed as many leftS
and rights as Thunderbolt Queen.
nf WASHINGTON for a threa-round