The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-26
ON TOP IN BATTLE
 TO KEEP GROWN
Garcia, Was l21z Pounds
 Heavier, OutfOught By Little Champion
BY HARRY FERGUSON Limited Press Shorts Editor)

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 New York, Nov. 26 (UP) = Henry Armstrong, closest thing to a perpetual motion machine the U. s. Patent Office will ever see, still was welteSweight champion of the world today-victor over Ceferino Garcia in a raw, bloody brawl which made 8 sucker out of who- ever it was that said a good big man could always lick good little man.
 i For Armstrong, the little man, 134 pounds of drive and dynamite, gave one of the great exhibitions of his great career in Madison Square Garden last night against Garcia, the big man, and won all the way. Standing in the haze of smoke at the ringside, Promoter Mike Jacobs announced that Armstrong, like Alexander, had whipped, so many people he sighed for new worlds to conquer.
 So, come February or March, Henry the Hammer defends his welterweight championship against Lou Ambers. A little man is going to fight little man-two boys who barely come up to the lightweight limit of 135 pounds-are going to fight for the welterweight title of 147 pounds. And if there is well terweight who doesn't like it, he can take the winner and start saying his prayers now.
 Armstrong, lightweight and well terweight champion, defeated Am- berS this fall in fight that left the canvas red with their blood. It was 8 hair-line decision and the customers will come back, begging for somebody to take their money, when the boys go at it again. Neither Armstrong nor Ambers could weigh 147 pounds unless they wrapped themselves in sponges and jumped in the river.
 But Armstrong met and mastered the best of the welterweight chal- lengers last night while 13,O0O per- sons watched the blood course down Garcia's face and marveled at the little Negro who could give away SO much weight and still blow in to force the fighting. Garcia weigh ed 12 pounds more than Armstrong; he stood two inches taller and had almost three inches advantage in reach. He brought to the ring his famed bolo punch, a corkScreW right uppercut that was supposed 10 be advance notice. for the ambus lance to turn on the siren.
 So what? So Armstrong won with something that you can't measure with a tape, something that doesn't show when you step on the scales, something that commands Ego on!" when you know you can't go on something called heart.
 Twice Armstrong was in danger last night and twice his heart commanded "Go On!" and he did go on, bouncing back like tennis ball against a brick wall, fighting like a fool with his left eye swollen into a purple mess, one-eyed man who had nothing left but two fiSts-and a heart.
 The first was in the sixth round. Garcia, driven. into his own corner and dripping blood from slit over his left eye, reached to the floor and brought up a right that made enough breeze to give anybody pneumonia. It landed smack on Ar1nstrong's chin and almost lifted him from the floor. Quicker than these words can be written, Arm strong bounced his feet on the can- vas and, giddys as a goon, tore in pumping left and right hand blows to the body.
 Armstrong's next trial by fire came in the 12th. He whistled across a right to Garcia's jaw and swarm ed in with left to the head. Ap- parently he thought this was going to be the kill. But clear up from the floor again, Garcia brought that bolo right uppercut and this time 1t caught Armstrong flush on the Jaw. Henry rocked like a centenar1an ln the old ladies home. But only for fraction of a minute. Then he ducked his head down behind his left shoulder and rushed out fight ing. driving Garcia to the ropes.
 Otherwise it was all Armstrong. The decision of the two judges and Referee Arthur Donovan was ua- animous.
 And it was not until 10 minutes after the fight, that anybody knew how far Armstrong's great heart had commanded him to march. Ly- ing naked on table, trying to smile through puffed lips and wink through 8 closed eye, Armstrong said:
 T never was out of my head. but he hit me harder than I ever got hit before" -