The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-21
Felix Gonzalez Won Decision In
Main Bout; Good Prelims Fought
BY OSCAR L. MILAN


Alex Cupiano, Puerto Rican, 1885,
FOUNDER, in a toe-to-toe fight that
had the fans applauding and
yelling all evening. The bout
was the main go on the Strand
Arenas fistic card last night.
Fighting in a continuous and
tantalizing drizzle of rain, Felix
used a right jab followed with a
chopping, powerful left to defeat
the game cock in the person of
who proved his willing
ness to fight as time and again
he tore at Gonzalez swinging
gloves.
In the first round, after several
seconds had gone by, Cupiano
rushed Gonzalez to the ropes.
Felix sidestepped and blasted
Alex on the side of the face with
a solid left-hand chop. Dropping
to the mat, the Puerto Rican was
up before a count and went in
again to mix it up. The crowd
was in an uproar as the boys hit
each other with everything but
the water buckets.
.Slugging at each other without
pity or fear, Felix, setting for the
kill, floored Cupiano for one
count in the second stanza. Alex
was up with a spring but SEEM
ed to be hurt, although he show
ed no signs of this and kept Dor
ing in at the Spanish battler.
Despite the fact Gonzalez had a
clear lead over the Puerto Rican
all the way because of the eff
fectiveness of his favorite blow,
a chopping left hand which Alex
could not figure out, the match
proved to be a to-to-toe battle as
the iron body of the defeated
fighter tore at Gonzalez with no
respect to the blows that had
floored him three times during
the 10 rounds.
Alex hurt Gonzalez in the sew
enth stanza. This was CupianO'S
best opportunity but he did not
realize it. He caught Felix with
a solid right-hand punch to the
as the local pride
bounced off the ropes in one of
the instances when he attempted
to throw that powerful left.
Gonzalez held on for a second or
two as Cupiano tried to pump
in blows to the body. 1t seemed
to the writer that Felix might
have dropped to the mat as re-
suit of the blows but Cupiano's
held him up. This was
the only round in which Alex
earned an edge. The score sheet
of this scribbler showed Gonzalez
won six rounds, Cupiano one and
three were even.
Chino Hit The Mat
In the semi-final bout, Kid
Fernandez, Tampa fighter, mop
ped himself from the floor at the
count of nine to knockout Chino
local featherweight, in
the fifth round of a scheduled
eight-rounder. Hernandez boxed
with his left hand cooked up,
ready for the kill, but forgot to
use it.
In the fifth stanza, Chino
thought it was time to cut loose
so he blasted Fernandez with a
wild blow to the chin. The Ybor
City lad reeled to the mat for a
count of nine but picked himself
up from the floor and tore at
with a business
in his eyes. They mix
ed it up at close quarters and
short left hook to the chin sent
Chino down with thud. He got
up with a one-count, his legs
and walked around the
ring with hands down in a daze.
Fernandez took one more sock
and the local boy went down a
second time. After the third
knock down the referee thought
it was enough fun for the Tampa
fighter, so he stopped the bout.
awarding the contest to Fernan-
deZ by d technical knockout.
Substituted: Won Fight
Young Figueredo, a former
Key West boy attempting
comeback, substituted for Kid
Tarzan, who had a weight adj
of 20 pounds over Allen
Mccain. Figueredo won the de-
cision over the California bat
tier in a special six-rounder
packed with action.
Mccain, probably a better
than a boxer, and as
strong as an OK, is a newcomer
and does not know the finer
points of the game. Young Fig
ueredo had his hands full tanning
the on-rush of the wild bull who
fouled him repeatedly.
In the second round, after the
break, Mccain caught Figueredo
off-guard and unprepared, and
buried a powerful right-hand
blow to the midsection which
caused the former Kew West how