The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-25
ARMSTRONG RING
 HURRICANE BLEW DOWN MONTANEz
Pedro Earned Salute of
 10000 As Dead Game ! Guy'--StOpped In Ninth
BY HARRY FERGUSON Limited Press Sports Editor

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 New York, Jan. 25.-(UP)-Hois. the storm warnings, for hurricane Henry is blowing death and disaster again.
 Hammerin' Henry Armstrong, a human gale of flying fists, retained his world welterweight champions ship last night and when the storm finally passed by Madison Square Garden and men crept out to pick up the pieces they found a brok- en, bleeding fighter-Pedro .Mon- tanez.
 He had shaken his fist at the lightning and the hurricane had wrecked him.
 For 24 minutes and 47 seconds Montanez stood up against Hurri- cane Henry. Punches landed on him from the right, from the left, from above, from below and from Some- where over the rainbow. They stung him, they dazed him and, worst of all, they cut him until the right side of his face was a red smear of blood that he blinked out of his eye rolled to his shoulder and on down to his wrist. So after 27 seconds of the ninth round Referee Billy Cavvanaugh commanded the hurri- cane to stand still and Montanez dropped helplessly on the stool in the corner, eyes glassed over and legs turned to rubber.
 Big Heart
 Montanez weighs 1447z pounds, and at least 50 of it must be heart. Maybe some other man has made a gamer stand in Madison Square Garden than PeLdro made in the fourth round last night, but if so this deputy was not among those fortunate enough to see 1t. In those brief three minutes in which he hardly threw a punch Montanez rammed down the throats of every body the sly rumQr that he is what the leather singers call a "geezer" "a guy with no guts. The hurri- cane was roaring and ripping and early in the round Armstrong drove Montanez to the ropes. That short sharp snort that he blows when he's warmed up and goin' to town came out of Armstrong's nose. A jolting left knocked Montanez's head due east and a right sent 1t back Then the hurricane really struck rights and lefts bounced off Mon- tanez's head and slowly, with a kind of sick look on his face, he went down into the ropes.
 He was too far gone to have sense enough to take count of nine and rest. His fighting heart told him to get up and up he came, unable to lift his arms.
 Down Montanez went again in a tangle of ropes and resin. For two three, four, five, six seconds he paved helplessly att he canvas with his gloves and then, as 19,157 in. credible witnesses are prepared to swear, he got up again.
 Game Guy
 Wham, slam, wham, slam! The Hurricane blew again. Montanez, unable to get his arms up to punch or defend himself, just clamped his -tCCI4k OOWA OAA 4AAso AAbSSt and took it until the bell rang. And as he wobbled his bloody, uncertain way across the ring to his corner the wild roar of the crowd saluted him as a dead game guy.
 To all practical purposes that round was the fight, Montarez came out throwing punches in the fifth but he never recovered from that beating. He punched hard for the head and body and by the sixth had raised welt on Ar1nstrong's left eye. But in the eight round Hurricane Henry blew his man down again. A hard left hook to the head started Montanez toward the floor and 8 crashing right sent him the rest of the distance. But the bell changed brief reprieve for Pedro and he came out for the ninth, groggy but still willing to mix 1t. A left hook slammed Montanez back