Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-11

him halfway through the ropes.
Chuey followed his advantage on
the ropes with bruising rights and
lefts. Back in the center of the
ring, Chuey landed a left jab to the
jaw and two rights to the chin and
mouth, almost flooring Renado who
saved himself by clinching. After
the break. Renado came back swing
ing desperately. but Figueroa calm
ly withstood the charge. At the
first opening. Chuey stunned the
lad from Tia Juana with hard
left cross and then put everything
into a numbing right flush TO the
stomach. Absorbing several more
shots on the way down, Renado
sank to the canvas. rolled over at
the count of eight and was still
trying to focus his eyes when Ref
cree Bill, Tackett tolled the final
tenth second.
TAGGED EARLY
Figueroa tagged his man as early
hook to the jaw dropped Renade
for a seven count. The game MeXi-
can climbed off the deck as soon
as he could and was finishing
strongly at the bell with a furry
of punches to Chuey's mid-section.
Chuey took every round except the
first which was fairly even, but
Renado was always a danger, swing
ing away with both hands and
eager to mix.
Chuey's speed in punching and
footwork was the deciding factor
Time and again he lashed out with
lefts to the Mexican flash'S jaw
from an upright stance at long dis
tance. Many fighters have good
fast leftS, but Chuey's lands with
an unusual force.
Renado adopted a correct STRAIT
egy for his defense, but was simply
not fast enough on the block and
counter. The boy from Mexico
worked out a crouch with a high
guard to protect his jaw from
Chuey'S shaking left. He purpose
ly left his midSection slightly open
to concentrate on guarding his
head as it is much harder for
taller opponent to score with lead
ing left jabs to the intersection.
But ChCey shot at the head from
all angles and forced openings
which dispelled Renado's guard.
Renado tried vainly for Chuey's
body area, realizing he could never
match the speed of his opponents
jabbing Chuey was not partial
and scored to all sections.
MARS RECORD
In the siX-round semi-final,
Bomber Herman Graves of Ell Cen
tro marred his string of four pre-
viOus successive wins by going to a
draw with George Henry. The crowd
boocd the decision, most observers
feeling that Bomber's continual
carrying OF the fight to his oppo-
nent should have earned him the
nod. Referee Tackett later explain
ed that Henry had landed more
leather, although most of it was
done while clinching or back ped
aling
done at close range where he could
utilize his seven years of ring ex-
perience. The home town bomb
er tried TO stand off and slug his
man. but seemed to lack his Usual
speed. This enabled Henry to tie
him up and keep the bigger Graves
weight and power where it would
do the least harm.
With Manuel Ortiz, present world
bantamWeight champion, and Bobby
Franklin, former contender turned
marine, in Graves corner. the home
town hero had plenty of encour-
3gement.
The best punch of the fight oc-
CURED i'm the second round when
Bomber hurt Henry with a powerful
right hand uppercut to the chin.
Henry grabbed and held end played
careful for the rest Of the fight.
DESERVED DECISION
The six round special proved to
be really a treat with bull cheSted
Henry Garlic taking a well deserved
close decision over Al Delgado
The short, chunky Garlic slugged
it out continually with the taller,
rangier Delygado Delgado had the
class but Henry had the harder
punch. Delgado was in trouble sew
eral times in the fight. going down
for a count of six in the beginning
of the third round. Garlic kept
blasting away but his accuracy suf-
fered from anxiety and he couldn't
finish his man.
Delgado displayed a fast, accurate
left. but couldn't hurt GARLIC suf-
ficiently to force important open
ings. Both boys disregarding clinch-
ing and really put on a slug fest
Garlic in particular was a churn-
ing windmill and although he miss
ed a third of his attempts, enough
landed to cause damage.
Jimmy Hatmaker. fighting marine
cook from the Ell Centro air base,
started the show off with a bang TO
fi,,icI, Dpt, Ca1ioa in / IN of tho