Another Championship for Armstrong: A Fierce Fight

Northern Advocate, 19 August 1938, Page 5

Another Championship for Armstrong: A Fierce Fight

Boxing

(Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 17. The negro boxer, Henry Armstrong (9.8), to-day defeated Lou Ambers (9.8.’), on points, in a 15-round bout for the world’s lightweight championship. Armstrong was already holder of the world’s featherweight and welterweight titles, and his holding of three world’s championships at once is without precedent. There were 18,000 spectators at to-day’s fight. In the first round, the boxers exchanged a long series of heavy body blows, Armstrong getting slightly the better of it. The negro forced Ambers to the ropes in the next, and beat him unmercifully with rights and lefts. Toe to Toe. They fought toe to toe in the third round, Armstrong alternately beating Ambers on the head and body. Ambers’ left eyebrow was bleeding.

Ambers rallied in the fourth and knocked out Armstrong’s mouthpiece with a savage right. The fifth round saw an exchange of terrific punches. Armstrong knocked Ambers down for a count of three with a right to tho jaw, and in the sixth Ambers was

down again for a count of eight, after a right and left to the head. The negro tried in vain to land a finishing blow. Ambers Rallies. Ambers was fighting defensively in the seventh and won the round. In the eighth, he rallied again, and the contestants fought toe to toe in the centre of the ring. They continued to trade punches in the next, in which the honours were even. In the tenth round Ambers retreated constantly, and Armstrong landed a dozen blows without I'eturn. He continued to beat Ambers severely in the eleventh, but lost the round through a low blow. Surprising- Aggressiveness. Ambers won the next round, and in the thirteenth he surprisingly rushed out from his corner and drove Armstrong round the ring with a barrage of lefts and rights, causing the negro’s knees to buckle and his mouth to bleed. The fourteenth round saw Ambers slow up, and Armstrong resumed the offensive, landing blows frequently to the head and body. The last round was one of mad slogging, each attempting to land a knock-out blow. Ambers got home more frequently. They continued to fight for ten seconds after the bell before the referee could part them. „

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