LOU AMBERS
K.O. BY PUNCHING BAG FORTHCOMING OO.NTKST Lou Ambers, lightweight champion ui' the world, was recently knocked mil by Itis punching bag. if The bag was fastened to the ceiling and door of Stillman's gymnasium in New York. Ambers blasted the bag with a right and loosened the top hook which fell on Amber's skull and knocked the enampion cold. * Horrified handlers yelling for buckets of ice, rushed to the fallen boxer. Ambers was (illicitly revived, but wears two scalp wounds. New York scribes and ollicials rue indulging in a wordy war over the Sorthcorning Ainbers-Arrnstrong contest.
The match is billed for the lightweight championship of the world, and New York ollicials say that Armstrong’s welter crown is not at .stake. However, many experts contend that the welter king will lose his welter crown if Ambers should defeat him. Armstrong is the featherweight champion of the world.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 11
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