TERRIFIC FIGHT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20065, 23 March 1935, Page 16

TERRIFIC FIGHT

FEROCIOUS LIGHT-WEIGHTS “Judah Bergman (Jack Kid Berg), the East End of London Hebrew, won a fight at the Albert Hall that may justifiably be regarded as the most terrific, the most ferocious, and therefore the greatest that has ever been witnessed between light-weights in this country,” writes Trevor Wignall on January 22, in the “Daily Mail.” The bout ended in the eighth round, when the referee examined a cut over Berg’s opponent, Gutlare Humery’s left eye and declared he was not in a condition to continue. He awarded the verdict to Berg on a technical knockout. Immediately pandemonium broke loose among the biggest crowd the giant Albert Hall has housed for some months. Excited Frenchmen set up a tumult of jeering and shouting, equally passionate Englishnen added to the din; a woman hurled her programme into the ring. “I examined the wound with my hand just after Humery had left the ring” continued Wignall, “and there was no blood on my fingers. There was unmistakeably a deep gash on top of the left eye, but in some mysterious way it had done the next thing to healing up. One of Humery’s English seconds whispered, ‘No wonder there is no blood. They must have dropped cement in it.’ Certainly Humery did not look badly punished.” Wignall, however, is convinced that Berg would have won the decision at the end of the bout. He states that Berg fought like a terrier, and that in spite of Humery’s terriffic punches Berg gave him back two to one. James Butler, another critic, considers that Humery would have certainly won, and he is also convinced that the blow to the body which cost Wesley Ramey the decision by a foul against Jimmy Walsh in the chief preliminary was a fair blow and that Ramey really knocked Walsh out. There will be a return Humery-Berg bout in Paris at the Palais de Sports ,a venue with an accommodation for 20,000 spectators.