The Archive · 1930

Hartford, Conn, July 15

Bat Battalino put up a successful defence of his world featherweight championship here to-night, knocking ut Ignacio. Fernandez in the fifth round' of scheduled 10-rqjind Al Singer won the world's light. New York, July 17. weight championship "at the Polo Grounds, to-night, by knocking out, Sammy Mandell, the holder, in the first round of their" sehedtled 15 round engagement, Both men sparred cautiously at the outset" Singer. whizzed "ina savage leftchook and pat Mandell Gri the loot for a count of two. A

Sdon as the champion regained feet, Singer showered lefts and, Hakte tothe "joe Mandell went time, again and again, and a third, When Mandell rose once more, he was a pitiful spectacle and" he wooered helplessly, almost out his foet. Singer then knocked him, down and out with a left-hook #3; a righteres, Mandell was Une conscious for i min. 46 sec "Making weight did it," Mandell subsequently declared, in explana tion of his poor showing. "It took so much out of me that I was, without, xesistance,"—United Press, Scimnraric experiment does not need advertisement—Lord Thon:-

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