The Archive · 1937

Miniature Brown Bomber

Known in fighting circles as "the perpetual motion machine" bec his furious attacks and his t barrages, the miniature Brown Bomber did not give Billy Beauhold a chance.

He rushed the plucky lightweight off his feet, boring in furiously and raining hard blows on face and body with amazing speed but fine timing and with plenty of power behind them. Beauhold was willing to mix it and game, but he was no match for his harder and faster hitting foe and was clearly outpunched, outboxed and out fought in all exchange Working his mighty mitts lik piston rods, Armstrong broke through Beauhold's guard time and again and continued to pepper away unti. his ioo could not stand up any more in the fifth, when the proposed ten-frame tussle was halted.

With Armstrong, who to-night weighed 132% lb. against Beauhold's 134% 1b., gaining weight and finding it increasingly difficult to keep himself within the 126-Ib, division, sports scribes to-night predicted that the negro Would soon retire from the lighter category and become a full-fledged lightweight with the purpose of meeting Lou Ambers for the world title. xo bounds and the spectators surged onto the field after the game in a wild celebration, uprooting the goal posts, singing and chairing the battered but triumphant Cantabs Even the sharp-shooting pa: ing of Giinton Frank, mentioned as

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