Long Island Ringside, May 31.
ENRY Armstrong, lethal-fisted negro world featherweight champion, tonight beat Barney Ross in fifteen furious rounds and won the world welterweight championship before a crowd of 35,000 rooting spectators.
Resembling. a dusk; ring dynamo, Armstrong added the 147-pound crown to his trophies by battering Ross into a bloody, helpless hulk and into retirement.
The unanimous decision of the judges made him the first man in history to wear the featherweight sod welterweight crowns simultaneously.
Ress, the American-Hebrew who rose from the sidewalks of New York and Chicago to fame and fortune, lost like a true champion.
"Human Buzz Saw"
He weathered one of the most merciless beatings ever given' a champion in any ring. He was virtually helpless at the end of the fight, but he refused to finish in the horizontal position.
The slithery, hard-punching negro was more of a "Human Buzz Saw" than ever as he unleashed a stream of rights and lefts that never seemed to end, He appeared tireless in his attacks and was like the "Perpetual Motion Machine," which he has been nicknamed.
The husky American-Hebrew, who once held three world titles simultaneously and who wes a seven-five favourite to win, garnered the first and second frames narrowly after furious mauling and infighting barrages.
From then the fight was entirely Armstrong's, the negro winning all except the seventh because of a low blow The miniature won most of his "Brown Bomber" rounds by wide margins.
In some of the rounds, Ross never had a look-in. All he could do was to cover up and attempt to counterpunch against the furious punching negro, whose arms were working like
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