The fans, doubtless swayed by sentiment, thought Ambers; should have kept his title on at least a draw decision after he rose from the canvas twice to give the grandest and gamest performance of his career. However, virtually all New York boxing writers agreed that Armstrong had won the decision even though Ambers had made an unexpectedly close fight of it.
Everyone admitted that had the fight lasted a couple more rounds past the championship limit of 15, Ambers might have stopped the Negro "super-fighter," who was exhausted, bleeding profusely and staggering at the final bell, At the end Armstrong was so groggy that he lurched over to Ambers' corner, thinking it was his own. He fell against the corner ropes and gasped to Ambers' trainers, "take core of me." They sent him back to his own corner.
Armstrong's terribly mutilated lower lip was the indirect cause of his near collapse at the end, according to Dr. Alexander Schiff, who patched it up with 15 stitches, Ambers received $33,860.22 for losing his crown, and Armstrong got $20,766.13 for becoming the first man in history ever to wear three boxing clowns at the same time.—U.P.
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