Re with lively action, thrills, good boxing and a fair share of knock-downs, the 1938 Navy Relief Smoker held at the Canidrome last night proved to be the finest fight card presented in Shanghai this year.
The Fourth United States Marines by winning five of the eight pouts staged, scuppered their Naval opponents and thus regained possession of the Walla Walla Cup, emblematic of fistic superiority among Uncle Sam's fighting services in the Orient.
The Navy can be adjudged u nlucky to lose for when the ever popular "Chick" Jarboe, heavyweight champion of China, was administering a sound thrashing to a game but inexperienced opponent in the shape of "Bruiser" Poncavage of the Marines, he unintentionally struck two palpably low blows that sent his opponent writhing to tke canvas in agony, thereby rightly incurring disqualification from Referee Duffy.
Had Jarboe won, as he should have done with the greatest of ease, the final result would have read {dur bouts each and the Navy would have lived to fought another day. As it was they went down, unexpectedly perhaps, but they lost fighting to the last, with plenty of spirit and-swepping punches to the last bell.
In the main event "Slippery" Clam of the USS. John D. Edwards made short work of "Duke" de Stefano, flattening him in two rounds, during which he displayed terrific hitting powers.with both hands. The semifinal saw "Chuck" Haines make a Homer Slack of the Navy after being on the losing end of the score over the first three rounds, while Harry Groll, Navy middleweight champion, knocked out Freddie Leemans in the special event in quicker time than it takes to tell.
In the five four-round preliminaries "Killer" Kubiak of the Leathernecks, weathered a rough passage to secure a points decision over an unorthodox John Pusta, Poncavage beat Jarboe, the latter being disqualified, Billy Addis eked
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