Los Angeles, Feb. 2.
Armstrong, official negro featherweight champion and rated the best lightweight, knocked Gut "Chalky" Walters, also a negro, in the third round to-night. The victory marked "Homicidal Henry's" 30th knockout win in 31 starts in the last. 14 months.
A terrific right in the first minute made Walters helpless. The jolting blow weakened him to such an extent that he simply hung on for two rounds before being sent to dreamland in the third.
No title was at stake, but "Hammering Henry" started off in his usual windmill style which has earned for him the nickname of perpetual motion. machine.' caught his foe with both hands, but Walters weathered the attacks. He ran into a right, however, and that thudding punch was the beginning of the end. He dropped his guard and Armstrong mauled him without mercy, finishing him off in the third.
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