The Archive · 1938

Garcia Can Punch

Up until now, however, Armstrong has never met a puncher with enough punch to cope against such a type of attack. In Garcia he will be meeting for probably the first time a man who can out punch him and who carries heavier guns than he himself.

In the event Hurricane Henry loses to the Bolo Puncher from Manila, he will leave the ring only as lightweight Champion, for he relinquished his featherweight honour not long after he defeated Lew Ambers for the lightweight diadem.

In the event Garcia wins, he will become the first undisputed Filipino world champion since Pancho Villa occupied the world's flyweight throne eighteen years ago.

Tuesday's fight is being promoted by Mike Jacobs, world's premier matchmaker, whóse contract with the y Madison Square Garden Corporation calls for nineteen major fights every year.—United Press.

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