THIRD BOXING TITLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 5

THIRD BOXING TITLE

ARMSTRONG BEATS AMBERS. NEW YORK, August 17. Henry Armstrong Ost. 81b.), featherweight and welterweight champion of the world, won his third world title when he gained a decision over Lou Ambers Ost. B]lb.), in a 15-round bout for the lightweight title today. Armstrong knocked Ambers down for a count of three in the fifth round and again for a count of eight in the sixth round, when he tried vainly to land a finishing blow. Ambers won the seventh and twelfth rounds bn a foul and the eleventh on a low blow. Armstrong was superior in the opening rounds, but in the third Ambers fought him toe to toe. and, rallying in the fourth, knocked out Armstrong’s mouthpiece with a savage right. After exchanging terrific punches the men finished the ninth round with honours even. Ambers retreated in the tenth and Armstrong continued to beat him severely. In the thirteenth, however, Ambers surprisingly rushed from his corner and drove Armstrong round the ring vzith a barrage of lefts and rights, causing his knees to buckle and his mouth to bleed. Armstrong resumed the offensive in the fourteenth, and the final round found both men slogging madly in an attempt to land a knock-out, with the advantage to Ambers. They continued to fight for 10 seconds after the bell before the referee could part them. The spectators numbered 18,000.