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a 90 for the 18-hole round.Orange county’s busiest boxer of 1929 will make his first 1930 appearance before the “home folk” tomorrow night when Jimmie Rivers, young Fullerton Indian, returns to business at Delhi aga«nst Johnny DeCorsey, Los Angeles welterweight, in a 10-round main event.Rivers and DeCoraey were signed by Promoter H. T. Foust when Urban Hernandez, originally scheduled for the top spot with Jimmy Fox, pulled up with a skin disease. The Hernandez-Fox set-to has been set back to August 28.Rivers enjoyed the distinction of fighting no less than 10 main events for Promoter Foust during the last six months of 1929. In rapid sue-ceesion he boxed at the Orange County Athletic club such fellows as Charier Cobb, Zenaydo Chavez. Arizona Joe Rivers, Young Sam Langford, Mat Codan, Johnny Adams, Omar Wright, Freddie Fitzgerald, Joe Contreras and Jack Sparr.Earlier in the season he met Billy | Clark, Hi Gill, Bert Sampson, Joe j Rinehardt and Harry Johnson.Rivere got the wanderlust soon after the first of the year and in jeorppany with his former manager, I Jack Walker, and a stablemate, Romeo Lemon, embarked on a lengthy automobile tour of the boxing hinterlands. Hie initial stop was Albuquerque, N. M., where he decisively defeated Lave Jackson, a very fair welterweight. At Santa Fe, Jimmie outpointed A1 Rivers, a local idol, in a big outdoor attraction.Moving on, Riv-ens next appeared in Denver and the finest showing of the entire trip. AlthoughJimmie Rivers
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Santa Ana Daily Evening Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Wed, Aug 13, 1930
Page 26
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