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9 * . cV*rj ”V ■ Iti wt -■ ■ ■ « ■ w 1Ml Orernatfy JGeft My?Gives TKO Decision to Maxim'i- -r'.-Joey Maxim (right) of Cleveland, NBA light-heavyweight champion, crashes his left into the eye of Joe Kahut, of Portland, Ore., in the fourth round of their scheduled 10-round * bout at the Cincinnati Garden last night. The blow opened a nasty,1 t*Y”-shaped cut over Kahut’s left eye and Dr, Walter Phillips, the boxing commission’s physician, ordered the bout halted. Maxim was awarded a TKO. In the background is Referee Earle Butler.—AP Photo by Gene Smith.SBy CHARLES O’CONNORBefore 3,211 cash customers in the Cincinnati Garden Tuesday night Joey Mlaxim, light heavyweight champion with a NBA tag scored a technical knockout over Joe Kahut of Portland. Ore.. who vas hilled as the champion of the Pacific Northwest.The joust was scheduled to go 10 rounds, but it ended in the fourth. ..The reason was that Maxim inflicted a severe cut over the Kahut left eye. Dr. Walter Phillips, physician to the Boxing Commission, ordered the bout stopped before the bell sounded for the fifth round. 'Maxim thus gained a minimum revenge for the 15-round decision which the Portland entry obtained over him in a previous meeting.Maxim kept Kahut off balance with his lightning jab and whenthe Portland boxer missed hookunches to the head and body, oey crossed with repeated right handed punches and took the honors »n every one of the four frames.Kahut found Maxim’s mid-section with a number of left hooks in the fourth round, but he was beaten to the punch when fighting straight away and it is doubtful whether he could have won a round had the contest gone the full distark-e. Both boys scaled over 182ty pounds.Jack Kearns, manager of Maxim, said that will openly challenge Ezzard Charles at the heavyweight limit Several months ago at the Gardens Maxim gained a split decision with Charles.- The real contest was that between Wallace (Bud) Smith, Cincinnati lightweight, and Pauly Brooks, Cleveland, In a ten-round semi-final The former was the favorite, but he was outpunched by the 19-year-old Cleveland youth, who was fighting his ninth professional bout. .Brooks successfully used a left jab and a straight right hand, andwhen Smith tried to crowd him he landed cross punches and scored in the infighting.Freddie Ncwbill, Cincinnati middleweight, knocked out Eddie Miller of Dayton in the fifth of a scheduled ten-round match. A right to the chin upset Miller, j. Frankie Bette of Cincinnati scored a two-round TKO over Jimmy Redding when the latter failed to answer the bell for the second round. They are lightweights. George Rankin, local heavyweight, shaded Ronnie Wolf of this city in a four-rounder. In a featherweight match, Ed Burgin scored a TKO over Rusaell Hub-baard of Cleveland in four rounds.The referees were Pat Daley, Earl Butler and Tomy Wamdorf. The judges were Milt Conver, Joe Craven and Paul Pusatari and the timers, Tony Mastro and Harold Caldwell. The gross revenue was$9,089.50 and the net $7,200.Harry Hartman announced that on Nov. 14 Tommy Campsell of Rock Island, III., No. 1 lightweight contender, would box Wallace (Bud) Smith in the headliner. Hartman plans 40 rounds of scuffling on that occasion.i lt;9 »* *♦“ * V*-'**»V* lt;r' ■ 4 * 4 m *. T aT* »• »* i»*- .**» »•**-'’*'« a*' 1 ttw* Mk * Mw** •,;«.* :■ ■ » *i v *.*#'*■ *M* 1 * t* ■* * •v 9| 4-, . - - * .* -{HI• ISOM YOU »UYANYTELEVISION SET•OnduaSHAIMOCUSTELEVISIONv 4*1 ■ •jnJ Y.rN#Off’llffi H N S O JjNi i i cit ? (M#P: V* fit* MMM Am 54 2 0
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 26, 1949
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