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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-05-10, Page 3'rl T Mtn st F A. couple of weeks before be went to San Francisco to de- fend his featherweight crown against Filipino Flash Elorde, Sandy Saddler, the spidery slasher with the stiletto elbows and iron head, wailed to the world: "I'm not a dirty fighter, and no one ever accused me of be- ing a dirty fighter until I. fought Willie Pep. Everyone knows the kind of tricks he uses. Ill beat Elorde, and 1 won't be dirty, either. I']1 let the fans in San Francisco judge that. Al] I ask them is to lay Off the boos unless I deserve them," .As it turned out it must've been a guilt complex that made Sandy moan because in the Frisco fight he got the boos early — and he deserved them. the 32 -year-old beanpole pull- ed every foul in the book. He hit on the break, butted, heel- ed, and thumbed the Cebu gamecock who was giving him fits. The 5,000 fans in San Fran- cisco's Cow Palace let the Har- lem Slasher and referee Ray Flores know early and often flow they felt; and when the fight was stopped in the 13th because of a gaping wound over Elorde's left eye, they booed end stamped and showered the ring with missiles. All through the fight which the fiery Elorde was winning 1lntil he was gashed by a butt in the seventh, the fans screamed at Saddler and ref, "Stop that butting! Make him stop holding and hitting! Watch his laces! Don't let him hit on the break!" And some 20,000,000 tele- viewers around the country ag- reed. Newspaper offices and television stations were food - ed with angry calls from indig- nant fans; the Cow Palace switchboard itself was lit up r''c•-, like a Christmas tree with blistering protests. Saddler asked for it and he got it good. He's had it coming for a long time. He didn't got ell the blame for the fiascos 'with Pep, for Willie the Wisp had his own reputation for trickery. But it's now apparent that Sandy has learned "foul play" well enough to have add- ed some gimmicks of his own. No two ways about it, the record shows that Saddler IS A DIRTY FIGHTER. His foul tactics smell from Caracas to Montreal, from New York to Manila and back again to San Francisco. Before we give you the com- ments of competent observers at the fight and on TV, here's • r' some essential dope on the El- arde brawl The 22?yeas•-old Elorde had 'beaten Saddler in a non -title fight in Manila last July in 'which Saddler's usual tainted 'tactics caused a small riot, and ;he was well on the way to. grabbing Sandy's crown in San Francisco when he was butted and cut in the seventh round, For the first nine rounds Elorde was leading on the scorecards of all officials. But Saddler, working on the cut with his head and gloves, had his op- ponent half blinded when the ringside physician ordered the tight stopped at 50 seconds of the 13th round. Listen to what the experts said! ht "Cruel Sandy Saddler pulled out all his weapons," wrote Jack Fiske of the San Fran- cisco Chronicle, "It was a dirty fight throughout, and all the onus inust be on the 120 -pound champion's skinny shdulders. From this corner it appeared highly improbable that he could have successfully defended the title , . 11 he hadn't resorted to all the so-called tricks in and out of the rulebook." "Saddler hit while holding, used his head for a third glove, and referee Ray Flores appar- ently was the only man in the audience un aware of the champ's foul tactics," wrote Al Santoro, sports editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, "Sandy Saddler, using his head as well as his fists with telling effect .. ," was the way the United Press account start- ed. Elorde, himself, was bewil- dered by it all. Only after prod- ding by newsmen did he rap Saddler. "That cut was started by an unintentio] butt. He butted me many times," he said, His manager and father-in- law, Lope Sarreal, wasn't as polite. "I complained to the referee that Saddler was heeling, el- bowing and butting all through the fight. I didn't get any place." But Sarreal and Elorde should have known wlltat was going to happen. In their non -title fight in Manila, the Slasher pulled the same tricks, but now he couldn't get away with the de- cision on the Flash's home grounds. Elorde bled from the nose and lips, and from outs over both eyes, and 10,00 fans in Rizal Memorial Stadiuln showed how they felt about Saddler's dirty stuff with a rain of pop bottles and choruses of boos. One bottle hit welter- weight Italo Scortichini, Sad- dler's stablemate, on the head, opening a three-inch gash an his scalp. But Elorde got the unani- mous decision. The referee was Maj. Jack Sullivan of the U.S. Army, who flew in from Tokyo. Sullivan scored eight rounds to one for Elorde, with one even. The two judges had it 8-2 and 7-3 for the Flash. One judge said Saddler held, butted and hit with his elbows --- and paid for it by losing sone rounds. "I've refereed for 15 years," said Sullivan, "and never had any difficulties. I called the fight as I saw it. I didn't break un- til the fighters were tied up And I didn't take any points off Saddler until I warned him." That was one of the few times in Saddler's stormy car- eer that he couldn't pull a fight out of the fire with his illegal, damaging style. Another time was in Moe - treat, March 3, 1952, when he fought Armand Savoie, a home- town boy and the lightweight champion of Canada. Saddler's tactics drove the fans berserk, and three carloads of police were called to restore order. After warning Saddler for holding, hitting on the break, and rubbing with the laces of his gloves (sounds familiar, doesn't it?), the referee, Tom- my Sullivan, disqualified San- dy. But this was no ordinary disqualification. Emile Gauthier, head of the Montreal Athletic THAT MEN MAY LIVE -This machine recently took the place of a patient's heart and lungs for 17 minutes, thus enabling surgeons to repair a crucial defect inside the heart. The im- proved artificial heart-lung machine is shown with Prof. John J. Osborn, the man behind the improvements. It is said to be superior to other heart-lung devices, since it gives no evidence of damaging platelets anti cells in the blood. Commission, himself climbed into the ring after the third round and ordered Saddler dis- qualified. "I had warned him at the weigh-in that I wasn't going to tolerate any of his rough stuff," said Gauthier. The next day Gauthier fined Saddler $500. "We would have suspended him, too," added Gauthier, "but he was going into the U.S. Army." The case history on Sad- dler's dirty fighting is long, documented and widespread. Unlike Pep, who could perform .brilliantly and cleanly at times, Saddler apparently can fight no other way but dirty, Stop those tactics, and he's just another fighter. A converted southpaw, he specializes in draping his right hand around an oppon- ent's neck, pulling him in, and belting away with his strong left. Apparently he can't stop himself, for he does it even When he has a soft touch, like Jackie Blair of Texas, whom he stopped in Caracas, Vene. zuola, Aug. 31, 1954, in the first rodbcl. "Saddler again used pronibit- ted tactics and was twice warn- ed by the referee," said El Nacional's boxing critic, of this fight. "He held and punched, used his elbows illegally and gouged his opponent merciless- ly around the eyes despite the fact that Jackie was an inof- • fensive opuoneet," La Esfera's writer said that Blair, on entering the ring, ap- peared "frightened and mourn- ful. He was alarmingly pale." So it goes, city to city, coun- try to country. The Elorde fight now shows clearly what makes Saddler tick — and it ain't nice. In the record book Saddler's knockout mark ap- pears impressive. With no dis- tinction between knockouts and technical knockouts, Saddler's record shows a neat "ISO 2" or "IiO 12," for his 101 knockouts in 160 fights — one of the out - SPRING FASHIONS EASY LIVING: Soft felt With a casual air. You'll find this sports model on the boulevard. SILK SUIT in black -and -gray nubby yarn makes a light, easy, single-breasted silhouette. SLIM LINE from shoulder to cuff in genet sharkskin gives .alouble-Breasted a tall look. standing kayo averages in the book. But it doesn't tell the true story, the story of head butts and elbows of gashed eye- brows and cllsed lips. Probab- ly 95 percent of Saddler's knockouts wore of the technic- al variety caused by cuts. All the Pep - Saddler fights were brawls except the first, when Saddler won on an eye- brow - raising fourth - round knockout, Pep had a '75 - fight unbeaten streak broken that night of Oct. 20, 1948, and there were more rumors over that sudden ending than you'd hear in a woman's lounge. The bet- ting odds gyrated like a stricken ship in a wild storm. Four months later Willie the Wisp came up with a masterful boxing exhibition to outpoint the Slasher and regain the title, though his oval face looked like it had been sent through a meat grinder. Then came the two fleece . In a rough brawl. which re- sembled wrestling more than boxing, Saddler won, when Pep surrendered on -his stool after the eighth round. "lsIy shoulder's hurt," wailed Willie. "That guy put a haln- merloek on me and busted my shoulder,`: Surprisingly enough, X-rays the ne:ct clay showed that Pep bac! a dislocated shoulder. The fourth and final meeting on Sept. 26, 1951, ended when Pep again surrendered on his stool after the eighth. This was a weird wrestling fray in which referee Ray Mill- er lost all control. Both fight- ers tussled to the floor often, and once the flustered referee rolled on the canvas with them. The fans jeered, and when it was over irate Bob Christen - berry banned Pep for "life" and suspended Saddler indefinitely. Saddler's suspension was lifted in a few months, and Pep re- gained hi, license 21 months later, Many ringsiders felt Saddler was more at fault and should have gotten at least the same penalty as Pep. What's happen- ed since has proved right. Saddler squirmed out of that situation with lesser blame and kept up his bullying tactics, But the Elorde fuss now has put him right on the spot. For the first time in years, he's going to have to prove that he can fight clean — that is if he knows the meaning of the word, and if they let him stay in boxing. 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