Zurich Herald, 1956-05-10, Page 7• is HeThe Worrldrs
Dirtiest Fighter?
.A couple of weeks before he
Fent 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 ., l
fought Willie Pep.' Everyone
knows the kind of tricks he
uses. P11 beat Elorde, and 1
won't be dirty, either, Pll let
the. fans in San Francisco judge
that. All. 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
how they felt; : and when the
fight was ' stopped in the 13th
because of a gaping' wound over
Jlorde's left eye, they booed
(kind stamped and showered the
:ring with missiles.
All through the fight which
the fiery Elorde was winning
until 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 flood-
ed with angry calls from indig-
nant fans; the Cow Palace
switchboard itself was lit up •
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 get
at 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
some essential dope on the El-
orde brawl.
The 22?year-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.
Tor 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
fight stopped at 59 seconds of
the 13th round.
Listen to what the experts
taidl
"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 must be on the 126 -pound
champion's skinny shoulders.
From this corner it appeared
highly improbable that he could
have successfully defended the
title . if he hadn't resorted
to all the so-called tricks hi
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 unaware 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
unintentiol butt. He butted, me
many times," he said.
His manager and f'atherin-
law, Lope Sarreal, wasn't as
polite.'
"1 .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 what ' 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 cuts
over both eyes, and 10,00 fans
in Rizal Memorial Stadium
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-
dier's stablemate, on the head,
opening a three-inch gash on
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 bylosing some 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 Mon-
treal, 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
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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-
zuela, Aug. 31, 1954, in the first
.,,round.
"Saddler again used prohibit-
ted tactics and was twice warn-
ed by the referee," said El
National'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 opponent."
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 "KO 2" or
"KO 12," for his 101 knockouts
in 160 fights — one of the out -
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But, it doesn't tell the true
story, the story of head butts
and elbows of gashed eye-
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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 fiascos.
In a rough brawl, which re-
sembled wrestling more than
boxing, Saddler won, when Pep
surrendered on his stool after
:the eighth round.
"My shoulder's hurt," wailed
Willie. `That guy put a ham-
merlock on me and busted my
shoulder."
Surprisingly enough, X-rays
the next day showed that Pep
had 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.
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•in a few months, and Pep re-
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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,
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she can fight .'clean — that is if
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word, and if they let him stay
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