For two minutes and two seconds 215 pounds of Negro Harry Wills laced, slashed and uppercutted at 203 pounds of White Floyd Johnson, lowan fisticuffer. Then Johnson's seconds flirted a white towel—tossed it onto the canvas lest the "Brown Panther" should massacre their lowite. Ten thousand fight fans trooped out of Newark Armory (N. J.) after having seen exactly what they had expected—one of the most savage fights ever witnessed in the East. Pugilist Wills swelled out his chest of rippled ebony.
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