MEXICO: Sweets & Medals

The President of Mexico last week:

(¶. Learned that his son Fernando Ortiz Rubio (145 lb.) had fought at Atchison, Kan., while 900 spectators cheered, in a three-round, no-decision bout put on by St. Benedict's College. The President's son's opponent: Gus Glazer of St. Joseph, Mo. (145 lb.).

Said Student-Pugilist Fernando, fanned in his corner by his student-brother Guillermo: "I discontinued the use of sweets and tobacco three weeks ago in preparation for this bout."

(¶ Commuted from Death to 20 years imprisonment the sentence passed by a Mexican Court martial upon...

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