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After 15 rounds of tireless punching on both sides, Referee Arthur Donovan and the two judges agreed that Ambers had won. Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement. But some of the other spectators were not so pleased with the decision. Some thought Armstrong was robbed of victory by the referee who took away five rounds for low blows which looked like unavoidable and harmless borderline punches. Others thought Armstrong had thrown the fight (fouling Ambers deliberately). Big, bombastic Eddie Mead...
...learned boxing in a church basement, encouraged by his parish priest, Rev. Gustave Purificato, who still comes to all his fights. Lou Ambers has lost only one of his 46 professional bouts. Merciless in the ring, he dislikes watching fights because their brutality gives him insomnia, makes him sick. His ambition is to organize his nine brothers and sisters, all musically inclined, into a jazz band in which he can play banjo and clarinet. Before his fight with Champion Ross, he plans a "warmup bout" with ex-Champion Tony Canzoneri...
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