Minneapolis Lightweight Piles Up Lead.
CHICAGO (AP) – King Tut of Minneapolis, formidable challenger for the world's lightweight championship, lost on a foul to Lope Tenorio, Filipino warrior, in the first round of their scheduled ten round bout in the Chicago stadium tonight.
Tut unintentionally sunk a left hook low in foul territory and Referee Dave Barry disqualified him.
The weaving Minneapolis lightweight had all the better of the fighting until the foul was delivered. He had Tenorio in full retreat, driving him around the ring with a fierce attack to the body.
Tenorio, seeking to escape, backed into the ropes with Tut tearing after him. Tut cut loose with a low punch and Tenorio sank to the floor, rolling over on his back. He was in such distress that he was unable to continue. Tut weighed 140 and Tenorio 139¾.
Pete Meyers of San Francisco defeated Bobby O'Hara, Augusta, Ga., southpaw in another ten rounder, spilling him twice. Meyers upset the Georgian in the first round for a count of two with a sharp right cross and repeated in the seventh, flooring him for a count of eight.
Solly Schuman, Chicago bantamweight, outscored Johnny Burns, a Notre Dame student, in five rounds, with King Levinsky, Chicago light heavyweight, knocking out Nick Taft, Chicago, in the third round of the opening bout.
In the semiwindup of ten rounds Babe Hunt of Ponca City, Okla., 6 foot 4 inches and as thin as a slat, pounded out an unpopular victory over Al Friedman, Boston heavyweight.
-- Des Moines Register, Oct. 17, 1929, 6-A
There's a picture of King Tut (Henry Tuttle) and a list of his fights at this link.
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