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A QUESTION OF HONOR
January 30, 1956
It would be a bore to list serially all the fouls Sandy Saddler, featherweight champion, committed last Wednesday night at San Francisco in a televised bout with Flash Elorde, a young Filipino. Among them were butting, hitting and holding, and gouging at Elorde's cut eye with the glove laces. Saddler won thereby a technical knockout. It was the dirtiest fight in years.
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January 30, 1956

A Question Of Honor

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It would be a bore to list serially all the fouls Sandy Saddler, featherweight champion, committed last Wednesday night at San Francisco in a televised bout with Flash Elorde, a young Filipino. Among them were butting, hitting and holding, and gouging at Elorde's cut eye with the glove laces. Saddler won thereby a technical knockout. It was the dirtiest fight in years.

After the fight Elorde's doelike little wife gave a statement to reporters:

"I should say something about our country," she began shyly, then let the sentence trail off. "I hope that the fight brought no dishonor to our country."

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