30,000 Watch Armstrong Easily Outpoint Ross for World Welterweight Title

ARMSTRONG GAINS
UNANIMOUS VERDICT
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Becomes First Boxer to Hold
Welter and Featherweight
Crowns at Same Time
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ROSS TAKES BAD BEATING
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But Refuses to Allow Referee
to Halt the Bout-Notables
Present at Garden Bowl
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By JAMES P. DAWSON

   He's a great little fighter, this Henry Armstrong from Los Angeles.
   He beat a great little fighter in true fighting style last night in the Madison Square Garden Bowl in Long Island City to become the first ring warrior in pugilism's long history ever to hold the world featherweight title and the world welter-weight crown at the same time.
   Armstrong was the world featherweight titleholder entering the ring. He became the welterweight monarch too when he lifted the crown from the furrowed brow of stout-hearted Barney Ross of Chicago, the defending champion, in fifteen rounds of vicious, savage fighting that was so one-sided as to make the result a forgone conclsion midway in the battle.
   Like a human tornado, Armstrong cut down Ross. There was no resisting force. Henry just pounded the gallant Ross tirelessly, pitilessly through everyone of the fifteen rounds, winning thirteen and losing one of these thirteen on a technicality, until the end awarding the decision that made a new, unparalleled champion, was a mere formality.
   ... It was announced from Promoter Mike Jacob's office that the paid attendance was 26,430 and the net receipts $136,016.

The New York Times - June 1, 1938