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At Long Island City, Harry Wills, heavy black boxer, spent most of two rounds waiting for hulking Homer Smith to regain a vertical position. Every 40 seconds for 326 seconds Smith took refuge upon the floor from the blows of the Black Panther. Between seconds 316 and 326 he could not bear to get up, was declared unconscious.

Firpo reduced Smith to recumbence only once every 90 seconds last Summer and never permanently.