Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-19
THE PUGILISTS
RAZZLE DAZZLE
 ONCE AGAIN
Lovers of Boxing in this City Get the Same Old Lemon But
 Squeezed to Perfection.

It was very highly dissa tisfied crowd that pushed it's way from the
 Auditorium last evening after wit messing what was supposed to have
 been the revival of the boxing game in this city under the auspices of the Brass City Athletic club. Per haps the management was not to blame for putting the game to sleep before it was fully awake from it's last nap, but it will take much persuasion to draw the Waterbury sports to any boxing exhibition in Ithe future. The faithful turned out in fairly good numbers last evening, about 600 attending the exhibition. The pre- liminary bouts were not half bad and if the main go had been even passable the crowd would have been satisfied.
 For the final go the sorrel top head of Harry Ferns was seen to come from the dressing room but what was seen to follow. He ap- peared to be worse than the green sea wave who figured in the second
 bout of the evening. They took their corners and after getting their gloves, Referee Bernie Burke intro- duced them as Harry Ferns and Bert Reyes. If Reyes could only have |seen who was counterfeiting him
 But the crowd immediately sniffed something malodorous in the air and
 shouted Which is Keyes?" After
 a moments delay the referee had to
 inform the crowd that Reyes had not
 appeared, one of the New York clubs had him booked for an exhibition in
 the big city last night, and that one Jack" Smith of Philadelphia had
 been substituted. He assures me
 he can give a good account of him. self" continued the referee. In the first round 1t could be easily seen
 that Smith was wishing that he were
 in a foot race and Ferns hated to
 hit him. The crowd hooted, missed
 and showed its disapproval in vari-
 ous ways. The second round had
 been going about a minute when the finale came. It was during a mixup, II,
 when Ferns glove lightly brushed Smiths face and the latter fell like
 log. He did not even do it grace fully. To complete the fake, the sec onds quickly rushed out and carried
 the lobster to his corner. It took the
 crowd only few seconds to surround
 the ring but Ferns immediately beat
 1t to the dressing room. But before Smith had come. to" some of the younger fellows who were present had surrounded the ring and wanted to get a whack at the fellow who had so farefacedly handed them bad
 fruit. Lemons, sponges and any thing that was throwable were
 hurled at him and he was afraid to
 leave the ring. Constable Thomas O'Gorman finally took chance and escorted the man to his dressing room. It is dollars to doughnuts that the lad breathed sigh of re-
 lief when he reached the room.
 The best bout of the evening was between Young Mccoy (Eddie Shea) of this city and Kid Hyda of Bridge port. If Mccoy had been in shape he would in all probability have held his own with the Park City boy. As it was. after the first couple of rounds he was all in, although the bout went the six rounds. Jenks and Maynard in the opening number gave "a lively contest. while the second bout was farce comedy which-made the hit of the night. The sport was furnished by Brenner and Watts. one of them being built like drink of water. He certainly was funny and it appeared as though a good blow would kill him. yet he was forcing his opponent all the time. While it lasted it was most amusing and the people were well satisfied with it. Clancy and Noonan did nothing but tap. The man who made this match must have been caught nap ping. Hike" Noonan was in no condition to fight and Clancy could have put him to sleep in the first round If he had wished. Young Pickett of this city and Young Shar- key of Naugatuck were fairly good although the Rubber town boy was not quite the equal of Pickett. Many prominent men of the town. as well as several of the city officials were present
 Kid Stinger and Johnny Dwyer boxed fast six round draw at the New York Long Acre Athletic clubs entertainment last night. In the other bouts Joe Palmer was defeated by Frankie Howe. Young Jimmy ErapE a untrfra usap Frnp, Na,ru