The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-27
COulon Retains BantamWeight
 Championship
Secures Decision Over Frankie Conley in Twenty Round Bout at New Orleans
Especial to Farmer.)

New Orleans, Feb, 27-Johnny Coulon
 of Chicago, is now the undisputed
 bantamweight champion. Yesterday he
 secured the decision over Frankie Con-
 ley of Kenosha, Wis, at the end of 20
 rounds. Conley was outclassed from
 the start, being shaded in every round
 but two. A bunch of 5000 fans said 1t
 was the greatest battle between little
 men in the history of the ring.
 / Though bested, Conley fought game
 ly at all stages and landed almost as
 often as Coulon. Conley had trained down to meet his opponent at 116 pounds, and on that account his blows ting was even before the fight started, and many thousands of dollars changed hands. At the ringside Coulon was 2 to favorite.
 The fight opened with Conley the aggressor, but Coulon's legs saved him from punishment. The two first rounds were even with no damage done. In the third Coulon shot a right swing to the chin and in quick sue cession a jab to the face and right punch to the stomach, giving him a shade the better of the round. The fourth closed with both men fighting fercely at close range, with honors about even.
 In the fifth Conley put three rights lO II6 rIUS III QulCh SuCCeSSlOH anu lOOh right to the face in return. Con- leys round. In the sixth Coulon was staggered by a. left to the stomach, but he came back with a series of short hard body blows, and the round was even. In the seventh Coulon had shade the better in the final seconds before the bell, but he took some pun ishment in the early part of the round.
 The eighth was fast. Conley opened with a right to the jaw. Coulon shot left hook to the stomach. Coulon ducked a right swing and accepted a clinch. Just as they broke away Cou- lon staggered Conley with hard right to the jaw. He followed this quickly with series of short lefts and rights against the ropes when the bell counded.
 Conley was aggressive, but Coulon pelted his face almost at will in the ninth round. Conley ducked several hard blows in the tenth, but his right to the face and glancing body blows were repaid by two uppercuts and a hard stomach punch.
 In clinches in the twelfth Coulon shot in several short jabs to the ribs and stomach. In the brfeakaway Con ley put a hard right to the face. Cou- lon finished the round by placing sev- eral mild right and left swings to the face, followed by a ram or snort DOQy punches in a clinch.
 Cou1on did some brilliant work in the thirteenth. After taking several short body blows, he rushed his op- and put rights and lefts to the face with lightning rapidity. Conley sent a light right to the face, and in a clinch sent a telling right to the< stomach Coulon's round.
 Coulon played with Conley in the op- ening of the seventeenth, and the Ke- nosha lad hit the wind with right and left swings. In the eighteenth round Conley placed several good rights, one to the kidneys, another hard one to the face, and one to the body. A moment later he staggered under a rain of rights and lefts to the head and body. A hard right to the stomach in the nineteenth round brought frown ing Coulon around tn ring.
 The final round opened with a stiff right to Coulons face. Coulon came back with several short body blows. Conley sent hard blow to the face and took a hard jab to the jaw in re- turn. In the breakaway Conley placed a light left to the face. Coulon sent a half dozen blows to the face and body and ducked three swings. An other clinch and then Coulon shot over two more blows to the jaw. Conley sent right to the stomach and two light jabs to the face. Coulon put more, hard rights to the fact, and just as the bell sounded placed a third on Conley's jaw.