New Britain herald., 1916-01-29

take advantages that presented them selves often. to send home the right.
 The bout opened with both lads cautious and fddling away for an opening. Medar did however suc- ceed in bringing blood from Drum mics lips, with jab, and the round was evened up by the Jersey boy with several smashes to the wind. The latter was the most aggressive of the two, his judgment of distance being excellent and his continual boring in and his work in the clinches was far more effective than that of his opponent
 The boys held each other on even terms until the fourth round when Johnnie ammassed a slight lead by his effective blows to Dave's mid-sec- ton. The Elm City boy was very wild and several times he missed up percuts that were labeled with a K. o. tag. Medar seemed leary of Drum bic in the fifth round and backed away repeatedly, but Johnnie kept right after him and refused to give Medar a chance to fight at long range, which appeared to be his spe- cialty. Tn this round the boys began to stick together like the Gold Dust TwinS," and it was necessary for Referee Willis to pry them apart. ! Drummie in this round hit Dave ra- | ther low, but the latter did not com plain showing himself to be gamo l boy. The sixth round showed Medar | to be some walloper when he rapped 1 Drummie two of the hardest smashes l during the fray, and Johnnie rocked | from their effects. In the seventh round Drummie again assumed the 1 ncci1y ,oi1n I ol>1a of a lead before the bell sounded. 1 Fast work on part of both boys fea- 1 tured the eight round. and in the anxiety to put across the decisive blow, they became wild, missing sev- 1 eral fine opportunities Medar got l away at fast clip in the ninth round l but 8 number of his blows were ! cleverly blocked by his agile oppon- ] ent. In one of the clinches that i occurred in this round, Drummie 1 sent home a vicious back hand blow l which for 8 moment made Medar 1 wince, but Dave came back for more, and closed the round slightly in the lead. A slight accident to Medar's ring attire caused a brief wait in between the rounds, and when he responded to the bell he appeared as the "Un- l masked Marvel"
 u,
 and hung on fast to Drummie until the
 patience of Referee Willis became ex- | asperated and he stopped the mill to
 warn the boys about holding Medar
 protested aided by his long winded ad- l visor in his corner, but a gentle re-
 hinder from Willis that he was the
 boss, ended the vocabulary of the pair.
 In this round Medar landed a telling
 smash on Johnnie's left eye which par-
 tially closed that optic. Drummie
 with number of healthy blows to the
 wind and head evened up the round however. The final round was a
 whale. Medar started in as if he
 was to finish his man and for a time
 it looked bad for the Jersey Skeeter,
 but Drummie was always there for
 more when Dave landed on him. One
 solid smash delivered by Medar rock ed
 Drummie from stem to stern and it
 appeared as if he would board the
 "Quakertown Special for siesta in
 the land of Nod,' but he managed to
 come back strong and at the bell was
 fighting just as hard as his opponent
 While the sympathies of the crowd l seemed to be with Medar, the neutrals
 were unanimous that Drumnie was , the fighter and Medar the boxer. The
 work of Medar won for him many
 friends by his comeback in the last
 session, but Drummie had offset this
 in the early part of the fight by his landing of the cleaner and more ef-