New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
WALTZ IS BEATEN
 BY AN AMATEUR
Without Any Training Valger
 Shows 'IdoT" Up

Hartford's pride and idol, and the
 boy who is supposed to be getting
 ready to claim the featherweight
 championship title of Connecticut for
 the steenth time. Semky Waltz, cer-
 tainly got "caught at it. last evening
 in Meriden, when Benny Valger, a
 heretofore unknown boxer, cuffed and
 slapped the "idol about the ring for
 ten rounds of the fifteen rounds and
 made the pride look about as fool
 1Sh as any embryo boxer on his first
 start. Valger, who up to last evening
 has confined his pugilistic ambitions
 to the amateur circles, was called up
 on at the last moment to fill a vacancy
 on the Lenox A. c. card after Willie
 Brown had refused to meet Waltz
 without some training. Pete Fitzger-
 aid, Jerome Hennessys manager,
 found Valger somewhere in New York
 and induced him to come to the Nut
 meg state and clash with the ''idor'.
 Now MT. Valger should be given con- siderable credit for so acting, for without training dire things might be expected from the hands of "the champ" but after the third round had ended and that foolish looking grin : had departed from the face of ''the ; pride'' there was no question in the minds of the crowd as to who was the ] victor. Stage fright caused Valger to look bad in the opening rounds, when Waltz hit him several times and in a hard manner, but with the crowd ! roofing for him, confidence seemed to come to the New Yorker, and he be- gan to put up 8 dandy battle. During the latter stages of the bout, Valger seemed to toy win the "idop whose 1 actions reminded many of Rube Sa- | ger trying to locate the pan. A beau l tiful left hand smash connected so
 often with the champs" anatomy l that to count them would be imposst- l ble The punch while it is reported by
 waltz's friends to have no kick behind 1 it., certainly did not seem to please ! that battler, for every time it hit ] there was a sort of a distorted look
 on the features of the "idol''. At the i end of the bout as the crowd wended l it's way out of the hall, the talk all l indicated that the New York boy was l the winner and the favorite. Evi- 1 dently the neutral fans do not take 1 this champ, pride or idol talk very seriously, and the consensus of opin- l ion is that Waltz as a star bout per l former, is not.
 Trcyban Docs Well.
 ] New Britain hasn't any boy who is ! claiming the featherweight honors every time the thought comes to him, 1 but they have boy that can and is
 willing to fight in the person of Char ley Treyball The local lad and Chic 1 Mccormack hooked up in the semi l final bout of ten rounds last evening,
 in the fray that easily overshadowed l the star bout. Mccormack, 8 clever 1 two handed boxer, was opposed by a 1 lad who is a bear for battle and who keeps things on the move throughout 1 the mill. It was a pretty contest
 with the odds about even. At times it looked as if Treyball was to forge
 ahead and gain lead by outpunching ] his adversary but the Hartford boy 1 who is a master at the game evened 1 Up the mill, was a good draw. Trey ball looked much better than on his 1 initial appearance against Waltz.
 Tho Usual Joke.
 A very uneven match opened the show when Jimmy Welton of Meri- den faced Young Paul of Hartford. The bout was a farce and ended in the second round when Paul's seconds l threw a towel into the ring.
 Mcriden Wakes Up.
 The attendance at the show was not as large as usual, the greater portion of the crowd coming from Hartford and this city. On the way to the hall, ] the local delegation encountered 1 parade and when one of the boys 1 asked what it was all about wag
 answered, "Oh they have just learned
 in Meriden that Wilson has been