Putnam patriot., 1916-11-10
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WORLD OF SPORTS
Largest Crowd of Boxing Fans of Sea.
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Two Out of the Four Bouts Go Full Dis.
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filled Foresters' hall last Friday even ing must have convinced promoter Pete Demers that transferring the scene of his bouts to the business sec. tion was a good move. It was the largest gathering that the sport has called out since Demers took hold of the game.
 The card called for two four round exhibitions and two over the six round route. One of the prelimiaaries and the semi final failed to go the full dis tance.
 The star bout of the evening was between Young McKenna Of Mechan- icsville, the tigerish lightweight scrap per who has the eye of hawk and the quickness of cat, and Young Burke of Grosvenordae. This pair of youngsters gave the crowd the real treat of the evening. It was Me Kenna's bout round by round on points but both boys finished in good condition. Another go between this pair over little longer distance would be big drawing card.l
 During the evening Peter Stone of Attawaugan issued a challenge to Battling Bone of Putnam, Spud Stock ton of Attawaugan challenged Bob Malley of Pomfret, Lawrence Jan dreau of Oxford challenged Rock Lyon of rul U,,n ;,,1 insky of Putnam. All of the challenges were accepted so that matchmaker Demers will have plenty of material at hand for the future.
 For the curtain raiser Young Spud and Bob Malley went the four round distaEce to a draw. Both boys were stocky youngsters and there was an even exchange whenever they mixed it up. The boys goodnaturedly shook hands with smile at the end of the fourth and hope to meet again.
 For the second preliminary George Laparle, the boy with punch, was sceduled for four round set to with Mike Bell. Both are Putnam boys. No sooner had they shaken hands than Laparle put across vicious right that caught his opponent on the lower side of the jaw and he went down. He got up in five seconds but was clearly dazed and couple of more from the wicked right and left for good meas ure ended the bout with but sixty sec onds ticked of on the timekeepers watch.
 In the seml-final Young Rano of Putnam gave Rock Lyon of Central Village height and reach. He went to his work gamely but could not stand the onslaught Time and again Rock rushed .his man into corner and had him covering and running into a clinch. There was some fast work out it was only in the second that Rano showed up at all but even in this round Rock had 8 shade the best of 1t.
 After the second Rock had his man at his mercy. Rano deserves credit for never stalling at time when he must have realized that he was going. The bout would have been stopped in the third but the bell saved Rano.
 The fourth had not gone far when it was seen that Rano could not come back and Referee Demers stopped the unequal contest.
 McKenna and Burke both got a hand as they stepped through the ropes. McKenna is the one best bet to give the fans a lively exhibition of scientific work. He delivered the goods,and Burke did hisishare although the Mechanicsville boy had 1t on him and was the agressor all the way.
 In the first there was a light ex. change and a clinch. Mckenna let loose his lightning left for an upper cut that landed hard. He repeated and Burke clinched. McKenna delivered a right, left and uppercut on the break. During the two minutes Burke put one or two across but they were partially blocked and without damage.
 In the second points were more even and honors might have been divided had not McKenna landed a few, but without steam, just before the bell. There were clinches, exchanges and bit of infighting during this round.
 Tn the third McKenna again out shone Burke. He landed with his left and missed with his right. An ex- change to the head followed and then McKenna put over light left and fol- lowed with . harder left that put Burke's head back. It was the left that was working all through the round and just before the bell right was put across. Mckenna was the agressor all the way and had no trouble reaching.
 In the fourth the Mechanicsville boy still bore in. He landed few light blows and took a couple in return. Burke came in and got short arm jolt to the kidneys but landed a hght blow to the head in exchange. MIG, kenna put over a clean one and got away. There was an exchange and then Mckenna got in agsins without return. Two more light lefts followed by a back hand swing that landed clean sent down the curtain on this round.
 In the fifth Mckenna continued pushing across his left and coming up