New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-10-10
irish PATSY Cline
OUTFIGHTS DUNDEE
Harlem Celt Battles Little Italian
By His Dash and Speed

New York, Oct. 1o-with such con-
summate skill and aggressiveness did
| Patsy Cline face Johnny Dundee in
! their ten round bout at the Harlem
| S. c. last night that for the first
| time in his long career the Scotch
| Wop" clearly and decisively was out
| pointed.
A lucky punch of Willie Jacksons
once knocked Dundee out, but later
Johnny came back and clearly evinced
his superiority over his erstwhile con-
queror. Leonard, Welsh. Richie,
White and other master boxers never
have gained more than hairline de-
| cision over Scotty Monteith's italian
protege. Sometimes they were out
pointed themselves by Dundee.
Last night, however, the Wanted
speed of Dundee seemed slow before
the wonderful speed and science that
belonged to Cline. The big crowd
the Manhattan Casino was damned
to the doors-sat back in amazement
as the young Celt from Harlem tied
the clever Dundee into knots and out
from the jack.
The mill was wonderfully fast and
clearly fought and was only marred
by the work of Referee Roche in
breaking the men. Neither man
showed any strong tendency to
clinch. but the fighting was so saw
age that it was physical impossi-
bility for the men to keep up the
whirlwind pace without occasional
respite. When the mon clinched,
however. Roche, instead of picking
the right spot and separating the
men in the twinkling of an eye as
a referee like Kid Mcfarland would
have done, paved and showed away
aimlessly and wasted much valuable
time.
Cline Leads From Start.
To the surprise of the crowd Cline
showed clear mastery in the first
round. He landed at will with light
ming lefts and rights and generally
got away without a return. Ever
and anon Patsy would close in with
a savage little rush and rip and slash
away at Johnny at close quarters.
Dundee fought back gamely, but
Patsy invariably was inside his round
arm and scoring with clean drives to
head and body.
AS the fight wore along Cline con-
tinued to display his mastery. While
Dundee landed some telling smashes
himself Patsy kept him on the re-
ceiving end most of the time. Patsy
made Dundee look foolish by cleverly
ducking Johns leads and making the
Scotch Wop miss by the proverbial
mile.
Patsy steadily backed Johnny about
the ring and much of the time had
him on the ropes and the target for
a savage bombardment. Cline couldn't
floor the Italian, though once he sent
him to his glove tips and twice stag
gered him with hard punches. There
was no question of the winner at the
final bell.
One of the largest crowds Of the
season saw the mill. Many out-of-
towners here for the worlds series at
tended. Former Gov. Dineen of H.
linois, Roger Sullivan, the Chicago
politician; Charles Comiskey, the
owner of the White Sox and many
other faces familiar in the baseball
world could be seen in the smoke
banks that enshrouded the ring.
There was a gasp of surprise from
the crowd when the weights were an
nounced as Dundee 100 1-2 pounds,
Cline 1877 pounds. 1t was thought
that both men would scale around 1873
pounds. Dundee was trim and finely
drawn, however, while Patsy carried
q little Superf1uous flesh.