Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12
BRITTON VICTOR
OVER LOUGHLIN
A merle an Welte1weight
Champ Has Easy Time
in Bout at Shore
By ROBERT ". MAXWELL

WY, July
| Jack Britton handed *. o. Loughlin
sweet lacing in the wnd-up at the
Atlantic city Sporting Club last night.
For eight long, weary rounds the Ameri-
can welterweight champion poked his
eight ounce glove in Loughlin's map
smearing in principally on the nose and
mouth. until. at the end. the X. o. artist
had every appearance of an accident
going some place to happen.
1t was the second show at the Shore
under the auspices OF the new State
commission. and held last night for the
benefit Of the visiting Elks. or some
thing like that one of the largest
crowds that ever attended an Elks' con-
vention stayed away from the scrap.
and the profits of the promoters could
other words, the performances was very
much on the blink, from a financial
viewpoint.
! Britton in Bad Shape
Britton was In good shape except that
he was suffering from a bad cold had
an attack of grippe and a few other all
ments. He wanteA to call the bout off
early in the afternoon, but when the pro-
moters found they could not get a sub
stitute Jack consented to go on. 1t was
a great piece of luck that Brtton was
under the weather or Loughlin would
have had an unpleasant evening.
Jack used his left jab as usual and
avoided Lough!in's wild rushes and hefty
swings like nervous stranger side-steps
a runaway trolley car. He was all over
| the gent from South Bethlehem like
tent and landed that famous jab 1916
times by actual count. Loughli~s chief
defense was sticking his face in front of
! Britton's walops, and he did this with
the ease and grace of an expert His
| nose and mouth were bleeding and his
wind was very much in arrears 1t the
/ end
J Britton was slow at the start and de-
! voted the first three rounds to studying
his opponent The crowd. what there
was of II. expected to see grand slug
ging match and was bitterly disappointed
] a
/ yelled themselves hcarse begging the
men to get together and knock each
other through :he building, but the bat
tiers ignored their requests. They fought
according to their own ideas and let 1t
60 at that.
Loughlin's Nose Bleeds
In the fourth Britton began to operate
on Ioughlin's nose and the operation
was highly successful. He could have
accomplished more with baseball bat.
but the padded gloves were quite
effective and started flow of the we'll
known crimson liquid which never
stopped, When the gore began to flow
the spectators imagined they were wit
Messing a brutal brawl: were getting
their moneys worth ana pleasant time
was had by all.
The only reason Britton won in eight
rounds was because that is the legal
| limit in Jersey. He could have wen a
dozen rounds just the same.
In the semiwind-up Jack Russo, now
under the direction of Joe Christiana,
walloped the daylights out of Joe Phil
lips. the hard-working slugger of the
| Hinden stable. Russo had speed and
| science and that combination was
! enough to win.
| Eddie Slattery. the fighting policeman
| of Atlantic City, fell asleep on his beat
| in the second round OF his bout with
| Jimmy McCabe and could not be awak-
ened. Persons at the ringside claim
| that Jimmy hit him in the jaw and the
bloy brought on the slumber
| Patsy Wallace slammed Danny Buck
around the ring for four rounds In the
opener and won all of the laurels-what-
ever they are.