New Britain herald., 1918-05-25

Camp Upton had left them no time to
! train. Rather maintained his ad-
vantage in the last two rounds and
earned the verdict.
Levinslxy Fight Coffey.
When Battling Levinsky, former
boxing instructor at Camp Devens,
crawled through the ropes for his so
with Jim Coffey of the Naval Re
serves, he was accorded an ovation.
The usual Celtic war cries greeted COT
fey. The pair fought a whirwind go
in the same ring few years ago and
the fans settled back in their seats in
expectation of seeing some real mil
ling.
They got it. Levinsky started off by
poking his left into Jim's nose and
sending his right wrist deep into the
Ceft's midsecton Coffey rallied and
went after Levinsl<y with long let's and
rights. The battler stepped inside
with snappy punches and made jim
back up. Twice the stalwart Celt had
his teeth ratified with hefty rights
I When Jim's knees wabbled a bit Lev
insky slowed down a trf1e. Apparently
the battler wanted to give the crowd
a run for it's money. It was a, long
The minutes rest did Coffey a world
of good and he came up fresh in the
second Craftily making his weight
tell, he backed Levinsky about the
ring. The battler kept up a constant
volley on the retreat and landed hard
and often. Levinsky gained the round
on points.
Drops Battler in Fifth.
Early in the third LevinslSy crossed
with a damaging right, but failed to
press his advantage. Perhaps it was
fortunate he did not, for Coffey was
more astonish ed than hurt and he tore
in. Despite his excessive poundage
Coffey was standing UP we'll. After
Levinsky had shaken him up with a
left hook and short inside uppercut in
the fourth Coffey cut loose like an en-
ragged bull and backed Levinsl<y about
the ring. Levinsky was content to
stand and trade wallops, but Jims
weight was too much for him. The
pair were in a hot mixup at the bell.
Coffey took the round by a hair.
A left to the body and an overland
right chop almost sent Levinsky to
the canvas at the start of the fifth
Levinsky rallied and getting inside
forced the Celt on the defensive. Twice
LevinslSy sent Coffey reeling backward
with combination one-two lefts and
rights. Each time, however, the Celt
charged in for more.
Decision for Levinsky.
In the last round they cut loose
Catching Levinsky off balance with a
| smashing right, Coffey sent the battler
to his glove tips. The Camp Devc1ls
professor" got up and caught Coffey
with a right that sent the Celt Keeling
| across the ring. Again Levinsky
leaped in with clearly driven smashes
to jaw and wind and before the end
of the round Levinsky had Coffey act
ing rather submissive. The bout went
to Levinsky.
The five cartoons were sold at an
aggregate cost of 81, SIS which went to
the Red Cross. Two of the cartoons,
one by Goldberg and the other by Tad,
were purchased by J. S. Down
for $500 and 1925 respectively Will
liam Fox got a Ripley drawing for
$500. Sam Harris, the theatrical man
ager, purchased, Igoe's drawing of
Terry McGovern, whom Harris man
aged in heyday of his career, for
$50 and then took an Edgren draw
ing for 5000.
After the cartoon sale came the auc-
pioneering of the Kaiser's cup, and
then Gunboat Smith and Harry Greb
entered the ring for a resum ption of
the boxing end of the entertainm ent.
The pair of heavy 1litters put up
slashing go, with Greb's youth and
strength conterbalancing the ringcraft
of the veteran Smith. Gre11 was en-
titled to the verdict.