The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-15

confess today that Eddie is not a battIer who can be given mere passing consideration. He is wonderful boxer and as foxy as 1 can be. He is as slippery as an eel and it was his ability to duck or sidestep punches intended to i land somewhere on his body that | prevented the Bridgeport giant 1 from making a better showing 1 than he did. l As it were, Williams made a very 1 good showing and gave a satisfac- l tory account of himself. He had i trained faithfully and had hoped to | score a, technical knockout-for de- ] liberate knockoUts are not allowed 1 here. Like Battling LevinsEy, how l ever, he found KinIey far tougher i boy than he had expected to meet 1 His appearance is anything but that of a boxer, KinIey developing into a ! nifty boxer, the sort that Jimmy De Forest has been turning out for the past Is years. So far as punching 1 was concerned Eddie was compara- lively harmless. Yet, he can wear 1 down an opponent with his creeping 1 ways. He stands off with a couple Of long, lean, but ever-ready arms | that can tease and ultimately wear l Ne- " II any NSA-ABCI O4 DOAeT who IS not clever enough to dodge these human sticks.
 l When Eddie hoped into the ring
 the crowd laughed. It was a very pathetic appearance that the Soldier | made. There he was standing over six feet tall and weighing between l5 and 20 pounds less than Larry lean and seemingly a pugilistic inn possibility. Few in the crowd dared say that he would go through eight l rounds with Williams Surely. it was
 a sad ending that the crowd anticf- Dated once they set their lamps on the scrapper. But he fooled them. He did finish the battle, and, aI- though outpointed. he fought a far
 better bout than was expected
 Several times Larry rocked the Jerseyite with his vicious right swing.
 but Eddie was in this condition only for few seconds. He finished strong
 ana could have easily gone i've
 rounds with the Bridgeporter The
 latter himself apparently was surpris-
 ed, for he unlocked and unloaded l everything he possessed on the eIon-
 gated individuals anatomy, but with
 out effect
 Williams grabbed the first round
 and had the visitor rocking for a.
 while, the result of a hard crash
 brought about by bringing down his
 left 10 the jaw. In the second round
 kinley outboxed his opponent This comeback so surprised Larry that he
 was temporarily lost as to what to do
 in the third and he lost that chapter,
 too In the fourth Williams Ioosened up and landed a hard right to face
 just after the bell was rapped. Kin 1 D1o
 hold Larry to an even break for the
 round.
 Williams took the fifth by per-
 sistenly crowding his rival and
 showeTing him with clean and l stiff wanops.- Although they slowed Eddie down considerably in that session, the Szeeterite
 came back like a whirlwind iS the sixth and held matters even. Williams used everything and hit F with everything in the seventh but Kinley refused to sway, the
 round going to the local man. They roughed it a bit in the
 eighth, ending the battle in hur-
 ricane fashion and Larry grab
 bing the round.
 Clinton had no alibi to offer for his
 defeat at the hands of Louis BogaslF
 The latter fought carefully and stead
 fly. He watched every move the New
 Yorker made and acted accordingly. Clinton by rushing his opponent and
 showering him with left hooks and
 right swings managed to make life
 for the Bridgeporter miserable in the ) first round. Bogash bored in and 5 managed to slug away with enough
 points to earn the next three rounds : The sixth was Clinton's by good wide margin. He crossed his right 7 with considerable speed and usually , landed 1t where he had planned to have it drop. The seventh was another paragraph which was writ ' ten in favor of the visitor. The lat ter continued his heavy and persist
 ent hitting, although Bogash always on his guard and came back in the
 eighth and. popped Johnny so often : that there was no doubt as to who . ultimately was entitled to the decision < and received the most punches.
 :tRed" Allez's feat last night in . stopping Harry Williams in the sixth f round was a big surprise, for there t were many who had gone so far as to : say that the New Havener would stop v his opponent. This, however, was far l from being the case with the result
 that Allen had things pretty well his : own way.
 g It was Aliens fight all the way. Q Allen showed splendid good judgment l and fought a bout that did him : credit. even though it was stopped. s A stiff heavy left hook to the jaw s popped Harry down for the count of !: nine in the eighth round. He arose, e but soon again found himself sprawl . ing all oyer the floor and went down l again-this time he was picked up y and helped out of the ring. It was a Q technical knockout for Allen.
 Speaking of Allen reminds