Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-16
CHARLEY PITTS FAR %OUTCLASSES HIS
FAST BROOKLYN RIVAL, WARREN KUSICK|


Using a combination of Kangaroo
nppercuts," "bushman jabs'' and "cave
man swings of the treat 'em rough
Variety" Charley Pitts, the Australian
scrapper, fought his way to victory
pyer Warren Kusick, of Brooklyn, in
h main bou al the Iotos Club here
last night. The bout went the full
time but it was all Pitts from the firsi
round till the last. The Brooklyn pug
took an awful beating but was far
from being "all in" even at the end of
the scrap.
Claret started to flow from Kusick's
nose in the second round and continued
for the rest of the bout. Pitts escaped
without a scratch. The Australian
landed every kind of a blow imagin-
able upon his opponent but their effect
was not what might have been expect
ed. Kusick could AXE punishment and
he accepted everything that came his
way, lodging and blocking but lew. He
handed out some comebacks In return.
however n had a little trick of wait
ing until Pitts had finished showering
his 6stic offerings at him. and then
letting the Australian have some of his
pwn medicine.
Plenty of Action.
There were not many dull moments
In the scrap as both men took turns
at forcing, although Pitts was on the
during most OF the time.
From the way the Australian started
out it looked as though a haymaker
would be landed on Kusick within the
drst three rounds. But the fight fol-
lowers were not aware of the Brook
lyn mans ability to take punishment.
He outweighed Pitts by four pounds
and at lines landed some body blows
which would be expected to make
Pitts double up. They did not have
AA~ A-f>@1 g Il
cracked a smile and started OF again
with another hurricane of blows to
h body, head and race.
The punch needed to put Kusick
away was not to be found among
Pitts "57 varieties, and consequently
the Brooklyn battler was still on his
feet, fighting hard. when the bell rang
at the end of the eighth.
None OF those who saw this fight
were disappointed, as all that goes
to make a good scrap was In evidence.
The men were almost the same size.
both knew considerable about the
game, each was willing to mix things
up and fight all the time, and where
N man outranked the other I'm ring
g~eneralship, the other almost dis
counted this by being able to with
stand anything which came in his
general direction.
1t would not be surprising III Pitts
was OAOo6Ab& R91h W liz LOAO6 Oto0
to meet some other fast scrapper In
the near future as the impression he
made last night was good.
Leo Shades belmont
In the other .eight-round go which,
incidentally, also went the full time,
Young Leo, of this city, and AL Del
mont, of Newark, were the princi-
pals. Both boys showed themselves
to be about evenly matched, al
though the local boy was entitled to
the beneit of the argument by a
slight margin. Leo showed up better
than he did against belmont several
weeks ago but was not in his best
condition last night.
; belmont failed to resort to his
usual fast foo work last night and
1t was easier for Leo to make his
blows good. The local boy was on
the offensive during practically all of
the fight, belmont at times standing
with arms folded waiting for Leo to
throw some into him. If the Amboy
bantam had not done the forcing the
bout would soon have taken on a
tame aspect.
During the third round a counter
attraction to the Leo-Delmont scrap
took place at the ringside when the
followers of belmont and Leo had o
short but spicey clash. Patrolman
Emil Koyen removed two OF those
u1IACu oP Al ~ - N
thing was again rosey for the re-
mainder of the night.
Two Preliminarfes.
In the first OF the rour round pre-
Inns. Jimmy Vallen, of Newark, out
fought slim Abbey another Newarker,
the fight being the formers by a big
margin. The other four round prelim
failed to go the scheduled time, end
Ing in the second round when Teddy
Werner, of Chicago, crashed TO the
aoor after Young Egmore, Of this
city, had bombarded him pretty heav-
lily. Werner Claimed TO have been
hit low.
Owing to the big Britton-O'Dowd
fight in Newark next Friday night
Promoter Joe McNulty has decided to
conduct next weeks show on Wednes-
day instead of Friday night. The
main attraction at that time will be
an eight round bout between Matty
Herbert and Teddy Hubbs. OF Pitts
burg.
Johnny McEivoy. Of Oceanic, who
was in France with American soldiers
conducting boxing exhibitions. off,
Mated in Al style at al nights
scraps.