Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-24
POTTY AND BR|TTON FIGHT DRAW;
DUGAN SHADES JOHNNY CARROLL

last night to witness the first series
of boxing exhibitions to be conducted
by the Amboy Sporting Club saw q
real variety of fighting styles and re-
suits. One clean knockout, two tech
meal kayos, one good draw, one VIC
tory by a big margin and another by
q shade was the way in which the
six bouts ended.
The hardest fought and most ex-
citing bout of the night was the one
in which Kid Potty, of this city, and
Charley Britton, of New Brunswick,
met. There was considerable dissat-
.tsfaction among some of the fans
when 1t RAJ announced that Willie
Curry, of Staten Island, who was ad-
verttsed to meet Potty In place of
Joe Dillon, the original opponent of
the local schapper, had not appeared
and Britton had been substituted.
But those who had been Kicking
were soon willing to swallow their
words as the Potty-Britton eight
liveliest battle of the night. A good
draw would apply to this match,
Britton having a shade on Potty until
the last round when Potty worked
sufficiently hard to discount any ad-
vantage his opponent might have
gained in the earlier part Of the fight.
The first round of the Potty-Brit-
ton fight found Potty sailing into
Britton for all he was worth, but the
clever Brunswick boy by lodging
about managed to escape most of the
blows. After swinging wildly several
times Potty decided to slow down a
bit. Britton then began Potty's dis
lance, but the bell stopped any Of
fensive on his part. 1t was Potty's
round.
In the second round Britton began
where he had left off and after CON
tinuing to measure his mar landed
some blows on Potty which the local
boy could not seem to block or get
out of the way of. Britton seemed
to have Potty puzzled as the local
scrapper started cut in the Initial
round as if he was SUR of a kayo
n was going to put Charley away.
1t looked as though Potty had under
valued his opponents ability and
was trying to figure out some method
or procedure While Britton was
humping him. 1t was Britton's
round.
The third round reverted back to
Potty while in the fourth Britton
came back sufficiently to again even
up matters. He continued his hard
work in the fifth, annexing this also.
The sixth, however, found Potty go
ing strong again and this round was
his.
At the beginning of he seventh
round Potty and Britton had each
earned three Of the first SIX chapters.
lnathe seventh Britton shaded P9tty.
h meant that a draw in the last
round would mea Britton by q
shade, and a Britton round would
give the Brunswick lad the fight by
a safe margin. 1t failed to be a Brit
ton round, however, Potty making
one of his usual last round stands, in
which he sent out everything he had.
Britton was rushed and had little
chance to get set for a come back.
Later in the round he, came back at
Potty, but not sufficient to discount
the advantage Potty got earlier In the
round. 1t was Potty's round by as
much of a margin as the seventh was
Britton's and the logical decision of
the bout was a draw,
Johnny Carroll is Shaded.
Johnny Carroll, of Carteret, was
shaded by Jimmy Dugan of Bayonne
in the six round bout. Carroll fail
ed to show up to his previous form
and the blows. shifts and footwork u.s.
ually resorted to by him with much
success, failed to avail him anything
against Dugan asst night.
The fight was Dugan's by a consid-
cradle margin up till the last round
when Carroll started a comeback,
which fairly took Dugan off his feet.
Had the Carteret scrapper started
this real fighting a round sooner he
would have won enough of the advan-
tage lost by him earlier in fight to
even up matters, but Johnny got
started too late.
Howard an Easy Winner.
The old lighting adage that 1T
takes two to make a fight" could
we'll be used in Johnny Howard-Zulu
Kid SWAN Tha ~ wanna nnn hit
Zulu Kid with everything but the
gong, but could not put the Brook
Ignite out for the count. Zulu Kid
was tough and played the part of a
punching bag to perfection, he also
giving perfect limitations of a her.
init crab by covering his head with
his arms and letting Howard hit him..
When the Kid tried to hit, which was
mighty seldom. it was a case of n
blow (Which may or may not land)
and then he would clinch until pried
open by Referee Howard Smith.
Howard worked hard throughout
and forced the Kid to cover at all
times, but the fight was n that gets
on the nerves of a spectator.
Young Leo Lands Kayo.
Young Leo, the local bantamweight,
landed the only clean knockout of the
night, when he tapped his opponent
Battling StanZo and the Newarker
went down for the full count. Stanzo
looked old enough to be Leo's grand
father but the local boy showed that
age was nothing in his life and after
leading the first round put the sleep
maker to Stanzo.
The two four round bout both ffiy
vered out. In the first Leo Franz
blau handed out a beating to Flash"
Terio which proved too much for the
latter and he quit in the second round
This comedy bout put the crowd in
good spirits for the rest of the card.
The two EIGHT ball" fistic artists
would rather nave a pink-tea served
than fight so after n of the~two,
Young French, had twice gone to the
floor. although few saw any hard
punch hit him. Referee Smith stop
ped the bout in the first round.
Young Brown, the other scrapper, did
not do any fighting which would have
warranted him a victory.