New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-11
Victor
Over Bartfield:
Dundee Loses
Lightweight Champion Wins
in 8-Round Bout; Coogan
Defeats cotch Wop

Benny Leonard, the lightweight
champion, easily beat Soldier Fairfield.
the army welterweight. in their eight
round bout at The Arena, in JERSEY
City, last night before one of the
largest crowds that ever saw fight
in this neck Of the woods. Leonard
was barthcld's master at every angle
OF the game, and it seemed chat he
could have knocked out the soldier n,
any time during the last half of the
bout va WIG
Governor-elect Edwards of New Ter
sey saw the bout from a box and
Jimmy Wilde, the Ayweight champion
OF England, who arrived in this coun
tator. 't~N
In the preliminary bouts Mel Coovan
the Brooklyn lightweight, outpointpd
Johnny Dundee, which furnished some
thing OF a surprise, as Dundee of late
seemed to be developing a Knockout
punch. al Roberts, the Staten Island
heavyweight, outpointed Dan O'Dowd
Of New England, in the other eight.
rounder
The chief interest was in the Leon
ard-Barttield bout. The soldier. II
seems, had announced that he would
knock out the lightweight champion.
ne hardy unused Benjamin's hair last
nlght' though he outweighed the light
weight champion by ten pounds. Bart
field once made Mike Gibbons look
foolish in bout in BROOKLYN. but last
night the soldier looked particularly
ldiotic at times before the bewilderiny
cleyerness Of Leonard.
FROM the start Bartfield charged
after Leonard, but the lightweieht
fitted away from him like slim ghost.
always an inch or two away from the
soldiers earnest but futile swings.
Then Leonard would fit in close and
land a Earring right or left to the SOL
dier's face and fit away again. Bart
neld was wild with rage, but the more
in earnest he became the more elusive
the lightweight champion seemed
Benny Toys With Rival
=, limo and again Leonard measured
Bartfield with q left and then whipped
over Furnishing right in a delibe rate
and easy fashion. Then the champion
would dance about and jab at tho sol
dler's wrathful countenance with
straight lefts. 1t seemed to the crowd
that Leonard might have landed a
Knockout punch il he mace uy ms mind
to do IL Leonard had announced that
ne might do this, but evidently he was
afraid Of hurting his hands against the
soldiers hard head. for he re rained.
tie turned deaf ear to the en-
treaties for a knock out ind seemed to
get considerable amusement in making
the soldier miss and then jabbing pen
slve'y at his face. Time and again Bart
held tried swings that were lifted from
the floor. Then he tried to close in,
but Leonard Strengthened him up and
sent his head back with those tantaliz-
ing straight lefts.
Jimmy Wilde, who was sitting close
to the ring, watched the lightweight
champion with eyes that became bigger
and bigger with interest as Leonard
proceeded, in cool and worhmsnlike
tor whatever sort of blow he wanted
to experiment with. 1t was evident
that the English champion was learn
ing quite a little about the game just
from watching Leonard.
The little Englishman was intro
duced just before the main event and
was given hearty reception. He looked
to be considerably heavier than the
ninety-eight pounds at which ne is said
to fight. That is because of his broad
shoulders and the bulk above tho
in miniature.
The surprise Of the evenings en-
tertainment was furnished by Coogan.
who outpointed Dundee in one of the
best fights seen in the metropolitan
district in years. Coogan, tall, rangy
fellow. proved altogether TOO fast for
the little Italian. He used a lett lab
to good effect and scored frequently
with body punches.
Coogan Displays Speed
Coogan's exceptional speed and shift
mess made Dundee miss often. Also
Dundee's favorite stunt of bounding
Off the ropes to land on his opponents
jaw failed against the Brooklynite.
Coogan broke up this scheme of attack
by meeting his opponent with hard
smeshes to the BODY, which caused
Dundee 70 shift to different tactics
imme diately. In add ition to outjump-
ing Dundee, Coogan scored many points
with his telling lett jabs. The weights
were announced as Coogan, 1872, and
Dundee, 1871
Action began as soon az the open
his opponent. and Coogan shifted and
sent short let's and rights to the body.
The pace gained in velocity. and when
the bell rang the two were mixing IL
up. in great style. BY the time the
third round WAS reached the crowd was
IN an uproar.
AS the bout proceeded. Cooran
seemed to become even moro shifty
and ne had Dundee missing constantly.
Moreover, he followed up these ai
vantages by getting over many left
labs and occasional right hooks TO the
body. When the final gong sounded
the two were still fresh and hammer
ing away as at the start. Both fighters
received mighty cheer as they left
the ring.
Roberts. who has been spoken of as
being possible contender for Jack
nempsey's title. had things pretty much
his own way from the beginning
against ODowd.
The Staten Island heavyweight soon
got range and began peppering his OPP
ponent with left jabs. In the last
round he had ODowd in a bad wav
and the New Highlander was forced to
hold several times. Roberts's showing
last night was much better than in his
last fight with Charles Weinert and he il
expected to show much Improvement
In his coming bouts.
West Virginia Stars Absent