Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-09

The fans of the padded arena saw
some good mixing last night wnen
they meandered to the Lotos club TO
witness the bill of fare presented Dy
Joe McNulty. notwithstanding the
many side attractions in the vicinity
of the town the house was wen repre-
scented. There were but few vacant
places available for the late conner.
The main bout of h evening,
Silent Martin VS.. Johnny Saxon, end
ed with Johnny Saxon coming out
of the melee slightly on top. 1t was
Johnny's weight, height and reach
that gave him the advantage over
the non-taikative partner. McNulty
announced before the start of he
barbecue that the winner would stack
up against AL Roberts three weeks
from that date The first opened
with Saxon putting across short japs,
making the dummy cover UP. The
mute later woke Up, making the
round one Of fast scrapping. The
second saw Saxon topping Martin a
trife. Johnny's fast stickers made
the Silent One grunt several times.
In the third Saxon continued his fast
work and the scrappers closed IN.
The dummy managed to hand over d
few, landing one over Saxons rlgnI
lamp. In the fourth Johnny exhipit-
Ell some 1dSI lOOI WOAAB
iab here and there and then Jumping
back ready for another attack. he
drove the Dummy to the ropes on
three or four occasions. The Mute
caused some amusement when after
being showered with q rain OF blows
he beckoned for Saxon to come on
with more. The fifth round saw the
Mute coming back a little stronger
but the sixth and seventh
were draws. The last saxon claims
slightly. The Dummy received a bad
lacing hut also gave some terrible
punishment to Saxon. 1t. was really
saxon's extreme weight that saved
him from being defeated. He enter
cd the ring with eleven poundS al
vantage over h Mute. =
Tn he bout between Joe Cans, OF
Newark. and~Young Owen Moran, OF
Brooklyn, the fast Newark coloreu
bow owned the scrap from the outsee,
He was so fast and showed sucn goou
floor work that while cans ulo ny
secure a kayo Moran was just hang-
ing on with cupping his head IN the
protection of his hands and snoul-
ders. This bout was n of the clean-
est and pest exhibitions OIL poxins
ever seen In the local CLUB on the
mart of the colored Cans. He Is ap-
parently following the footsteps OF
the late Joe Cans. -,
Moran was booked to nave as ms
opponent Johnny Summer but Johh-
nv sent Toe McNulty a letter, also q
missive from his doctor, STATING lH IA
he was in no condition to enter the
ring. The doctor pronounced SUN
mer,s illness as being acute nolges
ton. ,aa. with
! Cons leading throughout. He con
tinnellv played Moran, making hin
swing hut with q lightning slde-SteI
| or hack hop would smile anu .heI.
| reach one across to Owens race. !
seemed thai even though Moran ~
IN his guard on several OF the coloI,
~ bov;s labs that they went rlgh'
IN through with the only thing stop
nine them was Moran himself. AZ
me wise bird remarked. Moran
thinks he is in O. movie, seeing noun
,na hut gloves" From h third or
Moran saw the hopelessness OF the
scran and became afraid, GOVERNS
nm whenever Gans advanced toWare
him. During the fourth Cans closeo
one of Moran's eyes heieree iNo
stopped the affair here.
McCaulty Loses on FOUL.
Tba scrap between Soup McCaul'
nv If Staten Island, and Young curry
of chrome, ended In the argument go
Ing to curry on a foul. In the OPENING
Toe H,lmphreys announced that Curr,
had been booked for q bout on TN
special request Of his father. Th'
fight started with Curry beating NC
Caulty all about h roped arena
to the D Soup" after one OF thes'
attacks that drove him to his corner
| stretched one across that ianded be
| low the belt. 1t was a hasty punch