Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-21

everyone elSe-1aVe their "Off-nlghtS'
and last night was an "off night" at
the Dotos I scraps in Palace Hall.
1t turned out to be a night of dis
appointments although the card
which was arranged by Promoter
Joe McNulty was one which doomed
up big on paper and would appeal
10 the ordinary followers of the
game.
In the first place the crowd was
a disappointment. Instead of the
usual large numbers who pack the
Palace Hall auditorium to witness
the bouts there were but one quarter
of that number on hand to witness
the scraps. The fac hat a change
was made from Friday night-the
regular fight night-to Wednesday
night, owing to the Britton-O 'Dowd
fight, was responsible for this alb
sence of fans.
Secondly. a telegram received from
Leo p. Flynn. manager of Matty Her
bert, who was to meet Teddy Hubs,
of Pittsburg, IN the main eight round
bout of the night, stating: Herbert
taken sick. Impossible to fight. Will
explain later" served to put a damper
on the prospects Of a fast final. In
the place of Herbert a New York
scrapper, Frankie Williams, was Sc
cured to go on with Hubs.
The third and of the biggest
disappointments of the night came
in the star bout when Hubbs went
up against Williams. Hubbs failed to
come up to the standard which was
expected of him and the scrap proved
u-ninteresting. A cut over Hubb's eye
was opened up in the fourth round by
Williams and claret continued to flow
from the found for the remainder of
the scrap. Hubbs' showing was not
as good as that he made several years
ago at the old Permo scraps in the
Auditorium here n as much was ex-
pected of him last night, the bout re-
suited in the audience being badly
disappointed. The Dol dragged along
for the full time. neither man ever
which made a kayo likely. Williams
was deserving of credit for the bout
by a slight margin if a decision was
asked on the bout.
Mickey Brown Wins.
In keeping with the general trend
of things last night, the six round
semi-final had most of the audience
puzzled. Leo Stone, of New York, and
Mickey Brown, also of has city, were
the opponents. Brown waded into
Stone hitting him with everything but
apparently these blows had M effect.
Stone kept his two hands jabbing'
MP and down like piston rods on an
engine and now and then would
touch Brown but when he did there
did not seem to be any steam behind
the blows. This scrap soon got on
ones nerves. At times Stone would
change his mode of fighting and get
into Brown as though he meant to
win but suddenly he would stop and
resort to his old style of taking
everything which came his way. The
bout went the full six rounds
It has often been said hat it takes
two men to make a fight and such
was proven asst night in the bout
which was staged between Young
Corona and Harry Burke, both of
Staten Island. Corona started in to
mix things up and used Burke as
one would a punching bag, there be-
ing no comeback whatsoever. Refe-
rec Howard Smith, of Elizabeth,
showed that he too wanted to sea
real scrap when he stopped the fight
in the initial round.
The first preliminary Of the night
resulted in Young Kosh, of this city,
Chrome, with a knockout in the third
round.
The. other preliminary last night
showed UP a local boy who has the
markings of a good scrapper If he is
only taken in hand by q competent
trainer and taught a few of the hner
points of the game. especially that
of keeping a good defense. This lad
is Young Balint and although he lost
out in his scNp with Young Nesbit,
of New Brunswick. being forced to
uuit in the third round after giving
and taking some hard punches. he
showed that he possesses a punch
and a willingness to mix matters
which should make him a favorite.
This was Balint's first ring appear
ance whereas Nesbit had the advan-