The New York herald., 1920-01-27
YOUNG FITZ WHIPS
WEST IN SEVENTH
Bob Makes His Rival Quit in Smash
Bob Makes His Rival Quit in Bur
lesque Bout in Ring of Arena A.C.,

\ Young Bob Fitzsimmons scion Of Lanky
Bob. one OF the greatest heavyweight
champions OF all time, made Eddie West,
Of Newark, call quits in the seventh
round last night at the Arena A.C., in
Jersey City. There was big crowd on
hand to see the reincarnation of the old
Antipode, and il any one had been using
one of those popular Ouija boards and
had asked old Bob what he thought of
his offspring the answer would have
caused the board to sizzle up.
The bout was enjoyed by all. 1t was as
funny as Weber and Fields at their best
burlesque all the way. Young Bob had
good intentions and he was busy as a
bee, landing scores of blows on his OPP
ponent. West was the most accurate
punch stopper with his face that has been
seen in the ring in many day. He never
missed a thing Fitz had no more kick
in either hand than grass hopper has
in his foot. He just mussed the other
fellow up lot and made him look as if
he had been run through a machine.
Where they ever discovered West is a
mystery. He must have started taking
boxing lessons at correspondence school
and the mailman forgot to deliver his let
ters He never knew where a punch was
going when he started it, and he didn't
start many He was kept too busy stop
ping them.
In the first round Fitz began with n lot
Of the dainty, debutantc, cream puff style
Of boxing. He just pushed out his left,
half open, whereas his daddy needed only
to hook that left across with his old shift
ard down would so his opponent "Fitz"
knew nothing of the shift and had no
power to his punches. 1t was one-sided
thing after the first round In tho fifth.
Danny Sullivan, the referee. wanted West
to STOP but it was so funny the crowd
howled for more. West decided, however,
that the ring was no place for him in the
middle of the seventh and, lick a chess
player. he resigned" Fitz weighed III
and West, 1853,
Jackie Clarke of Allentown, Pa, and
i Tommy Robson, Of Boston, in the semi
4 final eight round bout furnished a lot of
fire works for the fans. The pair were
| full of ginger and each was willing as
i could be- They were a sturdy pair and
were willing to take bunch at any time
if there was hope of landing another one
Il in return. Clarke knew just wee bit
more than the Bostonian in the matter of
timing his punches and he sank them in
4 with cleaner effect When the eight
rounds were finishaz between these two
\ midd leweghts tb1y looked good enough
4 to go right aheaz Neither was a bit dam
aged or tired. 1t was good bout between
two rugged, finely conditioned boys and II
was the sort that pleased the fans. There
was practically no clinching. 1t was a
case of flight all the way and each OF the
| contenders had a resounding kick behind
his gloves. They were too sturdy to be
bothered by an ordinary punch, however.
and mere eight rounds simply meant .
warming up exercise fn- them.
Easy for Tunney.
1 Gene Tunney, who did a lot of fighting
against the Germans on the other side
when he was one of the battling marines
and who displayed such neat pair OF fists
in the A. T.. r. boxing tournaments abroad
that he came home the light heavyweight
champion. scored another knockout last
night. Tunney, who is under the tutelaSe
of Billy Roche. stopped Jim Monahan, OF
New York city, in the first round 1t was
no particular punch which turned. out the
lights for Monahan. It was chiefly an
accumulation of wallops.
The thing that started Monahan on his
way to the dressing room was sharp
right hook to the jaw as the pair came out
! of g. clinch. Monahan seemed rather as
tonished at this smack on the chin and he
staggered back toward his corner. Tunney
followed him up with we'll placed right
and left hand and Monahan's arms
dropped to his sides as he fell across the
ropes He had a look on his face that
plainly told that his thought were not in
Jersey City. His legs were saggng az If
they were made of dough. and the referee
called it days work for him.
/ 1t took Just two minutes and fifty Sec
onds for the Marine to knock Monahan
| ouI NJ
pressive looking person In the ring. He
was pasty and flabby. and showed little
knowledge of fistics. The only thing in
which he was matched with Tunney was
the weight Each scaled 175 pounds.
! Willie Curry. a bantam hailing from
Staten Island. won the curtain raiser from
Charley Goodman, Brooklyn boy. In the
first round Curry was full of pep and
slipped a right hook to the Brooklynite's S
Jaw, which dropped him with a sudden
jolt. This took lot of steam out of the
lad from across the bridge. and he was
not over anxious to mix things thereafter.
Curry did not show any great desire to
fight, but he did enough to win by a
slight margin on points.
Buff stops Early.
In the first of the eight round bouts
of the so-called stars on the pro-
gramme, Johnny Buff. of Jersey City.
started off like whirlwind. but fin
ished like a zephyr. He lasted just
two rounds. Mickey belmont, of New
ark. had a couple of dynamic fists
which bounced off Johnny's jaw with
alarming frequency. Buff weathered
the first round all right, but In the
middle of the second his chin suddenly
ran into a snappy, half uppercut with
the left and he sat down suddenly and
rather surprised. He took two or
three seconds count and got up sort OF
\ sheepishly
I He flopped around like rudderless
ship for a while and ran into another
broadside which sank him again. He
was game enough and just kept bounc-
u ing up off the canvas to run into an
other tornado of punches. Each time
Buff went down he rested a bit longer.
The fourth time he was toppled he re-
i maned down until the referee had
started the ten count. Buff managed
TO get to his feet, but he could not con-
tinue and the referee wisely stopped
roptoet Duff afa around