Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-01
More Than Seuen Thousand
Fans Look on as Herman,
Jackson, Turner and
Perry Win in Armory
by LOUIS II. JAFFE

THOUSANDS of Philadclphians, emu
i latipg the immortal George Wash
;npton on his icy trip across the Della
ware back in &c, ferryboated over the
,iyer--only there was no ice--to the
city of Camden for the purpose Of help.
ing to welcome the inauguration of box
ina in the big little burg. 1t looked as IL
the Quaker City fandom had taken va
cation to visit Camden.
There we're more than 1000 fans
among those in the Third Regiment
Armory, which is to be known as the
camden Sportsmen' Club On boxing
n;yhts. To be sure, there were more
than 1000 present because that many
chairs were in, the arena. each Of which
Z was occupied. while hundreds were
standing at the rear of the club and
many Observation-Disclosures hang
inc on to the girders supporting the
ceiling of the large structure.
The strong pagnet to bring out SO
MANY fans was the result of two per-
fectly good reasons: first, four stellar
houts, and, second. eight round matches.
champion Petey Herman was the win
nor in the bantam battle, Willie Jack
son won the lightweight number, Jack
Perry showed to advantage In the well
terweight setto, and the heavyweight
went to Clay Turner.
The Losers
Each of the matches. in which Joe
O'Donnell. Ralph Brady. Joe Welsh
and Ray Smith, respectively, were on
the losing end, was an interesting, fast
and spcllbinding affair. with the possi-
HE exception. in spots, of the finaI
fracas. In this bout Herman. the
champ. sackened his pace at times
held on and detracted some of the sen
sationalism of the great fistic night
However, as a whole the program was
a success. and all of the fans appeared
we'll satisfied as they streamed out Of
: the armory.
Herman and O'Donnell put on the
final act. For three rounds it looked as
II there was only one boxer in the ring
Herman. who cleanly and cleverly out
boxed rugged young Mr.. O'Donnell
Joey, however, never stopped, he con
tinually bored in. but for the first min,
minutes of action the Gloucester. lac
was unable to connect with single
solid punch. -,
Then came the fourth. O'Donnell
forcing himself into a half clinch
brought up three successive right hant
uppercuts to Herman's chin. Pete!
= began to hold. He became careful ant
did little, il any, boxing. This gave Jo'
a chance to batter his way through thu
round on the long end.
Between the fourth and fifth rounds
Referee Slim Brennan visited Herman
corner and advised him to open up, ant
the slim PERSONS few choice words evi
dently did not go, for naught. .Th
champion awakened and started tn,
fifth at terrific pace, punching O'DOn
nell with every conceivable blow. bu
Joe could not be denied. He came bacl
In the latter part of the round will
such rally that he was entitled to ,
fifty fifty split.
The sixth went to the t.tleholder
who continued boxing carefully. winning
the chapter purely through his superior
cleverness. The chunky little O'Don
nell. like so much dynamite. always was
dangerous. Again in the seventh Joe
split even for the round, while the
Gloucester gloveman came back with sc
sensational n rally in the last frame, de-
spite hard fighting by Herman. that joe
copped the eighth round Herman's
early advantage, however. could not bt
overcome by the willing Jersey youth.
1t was case of the loser being the
favorite with the crowd during and
after the bout between Brady and Jack
son. Jackson was the superior glove
man. by far, but Brady proved a will