The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-21
PalitZ OutclaSSeS
 Lawson At Smoker
Inexperienced Boxer Finds It Hard to- Show Anything But Gameness In Feature Event

 ed to stay the full four rounds with K. o. Palitz, the Hartford welter, last night at Billy Hogan's show at the Armory A. A. Palitz won by a wide margin, doing all the leading, and completely outclassing the New Yorker, taking every round It was simply just another example of the matching of a preliminary boxer with g. good man.
 Neither man wasted time sparrfng for an opening, Palitz tore in like a Kansas cyclone, and soon had Lawson in bad shape. Lawson was game, and gameness is what pleases the fans He had a mouse on his left eye before he started the fight, and Palitz had him bleeding from the nose and mouth from the first round on.
 In the second stanza Kayo ham, mered the Soldier until Lawson look ed as if he was going to drop. Great was the surprise of the fans when Lawson rushed Palitz and sent in a vol1ey of rights and lefts to the face. This was the only dangerous moment for the Hartford slugger, and he soon was out of it, and at the top. Palitz missed vicious uppercuts. which had they landed, would have terminated the fight then and there.
 LaWSOnS showing HI tIt IiAii U would have put to shame the game ness of tte great Kid Garter, the il- lustrious middleweight of other days. He hung on, and looked as if he was nearly out Palitz sent in a series Of rights, and amid the cries of Finish him, Pa1itz, you got him now!' and similar ones, Palitz tried to land the l crusher.
 In the fourth Palitz had the So1- dier splitting blood between every blow Palitz forced Lawson into a corner and 1e- loose a volley that
 would haved ropped any fighter of common stamina The Soldier man.
 aged to get his right glove around Palitz's neck and hung on. Pal1tz
 sent in blow upon blow until he forc- ed the Soldier to break the hold. Andy Parker's decision in favor of | Pa1itz was heartily approved and they left the ring.
 The Palitz-Lawson bout was put | on second. after the Johnson-O'Con- nor mill Joe Christie, the Hartford feather, backed out of his match with George Proto of New Haven, claim 1 ing that Proto was too heavy. Last week, when Proto knocked out | Danny Doyle of New London in the ninth round, he sealed 132 pounds | This is the third time that Christie
 has run out of his matches in this | city, and the boxing commission | ought to take a hand. That is wha1 | the commission is for.
 | Pat McGee announced that Tommy | Shea of Bridgeport would go on with | Christie but he was not allowed to- 1 owing to the condition of his righ1 | hand His hand was in a bandage | while seconding Leo Johnson. Sc 1 Johnny Red Bennett of this cit1 l consented to go on, and fought z I four round draw with Christie. Thi: 1 bout was all footwork and rapit | jabbing, but the cleverness of thu | pair was enough to satisfy the fans
 Had Red put the steam into the blow 1 that he landed on Chrishe's counte
 nance it might have been curtains fo Joe Christie's footwork won hin the draw that was also we'll received In the opener Young Leo Johnson
 of the Acorn A. c. fought a draw
 with Terrible Terry O'Connor o Hartford. The first round was nor
 like the Stecher-Lewis wrestin
 match, and cries of More pep,' am
 others were frequent. It lIas in tn
 second round that Johnson woke u to the fact that he he was fighting
 Then he showed his teeth, and sen
 in the wal1ops He soon opened
 gash on Terry's right cheek. and tn fighting began in earnest Many fan called Terry to use his right. For tha matter. his right hand might hay
 been in Hartford, for he, too, wolz up in the latter part of the second l When Parke- raised both of the bat . tiers hands the crowd started to az } plaud-