Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-09
LOCAL BATTLER
MAKES GOOD
Excellent Fight Card Given
Before Large Crowd Last
Night--2 Technical Kayos

son Valley fiyweight champion, and
Kid Toney, the star local bantam and
two technical ~knockouts featured the
fight card at the Auditorium Sport
ing Club last night. A large crowd
attended the exhibitions.
Collettf Makes Good Showing.
The first bout on the evenings
tween Tommy Mooney, of New York,
and Joe Colletti, Ed Mooney"
Poulsen's fyweight boxer. Collettf,
who is hailed as the Hudson Valley
champ, scored a victory on points
over the New Yorker who last week
scored q victory by q slight shade
over Ted Seidman, OF New Bruins
wick. Colletti forced the fighting
throughout his speed ana gameness
pleased the crowd. The fyweight
boxer who was at a disadvantage in
weight. height and reach led his OPP
ponent In every round and the bell
saved Mooney in the third. Many
of the fans are of the belief that Col
letti was too fast for Mooney. and
believe Colletti would show real stun
IL matched with q man of his own
speed.
Old Sailor Harris Game.
In the second six round event al
though Joe Delayo, Of Plainfield,
scored a technical knockout over
Sailor Ed Harris, from England, be-
cause the referee stopped the bout
in the fourth stanza, Harris received
the biggest hand of the two boxers
when he left the ring. Harris showed
that he was game and willing to give
and take as long as he lasted. Delayo
seemingly had a big advantage in
age, the sailor appearing to be many
~xao~E nldaN than fha plGtnfdId
battler. The bell saved Harris IN the
first session after both boxers mixed
in a fast exchange for the entire
round, Harris sending many lefts to
his opponents face and body.
The sailor won the second and
third rounds on points because OF his
willingness to lead the fighting. Both
boxers mixed freely in these two
rounds. The fourth round found
time telling on the Englishman who
took a count of eight neal the bell,
and when the referee noticed he wac
groggy after the count the fight was
stopped.
Norton and Bell I'm Seml-Final.
frankie Fleming. OF Staten Island,
was booked to fight Harry Apple
gate, OF New Brunswick, In the
semi-fnal event Of ten rounds. Flem-
ing notified the matchmaker in the
morning that he could not fight on
account OF an injured hand, so Nor
ton was booked to fight Apologize
When Apologize gay Norton the
"once over" he refused to enter the
ring with him, so Siivy Gardclla,
manager of Fleming. entered Colan
Bell, one of his boxers against the
crack Newarker. Norton won by a
technical knockout in the fourth
stanza. when Gardeila decided Bell
had received enough.
Norton, a classy two-handed 1ght-
-er, allowed Bell to tire himself dur
ing the first two rounds, the Newark
allowing tho Staten Island boxer,
who was sixteen pounds heavier, to
do all the fighting. and at the end
OF the second Bell appeared ready
to be dropped. In the third round
Norton ~outfought his opponent and
dropped him for a count of six, the
bell saved him. The Newarker drop
ped his man early in the fourth and
the bout was stopped.
Toney Shows Up Well.
In the main event ten rounds, Kid
Toney showed his superiority over
Freddy Seidel of Newark, the local
bantam winning five of the rounds.
Seidel gaining an advantage in one,
and four were even.
BOtn ngnterS 100 IL Easy 10 start
the bout, but the two boxers enter
ed into a fast exchange several
times during initial session. Toney
won the second round by a slight
margin. leading the fighting, and
sending In jabs and solid lefts and
rights to his opponents face and
body. Seidel retaliated with a num-
Der of corkers in the second round.
The Newarker gained the advan-
tage in the third round, due to his
ability to jab the local boxer and to
hold the upper hand in close fight
ing. Touey won the fourth round
by a big margin, working the one,
two combination with great success
following his left jab with solid
rights, and the Newarker appeared
groggy at the end Of this session.
Toney In addition to winning the
second and fourth rounds. gained
the decision in the fifth. eighth and
ninth rounds, while the sixth, sew
enth and tenth rounds were even,
lToney throughout the fight out
fought his opponent. the Newarker
lonly excelling the local boxer In
Iclose fighting. Several times Seidel
attempted to start smuggling, but each
time Toney showed his superiority
and his opponent remained on the
defense for the remainder of the re-
bpective rounds. Neither fighter took
count throughout this bout, and
both were strong at the bell.
Howard Smith of Elizabeth ref
breed the contests.