Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1920-05-07
REFEREE STOPS
THE MAIN BOUT
Accuses Breault and Boone of
Stalling.-Crowd Gets Sore
and Kisses
The Preliminary Is Best Number On
the Card

partly on account of lack of room /
and partly through inadvertance, the /
report of the boxing bouts last week I
was left out of the paper. We have /
been asked so many times for our !
view concerning the affair that we !
print it herewith, although a week |
late).
Roxing is about as uncertain as
baseball. If on a program of four or
FIVE bouts one or two good exhibitions
develop. fight fans are satisfied.
At the meet in st. Johns hall Tues
day night, this was borne out, for the
only interesting exhibition of the eve
ming was the opening number be-
tween Young Champagne and Jerry
Bernard. The main bout developed
into a running match and very evil
dent stalling on the part of the two
contestants who were loath to mix it
up. After referee John Breen had
warned young Breault to come out OF
his corner and get into the center of
the ring and he persisted in sticking
in the angle between the ropes the
referee Jumped between the boys and
said, "If you are not going to fight
you might as well get out" This end
ed the bout, which had gone five and
half rounds of the scheduled SIX
rounds. The referee was Kissed and
lot arguments followed.
It didn't take but half an eye to see
that Breault and Boone were not anx-
ious to do any mitigating. In fact
throughout most of the distance that
the bout lasted they stood two or
three feet apart shaking their gloves
at each other. There probably would
not have been blow struck if Breault
had waited for the Southbridge col
ored lad to come to him, for not once
during the entire mill did Boone lead.
When Breault several times went into
the colored boy he was willing to give
and take blows, but as for himself, ne
kept away and let the Putnam boy
lead when he saw fit, which was not
very often.
IT looked as if the seconds of both
boys had given instructions to let the
other fellow force the fighting. 1t
NAV well be imagined that if two con-
testants in a bout follow such advice
there would not be much fighting, and
there wasn't in this instance.
In the initial round Breanlt landed
first. 1t was a glancing left to the
head. Then Breault circled the ring
with the Southbridge boy following.
| but at no time near enough so that
they got together.
When they did stop running around
they stood several feet apart feinting,
which got them nowhere, and the
crowd called to them to fight. The
only mixup in the round came IN
Boone's corner when blows were ex-
, changed.
The second started a little better
and there were some exchanges early
in the round. Breault landed one
with steam to the colored lads stom-
ach. But there was repetition OF
apparently stalling during most of the
three minutes.
In the third the colored lad brought |
the claret from Breaults nose, but
Breault landed smart left to the Jaw |
Breault started the fourth in good |
style and it looked as if there really |
was to be some fighting. The Put
nam boy sent several rights to the |
body, right to the kidney, and a |
glancing blow to the head, while |
Boone sent over light one to
Breault's bleeding nose and a left TO
the face. There was an exchange ana
a clinch lust before the round ended.
The fifth was a repetition OF previ-
Gus rounds. Breault took a stand IN
his corner, a dangerous position II
the Young boxer did but know 1t, and
when the referee tried to get him to
come out, his seconds and his TRENDS
in the crowd protested. Only few
blows reached home in this round. 1t
was the same method as had been pur-
sued in the previous rounds, the boys
standing two or three feet apart feint-
ing at each other. If any decision
were to be given Breault should have
had it, for the colored boy did not
lead once during the whole distance,
while several times in each round
Breault bore in. There was really not
enough fighting to tell which boy is
the best, but at the close the colored
lad was not even breathing hard.
The sixth and last round opened
with Breault still in his corner. Once
he came out and was chased to the
opposite side Of the mat. but Boone
couldn't keep him there and back ne
went to where his chair sat when II
was in the ring. He stood there feint-
ing with Boone several feet away, also
feinting. The boys might as well
have stood in their own corners ana
shaken their fists at each other as Tar
as any damage being done was con-
cerned. They were not near enough to-
gether to reach each other with base
bali bats. 1t was here that the rel