The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-04-15
Martin and Janita Perform
In Real Style And Give
Plenty Of Action
BIG BOUT CALLED
DRAW BY REFEREE
Promoter Moore Of Columbus
Promises More Bouts For
Local Fans
(By Fred Hayes

Mt. Vernon boxing devotees got
their first glimpse of the hit-and-get-
hit game of the year here last night.
when they witnessed the Mt. Vernon
Athletic clubs boxing show staged In
the Upham warehouse, South Main
street.
Outside of the fact that the attend
ance figures were not up to the ex-
pectations the officials of the athletic
club had hoped for, the evenings pro-
gram was declared big success.
"They were the best bouts that were
ever held here" proclaimed an old
Mt. Vernon ring fan after Monday
nights fistic entertainment.
Midgets Perform In Feature set-To
If either of the flyweight battlers
who performed in the main go,
thought they could while away quiet
listless evening, expecting the other
to ease along, both were very much
badly mistaken. The 10-round final
between the flyweights, Johnnie Mar
tin of Columbus, aspirant for Champ
Wilde's crown, and Lou Janita, Pride
OF Dayton" provided plenty of real
action and excitement.
The bout was free from much
clinching. Martin had noticeable
advantage in weight over his more
youthful opponent. The Columbus
scrapper Used this asset to good ad
vantage in rushing his smaller adver.
sary. Janita was game and aggress-
i've and stayed right with Marty, des-
pite the fact that Martin was sending
home the hardest blows. Every round
furnished some spirited Nmixups and
lively exchange Of mittens. Martin
got in his most effective work in the
late rounds. particularly the Sth and
10th sessions.
In Sth stanza Martin rushed his op-
ponent and parked a series of right
and left sockdolagers on Janita's chin
that rocked the Dayton battler like
a skiff in Lake Erie squall. Janita
displayed some skillful ducking and
blocking during the bout.
In the ninth round Janita cleverly
side.stepped one of Martins big right
swings and Johnnie came very near
losing his physical equilibrium as he
whiffed the air.
Referee Maloney called the skirm-
ish draw.
Welters and Lishtweights In Prelims
Chuck McCleary who halls from
Delaware. and Tommy Dale. Colum-
bus product, staged a Around slam
bang affair in the opener. Neither Of
the two punchers seemed to have any
respect for the continued well-being
of the other Forgetting the scien-
tifc stuff and swinging like garage
doors on March day, they waded in
with the seemingly intention of put
ting the other to sleep before his bed
ping the frolic off with hearty hand
shake at the conclusion of their last
round.
WaIo Patterson of indianapolis who
was supposed to show here against
Jack Shea of Columbus in 6 round
preliminary, was unable to appear be-
cause of an injury. Hort, another
Columbus boxer was substituted in
his place. The Columbus fighters seal
ed in at around 132 pounds. Shea
had the edge on his fellow townsman
in this argument. Shea was the ag-
gressor. Hort found it rather hard
to connect solidly ON his Elusive Op-
ponent. Hort on the other hand
caught some mighty stiff jolts off
Shea's gloves. III one instance Shea
pulled back his left and let go with
vicious left that exploded In the
proximity of Horts chin. If he had
made connections something would
have probably been abruptly termin-
ated, as it had INT written all over
it.
Promises More Bouts
The boxing contests here were pro-
NOTED by George Moore, well known
ring matchmaker OF Columbus. Just
before the bouts began, Mr.. Moore
stepped into ring and addressed the
crowd. He stated that the local ath-
letic club intends to put on more
matches here in the future for Mt,
Vernon boxing fans. ut will be the
clubs policy to conduct these bouts ON
clean basis" Mr.. Moore said.
The next ring show will be held
here the 25th of this month. Johnnie
Martin will probably be brought here