Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-10

, week and is expected to put up a
rafting good scrap. He did not,
however, exert himself to any extent
in last nights exhibition.
Willie Nelson, OF Arlington, and
Young Rector, of Jersey City. put
up a snappy three round scrap.
| Nelson proved to be a little too
much for Rector and sent him
against the ropes or n or two
occasions. Rector uncorked a pair
of wicked swings in the first round
but missed them both. He was
game enough, however, and stuck
to his man until the finish of the
encounter. He was a trife unsteady
at the close Of the bout. The Sec
ond round showed the most fight
ing, when the two men stood toe to
toe and snapped a number of good
wallops.
Mike Maize showed that he was
in good condition for his coming
match with Johnny Carroll when he
stood up to Jay Lanahan. of Port
Richmond. Lanahan was game and
proved that he could stand the gaff
and he put up a good scrap against
Maize. Most of the blows were land
ed at close range and all three
rounds were principally infighting.
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any real o~ffense, confirming himself
to landing love taps" on his oppo-
nent almost at will.
Several times Fulton was the
target of Walkers stuff and at last
he retreated from the ring and ref
creed the bout from the ringside.
The next exhibition was between
Barth G%arrigan, of Jersey City, and
Buster Burns. of Hoboken, and turn
ed out to be a lively tussle through
all three rounds. Several real mixes
featured this bout, both men being
willing to exchange punches. In the
second round Burns started off a
crack that stretched Garrigan on
the mat but he was up Immediately
and finished the scrap in good shape.
Following this was a wrestling
match between Steve Brown. of
New York, and Mike Butsares, of
New Brunswick. Butsares won early
in the bout.
The last two bouts on the card
showed William Kane and frankie
Burns, and Young Leslie and Allen
town Tile, the latter two of Perth
Amboy. Both bouts were fast, all
four fighters showing Willingness
and pep.
The feature of the program turn
ed out to be a comedy wrestling
match between Young Monday and
Soldier Rogers. Punching and ear
pulling were not barred in the match
and the spectators Spurred both men
on whenever either varied the wrest-
ling with a wallop or two. On one
occasion Soldier pulled the mat up
to Mondays shoulder and loudly
shouted that he had his man. AT
the start Monday agreed to throw
Rogers in fifteen minutes or forfeit
the match but he failed in his pur-
pose and the bout ended with V G
honorS.
In~terspersed between the wrest-
ling and boxing were vocal selec-
tions by Fred Jensen, Eugene Bird
of Perth Amboy, the Jersey City
police quartet, and Jack Pagan of
Jersey City. The police quartet re-
ceived its usual noisy reception and
performed in excellent style, as dill
the local men.
Joseph McNulty was the third
man in the ring for all bouts but
that between Walker and Donley,
while kid Potty acted as time
keeper. Moe Lewkowitz was an
nouncer.
Possibly the best exhibition was
hat of Joe Donley. of Newark,
against Mickey Walker, the Eliza
beth "thunderbolt" and conqueror
of George Ward. Fred Fulton ref
creed this three round bout. While
Walker was never bothered by the
wallops of his diminutive opponent,
Donley showed plenty of pep
through all three periods. forcing
the fight most of the way. Walker
took al of Donley's offering on his
arms and gloves, and showed real
defensive class.
At 8 o'clock ton's1t the members
of the committee OF twenty-five will
meet with Father Prendergast in st.
meeting of this committee and Faith
er Prendergast requests that all the
members be in attendance. The
Thomas Fitzgerald, Joseph McNulty,
Joseph Honan, Edward Dalton, e.
Doyle, Frank Burns, DR.. J. V. Smith,
Michael Donovan, James Murray,
Walter Pollock, James White, Mer-
rift McAlinden, John Kelly. John
Campbell, Louis Rossi, Richal,l Gal
vim, Albert Waters, jeremiah DAILY,
Thomas Smith, Eugene O'Connell.
Michael Fitzpatrick, Frank Buote,
John Cloney and John Reilly, Sr.
In last nights edition of the News
it was declared that the New Buns
wick policeAwould watch the auto
mobiles outside the hall. This was
an error. The Perth Amboy police
ably assisted in making the affair
successful, a squad was assigned to
the hall and was ready to render
any assistance needed.