New-York tribune., 1922-08-29
Dundee Scores
Easy Victory
AT V Veloein'orrle
Veteran Takes IL Rounds,
With Two Even and Only
One for Pepper Martin
By Jack Lawrence

|
able and perennial, gave Pepper Mar
tin, of Brooklyn classic boxing les
son Mt the Velodrome last night and
successfully defended his junior light
weight championship of the world. The
only doubt that attached to the ff-
teen-round contest from tbs first bell
to the last lay in the vague rossibil-
Iity that Martin might possibly slip
Lover a sleep-rroducing wallop that
would end matters in his favor.
Pepper didn't land it, and lost the
tight by something approxinating u
mile, Dundee outboxcd the Brooklyn
slugger, and then, just to show that
there was no hard feeling, stood toe
to toe with Pepper and met him at
his own game that of exchanging
/ slams Of the kind that Martin likes
! best.
| Even at this game his own-the
! Flatbush fighter was outclassed. Dun
dee's superiority at slugging was just
about as great as it was when he stood
off the adopted scientific tactics.
Dundee took twelve Of the fifteen
rounds. Martin could be given only
one, the third, in which he delivered a
series of hard body blows and followed
them up with a couple of fierce smashes
to the jaw. The sixth and seventh
were even. There wasn't knockdown
during the entire fight, and at no stage
, of the game was either man in serious
trouble.
Crowd OF 10000 Looks On
There were about 10000 persons in
the Velodrome when Dundee and Mar
tin climbed through the ropes. Dundee
was the first to enter the ring, and re-
ceived only a mild ovation. The real
ovation came when Pepper Martin
| made his appearance in dressing
gown of binding green. Judging from
the noise there must have been huge
delegation on hand from Brooklyn
Dundee's weight was announced as
124& pounds. Martins weight was 13O
Martin dashed into Dundee at the
bell and missed tremendous right
hook to the jaw. Dundee then turned
on whirlwind burst of speed and
backed Pepper across the ring under a
binding fusillade of blows Pepper
tried to retaliate, but was wild, and one
of Johnny's fierce right hand hooks
tapped him on the chin and he went
half way to the floor.
Both landed hard lefts and rights to
the chin in the early part of the sec
ond, and when Pepper missed a hay
maker aimed for the chin he took a
half dozen shots to the face from all
angles. Dundee's speed seemed to amaze
him. AS Martin would get set for his
famous sleep wallop Dundee would
suddenly jab him on the nose and
throw him off his balance, much to the
amusement of the crowd
In the third Martin delivered some
Furnishing body blows that hurt Johnny
considerably and started him bouncing
off the ropes Martin also shot some
fierce drives to the jaw that shook up
the Scotch wop lot. 1t was the first
round that could be given to Martin
Gives Boxing Lesson
The ancient Dundee gave the young
Brooklyn feather boxing lesson in
the fourth, hitting Pepper with every
thing but the buckets and the towels.
Hard jolts to the body, followed by
lightning thrusts to the mouth sent
Martin to the ropes several times.
Johnny continued to pepper Pepper in
the fifth, the latter's blows missing
their mark repeatedly.
In the sixth Martin landed a hard
left hook to the side of Dundee's head,
but it only brought storm of jabs
and uppercuts in return. Several
in landing his haymaker flush on Dun
dee's hard old jaw, but it failed to do
what it did when it landed on Babe
Herman at Madison Square Garden
Dundee merely shook his battle-scarred
head and sailed in with both hands
The seventh was even, with both
landing some hard drives, but the
eighth Dundee hit Martin practically
at will. Dundee took the ninth which
slowed down somewhat and the crowd
began to boo and stamp. Somebody
ash TIL g., l.,
didn't speed them up some and Patsy
replied: ~ think they're trying their
hardest" There was more booing in
the tenth, however, and the referee
urged them to get together. Choppy
left and right hook brought the blood
, trickling from Martins nose in this
round as Dundee made mark of his
face. The eleventh and twelfth were
Dundee's by wide margins. His punch
es carried more force behind them than
did Martins aud they landed about
five times to the latter's once. 1t can't
| be said, however. that they hurt the
Brooklynite great deal. Dundee also
took the last three rounds.
Thomas and Hartley Draw
Andy Thomas. of the East Side, and
Pete Hartley, of the Bronx, met in the
| twelve round semi-final, and from the
way 1 Slc loTc iHto AROy III thG OrSt
round it didn't seem as though the lat
ter could possibly pull through the
three minutes. Pete belted him with
everything he had, and it was only
stabbing left jab that held Hartley
back long enough to give the East
Slider an occasional breathing spell.
Thomas weighed 137& and Hartley 14O.
In the second Thomas came back
and rocked Pete with desperate hooks
to the chin. Pete brought the blood
trickling from Andy's nose and the
latter retaliated by cutting Pete's upper
| lip.
They shelled each other attlong dis
tance through the third, fourth, fifth
and sixth, with the honors slightly in
Thomas's favor, Both were az wild as
four March hares, it being difficult at
times to tell whether some Of the blows
were aimed at the scrappers or at
I Johnny McAroy. the referee Andy in
creased his advantage in the seventh
and eighth, while Hartley kept COM
planning to the referee about being hit
J low. The sqnawks never got tumble
from McAvoy. Thomas opened an old
cut over Hartley's starboard lamp in
the ninth ard staggered him second
later with fierce jolt to the jaw. The
! deoieion of the judges was a draw.
In the opening preliminary of four
rounds Jimmy Kirk, Of Harlem, won