The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-26

Dundeo's right name ls Joseph
Carrora. Ile was born at Sharkai.
Italy, Nov. 20, 1898. lie is five feet
four and une-hulf inches tall, and
weighs i30 pounds. Although this Is
top weight, aud he has only grad
ually come up from tho feather
weight class during several years, he
has fought all the best lightwolghts.
az often as he could get matches
with them,
when Johnny was i6 years old
his father, the elder CurTOra, wanted
John to 90 into business with him
In a fish market In New York, but
Johnny couldn't see business. Hc
thought boxing would pay more
And ho was right. Az n fighter he
has cleaned up a fortune running
into several hundred thousand dol.
lars. As a fish perchant he might
have accumulated "A bunch OF debts.
Joseph Carrora started out with
manager OF about his own age.
Scotty Montieth. a real Scotchman.
1t was Scotty who gave young Car
rora the Scotch name, Johnny Dun
dee. Like most Italians, he
thought no ought to adopt an Irish
fighting name--something like
Kelly or sullivan. But Montleth,
whose highland ancestors swung
mean claymore and fought the Eng
lish on many a bloody field. refused
to consider any but a Scotch name
for "a fighting man.
OF Uncqunllcd Energy.
Having named Dundee. Montieth
began to spend all his spare time
around the newspaper offices in
New York telling the sporting edit
ors what "A great little fighter Dun
dee was. lie had pet name for
Dundee, He called him the scotch
WOp." Night after night, MOntleth
used to come into my office and talk
about his fighting scotch Wop"
until grew weary OF hearing Dun
deo's name. and hoped someone
would wallop him and stop Mon
tieth's eternal boosting.
Then, as Dundee made god in fight
after fight. meeting the best men in
his class and attacking them all
with the same dauntless audacity,
like all the rest OF the sporting
writer's l began to see Dundee fight
and rooted for him To win.
There was something about Dun-
| dCes fighting that made everyone
| fancy him. lie wasn't afraid OF any
body. From the start, they all looked
alike TO Dundee. lie didn't care
/ whether they were wallupers or
/ fancy boxers. lie met them an In tho
samo way, and II he didn't whip
| them he at least gave them "A
| mighty exciting evening.
In "A good many years following
| ring events / never saw another
| fighter with Johnny Dundee's end
| less store of energy, From the start.
! he had an unusual fighting style
! one that seemed likely to burn him
| out In two or three years. lie
| danced about constantly In
motion, and was usually going
| ahead.
His dancing steps weren't to tho
rear, as with most dancing boxers,
| Dundee was a fighter. lie had "A
| curious trick Of crOuChiug low and
moving In with his jaw unprotected
/ TO draw the cnemys fire,
No Sign of Cracking.
lie had a quick eye, As soon as a
| blow started for his jaw he'd drop
| his head "A triflo lower, or moved
| forward and little to one side in
stead of pulling back I'm the Ortho-
dox way. This made his rival miss,
and left Dundee within easy
countorlng range,
II was a pu2zling manuevcr and
fooled them all. Even some OF the
kAfhAthA uNNfln III All' 'bhliNA y
knowing al labout Dundee's bobblng
tantalizing style, practicing ways TO
get him. were unable 20 catch him
squarely with damaging punch.
And when Dundee was hit hard on
the chin he only fought twice as
fast and hit twice as often In the
furry that followed.
with his tireless, constant move
ment In every fight, Il seemed Dun
dee must burn up that speed and
vitality OF his, Just as sprinter runs
himself out by entering too many
races Five years ago l was watching
Dundee for some sign of cracking
lie hasn't shown il yet
In 1917, IL looked Rs II at last
Dundee had began to slip, when
Willie Jackson caught him with a
right hand smash flush on the chin
In the first round and knocked him
| out, cold,
But 10 the astouishment OF all
l the fight followers in tho east, Dun