New Britain herald., 1922-12-05
JOHNNY SHUGRUE
 STOPS JACKSON Waterbury Boy Badly Furnishes
 Bronx Lightweight

Jersey City, Dec. Slime took toll
 of another boxer in the Arena at Jer-
 sey City last night, when Willie Jack
 son, veteran Bronx lightweight, was
 knocked out by Johnnie Shugrue, .
 Jersey youngster, in the tenth round
 of g bout which was scheduled for 12. A crowd Of 5000 persons packed the Fourth Regiment armory, where the Arena club holds it's boxing shows and saw youth score again in it's age , long battle with experience. Jackson
 was the better. boxer, but Shugrue was the winning. one.
 The Bronx veteran held his oppon- cnt even in the first round. but after that it was all Shugrue. Jackson gave the fans a great and game exhibition Of boxing. He called to his aid every trick and vile that he had learned in his years inside the squared circle. Time after time he rallied fiercely and gamely. but Shugrue landed the punches which counted and which in the end brought him brilliant vic- tory
 From the second round on Jackson in the parlance Of the ring, was punch drunk. Shugrue landed left hooks and left and right swings to the jaw almost at will in this round and by the time the bell rang Jackson was greg sy and the crowd knew that it was witnessing another drama of the ring.
 Third Round Fiercely Fought
 Stunned at first by the fierceness of his opponents attack, Jackson thought to meet fire with fire as the third round began. He fought furiousIy as the round opened and some of the greatest boxing ever seen in Jersey ring resulted. For time it seemed that the sameness of the New York SC slightly after two rounds of grnel- ling battling. and in the fifth Shugrue sent home q blow which all but drove Jackson through the ropes. There wa.s no count in this, round. however. nor was there in the sixth. when Shugrue had his man going, as the bell sounded. Both men were 50 er-s grossed in their work that they failed to heed the gong and their seconds had to rush into the ring and pull them apart.
 The seventh and eighth were repe- titions of what had gone before. Jack son was still game and still clever, but fatigue was claiming him and in the eighth the unrelenting; Shugrue drove him through the ropes and down for the first time. Jackson was on his feet in time to avoid 2 count
 Again in the, ninth. battered and Jackson went to his knees before the Jersey boxers blows, but dragged himself back to his feet be fore Referee Jim Healy began to toll off the fatal seconds
 The Deciding Blow
 Jackson came up for the bell in the tenth, but it was sheer will power and not physical strength which sent him out to the center of tho ring. He knew he was fighting to save himself from q humiliation whic, he had nev- sr experienced as a lightweight and this-he managed to save him~ self until near the bell. The deciding blow came just as the round drew to its close. N a4s0.
 Shugrue shot terrific right toythe jaw, and Jackson was on the floor at he gong and six had been counted over him. Between the tenth and Eleventh rounds. Chairman Lewis J. Messano of the New Jersey boxing commission sent Inspector William j. Day into the ring to have Referee Iealy stop the bout. Jackson want d to go on but it was the right and nerciful thing to do to stop the con- est. Shugrue had won and won fair y. Many of those al the ringsde said f was the greatest lightweight bout which had ever been fought in Jersey.