Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-09
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'OMMY MCGUIRE And JOHNNY
drew IN SEMI FINAL FURNISH
FIREWORKS main BOUT SLOW

The semi-final six round bout. in
which Tommy MCGUIRE, substituting
for K. o. Mayo, went a fast and
spectacular draw with Johnny Drew
of Biddeford, furnished the real in
terest at the first exhibition of the
Capitol Athletic Club in City Hall
Friday night. The main bout was
a double six with frankie Quill of
Brockton stacked up against Ted
Russell of New Bedford. These two
boys were both fast and clever and
gave a good exhibition Of boxing. but
the crowd hungered for bloodshed and
heavy smuggling. and the fight did
not give them quite all of this kind
OF fireworks that they wanted to wit
ness. The two skies progressed fair
ly even with neither boxer scoring
anything that seemed to carry any
OF the daze stuff for the other, and
with no round in which either clear
ly outpointed the other, it was a
drawn fight.
The curtain raiser trotted out the
only sleep punch of the evenings
card, when Young Lizotte of Angus
ia, after sending George Andrews of
Gardiner to the canvas in the last
half minute of the first round, fol-
lowed up his advantage with the
second stanza bell, and dropped his
man right off the bat three times
and finally for the count out. 1t was
a straight right with which the Sand
Hill lad sent Andrews to slumber
land.
X. o. Mayo Of Lewiston must have
got scared at the sitting snow. Any
way, he failed to put in an appearance
at City hall for his scheduled match in
the semi-final with Johnny Drew. Tom
my Mcguire of Augusta stepped for
ward and saved the situation, and the
resulting fight was one Of the hottest
six-canto sessions that any crowd of
fans could wish to see.
1t opened up in the very first with
some tall smuggling by both boys, and
twice in this round Drew, after TAX
ing Tommy's stiff right on the jaw,
waited on his knees for the count of
nine. He came back game and strong
and seemed none the worse off for the
blows, and when the boys went to their
corners at the gong McGuire's ear was
bleeding profusely. This was Tom
my's round. but the Biddeford boy
matched his cleverness with Mcclure
in the second, and on offensive and de-
opponent. The second round was even.
Mcguire scored the more frequently
in the third, driving hard rights and
lefts to the body and face. Drew came
back smiling each time, and the crowd
made him the favorite. Round, Nc
CURES on points.
1t was in the slashing fourth round
that Johnny Drew cut loose with all
the big guns and easily shaded Nc
CURE. Besides playing the raw ear,
Johnny drew the claret from Tommy's
nose in this stanza. The fifth went
even with just the kind of wicked slug
eing that the crowd was Rowling for.
Drew's ability to take everything
that Mcclure succeeded in landing
on him, and his whirlwind last two
minutes in which he finished stand
ing up to his man, giving as good
as he received and a little better
won the support of the fans and gave
him enough of an edge in this final
round to make the fight a draw. The
boys sending in both paws in pile
driver blows.
After the hard fought semi final
the crowd of some $50 fans wanted
'cm treated rough, and though the
main bout uncovered twelve rounds
Of clever boxing, covering, and foot
work, it did not appeal to what
seemed to be the majority. There
were several groups in the hall who
made it unpleasant for the real fans
by calling upon the referee to break
the men every time they really got
near each other. Later when these
same spectators found how clever
and fast infighting could be. the,
RACED the referee every time he die
try to get between the boys. All in
all fight crowd is rather hard te
please. Tarle Thibodeau was thu
referee.
The first half dozen between the
main bout lads were all even. Rus.
sell showed flashy work at close
range, and Quill shooting his left In
first to the face and then to the
body. 1t was very evident that
frankie didn't have any right, but
his left pounded in like a riveter.
One of Quilts lightning left jab:
to the face in the first round of the
second bout, started blood from the
New Bedford boys mouth. frankie
showed cleverer than eyer with hi!
one hand and in several of the
rounds he was an exposition Of the
old simile,-"busier than a one
armed paper hanger with the Itch
1t was in the last two rounds that
Russell and Quill both opened uI
fast. Their infighting in the fifth
was furious. With no blows struck
that left marks on either man, how
ever, it was draw.