New Britain herald., 1924-02-15
 
|PALUSO IS WINNER ! IN HARTFORD BOUT
Gets Decision Over Leonard,, KayoS in PrelimS

Lew Paluso of Salt Lake City, Utah, won his third fight in Hartford ring last night when he earned the decision over Allentown Johnny Leonard in a ! fast 1a-round battle in the Church street auditorium. Fighting q smart CT fight, hitting sharper and faster. the Columbia student fighter kept the conguerer of AT Shubert tied up throughout the greater part of the 1 fight. ,Paluso earned the first five rounds with the sixth even. Paluso l took the seventh and eighth, the ninth was even. Leonard earned the l 10th and 11th by q wide margin, while the 1eth was even.
 i In the curtain raiser Jackie Moore Of Stamford proved to hard a hitter for Young Doiin of Hartford and put him down for the count after about minute and a half of fighting. The second fight on the card turned into a real battle with Babe Stat tery of Hartford showing that what he lacked in ring generalship, he more than made up in gameness After being downed three times by Frankie oBrien Of Hartford the New Haven boy continued to get up and fight and was just arising from his fourth knockdown to continue hostili- ties when Referee digger" Mccarthy decided he had taken enough punish ment and awarded the fight to O'Brien.
 In the semi-fnal Mccarthy gave one of the poorest decisions ever made in a Hartford ring. Although the referee may have judged Irish Kid" Will Hams of Worcester. Mass, was stal- ling or refusing to fight, the giving of the decision to Portell was certainly a terrible decision. Throughout the eight rounds of fighting Portell was unable 10 land clean blow on the Irish Kid". Williams had the head roll down to perfection and time and again he had porteil swinging at the air. What few blows were struck during the fight were struck by Will Hams, but he kept under cover and nothing except Portells desire to make a fight out Of it made the match any thing but q boxing lesson with Will Hams acting in the capacity of in- | structor. T
 With the first round of the main go l between Lew paluso and Allentown | Johnny Leonard, it was evident that | real fight was in progress. paluso | by beating Leonard 10 the punch, l made his rushes ineffective and at no time was the clever moving Lew in serious trouble.
 The second, third. fourth and fifth rounds were repeitions Of the first, l with Paluso stopping Leonard's at- 1 tempted rusnes by beating him to the | punch. Paluso used a straight left to 1 the face and had Leonard's face look ! ing like a bccfsteak after the third ! round. Lew, however. was not get | ting away unscathed. Leonard landed ! a hard right in the fourth, to Paluso's left eye and rendered the optic use. less for the remainder of the fight. ] paluso. however. opened an old cut . under Leonard's eye with a straight i iab and from that point on made the ! cut his objective. shooting punches at 1 the sore spot with the accuracy Of Il | sharpshootcr.
 The sixth round was humdingrr, with Leonard rushing paluso around he ring and showoring his body with 1 rights and lefts for about the first . half of the round. The second half ] of the round. however Lew took up the position Of sender while Leonard 1 played catcher with the result that at | the end Of the round there were two very tired fighters who made their ! way to their corners.
 The seventh went 10 Paluso. as did ] f nc eighth and ninth fbr Ita1, t,a,. fighting his customary style. beating l
 
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