New Britain herald., 1925-12-14

However, when noted New Yorl; sport writers give the Connecticut man the benefit of the doubt In the matter of who won the fight, then there is something to go by and for that reason, we quote from the New York Herald-Tribune and the New York World of Saturday re- garding the fight. The first quota ton comes from the pen of Jack Lawrence in the Herald Tribune. It follows:
 The fight was bitterly contested from the first round to the last with the tide of victory flowing first one way and then the other It was the champions strong finish
 in the latter part of the fight that apparently impressed the judges and gave him the decision"
 On the Herald Tribune score sheet, however. Delaney was given seven of the fifteen rounds, Berlen- bach six, and two were recorded as even. Berlenbach came on after the ninth round and the challenger be- gan 10 tire rapidly. The Astoria Assassin" took the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth rounds, but lost the last by a mar row margin"
 The decision seems strange when it is considered that only recently inc New York boxing commission laid down a law stating that fights in New York would be decided not ca points, but by rounds. ACcord- nS to Lawrence, Delaney won the ight.
 1Iype Igoc, in the New York
 ,orld, even goes farther in his tory of the fight and speaks in ,art as follows: "El Purdy refer d and Charles r. Mathison and Harold Barnes judged the great struggle. and in making their de- 'ison, I'm afraid they didn't stick loosely to the new order of tabling inning rounds.'
 Delaney had good lead in the arly rounds and In the majority f them. BerlenbaCh made a gal ant finish in the last five rounds nd had Jack in & weakened con- ition.
 According to the new rule, how yer, fast finishes don't count. They i'd last night, and Dom Faul still years the gilded Kelly among the ia pounders."
 Speaking Of the fourth round N hon Delaney crashed q right to Paul's jaw and knocked him down and Berlenbach then committed a foul by going down without being nit Igoe writes:
 He looked beaten. hopelessy, in the fourth round, He was dropped as cold as wedge with short right hook to the jaw that robbed him of everything but his lions heart. He went down on his right side, head, ear, shoulders hips and Irgs."
 No man was ever flatter. He | ,,dn't wait to pe,k and pine about 1 u. Quite tooiishly. hO started 10 get up without a count of more than l two, perhaps. lIe did actually get | up and then. above the roar of the | crowd, lopsidId in its loyalty to De- lanry. Berlenbach must have heard | llckey's Bengal tiger voice below ing for him 10 take the count"
 "WthoDt thinking of what he ! was doing Bcrlcnbach Topped back 1 to his knees to take q full count. It | was tla aGrant infraction of the | rules. He hal gone down without l heing hit. and Delaney, cool and ob- E.rNing. protested the fact 10 Ed | purdy, the refcrcc.'
 That official refused to rccog- uize the boxers legitimate claim of l Goul The crowd set up yowl l loo. but Purdy waited for Bcrlcn- i bach to tako a count Of nine and ! thon ordered tn" men 10 continue lighting. After the round was ever i Scotty Montcith, Dtlaney's chief second, walked into Purdy's corner ul respite and protested some morc."
 Consider that these remarks come from New York writers and then judge for yourself what the out come should have been.
 Louis tiljI Naplan of Mcridcn. worlds tcafh~rWoight champion, nay los. his laurclS in New York h. same way, if the decision is anyway clcsa on Friday night. Herman is confident Of winning the match.