Putnam patriot., 1927-11-10
St. Johns Arena Packed Foi S-Event Program.-Next
 Meet Thanksgiving
General slugfest One Boy Is Dis.
 qualified

The Putnam Sporting Clubs shaa under the auspices Of the Veterans ei Foreign Wars. developed into slug fest during most of the distance last Friday night With few eE captions every boy that doHHea thf leather mits seemed to think tfai nothing in the world SO much mat tered as knocking out his opponent Possibly the type of local fight fan is somewhat responsible for this In less the boys start the minute the bell rings Co swap punches there are calls for them to fight and unless they do this they are sometimes heoed' Putnam fight fans apparently do not want to sec clever footwork and scientific sparring They want rough and tumble exhibitions and last Friday night they got il. Even the shiftv clever Tourain caught the spirit of the gathering and instead of giving one Of those pretty exhibitions that he has delivered in the past he started rushing and sIugFiRR and got nowhere as tho result, except ta earn a decision
 The outstanding feature If the eve ming was the work of Rene Peloquin of Danielsnn and this bout remained unfinished as Referee Jarvis disquali- fed Peloduin's opponent for number sf breaches of pugilistie etiquette such as the rabbit punch. back hand slaps, hitting in clinehes, and hitting when bis opponent WAS partly through the ropes The climax came when Ger main waved away the referee with sarcastic motion af his glove
 Large Gate
 The gate was one of the largest since the club started lasf year Every sea, on the floor and in the gallery was filled and q number were stand ing Member of the local post af Veterans 0f Foreign Wars acted as ticket takers and ushefs each wear ing a blue hand about his sleeve let tered in gold. ~ F W Announcer I.ebeau stated that the bouts @fre under the auspices and for The bcue- it of the post Alvin Jarvis assist. ed in two goes by Peter Maguan refereed the bouts. Frank Whitman Putnam. and Joe Isabelle. Mposup. were judges. and Captain William Jarvis was timekeeper II was s.ia o'clock when the first performers stepped through the ropes. \ radio installed entertained the earlv arriv als until the bouts got under way.
 The curtain raiser was betweeI Leo Lednc. 126 1 g el Worcester aht Jack Pontempo of JeWett City l30 It was very amateurish exhibition and both boys assimilated q lot o hard iabs and punches. The Wor eester boy had shade in the frs round and the second was even. | the third round it looked as fl Ledu had the better of the argument an' was at least entitled to draw if no the decision. The judges award o the fight to the Moosup boy came q n surprise and was not in accord wit the press table view nor ef the fans Both boys were on the canvas in clineh as the bell rang. The .ose got the best hand as he left the ring.
 Goulet Improves
 For the second event Charlie Got let of Putnam t23, was matche against Jimmie Dixon of Worceste 120 Goulet has had several month layoff and he certainly showed di eided improvement in his style an work The Putnam boy woye in an out landing some light punches Go th head and face and had slight n, vantage in the first round.
 The second round got bit rougl CT Goulet went down and staye for the count of nine He got up an they swapped punches Then nxo dropped and took nine seconds. The they rushed and both fell to the foo Dixon became a bit groggy and VI hanging on when the bell saved hin