New Britain herald., 1927-01-06

The sensation In amateur fight ranks about the state is at the pres ent time Ray Hogan, the Terry vile Terror" who only last week put the we'll known bee on "Pinky" Kaufman who holds the lightweight championship of the state of Con- necticut. His services are in de- mand wherever an amateur fight tournament is to be staged.
 The >officials of the Mohawk A. C., for the first tournament of 1927 which will be conducted at the state armory Friday night under the supervision of the A. A. L.. has se- cured an entry from Hogan and he will be matched in the 155 pound class against either Campora keter or Frank Fortez of New Haven. These two Elm City boys are among the leaders in their class in the state and either will give Hogan busy session Friday night.
 To New Britain people. one of the prcliminaries to the Hogan bout which is the star bout of the night. will probably contain more interest. The meeting of Barney Youseman of Hartford and Joe Zotter of New Britain promises to draw more fans to the state armory than anything else. These two met on the last card conducted here and New Brit ain fans were in frenzy because of alleged dirty tactics used by Youse- man in the bout. The affair went into four rounds and so great be- came the excitement that Chief William c. Hart of the New Britain police department, ordered the bout stopped.
 Iotter had an edge on Yousc- man in the first three rounds and he hopes to make this decisive to- morrow night. He has been train ing faithfully at the Y. M. c. A. an is in fine condition for a hard go. Youseman sends down word from Hartford that he will knock Zotter's block off" This should be q great bout.
 Ray Hall will attempt, in meeting Jimmy Moe of New Haven. to wipe out the defeat scored by the Elm City colored battler in recent fight in this city. Moe at that time outboxed Hall for three rounds and succeeded in getting the verdict. Only three weeks ago, Moe entered the Metropolitan A. A. L. tourna- ment in New York and won the championship In the 130 pound division.
 Johnny Clinch will be seen in ac- tion against Jim Bernardo Of Hart ford in tn, 1S6 pound class. Anoth- CT good go will be the battle be- tween Louis Dehm of this city and Frank Brodcrick of Southington Both of these boys will be seen in action for the second time in their amateur careers and as both are well liked for their work in the ring, there should be some hot roofing as they go at each other
 Joe Cote who, in his last fight here, showed a 100 per cent i'm provement over his first showing will be pitted against Adolph D'OEo- frio of Hartford in the 118 pound | division. Jim Martin another Terry vile slugger will meet Mike Magels 1, of Hartford in the 133 pound class | Charles Mercy of Hartford will | swap punches with Walter Gorham ! of Meriden In the 145 pound class i and Monte Lusa of New Haven will | battle George Walters of New Haven in the 165 pound class, A second | heavyweight encounter is on the | slate for tomorrow night in the ap- pearance of Eddie Mahoney of l Hartford against Bill Williams of | New Haven at ITO pounds.
 The weights of the boxers enter ed for this feast of swat range from 11S pounds to ITO from the bantams