New Britain herald., 1928-01-14
ANDY HAS FIGHT,
 TELLS ALL ABOUT IT
Batterins Bachelor Bimbo From
 PlainYlle Floors Him
Dear Noah Count:

kecelte1 your lCtteT Adyink yuu was sorry you missed seeing us give and take" boys in the anna teur boxing bouts, on account of you having a heavy date with someone else's sweetie. and asking me to give you the high-lights, if any, of the fracas.
 AS you know. I have been en- gagged in four fistic battles, winning all but the first and the last three. and with this record chalked up on the books l realize that gotta win scrap or the customers Is liable to think I'm push-over and will never make a heavy weight, unless you count what's above the cars.
 Cast your peppers over the fol- lowing and judge for yourself whether me or Herb Dutch" Ewald, the battering bachelor bimbo from the wilds of Plainville. put up the better argument. Round One. We spars cautious in the center of the ring, to feel what each others got. and what he's holding back. I opens the deal with a right to the pan, follows it with a wicked jab to the ribs and then bounces long left off the top of his bean. He comes back with a terrific right which l stops with my chin.
 Dutch" didn't have any more science than q tablc leg has corns and his left was weaker tan riecc of string. but he carried right which woulda moved truck with all brakes set. figures all gotta do Is to keep away from that | right. But l soon learns that keep ing away from that right wasn't any easier than walking off with tn" City Hall building during rush hours.
 He swings B left to my ivory, bringing along a right as chaper9ne, and before I can cover up he slips healthy wallop into my mid-sec- 1 tion Another iab 10 the same place. almost puts my grocery dept. outa | order. I clinch es as the bell clangs. Round two. I snaps a left to his pan and then messages his body with both mitts. He covers up and crashes right jolt to the hat-rack and I grabs the ropes to steady my self You oughta know better grins "Dutch." "then think you can win a tug of var when the other end of the rope is tied 10 pole"
 This gets me madder than traf- /, fic cop when mud is sp,ashed over his clean uniform by a goofey look ing couple in secondhand coupe on q rainy day and so throws eau ton under the ring and tears into {. him like it was nobody's buo ness. ] i left jaos him in the ribs. right elances off his chin and then ' fol- 1 lows 'em with barraGe of rights and lefts. putting everything behind 'em but the mortgage on our furn'- ture I makes a. wild swing to the jaw s the bell rings. tBnt you gotta give mo credit. At least l swung in the right directionD
 :, Round three. I comes outa my corner like my arms was weighted with lead. on account of handing h,m all had, and he comes outa his like my batterin' hadn't done nothing except to wake him up uncorks right to his jaw. receives q left in return. and then he breaks loose. A fast right clips me under the pan and rocks me like rn East Main St. trolley on curve.
 falls into clinch and breaks in time to catch another wall' ? that spins me around like a dizzy blond on dance floor and filings me across the ropes. I'm down for the nine" count and then staggers ur on my pins and rushes him. Dutch" takes all hands him nd erlns His mitts moves faster than i Engine co. No. ! going 10 three alarm blaze and I'm buster than q store keeper in the back room when the rsidinE squad arrives. in trying 10 dodge the N1llops.
 Those didn't dodge. [ stopped and oh Eov. what 2 collection ] f. and how He sockeI me with very thing but his close relations Luckily tor me they was away on vacation In less time than # takes tc kiss the hoss's stenos I'm looking like a lone eurviy or of a bargain sale rug h and feeling like last weeks ], ght- mare. A right hook crashes me where 1 was hoping # wouldn't and as the world does loop the loop folds ur like vopr Aunt Ninnie's silk umbrella and slips into waiting fog.
 ours Most respectful
 ANDY DALE