The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-09

IlcT Ol NcW I1dVcIl puHCHcu OuI Larrivee of this city. It was the end of ten slashing rounds, 1900 fans were convinced that tt a good little man..
 Thought he had less than four pounds weight advantage on his op- ponent, t;ainer had height, reach and punching power of nature that gave the local boy about one chance
 in fifty to beat him. Larrivee, though
 badly beaten, was far from dis
 graced, for he showed the courage of
 a lion and on more than one occasion
 opened the negro's mouth with solid
 smashes to the stomach.
 | What A Man!
 | Gainer, however, does not seem to have q weakness as q fighter of the
 top flight. He is one of the best and | most naturally built ringmen ever to
 show in this city, is nearly always
 in excellent condition, can hit like
 a Bob FitZsimmons, owns all sorts | of courage, can take it" with the best of them and most important of all, would rather fight than eat. There's only one think that Al likes
 better than fighting, and that's get ting paid for fighting.
 Leo Hit Too
 One two or three occasions last night, Larrivee seemed to slow up l his colored foe with hard belts to
 the stomach and jaw, but as sure as he would find the range, Leo would stop flock of lefts and rights that had him holding on steadily during many rounds of the bout. The local boys best rounds were the seventh and eighth, during
 the former in which Gamers right eye was nearly closed, though he had hung mouse on Leo in the third session. In the eighth, Gainer
 smacked Leo with q left hook which turned him around, but the nego waited until Leo had recovered him. self before he started punching again. For this bit of sportsmanship he was given q nice hand, though booed on other occasions for illegal use of his forearm.
 Giving Leo the best of it, he won | two rounds out of ten, though Ref
 cree Bill Conway gave the French Canadian boy but one round, the sec ond, with the seventh even and
 Gainer taking eight for a point total of 43 to 33. Personally, we gave | Leo two rounds, the seventh and eighth, calling the second even, with Gamer taking seven heats.
 From the Start
 In the very first round, Gainer | nailed Leo with q left hook, the first punch he threw and repeated l that blow at the opening of the second and third. connecting each time. Larrivee was shaded in the
 first session by the fire of the negro's attack. though he fought the darky on even terms in the second, winning the round in the estimation of the official. Gainer closed Leo's eye in the third with q solid smash and beat him quite badly with shots to the body and head. The local boy came back like Byrd from the South Pole in the fourth and had a de- cided edge on the round when he
 was fioored with a body blow to the pit of the stomach. Taking a count or eight, he got up and tore into
 his adversary, but 1t was Gainer's | round.
 Plenty of Strain
 Both boys were visibly tired in the | fifth, though Gainer kept throwing
 his punches with clock-like regular ity while Leo scored occasionally, but held more often. Leo was very tired in the sixth while Gainer's | marvellous powers of recuperation | seemed to be slowly marshalling his :! second wind" The local boy made
 a dying bid for the decision in the
 seventh and eight rounds, closing Gamers eye in the seventh and jolt
 ing him to the heels. By this time,
 however, the negro seemed to have
 regained most of his natural
 strength, and the manner in which
 he took the last two rounds, as he
 tried for knockout, was proof posi-
 tive that he had won in a walk"
 Larrivee ''shot his bolt" in the
 seventh and eighth and seemed to
 be trying to stay the limit, and did, | after one of the most courageous nights of any mans career. In losing,
 Leo has nothing to be ashamed of.
 He was beaten by q better man.
 Gainer, 169 1-2, Larrivee, 11G Short But Powerful
 As predicted on these pages, the
 semi-1inal between Jerry McLarn of
 Watertown and Lucien Larrivee was
 WOW from the first bell. Unfor- tunately, it ended in the second
 round when McLarn was uninten- tionally butted over the right eye
 as the boys broke from a clinch and
 McLarn sank to the floor after talk
 ing drive in the middle" that
 shook one of the lights out over the
 ring. Firm othe ringside, it looked
 as If McLarn's head struck Larrivcc's I
 but the fighter himself claims he
 was butted during clinch. How
 ever, the boys put up the greatest
 four minutes of sluggine that has
 been seen in Buckingham hall since
 John BoWcs was member of Com pany C. McLarn seemed to have q
 little edge in the slam bang melee ! though Larrivee had cvencd the
 fight with knockdown in the sec 1 al
 was so bad that the referee stopped
 the bout, giving Larrvec a technical
 Knockout It will be q natural return
 bout, if Promoter Mulligan can get | the Doys together again. McIarn
 scaled l7O, Larrivee, 172 1-2. Knight Knapp Win
 Though he had four or five oDDor-
 tunities to dispose of Joe Barry of
 Brooklyn, x. r., via the ten count
 route, Jack Red Knight of New Ha-
 ven could not connect when it meant
 q k. 0. with the result that he won
 an easy decision over his opponent,
 who substituted for Jackie Levine of Fall River, who was too heavy for
 Knight Nanny Souza of Fall River | and Carmen Knapp of New Haven
 put on great six round go which
 went by decision to Dick Grays little
 New Havener and rightly so. A | SWlshlnE left hook put SOuZa on the | floor twice, though the latter dis
 iressed Carmen with a right upper
 cut that almost upset him, when he
 missed his leads. The customers got
 off to a good start as they watched Tony Laverio of Bristl make shrt
 work of Billy Hustcd of Bridgeport in
 the second round. The winner lost
 the first round but tagged Williams
 whiskers in the second hard enough | to put him down-and out.
 Next show two or three weeks off,
 and 1t looks like Eddie Lord and Pat
 McGrath in the main go.