The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-12
COURTNEY BELTED OUT BY GAMER
 IN NINTH. ROUND
Large Galaxy of Fans Pleased With Return Bout and Supporting Card - DOlan Wins Rowland Gets Gift
BY JOHN A. CLUNEY

White City Stadium, Aug liz Three crescent-shaped left hooks to the head and jaw, delivered so fast that only a small minority of fans at the ringside saw all three of them, knocked George Courtney, "Oklahoa Cowboy" of the ring, as stiff as an Egyptian pharoh here tonight in the ninth round of his return bout with Al Nelson Gainer, heavyweight and light-heavyweight champion of Connecticut.
 The knockout, first of Courtney's fairly brilliant career of eleven years behind the leather mittens, (accordjng to available records) cli- maxed toe to toe slugging match that had the largest fight crowd in Connecticut on it's uppers most of the time and more than evened the fistic score between the new Haven Brown Panther" and his suppos- edly more able opponent from Riv- erside drive.
 Gnincr Leading
 At the time of the knockout, the result of which constituted nearly five minute period of unconsci- ousness for the good-looking, pop lar product of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Referee Bill Conway of Hartford had Gainer in the lead by mar gin of three points, 36-33; that Is, up to and including the eighth round. Courtneys constant aggres- siveness and clean hitting kept his admirers hopeful right up to the k. o. but the nesro's wicked body belts. mixed with occasional shifts to the head wore Courtney down to point where he was much weaker than his antagonist.
 Incidentally, the New~Haven ne- gro, a former high school student, and an outstanding physical speci- men. lived up to his reputation of being able to beat decisively in Q second bout, any man who has beaten him previously. He has proved that point on four different occasions, in the past three years. Courtney weighed 167 1-4, Gamer, 167. The latter's next opponent may be Ben Jeby, sensational New York middleweight.
 Poppy!
 Baby Bear, 137 pound important from Florida and Jimmy Brown, a very tough young man from Bristol, R. I. wound up the show in an interesting manner, Bear winning the decision in five rounds of give and take. Though on thc defensive for the greater part of the fight, Brown tried hard to hold his own and made q good fight out of it, though Bear clearly won by diligcnt use of left and right hooks from every angle, most of which connected.
 Rollo Rowland of Waterbury re- ceived very nice gift in the form of a draw decision with Irish Billy O'Brien of Derby. The latters harder, heavier and more frequent hitting stood out clearly against Rowland's holding and bicycling tactics, but the boys wound up all even on the record book. Rowland, 1858, O'Brien. 1G0.
 Buddy's
 Some Palooka dug up from the limbo of the lost. took jaw breaking left hook from Buddy Howard of New Haven, who won by q knockout in the second round. The k. 0. s'gnalized Towards re- turn to the ring after layoff of more than year, but the win was hardly impressive, considering the type of opposition given him to make sure his return bout would wind up in victory.
 Augie Valenti, 1855 of New Haven and Joe Bard, 129 of North Adams, Mass, put on a sizzling five-round number that kept the fans cheer ing one and then the other. Valen- i Il won, though his margin of vic- tory was plenty close. Johnny An drews of New Haven succumbed to a third round knockout by Ed ] die DOlan of Waterbury.