Evening star., 1933-03-22
KAY0 VICTORY FANS
MARTY'S AMBITION
Shows Unaccustomed Spirit
in Quick Defeat of Tow,
His Ex-Conqueror.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

MANNED by his own huge fists
X from a tiny. ebbing spark
miraculously kept alive through
years of dampening disappoint-
ments. new flame of hope for Marty
Gallagher's boxing success burned today
In exactly 4 minutes and. 20 seconds
the handsome Irish lad from Foggy
Bottom last night wiped away those
long, failure-studded years by flatten-
ing young Bob Tow in the second
round of their scheduled 10-round Dis
trict heavyweight championship" battle
before capacity crowd at Portner's
Arena
Gallagher was new fighter-the an
swer to fight fans prayer-when he
leaped into action against his former
conqueror, Tow. In perhaps the best
shape OF his career, the usually phleg-
matte, good-natured Marty was trans
formed into a stalking, murderous-
punching leather pusher last night.
Scarcely a soul among the close to
5000 fans expected the revelation. Tow
was caught completely of guard.
THE Georgian attempted to wrestle
L Marty as he came charging from
his corner, but Gallagher wasn't in
the ring to wrestle this time. Before
the first round had ended, Marty, out
weighing his foe by 20 pounds with
his 205 pounds of bone and muscle, had
rocked the Southerner with furry of
short rights and lefts to. the head.
As In other fights, he did not lose his
fire in the interim. The second bell
found him springing, catlike, from his
corner. A hard. short right to the
head sent Tow to the floor for a count
Of three. Bob arose, clinched, and at
tempted to clear his head But Marty
wasn't to be denied. Another short
right, then long one, and Tow was
down for keeps.
Bob was pitiful sight on the canvas
Out cold, his body twitched convulsive-
ly as Referee Charlie Short tolled off
the fatal 10" Tow was dragged to
his corner and it was 5 minutes be-
fore he regained consciousness. AS he
attempted to stand. he tainted and was
carried to his dressing room, where he
again was revived
Even as Tow hit the floor the second
time the crowd arose and prematurely
cheered the winner. It was vastly
different Gallagher than the boy who
was beaten in seven of 10 rounds by
this same Tow last Summer.
THE main bout and the card as a
l. whole was the shortest ever pre-
sented in the reformed Alexandria
brewery Four of the five bouts ended
in knockoutS and in the lone bout, a
-rounder, to go the limit, two
knockdowns were scored. All five con-
sumed only SIS minutes.
The long-awaited Roddy Davis
Bucky Taylor clash lasted only 40 Sec
ends AS the opening bell sounded the
lightweights fell into clinch. Davis
struck Taylor on the side of the face
with what appeared to be a half-open
glove and blood spurted forth from an
inch and half cut under the Balti-
more boys left eyelid. Referee Short
was obliged to stop the fight.
In the lone bout to last over two
and half rounds Jack Lamar cap
tured thriller from Young Raspi. The
underdog, Lamar, twice dumped RaSpi
to the canvas in the first round, once
for a nine count and again for no
count. Raspi won the second round.
held his own in the third, but lost the
all-important fourth and final heat,
Lamar won a unanimous decision.
In other bouts Jesse Belt, local
welter. knocked out Ed Erman Of Balti-
more after AS seconds of the first
round, and Joe Mam won a technical
knockout over Buddy Spenner after
1:30 of the third heat.