The Washington times., 1934-08-07
BLOND SOCKS
TOO HARDFOR
WRIGHT
By GINO SINH

jammed the Riding and Hunt
Club last night to see Jack Demp'
sey, Fistiana's most colorful fig
ure, and cheered him to the raft
ers as he refereed the two final
bouts to the queens taste.
But it was the final bout be-
tween the dynamite flinging
blond welterweight from Florida,
Bob Wilson, and Cary Wright,
tough local product, which Referee
Dempsey stopped in the sixth
round as Wright lay prone on the
floor writhing in Supplied an
guish, that sent the fans home
arguing heatedly over the ques-
ton:
"Who hits the hardest-Phil
Furr, local welterweight king, or
Wilson? Which one can take
the others halleluiah punches
ana come OH W WA'
Wilson and Wright we're fight
ing for the chance to meet Furr
some time soon.
Dempsey was greeted with an
uproarious ovation as he climbed
into the ring to referee the semi
final bout after a flowery lntroduc'
ton by carnationless Jimmy Lake.
Receives Gift
Mrs. Goldie Ahearn presented
Jack with a gift for his little
champion" as he called his new
born daughter. A roar Of good
natured laughter burst from the
fans as, with a boyish smile, he
held the gift, knitted light blue
baby sack, up above his head.
Wilson, apparently inspired by
the presence of the world famous
ManaSsa Mauler as the third man
cast all boxing skill to the winds
and stalked the stringy Wright re-
1entlessly around the ring, clipping
him with crashing Textbooks and
drumming jarring right chops to
the kidneys in the clinches.
In the first round, Wright
boxed neatly, coolly using a left
jab and swinging fairly well-timed
rights to Wilson'S stomach as Will
son bore in.
But the blond juggernaut'S ter
rifle wallops told heavily and in
the second round a series of left.
hooks and right uppercuts
dropped Wright for seven. a left
swing felled him for nine more and
a series of lefts and rights spilled
him for another nine. Wright
managed to weather the rest of
the round by lodging, back-pedal-
ing and clinching. Once Cary in
his eagernesS to clinch pushed
Wilson to the floor and fell on top
Of him.
Wilson staggered Wright with a
left hook to open the third and
Wright half slipped to floor, but
rose without count and there
after kept on top of Wilson, never
permitting him to cock that deadly
LETT hook, as he pounded away at
the Floridan's head.
Wilson'S blows had taken their
toll and continued to sap Wright's
stamina through the fourth and
fifth. Two left hooks sent Wright
staggering across the ring in the
fourth, once draping him help
lesSly on the ropes, but he slipped
and Slid and ducked away from
t1nlshers. In the fifth a couple
OF left hooks and a right uppercut
dumped Wright in the resin for
nine.
In the fatal sixth Wilson shifted
to the stomach with right upper
cuts. One caught Cary full in the
pit Of the stomach and he crum-
pied to the floor for nine, an
other in the solar plexus and
Wright was through.
Agree With Jack
The fans agreed with Dempsey
tn the other bout he refereed, an
eight rounder in which the two
judges gave Roddy Davis, Wash
1ngton lightweight, the duke over
joey Zodda, of New York, with
Dempsey voting Zodda. The tail
Davis piled up many important
points with his constant battering
on the kidneys in the clincheS,
while Zodda, unable to do any
thing in close quarters with his
taller foe, would swing a potent
left to the stomach and hold, espe-
cially in the latter rounds.
Carl Gugginia, Florida feather.
weight, was a bit too fast with
his blows and also a bit too
clever for "Skippy" Allen, of
New York, in another humming
eight-rounder in which both boys
were punching all the way
through. In the early going Gug-
g1nia had Allen completely be-
wildered with his speed, but AL
len solved his style in the later
rounds and would step away from
Carps charges only to jump in
with a humping right swing to
the stomach or an uppercut to
the chin. Gugginia used rights
and lefts to stomach effectively
and also flashed a neat left
which jolted Allen.
Jack Kirk, a rangy welter-
weight from Texas, just couldn't
carry on under the avalanche of
blows young wild Bill" Howell,
local rock-fisted slugger, rained
on him in the opening four
rounder in a back alley brawl in