Evening star., 1934-09-18
F0RSAKES VILE
TO CONQUER TOW
Matte Gives EN- What They
Ask, but Customers Hand
Him Back a Razz.
BY ROD THOMAS.

HIM Back a kdZZ.
BY ROD THOMAS.
THE District heavyweight boxing
crown today still circled the
craggy brow Of Nathan Brown,
but it was slightly askew fol-
lowing the slashingest battle between
big fellows held in the region Of
Washington within the memory Of old
stagers.
And there are some who believe this
same symbol Of supremacy should
adorn the noggin of the party of the
second part, young Bob Tow Of Alex
andria, who came away from Grif-
fifth Stadium last night at least with
the backing of the city's most re-
spected referee, Charley Reynolds.
At the end Of Is crowded rounds,
Reynolds voted for Tow, the judges,
Henri Di Sibour and Buck Grier, said
Brown, and the crowd said boo.
A suspicion turks today that some
of the Bronx boos that dinned the
ears of Nathan Brown were not sin
cere. Most of the customers came to
see contest in which willy, cautious
Brown would tie up Tow. clinch, stall
and otherwise make 1t boresome eve
ming, thing he has achieved with
,ardonic disregard of other folks views
many times before.
Browns Aggressiveness Tells.
INSTEAD they saw Brown trans
formed, Brown who leaped from
his corner with the start Of every
round, reckless as slug-nut; whaling
away with swings that came from
every angle and winding up sometimes
in close proximity to the bug-infested
lights above. He missed so often it
was ludicrous, but he landed enough
times to win what this reporter
thought to be fair verdict, albeit
close one. His margin was aggres-
siveness
The big moments Of the battle
came at the very outset and at the
bitter end. In the opening skirmish,
Brown knocked the youngster reeling
with an overland right to the but
ton and for moment it seemed the
curtain would fall. 1t required three
rounds for Tow to recover from that
sock, not nearly so much physically
as psychologically. He wasn't expect
ing anything of the sort.
Tow Rallies at Finish.
TN THE fifteenth the gladiators
opened the flood gates of all they
possessed and out poured the hot
test fistic stuff we've been pleased to
gaze upon in the last several score
of caulifower exhibits. In this one
round Tow did more fighting than
he did throughout the scrap with
Tony Galento in which he scored
victory.
At the bell Brown was beside the
ropes trying in vain to get away from
a rain of blows which, If continued
whit longer, we thought, would have
found gnarled Nathan on the canvas.
From the viewpoint of Referee Rey-
nolds 1t was SO close that single
point was Tow's margin. This he
gained through Browns forfeiture of
a round by illegal blows. Reynolds
penaEzed Nathan for hitting on the
break. not for fighting after the bell
as some at the ringside were In
formed. Tow was equally guilty there.
1t seemed the lads simply couldn't
get enough action.
Eight Rounds for Brown.
TN GIVING eight rounds to Brown,
four to Tow and counting three
oh cft M
in a sense. as a close thing. Only
few rounds were thoroughly de-
cisive
It seemed row could have won by
taking the aggressive. For several
rounds, particularly in the fourth,
fifth and sixth he stuck a left to-
Nathan's schnozzle so often the cham
pion was infuriated, fought like a
wild = an and missed with almost
everything he fired.
At odd moments, Tow got home a
short right uppercut that did Matte
no good whatever. For a reason not
plain, Bob later on practically aban-
doned that well-timed forkhand and
Brown swung back into the lead.
Whatever today's reflections, the
customers no longer may impugn the
spirit of Nathan Brown and Robert
Tow. That affair last night, ladies
and gentlemen, was a fight.
There was another, too. In this,
Eddie Burl and Leroy Dougan fought
an eight-round draw.
In l0-rounder, Bingo Joe Banovic
hit Billy Strickler with everything
but Heinie Miller's well-chawed cigar,
while everybody wondered why Billy
lived
Jackie Donnelly outpointed Bill
Howell in a six and Jack EMS out
pointed Johnny Mays over the same
route.