The Washington times., 1938-01-25
Ten Round
Return Go
Sought
By FRANK BUCK" ONEILL

Al Reid, the doughty little glove
swinger from New York's teeming
Bronx, outfought the Manchester
thrashing machine, Tony Dupre, in
eight sizzling rounds at Turner'S
Arena last night. 1t was a battle
from start to finish, and already
negotiations are on to bring back
the boys over a 10-round route.
Not only was the battle one of
the fastest fought in Washington
for a long time, but to students
of the technical side of fighting,
it was a delight. In justice to-
Dupre, 1t MAJ be said that he had
not fought in seven weeks until
last night.
Eddie LaFond, the referee,
scored IA points for Reid and 70
for Dupre, giving the victor four
rounds, Dupre three rounds with
one even. Judge Singer scored 76
points for Reid, giving him five
rounds; 72 points for Dupre with
three rounds. Judge Dunn scored
78 points for Reid, SO for Dupre;
five rounds for Reid, one for Du-
pre- and two even. The writer gave
Reid four rounds, including the
last; three to Dupre and one
round, the third, even.
DUPRE SUFFERS CUT
There were no knockdowns, but
both boys were rocked by hard
punches several times. Dupre suf.
fered e. slight cut over his right
eye from a whacking left hook de-
livered at long range in the eighth
round.
Reid won the fight at close
range. From the start it was evid-
ent that if Dupre could stay away
and hook with his left hand, he
would be all right. But Reid would
tolerate no such tactics. He joined
the battle with a terrific fire of
body blows, driving Dupre before
him, and nullifying the effects Of
Tony'S rapier-like left.
It was due to no accident that
Reid made the fight to suit his
best talents. He timed Dupre's
left mid way through the fight,
and in the fourth round slipped
a left hook over his own left shoul-
der. Then, turning inside, AL
rammed a pile driving left flush
to the break of the ribs. |
TWO TELLING BLOWS
That one punch did more to win
the fight than any other single
blow: Dupre recoiled under the
impact and went into retreat. But
Reid, sensing the advantage
gained, poured home a CALLING fire
of short arm blows. Bravely Dupre
fought against the whirling fists
Of his opponent and the two stood
toe to toe and slugged it out until
the bell ended the round.
Dupre's best punch in the fight
was a perfect right crosse counter
that Jared Reid from head to-
heels in the sixth round. Tony
led a left to the head and Reid,
quick as a flash crossed his right.
It was a perfect move in theory,
but Dupre threw up a high left
shoulder defense, took the punch
on his arm and banged home a
counter to the cross. With a little
more fire the blow might have
spilled AL, but the fire was missing.
Reid showed nifty little trick.
Early in the battle both boys
bobbed like a couple of gamecocks.
Apparently disgusted, Reid turned
and walked away, but when Dupre
fell into the trap and followed, AL
struck him with a left jab.
REID OFF IN FRONT
Reid took the first round with
his mitigating, but Dupre grabbed
the second with clean boxing, stab
bing and hooking his leo hand to
the face. Inside, the boys tried to
spin each other into awkward posi-
tionS and both smothered all ef-
forts to fight.
At the end of the third round
Reid landed a terrific left to the
chin that about erased Dupre's
early lead on faster boxing. After
losing the fourth on points, Dupre
drove ahead and had an edge IN
the fifth and sixth rounds on
cleaner boxing that carried him
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