The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-01
BUFF BELTS OUT
 TAYLOR IN LESS THAN h MINUTE
Sensational Finish to Main Col riSh=AmeriCan
 Team Good
BY HUGO HOOKJiB

With the second largest crowd in recent years attending, the most |, sensational finish of show in Con- necticut boxing history was pro vided by Frankie Buff, South End /, middleWeight, who knocked out his conqueror of two weeks ago with | the first punch thrown. The entire !! bout, count included lasted but 20 | seconds though the Mary Ann i, landed in just half that time, creat- l ing some sort of record for a short :! ! fight. Talk of sucker shot" on the | part of Buff and loud squaWk on | the part of the Bridgeport boys |
 handler was recognized by those : who know the boxing rules as just | so much noise, for the knockout was | perfectly legitimate and made pos sible by Taylor's effort to shake , hands" after the bell hit for the i start of the round, lowering both hands and leaving his jaws and I head completely exposed. Buff let | one short right hook go and it ! caught Taylor flush on the proverb- ial button" The sudden-neSs of the i K. o. was disbelieved by many in the crowd who did not see it, some | thinking Taylor took dive. How | ever, 1t was one of the greatest and | cleanest knockouts ever scored in a Connecticut ring, as well as the | shortest on record in this state. ! Prior to the bout Taylor had won 20 or 21 bouts, including a decision over Buff in this city two weeks ago.
 HOulihan Won, But Lost The Irish-American A. c. team of | five boxers from Newark, N. J. handled by Jack O'Connor, form CT Connecticut manager of anna teur boxers, did not go home with a decision, though it most certainly should have had one in favor of Danny Houlihan who lost the off, cial verdict to Irish Johnny Hayes of Bridgeport.
 Hayes won the first round but Houlihan came back like a landlord | in the second heat to outboX and | outpunch Hayes, whose holding tac-
 tics alone should have cost him the ! third round and the cecision to say nothing of Houlihan forcing the | fight, and landing some sharp left and right hands, while making Hayes miss some of his best punch es then fall into clinch and hold on like a drowning man. The deci- sion was roundly ridiculed for sev- eral minuteS-and rightly so. It was very tough break for Houlihan who came out of a New | | York subway, where he works until | 4:30 D. m. rode to Waterbury with | little or nothing to eat, and then | outpointed one of the best light i, weights in the state, only to have i | the decision taken from him. Champ Held Even
 Mickey OToole, another Jersey | Harp, and state lightweight champ, ! Tommy Ciarlo fought to sizzling
 draw in another blood tingler. By | 1 splitting hairs, Ciarlo could have l been given the edge but he tried | rapidly in the final round while | any margin in his favor was so close that draw was a good deci- | sion. Tommy did well indeed con- | sidering the hard fight he had We'd | nesday night at SaVin Rock, where | he was outpointed by left-handed | l Bobby Ellis of New Britain.
 1 Johnny Devore of Bridgeport, one
 of the classest 128 pound boys in | the state outpunched and outpoint- ed Johnny Callahan, 128 of Newark, | d knockdoWn in the second round | gave DeVore good big edge and | the decision. Pat O'Reilly another | Newark boy at 138 p6unds was the | victim of clean r-pleXis punch | | by Dick TurcOtte and was counted |
 out in 2:35 of the first round. ] Jackie Fitzpatrick was no match at | all for Bristol Billy Perrin who got | a TKO nod when the bout was halted in the second round to save | Fitz from further punishment
 Chief Second Jack Sharkey, tired of Charley Thomas's showing | against strong Joe Wallick in
 the all- Waterbury light heavy
 weight battle and threw in the towel in the second round. Wallick used | most of his l74 pounds to advantage to push the colored boy around All Even
 Bobby Thomas, l47, clever Shel- ton boxer, held the hard hitting Jimmy Strong, IA, Bridgeport col ored boy, to a draw, Strong, a hard hitter was tied up frequently by Thomas who scored a number of points with his long left to the face.
 Up and Down
 Joe Stire, IA, defeated Frankie Mars, Al, in an Waterbury tilt which saw both punching each other at will The youngsters, new to the game, fired away until they were exhausted Mars went down in the first round for nine, and again in the third for the same count in the second stanza.
 Jackie Perrin, l23, Bristol scored technical knockout over Larry Johnson, l30, Bridgeport in the third round of tho opcnfpU hn,if