The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-12-15
|COMISKEY FACES
TOUGHEST TEST
OF RING WARS
Paterson white Hope"
Meets Steve Dudas at
Garden Tonight
BY HARRY FERGUSON
UNITED Press Sports Edltor)

New York, Dec. IS - (U.P) -
The big curly-haired 1rishman Ii
only 10 and still fights In the pre-
liminaries but lost Of us are going
TO crowd into Madison Square Gar
den tonight to see him because the
suspicion grows that here Is the
broth Of q boy who Is going To
knock Joe Louis of the heavy
weight throne.
The name Is Patrick Edward
Comiskey. Six feet, three inches
tall, 400 pounds--a -waisted,
broad shouldered kid who, for oil
anybody knows, may be the hardest
right hand puncher In boxing. He
still Is as clumsy as O polar bear
out Of water and his left jab Is no.
thing to write poems about but
whe nhe draws back that right and
sends 1t through, II eXplodes like the
crack Of doom.
Tonight he gets the test by fire,
for In one OF the preliminaries to
the Tippy Larkin.Al Davis fight he
goes against tough, Willy Old Steve
Dudas, O trial horse who knows oil
the tricks that can battle and exas-
perate O green kid.
II may be that Comiskey will
spend spend the entire eight rounds
Airing away with his right and
missing and he may even lose the
decision. But the betting Is even
that II he gets two clean shots at
the button, Dudas will wind tip In
q heap on the canavs, bloody and
unable TO tell what hit him.
Out A Year
Comiskey comes from Paterson, n.
j.. and those OF us who saw him
make his New York debut about q
year ago still chuckle OF the funny
picture he made when he strobe out
Of his corner against one Ted 10
borsky. He had his chin tucked In
behind his left shoulder, he moved
toward his opponent with O sort Of
crab.like motion and didn't seem
TO have the slightest idea why he
was In the ring. Laughter rippled
from the floor UP TO the top tier In
the garden on dit grew louder as
the rounds went by. But In the
third round Comiskey let fly with
his right. ZaborSky hit the canvas,
bounced about six inches and was
out. A strange silence came over the
Garden and then O roar OF cheers,
for that mob knows an authentic
knockout artist when they see one,
Since then Comiskey has been
brought slowly. His opponent Is q
little tougher each time he fights
and tonight, In Dudas, he takes on
the toughest one 10 far. In fact,
II will be O great evening for slug.
gers. Larkin and Davis can punch
and another bout matches Lew
Jenkins, y Texas lightweight, and
Billy Marquart OF Canada--both Of
whom are pretty good dynamiters
for little fellows.
Comiskey has never known what
II was TO see the referee lift the
other fellows arm. He has had "a
professional bouts and has won 20
Of the nby knockouts. He won one
decision and got one draw.
The kid Is at least two years
away from o bout with Joe Louis,
but already legends are beginning "
cluster around his name. One story
Is that q couple OF Paterson men
made o tour Of Ireland, looking for
O big strong boy who could cam.
paign as heavyweight In this
country. They found nobody IN ire
land. but when they came home
they heard about q kid who work.
al la al.
blocks from their house. They went
down 10 the gym. and there - II
years old and with O right hand
that kicked like O inule-waS Pat
ComiSkey.