The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
TURCOTTE STOPS. SULLIVAN AFTER A HARD BATTLE
Stomach Punch Ends Main G6 in Fifth; Perrin Boys,
 Wallace Save Show
BY HUGO HOOKJAB

Just about the time several legal minded geeks were thinking of suing the Waterbury A. c. for talk ing money under false pretenses, along came 8 square-headed kid from the wildS of Wolcott and the elder of the two Perrin boys from Brisjol for three rounder in the middle of a pro-amateur program last night at Randolph-Clowes sta- dium, that drew 1,457 paying cus- toners Vb the first outdoor show of the local season.
 Watta Fite!
 Joe Wallace, the ring-tag by which he is now known, was the kid from Wolcott, 159 pounds of left handed dynamite. Billy Perrin is a former state middleweight cham pion who never puts up bad fight. When the bout ended in the third round Wallace had won by a TKO when he gashed Perrin's eyebrow with flock of sizzling socks, so badly, that Referee Dan Buckley stopped the go. In the meantime, Perrin had been punched into a state of near-paralysis in the first round but came back so strongly in the second that he had Wallace, iron-jaw, sharks skin and all, ill a bad way, but the natural strength of the Wolcott farm boy, who works IA hours a day lugging ice and milk, allowed him to come on again and punch Perrin silly. The fight made the patrons forget all about series of pediculous preliminaries that were quite lop-sided and dull. Wal lace, handled by Jumping Joe Mo bile, weighed 159, Perrin, 155.
 Then came "A karat exhibition of bicycle-riding by terrified Tom Collins whose main object ill life was to stay three rounds with Billy Towne of Springfield, the boy who knocked him out two weeks ago at Buckingham hall, after Collins had foored Towne in the first round.
 Town won all the way, while the rematch was distinctly "floperoo."
 When Charley Baginski of Spring field and Jackie Perrin of Bristol, younger brother of Bill, got into the ring, most of the customers expect ed fight and they got one. Per- rim sailed out of his corner, stalked Baginski, New England 126 pound champion and f1oored him with a series of punches to the body and jaw. Charley took nine count, got I'D. and gave Perrin quite battle through the second round, outpoint- ing him easily and seemed to be on the way to a well-earned decision in the third, when Perrin found the range again and finished with half dozen hard "potshots" to Bag inski's chin. The decision, which went to Perrin, was earned, f1gur- ing his big margin in the first and strong comeback in tht third.
 Sullivan Stopped
 Dick Turcotte took two of the hardest stomach punches he ever will get when Irish Johnny Sulli- van of New Haven got to the To- cal champ in the first round, but the fight ended in the fifth with Sullivan on the floor, knocked out with one of the fastest punches ever seen in local ring. Many of the customers thought Sullivan slipped, fell, tainted or just went down, but the fact is Turcotte whipped a rib- cracking left hook to the Sullivan solar-pleXus which dropped the New Havener, who could not get his wind" for five minutes, was unable to come out for the sixth round, and gave Turvotte TKO win in the sixth. At the time the fighting stopped Sullivan, he was not in front of the scoring, as Sul- livan got to him often as Dick backed away going Gin and out" and doing little damage because he was bouncing around so much. The however, was beauty and may have silenced some of the carping critics of the clean-living, first class fighter who knocked out the able and game Sullivan, who was far from the "setup" many thought he was going to be. Sul- livan also had five pounds in the 149 against IA.
 Other Results
 George Jordan, 140, Springfield, and Joe Firpo, IA, Meriden, drew; Norman Guerard, TIT, Lichfield, de- Ken Reinhart, 166, Water bury; Sammy Craig, 150, Waterbury, decisioned Bobby Thomas. 146, Shel- ton; Walter Adomaitis, 160, Nauga- tuck, decisioned John Carey, 1856, Billy Brown, 146, Water bury, and Lou Leonard, 146, Bristol, drew; Walter Poloski, 1853, Nauga-