The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-12
RING NATURAL
RESULTS FROM
THURSDAY SHOW
Marsh Decisions Boy Who
Stopped Him; TurcOtte
Wins, Carlo Beaten
BY HUGO HOOKJAB


At late hour last night, Water
bury A. G. officials, George Multi
gan, Michael Dance and Bobby
Kelly had just about decided upon
Dick Turcotte Of Waterbury and
Jimmy Bell, New Haven negro as
the next "rlain 60" for the sched-
uled show at Buckingham hall,
Thursday, January Is. In addition
to that natural Bobby Ellis Of New
Britain and Sammy Craig Of Water
bury whose last Suggest in this city
was q hair-raiser are to be brought
back to do 1t again: Tommy Carlo
meets Red Doty Of Hartford, an
other probable slambango, while
Billy Perrin Of Bristol and Dula
Kovach Of Naugatuck will also show
on the card against other opponents.
With a record crowd Of l,726 cash
customers on hand to see II Jimmy
Bell of New Haven could stop Doug
Marsh Of Canada for the second
time within few weeks, the best
indoor boxing program Of the sea-
son was presented last night at
Buckingham hall with a variety of
results.
Marsh, the Canadian, won point
victory over Bell In one of the two
eight round battles, but Bell made
the fight, Marsh made him miss and
the patrons made merry, as the
young New Haven negro Strove TO
land his Knockout punch to the jaw
of the bobbing( weaving, careful,
cagey Canadian who has everything
q fighter needs but the most i'm
portant attribute knockoutout
punch. To me, he is a vest pocket
edition Of Irish Billy Conn of Pitts
burgh.
Possessor of one Of the coolest
heads in boxing, picture book"
left hand, excellent footwork and
good physical condition, Marsh is
something to look at-but it's a good
thing he had an opponent more
than willing to come to him." AS
1t was the decision to Marsh was
razzed a bit because of Marsh's COM
pletely defensive tactics throughout
the eight rounds, but Marsh won
1t due, for the most part to Bells
wildness. The colored boy tried for
another one round Knockout but
Doug covered well, backpeddled and
took plenty Of time and no chances.
Referee Bill Conway's score was 80,
"a, Marsh, giving Bell but one round,
one even and six to the winner.
Dick Turcotte Of Waterbury had u
little more trouble than most people
expected when a little guy, built like
a half keg Of beer, Johnny Ward Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, went seven rounds
before Turcotte got q TKO win
when Ward, a ~ year old veteran
of ~ years ring warfare complained
Of a rib injury, Dr.. Joseph Slavin
ordering the bout stopped.
Tommy Ciarlo Of waterbury met
up with New York foe tagged
Ken Blackmer, announced as 142
pounds, who looked like q middle
weight, who gave Ciarlo quite "go-
ing over" despite being knocked down
Ciarlo tired quickly while Blackmer
chased him around for four rounds
doing plenty of damage.
Bristol Billy Perrin and colored
Billy Conklin of New Haven put on
the fight of the night. Perrin took
quite a licking in the first two
rounds from the sharp-punching
Conklin, but came back in the third
round to knock Conklin down twice
the first one as clean, hard and con-
vincing as q brick falling on an
anthill. Conklin rallied in the fourth
round but Perrin fought him toe to
toe and won the nod on the strength
Of his two knockdowns, one of them
coming at the bell AS expected, 1t
proved to be whale Of fight and
contained more action, and hard
punching than both main bouts
combined.
Naugy's Dula Kovach punched out
q tight win over huge Wheeler Louis,
210 pound Hartford negro In
mauling bee that kept everyone in
terested for four rounds.