The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
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EAGLE DEFEATS ART M'ALPINE
 IN FEATURE GO
KnOckdOwn in Third; Mor- ris, Katz Impressive;
 Perrin Loses
BY HUGO HoOKJAB

BY HUGO HOOKJAB
 All and sundry agreed that Charley Eagle, whose ringcraft, like wine. has improved with age and weight, is quite 8 better boy than the middle weight of two years ago who was content to "swing 'em from the floor and hope for the best" Last night at Buckingham Hall, Eagle, enjoy ing distinct weight advantage, but easily outpointed game Art McAl- pine, sturdy Springfield negro and proved to some 1,500 patrons of the manly art of self-defense that he is much improved fighter, who came with in an ace of providing a sensa- tional third round knockout against the willy negro who has seldom been beaten in nearly 75 battles as an amateur and professional.
 Referee Jim Galvin's card gave Eagle 39 to 31 edge when the eight rounds of action were over, McAlpine contributing plenty of "heart' and not little fighting abil- ity, plus plenty of poundage.
 Announcer Jack (not the Giant Killer) Freney gave out with the information that the next Water bury A. c. show in two weeks would feature Irish Eddie olan and Baby Jack Thompson of Albany, N. r., the only boxer to beat Dick Turcotte twice in two bouts.
 Took It Easy
 Both Eagle and McAlpine started cautiously, the local lad holding an edge in hitting which he widened in the third round when he hoored the dusky ringman with sizzling right hand smash to the jaw. McAl- pine a "9" count and was wobbly when he got up, but Eagle could not finish him, nor knock him down again in the next round, the bout going the limit. Arts eyebrow was cut bit in later rounds but he fin- ished strong. Weights were an- nounced as Eagle 181, McAlpine, 176.
 In the prelins, several of which were crammed with action, Sam Shumway, Q substitute for Babe Bergeron was too smart for Billy Perrin of Bristol, outpointing the latter in a six round go which fea- tured Shumway'S boxing ability, taking care of Perrin's right hand power from start to finish, with one or two minor lapSes. Shumway, from Webster, Mass, was seldom in trou- ble, though the boys swapped heavy right hand socks several times. Sam scaled l60, Perrin 158k.
 Easy for Morris
 Gil (Babyface) Morris of Danbury used his famed "bolo" punch spar ingly, but had more than enough on the ball to defeat Babe Genovese of New York, substitute for Ernie Costa, though Genovese, nifty boxer, started the first round as though he was going to pin the Morris ears so far back they would be unrecognizable. Babyface found the range in the middle of the sec- ond heat, and from then on, had things pretty much his own way as he slowed Genovese down to the proverbial walk with body punches that took the breath and ambition out of the loser for four of the six rounds. Morris weight 132, Geno- vese, 12Sh.
 Armand Renault of Springfield and Sammy Craig of the north end fought to 8 draw which was not taken too well by the crowd, which forgot Craig'S early advantage in the face of strong finish by Re- nault which won the last round handily. To the writer the decision seemed excellent. Renault was cas- fly outboxe6 and outpunched for the first three rounds, but Craig tired a bit in the closing rounds and lied with his chin" more than was good for him. There ware no knock downs. Craig scaled 1451a, Renault, l43.
 Red Max Kats, the Jewish boy with the violinist,s hair, (and it's red, at that) looked very good in win ing the opening four round go with sulky Romeo Ducharme of Holyoke. Katz started punchicng early and did not stop until the referee decid- ed Ducharme had enough in the third round. Katz, 1641s, Ducharme, 166.