The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-14
SUGGS TO 5 FAVORITE OVER
 ITALIAN WELTER
MOntanari Seeks KOya; DOty, Bell Hot; Pana-
 ma Champ to Show
BY HUGO HooKJA,


 Waterbury fight fans who have never seen the colored welterweight boxer-slugger Oscar Suggs of New Bedford are in for a most pleasant surprise, tomorrow night, when he gets his hands up in the feature eight round bout at Buckingham Hall. His opponent, Francesca Mon- tanari of Italy is known quantity" hereabouts, and, to say the least, the doughty Italian has more than pleased local ringworms with his style of fighting and courage, even when 8 loser.
 Suggs, it may be remembered, is the lad who gave Dick Turcotte quite a going over, with the aid of nearly 12 pounds in weight, and he, in turn, took quite a licking from Al Bernard of Texas in New Haven two weeks ago. On form, and fig uring Suggs' boxing ability and heavy punching power, he figures a .7 to favorite over Montanari a knockout victim of Cat Robinson in his last showing in Waterbury.
 Tries Hard
 Montanari is harder hitter than Suggs and has courage to boot, SO, if he is taking a licking in the early rounds, he never stops trying to get over that kayo wallop such as he did with Howard Wright, New York negro just as good as Suggs in every respect, and heavier.
 Red Doty of Hartford and Jimmy Bell of New Haven, is the second "black and white" bout on the pro- gram which may rival the main go for action, as both lads are very fast and hard-hitters in the bargain. Bell is slight choice in this bout and may win by a knockout if he isn't stopped himself as Doty hits hard enough to do it, and on one of his good" nights he is almost unbeat- able.
 Johnny Compo's loss to the card seemed sad, for a day or SO, but the Waterbury A. c. matchmaking de=. partment has come up with Hive" replacement in the person of Andre Sarilla, featherweight champion of Panama who meets up with Dom Ffantini, the New York lad who gave Compo quite a battle here a month ago, and there are more than a few who feel the Compo handlers are ducking the issue with Fiantini, when they pulled out with "heavy cold" statement explaining why Compo can't go on. However, the promoters feel that Sarilla will be more than match for the able Fi- antini, who recently lost a decision in New York to Lulu Constantine, winner of 29 bouts, only to bring on a heavy chorus of Bronx cheers when the nod went to Constantine, many fans thinking the wrong guy got the nod. Sarilla is said to have beaten Tony Forte and Joey Stack of Philadelphia and lost to Harry Jeffra and Spider Armstrong.
 Knockout?
 Another leather pushing soiree that may develop more than a little interest is the six round special in which Maxie-KatZ, the titian-haired Hebrew and Dula Kovach the hard hitting Hungarion from Naugatuck. A slam -bang fight, with little science but more swinging from the floor" figures to take place in this go with a knockout not too unlikely Kovach, in pre-battle statement says: it Max no difference to me who fight, and Katz will meet up with a bull dog who hits instead of bites. l should take him in about three"
 Ohio Gianelli of Town Plot and Chick Rathbun of Hebrown a popu- lar fighter in Norwich will open the show in bout that will prove a real test for Gianelli, as Rathbun can box bit and is quite heavy hitter All in all tomorrow nights battles at the Buck should be something to look forward to, which is why the S.R.O. sign may be dusted off about 8:20 D. m,