The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
FIANTINI EASY WINNER OF BOUT
 WITH GENTLE
Reading Feather May Meet Ivy Here; Brown Wins,
 Devens Defeated
BY JOHN A. UUNEY (SpOrts EditOr)

D1 SOkhEN As ONlONG8
 (Sports Editor)
 The 'little fellows" were the class of the card at Buckingham Hall last night, where fair-sized crowd watched Don Fiantini, Reading, Pennsylvania feather weight, easily defeat Harry Gen. tile of Hartford after a couple of bristling early rounds. Earlier, the patrons applauded the return to Waterbury of Young Earl Roys, the Bristol busy-bee who was given plenty of opposition by Hughey Civatte of Philadelphia whom he outpointed in six rounds, both boys showing plenty of clever ness and punching power.
 Billy Brown, Waterbury middle weight, punched out @ hard-tarned win over sepia-skinned Billy Conk- lin of New Haxen, Browns strong finish giving him the nod of Ref- cree Dan Buckley, the old Vil- lanova grid star and bridge expert Art McAlpine of Springfield stayed away from @ series of steaming up- percuts aimed at his chin by very black Leo Everett of New York in an all-negro semi-flnal that wound up the pleasing fight card after the main bout, McAlpine winning the decision by virtue of his bet ter boxing and stronger counter punching which had everett bleed- ing from the mouth and nose in the fifth and sixth rounds.
 Seek Ivy
 Following the fights, Waterbury A. o. rnatchmakers were very busy trying to line up 8 Dom Fiantini and Bobby Ivy bout for the open ing outdoor main liner, which would be an 8. R. O. affair in Wa terbury, from all indications. At late hour, 1t was believed that Fiantinps manager, Gus Browne of New York had agreed to the go with Ivy, with the Hartford boys representatives yet to be heard from.
 Fiantini, the lad who defeated Johnny Compo of New Haven dur ing the past winter season at Buckingham Hall, lived up to all expectations.
 Spotting Gentle four pounds, 127 to 13l, the clean-cut. fast punching and speedy feather weight from the coal district of the Quaker State soon had the best of the infighting, Gentle attempt ing to slug 1t out with his lighter foe and had to give ground to Dom's sharper punching including whistling left hooks, hard upper cuts to the body and right hand shots to the head and jaw. Gen. tile was ever-game, though, tried to fight back and had fair success for parts of the last four rounds when Fiantini seemed to slacken his pace, knowing that he was winning all the way. Gentle was tough, and could "take 1t" which he did for the greater part of the bout, scoring himself with a right hand wallop now and then but he was busy towering up" most of the way.
 without doubt, Flantini is the classiest little fellow" to show in Waterbury for several seasons, and, against Ivy would prove Q state- wide attraction.
 Fast Start
 Though there were no knock downs, Art McAlpine and Leo Ev- erett slugged 1t out in fine fashion for the first two rounds, when Mo- Alpine's better boxing began to give him the edge, which, combined with his always able punching power, had Everett hanging on, though the latter kept trying to re- move Ats head from his shoulders and with an uppercut that started from the floor and finished under the ring lights. Everett scaled 183h; McAlpine, 176H.
 Conklin gave Brown plenty Of opposition for five of the six rounds they were in action, but the Waterbury boy fights back when he is gtung, and with his superior boxing skill had enough punches land to give him the edge, though 1t was no walk-away, as Conklin an "in and out" fighter was having noe of his good nights and gave Brown unexpected oppo- sition. The colored boy also had the weight advantage 166 to i50 for Brown, who Is coming fast as a clasy ring performer and about ready for real test against a worthy middleweight.
 Hughey Civatte, Philadelphia featherweight, seemed to be an ex- perienced ring veteran who gave Earl Roys of Bristol plenty to do in punching out six round win, but the young Bell City lad was quite equal to the occasion, despite some holding and mauling by Civ atte, the winner scoring with sharp counter punches and some hard hooks that had Civatte covering up most of the way.
 Rock Devens of Town Plot start ed like Q winner hut was out punched and outboxed by Joe Buck of Springfield, Mass, 8 substitute for Danny O'Flaherty of Winsted, Buck winning the decision after four rounds of action, during which the local lad was damaged considerably about the eyes.