The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08
WELTERWEIGHTS. 60 NEXT WEEK; DELL GETS DRAW
Angeri Defeated By Birnl- ingham Boxer; Bell,
 Collins Wins
BY HLuGO HOoKJAB


 tabana from Alabama is the new fistic Sensation locally, judged of his first Waterbury showing last night, in which he outpunched and outsmarted, tough Mike Angieri of Long Island before 8 crowd of 1,600 at Randolph Cloves Stadium. He not only impressed the customers | on hand, but the Waterbury A. c. matchmaking department, too, as it lost no time in signing him for | the main bout of eight rounds next week, against Manuel Villa, I, the | former matador from Mexico, who fought his way to g well-earned draw with Carl Dell of Oneonta, N. Y. after 8 bad start. Dell hit the | cleaner punches and plenty of them, forcing the fight most of the way, | but Villas body punching and an occasional solid right to the head and jaw, kept him "in there" every minute after the second round. As it was many thought that Villa won while many others thought Dell got the worst of the decision, which is pretty good indication that Refe- rec Lou Kid Kaplan's draw deci- sion was pretty much on the right side. Personally, the writer believed the bout to be very good draw.
 Boxer vs. Slugger
 But, to get back to Benny from Birmingham, or, if you like it the other way, Montabana from Ala bama, lost no time doing his stuff against Angieri, 8 tough customer in anybody's ring,< but Ben had anything but smooth sailing, for Michael is as tough as whale-hide and can punch like a pile-driver. However, Monty outboxed him and scored with long left hooks and right uppercutS, while Angieri got in his best licks with body att tack, but had bad habit of drop ping his left guard, at which times Montabana would whistle one through the opening like an arrow through tissue paper target. Mike slowed Benjamin down occasion ally with 8 solid right smash to the l chin, but Benny got going again | and they went into the last and eighth round with little to choose. Angieri allowed Montabana to "take I the play away from him." that is, force the fighting, during which l Monty scored often enough to win | the round going away and when Kaplan raised the winners hand, Angieri jumped three feet >in the air and yelped like an ourangoutang but to no avail for the verdict seemed as right as rain in view of | Angieri's continuous refusal to lead, and his failure to hold things any, where near even in the final round.
 As for the Dell Villa eight round- CT, it seemed as if Dell was going to stop Villa in two or three heats, so convincing was his start but | Manuel is only tough, but has a | potent though short left hook that | can rattle the ribs of any boxer it 1 reaches. On top of that, Dell did | much tugging and holding, pulling | with one hand and hitting with the | other, a distinct violation of the rules of boxing which calls for a | penalty and he was slowed down to walk more than once in the later rounds. However, Carl did the leading, forced the fight and landed l the cleaner punches, and more of them, but he had no decisive edge | at the finish, which made the even Stephen decision more than a little | bit of albright.
 Bell 8 Winner
 Ray Bonti of New York, 143 pounds appeared as substitute for one Pasquale Prazerelli against Jim- my Bell of New Haven and though Bell finished strong to win the de- cision without question, Bonti gave the negro welter from New Haven more than 8 few anxious moments Bell and Montabana would make some main go. in the opinion of the writer, as both are fast, shifty and hard hitters. However, both are on next weeks card though against different opponents. Montabana to meet Villa and Bell against worthy opponent, possibly Mike An- gieri. Earl Roys of Bristol will also be seen in a six round bout on the card, as will Cotton King, the south ern lightweight. I
 Tom Collins of Waterbury and Walter Munday of Springfield staged the "fightin'est" first round of the entire card last night. Collins scoring knockdown which even- tually earned him the nod, though scored with some hard shots to the head before the bout went its limit of four rounds. sJoEn- ny Devore of Bridgeport defeated Jack Reilly of New York in 9 four without too much trouble.
 The weights: Dell, 14S 1-2: Villa, IA 1-2: Montabana, l45; Angieri. l49; Bell, l50 1-2; Bonti, 148; De- wore. 1S4; Reilly, 136: Collins, 143: k