Evening star., 1941-03-01
Cady Barely Gets Nod
Al Start Of A. A. u.
Ring Title Quest
Unnecessary Roushness
Is Costly to Petro;
Three T. K. O.'s Scored
BY BILL DIsMER, Jr.

Unnecessary roughness cost
Petro the fight" Referee La Fond
said today in explaining why he
and Judges Charley Reynolds and
DR.. o. U. Singer gave Bernie Cady
the nod over Apollo A. C.'s heavily
backed representative in the only
senior A. A. U. bout at Turner's
Arena last night.
The decision, climaxing an eve
ming which had seen three tech
nical knockouts and heated action
in all but one of the nine bouts,
aroused a storm of protest by Petro's
followers.
La Fond said that 1t was one of
those fights in which the decision
might have gone either way, all
other things being equal, but that
the illegal tactics of Charley, one
Of four fighting Petro brothers, left
the referee and the judges no al
Tentative but to award the fight to
the Golden Gloves featherweight
champion.
No KnOckdowns i'm Fight.
Both boys punched hard through
out and both were reluctant to
break at La Fonds commands in
the final round, but there were no
knockdowns and neither was Wis
IDLY marked at the end of the fight.
The rivals carried a grudge into the
ring from Wednesdays weighing-in
ceremonies when Cady failed to
make the weight and was given an
extra day to reduce. Petro had
threatened to pull out of the tour
nament at this ruling.
The slowest fight on the card
singularly produced the first whole
sale applause of the evening. That
was the 136-pound quarter-final
bout in which Rex Saunders of
National Training School scored
technical knockout over Paul Nc
Call Of the Red Shield Club in 1;2o
OF the third round after Mccall had
drawn boos by a refusal to fight.
Every time Saunders started any,
thing. Mccall fell into a clinch. but
lefts to the face put Mccall out on
ms feet before the referee stopped
1t.
Hoffman Scores.
Another 135-pound fight also
ended in a tk.o. for Eddie Hoffman
OF Merrick Boys Club over Mike
Towarniki of No. Police Club.
Hoffman had knocked Towarniki
down twice in the first round and the
latter had slipped to the canvas on
a third occasion, but Hoffman's
knockdown in the second round
caused La Fond to stop it after 20
seconds
Al Edick, one of two of Alex
andrias st. Mary's Boys Club to
win, scored the only other knockout
when he peppered Ray Taylor's face
and body at will after Taylor had
staged rather even battle in the
initial round. But when Edick got
Taylor in a corner and continued to
hammer away. Tubba Farrell STEP
ped in after lao of the second round
to save his fighter from further
punishment. The boys fought in
the 160-pound division.
Other bouts saw Harry (Red)
Baldwin, another st. Mary's BOYS
Club standard-bearer, nullify Ed
Alexander's desperate clinches to
win quarter-flnal 147-pound en-
gagement, and Owen (Red) Abel
flick continuous left in Dan Ewell's
face to win another match in this
division.
Cross 112-Pound Victor.
George Gross knocked Roger
Watts down in the third round to
put the finishing touches on his
general all-around mastery in the
opening 112-pound fight, while
Benny Rodill mastered Carl Holz-
bierlein in another lively bout in
the same division.
Danny Mclaughlin entered the
semifinals of the 126-pound class by
defeating Carter Duley, despite his
refusal to follow up obvious ad-
vantages.
Summaries:
pods cnS SoSsF eOss NG Mst
kos Red Shield taFss g. sSaPSf ontpSined ssHnz csi
Holzbierlein mo. 10 Police Club: three
126-pound class-Danny Mclaughlin
(Merrick Club outpointed Carter Duley
Red Shield A. c.; three rounds
135-pound class-Rex Saunders ma
tional Training SCHOOL, won technical
knockout over Paul Mccall (Red Shield
A. c.; | minute 90 seconds: third round
Ed Hoffman (Merrick Club won technical
knockout over Mike Towarniki (No. S
Police Club: 90 seconds: second round.
l47-pound class-Owen Abel (Apollo A.
c. outpointed Dan Ewell prince Georges
County Police Club; three rounds Larry
Baldwin tSt. Mary's) outpointed Ed Alex
ander apollo A. CO: three rounds.
160-pound class-A Edick tSt. Mary's)
won technical knockout over pay Tavlnr