The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-10
Griffin Wins. NgeantStops Hicks in 7

Six-foot Ernie Griffin of North Carolina. Tampa. Florida and Hart ford, as he now resides in the h. suranee City of Connecticut was sharp enough last night to Win the two fight .es with Coolidge Miller of Ne 1rk before 2,500 fans attending the Waterbury A. C. boxing show at Municipal Stadium. The pair had fought to a slashing draw three weeks ago in a semi-fi- : nal go; and were rematched for a 10 round final bout last night. Grif- fin got off to great start, having Miller groggy from hard left hooks and uppercuts in the first two rounds, but the New Yorker came back strongly in later rounds. When the going got real tough. Griffin was the boss, as he was much more effective at long range and more than held his own during the steady infighting
 Hitting with open" gloves, more often than not. Miller was at a de- cided disadvantage as the well-con- ditioned Griffin peppered him steadily certainly enough to un- questionably win the decision in this writers opinion, which agreed with that of Referee Bill Conway of Hartford Miller put on quite an act when GriffinS hand was raised; but he was finally persuad ed to leave the ring. The winner scaled l67 Miller, l72
 Local Boy Stopped
 .Thomaston Frankie Vgieant met scared opponent in Bobby Hicks, knocking out the local boy in less than ! rounds, though Hicks enjoyed pull of g pounds in the weights, and went into the ring with six straight knockouts behind him, in which he was the winner Vii geant, showing for the first time in Waterbury this season. was far too shifty for Hicks; and much more adept at infighting; handling his heavier opponent as though he, rather than Hicks had g pounds best of the weights.
 In the first two or three rounds of the semi-fina rounder. which went on after the main bout, Hicks took a few hard right hand shots at Vigeant's head; but the latter easily evaded the punches, and counter punched to the body so steadily throughout the bout, that Hicks became quickly discouraged and went down in the seventh round after a close exchange Of punches: some ringSiderS claiming he was not hit hard enough to put him on the canvas. He did catch two quick punches to the pit" of the stomach just before he dropped as if shot; rolling over to be count ed out Vigeant; now winner of P of B bouts. gave an excellent eX- hibition of boxing and inhghting from start to finish. He scaled l4412 against l53ia for his opponent,
 Brown Best
 Manchesters handsome Silly Brown, whose home town is Wa terbury, Conn, LISA. punched Floyd (BaD Stroud of Tampa, and I1aI GlOlQ U lldl u dllu OlIclI IOl oIh rounds to easily win a six round decision. Stroud was shifty as usual, missed many pupnches, but did not go down, despite some hard wallops to the body and head by the belli- gerent Brown, who scaled l54, two pounds lighter than his dusky ring rival.
 Al Silyerman, q Bronx feather weight looked like first round k O. victim of Charley Harris, q clever little negro boy, Dut Silverman got ot the canCas with "3" count up and rnally floored Harris three times to win by a knockout in the third round. Silverman, l29, Harris l24
 Despite first round eyebrow cut, Johnny Lizak of Springfield con- tinued and then stopped Norman Stanley of Bridgeport in the third when Stanley was out on his feet.