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...Tony Canzoneri, world's lightweight boxing champion: a catchweight bout against Billy Townsend of Vancouver; by a knockout after 1 min., 5 sec. of the first round; in Madison Square Garden...
...patois of pugilism, "natural" is a noun. It means a fight between two popular, able plug-uglies with a definite issue at stake. The natural in the lightweight division has been for some time a match between cocky little Tony Canzoneri, whose puffy mouth stretches all the way across his broad, flat face, and saturnine, hammer-handed Billy Petrolle, "The Fargo Express," with Canzoneri defending his title. It was scheduled for last summer, postponed when Petrolle hurt his arm in training, finally fought out last week before a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...
...bout was no natural for Petrolle: he normally fights at 140 lb., had to take off eight pounds in eleven days to make the limit (135 lb.). Canzoneri soon discovered the result. Cool and chipper, an 8-to-5 favorite, he brushed away Petrolle's usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with...
Hardly less gory and sincere were Sammy Fuller and Jack ("Kid") Berg in New York, the former outpointing the latter in twelve rounds. Fuller's victory was supposed to entitle him to meet the champion, Tony Canzoneri, between whom and Petrolle there is little to choose...
...Indian blanket which he wears instead of a bathrobe and said: "He's the gamest guy I ever fought." Battalino, knocked out for the first time in his career in a fight which observers compared to the greatest in lightweight history, was comforted by being matched with Tony Canzoneri for the lightweight championship...