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Show BRITTON HAS HARD FIGHT Narrowly Escapes Defeat De-feat When Brown Lands Two Hard Blows New York, Mar. 20 Jack Brltton scored a hard-earned victory over Young Brown the castslde idol, in their ten-round battle at the opening attraction of the Atlantic Gardens A. C. tonljht The Morgan entry made a runaway race of It from the first round to the last, but was forced to bring all his cleverness Into play in the last two serslons when Brown crowded him hard, swinging desperately desper-ately with both hands. In the eighth Brltton was almost put out with two blows. In only two of tho ten rounds did Brown chance to connect with anything any-thing that looked like clean punches In the fourth stanza he crowded Brit-t Brit-t n into a corner and placed a heavy glancing rinht to the jaw that brought the immense gathering to the floor with cheers for the local lad Brltton was forced to cover and stalled for a few seconds when ho cut loose and evened that up with interest, inter-est, hammering Brown about the ring, ecorlnK hnr.i lefts to the jaw and ftacnerin his opponent with vicious uppercuts. Again in the eicrhth round Brown OSiighl Uritton off his guard and hooked two hard lefts to the head, followed b a left to the body that doubled Brltton up for an instant Irf K again came back 6trong toward the close of the round and made a chopping-block of Brown, plastering lHts and rights on his head at will These were the only two rounds where Brown had a look-in. |