A favorite won and the crowd hooted. This was the unusual happening, last Monday, when Johnny Dundee (Guiseppe Carrora) regained his Junior Lightweight (130-pound) boxing title from Jack Bernstein in a bout at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.
The odds up to the last minute were somewhat against Dundee, but there was no doubt that the fans were for him, when he entered the ring.
There followed 15 rounds of mauling with Dundee doing none of his usual bumptious fighting. The fans and the journalists watching could credit Dundee with at most only three victorious rounds,...
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