Sport: Beer Punch

In the Stone Age a fight was simply a fight. A throwback to Stone-Age man is potbellied Tony Galento, Orange, N. J. bartender, who shrugs his chubby shoulders at the fancy art of boxing, scoffs at the modern mode of training. Tony Galento's fighting technique is amazingly simple: His attack is limited to one sweeping motion with his left hand; his defense takes care of itself.

In Manhattan last week, 230-lb. Tony Galento—also known as Two-Ton Tony, the Jersey Nightstick, the TNT Kid, the One-Man Riot and the "beer barrel that walks like a...

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