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Alias: Phantom of Philly Nationality: US American Hometown: , PA Born: 1902-11-29 Died: 1982-07-07 Age at Death: 79 Height: 5′ 11½″ Reach: 73 inches Division: Light Manager: Joe Smith

Tommy Loughran (born November 29, 1902, Philadelphia, PA – died July 7, 1982, Altoona, PA) was the 1927-1929 undefeated Light-Heavyweight Champion of the world and is regarded as one of the most skilled fighters of all time.

Loughran's effective use of coordinated foot work, sound defense and swift, accurate counter punching is now regarded as a precursor to the techniques practiced in modern boxing. Loughran fought many , light-heavyweight, and heavyweight champions in his career - including , and . In his esteemed career Loughran even achieved a Newspaper Decision over fistic phenom . Loughran was but 19 years old when he first met Greb.

As a , he defeated two future world heavyweight champions: and James J. Braddock. Loughran finally fought for the Heavyweight title. Despite the 8 inch size disadvantage, the age disadvantage and weight disadvantage Loughran was up against, he still managed to beat the colossus - at least that's how the fans and critics since have ruled it. The judges however thought differently.

In later years, when interviewed for the book, In this Corner...[1], Loughran reportedly agreed to only be awarded a win if he could stop the giant. Considering the conditions, Loughran's state and Carnera's connections, it is not unfair to assume some sort of corruption was at hand.

While Loughran is remembered among boxing's elite, his career was marred by his fragile hands and jaw. Loughran was also a very small Light heavyweight and possessed no fear of larger men. Loughran fought regularly, even taking fights with only a few hours notice. When examining Loughran's career one must consider the, almost masochistic, abuse Loughran embraced.

He was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was the Ring Magazine's Fighter of the Year in 1929 and 1931.

The Orlean Evening Times 7 January 1928 Loughran Retains Light Heavyweight Championship Outpoints Lomski In Bitter Fight Is Floored Twice Comes Back To Get Judges' Decision— Challenger Opens With Vicious Attack.

New York, Jan. 7.—For my money although frankly I don't mean the entire $3.62, I'll take the fighter who can arise from a leaning posture upon the floor and come on to win. That is to say, I'll take him but not in the sense that Barnum took the sap. Almost nobody can do that and none realized better today than Leo Lomski, challenger last night for the world's light heavyweight championship.

Ho still was a challenger this morning, for good as Lomski proved to be, there can be only one champion and Tommy Loughran amply demonstrated that he alone was entitled to the Toga. No one but a champion can laugh off two terrific knockdowns in the first few minutes of play, turn completely over on his head from the force of the initial one, and then resume the frolic to such effect that a wholly justifiable decision was earned at the end of fifteen glittering rounds.

Gentlemen, if only occasionally so, here was a prize fight.

Bring on the so-called heavyweight contenders and let us see If they have a jaw like Loughran's or a like Lomski's. after what happened last night, and things never stopped happening, the matter is open to a reasonable doubt. Lomski is a bit short in stature for heavyweight business but a lot of other considerations would he equal, what with his speed, his punch, his unrelenting aggressiveness and his chin. It met more gloves than a horseshow devotee and didn't seem to notice the fact at all.

My scoring gave Loughran nine rounds, Lomski four, and called the other two even. You will notice that I refrain from referring to the occasion as a bout or match. Strict accuracy forbids, it was a fight and nothing but

The fight by rounds:

Round One

Tommy measured his opponent carefully, sticking two lefts to his body by way of introduction. A right smash knocked Loughran down for the count of nine. It came like a flash and almost from nowhere. Tommy came up cautiously and fell into a clinch where Lomski crashed a dozen solid rights to his heart. Loughran was cool under the fire but Lomski batted him fiercely at the ropes.

Tommy worked clear and slashed to I.omskl's head. Another right to the chin floored Loughran for nine. Tommy now was badly dazed. lie was backing away at the bell.

Round Two

Tommy's seconds spent a busy minute during the rest period. The champion sparred very carefully, backing away and ducking each time Lomski cocked his deadly right. A glancing right jarred Lomski to the heels. Tommy whipped another right to Lomskl's temple and the coast boy wavered. The champion whipped both hands to Lomski's head, but only succeeded in pushing Leo half way through the ropes. Tommy stung Lomski with a left and right to the head but took two stiff left hooks on the chin as the hell rang.

Round Three

Tommy's left was carried very high and carefully guarding his chin. Tommy stabbed the challenger a dozen times with his left before Lomski again crashed his right to Tommy's head. The blow bounced the champion into a corner, but he came back punching furiously. Lomki appeared over-anxious and missed frequently. With wild lunges as Loughran coolly stabbed with his left, ducked, and danced away. Tommy's left continually threw Lomski's wicked right out of gear. The champion sent Lomski to his corner with a pat on his shoulder as the bell rang.

Round Four

Lomski dug a right deep under Tommy's heart. Another right to the ribs shook the champion and Lomski ripped in with a left and right to the head. Tommy poked with his left while Lomski prowled around him looking vainly for an opening. A left cut Loughran's lips, but Tommy drove over rights to chin and body. Lomski was surging in with a wild body attack as the gong sounded.

Round Five

Lomski just grinned as Tommy opened up and crashed two rights to the chin. Two stiff rights dug into the champion's ribs as Lomski began to play steadily for the body. Tommy buried a right sock in Lomski’s stomach and the challenger's knees sagged. Tommy boxed him carefully, however. Lomski's driving right clicked high on Loughran's cheek just before the bell.

Round Six

With his title in the balance, Tommy still fought carefully, jabbing for openings and holding frantically when a Lomski storm blew up around his body. The crowd yelled each time Loughran grabbed the aggressive free-punching challenger. Lomski ripped in both hands flying and beat Tommy badly about the head. Lomski sailed Loughran into the ropes and was hammering him severely about the body at the bell.

Round Seven

Cagey, the champion worked his left to the head and body while Lomski worked about him busily but without effect. Tommy bent under a driving right to the heart. Refusing to save energy Lomski crowded forward constantly punching and champion and challenger mixed strenuously In a two- fisted exchange at the ropes. Lomski was still coming in, with Tommy pecking away and retreating as the round ended.

Round Eight

Lomski came out cautiously saving his strength and danced with Tommy to the tune of left . A right to the chin bounced Lomski into the ropes. Another as he came off , drove all the cautiousness from the coast boy and he ripped frantically for Tommy's body. A sharp right cut Lomski's left eye badly. Blood seeped down the whole side of his face. He refused to back up, however, and threw everything into a wild body attack that drove Tommy to a corner, chin and body covered as the bell sounded.

Round Nine

Tommy's first shot cracked Lomski’s right eye open again. Seconds had closed it temporarily between rounds. The champion played carefully for the gash, pecking at it, until the crowd booed. Lomski just closed that eye, put his head down and waded in with both fists flying to head and body, in a desperate effort to put over a finishing punch. He was still stepping in to considerable punishment at the gong.

Round Ten

Lomski came out with a furious rally that drove Tommy back into his corner under a storm of smashes to the head and body. The champion held frantically, while Lomski, looking through a red haze, whipped his hands to the champion's mid-section. Tommy slipped and a right crash under his head. A left hook to the chin staggered the champion. Like, a maddened, animal Lomski flayed Loughran about the head with both bands, but the bell saved the titleholder.

Round Eleven

Lomski tore all the way across the ring with a left to the head. The champion went into full retreat, trailing a left jab behind as he went. Tommy dug two left hooks in Lomski’s stomach and tried in vain to reopen the cut over Lomski’s eye. Seconds had closed it again between rounds. A left hook to the head rattled Tommy's teeth. Lomski swarmed all over him pounding wildly at Tommy's head. The champion drove home a stunning right hook to the chin that stopped Lomski at the bell.

Round Twelve

Tommy ripped into the challenger, apparently gaining in strength as the challenger slowed down a trifle. A left hook buried deep in Lomski’s body. A right smash bounced off the challengers chin. Tommy smashed both hands to body and Lomski’s hands began to hang heavy. For the first time the challenger was in retreat as Loughran hammered both hands to the stomach. Lomski rallied with a flurry at the bell.

Round Thirteen

Lomski plowed forward into the steady tattoo of loughrans left and sank a deep left into the champions body. Tommy crashed a full right into the challengers chin but he could not stop his steady punching assault to the body. A right to the chin turned Lomski half way around. A left hook spun him back, but he still came in, missing with both hands.Tommy was jabbing lomski and ripping to the heart at the bell.

Round Fourteen

Lomsky appeared a bit tired from his terrific forcing attack and he was content to swap jabs for a moment. Tommy absorbed Lomski’s right under the heart as be flicked right and left into the challengers head. Lomski continued to force the fighting but run into Loughran’s short rights up to the bell. Lomski missed frequently as he sought to end the match with one wild plunge.

Round Fifteen

Lomski took a deep breath and hurled himself at The champion for a final effort. Tommy met him with a stinging left jab, two solid right hooks to the chin and a smash to the body, Lomski cracked right and left on Loughran's ribs before they fell into a clinch. Tommy threw two long rights into Lomski’s head but took a pair to the body. Tommy fought furiously with both hands at the bell.

The Havre Daily News – Montana 20 August 1929

Walker takes Decision In Furious Ten round Mill With Lomski

BOXERS PUT ON REAL SLUGGING Score Sheet Gives Toy Bulldog Six Rounds; Lomski Three With One Even

By EDWARD J. Neil

PHILADELPHIA,. Aug. 19. (AP) —Mickey "Walker, the embattled toy bulldog, who has ruled two fistic divisions in his ten years of leather slinging, geared himself up another notch tonight and punched his way right into the heart of the light heavyweight domain. Before a crowd of 25.000 in the center of the Sesqui Centennial stadium, the king of the , hammered out a ten round decision over Leo Lomski, clouting blonde from Aberdeen. Wash., and did the job so thoroughly that three times the ace of the light heavyweight contenders was on the verge of a .

The victory gave walker, champion before winning the middleweight crown ,unofficial leg on the light heavyweight title which Tommy Loughran, is expected to relinquish in order to joust in the future with the .

Scaling six pounds above the middleweight limit, the Jerseyman tonight raged all over the ring as the battered and mauled Lomski, the man who twice floored Loughran in a title fight almost two years ago.

In the third, seventh and ninth rounds, Mickey's furious attack, 'studded with left hooks that rang out on Lomski's chin and body, hammered the Pacific coast star to the verge of a knockout. But each time Lomski came back.

From the opening gong with never a let-up, the air was filled with flying leather as the clean cut gladiators, both in splendid condition worked into a fighting fury and stayed there.

Although Walker as well as Lomski. was badly stung at times, punishment seemed only to make the pair fight the harder. The speed and fury of the milling kept the crowd, a mere handful compared to the 'mammoth throng that filled the famous stadium for the Tunney-Dempsey battle here in 1926. in a constant state of uproar.

Aside from Walker's occasional lapses into his usual and weaving style of milling, the pair cast science aside and slugged the thing out.

The Associated Press score sheet gave Walker a decided margin in six rounds, with three for Lomski and the tenth even. The decision of the judges and referee was unanimous.

ROUND ONE

Lomski poked cautiously at Walkers head with a left and took two solid left hooks in return. The Aberdeen slasher chased Walker into the ropes, hooking- his left hand steadily to the middleweight champion's chin, but another rousing left stung him on the chin. Leo was wild as he rushed Walker across the ring. Two solid rights however shook Mickey to the heels just before the gong.

ROUND TWO

Lomski fought aggressively and stung Walker with a straight left to the chin. But he ran into a storm of leather as the infuriated toy bulldog lashed back with both hands to the head. Walker smashed his foe all the way cross the ring with a punishing barrage of left and right hooks to the head and body. They battled wildly on the ropes and back to mid ring swapping clouts until the bell rang.

ROUND THREE

Thoroughly warmed up now, they swapped left Jabs in the center of the ring, danced and hooked and filled the ring with fast, exciting action. Walker threw two long rights to Lomski's jaw but Leo increased his pace and speared the bulldog's face with, left jabs. A hard left drew blood from Lomski's lips just before the gong.

ROUND FOUR

Micket outsmarted the Pacific coast star shifted his style frequently and stung Leo with the speed of his attack. Mickey's left hook seeped steadily through Lomski's guard and one 'terrific left smashed to the body almost floored the Aberdeen boy. Badly hurt, Leo held a moment and then ripped back furiously -with both hands.He was forcing the issue at the bell.

ROUND FIVE

Lomski increased his speed by jabbing furiously with his left and tying up the toy" bulldog effectively in the clinches that followed. Buried under the leather storm, Walker hung on and slowed up as Lomski shifting to a wild swinging attack smashed the middleweight champion around the ring. Walker reeled under a straight right smash to the chin, stumbled into the ropes and took a thorough hiding up to the gong.

ROUND SIX

Despite the terrific pace, neither sought to slow the milling and Lomski fought furiously to keep the upper hand. He rushed Mickey across the ring before two busy hands but was stopped short by a left hook to the chin. Lomski lashed a hard right and stinging left hook to Walker's cheek, but Mickey managed to land two short hooks, at the bell.

ROUND SEVEN

Walker took the upper hand again, swinging his left in wide arcs, from crouch to Lomski's chin. One solid smash as they battled on the ropes staggered Leo. They called each other names as they broke clear and the referee scowled. Lomski wilted as Mickey swarmed all over him with left hooks, but rallied and battled Walker grimly in a neutral corner as the bell sounded.

ROUND EIGHT

A left hook to the ear and an overhead knocked Lomski to the ropes and brought him out battling furiously. He stayed close to Walker, pounding for the head while Mickey beat a drum fire on his body. A right smash to the head failed to stop Walker and he ripped both hands to Lomski's head and body on the ropes. They stayed at long range until the bell, Lomski swapping his right to the head for Mickey's sturdy left hooks.

ROUND NINE

Lomski rushed Walker to the ropes and battered heartily with both hands opening a cut over Mickey's left eye. A left and right to the head knocked Lomski into the ropes and his knees buckled under him. He was badly hurt and held on as Walker belted him about the ring. Lomski well in close, staggering as Walker kept up his battering attack. Shaking his head clear, Lomski threw two rights into Walker's head and held on until his head cleared and the hell sounded. He staggered to his corner bleeding from a cut under his right eye.

ROUND TEN

They shook hands for the final round and Lomski apparently fully recovered, drove Walker into a corner with a stream of rights to the head. Mickey fought back courageously, but took another storm of smashes to the head, as Leo drove him across the ring and into another corner. Walker fought his way clear and looped a hard left to Lomski's chin. The pace never slackened as they smashed at each other's heads without any attempt at scientific mauling. They fell into the ropes, still pushing wildly and fought their way out and across the ring again without a letup. Lomski smashed in a final wallop, a right to the chin.

The Billings Gazette 8 October 1927 Irishman Loses His crown Over decision Route Philadelphian Lifts Light Heavyweight Crown From Veteran in 15-Round Fight.

New York, Oct. 7.

Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia Friday night lifted the light heavyweight championship from Mike McTigue, getting the Judges decision at the end of 15 rounds. The contest was marked by frequent claims of fouls in the early rounds, but there also was much heavy punching.

Through the entire fight the veteran McTigue carried the fight to Loughran, but Tommy defended himself and piled up points. He rocked McTigue a number of times with heavy blows to the head and stomach.

In the fourteenth McTigue came out stronger than his 10-year younger challenger and drove him around the ring with a furious barrage of lefts and rights. The old warrior , when he was expected to be tired, Mike slashed and banged away until it seemed Loughran could not last the round.

Cheer Decision.

The decision was cheered loudly, and there was scarcely a boo as the crowd learned that McTigue had lost the light heavyweight emblem which the New York boxing commission conferred on him in July after it was vacated by of Bridgeport, who joined the ranks of the heavies. It was McTigue’s first fight to defend the title. He rallied too late, however to save it.

Loughran rushed from his corner in the first and sent three stiff rights and left to McTigue's head. They hurt Mike, but he soon took the play away from Tommy with a heavy right jolt to the Jaw. In the last 15 seconds of the round Tommy took three hard punches to the head.

In the second. Mike took a number of light ones to get in to drive a stiff right o Tommy's head that shook the Philadelphian. In the third, Mike complained of having been struck low. After this he took a flurry of rights and lefts to the head and came back to drive on to the stomach. After three seemingly low blows, Loughran was warned to keep them up Mike came back to send a right and left to the head.

The fourth round was mostly arguments about fouls, with both claiming to have received them. Mike, after complaining of a low blow, took a hard right to the jaw. Then Loughran claimed a foul. Mike then claimed another foul, and Tommy was warned to keep them up.

The fifth saw Mike tear into shake Loughran with a right and left. Tommy went after him shaking him with a terrific right to the head. Loughran was twice again warned to keep them up Because of confusion at the bell spectators thought that McTigue had won on a foul, the referee sending Loughran to his corner.

Tommy Rocks Mike.

The sixth saw them both take real punishment to head and body. Often they stood toe to toe and slugged away In the seventh, but Mike came back.

Loughran rocked Mike with a right only to run into left jabs. Mike's right caught Tommy in the stomach, a very hard blow that slowed down the Philadelphian.

In the eighth Loughran kept coming In. In a furious exchange, both took terrific jolts to the stomach, and both seemed hurt. The bell overtook them in a scramble In a neutral corner.

The ninth saw McTigue taking quite a drubbing, Loughran forcing his way into the body and jabbing the head at long range. Mike kept coming in and finally caught Tommy with two hard rights to head and stomach.

In the tenth Loughran rushed in to send two hard rights to the head. Then he caught Mike with three sharp upper cuts and in an exchange he took a hard right to the head and gave half a dozen in its place. Mike seemed to slow down a bit and was hurt as Tommy sent an other half dozen or so to the head.

In the eleventh Mike took a left to the stomach that brought an expression of pain to his face.

Boxes Cleverly.

Mike kept coming in, but was missing. Tommy boxed cleverly to help this, and Mike took a sharp . Tommy kept leading with his left, and driving his right to the head, Mike fighting back gamely.

Tommy kept up his jabbing in the twelfth, Mike dogging him, around to get close. Tommy sent in a flurry of rights and lefts to the head. McTigue was missing often. Tommy again was told to keep his punches higher. The thirteenth started with Mike driving a terrific right to Tommy's stomach. The crowd cheered the veteran as he followed Loughran around the ring. Mike's left eye had a hen's egg lump over it. Both had slowed down considerably.

In the fourteenth Mike tore in to send Tommy reeling with a barrage of rights and lefts to the head. Tommy was slowed down and seemed hurt at the bell.

McTigue came out in the fifteenth with a rush. He hammered away at Loughran's head and body, scoring at long range and having the best of it at close quarters. Loughran covered up under the barrage and was reeling around the ring as the bell rang. The Bridgeport Telegram 13 December 1927

Loughran's Rush in Final Rounds Wears Slattery Down Buffalo Youngster Chooses to Swap Punches with Philadelphia Rival after Loughran Wears Him down with Body Blows—Crowd Is Dissatisfied with Decision

By Edward J Neil

Madison Square Garden , NewYork, Dec. 12—(By Associated Press.)

The light heavyweight championship of the world, a diadem disputed for months between the representatives of the New York State Athletic commission and the National Boxing association rested tonight on the curly-headed thatch of Tommy Loughran. Sturdy heavy fisted youngster from Philadelphia.

Loughran, recognized in New York as king of the 175 pounders won the crown beyond all dispute by whipping . rival standard-bearer, in a thrilling fifteen round match that kept 15.000 spectators in the spacious arena in a constant uproar. At the close the crowd roared their disapproval of the decision, and cheers for the Buffalo boy and his game stand volleyed to the rafters as the fighters left the ring.

Despite masterly boxing ability that at times made the speedy Loughran appear slow by comparison, and a willingness to swap punches with an opponent enjoying an eight pound weight advantage, the lithe New York youngster appeared to have been bettered in eight of the 15 rounds after winning five and holding Loughran even for two.

Came With Rush.

Tommy came with a rush toward the close, when Slatterv's dancing legs tired under the torrid pace and arms, wearied by constant blocking, grew trembly and weak. Then it was that Loughran. bleeding slightly from a cut Jimmy had opened under his left eye, stormed in close, flailed both hands in an unceasing stream to the body, and pounded out his margin of victory.

The match was a brilliant display by two master craftsmen, clean, decisive punchers, fast and furious workmen. Showing all the form that won him heraldy as another Jim Corbett before the flashing fists of knocked him from prominence, Slattery outboxed and outgeneralled Loughran through, the early rounds.

Hands hanging limply at his sides "Slats" bounced around the ring, flipping stinging Jabs into Loughran's eves and whipping solid right crosses to the chin. After him pounded the "Philadelphia Adonis," grim and unrelenting. out speeded but by no means out gamed.

Slattery Slows Up.

The occasional right hand shots Loughran drilled into Slattery s body slowed the lighter youth, brought his speed closer to his own and wore the lean youngster down steadily. As his speed gave out under the long grind, Slattery chose to mix in close, swap shots with his husky rival— and lose all claim to the 175 pound title, fighting rather than running away.

There were no knockdowns and neither was in serious danger at any time during the sensational milling, although several times Slattery's clean . rifle-like shots to the chin shot Loughran's 'head back. But Tommy always was able to retaliate by storming in close, laying a barrage on Slattery's ribs, and driving the Buffalo youth away with overhand smashes to the head.

Loughran scaled-in at 173 ½ pounds Slattery 165 ½ .

By Rounds

Round One

Both were very cautious as they pranced in the centre of the the ring measuring each other with light lefts to the head. Tommy cut loose with a fierce two fisted body attack that drove Slattery into a neutral corner arms doubled across his ribs. Boxing flashily, Jimmy worked his way out and speared Loughran with lefts to the head but Tommy's fists dug solidly Into the Buffalo boys body. Tommy punched Slattery viciously with short rights to the ribs on the rope. Slattery broke away and peppered Tommy's face with lefts at the bell.

ROUND TWO

They formed a pretty picture, dancing cleverly in the center of the ring shooting with both hands to the head and body, shots that traveled almost too fast. Tommy punched through Slattery's dazzling footwork and rocked the Buffalo boy with a right under the heart. Jimmy gave ground, backing away behind a whiplash left, but Tommy caught him and ripped to his body at the ropes. They jabbed and retreated simultaneously so that the bell found them standing in their own corners with Slattery winking confidently at the ringside denizens.

ROUND THREE

Loughran came steaming out on the offensive shooting lefts to Slattery's chin . Jimmy ducked and dodged backwards, spearing Loughran neatly with a left and right to the head when Tommy missed once. Loughran was warned when a right dropped below the foul line. Slattery took the offensive, threw caution to the wind, and they slugged to the head and body like a pair of leaden footed heavyweights in the center of the room while the crowd roared approval. They broke loose to look the situation over as the gong clanged.

ROUND FOUR

Tommy snapped his left in the general direction of Slattery six times before he managed to tap jimmy’s nose. They were content to jab and duck, counter and block until Slattery chased Loughran into the ropes where they swapped rights to the body. Slattery was dazzlingly fast and Tommy appeared slow and a bit puzzled in comparison. Dancing around hands at his sides. Slattery forced Loughran to miss and march disgusted with back turned to the centre of the ring just before the bell.

ROUND FIVE

The dancing masters pranced and strutted until Loughran smashed Jimmy with a solid right to the chin. Slattery backed into the ropes shooting out a poisonous left, but Tommy crashed both hands solidly to the body. Pinned on the ropes, Slattery took a left and right hook to the head. They were bruising to the body in a clinch when the bell rang.

ROUND SIX

Loughran threw a light to Slattery's chin coming almost all the way across the ring. Jimmie stabbed with the left and danced out of danger, not wasting a motion saving every bit of strength, Slattery boxed about cannily and swapped head punches with Loughran only when an advantage offered. That style brought Tommy in with chin uncovered and Slats smashed him soundly around the head and body with a volley of lefts and rights at the bell.

ROUND SEVEN

Loughran was very cautious, but traded two smashes to Slattery's chin for one right on his own. Jimmy stabbed left and opened a cut under Tommy's, left eye. The going was very fast, both shooting punches with either hand and ripping about the ring in a vain effort to find a real opening for a decisive count. The bell found them sparring.

ROUND EIGHT

Slattery jarred Loughran with three right crosses to the head and drilled his right to the body for good measure. The punches slowed Tommy and his left grew wild. Slattery’s sport weapon bounced steadily to Loughran's head. Slattery cracked a left and right to the chin and Tommy was glad to hold. Tommy ripped a right to Slavery's chin but took two solid clouts to the heart in return. They were dancing at the bell.

ROUND NINE-.

Slattery backed away Tommy’s body attack but Slattery nearly tumbled him from the ring with rights to the ear. Slattery chased the New York champion around the ring with a sizzling attack to the body These shots slowed Loughran and a solid right to the jaw made him hold. In a fierce free swinging exchange at the ropes Loughran drilled Slattery with whistling drives that backed Jimmy into the ropes. The crowd yelled frantically as they smashed head and body until the bell.

ROUND TEN

Loughran slammed a left and right into Jimmy. A right to the forehead shot jimmy s " head back. Tommy punched incessantly in an effort to break through the buffalo youths defense. Jiminy danced away from most of the harm, However and occasionally snapped Loughran’s- head back with his spearing left. Loughran was tired but forcing the issue at the bell.

ROUND ELEVEN

Slattery bounced around apparently fresh as ever while Tommy seemed to have slowed down a bit. Loughran walked straight through Jimmy’s defense with a left uppercut to the chin. Tommy forced Jimmy to the ropes and pounded his mid section . Slattery was content to stab and run saving his energy. A right bounced Slats into the ropes at the gong.

ROUND TWELVE

Again Loughran pinned Slattery on the ropes.Tommy was hooking viciously into Jimmy a body and Jimmy backed into the ropes under another two fisted attack to the head. Left jabs filled the space between them as they danced around the ring. Loughran chased Slattery into the ropes for another fierce body battering. They were sparring at the bell.

ROUND THIRTEEN

Loughran appeared the stronger as they swapped rights to the head. They shuttled back and forth. Tommy bore in close and nailed Slattery with left and right hooks to the jaw. A short right caught Slattery of balance and he went backward into the ropes, Loughran tore after him, getting both hands to the chin as the bell stopped tommy’s best opportunity of the evening.

ROUND FOURTEEN

Slattery rallied to chase Loughran into a corner. Jimmy sent a half dozen hooks to the head. Tommy worked loose and drove Jimmy back with a stiff right to the ear. Slattery appeared arm weary as Tommy smashed to the chin. Wipping back viciously Slattery battered Loughran about the head at the bell on the ropes.

ROUND FIFTEEN

Science went by the boards as both tore together slashing head and body with both hands. Neither gave ground and a two fisted slugging duel in the center of the ring. Slattery smashed a right to Loughran’s chin and took a light counter to the chin in return. Tommy threw two overhand rights full into Slattery's Jaw, Slattery hung on. Slattery pounded the body. Tommy fought his way out with short rights to the head. They were locked in a fierce melee in the center of the ring at the final gong.

The Titusville Herald 17 July 1928 TOM LOUGHRAN RETAINS CROWN IN CLOSE BOUT

Wins Decision Over by Margin of One Round.

CHALLENGER STAGES RALLY AT FINISH

Miner Rushes Champ Through Battle, But Winner Is Too Clever For Him.

By EDWARD J. NEIL Associated Press Sports Writer

WILKES-BARRE, July 16.—While rain hovered in the sky and seats and the ring alike sogged under an early downfall, pudgy Pete Latzo. pride of this anthracite mining center, battled with all the viciousness and pride of a kid fighting in his own back yard but in vain—tonight for Tommy Loughran's light heavyweight championship.

Game as his stand was, furious as his gallant attack, the brown skinned youth was forced to bow for the second time this season to the mastery of the Philadelphian.

By the narrowest of margins was one of the most vicious skirmishes of the. outdoor season decided in Loughran's favor after ten rounds of the kind of milling that had even the spectators, bitter partisans in this all- struggle, fighting among themselves. The Associated Press score card gave Loughran five rounds with four for the challenger and one even.

"Battled Champ Two Months Ago

A little over two months ago, Latzo. once the welterweight champion, but now grown to a full- fledged light heavyweight, battled Loughran on almost as even terms in a 15-round go in . .And tonight, as then, the gameness and plunging, two-fisted attack of the challenger carne within an ace of stripping Loughran of his crown.

Remembering that fight and hoping for the best, the miners who trooped to Scranton two years ago to see Peter, then a lithe 147-pounder, batter 's welterweight crown into the shape of his own head, flocked out tonight to honor the former breaker boy and cheer him to victory. But with honor in his grasp and Loughran fading before him in the third and fourth rounds, Pete found that he had wasted too much strength in his rushing assault.

Loughran Takes Fresh Hold

Then it was that Loughran took a fresh hold, and stabbed out the decision over his closest rival in the 175-pound division. Rallying in the middle rounds, Tommy boxed his way to enough of an advantage to hold Pete off again when he stormed the championship citadel with a final desperate rally in the last two rounds.

Boxing as cleverly as he ever has, Loughran had. Latzo totally at sea in the first round. Again in the second, the champion, boxing like a well- oiled machine, poured a flood of gloves into Pete's face that had the miner constantly gnawing the leather of his left hand.

But the one trait that seems to rise in every fight--to threaten Loughran's perfect boxing technique—inability to defend himself properly on the ropes caught Tommy in the fourth. Pete. game and rushing every second, stormed the champion to the ropes and in a-moment the .entire complexion of the battle was changed. Ripping rights and lefts to the head staggered Tommy as Latzo pinned him to the hempen barriers and poured a storm of leather into the champion's head and body. .Loughran came away with a streak of blood crossing his right eyebrow. Within another round Latzo’s vicious attack had opened a broad cut there and blood streamed into the champions eyes and down his face. Here the strength Latzo had been saving for just a moment failed him. He allowed the titleholder to steal the show with stabbing lefts as Tommy danced backward around the ring, eyes foggy, brain a bit numb, but instinct, still controlling his fists. Before Latzo could gain control again the opportunity was lost and Pete's second chance of winning his second crown went aglimmering. '

It mattered little that Latzo, after letting the next three rounds drift to Tommy with the eighth even, rallied in the final two sessions, whaled into Loughran with new vigor and again cut his eye and cheek. The effort was too long delayed. The champion had retained his title by the margin of a single round and the coal regions must wait for another champion.

The crowd of approximately 15,000 paid $60,000 to see the show. Promoter Morgan Bird was reported to have paid Loughran $25,000 to defend the title while latzo received $7,500.

The Salt Lake Tribune 6 February 1929

Loughran Gains Decision Over Emanuel

Jewish Barrister Bows for Second time

Tommy Loughran, the Philadelphia light-heavyweight champion, won a ten-round decision from Armand Emanuel of San Francisco before more than 10,000 fans who packed the Olympic auditorium here tonight.

Loughran, the master boxer, scared Emanuel with a fancy assortment of lefts and rights to win a decisive victory and earn the right to meet Paolino Uzcudun or possibly a shot at the winner of the Sharkey Stribling bout.

Both fighters were over the light heavyweight limit.

ROUND ONE

Loughran scored right to head. Emanuel hooked two lefts and Loughran left to body. Loughran jabbed two lefts to nose. Tommy jabbed left and then right to body. Emanuel missed left uppercut and hard right. Emanuel ducked left. Louthran missed left. They traded lefts to head. and repeated. Armand. sent two lefts to chest and light left to jaw at bell.

ROUND TWO

Both sparred cautiously. Loughran sent left to head and Armand countered with left jab. Tommy sent left to stomach and to head. Loughran jabbed. He sent a long left to the stomach. Loughran hooked left and crossed with right that grazed chin. Emanuel sent two right to body in clinch. Emanuel sent two uppercuts to chin. Tommy hooked with a left and Emanuel crossed with right. Loughran sent overhand right that Emanuel stepped away from, sending three right uppercuts to stomach. Loughran ducked right and hooked left to jaw. He repeated with a left to shoulder at bell.

ROUND THREE.

Loughran stabbed left. Both exchanged lefts. Emanuel beating Tommy with a left. Tommy missed right. Emanuel stuck another left in Loughran's face. Emanuel right to jaw. Tommy sent two stiff lefts to the stomach. Arnand's nose started to bleed a bit. Loughran sent left to stomach and right to ribs. Emanuel drove three rights to ear in clinch. Emanuel drove a hard right to stomach. Emanuel sent Louthran's head back with a straight left. Loughran landed in back of the ear with a. light right. They clinched at the bell.

ROUND FOUR.

Both jabbed lefts. Armand landed left. They sparred cautiously. Loughran sent left to head and stiff right to head in uppercut. Emanuel blocked Loughran's body blows in clinch. Emanuel jabbed two lefts. Loughran put left to stomach and drove right to body in a clinch. Loughran jabbed left and Emanuel crossed a light right. Armand sent a stiff right to head. Loughran drove right to heart and Emanuel hooked a left to head, right to body, making Loughran break ground. Emanuel sent left to body and both dug in. Emanuel put a right to head and ducked a left counter as the bell rang.

ROUND FIVE;

Emanuel sent right to Jaw, and Tommy a left to chest. Emanuel put a left to nose and took one in return. Loughran drove a hard right to the midriff. In a scuffle both nearly fell down. Emanuel sent left to to stomach and Loughran put a straight right to the jaw that dazzled Emanuel. He came back with another right and Loughran grazed Emanuel's jaw with a right. Tommy whipped a left uppercut to the chin. Armand missed an overhand right . Both landed lefts and rights.'It was Loughran's best round so far.

ROUND SIX.

Emanuel landed two lefts, and Loughran sent lefts to stomach: Armand took a left on the nose and sent a left to the head. Loughran got Emanuel off balance and dug three rights and three lefts to the body. Emanuel sent a snappy right to the head and Tommy countered with a left and then then traded lefts. Tommy stayed in the ring center and made Emanuel circle him. Armand landed a left to the bead and Loughran put in two lefts. Tommy jabbed left and Armand sent left and right to head. They sparred. cautiously. Emanuel missed a right haymaker. Loughran shot in. a right uppercut and a hard right to the jaw. Armand came back with a light right to the bead at the bell.

ROUND SEVEN.

Loughran repeatedly beat Emanuel to the punch with lefts. When Emanuel bored in Loughran missed a hard right cross.Emanuel hooked left to head and Tommy's overhand right grazed the jaw. Emanuel sent a right to head and two rights to the body. Loughran hooked a left low and the referee. Roth, warned him. Emanuel sent two straight lefts to the head. Loughran jabbed left. Armand sent left to the head and a stiff right to the head. Loughran sent right to head. Emanuel uppercut stiff right. Emanuel sent a left hook as Loughran was off balance and the latter fell to the floor. As he arose Emanuel landed a hard right to the head. Referee Roth indicated It was not a knockdown.

ROUND EIGHT.

Loughran swung hard right to the head as Emanuel cracked his head with a right. They traded rights and lefts. Loughran tried to score with a right and Emanuel hooked a. left. Emanuel blocked two left hooks. Armand put right to the body. Emanuel grazed Tommy's forehead with another right. They traded four lefts. It was a beautiful exhibition of blocking. Both jabbed with lefts. , Loughran sent right to the body and they clinched. Loughran sent a right to the head and three lefts to the stomach and Emanuel put a right to the stomach. Loughran landed a right to the neck.

ROUND NINE.

Loughran came out swinging his left. Loughran drove a right uppercut to the body. Armand ducked away from an overhand right and came back with a straight left to the Jaw. Loughran ducked undera left lead end sent a right to the body.

ROUND TEN.

Loughran drove three lefts to the head. He began bouncing around and beat Armand to the punch. .Armand stepped away from a right hand and landed on shoulder. Armand drove a right to the body and took a left to the head in return. Emanuel hooked a stiff left to the head. Armand stabbed too lefts. Emanuel swung left and right to the head. Emanuel drove a right to the stomach. As they came out of a clinch. Loughran drove a right to the head as the bell rang. The Billings Gazette 19 July 1929 Champ Easily Outpoints Jersey Jimmy 15 Rounds In Defense Of His Crown

YANKEY S T A D I U M , New York, J u l y 18.—(AP) —

Tommy Loughran dispelled all doubt about his ability to dominate the light heavyweight division Thursday night by administering a sound thrashing to his youthful challenger, Jimmy Braddock, In 15 rounds that for the most part were dull and one-sided.

Few masters of ringcraft have ever manifested so clear and undisputed superiority as did Loughran in the skillful manner he cuffed, punched and punished the 23-year-old youth from the other side of the Hudson.

In the opinion of a majority of ringsiders Loughran won at least 12 or 13 rounds. The unanimous decision of the two Judges and Referee Eddie Forbes, at the close of the bout was a mere formality.

On just two occasions. In the first and seventh rounds was the world's 175-pound champion apparently inany danger or difficulties. Almost from the first punch of the fight, a short inside left by Braddock opened a severe cut over Loughran's left eye. This not only started a stream of blood that half blinded the titleholder, but so flustered him that Braddock was able to land telling punches to the head and body.

Tommy Opens Gash

Safely past this bothersome episode and back inn complete command of the fight. Loughran had Braddock in distress In the seventh round. In the previous rounds, the facial damage was evened when Tommy opened a gash at the side of Jimmy's right eye. But as they emerged from a mixup near the of the seventh, Loughran's Face quickly became a mass of blood from n fresh cut, almost in the center of his forehead, apparently i|t was caused from a grazing left, but it also was claimed in Loughran's corner that the challenger had butted the champion to open the cut.

Whatever the cause the champion was for a few moments the bloodier of the two figures and the crowd yelled for more as it urged Jimmy on. Instead, Loughran, hastily repaired, came out In the eighth to turn the match into a rout and cuff Braddock all over the ring for the rest of the fight.

From the tenth round, there was not the slightest, question of the outcome as the champion, handling Braddock with ease at close quarters. Jabbed, poked and baffled the young challenger with an assortment of blows that were punishing, even though not particularly damaging Loughran outsmarted and outboxed Jimmy by so wide a margin toward the close that the crowd began hooting derisively,

No Knockdowns.

There were no knockdowns, although twice early in the fight Loughran slipped in his efforts to dodge Braddock's persistent rushes. Both times the champion caught himself by going into a clinch. Loughran not only demonstrated complete superiority over the challenger, thereby registering his seventh successive and successful title defense within a period less than two years, but the handsome Philadelphia boxer disproved all advance alarm that he was sapping his strength in making the 175-pounrl limit. Tommy came In at 174 pounds, four more than Braddock, and was stronger at the finish than his rival.

The bout was witnessed by one of the smallest crowds that has ever turned out for s major championship match in an outdoor metropolitan arena. Official figures were lacking, but it was estimated the attendance was about 26,000 and the gate receipts in the neighborhood of $100,000.

In the 10-round semifinal put on after the main bout because of a threat of rain early in the evening the veteran middleweight, Dave Shade, scored a surprisingly decisive victory over Rene Devos, hard hittin Belgian. The crouching, bobbing Shade outboxed and outpunched his rival consistently. Each weighed 159 ½ .

Round One.

Loughran led with his left jab and handled the challenger easily in a clinch. The champion came out of the mixup with a nasty gash over his left eye. Blood streamed from the cut. It seemed to spurt the champion into action and the fight began at a fast clip. Braddock smashed hard right to Tommy's head but missed two swings. Loughran kept jabbing with his left but was unable to keep the challenger from coming in close with a body attack. They were in a clinch at the bell.

Round Two

They swapped punches in the center of the ring and clinched. The champion fought carefully showing a healthy respect for Braddock's right Tommy slipped and only a clinch saved him from to the floor as he dodged Jimmy's charge. The challenger was forcing the fight but missing as often as he landed. Braddock landed an over-hand right to the head as he forced the champion into a corner. Loughran went back on his heels from a solid left to the head just before the gong sounded.

Round Three.

Loughran boxed and jabbed as he fought to stop Braddock's doggedly persistent rushes. The challenger started, a fresh flow of blood from the cut over Tommy's eye and gave the champion both fists in a lively mixup. Loughran's defensive tactics slowed up the fight. Loughran backed up against the ropes, Loughran chose to fight and smashed Braddock solidly about the head. One of the champion's blows cut Braddock's nose just before the end of the round.

Round Four,

After a succession of clinches, Braddock drove the champion back with a right to the head and a left hook to the stomach. The champion kept sticking his left into Jimmy's face and had the Irishman swinging wildly There was a cut now under Loughan's right eye. Braddock stalked his rival with right hand poised but seldom found a target as Loughran shifted and boxed cleverly. Jimmy took a stiff left to the nose just before the bell.

Round Five.

Braddock drove a right hook to the ribs and repeated with an uppercut that landed under Tommy's heart.They spent, a lot of time clinching at lose quarters. The champion clearly outgeneraled the young Jersey man. Loughran smashed a series of rights to the jaw a and took a light left to the body as he sidestepped Braddock's counter-attack. Tommy's left seemed to puzzle the challenger but he connected to the champion's jaw with ,a hard overhand right. Loughran hooked his left to the body as the round ended.

Round Six.

Braddock came out of his come with head lowered to open a determined charge. He forced the champion about the ring but found difficulty connecting. Loughran side stepped and jabbed to upset the challengers rushes. Repeatedly he threw Jimmy off balance and punished the challenger about the head at close range. Braddock was buffeted around but kept up the pursuit. One of Loughran's sharp lefts opened a cut at the side of Braddock's right eye. The champion had his young rival in a bad way at the bell.

Round Seven

They came out for action and each with patched up eyes, The champion drove several hard lefts and rights to Braddock’s head and blocked the challenger's counter. Loughran had Braddock backing away from his two-fisted drive just when Loughran appeared to have Jimmy in distress. Another severe cut was opened by a glancing blow to the champion's forehead. In a twinkling Tommy's face was a mass of blood. Loughran backed a way and appeared half blinded by the stream but he had a smile left as he came to his corner at the end of round.

Round Eight . Loughran came out to set a fast pace. he was fighting with a succession of sharp clouts to the challenger's head and the crowd was in an uproar. The champion had Braddok missing badly. They clinched after exchanging lefts to the body. Tommy took a left smash to the head but cuffed Jimmy around the ring. The champion handled his young rival as a master would his pupil. Braddock was taking a scientific boxing lesson at the bell.

Round Nine.

Loughran lost no time poking his efficient left hand into the challenger's face. Jimmy did not seem Jimmy did not seem discouraged but apparently realized that, his main chance was to connect with his right providing he could find the target. Loughran outsrnarted the challenger at every turn but Jimmy kept boring in. One of Braddock’s blows started the blood flowing again slightly from the champion's cut head. The challenger absorbed stiff lefts to the head and had his counter blows plucked out of the air. Braddock: missed an overhand right by a foot and the crowd groaned as the round ended,

Round Ten.

Jimmy came out with determination written all over his face. The challenger worked both fists to the body forcing the champion to a clinch. Loughran brought his defensive tactics to play to check Braddock's lunges. He brought Jimmy up short once and then again with right uppercuts. Loughran picked off most of Braddock's blows and put the challenger repeatedly off balance by clever use of his left. They were sparring at the bell.

Round Eleven

Braddock plunged right back in where he left off, still hunting for Loughran's chin. Instead his own was clipped by a right uppercut. Jimmy was smiling after taking several light blows to the face.

After being handled easily in a series of clinches, Braddock gestured to the champion to "come on and fight." Loughran responded with pair of stiff wallops to the head. Jimmy forced the champion into the ropes but took enough time out to answer several loud-voiced ringside critics. They broke from a clinch at the bell.

Round Twelve.

Braddock stalked the champion about the ring without getting much satisfaction. The champion, realizing the big margin he had piled up on points, took no chances and stayed strictly on the defensive. The crowd clapped for action and got clinches. Tommy danced in and out of his rival's reach, meanwhile massaging the challenger with his left. The champion fired both hands to the Jersey boy's head and ducked a vicious left just as the bell sounded

Round Thirteen.

Braddock bored back into a flurry of blows, The crowd yelled as the champion speared Jimmy with his left and jumped out of the challenger's reach. Tommy was content to spar and clinch but Tom took one to the face. The champion waded in for a moment with both hands punishing Braddock about the body But there was comparatively little action. Loughran was in complete command of the situation and stood Jimmy off easily with well directed jabs as the round ended.

Round Fourteen

Braddock plunged in with a body attack and drove the champion to the ropes. Tommy gestures to Braddock to step in and fight. The challenger let both fists fly and clipped the titleholder on the jaw. Both appeared to be exchanging remarks that were anything but complimentary. Tommy, in derision and Jimmy in some desperation. Meanwhile Braddock connected with a overhand right to the head but took punishment at close range Loughran smacked his right to the face and took a straight left to the jaw. The challenger missed a half dozen other swings just as the round ended.

Round Fifteen.

Braddock charged in taking another series of baffling pokes from Tommy's talented left. Loughran tied up the challenger easily but was forced into a corner by Jimmy's impetuous rush Loughran landed his right to the head and avoided another of Jimmy's wild plunges. They were tied up most of the time in clinches but Loughran took a few light blows to the head in a corner. They were sparring at the bell. Nevada State

Journal 2

Carnera Decisions Loughran Keeps Title

Giant Unable To Knockout His Opponent

Philadelphian Has Little of Old Ability By STUART CAMERON

MIAMI, Fla., March 1.

Primo Carnera, Italy's man mountain, successfully defended his world.'s heavyweight championship here tonight by outpointing Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia in 15 slow and tedious rounds.

It was one of the hollowest victories ever scored by a heavyweight champion. Despite an 85- pound difference in the weights and a tremendous advantage in height and youth, the clumsy, lumbering Italian was unable even to score a single knockdown.

Carnera Opens Up in 15th

Not until the closing rounds, when his great weight had worn the challenger down, did Carnera show to advantage. In fact, it was not until the 13th round, when Loughran was so spent he barely could lift his arms, that Carnera waded in and showed fire and fight that is associated with holders of pugilism's .highest title.

Loughran carried nothing more into the ring with him than a great fighting; heart, the remnant of his once great left hand, and the cunning accumulated in more than a decade of campaigning.

Crowd Is Small

For more than half the battle his meager equipment was sufficient to hold Carnera at bay. When they went into the seventh round Loughran held a two-to-one advantage, having won four successive rounds after dropping the opening, two.

The fight set an all-time low for attendance and gate receipts. Fewer than 23,00 were in the big Madison Square Garden arena for the fight, and' the receipts could not have exceeded $55.000.

The bout was made all the more depressing by an occasional downpour of rain.

Speed, Stamina Lacking

The decision was unanimous, Referee , Leo Shea and Judges Red McLaughlin and Art Latham, turning in score-cards in Carnera's favor. The United Press tally agreed with that of the officials, giving Loughran four rounds and Carnera eleven.

Loughran's bid for victory and the championship he has been gunning for 15 years ended when he won the sixth round -by slamming home a hard right at the bell.

Beginning with the seventh he did not win another round. He fought brilliantly in spots, but the old speed and stamina was gone.

Carnera Thrice Warned

Carnera was quick to sense his rival's letdown, and beginning with the eighth round he increased his pace and moved to the attack. It was not a vicious attack. Not once during the bout did the 'big Italian charge in recklessly, pin Loughran in a corner, and defy him to get out.

His charge was more that of a slightly annoyed bear than anything else. He would shuffle in, cuff Loughran about the face and body, and then step back to inspect his damage. Often he would embrace Loughran in his great grasp, shake him roughly, and attempt to fling him to the floor. Three times the referee was forced to warn him for this illegal move, and in the first and ninth rounds cautioned Prime against stamping on his opponent's feet.

Carnera Fails to K. O.

At each of these warnings the crowd, which was with the slight challenger to a man, gave Carnera a rousing round of boos.

If Carnera had had a bit more of the killer spirit, and a bit more authority in his punches, he could not have failed to knock Loughran down, and possibly out, in the 14th or 15th round.

A glancing right knocked the spent challenger groggy shortly after the bell sent them into action for the 14th. Camera then proceeded to lay down a 'barrage of rights and lefts that kept Louhran bouncing on and off the ropes. He was so dazed at the bell that he insisted on-going to Carnera's corner, and it was necessary for Bill Duffy, Primo's -chief second, to escort him, to his own seat.

Forced to Clinch

Only his unflagging spirit kept Loughran erect in the 15th. Several times it seemed that his quivering knees must buckle beneath him, but on each occasion he summoned strength from some where and kept erect.

Near the close Tommy's weariness overcame even his stout heart and he was forced to stagger into clinch after clinch, where he could grab Carnera for support, to 'Keep from going down.

The first two rounds saw Carnera furnish a surprise by repeatedly beating Loughran to the punch with left jabs. In these heats Loughran had difficulty in finding the range, and he appeared baffled by Carnera's tremendous size. Beginning with the third, however, he began to find the range. Circling backward he flicked left after left into Camera's face as the giant, in chasing his man. left openings.

Loughran Jars Carnera

In the fourth round Loughran suddenly switched his attack to the body, and before Carnera could get his guard adjusted, scored half a dozen or so clean, if tame; shots to the body.

Carnera had the better of the first minute of fighting in the fifth but the Philadelphian came to life to take the play away from his ponderous foe to win his third straight round and gain, a heartening cheer from his friends,.

Loughran surprised everybody, including himself, by jarring Carnera at the beginning of the sixth with a sweeping left hook to the .chin. Pressing his advantage Loughran danced in and peppered the Italian with shots from both wings, forcing Carnera to clinch repeatedly.

Little Blood Is Shed

Near the close of the round Carnera bounced one of his tremendous fists off Tommy's head, opening a small gash that sent a thin trickle of blood down the former light heavyweight champion's cheeks. It was the only blood shed during the entire 15 rounds.

It was in the seventh round that Carnera, for the first time since round two, caught up with his elusive foe. He started Loughran into retreat with a heavy right to the face, and followed by a heavy cannonading against the ropes. It was at close quarters that Loughran was most helpless against the giant Carnera. Loughran appeared more like a boy than a man and his efforts to beat down Carners’s guards were entirely futile.

Carnera Speeds Up

They continued their game of tag in the eighth round with the Champion twice catching his man, pinning Him against the ropes and giving him the works fore and aft. They ere tremendous blows that Carnera dealt but their cumulative effect began to take their toll. Loughran’s footwork became loggier , his left lost it’s snap and body blows brought a grimace to his face.

Carnera continued his pounding and clinching in the ninth but Loughran landed another hard left hook to the jaw early in the session making the big fellow grunt. Angered Carnera tore after him, drove him to the ropes and cuffed him about the head. In the 10th Carnera was warned again for stepping on Tommy’s foot. He staggered Tommy with a stiff right to the face.

Crowd Likes Tommy

Carnera was booed for his tactics particularly in th e 12th when he drove his right elbow into the Philadelphian’s body. Tommy was beginning to be handicapped somewhat by the wet canvas. Rain was falling in a fine drizzle.

Although beaten badly Loughran was popular with the crowd. He made a game fight against tremendous physical handicaps. Carnera outweighed him 270pounds to 184 and was younger. Tommy is 34 while Carnera is only 27. Early in the night it seemed that the bout might be postponed for a third time. A drenching downpour started at 9;30pm, half an hour before the main bout was scheduled to start. It let up and cleared temporarily and the program was run off.

Little Betting

Many had brought umbrellas, particularly those in the $20 ringside sections – those who wore evening clothes.

Carnera had entered the ring the 3 to 1 favorite but there was little betting. Most experts figured Carnera’s chances were 10 to 1 and they were surprised when Tommy lasted the limit.

Carnera will receive 40 per cent of the net, Loughran 10 per cent. Apparently Tommy’s raining expenses will be barely covered.

Neither was marked up in the fighting. Carnera grinned happily in his dressing room when a study of the mirror revealed his face unscathed. He said one of his eyes was sore and rubbed ice on it.

He explained his failure to knock out Tommy “ I did my best but he always got away from me just when I was I ready to floor him."