Hoots

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, the last three, and possibly two other rounds drawn. The judges brought in a decision favoring Dundee. There was blank astonishment. Then a chorus of hoots and denunciations shook the building.

The Critics:

Wilbur Wood: "It will be many a year before the memory of the decision handed down in the Bernstein-Dundee fight can be softened down sufficiently to prevent sportsman from undergoing an attack of nausea when it is called to mind."

The New York Times: "The decision shocked a crowd of 13,589 persons who paid $74,970 to see the title struggle."