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Show Ew 1 . INDIAN SCRAPPER AFTER SCALPS OF "HEAVIES" (By International News Service.) OMAHA, Neb.,-May 21. Another fight manager has entered the field with a heavyweight and a middle-DV, middle-DV, weight title contender in tho person of ,w j&H Kid Graves, former world's welter-tZ' welter-tZ' weight champion, who Is managing and training George Lamson, an In-ji In-ji dian heavyweight from Indiana, and has recently signed Johnny Suden- burg, the Omaha middleweight, to do , battle In tho middle division. ;l In conjunction with Bert Rosslter, , Graves is steering the Indian heavy-fl heavy-fl weight carefully toward the heavy-I! heavy-I! fJ 1 weight crown. The Walthill (Neb.) club has the redskin under contract ff j ; and has hired Graves to handle him. ' j ft ' He Ib a real scrapper among tho best 1 T u In the A. B. F., though he never won J a title "over there," for the reason that ri he was too small to box tho heavies , ! and too big to tangle with tho light heavies. Ho did win two divisional J?t 'if ' championships in tho lightweight, scal- t; ihg 185 pounds, and Is hot after Bob Martin, Bob Roper and Ray Smith, and f'l .11 others of that calibro. Sudenburg is an i", ' ' 'old hand at tho game, but has never "j n had the proper handling to bring out f ; !. ' his best points, and Graves hopes to I I j garner the middleweight championship 1 : with him. Johnny recently gave the j Indian a good battle, succumbing, af- '' tcr a desnerate scrap, In six rounds, ' 22"' though oulvclghed twenty pounds. He I"' wf is after Johnny Wilson, or any mid- r ' ' dleweight who may stand in the way f of a bout for the title. Lamson and ' J f Sudenburg will do their training to- f gether at Walthlll, Nebraska, on tho Omaha Indian reservation. |