Show FAIR OR FOUL By LAWTON CARVER V NE YORK July 10 INS UNS- INS Jake LaMotta sometimes known as the Bronx Bull finally is going to defend his middle ei middleweight ht championship championship championship cham cham- Wednesday unless he hc suffers suffers suffers suf suf- fers an injury or a chan change e of mind He is favored at S 8 to 5 to turn turnback turnback back hack the challenge of oC Tiberio Mitri the fanc fancy Dan European champion champion cham cham- pion who generally is s re regarded as strictly a boxer although he in insists insists insists in- in he can ht lut with knockout power when he wants to I He gets his crack ciack at the title I through a quirk of fortune and I figures to make a reasonably good fight of it Some of the observers on what used to be Jacobs' Jacobs beach pick him to win I Extra Poundage LaMotta supposedly has slowed tip up since he won von the crown a year ago almost to the day from Marcel el Cerdan There also are persistent reports that LaMotta is havin having trouble getting off the extra poundage he he has hns been carrying in weight the bouts He le has wei weighed hed up close to and must weigh in Wednesday at I and while he undoubtedly will ill make it there is a question whether he will ivill retain his en en- durance If Mitri is as good as his record indicates LaMotta Lar will ilI need his full strength for this 15 rounder In his only start in this country Mitri took took- tooka a decision over o Dick Wagner Vagner whom LaMotta knocked ed out so there is not much of oC a line to be had on him except from rom what his record shows No Losses The record says he has had 52 professional proCessional fights without a loss He was held to three draws His victims include virtually all of the better European fighters around his weight He brought that record over here hoping eventually to get et a title crack and it was as dropped into his waiting hands like an unexpected present LaMotta never did get around to toa toa toa a return match with Cerdan after their bout in June of last year First La LaMotta hurt himself in training and Cerdan then was killed in a plane crash LaMotta was booked to meet his pal Rocky Graziano but Graziano hurt his left hand in training A Anew Anew Anew I new date wa was set sel and Mitri si signed ned up as challenger Game Fighter Mitri 1 Is 24 experienced and game LaMotta is 29 and boasts those same attributes The Thc big question is whether LaMotta La has gone back as far as he sometimes appears to have gone that gone that and andI how making the weight will ill affect affect af af- af- af I feet him The fight has caught on pretty good as they say and a crowd of oC about maybe more will pay about at a top price of oC I 15 to watch the scuffle Everybody a agrees rees that it should DC De n a good Ci fight ht to watch bringing together as it does a rough body- body puncher like LaMotta against a good boxer which Mitri r assuredly appears to be The Thc crowd will be swelled somewhat somewhat some sonic I what because for one thin thing there will be no broadcast either by radio I or television i |