Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-18 | Page 15 | Chocolate Given Even Chance of Defeating Champ

Chocolate Given riven Even Chance of Defeating Champ I 1 NEW w YORK Nov 18 T Class JP Class will wil L I tell but you ou cant can't predict the outI outcome out out- p I come corne of the coming lightweight I championship duel between Tony TonyI I Canzoneri and Kid Chocolate on that I basis bask The They both have haveit I Canzon Canzoneri ri at 26 26 already has held featherweight three ring titles lightweight and Junior welterweight The latt latter r two he still holds and both will be at stake when he and Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Choco Choco- late clash ov over r the round fifteen-round p route In Madison Square Garden Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day night Chocolate 24 years old first gained I national recognition in this country I as a bantamweight but he quickly outgrew the division and for some sometime sometime time ime was v regarded as the uncrowned king of the featherweights That was until he battled Christopher Bat Battalino for the pound title and took ook a beating for his pains Just before that disaster the Cuban negro I lash flash had been beaten by both Jack Kid Berg and Fidel LaBarba and the he boxing fraternity l believed he had Burned himself out But the came back with a rush stopped Benny Bass at Philadelphia Phila- Phila delphia to win the slightly synthetic junior unior lightweight championship and now is 15 challenging for tor the not at all synthetic lightweight crown The odds odds odds-if If there be any offered probably will favor Canzoneri on two wo counts First on the theory that Its It's t's ts best to string along with the champion and secondly on the score that hat of the two Tony is the more rugged