Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 18 | Griffiths Touted as Heavy King Slated to Meet Schmeling-Maybe

1 1 Regarded as S Serious Threat to Heavy Throne Ii- Ii T 4 c tT 11 1 j 7 74 4 S I Ai t 1 I lf v. v 1 J S W L 7 S r 4 B BE BES LEo D DJ J L e i CST 1 M L T RD J p P UL e oT BOT CAMs O 1 C Griffiths T Touted as Heavy King Holds Rail Rail- Position in ill- Scramble Slated to Meet Maybe Maybe NEW V EW YORK Sept 21 1 NEA NEA- NEA Gerald Ambrose Tuffy Turry Griffiths young oun Sl Sioux ux City CILy cyclone today stands close o to the w heavyweight championship of or tho world as ns an any other heavyweight The round four knockouts of ot both Dr Di Ludwig JIa Haymann and ond George GCorge Cook In almost a a. week and tl the e subsequent announcement by bY Matchmakers Paddy dy Harmon Hurmon MIl and ute Nate u L Lowis of Chicago o that Tuffy will be paired with Max In a Chicago ring In November gives him him the rail position in the scramble to find a a. head big enough for Tunney's TunneR old crown That is the fact that Jack Sharkey and Tommy rommy Loughran are are- fighting for Cor what their backers backels term the American championship one month earlier than Max an and Tuffy will mix mil mil- tens The Sharkey Loughran fight may turn out t to be bc a classic but right no now It doesn't hold the publics public's Imagination as alS docs does a 8 meeting bc- bc and Griffiths Sharkey has has' long been cal Loughran HO so far hasn't deni- deni demonstrated a knockout punch HOW HE BATTLES ATTLES Tuffy Griffiths fights like a pit pil do dog Ho He has dynamite IIi in his right hand S had hall the public all steamed up Ul with his victories over o and Uzcudun In all allot of or his American appearances ho has shown flashes of oC a a. great Th Tho iJ fight ht between these two boys should according l lg to all past dope ope push ush the he Lo Shai battle off ort the boards The Tho persistent fight back bael from tho the second round knockout Tuffy Turry suffered at al the hands hand r of ot Jimmy Jimm Braddock nearly a u. year ear ago has gained the kl Idd from frOns Sioux City a tel greater t following lI than any ony of the theother theother other boys Going into his first t appearance at Square Squa Garden cn in a match with Jimmy Braddock Tuft TuU Tuffy was a tL l lav heavy av favorite favorito to win lie ha had blazed through the tIme country running up a u. string of consecutive d victories Jt lIe Jle wa was hailed as am af another Dempsey But Dut Bi Braddock ck hun hung that old right l hand ind on his kisser and und ho lie howa was wa bark back wh where Ic he started d. d Gerald Ambrose Re didn't take that thal fast fast- knockout kout to heart Ills His man Uin management contended led tho thio kid ld had hind been Jeen nailed with a fluke punch unlIt It was was' his lack Jack pt of ring experience that Kept ept him from Voal taking the time ad advantage ad vantage of a a. lonS longer l count After Artel ging do down fry wan badly badiI adli hurt but boune bounced d b ba back k on hl his feet feet feet- and put put and ready for another haymaker hayz hay Imp z maker a ker F FIGHTS WAY BACK Tho hc way vay Tuff Tuffy 1 fought back and tho tIme way Dr Braddock Braddo d ck k huts has skidded d since then seems to bear out time the fluke knockout theor theory Braddock addock spilled Veto Peto l JImmy Slut Slat ter tery after that but bul Tommy Tomm Lough ran save gave him hm a thorough going cr over And recently Yale handed Jimmy another 11 pasting thump than which thc e Is mm no surer sign that Braddock Braddock Brad Brad- dock has slipped Other great bleat fl fighters In us the past were Cr knocked cold yearly i In their h lr J t careers hut but came on to cham chiam Jon and Yr rankle Fleming put P Benny Leonard awaY on and tho tue world knows knows' Benny Benm didn't stay put Stanley l was stopped by Billy Dilly but the tho Michigan 1 Assassin won his crown clown back two months later In a return match FLOWERS TOOK KAYO Tho The late Tiger TIer Flowers was knocked cold coM eight times before ho ha became champion of the middle- middle weights Phil Delmont put Mickey lIeke Walker on hl his car Paul Berczi- Berczi bach back was sas knocked ed out b by Jack Delancy Delaney De- De lancy laney and anti then won the the light light heavyweight heavy heavy- weight championship Jack Dempsey himself according to time the re records was put to sleep In ono roun round by Jim Flynn But Dut Dempsey returned the Hie compliments to Lo tho timo fireman shortly after aCter and confessed that the tho first ono w was s just ono of at those those- timings things So we wont won't count that one