| Show Many Fight Moguls Get Headache When Balsamo Kayos Foe By JOE WILLIAMS Special to The Telegram NEW YORK Oct 15 The IS-The The stretcher-bearers stretcher came and one by byone byone one they carried out men menI I I know men squirming in mental anguish men babbling in high feverish to tones es Mr Joe Jacobs was the first And I 1 had him for peanuts he cried Mr James Bowtle Bronson was next And to think of all the days I 1 spent with Bob Martin I IThen Then came Professor Billy McCarney Mc- Mc Carney And all my life Ive I've been looking for just such a guy And finally Mr Charles Harvey with the stringy remnants of what was once the most famous mustache In pugilism twitching Switching feebly And all I 1 hada do was buy the guy guya a ham sandwich These poor stricken victims vie victims vic victims tims of their own critical superiority superior superIor- ity were Ity-were were talking about a new middleweight middleweight mid mid- middleweight named Harry Balsamo who had made his bow in the big time knuckling by knocking out Eric Seelig of Germany not in one round but with what practically I 1 never saw Mr Balsamo until last night when he crawled through the velvet ropes of Uncle Mike Jacobs Jacobs Jacobs' Jacobs Jacobs' Ja Ja- cobs' cobs remodeled remodel d Hippodrome arena a a place by the way which reminds me of some of the night clubs I saw in Paris 1 I like to get these references in about Paris and London London London Lon Lon- don and Berlin every once in a awhile awhile awhile while just to show show show- Well anyway Uncle Mikes Mike's arena arenas Is s pretty ornate but knowing fight fans ans as I think I do his murals and garish paints and brass ornaments carry very little appeal Its It's what he le puts in the ring And last night he le put one guy In the ring who may develop into a tremendous fighter I 1 speak of course of the aforementioned aforementioned aforementioned afore afore- mentioned Mr Balsamo Any time timea a fighter can paralyze an opponent with one punch he must command attention But that's not the story The stor is nobody wanted him The Themen Themen Themen men who make their living out of the prize ring the ring the managers never managers never miss a 8 fight in the metropolitan dis dis- They spend all their time scouting good looking prospects They go to the small clubs they Mr Balsamo had himself a nice steady job He was swinging a sledge h hammer in the shops that keep one of New Yorks York's subways going He was making 2 25 bucks bucksa a week It wasn't much but it was wason in on the line every Saturday night nish Mr Balsamo liked throwing the Fownes ownes but he liked security best So when it was suggested L that at he give up the sledge hammer and devota devote devote de de- de- de vote vota all his time to the professional ring he would have none of it t. t Meanwhile De Angelo Angeo h hd d him under contract It was a perfectly V d contract He offered to sell it ito itt to t o some tome of the fight managers who Infest all the clubs looking for a substantial mca meat meal ticket First he hea a asked aked ked 1759 1750 Then ho ha came down t b 1000 Finally he cut it to What good to him was a fighting who liked swinging s. s EI sledge dge hammer bett better r These manage and s and they have only been peering at fighters for 30 or 40 years years gave gave him the loud I amounted to one punch And the story of Mr Balsamo who is neither a foot ease nor a toothpaste toothpaste tooth toothpaste paste paste- but actually a prize fighter is that of what appears to be one of the greatest middleweights of our time who had to use the janitors janitor's entrance when he wanted to deliver his groceries The upper class wanted want want- ed no part of him It is loosely speaking the story of Ables Irish Rose which all the Broadway producers laughed at without profit while millions later laughed at it with excessive profits to Miss Ann Nichols That was her name wasn't It And to bring it up to date it is the story of Gone With the Wind which a great number of book publishers dismissed dismissed dis dis- dismissed missed as being a high degree of tripe Flock of Fight Scouts Get Dizzy When They See Bet They Turned Down go to the large clubs they hop over overto overto overto to New Jersey and Philadelphia and points east and west They are on the lookout for small fellows in-between in fellows heavyweights heavyweights heavyweights heavy heavy- weights especially heavyweights i They scour the fields in the same thorough fashion that baseball scouts do looking for second Cobbs second Ruths second And In many cases they wind up m tn the dismal shadows of the ball bali that is known as No 8 And In scattered cases they wind up well up-well well they wind up with a a. Balsamo begging begging beg beg- ging them to take him and they say The guys guy's a bum That's precisely what happened Inthe in inthe inthe the case of Mr Balsamo the man everybody on Broadway is calling another Ketchel Jimmy de Angelo who is known to the trade as Fat Brusso picked Mr Balsamo up He was a up in East Harlem and a fellow Italian Jimmy ran rana a small club an and stuck Mr Balsamo in there every so often It was to repeat a small club and the fInancial financial finan fInan- cial returns I were small small both both for forthe forthe forthe the promoter and the he fighters De Dc Angelo Sells Con Contract Of Sledge H dge Hammer Adept for guffaw Being an intellectual ual Mr Bronson even gave it to him in French There Thera was only one thing to do do co pick out a sucker It develop devel devol- Ot oL op there are two wo ring addicts in town with dough who are suckers for or lighters 0 OMO Oio 10 Mr Sam and one Mr Vj Sahr The Broadway comment is You ran Ian sell them an an ani fighter who takes a good bood picture So in the end Mr Balsamo was SOl to and for 50 It just so hap- hap Continued on Following Page PaRe Balsamo Surprises Promoters Promoter by Winning I Continued from Iron Preceding Page pens ens that these two gents own New w NewYork NewYork York hotels This is just a brief sketch of the mure The Tho important point Is toi to- to i the two are in control cortrel of of f the m most moat talked taller of figh fighter ter that ha ai com conye along sit sin Sin so e e Joe Toe Louis as a result of his terrific showing against the German middleweight middleweight- who was good enough to fight two round 12 bouts with Marcel Thiel of and Parrs-and Paris and in Paris ParIs and and all the tha smart guys who thought they knew so something so ething about fighting and fighters fighters fight fight- ers are sitting around ordering double double double dou dou- ble portions of |
