Show to Prove Whether Balsamo B Is Real Killer By HENRY McLEMORE l United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Oct 28 If 28 If you are a close follower of prize prizefighting fighting and fighting and most of us are if only because of its tremendous importance in world affairs you affairs you undoubtedly have read of Harry Ba Balsamo samo who is known to his intimates in the profession as The Belting Brakeman Balsamo and simply Balsamo th the e Bloodthirsty th the e Bloodthirsty Harry Balsamo a young man with the tho slanting beetle brow so often otten found In intellectuals and good right hand land hitters was projected Into world attention recently when he be put what is known as the slug on one of Germanys Germany's more prominent citizens Herr Eric Seelig The rhe slug was put on Herr Seelig Inthe inthe in the first round of a bout in which he tie was favored and stiffened him horizontally in a great gnat hurry The boxing critics to whom a alethal alethal lethal right hand slug is b every bit as satisfying as a rare old first edition is b to a bibliophile ImmedIately imme Imme- hailed Harry Balsamo who had been piecing out his income by serving as a subway brakeman as the deadliest killer since Cain In their enthusiasm which was heightened by the sight of Herr Se Seelig stretched out on the canvas as if It being readied for a burial at sea they overlooked the risk they ran They entirely forgot that to hail hall haila halla a fighter as a killer for knocking out a foreign opponent is much the same as calling a golfer goiter another Bobby Jones because he shot ahot In the low sixties on a Tom Thumb course Foreign fighters as you know usually usually ally have two rather Important weaknesses they weaknesses they cant can't hit and they wouldn't cant can't M take It These weal weaknesses ewes bother an ornithologist or a dentist even even but to a prizefighter prizefighter Prize prize- fighter they are severe handicaps But as it turned out the critics were right Harry Balsamo mo Is a killer We know ho he Is because since putting the slug on Herr Seelig he has admitted It Jt a dozen times and with appropriate growls snarls H and clenched list fist g gestures Harry Balsamo fights Babe former middleweight c champion tonight toy to- night at 1 Mike Jacobs' Jacobs gaudily elegant elegant ele- ele gant Hippodrome club where white ties and tails are re as common as some of those who wear them The puce place Is K so swanky to In fact that those who carelessly come in black ties ue are met t by that suave cosmopolite cosmo cosmo- polite Edward J Jackson Jack Jack- son on and shown to a seat aut In the balcon bal bal- con cony But Dut t as I say Harry Balsamo tIghts fights there tonight and aid It If Promoter Promoter Pro Pro- moter Jacobs will promise to keep him chained I plan to descend to the dressing room and watch him warp the wallpaper with his hi pre- pre hattie battle venom In Iii tomorrow tomorrows in instalment In In- and and dont don't miss it I It-I I will paint a word picture of ot a killer be bey before before fore and after Z killing |