| Show 5 5 S 5 3 J ODDS EVEN Title Scrap Slated in N. N Y Garden By HENRY McLEMORE IcLE S S United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Oct 27 27 Henry 1 Armstrong and Ceferino Garcia w were were re quoted at even money today for or their welterweight championship championship championship champion champion- J ship fight in Madison Square Garden Garden Garden Gar- Gar den next night j Were it not for one fact this price would be suspicious enough to warrant warrant war war- rant an investigation by the authorities author 1 whose business it is to try and and- keep the manly art on the up and and up The one fact Is this Pound for pound Ceferino Garcia of the Philippines PhilIppines Phil- Phil is the second hardest hitter in the world today He has to yi yield ld to but one man when it comes comes comes' to to getting the maximum in effectiveness effective effective- ness from his fists And Md that manis man man- is Joe Louis perhaps the most explosive explosive ex ex- 0 plosive puncher of all time i iOne One Clean Smack It is this dynamite in his right fist J that makes it unreasonable able to point 1 to the even money quotation as an r indication that the wise boys along t Cauliflower alley know something something- that the fix is in The Filipino I needs but one punch to stiffen anything anything any any- thing weighing under pounds that he hits One clean smack and its it's the Katy And Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong wont won't weight more than when he steps in the ring 1 It is not unusual for Garcia to send his opponent straight to the hospital More than one one man who shuffled out against him has wound up looking into the kind faces of 1 and house surgeons Ceferino Ceferino Ceferino rino doesn't have to land his bolo bob boloin bobin J in the early rounds to make it stick i He threw it at Barney Ross in the thirteenth and while it didn't land flush on Ross' Ross jaw it was potent j enough to put Barney in a fog and keep him there for the remainder of J the S Gar i s 's Garcias Garcia's publicity department says that the bolo bob punch which is nothing more than an exaggerated uppercut which he starts down near his shoelaces is the result of Ceferino's Ceferino's Cef- Cef erino's sugar cane cutting days as a youth It seems that for years he swung a big knife or bolo bob and so when he turned fighter he started started start start- ed swinging the same way he had handled the knife Interesting if true Armstrong Best It is Interesting to note that in Jus 1 s bout with Lou Ambers in which he hewon hewon hewon won the lightweight title after ater 15 rounds of terrific battling the punch that nearly ruined Armstrong was an uppercut Ambers' Ambers uppercut which is puny compared to the one thrown by Garcia al all but ended Armstrong as a fighter It sliced his lower lip p so badly that 10 stitches were required and for a few days days' it was doubtful if Henry would be beable beable beable able to fight for a long long time if ever rAfter r. r After that bout with Ambers which many in the big crowd thought he lost Armstrong said he had gone in the ring in very poor poor I condition He said the weeks week's postponement postponement postponement post post- cost him his edge Certainly Certainly Certainly he wasn't the same fighter against Ambers that he was against Ross He was slower and his timing timing timing tim tim- ing was poor This time Henry swears he will be in top shape If he is then even the deadly bob bato may not beat him him- Because Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong when fit is the best fighter pound for pound now in operation |
