Show I Apostol Named Boxer of Year In Ring Rating NEW YORK Dec 27 21 INS INS INS- Fred Apostoli Apostol once the middleweight middleweight middleweight middle middle- weight champion of the world has been in the navy for more than a year but instead of being swallowed swallowed swallowed lowed up in our huge force afloat he has achieved more fame than ever He has become such an outstanding notable as a matter matter matter mat mat- ter of fact that Nat Fleischer in releasing Ring Magazines Magazine's annual ratings for 1943 has named Apostoli Apostol boxer of the year For almost a year tales have been drifting out of the southwest Pacific about the job Fred has been doing as a boatswains boatswain's mate first aboard class cass ship and boxing instructor in i Service Serice Apostoli Apostol however is certainly not the only boxer who has performed performed performed per per- formed creditably in the service There Tere are fighters in the armed forces including heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight champion Joe Louis army light heavyweight Gus Lesnevich Lesnevich Lesnevich Les- Les coast guard gard middleweight boss Tony Zale navy welterweight champion Freddie Cochrane navy featherweight Willie Pep navy and flyweight champ Jackie Patterson Paterson royal air force Titles of these champions are frozen for tor the duration and Ring Magazine evidently intends to keep th them m that way Jn ln line lne with this policy Ring while making deepest obeisance to boxers in the service rates the only on actual performance throughout fh th p I the Thu Thus the rated No 1 heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight is not Louis who has been boxing in exhibitions for thousands of sold soldiers ers throughout the country but Jimmy Bivins the fast hard- hard punching Detroit Negro Bivins has a record of nine 1943 victories in as many starts Lloyd Marshall Marshal of Sacramento Cal Cal is second Behind Behind Behind Be Be- hind Marshall Marshal is Nate Bolden of Chicago Jake LaMotta Laota of New York is picked as the ranking highest-ranking midI mid mid- Jose Basora the Puerto Rican is ranked right behind Jake with Jack Chase of California third Sugar Ray Ry Tops Top Although Robinson has been been Inactive in inactive inactive in- in active for half the year he is rated on top of the welterweight heap Fritzie Frizie the old Pittsburgh campaigner is welterweight No 2 and Henry Armstrong of Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles takes third Because of the standing long-standing muddle in the lightweight division in which Sammy Angott Angot of ot Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Pa is upheld as as' as by bythe bythe bythe the N B A and Beau Jack is touted as pound boss in New York the Ring rating places both of them in he the No 1 spot but recognizes recognizes recognizes neither as champion Bob Montgomery of ot Philadelphia is rated No 2 and Bobby Ruffin of New York ranks third Old Od Chalky Wright is named top featherweight after knocking ou out the te N B A king Phil Phi Terrano a and Sal Bartola is rated right behind behind behind be be- hind him Chief among the bantams bantams ban ban- tams tarns is Manuel Ortiz of El Centro Centre Ca Cal who has clashed successfully with every evry worthwhile bantamweight bantam bantam- weight now in action acton |