Show f i Le Lee Oma the Mad R Russian ian Risks Fresh Air I Blea B IG ia acri ice m e Skips Vodka to Train for Mauriello Fight I By Jack Cuddy NEW YORK Dec 7 UP UP- UP Disciples of the cradle school of boxing men boxing men who who claim fighters are born boro not i made made made- will hum Is 15 You I Is or Is h You 0 Aint My Baby tomorrow hand handsome ome omeLee night as u 3 they watch Lee Oma Oms in hl his return brawl with Tami Mauriello at Madison Madi Math Mathson Madison son Square Garden A triumph by Oma Onla violator of most precepts of ot technique and training would provide potent potent po po- po- po tent data for the natural born cause in this ancient ancIents forensic issue of ot For it would elevate the rough Russian to 0 a s seat at alongside civilian n heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight contenders Jimmy Ina and Joe Baksi In some respects this dark dark- h haired ired olive dyna- dyna from Detroit has been more foore unorthodox in and out of the ring than mo most t of of the bully boys whose biographies are used 1 as ammunition by the natural- natural born proponents He has haz been more radical even than Maxie Harry Greb Oreb Ken en Overlin John L. L Sullivan Tony Galento Maxie B Baer er and andL andL L Lew w Jenkins A blythe spirit indeed He violat violates tenets of ot ringside ringside ring ring- side aide because he never took D. D a boxing lesson in his life lite During Dur Dur- lag ing several years of ot casu casual tossing leather he developed his own screwball style style meander meander meandering ing about the ring in th the caricature caricature caricature ture of ot a quarter-crouch quarter with arms dangling loosely at his sides jumping sides jumping in like a flustered flustered flus flus- ro rooster ster with fists poking and pawing in a wild flurry Because ki h he seems to be completely com corn out of position when he hits everyone wonders where he gets his lila explosive power The source of ot this power is 15 a particular particular par par- mystery to Signor Signer Mauriello Mauriello Mau Mau- riello of ot the Bronx who was floored in the second round and andOn andon andon on the Kerb of ot Queer street several times during their Introductory Introductory introductory Intro Intro- argument in September Oma accepted that Mauriello bout on 48 hours' hours notice as a a. substitute for Joe Baksi belting belting belt belt- ing bridegroom from Kulpmont Pa Pal O Oma Ozna a. a a perennial pilgrim on the primrose path made a great sacrifice to accept He had to abbreviate his celebration celebration tion of ot a recent victory at a small maU fight club He had been roistering around the booby traps for only three days instead instead instead in in- stead of ot the week he had planned The unorthodox Russian was not in peak physical condition for the brawl It was uncertain uncertain tam tain whether this was caused by bythe bythe bythe the shortening of his celebration celebration celebration tion or by the wartime Ineffectiveness Ineffectiveness of ot his Turkish bath Mauriello was credited with a knockout in the eighth round when Oma collapsed and too took his leisure on tho the carpet carpet after after a swell fight t. t Mauriello though victorious received such a a. battering that he refused to go through with witha a n. rematch on Nov 3 3 demanding demanding demand demand- ing lug more time to train Oma Om a angered at the postponement said to his favorite bartender Well if Tamis Tami's goin to act like a sissy Ill I'll do the same Whoops Im I'm goin into too Which he ho did For 25 days Oma risked fresh-air fresh poisoning at Teddy Gleasons Gleason's camp Greenwood lake lak N. N J. J He returned to New York Monday and con concluded lud- lud ed cd preparations at Stillmans Stillman's ans an's gym Meanwhile th the smart smart- money boys of ot Jacobs Beach Beach- fearful of the effects of ot qun- qun un- un shine and country fodder on the vodka votary votary made made MaurIello Mauriello Mauri MaurI- ello cilo the 2 1 favorite But disciples disciples dJs dis dis- dis of the natural-born natural school hope to heaven that the he price- price makers are wrong |