Show THE SPORTS GRILL B By Pat Robinson NEW NEV YORK Jan 21 INS ONS- INS Along Broadway today we hear Fight mob buzzing over Bob intestinal fortitude forti tude in barring arring f fight manager I Tom Eboh Eboli alias Ryan for life and fining filling him for socking referee Ray Miller l Mob lob is worried over Bobs Bob's threat to oust or jail all hoodlums hood hood- lums in the racket or resign his new job as boxing commissioner and one perspiring manager of unsavory reputation said If he goes through with that there wont won't be nobody left in the tile racket and Im I'm afraid the guy means it He does docs Mob Iob Wondering Mob lob also wondering what I Heavyweight Champ Joe Walcott meant when he said hed he'd fight I anybody his manager asked him to when Joe must know the International Boxing Club has an iron clad contract for him to fight Ezzard Charles next I Heres Here's Tim Mara Iara owner of N. N Y Giants football team recalling days when he used to supply inmates of Sing Sing Prison Pris Pris- Ii on with uniforms for their football football foot foot- ball bail teams One day the then Warden Varden Lawes asked Tim to give the convicts a pep pcp talk talk Tim I obliged and wound up with 1 Give it all you got boys and I you'll get ahead Just then thena I a voice piped up dryly Yeh Yen that's just why Im I'm in here I give the job all I got but they got me Take Jim Norris Not everybody in the fight racket is a hood For instance theres there's promoter Jim Norris whose family wealth is estimated at and Jack former Dayton Ohio fight promoter and boxing com corn missioner showed up with ith the old gang wearing a 5 carat 5 carat diamond diamond dia dia- mond hes he's now a noted diamond diamond diamond dia dia- mond m merchant and owns the 16 carat Vanderbilt worth which Gloria Vanderbilt sold him Jack doesn't want to sell it uses it for a show piece and his one regret is that he couldn't buy the world famous Hope diamond And heres here's Art Rooney biggest of shot long-shot big bettors who recalls the tile day when a famous character named Klondike Klondike Klon Klon- dike was making book on the theIN IN N. N Y tracks Rooney Story Stor Rooney says says One day Klondike was taken for a big bundle on a nag called and when his pals commiserated commis him on his loss Klondike Klondike Klondike Klon Klon- dike who stuttered chirped IN Now ow Im I'm in inthe the darned chewing chewing- gum business' business Klondike eventually w wen e n II t broke oh oil yes it sometimes happens that a bookie instead of ofa a punter goes broke so he lie opened a fruit stand at the track and everybody who ever bet with him patronized his stand One day after the last race racen n Rooney 0 0 11 e wad waded e d deep ankle through apple cores and orange peels to reach the stand and Klondike stuttered Look Art its it's just like making book they leave the stiffs bum burn markers on your hands Nat Fleischer boxing's hiStorian historian his hiS- torian says boxing will sure survive survive sur sur- v vive e long after were we're all gone To which Dum Dan Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- 1 gan replied So will murder and mayhem |