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O I G,4ANTLAD D } ' G,4ANTLA G4ANTLA G,4ANTLAt C Cft , WrLAND ANTLAN [ ) . t G,4ANTLARCE ' WrLANDCE l //CE CE RICE R/CE R RCETONY / ? / / RICEI I TONY ZALC ZAu : ; middleweight ruler rulerstarred . starred In the best rmg ring fight of of1946 ofI I 1946 1046 with a dozen mile mlleo mfle ' to spare H s sLiurricane stiurrlcane urricane Liurricane meeting with Rocky Grazi Graziano Grazisn0 Graziano ano sn0 happened to be one of GraziI those thoseilirillers thosethrillers thosethrillers I ilirillers thrillers you wont won t see tvice t vice in m a alifetime aLifetime alifetime alifetimeThere lifetime lifetimeI lifetimeThere There was no other fight even close closeto closeto closeto I to this one I can t recall recal1 any otherfighter otherflghter other otherfighter fighter flghter who ever evershowed evershowed everIgjk showed more Intesv intest Intes lutes 44 cc ccnal v- v vt - t nal tort fort hide tude thanzale thanw than w < \ zaie zale showed that thatSeptember that$4l thatIIH $4l 4l $ September night rught < , . * " \ % , , y " \ when he came out out"S 4 ( , : of ot a foggy dream dream\ dream dreamland } # \ land to knock outtom out , tom tomy tomGraz y $ " S Graz ano It so hapiens hap- hap hapy . - - , 1 > * & pens that Zaie Zale is m in mr inthe in- in inJJLLtJ ? 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J-JLLt-J J JLLt - , \r r \ : . - the toughest d1ViTon divaTony divl d1Vi diva divlTnnvZale auTony SlOn sion sl " ot of them al1 all al1y al1Among allAmong ZaleSlOn Zalesion Tony Ton TnnvZale y Zaie Zale Among g those after afterhIs afterhis his middleweight zmddle\\eIght zmddle eIght \ crown you 11 II find findJake findJake findJakeLaMotta Jake LaMotta LaMatta Marcel Cerdan Geor GeorgIe Georgle Georgie gIe gle Abrams Charley Burley and one oneDr oneor oneDr Dr or two others-all others all others - all tough GrazIano GrazIanothe Grazianothe Grazlanothe the toughest of the lot has had his 11 li 11cense lirense license cense rense revoked in m New York but the theNatlOnaI theNational theNational NatlOnaI National Boxing Boxmg association assoclatlon bas has basruled hasruled hasruled ruled that he can fight in any place placeunder placeunder placeunder under NBA s jurisdiction Jur1sdlctlon lurisdictlon This Th1S gives givesRocky givesRocky givesRocky Rocky a lot of territory to swing swwg hislethal his hislethal hislethal lethal fists InZale in inZaie . Zaie Zale had bad been away from ring ringaction ringaction ringaction action so 50 long when he met mct Grazl Grazi Grazlano Grazisno GraziBno ano sno that tha.t . his handicap was known to tobe tobe tobe be a heavy one Various crowds had hadseen hadseen badseen seen too many baseball and foot football football football ball pIa placers players ) ers from the service show showa a startling lack of old time hme form in includmg ineluding ineluding cludmg eluding speed and timing bmlng Zaie Zale had hadbeen hadbeen hadbeen been away longer than most close closeto closeto closelo to four yearsSo yearsSo years yearsSo So when Graziano knocked him himdown himdown himdown down early in the fight and then had hadhun hadhim hadhim hun him dazed bewildered bew1ldered and hadly badly hadlybattered badlybattered badlybattered battered his ros reign apparently was wasover wasover wasover over But Zaie Zale down the stretch stretchproved stretchproved stretchproved proved several things He proved provedthat provedthat provedthat that be he was dead game and could couldlake couldtake couldtake lake take the hardest punch the hard hardtuttmg hardhitting hardhitting tuttmg hitting Graz ano ana could throw He Healso Healso Healso also proved that he had a punch at of athis ofhis ofhis his o 0 vn He proved that he knew knewhow knewhow knewhow how to fight-and fight and fight - and what to do in n a nstorm astorm astorm - storm Faces Tough Competition CompetltlOn CompetitionWith With more time in which to get getready getready getready ready it stands to reason that Zale Zaleshould Zaleshould Zaieshould should be a better fighter In 1D47 1947 1D47ilian 1947than 1047than ilian than he was in 1946 His IDs win WID over overGrazlano overGraziano overGraziano Grazlano Graziano gave him greater confl contt confldence conttdeuce confldence dence deuce for one thing thmg He is also sure sureto sureto sureto to be in ID better all around physical physicalshape physicalshape physicalshape shape Yet in this present rruddle middle rruddleweight middleweight middleweight weight outfit no one is 1S safe Tony IS ISsurrounded issurrounded issurrounded surrounded by a pretty rough crew crewthe crewthe crewthe the best in m any other weight we1ght divisionand d1vlslon division d1vlslonand divisionand and he will have to be better than thangood thangood thangood good to keep his crownLaJIotta crownLaMotta crown crownLaMotta LaMotta LaJ\Iotta LaJ Iotta \ is a rough and ready readycustomer readycustomer readycustomer customer who won t be any sort soft sortmarL softmark softmark marL mark . LaMotta Lal\Iotta Lal Iotta \ is a hardy man to tohurt tohurt tohurt hurt and he be also can hurt on bis his bisown hisown hisown own Cerdan made a promlsmg promlsmgI promising promlsmgdebut promisingdebut promisingdebut I debut over here and he should be better bet bet- betI betler better - - I ter ler on his next ne\-t ne t ' \ - visit when wben he be bas has a alonger alonger alonger longer time to become acclImated acclImatedand acclimatedand acclimatedand and to get m better physical phVSICai eondl comb eondlhon comblion cocdition hon lion There is no Stanley Ketchel KetchelHarry KetchelHarry KetchelHarry Harry Greb or Mickey Walker hang bang hangIng banging hanging Ing arouad aroUJId around the premises but there IS ISmore ismore ismore more class in m this section sechon than the thering thering thering ring has known for many years Just Justhow Ju Justhow t thow how the tangle will be unraveled Is Isanother Isanother isanother another guess LaMotta Lal\Iotta Lal Iotta \ , must be begiven begiven begiven given a chance and so must CcrdauK Ccrdant1 CerdanfI Ccrdan Cerdan t1 fI he can repeat his opening opemng perform performance performance performance ance or show Impro\ Impro Improvement Improerncnt improrement ImprovementIn improrementIn \ erncnt erncntIn In addition addlhon to the leaders named namedJersey namedJersey namedJersey Jersey Jones still insists mSlsts that his hisman hisman hisman man Burley can slash his way waythrough waythrough waythrough through the entire entlI'e entlIe ' hstWith listWith list hst listWith With the heavyweight heavyv.elght heavyvelght beavyweight . bunch out outside outside outside side of Jpe Louis in such a sad sadstate sadstate sadstate state it begins to look as if 11 tf the mid middlewelghts middleweights middieweights dlewelghts dleweights must take over a big part partof partof partof of the show But as good as many 01 of 01his ofhis olhis his challengers are they will find findZale findZale findZaie Zale none too easy to shove around aroundTito . . . Tito Tno West Coast StarsThe Stars StarsThe The west coast is keep ng an alert alerteye alerteye alerteye eye on the coming commg actions achons of its twofavorite two twofavonte twofavorite favonte favorite baseball sons Their ThClI ' names namesare namesare namesare are Joe D Maggio of San Francisco Franciscoand Franciscoand Franciscoand and Ted Williams WlllJams of San D ego both bothreport bothreport bothreport report ng from tram the extensive domain domainof domainof of California Cal1forma biMagg DlMagg CaliforniabiMagg Cal1formaDlMagg o 0 bothered by physical physicalaliments physicalailments physicalailments aliments ailments had an of off of ! ! year Regard Regarded Regardad Regarded ed ad as one of the great outfielders of ofall ofall ofall all time tune a brilliant brJlliant prhst artist ? rtist fleldmg fielding fleldmgblttmg fieldinghitting fieldinghitting blttmg hitting and throwing throwmg Joe finishedwith finished finishedW1th finishedwith W1th with the worst season he has known knownin knownIn knownin in big league baseball He fell back backw1th backwith backwith w1th with many other b g league stars starswho starswho starswho who had been in war serv1ceW serviceWilliams service serv1ce serviceWilliams W Williams llams who looked as if he were wereon wereon wereon on the verge of wrecking the entire entireAmerican entireAmerican entireAmerican American league without Wlthout help up upthrough upthrough upthrough through mid m1d July began to skid SlC1d lat later later later er and spent an unhappy tortn fortn ght ghtduring ghtduring ghtduring during the 1946 World series Despite De Despite Despite spite this decline declme Williams batted battedwell battedwell battedwell well ( ) over ver 340 which left his all alltime alltime alltime time average still stlll over 350 350Ulcers . . . Ulcers Stopped JoeAnyway Joe JoeAnyway Anyway Joe Je ( ) and Ted were not notwhat notwhat notwhat what they had been In their former formerseasons formerseasons formerseasons seasons Only Dom DiMaggio came camealong camealong camealong along to repair part of the damage damageas as tar far as California was concerned concernedBobby concernedBobby concernedBobby Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky Peskywere Peskywere Peskywere were two west coast features fromfurther from fromfurther fromfurther further north Joe D Maggio wasn t teelmg feelmg feeling ( any too " well "el1 el1 sell when he report report- reported reported - . ed for spring sprwg sprmg training tUining A few stom atom stomach atomach stomach ach ulcers didn t him hhn help After an anearly anearly anearly early start at high speed Joe be becan beEao befan can Eao to fall away |