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Show . SAM MANDELL LIKES HIS OWN HOME TOWN When Streets Are Paved in Rockford They Will Be Best in World. Painmy Mundell, whose victory over Bid Terrla in Madison Square Garden gave him the unofficial title of world'! lightweight champion, la youngster Juat In hla twenties, lie will not tell yon juat how young he la because he wants to be old He was born In aniall town In Albania and was brought to the United States with two brothers and two sinters sin-ters before he was old enough to remember re-member anything about the trip. The family settled In Rockford, III. Mandell was given hitch school education and Intended to heroine a lawyer, but found In the gymnasium, where he played busketball. thut he could boi and, as he guy a, "1 Juat turned Into a boxer, I guess." The youngster boasts thut be la a mull-town boy. lie insists that Horkford Hork-ford Is the capital of the world. The best aulla a man ran buy, he claims, are for sale In Rockford. The heat tread In the world Is made In Rock-tejrd Rock-tejrd and when the streets are paved Rockford will huve the best streets In the world. Sammy's fsvorlte story Is of hla nrst experience In a New York barber aliop when be wouldn't say "no" to the barber. lie got a check for $0 when ' he got out of the chair and he hasn't : keen In a barber chair In New York since then. "I'm making a lot of money now and Tin saving It," Mandell says. "I'm helping my family along and maybe aometlme I'll have one and I want to ; , ba able to keep It In ease. I'm not ' thinking about a family now, though." |
