Show SEEKS CONTEST IN i PADDED ARENA Italian Heavyweight Termed Second Rater By Sparrow McGann BY DY SP R O G X XI I Copyright 1023 b the r I EW YORK TORK Dec 22 Now that It seems certain Ermino la la Ia the Italian hea weight I la h go- go goIng go going ing lag to return to thi this country the backing of II a n stentorian bally bally- ballyhoo bally bally- ballyhoo hoo boo a II word ord or t two tao 0 concerning this I alleged champion of Europe will nut willbe In order be be ie then Is a tine fine looking It It- It ItI Ithan lian Itar-lian I Ihan i han who came to this COUltry two or three years ago LIO and hung around Newark In gim gm and occasionally righting fighting He was tory cry cry quick to pick up I things and such uch er cle fighters asI as I Charley Chancy Weinert and Young DobI Bob Dob I were ere willing to sho show him tricks ot of o the tho trade The Tho con con- consequence consequence con consequence I sequence was as that he be Ie eloped more than a fair laIr ledge of box box- box box- boxIng boxing ing In the gj g he lie look look- looked looked I ed cd to be aa an de deer closer er as any of them In fact tact a s a-s a gj gymnasium battler he be clIme came to be quite Impressive It was when hen he went nent Into the ring against rugged third raters that ho he did not appear so good THIRD H l The best fight tight the writer s w saw him go through with was with Italian Jack Jact Herman two sears ears ago ngo when hen he Ito stopped hI his fellow In nine rounds But Dut Dutot Butof Butof ot of course Herman Is by no means a good heavy heavyweight eight Ha xe rateR rate neil II In n tho the third class as Firpo I and other men who ho have ha hamet met him c hate bale demonstrated I For he ho Rho showed ed signs of I being able ablo to develop elop Into a good I hitter and It he had been In this I I country In the past 15 months In InI instead Instead stead of ot Europe he might o hae I sized up by no now nov s a-s a 0 good second ra er r That Is had he controlled hi capacity whenever er he lie sa saw a aI aI aI I sign of food Like Firpo he Is IsI Isan Isan IsI I an artist with the knife and fort fork that I Is to ea SeI he be I Is ls an artist so 80 soI far as aa making these thee implements n I loose mO Is concerned These foreigners do not seem scent to realize that In tIl this climate one cannot eat at and drink as one does docs In other climates SIM III NIck Ick Kline Eline who ho probably will manage ma mav be able to tomake tomake tomake make him cut down on his fish fishI I and soup and spaghetti stutt and andIC if IC so he may be carried along until lIe get gets n n the ring against I some ome real lie He I la is a likeable young man and and always lIs willing to take advice ad so perhaps his mans mana manager ger will not Ila have base e the tough sailing that manager for Instance Is ln ha hating As to fo tot Siki It anyone any one gets him Into the ring so long as a his money lasts he will Ill be bc a won won- wonder wonder wonder der To put It Siki's nor nor- nor normal mal condition these days Is one that might be Le described ed as perfumed His Hia great grut ambi ambi- ambition ambition tion Is to dance Seng lese usar 01 dances before an all admiring cro d dand and to tell how his father and mother were originally cannibals and how many missionaries the consumed in their G BITI PUT ILI LION Siki fen Idly admits ho has not Inherited their taste In this thia direction direction direction tion but is not displeased at eto- eto sto stories riOs rica going about that he placed his pet lion hors de do combat by biting him Johnny Dundee In the opinion esen en of o hi his hii friends should begin beg to think of ot retiring from the ring I HI His fight against Jack Bernstein was known to mean menn that this rug rug- rugged rugged rug rugged ged little battler battier is burning out The decision In his favor or against Bernstein ln Is regarded as ono ot of those funny things and thom isho ho like the featherweight cham cham- champIon champlon champion pion plon bollt believe e ho Ito ought to retire Ith his Ms title tUle and let the tho fellows go to It nn |