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Show 4 . , GENTLE ART OF HAIR PULLING NO LONGER IN FAVGR WITH WOMEN Ieft to Right: Emily M uthlr-von, Mildred Soto. Br JACK JITS G MEIER NBA Staff Correspondent . LOS ANGELES. Cal . Nov. 20. Are we In an era of female fistcuffians trained by fighting male relatives to carry on the gospel of the padded punch ? And what Is to become of the gentle gen-tle and tjmc-honored art of hair pulling? pull-ing? These stirring speculation? are justified jus-tified by professional entry of the ring by two fair Los Angelina, Mildred s- !. and Mrs. Emily Mathleson, who chal- lenge all womanhood to sample their boxing wares. Both are daughters of fighting kins-i men. Both pack a mean wallop. Miss Soto, If, is the ringside product of her father's training Joe. Soto, old time bare knuckle battler. She is 6ald to have four knockouts to her i.redit. She fights at 120 pounds Mrs Mathleson, 30. and weighing 119 pounds, has as her trainers her husband. Walter Mathleson, forme exhibition flghter with the Los Angeles An-geles Athletic club; her brother, John Orosco. the ''Battling Lion" of Tuc-Ison, Tuc-Ison, Ariz., and her uncle, Chlno Oroaco 1 former heavyweight champ of Arizona. Ari-zona. Sin- sports the proud sobriquet sobri-quet of "Battling Lioness." Miss Soto had set out to fight life's battles as a stenographer and scenario writer Success didn't match her high hopes and so she's fallen back on the fists her father has fashioned Into running idn wallopers. The ranks of girl gladiators are i growing. Now who'll be tho Tex Rick-1 Rick-1 ard of the first woman's heavyweight world's championship match? |