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Show SAM MANDELL LIKES HIS OWN HOME TOWN When Streets Are Paved in Rockford They Will Be Best in World. Sammy Mandell, whose victory over Sid Terrls in Madison Square Garden gave him the unollidal title of world's lightweight champion, Is a youngster just in his twenties. He will not tell you Just how young he Is because he wants to be old. He was born in a small town In Albania and was brought to the United States with two brothers and two sisters sis-ters before he was old enough to remember re-member anything about the trip. The family settled In Iiockford, 111. Mandell was given a high school education and Intended to become a lawyer, but found In the gymnasium, where he played basketball, that he could box and, as he says, "I just turned Into a boxer, I guess." The youngster boasts that he is a small-town boy. lie insists that Hock-ford Hock-ford is the capital of the world. The best suits a man can buy, he claims, are for sale In Iiockford. The best bread In the world is made in Rock-ford Rock-ford and when the streets are paved Rockford will have the best streets in the world. Sammy's favorite story Is of his first experience in a New York barber shop when he wouldn't say "no" to the barber. He got a check for $6 when he got out of the chair and he hasn't been In a barber chair in New York since then. "I'm making a lot of money now and I'm saving it," Mandell says. "I'm helping my family along and maybe sometime I'll have one and I want to he able to keep It in ease. I'm not thinking about a family now, though." |
