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Show Charley Rosenberg Now Fights as Featherweight The featherweight class is picking up. Benny Bass, Bud Taylor and Charley Rosenberg and Bushey Graham Gra-ham are facing the champion, Tony Canzoneri. Plastering Rosenberg and Graham with a suspension lasting 12 months has had a lasting effect on those boxers box-ers who have had their own ideas about jumping the traces and doing pretty much as they pleased. Both Rosenberg and Graham took their medicine with good grace. Rosenberg gave up his title willingly. will-ingly. He couldn't make the bantamweight bantam-weight limit anyway, and was permitted permit-ted to go through with his engage- 1 - vj, Vsr , Charley Rosenberg. ment with Graham. Now the pair are back as featherweights. Rosenberg weighs 140 pounds at the present writing. Allowing five pounds for his street clothes, Charley has nine pounds to sweat off before he can scale the beam at a featherweight. No one can deny that the former bantamweight champion looked like a sweet fighter at 124 pounds. But will he be able to come back after a long lay-off and show the stuff he had? Inaction shows on a little fellow fel-low quicker than It does on a heavyweight. heavy-weight. Very few have been able to stay away any length of time without impairing their fighting qualities. |