The New York herald., 1922-11-04
ROSENBERG TO BOX
O'DOWD FOR TITLE
Middleweights Will Meet in Is
Round Bout Thanksgiving
Day in Brooklyn.

Dave Rosenberg OF Brooklyn and
Mike O'Dowd of st. Paul. Mimi, will
box for the middleweight championship,
50 far as recognition In New York
State Is concerned, in a fifteen round
contest Thanksgiving Day afternoon, in
a Brooklyn arena. The match, Chair
man William Muldoon announced, has
the sanction of the State Athletic Com
mission, despite the fact that Rosen-
berg was suspended some time ago by
the commission for failure to go through
with a previous contract with O'Dowd.
Rosenberg is still recognized as
worlds middleweight champion by the
commission" Chairman Muldoon said.
"and his suspension will be lifted as
soon as he goes through with the O'Dowd
bout" He added that the winner will
be obliged to defend his title against
the victor Of a ''middleweight tourna-
ment," recently sanctioned by the COM
mission to select the leading 16o pound
contender
Pancho Villa, the flyweight champion
of America. could get matches with sew
eral 1l2 Founders and defend his title.
yet he prefers to go out of his class and
meet Abe Goldstein, hard hitting BAN
tam, at 116 pounds, weight that does
not come under the head of any of the
tam class, which calls for l15 pounds at
=. NJ. There is not shadow of doubt
that Goldstein at 116 pounds will give
Villa n harder fight than any of the
flyweights. Villa will not weigh more
than 112 pounds and will concede four
or five pounds to his opponent.
1t is just possible that Villa has taken
on weight since he has settled down to
a steady diet of New York cooking and
is now in quest of the bantam honors.
Whatever the object of the Filipino. it
Is certain that his contest with Gold
stein will be far more interesting than
a bout with any other flyweight would
be. Goldstein Is n knockout hitter. and
the little brown chap will need to be on
his guard when he gets into the ring
with the bantam. The bout is set fox
Madison Square Garden. November 16.
Wall street commissioners of betting
have ignored the edict of the Boxing
Commission declaring all bets off on
the Brtton-W Walker contest, and will
pay off all bets on the basis of VIC
tory for the new champion
Many of the persons who wagered on
Britton to win have taken advantage Of
the commissions ruling and refused to
pay. 1t is not unlikely that in the future
bettors will have a clause in their agree
ments binding the loser to pay no mat
ter what the Boxing Commission may
say.
All in all Muldoon's announcement cer-
tainly upset the betting fraternity more
completely than any thing since the
memorable occasion when Honest John
Kelly, referee of the Corbett-Sharkey
bout, declared all bets off
In explaining their action the Wall
Street betting commissioners made this
statement:
'Tn view OF the fact that no question
has been raised that the fight was not on
the level. and taking into consideration
the fact that the judges awarded the de-
cision TO Walker, commissioners in Wall
Street who held stakes fail to see any
reason for withholding them from the
supporters of the winner They can
see no cause I'm the circumstances for
declaring bets Off Mr.. Muldoon's ruling
would have been sustained by them II
there had been any evidence OF bad
faith on the part OF the boxers. il the
fight had not been clean cut. or IL the
judges had hesitated in rendering their
decisions"