Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-19
AD STONE K. 0.'S
At .75O AVERAGE
"conqueror Of Dempsey" Still
in Making, Is Improving
Gradually in Ring
TO RESIGN FROM MARINES
BY LOUIS JAFFE

A BOUT six months ago. one Charley
a Weirmuller virtually broke into the
sports sanctum sanctorum with n loud
burst Of speech GIVE discovered the
conqueror of Jack Dempsey and didn't
have to go to Europe, like Jack Nc.
Auliffc. to do it,"
-, At the time Wcrmuler didn't say
that his ''conQueror' was all set TO
meet the champion. It'll take time. I"
explained Wcirmulcr. maybe year
,,!; or SO. but when, ] let him go Dempsey
Wclrmuller' $ discovery is Ad Stone.
ana he unearthed the light heavyweight
WL: mh9 IS getting. bigger gradually, at the
thlladelphia Navy Yard. where the
twenty year -old big boy is seeing
service with the United States Marines
stones enlistment still has ycnr md
,'!hc months to run, but Adj who uses
ms real name for punching purposes.
.,IS ..H turned In his resignation from the
DrVil Dogs which request is expecirn
20 pe granted before the end of the
Not n Sacrifice
Ad Stone is good example Of n boxcr
s, Mhp is not being sacrificed for the
nlthE ,ucre. The marine is being
sroomed by Lew Segal. former boxer
OF this city. who is quite comnctcnt
teacher, and Ads handlers nre no.
taxing any chances in over matching
him. N''S
AS result Stone is vet to meet do.
feat since starting his successful coreer
mere last February. Out of Il total of
eight matches Ad has put to sIccp half
a dozen of his opponents for n .7Jl,
knockont average. And the beauty mar,
OF stones exhibitions is the fact that
u" Is showing improvement every time
he answers the tinklc of the gong.
e, Sam La Sale. Il burly sailor, was
| stones opponent in his Philadclphia
debut mt the Olympia. This was n regu-
lar sailor. marine brawl--a sort of
rough and tumble affair-wth Stone re.
turning, winner. Then Ad knocked
out Eddystone Miller. which proved his, his
hrSt k. %. of n string of six.
Miller was stopped in the fifth round
Hharley Boyd was put to sleep in the
third. otto Hughes took it on the hin
IN the fourth, Bill Snecdcn lasted onjv
twnntN-sev"n seconds. one round wa,
SUFFICIENT for Sergeant Ray Smith and
Herman Miller. of Baltimore, wns WINS,
slowed away in the fourth. was
stones last bout was against linn
Holland. the lialtimorean. who is being
pointed for the heavyweight champion- >
ship. and Ad proved by far that he
was the more promising product.
Can Take 1t
In that Holland match the fans hoa
the opportunity to see whether stone
could take it, In the first two
rounds Holland succeeded in getting in
Il number of stiff .iolts, but the mariner
never i'inched. and kept countcring 50
viciously with body smashcs thnt HoI.
land soon tired. and from the thir,]
round until the finish of the eighth
Stone administered terrific trounrinp
to the tall fellow from the Monumental
City.
Stone isn't ready yet for J. Dcmp.
scy. Weirmuller admits, nor for half u
dozen other light -hcavyweights or
heavywcights. but the astute manager OF
the mariner feels sure it is only n mnt =.
ter Of time before Ad will have stcnncd
conspicuOusly into the spotglaro ns n
formidable foe for the Manassa MauIer.