The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03
OLD WORLD To
SEND BOXERS
OVERHERE
Invasion Of KnuckIe Busters
Will Take Form of Mass
Attack.
BY LUTHER A. HUSTON,
International News Service.

LONDON, March 8. - Invasions
Of America by European boxers
hitherto have been undertaken chief
ly by individual scrappers. but a
mass attack upon Americas boxing
prestige is shortly to be made by
an imposing array Of old world
knuckle-d busters.
The generalissiIno Of the invading
army is Harry Levine. who man.
aged Augie Rather, the American
middleweight. during his stay in Eu.
rope last year. He will be assisted
by John Aft. a French boxing man.
ager and trainer. and the star Of
the stable which Levine and Aft
Will transport across the Atlantic il
Billy Mascart, the European feath.
erweight champion.
Mascart's objective in the United
states Will be a match with Johnny
Dundee for the worlds feather
weight title. Since the retirement
OF Eugene Criqui, Mascart has come
to the front as the best Of the Euro
pean feathers, and he believes he Is
good enough to give Dundee q run
FOR his money. MaScart is not on.
tirely a stranger to American boz.
ing fans as he has performed here
before.
Two Belgian mitt wielders will
be included in the encourage. One
Of these IL Pete Hobin, a welter.
weight, who is eager to take on
Mickey Walker in a championship
bout. Holm also has been in the
United States before and claims
that he once knocked out Walker
IN the seventh round in a bout
staged before Mickey had acquired
the welterweight title. The other
Belgian is Louis Hebrants, a
featherwetght, who has made quite
q reputation in European circles,
his chief claim to distinction being
twenty-round draw with Crioui.
II the claims of the European
armada" are correct, Luis Angel
FIrpo has new rival in the heavy.
weight ranks. who, curiously enough,
also halls from south Of the equator.
Included in the Levine.Alff nenaRe
Is Ramon Rojas, who Ia a native of
Chile. but who has absorbed most
OF his fist1c training In Europe.
RoJaS is a large young man with
large ideas. He thinks il IN ia.
cumbent upon him first to demon.
strate that he and not. Dead PAN"
Luis Is the real creme de la crane
OF South American heavyweirhts.
Having accomplished. this he is Der.
fectly willing to allow public opin.
ion to force him into a bout with
Dempsey, provided the promoters
talk a financial language he can
understand.
The real treat for American box.
ing fans, so far as this Old. World
Of scrappers is con.
cerned, will be Ernie lizard. Ernie
Is featherweight and the onlv
in the outfit. He claiYns
to be the featherweight chamnion
Of England, which gives him a tit1a
lor advertising purposes. What
makes ernie an attraction, however,
IS not MS title but his shape. He
Is rive feet ten and one-half inches
tall and weighs 1872 pounds. Phv.
sically speaking, he is a boxing
freak. built along the general lines
OF wireless aerial; but those who
nave seen him in action declare he
knows how to manage his lonpitule
ana that his lack of latitude is
no particular handicap to him in
the ring.
According to present plans tia
voyaging boxers will sail for New
York at an early date and will he
ready to listen to the conversation
or any promoters or managers who
care to join the welcoming deleal.
ton at the dock