The Washington times., 1924-07-07

harmonlZlng and promised that
soloist could do a number with lie
Mr.. Brewer also suggested that
local promoters form a committee
to stage the elimination matches.
That was two months ago.
The first. elimination bout is just
coming out as natural.
One might think that the two
New York StaterS on the list would
be the principals, but neither Dun.
dee nor Kansas has made even q
threatening gesture.
Two outlanders will be featured
They are Zivic and Barbarian, the
former from Pittsburgh and the
latter from Detroit.
Jack and Sid will snap into the
elimination stuff tomorrow night
! at the NOstrand A. c. in Brook.
lyn. They are billed for tweIva.
rounds and IL is Almost certain
the bout will go the distance.
Zivic is q slight favOrite because
of the excellent form he dis.
played in his recent brief perform.
ance with Pal Moran. Barbarian
is q plOdder, strong, willing, ag-
gressive and hard to hurt.
The committee of promoters ard
matchmakers hasn't done much to
hasten the Examinations. Tom Nc.
Ardle, who makes matches for ,hc
Nostrand Club, angled for several
different combinations before he
could find one on safe for a price
that gives his club a sporting
chance to escape deficit.
Most OF the promoters fancied
Luis Vicentini and Pal Moran as
parties of the second part. Luis
and Pal were not on the official list
as both have lost decisions to Dun
matched with Moran and Kansas
with Vicentini.
Civic lost on a foul in thres
rounds. The decision by Referee
Johnny Gallagher was SO ridiculous
that the boxing commission would
not penalize Zivic. Moran. tech.
meal winner, was really eliminated
by his failure to even start fighting
against Zivic.
Vicentini and Kansas were II
have met last Monday night. The
former developed a sudden attack
Of heebie- jeebies and the match was
set back until next week. 1t will
have no bearing on the elimination
business unless Vicentini wins. That
will ball up everything again.
II is believed that the commits
sion will order Dundee and Kan
sas to box somewhere 10 de-
cisiOn, the winner to meet the \
victor in tOnight'S bout.
Kansas has a good argument
against this. He won decision
over Dundee in Buffalo last spring
and doesn't see why he should fight
Johnny again.
A better arrangement would have
been to have matched Barbarian
with Dundee and civic with Kansas.
The Detroiter claims popular"
decision over Dundee in Detroit last
winter. Zivic and Kansas have
never met.
Kansas has fought Leonard twice
and Dundee has met the champion
eight times. Leonard handed Kan
sas the only knockout of his career
in their second fight and was gen.
orally credited with beating Dundee
on points in six Of their eight en-.
counters.
Zivic and Barbarian are young
sters. Neither has ever boxed
Leonard.
Their combat may result in
good fight if Z:vic. steps out to
baltic with Barbarian as he did
with Moran.
The Pittsburgher will not gain
admirers IL he chooses to make 3
dancing, defence, Overlapping con-
test Of it. Possibly he can out
point Barbarian that way, as Sid
is a flatfOOted customer who loves
to mix and generally looks bad
when chasing an opponent who
gets on a bicycle.
Barbarian Is a mauler, but nos q
one-punch hitter. If Zivic ever ex-
poets to have a chance with Leonard
he ought to be good enough to walk
into Barbarian and beat him at
his own game.
Zivic is handicapped by lack Of
good left-handed' srarring partners.
He has never fought a southpaw,
or even trained with one. His man.
ager, Jimmy Bronson, is a bit wor-
ried that Barbarian's reverse way
of milling and his peculiar style of
boxing will bother Zivic during the
opening rounds.
It will be remembered that Jack
Bernstein was all at sea when he
was defeated by Barbarian in the
Detroiter's ;leout here recently.
Bernstein couldn't solve Sid's style.
The unusual spectacle of Yonkers
Jack, mounted on his bicycle and
pedaling backward, greatly sur
prised the customers at the VelO-
drome that night.
Even Benny Leonard, a master
boxer and a sharp hitter admitted
that he couldn't locate Lew Tend
Ter during the first eight rounds of
their first battle. Benny was dan.
gerously near defeat before he
made the grade.
In their second fight Leonard
won all the way. He trained with
left handlers and evolved the sys-
tenn of catching their left leads on
his right elbow, then going in
close and tipping the head back
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