Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-09-09

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brutal endurance contest, has brought
legions Of Jewish boxers to the fore.
Looking through the records of the
past year, however, we find notice
able decline in real championship
material among Jewish fighting men.
II is true that since the retirement of
Battling Levinsky six years ago, we
have not had any champion in the
heavier weight divisions. II has been
put forward with more or less serious
ness that Dempsey, the worlds heavy
weight champion. is from Jewish
stock. In view of the fact that Demp-
sey's ancestors on his fathers side
bore the name of Levi must be some
truth to this contention.
Make Roscnbloom, willing and
conscientious performer in the light
heavyweight and middlewcight classes,
has made real progress during the
past year. His chances to win a
worlds title, however, are rather re-
mote, as the title-holders in these two
divisions are young boxers Of great
ability, vastly superior to Rosen-
bloom.
In the welterwcight class we should
name George Levine, the veteran Lew
Tender of Philadelphia, and Jack
Zixic, Of Pittsburg, the only con-
tenders. We do not believe that any
Of them has u chance to dethrone the
present wclterweight champion, Pete
Latzo.
The lightweight class, which up to
last year was the undisputed king
dom of Benny Leonard (who by the
way has definitely abandoned boxing)
is now being ruled by an Italian,
Sammy Mandell, whose name often
misleads over-zealous Jewish fans.
Here, however, we have strong army
of contenders. Sid Terris, Ruby
Goldstein, Jack Bernstein, Solly See
man, Joe Click, Sammy Vogel, Charlie
Rosen, and Louis Kid Kaplan, former
featherweight champion of the world,
have a good chance to capture the
lightweight crown.
ONLY JEWISH TITLE.HOLDER
Charlie Phil Rosenberg, the bantam
weight champion, is the only jew
holding worlds title. In view of
his rather mediocre calibre we pre-
dict that he will be dethroned, and
that non-Jew will capture the
crown, as the Jewish contenders,
, George Marks and Larry Goldberg,
are not the most dangerous of the
bantams. The fyweight class might
see Izzy Schwartz gain the honors.
But, should Schwartz fail, we cannot
remember any other Jewish boxer in
this division who would have chance
to dethrone the California master,
Fidel Labarba.
In all, out of eight recognized world
championships we can boast of only
one, which we will most probably lose
DSloiS iohS. We huN lidt
Europe has produced two Jewish
fighters of more than usual excellence.
One is Felix Friedman, who holds the
featherweight championship of Ger
many, and the other Francis Charles
of France, now in this country, who
holds the light heavyweight champion
ship of Europe.
In the amateur ranks we have many
state champions, but not a single ma
tional champion in any weight di-
vision. The failure of the Simon
pures can be explained on the ground
that it is an oif-year. We have real
fine specimens among them who may
bob up at any national championship
tournaments and capture the ma
jority of the titles. The outstanding
Jewish amateur boxer of today is
Harry Blitman, the hard-hitting fly
weight of Philadelphia, who, we be-
lieve, as professional, could gain the