The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-27
Y0UNGSTER IS
GROOMING FOR
GLASS CHA MP
Iowan Is Booked to Fight
Jimmy Braddock and Leo
L0mske Shortly
is POWERFUL HITTER
Smartly Managed Youth Looks
Like Best Prospect to Come
in Years
BY HENRY L. FARRELL

BY HENRY L. FARRELL
Four nar,es have been given a
place of prominence in recent
months on the list Of the cauliflower
market. The list is roll of fight
crs that the managers of ambitious
or conservative young men of the in
dustry are warned to stay away
FROM.
1t has been some time since the
list included fighters of such prom
Use in four important divisions as
Tuffy Griffiths, light heavyweight;
Rene De Vos,. middleweight; Jackie
Fields, welterweight and Kid Choco-
late, feather weight. And they seem
to be the answer to the prayer OF the
promoters for new faces and new
color to stimulate near dead bust
ness.
fluffy Griffiths, of the four men,
toned, seems to have the most
promise from a money angle and
that is the main angle in the racket.
He is not only the outstanding light
heavyweight of the country but he
may grow into the ranking contend
err for the heavyweight champion
ship.
He's Just Started
Griffiths is 21-year-old battler
from Sioux City, Ia, and before he
had the name Tuffy hung on him
he had to blush to the monikc-. Of
Gerald Ambr ,se Griffiths. His
publicity man would have you be-
Io% &c 0d
at him because of sissy name that
started him to fight with the ju-
veniles at home and it may be so, al
though it is an old story.
But it is a matter of official rec
ord, regardless Of the motives that
inspired or provoked him to it, that
Gerald Griffiths started fighting
when he was Is and that at the end
of five years of campaigning he
owned a record of SO consecutive
victories. It is true that his record
includes almost as many Whosisses
I! and Whatsits as Young Stribling' s
| but the last four victims of his sock
caused him to be added hastily and
very legibly to the list Of don'ts.
Griffiths caused real attention
first when he knocked over Mike
McTigue. There may come time
when the association Of those who
knocked off McTigue will have the
largest membership in the racket
but there aren't many doing it right
now.
The fluffy then took Tony Marul
10, Jimmy Mahoney and Joe Ander'
son. Marullo is recognized as one
Of the toughest men in the game
Mahoney stopped Walcott Langfort
twice, broke even with Joe Sekyrs
and gave George Courtney all h.
wanted and Anderson was one Of tn,
coming fighters in the class.
i It Was Sucker Trick
i The real tip-off on Griffiths cam,
when Baron Jimmy Dougherty, An
derson's manager and one of tn,
smartest men in the business, sal,
after his boy had been bumped Of
THAT Griffiths is helluva fight
err. What sucker l was feeding m.
boy to him."
But the word had gone out be
fore Dougherty broke his world
record by admitting that some othe
fellows fighter was a good one.
Tom McArdle, Richards match
maker, signed Griffiths for shoy
,, in the Garden and had to ask to b
released from the contract becaus
! he couldn't get anybody to take hin
!, Jimmy Slattery laughed off tn
,, offer with the joke that he "didn
!, know the young man." Jack Dc
!, laney said he had q social date fo
the night mentioned and that h
!, would get one for any other nigh
All the good lnes had excuses an
the punks could afford to be MOI
honest and admit that they wei
afraid of him.
Finally Jimmy Braddock, a nit
young boy from Jersey who hadn
I enjoyed a reputation for too niue
: heart, accepted the match. Bra,
docks only hope is to get over Il
punch that broke Pete Latzo's ia
n and that isn't a very big hope.
: Hey, Mr.. Loughran
al Griffiths is also booked to fig1
: Leo Lomski in Detroit and if
gets over the sleeper on Braddo,
= and Lomski, Our Tom Loughr,
y will have the challenger for his tit
= that he has been crying for. Figh
: ing as he was last year, Our To
4 would figure to take young Griffit
but no one knows what kind of
n fight the handsome Loughran has
:. him now.
. Loughran, however, is buildi1
- himself up for the heavyweig
:. class and Griffith is growing in
!. it without deliberate designs.
= graduated from the middleweig
. to the light heavyweight class in t,
months time and he may not be al