New Britain herald., 1929-08-28
EXPECT SINGER ID
 BEAT CHOCOLATE
Cuban Fight Sensation on Short
 End Of Betting First Time

New York, Aug. 2S (P-For per career, Kid Chocolate. dusky CuEan featherweight. will enter the ring for his 12 round bout with Al Singer at the Polo Grounds tomorrow nlgl,t as an underdog in the betting.
 Quotations of and to and some of as high as to l on Singer have been offered freely in the past week. Indications were that these odds would hold good at ring time
 Apparently the heavy proportion of Singer money is due to the East Side lads brilliant knockout victory over Andre Routis of France, featherweight champion. That triumph, coming on the heels of Singers knockout defeat at the hands of Ignacio Fernandez, stamp ed the East Slider as a fighter wlt'i championship possibilities. The Routis fight also went far toward dispelling any doubts as to tht quality of Singers courage.
 Chocolate and his handlers appar- ently are doing little or no wol ry- ing over the fact that the Cuban will be on the short end of the ba'- ting odds. Few opponents have ht: Chocolate with a right hand and that's Singers most potent weapon And as for comparative records, tho Cuban has all the best of it, He has never been beaten and only one man, Joe Scalfaro, has gained IS much as draw with him. In thaS fight, Chocolates debut in Madison Square Garden, the Cuban proved that he could take it. and rally ;n time to avoid defeat. scalraro drop- ped the Negro with a heavy right few moments after the fight start ed but Chocolate got up and boxed his way to a draw that many thought should have been a victory for the Cuban.
 The pre-fight bally-hoo has benn marked by a strenuous newspaper argument over weights. The fight contract calls for Singer to make l3o pounds but there is side agreement that Singer shall make 12S1a pouuds with a s5,000 forfeit if he fails to make the grade. Dsquieting rumors leaked out of Singers camp that the East Slider would have hard ,i,n, making 13O pounds, and that 12S% pounds was out of the questi >n. Chocolates handlers immediately came to the front with an un~ nouncement that if Singer failed to make the lighter weight the Cuban would claim his forfeit and decline to go through with the fight.
 When it was pointed out that h. needed to make only 130 pounds t2 satisfy the New York State Athletic commission and that the boX,ne. solons would suspend Chocolate # he failed 10 go through with the fight, Louis Guterriez, the Cuban's manager, said he was ready to at- cept the commission's penalty bu, that he would not permit his charge to fight Singer at more than 12SM pounds
 Later it developed that Singer vas under 130 pounds and would have little difficulty getting down the lower figure. That satisfied eve"y- body except perhaps, those who had viewed the situation with such alarm.
 The chances are that Chocolate would think twice before reti,ing from bout in which he gets fat cut out of a gate expected to reaci. somewhere in the neighborhood Of s200,00O.
 Jack Kid Berg, English light- weight, and Spug Meyers of Chicago are booked in the ten round semi final. Harry Ebbets of Freeport and lazy Grove, New York middleweiSh, met in the first ten.