The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-13
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BY HENRY McLEMoRE

United Press Stan Correspondent. New York, Jan 13.-(UP)-Two men-one coming, the other go- ing-will meet in the ring at Madi- son Square Garden Friday night, and it looks like a pretty tough get-together for Tommy Lough- ran, the man who is on his way down.
 In Steve Hamas, one-time Penn State eleven-letter athlete, Lough- ran will run up against just about the busiest and wickedest puncher developed during, 1881. There was a time when a wicked and busy puncher was the cream in Loughran's coffee, meaning that when Tommy was in his hey-hey day he liked nothing better than to take some hard-hitting, always boring-in chappie and left him nigh onto death.
 But those days, as King Levin sky, a brash young mug from Chi- cago proved so conclusively not so long ago, are past. The King, who is strong as a bull and every bit as smart, was told to go out and start blasting from the bell, and the devil with Loughran's science. The King, obedient to 8 fault, did just that, knocking Loughhan down a couple of times and winning the decision.
 Charley Harvey, Hamas' manager saw that one of you may rest as- sured he will tell his boy to do the same thing-wade in from the start and keep wading in thereafter. doubt if Steve will be able to throw as many punches in Loughran's as did the King, but I expect him to throw lem harder. Levinsky is & swinger and he stuns rather than paralyzes. Hamas is a sharp, clean puncher as his record of 23 knockouts in 26 fight testifies, and when he lands a clean one, it is customary for the victim to sway in the breezes for a split second, and then descend in hurry.
 If Hamas has Levinsky's luck and smacks Loughran four or five clean ones, I expect to see Tommy go down and stay down. Person. ally, hope this doesn't happen for if 1t does it will mean the end of the string for the Philadelphian. And when Loughran quits. the ring will lose one of its most honest fighters, as well as one of its most IGuTleSS.
 Don't be surprised if Loughran hands Hamas licking. Tommy has been counted out before only to comeback into the top flight. When Sharkey knocked him kick ing with a wild over hand right the boys said it was the end. It wasn't long before Tommy, work ing quietly and without any fam fare, worked his way to the top again with sound victories over such good ones as Schaaf, Baer and Campolo.
 Just a word on the uncertain- ties connected with fighting, parti- cularly among heavyweights. Six or seven months ago Charley Retzlaff, known then as the Du- luth bomber, the Duluth Ripper and the Duluth Dynamiter, was rated as three times as valuable a piece of fistic flesh as Hamas. Jack Hurley was offered small for- tune for Retzlaff's contract but turned it down. Then Joe Sekyra, regarded as nothing more than a trial horse, up and handed the Duluth Ripper, the Duluth Bomb- CT, the Duluth Dynamiter, hand. some trimming, and that apparent ly, was the end of Charley.
 Now, Hamas, who was coming along at the same time as Retz- laff, but who was rated not nearly so high, is knocking at the big doors with a better than even chance to enter.