The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-04
McLdrnin Meets First Lefty
GATE OF $lOO,OOO
 EXPECTED FOR ] 'WELTERWECHT co
lBrouiIIard, Connecticut Boy Has Big Chance
 } KapIan, Larrivee in Pre- linls

@-~0 New york, Aug 4--Jimmy Me- I.arnin. the murderous puncher fswith the face of a baby, will meet |ihis eighth opponent of champion shin caliber when he battles Lar |;rupin' Lou Brouillard, former hold fer of the worlds welterweight. ti- I.tle. in the feature bout of ten rounds at the Yankee Stadium to- might, The fight will mark the in- augural of fistic festivities which the Aram A. c. will promote q! tthe, two local major league paLi parks this summer. fts
 Brouillard presents something new in the line of opponents Mo Larnin has been used. to battling! He is the first southpaw the Nan- couver puncher has ever met and one of the few adversaries Me- Larnin has ever given a weight ad- vantagey Both finished their hard training flor the match yesterday and aver they are physically. fit for the hardest battle of their careers Lou Up Five
 Although they agreed to weigh In at the welterweight standard Of 147 pounds, Brouillard will have an advantage of five pounds. He tipped the beam at 14S pounds as he ended his training for the battle yesterday and will dry out about pound and a half overnight. He will pick up several pounds after being officially weighed at,2 o'clock this afternoon. McLarnin scaled ,144 pounds, but he does not expect to increase this poundage as his trainer, Dinny McMahon, has been building him up to his heaviest fighting weight for the contest.
 Brouillard won the 147-pound crown at 20 years of age from Young Jack Thompson last Sep- tember andris the youngest fighter ever to win worlds title. He dropped Thompson four times dur ing the fifteen rounds and won by much more decisive margin than McLarnin did over the negro when he fought him in the Garden two years ago. In fact the majority of those who saw the McLarnin- Thompson bout were of the opin- ion that the negro should have at least received draw. Y"
 Jim Hits Hard
 On a line through Jackie Fields, to whom Brouillard lost the cham pionship in Chicago last February, McLarnin- has the better score as he knocked out Fields in 1.-two rounds, in addition to breaking the latter's jaw with one of his famous right crosses. Fields and Thomp- son are included among the seven !, champions McLarnin defeated either before or after they ascend ed their thrones. The others were Pancho Villa, Buddy Taylor, Fidel LaBarba, Louis (Kid) Kaplan and Sammy Mandell. "Babyfaee" twice defeated the last named in Chicago. @ Brouillard presents formidable record with practically only one defeat in 71 contests. He lost de- cision to Johnny Indrisano and re- versed it in subsequent bout. Fields is the only other boxer ia gain the verdict over the French Canadian southpaw. The bout will mark the Worcester battler's first appearance in this city. His man. ager, Maurice Lempino, wisely kept him out of the metropolis until he came within the age limit which would permit. him to engage in contests of more than six rounds. McLarnin has not fought since he defeated Billy Petrolle, last year. A dearth of worthy oppon- ents was largely responsible for this. Whether this twelve-months idleness will affect McLarnins s speed and judgment of distance is another argument Brouillard's fol- lowers put forward. In any case the uncertainty of the probable outcome has aroused enough in- terest in the bout to prompt the promoters in predicting that 50,O00 persons will turn out to see the aN-. important battle. f
 This is goodly-sized crowd and the advance sale gives every indi- cation that a number of spectators will attend. Preparations have been made to handle the fans in such manner so as not to cause any de- lay either at the box offices of the Yankee Stadium or the entrance gates.
 Nice Prices
 The scale of prices of $1.10 for the upper grandstand, to $5.50 tops for the ringside has met with popu- lar favor and there has been an unprecedented run on the down town offices of the Yankees at 55 West 42nd street where the $2.20. $3.3O and $5.50 tickets are being gobbled up by those who wish to procure their pasteboards in ad- vance.
 The Actors Fund of America will share in the receipts and in order to insure this organization 8 tidy sum, Matchmaker Al Weill has ar ranged supporting card of three eight-rounders, any one of which could serve as "star bout" any, where but baseball park.
 Frankie Petrolle, brother of Billy and two-time conqueror of Bat Battalino. will attempt to add another ex-champion to his long list of victories when he tackles Louis (Kid) Kaplan in the semi final.
 Leo Larivee. New England mid- dleweight champion of Waterbury. Connecticut is paired with Ben Jeby of the East Side in. his New York debut. The other eight rounder finds Joey Costa, New Jer- sey lightweight champion, pitted against Lew Kirsch. latest pride of ,the Ghetto fans. r
 Billy Hogan. former Metropoli- tftn and Golden. Gloves amateur champion, will oppose Joe Evac- one. Scranton lightweight, in tho