Evening star., 1933-04-23
NEEDS TITLE CLASS
TO SCORE TUESDAY
Pete Facing Test Fans Have
Awaited in Battle With
Ex-Feather Champ.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

w WHETHER Pete Sarron
M really may be classed
Y Y among the leading con-
tenders for Freddy
Miller's world featherweight crown
will be determined Tuesday when
the dulcet-voiced Southerner and
Tommy Paul, ex-feather king.
square off in Alexandria'S rickety
little punch bowl in possibly the
biggest boxing jsust in local ring
history.
With his colorful. unorthodox style,
the tranSplanted Syrian from Birming-
ham breeZed into this fistic-conscious
hamlet two months ago and captured
the fancy of Washington fandom while
slowing away Frankie De Angelo, Benny
Schwartz and Mkt Gelb. But the very
factor which so intrigued Capital fans,
Sarron's style, caused ring critics to
withhold Judgment anent his titular
possibilities.
Put him against top-notcher and
see what happens" they said
SO Matchmaker frankie Mann of
Portner's Arena surprised everybody. in
cluding himself, by procuring Tommy
Paul
II Sarron can puzzle Paul, one of the
five best l26pounders in the game and
world champion until couple of months
ago, as he did De Angelo. Schwartz and
Gelb, Pete's chances of earning a
championship bout will indeed be rosy.
JIMMY ERWIN, the tall Texan who
recently took Sarron under his wing,
is downright optimistic. In his Texas
drawl, Erwin predicts
Tommy Paul will get the surprise of
his young life when he tackles Sarron
Pete is ready and his windmill style that
fooled his opponents thus far. but caused
some critics to say he'll turn clown
against a top-notcher, is going to fool
Paul plenty.
Paul is great fighter. sure. Any
body who wins a National Boxing Asso-
citation championship tournament like he
did-over fighters like La Barba, Sar-
ron. Datto and Pena-has to be good.
But Tommy'S never seen fighter like
Sarron."
CARRON'S bid for national recogni-
~ ton will be watched with keen in
terest by local fandom. Not since
AL Foreman's heyday has non-native
fighter created such furore in Wash
ngton as has the swa-thy Syria battler.
His rise to popularity has been little
short of amazing here. Two months
ago. unheralded and unsung, Pete ar
rived in the Capital and was greeted
ference. In three fights he won 20 of
% rounds and threw more gloves per
round than most fighters to show here
throw in 10 heats.
Although Sarron competed in the
same N. B. A. tournament with Paul,
the pair never met. Sarron, after a
tour Of New Zealand and Australia,
where he won the feathe-weight titles
OF those countries, headed for Detroit
and the tourney. Fidel La Barba out
pointed Pete on a hair-line decision.
Paul went on to win the tourney.
Shortly after, Sarron was stricken
with severe attack of neuritis in his
right arm. For months he was unable
to enter the ring Then several molars
were yanked and his neu-itis disap-
peared. The ring game beckoned again
and Sarron. forgotten, bobbed up in
the Capital.
mike most top-notchers to appear
~ here, Paul is far from washed up."
On the contrary the conque-or of
Freddie Miller, Baby Arizmendi. Fidel
La Barba, Nose Butch. frankie Genaro,
Emil Paluso. to mention a few, is at
the peak Of his career He is hot after
q championship crack at Miller, whom
he recently defeated in a non-title bout.
Impressive as he has been, Sar-on
will enter the ring the underdog. But
unless some grand wool-pulling has been
done around these parts the last 60 days,
Paul will have tartar on his hands.