Evening star., 1933-03-05
FIGHT FANS SPURN
UNSK|LLED GIANTS
Many Oversize Bouts Show
Folly Of Creating Super
class for Ring.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

n 1EW YORK, March 4.-Ray
M Impellettiere is the logical
l \ leader of the proposed
dreadnaught division
William Muldoon, the local box
ing czar, does not think it fair
for the big fellows to give away
too much weight and so he wants
to create a new class. But it
must be observed that Commits
sioner Muldoon has started much
talk about nothing Of Importance
and that the scheme will die a
simple death because it does not
mean a thing.
Impellettiere is a stranger to the
fight fans. He has been selected to
lead the "supers" because he has beaten
Jose Santa the Portuguese string bean,
and is inch taller than Primo Car
nera and cutweighs the latter fully
II pounds. Some man! But can he
fight?
Outside Of the Santa scrap Ray has
been to the post but one other time,
and Philadelphia sports scribes are
still wondering where and when he put
the invisible punch on Charley Wepner,
so that the latter was unable to do
1t was such punch, invisible, of course,
which Harry Wills landed on Kid Nor
folk and put quietus on the Pana-
manian. The disparity in size and
weight was just the same in each bout
and the fans may wonder how long
such affairs are going to be put on.
THE idea of superdivision is moth
i ing new. It was tried back in
the old days when Bob F1tzsim-
mons. little more than a middleweight,
put the erusher on Ed Dunkhorst,
giant. weighing close to 800 pounds. All
Fitz had to say about the matter was:
The bigger they are the harder they
fall"
In those days it was nothing strange
to see q little chap like Joe Cans or
Joe Walcott stand up to the hard
punching heavyweight. Sam Langford.
Those fights went the distance and
nothing was said about them.
Jimmy Wilde, the British flash. in
the hey-day OF his career, weighed lit
tie more than hundred pounds drip
ping wet. Pete Herman, then American
bantam champion. so respected Jimmy
that when he went to England he
thoughtfully left his bantamweight title
on this side Of the water in the pos
session of Joe Lynch. After beating
Wilde by sheer weight and hence
punching power. Pete returned and re-
claimed his title by defeating Lynch.
NOTHING much was said about
~ Mickey Walker, then welterweight
champion, when he was matched
with Harry Greb. holder of the middle
weight title. It was considered an
even-up fight. with little Mickey spot
ting his adversary 13 pounds. Weight
between the little fellows counts much
more than it does among the big fel-
lows and this was clearly demonstrated
in IA rounds. Walker came back
courageously In the final stanZa and
this was the high light In what other
wise would have been a one-sided vic
tory for Greb.
Speaking about Greb reminds one
that he was not a bit scared about
mingling with some Of the tough ones
in the heavyweight class, and 1t is a
matter Of record that Jack Dempsey,
through his manager, Jack Kearns, did
not care for any Of the Pittsburgh
Windmill's leather
THE rules in this State have driven
i many over-the-weight matches out
of the city, as champions are
compelled to make the class weight
every time they fight. A few cases are
on record where this rule has been lift
ed, but each time the contest was good
one and the champion did not have to
run for his life to save his title or pres
tige.
Primo Camera, Ray Impellettiere,
Jose Santa, Hans Birkie and others will
have tough time trying to induce the
fans to pay good money to see them
hippodrome. Muldoon did not come
right out and say he wanted the. big
fellows to try their luck with the cir
cuses. But he practically did the same
thing in creating a dreadnaught divi-.
sion. That means 1t will go the way the
junior titles did-oh the books for good,
with only the established classes recog-
niZed by the boxing world,