Evening star., 1933-03-12
WILLING WORKERS
TO BATTLE FRIDAY
Both Fighters Matched for
Middle Title Bout Have
Smart Records.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

N Jew YORK, March 11.-Ben
M Jeby has come to the con-
1 y clusion that his claim to
the middleweight title Is
not strong enough to bring in
some Of t. big money he thought
would come to him.
Accepted in this State as the
leader Of the 160-pound lads, Ben
has decided to risk his claim
against the hard, steady punching
Of Vince Dundee in a 15-round
melee next Friday. The scene
will be Madison Square Garden,
where Jeby outscrambled Chick
Devlin and Frank Battaglia.
Dundee did not enter the recent mid
dleweight tournament for the simple
reason that his manager, Max Waxman,
refused to fight for the percentage Of
fered. Max evidently believed ne was
entitled to some sort of guarantee be-
cause Vince had beaten Jeby on two
different occasions and did not care
to 60 through the same ordeal without
being property paid
The portly handler Of the Dundees-
Max had brother Joe when the latter
held the welterweight title-figured the
tournament did not amount to much
without the inclusion Of Vince. This
reasoning came mighty close to causing
him to lose good fighter, as there was
talk that Vince did not like the way
his affairs were handled. He was COM
PEELED to fight in small clubs, and poorly
paying ones. and wound up the year
1882 with little to show for his efforts.
NOW that Dundee gets another crack
at Jeby in hsadliner, with the title
at stake, everything has been patched
up. Things may take a reverse turn in
the event Jeby upsets the dope and
hammers out victory.
TO local fans who witnessed the
i previous Dundee-Jeby scraps. it is
just what the doctor ordered to
relieve the present dull state of affairs
in caulif1ower circles. The fans have
not seen real battle in SO long they
are beginning to wonder if the old
timers are not right when they say that
present day boxers are pampered too
much. The ball room certainly lost
some great terpsichorean artists when
some of our boxers decided to take I'D
the ring for livelihood.
While Jeby does net raise the fans
blood pressure, his sincerity of purpose
and efforts to make a fight of it are
far more welcome than the antics of
the ordiIary run of actors in the ring.
DunSee has turned in some fine per-
formances. He Is a wiling worker and
does not go In for fancy stepping. The
fact that ne has lost but one bout in
two years, and that on foreign soil,
speaks for itself.
Vince has been fighting five years.
In that time he has been beaten but
eight times, three times by Jackie
Fields. and once each by Al Mello,
Johnny Indrisano, Billy Angelo, Izzy
Grove and Marcel Thil Jeby has been
boxing for years and has been beaten
seven times. He was knocked out by
Frank Battaglia. His list of opponents
is not as impressive as Dundee's and
far the better fighter.
NOTHING is taken for granted in
~ the fight racket. For this reason
Jeby will find many supporters
who will insist that Dundee saw his
best fighting days when he was CAM
paigning as a welterweight and is not
as effective as he wes, despite his two
victories over Jeby in 1880 and 1881.
find himself, while Dundee has fought
himself out. If such Is the case, 1t
has not been apparent to the keen
observer.
Dundee shapes up as serious fighter
with a good deal to recommend him as
likely choice over the best middle
weight in the world Vince will tell
YOU that he is bent on a victcry ovcr
Jeby in order to get another crack at
Marcel Thil of France, the real leader
of the middleweight division With this
in mind Dundee can safely be counted
upon to be at his best, and it behooves
the East Slider to be in prime shape.