The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-21
|KAMINSKI, FOE
 FOR EDDIE MOORE,
 MADE CRADEF FAST
Young COaI-Miner Well- Handled Since Ring Ca-
 reer Began a Year Ago
By WALTER ST. DENIS (Special to The Democrat)

New York, Dec 21.-Joe Kamin- ski has been fighting a little more than a year and a half and yet to- day he is rated in the first ten middleweights of the country. That's a rating which probably Is unsurpassed in the history of the important 160-pound division of boxing. It's high tribute to the ability of the young coal-miner from Nanticoke, Pa. It's posi- ton earned by the beat of his fists on his adversaries since Lou Brown introduced him to the boxing world such 8 short time ago.
 Joe Kaminski has been a busy young man since he came to New York just as a travelling mate for another ambitious young man from his home town. Charley Harvath was the name of the young man who had pugilistic aspirations. He came to introduce himself to Lou Brown. Lou looked him over in the New York Pioneer gymnasium one day. Young Kaminski volun- teered to box with Harvath for the edification and judgment of the lat ter's prospective manager.
 Surprise!
 The workout over and Harvath was sent back to the mines. Kam- inski was bid to stick around. Browns judgment has been found to be unerring so far in the career of young Kaminski. Joe has done everything asked of him. He fail- ed only to do what his manager voted against-a match with Lou Brouillard, when the latter was ruling the middleweight roost. Brown is not the avaricious run of managers. When he sees a pros- pect he is willing to nurse him. That's why he has gone along so far with the young miner. Even the offer of a match with Brouil- lard failed to dislodge Brown from his stand to take Kaminski along by easy stages. A Springfield pro- moter had offered Brouillard $3,5O0 for an overweight match with Browns man, and $5,000 if he would make the middleweight limit.
 It seemed foolish offer for a promoter to make for a match be- tween 8 champion and Q virtual novice. But up Springfield way was where Kaminski had made his reputation. He had won 15 straight fights in the region. He had come along to win fight after fight, many of them by knockouts and among the victims was Waterbury's own pride, Leo Larravee. It was no wonder that Springfield went Kam- inski-minded. He's still held in the same regard today, even though later times showed to defeats charged against the examiner. One of them was scored by Al Mccoy, in Boston, and because Mccoy out weighed the Pennsylvanian by many pounds The other was tallied by Tony Dellesandra, but later Joe squared that account.
 If it were not for a nose' which veers slightly to the right, nobody would even guess that Joe Kamin- ski is 8 fighter. He doesn't bear a mark of the forty-odd battles he has had in that short year and a half of the ring. It's because he is an excellent boxer and with that skill packs a punch, which has caused him to be called the heavi. est hitting middleweight in the ring.
 But it wasn't in boxing that he got that bruised nose. Joe was a ball-player first and he was a catcher. He missed a foul tip and 1t laid his beak right under his right eye and never took the trou- ble to have it strengthened out. That's why it scatters a bit over his countenance today.
 Natural Athlete
 Joe's hardness came through playing all the games, football, basketball and baseball and the like. He was a natural athlete and so when the coal-miners got up their weekly tournaments, Joe was In the lists as a boxer. That's where he learned the game and Tommy O'Toole, the old veteran showed him 8 lot. He never lost. When he turned to become money chaser in the ring. he start ed off with no less than IS straight knockouts, which is one of the req sons by Lou Brown took to nurs- ing him along rather than to rush him. Lou got the polish on his lad and today he probably is ready for even Vince Dundee, or other topnotchers in the division.
 So next year don't be surprised if Joe Kaminski comes to be the leading contender for the worlds middleweight title. He has the goods, and fast acquiring the ex- perience, which will fit him to cope with the leaders.
 That he is of championship tim- Der is evidenced by his readiness to fight any man in his class. When he was offered Eddie Moore, the southpaw from Bridgeport for the semi-final bout to the Bob Olin and Al Gainor bout on Friday, he did not demur. He never fought a southpaw and in accepting the match, only said, "What's the diff ference. If I'm going any place I'll have to take them all, so let Moore come in with his southpaw slants or whatever he has got"
 That's why George Mulligan has bout which should vie with the main event on his card on Friday night and to make the show one. of all-star proportions.