Evening star., 1934-02-05
pilot PROPHES|ES
KAY0 AFTER FIFTH
Biu Attendance Assured for
Battle Tomorrow With
Les Kennedy.
BY FRANCIS E. SEAN.

BY FRANCIS E. SEAN.
~ UR hottest fistic word
battle since the wind
\ storm preceding the 1927
~ Marty Gallagher-Henry
Lamar tiff passed into its semi
final stage today with Jimmy
Gallagher, camp spokesman
and brother of this same Gala
CHER fellah, grabbing OF top
| hOnOrS.
A knockout victory for Marty over
Les Kennedy tomorrow in their
scheduled 1O-round scrap at Portners
Arena was predicted by the scholarly
| looking James, who is currently guild
ing the destinies of Foggy Bottoms
entry in the heavyweight boxing
Whirl.
| "If Kennedy's talk about retiring If
| licked tomorrow is on the leveI,
vouchsafed Jimmy, I'm afraid Les
ring career is gonna end with him nat
on his back.
Marty will knock him out some
time after the fifth round. If he
doesn't, we're gonna be disappointed
bunch And We don't get hoped up
about anything unless there's q gooo
chance of it happening
"Maryt's in great shape and rarlrg
| to go. After five rounds he'll have
Kennedy so worn down that he'll be
target for Martys right hand AS
for Kennedy outsmarting Marty,
that's bunk. Les isn't strong enough
to keep him from punching him
downstairs
Erwin, Too, Talks Fine Fight
A MOTHER member of the Gal
| ~ lagher camp, Trainer Jim Nc
Namara, reports the big Foggy
Bottomite down to a mere 207 pounds
and minus much of the Aabhy mid
section which Marty exhibited against
Dewey Kinney a month ago, but in
Jimmy Erwin, pilot OF Kennedy, the
Gallagher Boosters Club has a
worthy foeman in this business Of ex-
changing choice words.
Kennedy whipped Marty a year
ago. Yeah, 1 know he didn't get the
decision, but he won" is Erwin's ver-
sion of the eight-rounder staged at
PortneTis last year, "LeS'll do II again
tomorrow, only better So much bet
ter, in fact, there won't be any doubt
about who won.
Big, slow-moving guys like GAL
lagher are made to order for Kennedy.
He'll cut him to ribbons in a l0-round
bout. You can throw out that Big
Boy Rawson fight. You can't look
coed against fellah who won't fight"
Tomorrow Alexandria washington
rivalry (Kennedy now Is an Alexan-
drian) may not be the best flstic offer
ing committed by Mons. Frank Mann,
Portner's matchmaker, but from the
turnstile angle it is certain to be one
of the most successful. Gallagher's in
itial refusal to meet Les six weeks ago
started things, and the Erwin Jimmy
Gallagher verbal barrage since has
done the rest.
Win or lose, the boys will tote away
a pocketful Of 59-cent dollars.
Hot Prelims Are Slated.
"HE best set of preliminaries Of
the season has been arranged by
Mons. Mann. Just in case.
! They are in the form of three six
FOUNDERS featuring local and Atlantic
City talent.
J The boxing gents who have seen
him in action vouch for Patsy Wal
lace, Atlantic City lightweight, who
will oppose Bobby Burns Of Baltimore
In the semi-wind-up Burns Is nc
world beater. but he throws leather
and can take a licking if Wallace is
good enough to dish it out.
Charley Won Reedon, main
eventer here in the past, will step
against Benny Adler, another Atlantic
City product, in a featherweight tus-
sle
7 The third prelim lists Baby Charles
: Of Alexandria and Leroy Dougan, the
| tough little guy who migrated here
, from Arkansas Ark, to
: be exact. For Charles this will be his
initial test against a scrapper who
knows his way around the ropes in
fairly expert fashion.