The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-03
.LASKY AND HAMAS|
 TAKE WORD SHOTS BEFORE BATTLE
Heavyweights 10 Feature Garden Opening Indoors
 Friday Night
Especial to the Democrat.)

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 New York, Oct 2.--Art Lasky has arrived in New York city to continue his training at Stillman's gymnasium, to-day at ? p. m. for the Hamas contest which takes place on Friday, October 5th at Madison Square Garden. Lasky, while commenting upon Hamas and the Eleven Letters which were bestowed upon him while he was in Penn State college, had this to say:
 "It is truly remarkable for a boxer to have graduated with high honors from a college of such high standing as Penn State and Steve, Hamas must surely have felt very proud of that distinction, but, or Friday night, between 10 and II p. m. am going to have the honor of conferring the figure ten upon him. He will not hear the referee count up to ten as I intend to knock him stiffer than a fnackerel and when he comes to he can add the ten figures to the Eleven Let ters and then he will have somc- thing to remember me by for a long time"
 Modest Steve
 When informed of what Lasky had said relative to his Eleven Let ters and the quick knockout which the western sensation intends to score, Hamas just shook his head, Well, that is what Max Schmeling, the former heavy weight champion of the world was going to do to me and see what happened to him. Tommy Lough- ran, the cleverest of all boxers, was going to give me boxing lesson and see what I did to him. 1 am not going to make any predictions, in fact never make prediction re- garding the outcome of my fights, but will say this, if anyone is going to be knocked out on Friday ngiht you can bet that 1t will no. be Steve Hamas."
 T do not think that Lasky Is as clever as Loughran, nor do think that he can hit as hard as SchmAI- ing, but even if he does it won't feaze me because 1 am after the heavyweight championship of the world and neither Art Lasky or anyone else is going to stop me. If he gets in the way of my left hook he will have ten counted over him for the first time in his life, or so they tell me, but you know that there always has to be first time. I am anxiously awaiting the bell on Friday night so come on Mir LasSy, let's see what you have.
 The preliminaries arranged for October 9th are as follows:
 The semi-f1nal of eight rounds, between Charlie Massare, the clever Pittsburgh contender and Tony Souza of California, is almost as good a match as the main bout. Massare just defeated Maxie Ros- enbloom and Steve Dudas and lost very close decision to King Le- vinsky. He has all the ear-marks of a runner-up for the heavy weight championship in 1885. Mas sares opponent, Tony Souza, has already boxed Art Lasky to whom he lost in seven rounds. He Is Q tough, rugged young man with all the ambitions of champion. BOrOs to Box
 Three six round bouts will pre- cede the Massare-Souza contest. Al Bores, rugged Bridgeport slugger will meet Lew Poster of Scranton. This will be a Pier 6 scrap.
 Corn Griffin, Charlie Harvey's young heavyweight prospect. will meet the hard hitting Frank Ed gren Of California.
 Roy Wallace, clever Indianapolis heavyweight, is scheduled to box Billy Donohue of the Bronx. who was coming along like a house. afire until he met Art Lasky., Wal lace and Donohue should be rip- tearing fight.
 The opening bout will feature two of the best of the four round heavyweight boxers. namely, Nor man Barrett, sparring partner of Steve Hamas's and Paul Press of New York.
 The above. mentioned bouts ap- pear to be full of action with knockouts galore.