The Washington times., 1934-11-02
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services.
Among the leaders were Buddy
Hayes and Young Stone, Negro
welterweights who came in and
volunteered to box for nothing.
eve just dropped in to say
we'd help. We want to fight
anyone, but we'll box each other
If you can't get an opponent.
No mOney-give that to Mrs.
Wilson and the little children"
Within the Auditorium tonight,
where men Of honor meet with
pride, the action will be Of gloves
and blows, the whirl and the vel
ter of battle. But that is the
least. Beyond the lights, beyond
the ring of shouted exhortation to
the fighters a stricken widow and
her orphaned brood sit in lonely
home made desolate by death.
Resting somewhere in a vault,
sealed paper is held by some man;
sealed paper known as a mort
gage. The pressure Of that paper
weighs heavily upon the roofpole
of that Wilson home. Within your
purse, within the possibilities Of
your earning capacity is one dol
lar. In the power Of your right
hand and the beat of your heart
is the emancipation Of that Will
son home.
You can lift that mortgage. You
can free that stricken widow, those
wondering children who cry
bleakly for the return of father
who rode into the darkness of
night on a task of honor to win
bread for his brood.
That fathers life went out in
the roar of a shotgun fired by the
hands of a moron, menace still
at large, awaiting fresh supply
of dope and the 80 pieces of silver
to strike out another life.
But for the grace of God, those
children might be your children.
That striker, grief numbed widow
might be your widow. The chal.
lenge to your heart and your sense
of duty is clear. All you need is
the heart and the dollar. The
dollar you can get. We know you
have the heart.
Somehow a recital of the Prov
ess of the fighters participating
in this carnival of sport in the
Auditorium which by Charity's
holy spirit becomes a Temple OF
Benevolence, seems out of place.
It is the cause and not the me-
dunn that appeals.
Yet there is cause to set forth
the fighting values of these young
men who are winning tn If way
through the grim and terrible
grind that Is the prize ring.
Frattini is called the Italian
Bomber. Men win their names in
sports. Frattini has won Sc out
of 68 fights. He is an aggressive,
hard-punching fighter of far more
than average ability, and his hit
ting power appeals to fight fans.
Clever Fighter
Hughes, a clever, smart young
fighter who has done right well
among welterweightS, and who
hopes to win higher rating tonight,
will oppose the young Fascist.
Hughes can fight and Hughes can
box with the best Of them. He
will be a tough one for Frattinl
or anyone else.
And what a fight that semifinal
will be. Be there in time for that
battle. frankie wolfram, Cana
dian bantamweight champion and
winner of 81 consecutive fight in
the ring, will meet Billy Landers,
who has stepped through "a out
of SO battles in fine style. Even
in defeat. Landers behaved like a
coming champion.
There isn't a. boy on that en-
tire card, go right down the line
from Frattini and Hughes through
Petey Bryan, Bob Lowry. Joe Fir
rone-they're all good fighters
and all good boys.
Joe Green, kid who is fight.
ing on the card for a pittance,
spent most of his purse; yes, spent
more than his purse buyirg tick
cts for the show. Here's to you,
Joe Green. I hope you win, de-
spite the fact that I'm supposed
to be absolutely n,utral. But I'm
pulling for a kid with Joe Green's
heart.