The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-13
BANTAM TITLE
 BOUT GOES AT GARDEN FRIDAY
SaIica to Meet EScObar in lS-ROund Bout; Strong
 Prelims Arranged
Special to The DemOcrat)

N0RCCASA SU AAC DCMAWSA~T
 New York, Nov 1S-The first ban tamweight title battle to be held in the new Madison Square garden is scheduled for next Friday night when Lou Salica clashes with Sixto Escobar. This fight has gone far, even by its mere announcement, toward reviving interest in the little boys of the ring and recalls the time about the turn of the century when Terry McGovern scored a slashing knockout over Pedler Pal mer, the British champion.
 Some years ago the contenders in this division were top-notchers in favor with boxing fans. There was time during the days of the old garden when contests in this class drew large crowds and big receipts-the days when Bud Tay- Tor, Joe Lynch, Jack Sharkey, Pete Herman, Abe Goldstein, Cannonball Martin and Phil Rosenberg were in the limelight.
 Promoter James J. Johnston, of the garden, has arranged very at- tractive card of preliminaries for the Salica -Escobar event. Joey Arch ibald, the Providence, R. I. sensa- ton, will meet Indian Quintana in an eight round bantam bout, and in the same class Joe Wach, the east slider, will clash with Jack Sharkey, Jr., for four rounds. Wach and Sharkey recently met in a bout at the St. Nishols palace when Wach won a very close decision. Jackie says he will reverse this on Friday night.
 Attractions
 Two featherweight contests of eight rounds each, complete the card. Mike Beloise, the Bronx boy, will meet Joey Rivers, of Baltimore. This also is a return match, Rivers having won a technical knockout over Mike in Washington last June. Since then Bolloise has shown woi1- derful improvement which argues much for a tough fight when they meet again. The. other contest, which also should be close one, is between Vernon Cormier, of Worcester, Mass, and Petey Hayes, of the East side. Cormier, is a new conner among the feathers and seems to be headed for the top.
 Notes
 Salica is training at Madame Boys camp at Summit, N. J., while Esco- bar is preparing for the fight at Orangeburg. Both boys are in ex- cellent physical condition. Plenty of boxing today and tomorrow will be the program at each camp. Pauline is a camp mate of Escobar and the little Porto Rican is learning some of the finer points of the game from the more experienced Basque. Esco- bar is going several points better than Salica by training with a heavyweight. The best Lou is show ing is a lightweight sparring mate, Leo Kodak.
 Kodak is on the card featured by Al Roth and Frankie Klick at the garden on November 9. He meets Lou Lombardi. Roth is training for the Klick fight a Summit. while Klick is doing his work at the Pio- neer gym. Fro mthis quartet of fighters one may come forth as a real contender for Tony Canzoneri's crown.
 Jack McAvoy, the British middle weight champion, is at work at the Pioneer gym for his fight with Al Mccoy at the garden on November 20. Mccoy, who is now in Boston, will return to New York early next week and finish his training at Stillman's gym.
 The seat sale for the Salica- -Es- cobar fight on Friday night, oepned at the garden box office yesterday There was quite @ heavy demand with indications that a capacity house will see this bantam cham pionship event.