Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-10
CHAMPIONS RISK
RING regulations
Bitter Battle Is Assured To.
night in Shrine Show
Threatening Records.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

~ OXING gate and box-office rec
* ords will tumble and ring
regulations will be risked to-
night at Griffith Stadium
where Tony Canzoneri, lightweight
champion of the world, and frankie
Kick, Junior lightweight titleholder,
are scheduled to mix over 12-round
route in the greatest fight show ever
offered in the National Capital.
A throng of $4,000 shelling out
4O.O00-both sets of figures tops for
a Washington fistic fete-is the joint
prediction of Messrs Turner ana
Ahearn, local sports impresarios put
ting on the spectacle for the Joint
benefit of themselves and the MOBILES
of the Mystic Shrine.
A fight to get fights will be that
between Canzoneri and Kick after
they step into the glare of the high
voltage arcs at $50 O'Clock. The
lightweight king is highly confident
of success in the battle, even to the
extent of declaring he won't have to
60 the dozen rounds to win
1T will be over in short order
Tony boosted today. But Kick is
EQUALLY as confident of victory. III
wear Tony down and get him after
the TENTH insisted frankie.
Canzoneri will need all the conf
dence and everything else he has IN
a fighting way tonight as he meets
a Klick keyed to best battling pitch,
for the lightweight crown wearer
must win by wide margin to be
assured of future lucrative matches.
Tony Must Fight Like Champ.
CANZONARI cannot afford to fight
~ other than as champion NO
title will be at stake. but beating at
the hands of Kick would tarnish
Tonys lightweight coronet enough to
make the little New Orleans Italian
less of a ring attraction than the
erunky Polack from San Francisco.
For Klick. this fight tonight affords
en- opportunity to avenge a brace OF
beatings handed him by Canzonerl
and certainly will determine his flstlc
future.
Victory would mean for frankie
the second really good break for him
in his struggle for recognition as one
of the worlds best lightweight scrap
pers. The first break he got when
he was matched with Canzonerl for
the Shrine show. He must mike his
second break and tonight frankie
will be shooting with everything at
his command 10 do just that.
A win would make klick the fore
most challenger fer Cal.Zoneri's crown
and bring about q popular demand
for all early nesting with the cham
pionship involved 1t would put Kick
on the path toward the big-roney
class in pugilism, class IN which
Frankie's foeman tonight IS firmly
established.
Tony Must Shoot Works.
ITO CANZONERI tonight's fight is
l. Just another bout, but one in
which he must throw fists for all he
is worth from start to finish or have
his ring reputation no little sullied.
To Klick it is the great opportunity
he has longed for since last June,
when he was compelled to stop in the
ninth round of :. slam-bang battle
with the fighter he is meeting here.
Kick will go into the ring at Griffith
Stadium bearing grudge. While he
has a wholesome respect for Canzoneri
the little San Francisco battler has no
strong personal regard for his foeman
and does not care who knows it. Asked
to be a member of the Shrine party
greeting Canzoneri on arrival at
Union Station yesterday, Frankie
CURLY refused. II got other things
to do" was Kicks surly response.
Anyway, why should bother to meet
him? That can wait until We both
get in the ring. Then Tony will see
plenty of me. And he won't like it so
much"
The last time Kick and Canzoneri
NETT was last June-Klick did
right well until punch to the jaw
made his face swell so much that
both eyes were closed. The fight had
TO be stopped Kick claims that an
infected tooth. more than the blow,
was responsible for the extreme swell
ing, and that had he been able to
see he easily could have continued
to the finish.
Particular About Referee.
TT is that fight in october, 1888,
that rankles, Kick will tell you.
He was giving Canzoneri a sound
spanking most of the way, but the
officials could not see it. 1t was a
great shock to Frankie when the ref
cree raised Canzoneris arm after the
10 tough rounds
Klick still believes he won that
Erh =.
started training here that he will win
this one If he gets fair break from
the third man in the ring. That man
will be Jack Dempsey. The Shrine
Boxing Committee selected Dempsey
as referee, but it took the District
Boxing Commission to definitely eStab-
lish the old Manassa Mauler in the
position.
Klick, through his manager, Ray
Carlen, strongly protested the choice
Of Dempsey He doubted Jacks ability
to handle fight properly. It took all
the persuasive power of the Capital
commission even to partly convince
frankie that Dempsey would be thor
oughly versed in District boxing rules
before stepping into the ring. Even
today, though, the San Francisco bat
tier was little dubious as to Demp-
sey's qualifications.
@ANZONERI and Klick wound up
" preparations for the fight with
lisht workouts yesterday. Shortly
after his arrival from New York the
lightweight champion went to the
Racquet Club for spell OF bag
punching and general calisthenics:
Tony looked as fit as the proverbial
fiddle. After his workout, he stepped
on the scales to balance the beam at
137. Klick finished his brief drill
weighing a pound less. The fighters
were to be officially weighed at 2
o'clock this afternoon at the District
Boxing Commissions quarters.
The battle between the champions
has aroused interest nationally and
throngs of fight-mindeo prominents
will look in on the set-to tonight.
Opinion as to the outcome Is about