The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08

KIN Miller here, have
to do with matters belonging
in the athletic and recrea-
tional field.
Tomorrow the Shrine Regatta
practically opens the great as
semblage which brings to Wash
ington mobiles from every section
of this nation, Mexico and
Canada, and Monday night the
frankie Klick-Tony Canzonerl
12-round fight at Griffith Stad-
ium caps the sports phase OF a
convention week here that is ex-
pected to Guido all others IN
brilliance, fun and pageantry.
Not Great Fight Center
The Klick-Canzoneri scrap is
the greatest fistic attraction
Washington has ever antici-
pated, or may ever hope to con-
template. The Capital doesn't
happen to be a great pugilistiC
center, much as I hate to write
such an indictment, and there
fore not the haunt OF cham
pionship fights which might at
tract throngs here on their
merits alone.
Monday nights meeting be,
tween Frankly and Tony Will
bring together two little fellows.
A young junior Welter-We1ght
champion in the case OF
Frankie against a veteran, IN
Canzoneri, who only last month
regained the lightweight title
in his scrap with Lou Ambers.
Their Joint session here, how
ever, is not to involve the title
of either. Their contracts SO
state, They do not have to
make weights within their re-
spective classifications.
Possible Emergency
However, should the smaller
Kick happen to k. o. Canzonerl'
every sound mind will believe
that the title of Tony must
have passed. A knocked out
gladiator is nothing more or
less than a k. cd gladiator and
no fancy technicalities or flossy
language can change that.
However, I do not believe
there is any great danger OF
such a elimination to the fight.
Canzoneri has forgotten more
about fighting than the more
youthful Kick has learned and
is not so far beyond his peak
that he will fail to be at least
an 8-to-5 favorite by ring time.
He proved this against the
ambitious young Ambers in New
York a month ago come Mon
day. TWO weeks before that
Tony kayoed Eddie zivic in the
seventh round at Pittsburgh.
Have Been Introduced
So the little old gnome of the
prize ring seems to be right IN
his stride as he stalks up to
frankie Klick before all of those
little red fezes out at the ball
park day after tomorrow night.
Tony and frankie have met
twice before, Canzoneri having
won once by a decision and the
other time by a technical knock
out, if recall the circumstances
correctly, as I believe I do.
Tony has proven in his April
and May fights that he is still
good, and that's the main rea-
son I am picking him to win by
one manner or another-but by
no means by a foul.
He showed against both zivic
and Ambers that at 20 he is in
no way through. However that
is not proof positive that Kick
will be a puShover.
But the balance of evidence
must 60 to Tony in view of the
fact that his wise little head has
stored up experience and ring
craft that probably Kick, Zivic
and Ambers between them don't
possess.
Canzoneri Still Absent
Kick has been in Washing
ton week training indoors for
Canzoneri, whereas Canzoner1
has remained in New York (until
tomorrow training outdoors for
a fight that is to be held under
q canopy of stars.
Kicks practice sessions here
were at first confined to Sport
land Gymnasium, and then, by a
strange contrast, in the GYM
nasium of the Church of Our
Lady of Victory, on Conduit
Road.
Canzoneri's 100 odd fights in
which he has never put up a
poor fight, also make him the
outstanding choice over Klick, a
good, clever. clean fighter but
who, unfortunately, doesn't quite
have Tony'S glorious background
~ k1araot