Evening star., 1935-01-22
CALLED AMAK|NGS
Of SWEET BOXER"
Late Weight Reducing and
Attack on His Earnings
Upset Local lad.
BY FRANCIS E STAN.


-LIGHTY PHILBERT FURR, the
- promoters headache, the COM
missions problem, had My a
swollen schnozzle and defeat
today to show for his first trial under
big league fiStic fire, but even the
Foggy Bottom fighters severest critics
are not so sure that Philbert was
biting off too much when he de-
manded: Get me the best in the busi-
ness"
Philbert was fed one of the best last
night at the Washington Auditorium
in Jabbing Johnny Jadick of Phlla-
delphia, who argues that he still holds
the world junior welterWelght Title,
AS expected, Jadick proved too smart
for Philbert, but no so clever that
Furr assumed the aspect of q human
punching bag Armed with lethal
punch and a surprisingly good left
hook, Philbert made fight of 1t de-
spite the unanimous decision.
Even Jabbing Johnny, symphony
in ring lore and finesse, had to dof
his bonnet to Furr. Il was told Furr
was lust a kid with a wild right-hand
punch" Jadick revealed. But he's
got a doggone good left hand, too, and
the makings of a sweet boxer"
A Busy Day.
TURR conceded experience and
craft to the skinny, grinning
Philly phantom. but this was
not all. Fighty Philbert went into
the scrap not a little upset by a
couple of unexpected verbal jousts
earlier in the evening. The first oc-
CURED when he and Jadick weighed
in at 2 o'clock. Johnny scaled 1879
and Philbert 144l4, a pound and a
quarter over the contract agreement.
Jadick's manager, Johnny 1ron
Hat) Burns, demanded that Furr shed
the extra avoirdupois, and the District
Boxing Commission upheld Burns
request. Between steaming process
and a verbal tuSsle with William
Goettling, who claims to be his man
ager, to whom Philbert was doing
wrong. Furr lost the weight required.
Goettling bobbed up on the scene
armed with a lawyer, the pair de-
manding a cut of one-third of Phil
bert,s earnings and flourishing a con-
tract to emphasize Goettling's rights.
During the squabble Goettling also
claimed that Furr owed him 600
smackers.
All in all, it was not an ideal after
noon for fighter to spend few hours
before the most important battle of
his life.
Eighth Only Lop-sided Heat.
YADICK, flashing his famous left jab
to Furr's face with Furnishing ef-
" feet, and occasionally shooting
over a right cross almost too fast to
follow, won of the 10 rounds on this
observers score sheet, with Flighty
Philbert winning two heats and an
other brace going down as even.
Fur first crashed through Johnny's
beautiful defense in the third round,
when he actually "outlefted" Jadick
to win despite absorbing a crushing
right cross Just before the bell. The
fourth was even, but Jadick got the
range again in the fifth and sixth as
Fur, dropping all pretense Of box
ing. attempted in vain to drop hay
maker on the rolling Jadick'S jaw
After an even seventh round, Jadick
gave Philbert thorough going over in
the eighth, the most lop-sided inning
of the scrap. Fur was bleeding freely
from the face as he walked to his
corner
Apparently content with his efforts,
Jadick confined his attack to left jabs
in the ninth, but he was forced to
summon all the tricks at his command
to keep the desperate Philbert from
inflicting serious damage in the tenth,
the second round won by F'urr. Jadick,
unable to block Furr'S wild rights and
lefts with his gloves, backpedaled to
escape the local boys whistling shots.
Breckenbacker Checks Julian.
"a PAIR of lightweights, Sam Julian
~ of Washington and Charlie
Breckenbacker of Baltimore,
stole the preliminary show with
vicious four -rounder that found Breck-
enbacker gaining draw and checking
the District boys winning streak of
four straight.
Breckenbacker, a veteran of the
game, was no match for Sammy in the
first two rounds, but in the third he
dropped the inexperienced Julian for
a count of two and followed up by
knocking him through the ropes. In
the fourth and last round Julian again
went down, though taking only a
count of one.
The judges ran a close second in
providing excitement when they
Henri di Sibour and Frank Schuyler
-overruled Referee Muggsy Morris
and awarded the six-round semi-wind-
up to Sid SilaS after the Jewish Welter
had taken a neat lacing from Mickey
Lands. Lands, who had Silas out on
his feet twice, appeared to have won
four of the six rounds.
Sammy Sweet, Cincinnati f1yWeight,
won a four-round decision over Benny
Kessler of Baltimore; Joe Ferrone Of
Washington outwaltzed Marty Bond,
Baltimore welterweight, in a six
rounder, and Billy Wells took de-
cision from Sailor Leonard after four
rounds in the other prelims.
The crowd Of 1861 paid $1,435.50
to see the show