The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-21

Ioo WILLIAMS with the rubber
man of Cleveland
got very little happiness out OF
seeing him.
This could be due to the fact that
Risko was on the floor practically
all the time and I can readily be-
lieve there are more pleasant, not
to say more dignif1ed positions,
from which 10 view an opponent IN
the prize ring.
At any rate the 25-year-old Irish
Englishman from Rochdale, Man
chester, stands out today as one OF
the most interesting newcomers the
game has produced, combination
boxer-hitter who is evidently capa-
BILE of handling himself in any kind
of going.
A few weeks ago he made his
American debut by cutting the well
thought of Al Mccoy to pieces, ana
last night he turned in a spectacular
performance by stopping the rugged
Syracuse pride in Iess than three
minutes of firing. He had him or
the deck six times which is about
three under par for the first round.
True Risko is scarcely the greatest
fighter that ever grimaced IN
mirror but he was the middleweight
champion of America, and NOBODY
had been going around making a
practice of stopping him in the first
round. Or in any other round Tor
that matter.
So until proved otherwise the
visitor from the land Of Bubbles
queak and ale must be accepted as
the genuine article. He has had 1O4
fights, won 81 by knockouts, 10 by
decisions and lost four. He later
reversed three Of the defeats, two
by knockoutS, the third by a de-
cision. Marcel Thil, the ancient bald
head from the bouleyards of Paris,
is the only fighter in the world to-
day who can point to an advantage
over him, and they say the militant
monsieur won't give him a return
match, and that's why he is in
America.
Record Impressive Indeed
This record, composed mainly at
the expense Of fighters unknown to
American boxing bugs, is more i'm
pressive today in view of McAvoy's
successive victories over Mccoy and
RiSko.
The match last night was at catch
weights and that obviously is the
only reason McAvoy did not take
the championship with the knock
out.
Possibly he wasn't interested in
taking it anyway. The empty peWS
In the big 9th-av cathedral were
convincing testimony that the do
nestle interest in the middleWeight
championship as it is currently con-
Quoted is slight enough to be prac-
: tically noneXistent. With fitting
propriety he might we'll ask What
good is it?"
His Weight Is Elastic
1t develops McAvoy's weight is
elastic. He can melt his sinewy
frame down to the middleweight
limit, or build it up to the light
heavyweight level on demand. Thus
his ambitions here are two-fold-
to clean up both the middle and the
light heavy fields. He has already
virtually attained the first goal The
second may be more difficult. John
Henry Lewis, the Negro master of
the light heavies, is no part of
soft touch.
The experts are saying McAvoy
is the best fighter England has sent
over here since the days of Ted Kid
Lewis, and you will recall Ted was
good enough to beat the clever Jack
Britton at intervals
Indeed in their days Lewis and
Britton alternated as the welter-
weight champion. The rivalry Of
these two was an epic in competitive
intensity and duration. They fought
more than 20 times and each time
it was for blood as we'll as pobs
Or at least so their managers al
ways insisted and If you can not
believe fight manager just who
can you believe?
He's No Phil Scott
The appearance of an English
fighter who is able to finish a test
in the vertical position never fails
to cause general lifting of aston
ished eyebrows.
This is due to the lasting mem
cries Of the Bombadier WellSes, the
Joe BeckettS and the Phil SCOTS,
heavyweights with extreme horizon
tai tendencies.
But while England has yet to de-
velop heavyweight of class it has
produced number Of great fight
ers in the lighter divisions. Some
of the greatest of all time to be fair
about it. How was Jimmy Wilde
for a fyweight, Jem DriScoll for a
featherweight, and wasn't Freddie
Welsh gifted enough to become the
lightweight champion of the world?