Evening star., 1935-04-09
NOT HOT
BEATING WOLFRAM
Gets Split verdict-Ahearn
Would Give Him Test
Against Rivers.
BY FRANCIS e. STAN.


TINE name Of Frankie Wolfram
was scratched from the local
featherweight fistic ''elimina-
ton tournament" today and
the monicker of Joe Doherty of Brook
lyn was substituted-witha a question
mark.
A lean youngster, rusty from four
months of idleness, Doherty whipped
the hard-hitting Canadian fair and
square, but not in a fashion that COM
pletely sold" ring critics on his
chances Of getting very far, say, with
Petey Sarron.
It came as something of q mild upset,
that 10-round beating Doherty handed
Wolfram last night at the Washington
Auditorium, but If 1t failed readily to
convince boxing followers Of his abil-
ity to cope with Q ringster Of Sarron's
class, the performance virtually as
sured the rangy boy from Brooklyn's
Shantytown of another opportunity to
show his wares. Even as Doherty's
hand was raised in token of victory by
two votes and q draw ballot, Match
maker Goldie Ahearn was pulling
strings for California Joe Rivers
Doherty scrap.
This kid (Doherty) rates q real
chance" declares Ahearn. He didn't
have a fight for four months until last
night because of an injury. And when
anybody licks Wolfram after laying
of for that long, he must have some
thing"
Body Blows Weaken Wolfram.
THERE was not much doubt in
the minds of one Of the smallest
crowds in six months that
Doherty had won the duke. On the
type Of Charlie Won Reedon, the new
est Of the Ahearn-Joe Turner feather
weight "contenders" is neither vi
cious puncher nor a smooth boxer, but
he has the reach, heart and an annoy
ing knack of looping right-hand
sock to the body.
1t was body punching that beat
Wolfram, slowing down the stocky
Canadian as early as the second
round and keeping him softened and
cautious until the ninth heat, when
Frankie rallied to all but stow away
the Irishman. On this observers
score card the fight was very close,
with Doherty gaining four rounds,
Wolfram three and three stacking up
as even. The point total was 391a to
80. Referee Denny Hughes and
Charlie Dunn, one of the judges, voted
for Doherty. The other Judge, Henri
de Sibour, called 1t a draw.
Wolfram. three pounds lighter at
125, seemed to have q shade in the
fifth heat, but Doherty came back to
win two of the next three.
Crowd Smallest Of Ahearn Regime.
DAY (KID) NGRAM's six-round
II victory over Wesley Martin,
stablemate of Wolfram, featured
a preliminary card that matched the
main event in trend-hard fought but
uneventful. Somehow the program
failed to arouse much enthusiasm
from the rain-soaked TOO, who paid
only $S66.50. It was the smallest
crowd yet at an Ahearn-arranged
show.
Les Guesno Of Baltimore, who was
one Of the two pro ringsters to defeat
young Joe Green, Northeast feather
weight, failed to show how he turned
the trick as he lost q unanimous deci-
sion to Green in another six-rounder.
Except In spots. 1t was dull affair.
Harry Jeffra, another Baltimore
feather. was far more impressive than
Guesno as he outslugged young Lloyd
Pine Of Philadelphia in q third six
round battle. A pair of colored well
terweights, Young Kid Salmons and
Gerald (Rufus) Reeder opened the
show with O comic four-rounder.
which went to Salmons by o unani-
nous verdict.