The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-08
Odds Quoted On Carnival Of
 Champions Bouts
Do you bet on fights?

Do you bet on fights?
 If you do you'll find many com binations to work over in the Car nival of Champions of 1887, which IS the all-tirne big event in boxing and which is to be held at the Polo Grounds on September g, two weeks from next Thursday. Bet ters declare that the event will be the biggest thing as speculative medium the boxing ring ever showed. Just how many thousands of dollars will be wagered on each contest is hard to guess but Broad wayites, who do plenty of betting are sure that something approach ing a million dollars will hang in the balance, what with so many combinations presenting themselves.
 According to the price-makers, Pedro Montanez will go into the ring the choice to beat champion Lou Ambers at about 6 to 5.
 Fred Apostoli will rule a 9 to fa- vorite over Marcel Thil, the French man and worlds champion in their 15-round drill
 Barney Ross will be the choice at 8 to over Pedro Garcia, the Phil lipines boy in their welterweight clash.
 Sixto Escobar will be only 6 to 5 favorite over Harry Jeffrax in their bantamWeiRht battle,
 It's the combinations though, which Is expected to get the big play and the parleyS, as they are have been recorded by the bookmakers as follows:
 You can get 3 to on the com bination of Barney Ross, Fred Apos- toli. Lou Ambers and Sixto Escobar and the same price on Ross, Apostoli Montanez and Escobar.
 There is to If you pick Ross, ApCStoli, Montanez and Jaffra and they win and the same odds if the choices are Ross, Apostoli, Ambers and Jeffra.
 Eight to l is to be had if you pick out Ambers, Apostoli, Escobar and Garcia and the same odds If the picks are MontaneZ, Apostoli, Esco- bar and Garcia.
 There's 10 to to be had if you are successful in naming Ross, Thil, Montanez and EScobar and like odds if the choices are Ross, Thil, Ambers and Escobar.
 The price is l2 to win if you favor Ambers, Apostoli, Garcia and Jeffra and the same price if the picks are Montanez, ApoStoli, Garcia and Jeffra.
 There is IS to to be had If the Barney Ross, Thil, Montanez and Jeffra are named and they win, and the same odds prevail in the pick ing of Ambers, Ross, Thil and Jeffra.
 They'll hand out 20 to if Mon- tanez, Garcia, Thil and Escobar come down in front and the same odds if 1t should be Ambers, Garcia, Thil and Escobar. The limit is 40 to 1 in the combinations of Mon- tanez, Garcia, Thil and Jeffra and Ambers, Garcia, Thil and Jeffra.
 So you puts up your money and takes your choice.
 Ticket Sale Large
 With the holidays over and the country being forsaken for the city, interest is now directed to the great est boxing program ever put to- gether-that Carnival of Champions of 1887, which is the brain-child of Promoter Mike Jacobs. It's the most pretentious card ever assembled for one showing and the prediction of the fight fan is that every one of the 80,000 seats in the Polo Grounds will be occupied when the four champions go in to defend their re- spective titles on the night of Sep tember g.
 The ticket offices in the Hippo drome, the Madison Square Gar den, the Polo Grounds and the Spalding stores have been besiegec by hundreds to date and beginning today the sale is bound to grow tc huge proportions.
 Aside from the unusual spectacle of seeing four title holders in action in one evening, there is the price of tickets which has hit a popular chord. The ringside seats are te be sold for only $l6.50 and other reserved seats at $ll.50, $5.75 anc $3.5O, with several thousand tickets of admission to be sold on the day of the fight at $2.50.
 The four fighters, after severa1 kaine-up bouts are now in theil training quarters. Champion Lou Ambers and Champion Escobar and fred Aspostoli are quartered at Mme Bey,s at Summit, N. J., and Cham plon Marcel Thil. Ceferino Garcia and Pedro MontaneZ are doing their work at Dr. Bier's camp al Pompton Lakes, N. J. Welterweight champion Barney Ross is at hIi favorite camp at Grossinger's at Ferndale, N. Y., and little Harry JefIra is staying in town and whip Af ne