The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-24
ESCOBAR, TILL
 LOSE TITLES IN
 TAME TUSSLES
Ross Made Best Showing 1; Jeffra Came Through
 We'll; Bloody Bouts
By LESLIE AVERY

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Sept. 24-(UP)-Mike Jacobs carnival of champions was Q carnival of blood, but never had there been such @ show. Two cham pions lost their crowns in one eve- ming and two champions retained theirs. There were 55 rounds of championship fighting, but not 8 single knockdown.
 Harry Jeffra of Baltimore defeat ed Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico and became world bantamweight cham pion.
 Fred Apostoli of San Francisco scored 8 l0-round technical knock out over aging, bald Marcel Thil of France and won the world middle weight championship Recording to the boxing federations of Europe) :. Freddie Steel is recognized in this country as worlds middleweight champion.
 But the other challengers didn't do so well.
 Ceferino Garcia of the Philippines was pasted around by Barney Ross of Chicago, who, at the cost of g red nose, successfully defended his welterweight crown. Lou Ambers of Herkimer, N. r., had no trouble re- taining his lightweight champion ship against Pedro Montanez of Puerto Rico.
 The carnival was great entertain ment but was not the financial suc- cess that had been predicted. Pro- moter Jacobs announced that while 45,00O persons were in the Polo Grounds, only 32,600 paid admis- sions, and that the gross gate was 232,644. The net was 18,634, which didn't leave much profit after de- ducting $19O,000 guaranteed the principals.
 Gore flowed freely and was all over the place. The bleeders in all cases were the loser.
 The hero of the night was Ross. He fought as well fight in beating the hard-hitting Filipino chal- lenger. He outboXed Garcia most of the way.
 The championship program got underway with Apostoli, Sani Fran ciscos battling bellhop tackling Thil before half-filled stands. Mar eel was leadin gon points, and ap- peared to be going strong when the g year old Californian connected with a savage left hook that sent the blood gushing from an inch long wound on Thils right eyelid. Dr. William Walker of the state boxing commissioned examined the cut, and instructed Referee Arthur Donovan to halt the match if 1t was re- opened. Almost the first punch of the 10th sent the blood flowing again. Donovan stepped between ,Thil's bald-head, tried to explain the fighters after A seconds, patted "it was best for him."
 Then came the Ross-G Garcia go which made the rest of the card seem tam in comparison. The &C., ton was fast and furious from be- ginning to end, and the 45,000 fans stood in their seats yelling for one, then the other. Except for the third round Barney had all the best of 1t for the first 10 stanzas. Boxing mas terfully, he evaded Garcia's hun dreds of potential kayo wallops, and cut the Filipino's face to ribbons.
 It was in the sixth that he gashed Ceferino's left brow and despite between round repairs the wound was reopened and gushed through the last nine rounds. A hard right to the head stunnd Barney so badly in the 18th that he never regained all his composure. Twice, it ap- peared Garcia would put Barney on the floor in the 14th, but the cham pion's great heart kept him up.
 Following this affair, the Ambers- Montanez bout was doubly dull.