The Washington times., 1937-09-24
ROss-Ambers Bout
Looms Likelihood
Garcia Fails
To Worry
Champ
STEELE SOUGHT

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-SeVeral
possibilities for winter champion
ship fights emerged today out Of
last nights carnival Of champions
at the Polo Grounds.
First and foremost is one involv'
ing Barney Ross, who gave such a
brilliant performance in retaining
his welterweight title with a third
victory over Ceferino Garcia.
Ross also swept aside the bars
put I'D against him last spring by
the New York State Athletic Com
mission for refusing to take on
Garcia a third time without q pro-
motional guarantee Of q purse OF
title proportion.
Ross is now confronted with OF.
fers to box Lou Ambers, another
champion to win last night, Pedro
Montanez and Henry Armstrong,
the little California Negro whose
sweeping challenges takes in every
real headliner up to 140 pounds, a
weight Ross can make easily.
Though the welterweight limit
is lat pounds, the champion came
in at only 143 last night.
ROss-ANTBERS BOUT
A Ross-Ambers bout, however, is
an immediate prospect. Today
Promoter Mike Jacobs is angling
for this one and it should not be
difficult to land as Ambers is said
to be willing to go out of his class
and take a swing at the weller
weight title. A match can prob
ably be made with an agreement
to make the weight limit 140 and
the title would be placed on the
line just the same.
If Freddy Steele can be prevailed
upon to risk his American rights
to the middleweight title and his
demands are at all reasonable he
can take on Fred ApoStoli, now
proprietor Of the European rights
to the title. '~ septic
Thil made q good start against
ApoStoli last night but the latter
stepped out ahead in the ninth.
For eight solid heats, the fight was
marked by body punching and in
fighting, with no apparent damage
to either battler.
In the ninth Apostoli caught the
Frenchman with q left to the eye,
spelling Thil's doom. After sur
viving the ninth, This came out
for the tenth, but Referee Arthur
Donovan called q halt after A
seconds. Up to the point where
Thil's eye was cut, the score was
even in rounds, with the French
man having the edge in the man
ner in which he won his rounds.
Ross greater experience and all
around ring generalship enabled
him to retain his welterWeight
title against Garcia.
The hard-hitting Filipino forced
Ross throughout the fight, and
frequently boxed up the champion
in q corner. Ross, however, after
a rather slow start piled up an
ample lead in the fifth, sixth and
seventh rounds by hammering
Garcia with a furry Of solid
punches.
OKAY WITH AMBERS
Bleeding from a severe forehead
cut, Garcia threw caution to the
winds for a final fling at the title.
In the fourteenth round, he scored
savagely with rights and leftS to
the head, causing the champion to
bleed profuSely from the nose. But
Ross spared and closed the fiji
tenth strong to retain the diadem.
The AmberS-Montanez fight, re-
garded before the carnival as the
hit Of the card, turned out to be
q disappointment to everyone but
AmberS, who retained his light
weight title.
Montanez and AmberS, two good
scrappers, spent much Of the early
rounds In holding and clinching
all over the ring to the utter dis
gust Of the fans.
Throughout the IS rounds
hardly q half a dozen good
punches were struck, and the
crowd took up the chant throw
them out" "let them Sleep"
Jeffra, Of Baltimore, who won
the bantamweight title from Sixto
EScobar, scored his third straight
win over the Puerto Rican, the
first two fights being non.title
bouts. Harry COPIED the title by
long range superiority. From the
sixth round on. Jeffra had EScobar
on the run, q roundhouSe right
having staggered Sixto in the
sixth.