Evening star., 1937-09-24

ROSS AND GARCIA
ALONE ENTERTAIN
Jeftra Only Title Winner,
Gate. Disappoints, but
Jacobs Smiles.
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
n YEW YORK. September "a
M Three championship prize
" fights in one night, while a
q laudable enterprise on the part
of any promoter. seems at this writing
to be at least one championship prize
tight too many. Especially if each of
them goes the limit of Is rounds with
out knockdown and the feature event
curls up and plays dead.
Thirty-two thousand, six hundred
patrons sat through last nights pugil-
istic extravaganza at the Polo Grounds,
and when they finally stumbled out
OF the place some time this morning
they were wondering if the new fistic
car, Mike Jacobs, perhaps hadn't
been guilty of checking them with
cream
Barney Ross, a welterweight cham
pion with heart the size of a pump
kin, saved an otherwise uninspiring
spectacle with close and CORY victory
over Ceferino Garcia, challenger from
the Philippines. 1t would have been a
great fight had it stood alone.
Harry Jeffra, a clean-cut, smiling
lad from Baltimore. whose chief am
bition up to recently had been to be-
come golf professional, added a final
FLIP when it was badly needed by win
ming the bantanweight championship
OF the world from sad-faced little Sixto
Escobar of Puerto Rico, on points.
M0ntanez Overrated.
THE bout between Lou Ambers, rug
ged lightweight champion, and
Pedro Montanez, a rashly over-ex-
plotted young man who owns bar in
Harlem, was the one that curled up.
Ambers gave him an awful going-over
IN close, and it was dreary thing to
watch. Montanez. who had clouted
the champion down in previous over
weight affair, looked musclebound and
weary at 135 pounds
Marcel Thil. the bald Frenchman.
made considerable hit in the nights
initial turn before he suffered seri-
o,s cut on his right eyelid and was de-
clared the loser to Fred Apostoli of San
The burly Marcel had a clear lead
on points at the time Apostoli stabbed
him and the blood began to squirt. He
had put almost a permanent wave
In his flasher opponents midsection.
Apostoli, SO far as anybody knows
for certain, doesn't hold any more
championship now than he did before.
Thil's European middleweight title
wasn't at stake. You've got to be
. European to win that one. He can,
however, claim the world middle
weight tiara If he wants to start an
argument.
New Champ Awkward.
IEFFRA undoubtedly is the hap
piest of the winners. He beamed
like an Army searchlight when he
had finished trimming Escobar and
the announcer had hailed "the new
champion" He deserved the verdict
by wide margin. winning something
like nine rounds to Escobar's two.
There is q lot of waste motion to
the new champ. He dances around
much more than seems necessary and
swings an awkward-1ooking right, but
1t must have felt more awkward than
that to Escobar. He has fine straight
left that he kept in Sixto's face until
finally it began to hurt the ringsiders.
Ross and Garcia gave the crowd
a grand fight, and it was close right
to the finish. The champion, fighting
brilliantly in spurts and rating him.
self nicely, piled up sufficient lead
IN the first 10 rounds to Offset the
Filipino's determined offensive toward |
the last. Both were dog-tired and
bleeding all over the place at the final
bell. Ross, while still a fine, game |
hattler. might be wise to leave Garcia |
strictly alone in future. Ceferino |
means business.
Although the crowd was much |
smaller than had been anticipated, |
Promoter Jacobs figured to make a
little" At least, Uncle Mike" was
walking around smiling today.