The Washington times., 1938-04-05
Ahedrn Wires Addnick
Offer to Fight Burmdn
Wdxmdn Blasts
Ref For Foul
By Nader
BIZ BOB ADDIE

day wired Jack Kearns, manager
of Jimmy Adamick an offer for
a match with Clarence Red"
Burmsn, OF Baltimore, at Griffith
Stadium this summer.
There was a minor hitch to the
proceedings, however. One is that
Max Waxnan, Burman's manager,
vowed MS charge would never
fight in Washington again. Wax
mans temperature was aroused
by last nights fight at Turner's
Arena in which Burman outpointed
Eddie Nader, Of New York, in 10
rounds.
BLAMES REFEREE
Not that Wsxman objected to
the result of the match, rather
the way it was conducted and the
center o. Makes barbs was Ref
cree Eddie LaFond. According to
Waxmsn, LaFond should have
stopped the fight when Nader
held Burman like an unlucky
Bowie patron holds on to his car
fare after the last race.
1.-THE referee should have
thrown Nader out of the ring"
Waxman beloved in the dress
ing room. "Burman wanted to
make a clean fight OF it but the
other guy kept holding him and
clearing his head every time Red
belted him"
Nevertheless, Ahearn thinks
Waxman will cool off sufficiently
if Adamick can be induced to show
here against Burman. Goldie
thinks the fight will pack the park
and the prospect of a lucrative per
centage will make Waxman's ire
evaporate.
NO FORMAL PROTEST
Commissioner Paul Haworth
said Waxman had not filed a
formal protest and until he did.
there was no use discussing the
case. However. Haworth said he
saw nothing wrong with LaFond's
decision to allow the fight to con-
tinue. LaFond said he believed it
was to the best interests Of the
fans not to stop the bout.
"They came to see a fight"
LaFond retorted, land I tried
to do my best to help"
If the fans came to see a fight
and not a rhumba exhibition, they
go their moneys worth. The bout
was one of the fierceSt waged be-
tween two big men in a District
ring. Nader started well and
brought the crowd to its collective
feet when he floored Burman
with a smashing right handler to
the chin in the second.
Red came back strongly and
kept whaling away at the body. In
the fifth, it was Nader who was
decked for a short count. Goofy
and staggering, Nader walked into
another fire of leather and Bur
man sent him spinning halfway
across the ring and into the ropes
with another right.
EDDIE HOLDS ON
1t looked all over for Eddie in
the sixth when Burman pounded
him increasingly and sent Nader
spinning into a neutral corner. For
a brief second Eddie clutchel the
ropes. It looked as if someone had
pulled the stool out from unC2r
him. How he weathered the re-
naming rounds nobody knows.
Nader fell into a clinch to save
his waning strength TIM and
again and it was this procedure
that angered WaXman.
Eddie wasn't catching all the
tim e, however. Occasionally he
came out of his shell and nicked
Red with a soaring right handler
that burned the whiskers off Bur
mans chin, but the Baltimore boy
never took backward step.
The seminal drew a roar Of
boos when the decision was an
nounced. From our corner It ap-
peared Abe Denner had the edge
over joey Straiges, but the deci-
sion was given to the latter. La
Fond voted a draw, but Judges
Bob Mulhall and Frank Schuyler
gave StraigeS their votes.
In the preliminaries, Ell Brook
man won the decision over Joe
Reno in six; Chester Ruby de-
feated Al Dintaman in four, ana
Benny Kessler outpointed Doug
Swetnam in four.
Following are the votes on the
main bout and the semifinal. The
winner of the round is given 10
OOinfc.