The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15
BY HARRY CRIMSON Shorts Editor, NEA Service


 Hot Springs, Ark, April 11.-Eddit Meade says that Henry Armstrong will earn $200,000 and win two more world championships within the nex' 12 months.
 Meade is here with his feather foreman, who is preparing to flght Barney Ross Is rounds for the wei ter wreath at Yankee stadium, May 26
 In the event that he repels Ross Armstrong is signed to box Lot Ambers for the lightweight leader ship, June 29.
 Meade hasn't managed fighters these many years for nothing. Arm strong can't lose. In case Ross scores to make the June 29 meeting a vel ter championship engagement, Am bers is signed to tackle Armstrong for the lightweight crown, Sept l6
 If Armstrong is beaten by both Ross and Ambers, he still will be the feather ruler.
 In putting over this coup, Meade is reported to have clinched the re- turn Joe Louis-Max SchmelinG scrap of June p for New York. IT return for their sanctioning tht rich series of matches, Mike Jacob' is said to have promised the Nev York Boxing Commission that tht million-dollar heavyweight extrava' ganza would stay in Manhattan, re- gardless of anti-Nazi activities ano outside offers.
 Little Men Do Big Business
 Jacobs believes that Ross ano Armstrong will gross more than $35O, O,OOO, and that the St. Louis Dust Storm would draw close to $500,OOC with Ambers in the event that he re- lieved the Chicagoan of his diadem The promoter already has $5O,OOC worth of orders for the Ross-Arm- strong duel.
 Armstrong, the most spectacular little man since Terrible Terry Me- Govern, collects 25 per cent Of the net receipts in each start.
 Armstrong, one of the busiest beak busters in history, is a bit stale right now as a result, so will take the baths, ride horses, golf, and fish here for three weeks. Mead-the "e" be- longs there although boxing writ CTS amputated it years ago-Will just take the baths. After Hot Springs Armstrong will repair to Dr. Joe Bier's famous camp at Pompton Lakes, N. J.
 Meade figures that the body past ing Ross took in his winning effort against Ceferino Garcia in the Car nival of Champions at the Polo grounds last August didn't do the welter boss any good.
 The big boy from Hell's Kitchen points to the fact that Ross isn't the type that leans on an opponent, and suspects that Armstrong will belt out anybody who stands up straight.
 Hemmering Henry is bigger than Ross from the waist up. Meade in sists that the boy who has knocked out 38 of 40 opponents in IA months can go lickety-split for 15 rounds. Ross fights only in flashes. He likes to coast for two minutes of each round. Meade asserts that therell be no coasting, May 26.
 Strikes Gold on Golden. Clope
 While the official contracts state that Ross and Armstrong are box ing at 147 pounds, they have pri- vate agreements calling for Ross to do 142 or less and Armstrong 136 or more, and each has posted 5000 forfeit.
 Ross natural weight is 142. Arm strong, a freak at making weight, scaled 133 pounds in flattening Lew Feldman at the New York Hippo drome the other night, anw 136 in stopping Eddie Zivic in Detroit five nights previously. The Little Brown Bomber always works several rounds in the dressing room before appoint ments, and Meade insists that any surpluse will be dispensed with in that fashion.
 Meade had $176,OO0 in cash while managing Joe Lynch, the old ban tam boss, in 1921.
 Stout Edward had to hook watch that Lynch had given him to get out of New York in 1927. He moved to Cleveland.
 He left Cleveland in disgust two years ago and drove to Los Angeles c. O. D. AS a matter of fact, he borrowed the few sealskins required for the gasoline which took what passed for means of conveyance to southern California.
 But Meade is back in the big chips, and he is entitled to be there. It was his knowledge of fighters that put him back on his pins. He saw Armstrong in August, 1886, and bor- rowed the $lO,OOO he paid for Homi- eide Henry from Al Jolson and Georgie Raft.
 Meade was just one step ahead