Evening star., 1938-09-20
Centuries Of Breeding Leave
Their Stomp on Correspondent.

S'sSS W SsSS0s'4 eSNNS
Their Stomp on Correspondent.
Brown certainly was flat-footed. So
vas Long After Midnight. a forebear
of mine on the Potawatamie side
Centuries Of breeding have left their
stamp on your correspondent.
you sure are one hat-footed guy,
Lard" said King Zog of Albania to me
recently, over the port wine.
you step on a lot of dandelions
yourself, zoggo," replied, quick as a
Hash. and the King laughed heartily
at my quaint way of expressing it.
The betting on the Armstrong Gar
Ella fight, for Armstrong; welterweight
championship. is about even money as
we hobble to press. At that figure, I
think that Garcia is worth an invest
ment. II you have to give 7 to S,
give 1t. In spite Of the testamentary
oath of fat Edward Mead, Armstrong;
manager, who threatens to give half
his fortune to the starving halibut OF
Hudsons Bay if his man does not
leave the Filipino for dead, I like
Garcia.
This Is the only fight Of any conse-
quence on the calendar just now
unless you count the return match
between Fred Apostoli, San Francisco's
most successful bellhop, and Young
Corbett, who is Just about young
enough to be James j. Corbett's uncle
IN the kauliflowerstrasse, they do not
pay much heed to the Corbett-Apos-
toll minuet. They are talking about
Garcia and Armstrong.
Little Henry's reputation as a super
man was somewhat soiled by his fight
with Lou Ambers, but there are enough
Of the faithful left to make a real
argument. They point out that Arm
strong has been hit on the chin with
everything but . four-poster bed, and
.Aever taken = backward step. They
ask you what Garcia expects to hit
lin with-the Norris Dam?
Listen" says Mr.. Mead, giving you
,.our choice Of listening or listening.
There Is one way for Garcia to hurt
Henry, and I pass it on to George
rarnassuS for what its Is worth. Some
tuesday or Wednesday Henry will be
crossing . certain street, walking. II
Garcia will come along in his auto
mobile At so miles an hour and go
through the red light and run Henry
down. he is liable to damage my boy
But they will fine the heck out of
him II he does," adds Mr.. Mead with
satisfaction. You are not allowed
to 60 through no red light"
along with the fact that he is the
healthiest fighter Of his day and age,
a fellow swarming with vitamins A to
= inclusive. He's hard to hurt, and
he hardly ever stops moving forward.
But Henry Con Be Slowed Up,
As Powder Puff Ambers Proved.
I, But once In a while he has stopped
moving forward There was the 18th
round Of his fight with Ambers, for
instance. Ambers tagged him with a
couple Of right uppercuts, and Henry
WAS 500 deeply stirred that he went to
the wrong corner when the bell rang
and went with . lurch at that. He
was As close to being out on his feet
n anybody with the nervous system
OF an upright piano can be.
The guy who hit him, remember,
was Ambers. whose punch has recoiled
from many . medium firm pie crust
You could lock up Lou in q paper bag
and be pretty sure of finding him
there when you came back. Yet he
staggered Armstrong and had him
weaving.
S Garcia, with his bolo punch-devel-
oped, he says. by chopping sugar cane
with an overland motion of the knife
Is . real hitter. They have taken
his knife away, owing to some slight
technicality In the Marquis of Queens
bury rules, but Ceferino manages tc
glove with similar effect
: He is big and strong and tough and
= puncher. He will outweigh Arm
strong by IL pounds or more. II
Henry could knock him dead with q
blow. all right, but Henry does not
hit that way. He mauls, and tries tc
wear you down. I don't think he will
wear down Garcia. My feet are very
fat on this subject and hope Edward
Mead Is willing to bet on his man.
tCop, risbt. 1898, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Five years ago-Ellsworth Vines
Il beaten by Jack Tidball, intercolle-
giate tennis champion. in Pacific
Southwest tourney, Is, +, IS.
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