Evening star., 1938-09-06
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

These are gleeful days for the pro-
motional team OF Joe Turner and
Goldie Ahearn. for their souring sum-
mer investments and subsequent
losses have been scrubbed into the
ledger with bloody ink and forgotten.
With pardonable optimism they have
focused their optics on the Joey
Archibald-T Tony Dupre lO-round en-
gagement Monday night at Griffith
Stadium as the Moses to lead them
out of their financial wilderness.
This has been no rousing summer
season for mufin-eared Mr.. Turner
and pudgv Mr. Ahearn. Goldie has
lost his shirt shop and Joe has been
searching for his shirt, but the midget
forms of Archibald and Dupre doubt
less will soothe the burns of steady
succession of misfortune.
Local lads. the meal tickets of any
fistic promoter, have not captured the
Imagination of Washington's ring
worms, who have not elected to dig
deep to witness George Abrams, Steve
MamakoS. Lou Gevinson or Murray
Kanner exhibit their socking skill or
lack Of it.
GevinSon's Defeat Hurts.
First. there was the fancy pasting
dealt Gevinson by the gnomish Petey
Sarron. Sarron never has been ac-
cused of possessing deadly poke, yet
he escaped the punishment wrapped
in LOUIS left glove, smacked GevinSon
almost at will and, in general, made
the graduate of local amateur ranks
look rather foolish.
That defeat coupled with con-
vincing demons tratiohs by Dupre and
Archibald that Gevinson merely was
a local boy who had been heralded
too loudly, killed Lou as an attraction,
but through it all Gevinson has been
smart. He has chung to the more Sc
cure job of working for the Govern
ment. which still is able to meet the
payroll on the lst and 18th.
Then there was Eddie Saugsted. who
followed in the footsteps of Gevin-
son, collecting flock of amateur
titles in full view of the local citi-
zenry Eddie was tabled as some
thing special, but mediocre importa-
ton from New York. a cherubic- -coun-
tenanced youngster billed as Babyface
Jerry Hall, rudely jolted Saugsted's
hopes
Eddie. in his amateurish way, looked
q thor OnnI in, tho nf hi
first pro fight, neatly jabbing. dancing
around and exposing his profile for
the benefit of the audience and any
enterprising photographer. But Jerry
hadn't read of Eddie's local reputation.
He rushed from his corner in the Sec
ond round, greeted Eddie with a
roundhouse right and down went
Eddie. The fond hope of Turner and
Ahearn that Eddie would develop into
a drawing card also suffered sud-
den descent.
Sparmate Job Ruins Kanner.
Then. too, there was Murray Kan
ner, much to the bewilderment of
most ring followers. The gangling
heavyweight was advancing rather
nicely through succession of stumble
buns until Canvasback Buck Ever
EFT bounced an anesthetic right hand
of his chin, That was stamped as a
mistake in some quarters, and Muir
ray, through some amazing maneuver-
ing, landed the unenviable job as a
sparmate for Joe Louis, who was pre-
pairing for Max Schmeling.
That was considered quite q COM
pliment to Kanner's fistic ability.
Later it was considered merely a
compliment. however, for the same
battered Everett smacked him around
and registered technical kayo in five
fumbling rounds
Abrams, still being groomed for a
money" bout at the fag end of the
outdoor season. fractured the trans
verse process of the fifth lumbar ver-
tebrae. Anyway, his back hurts, and
he won't be able to fight for at least
two months
Mamakos. who rapidly is being rec
ognizsd as Turing bait for sizable
crowds, probably will be preserved for
indoor shows. The outdoor season is
on its deathbed and the Archibald
DupTe and Metropolitan Police Boys
| Club card still must be unraveled.
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