Evening star., 1938-03-22
ABRAMS PRESTIGE,
JAW HIT BY, JONES
D. c. Boy, Kayoed First
. Time, Gets Comeback
Chance Here April II.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

BY BURTON HAWKINS.
The rude realization that . potential
gold-lined summer season may fade
into oblivion dawned today on youth
full George Abrams In the wake OF his
crushing kayo at the hands OF Jimmy
Jones and the Jewish lads fervent
pleas for an early rematch met q
polite reception in the brain Of Match
maker Goldie Ahearn.
Ahearn plans to insert the rerun on
April IL. the only open date on his
calendar for the next month, with Joey
Archibald, the human pogo stick,
scheduled to launch persuaders at an
unsolicited opponent next Monday.
With amazing abruptness, Abrams
victory streak, which had extended to
II scraps. was snapped last night at
Turner's Arena before a capacity
crowd Of 1900 and now, at the tender
age OF 10. the middleweight is map
ping an early comeback designed to
install him as this sectors chief bait
for outdoor cards.
Rights Finish Abrams.
Ten months out OF amateur ranks,
Abrams apparently was ticketed to
play major role in bouts at Grifith
Stadium this summer, but unless the
situation is altered in that return
match the anesthetic sucker" punch
landed by Jones in the fifth round
figures to hamper his drawing power
considerably.
Jones, an average middleweight
from Baltimore. marked the most
seasoned and talented campaigner
Abrams had met, but George. for four
rounds, handled the wavy-haired vet
eran nicely and upon his showing in
those four sessions is the rematch
predicated. One solid right-hand
poke flush on Georges jaw paved the
way for his first defeat in professional
ranks.
That blow, authored early in the
fifth Stanza, staggered the local lar
ruper and he sagged into the ropes.
Vainly he sought to clinch and re-
cover. but Referee Ray Bowen quickly
pried him from Jones. Beetle-browed
Jimmy. neglecting the niceties of ring
warfare to muster full effectiveness.
brought the climaxing punch around
from Central Stadium aNd George
crashed to the canvas-the victim Of
blow he had learned to block in his
earliest amateur days.
Fight Georges Up TO Fifth.
There was no doubt Abrams would
remain stretched for the full count.
His lips and eyelids closed tightly,
George resembled something en-
balmed as a stunned crowd rose as
one person to view his PROSTATE frame.
Referee Bowen tolled off the nee
essary 10 and could have continued
to 100. for it was not until three min
utes later that Abrams was composed
enough to leave the ring.
George had held his own in the first
two rounds and earned clear margins
In both the third and four cantos,
ramming sporadic but authoritative
blows to Jimmy's jaw as Jones con-
centrated to the midsection. 1t, was
that body punching that laid Abrams
opNil loA olZLll1lk S"lpN
which Jones capitalized in the fifth
round.
Ivan Nedomatsky, who happens to
be Jones brother, set the stage for
Jimmy in the six-round semi-fnal by
outpointing a thoroughly courageous
El Brookman, but when Brookman
wasn't occupied in lifting his body
of the floor he managed to cause the
former University of Maryland ring
ace some anxious moments.
Brother Ivan Scores.
Nedomatsky, thrice Southern Con-
ference champion. rushed from his
corner in the first round and shot q
roundhouse right to ELS head and
things appeared finished before they
really started. Brookman, however,
shook it of and grossily resained
his feet after q count of nine.
Again in the first round and once
more in the second Ivan sent Brook
man to the floor. but El refused to
remain there and finally found his
bearings to dish out occasional solid
rights to Nedomatsky. He acquitted
himself 50 nobly between knockdowns
that Ahearn plans to unspool it again,
possibly as a semi-final to the Jones'
Abrams rerun.
Other bouts saw Carroll Dell. New
York welterweight, take split de-
cision from Sam Bacala, of Baltimore,
in six-rounder: AL Jameson shade
Tommy Hoover in a local welterweight
four-rounder, and Zuzu Pitts trim
Kayo Clark in a colored featherweight
opener.