Evening star., 1938-10-26
SIZE DIFFERENCE
IN FOES STRIKING
Henry This Time Is Good
Little Man. Facing Very
Good Biq Man,
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Ross, many fight fans were impressed
only with the meeting of lightweight
who still held the featherweight title
and a welterweight and pondered
the old question:
Can good little man beat good
big man."
Actually. Of course, no such question
was involved In that match. Arm
strong is a Observation-Disclosures
middleweight-from the waist up.
Ross never was a real welterweight,
but always came in anywhere from 5
to pounds under the welterweight
limit. When they climbed into the
ring, Armstrong looked as heavy as
Ross. or heavier. And there hadn't
been pounds between them on the
scale that day.
But now Armstrong is going to fight
Ceferino Garcia-and this really is
match where a good little man is
meeting good big man. Armstrong
still is a lightweight. still is at his
best at 1874 pounds. Garcia, unlike
Ross, is a full-grown welterWelght.
He may not have any trouble making
lat pounds. But he would have
trouble making less.
It would be foolhardy to attempt to
build Henry up for the fight with the
Filipino and Eddie Mead, his man.
ager, knows it. Weight put on tnat
way only slows a fighter down ana
adds nothing to either his strength
or his punching power.
So Henry will be spotting Garcia Is
pounds at the opening bell-and II is
question whether anybody can spot
him that much and get away with 1t.
difference in Size Striking.
The difference in size and Welght
is striking Armstrong, as I have
said. is big from the waist up. Garcia
is big over all He is several inches
taller than Armstrong, broader through
the shoulders, thicker in the limbs.
The night that Armstrong took the
lightweight championship from Lou
Ambers, Garcia was one of the fighters
introduced from the ring and any one
looking first at the two boys sitting in
their corners and then at the sleek,
grinning Garcia standing beside the
announcer might find it difficult to
believe that either one OF those two
little guys wanted to fight that big one.
This bout with Garcia will test to
the limit-and maybe beyond 1.-THE
amazing endurance of the little Negro.
Henry has taken everything any op-
ponent could throw at him and then
gone on and overwhelmed him. He
has taken them all, from 126 POUNDS
to 142 or thereabouts-has let them
make their own best weight and then
has clawed them for 10 or Is rounds
and finally stopped them or wrested
the decision from them.
But none of them was as big as
Garcia. None could hit as hard. And,
save possibly for Ambers. none could
take a punch as well. This is easily
the toughest assignment yet mapped
out for Henry.
Garcia No Fancy Brawler.
Garcia has not always been an I'M
pressive fighter, although his record
shows that he usually has been a very
effective one. He has made some
sensational fights and some dull ones.
But it has been a long time since
anybody licked him.
There is nothing fancy about the
Filipino, He is an old-fashioned.
rough. tough street braWler from Ma
Mia. He loves to fight, fights as often
as he can. is not particular about the
amount of weight he gives away and
doesn't care anything about his foes
reputation.
He was just another Filipino fighting
up and down the Pacific Coast when
he fought Ross the first time. The
fight was supposed to be soft touch
for Ross. but Garcia fattened him in
the first round-and still insists they
gave Barney long count. Barney
got up and went on to Win-but not
by much.
Just a couple of months ago Garcia
conceded 10 or II pounds to Glen Lee,
who had been one of the leading con-
tenders for the middleweight title, and
gave him horrible beating.
To Garcia Armstrong is just the
welterweight champion-and he has
been after the welterWeight champion
for some time He fought Ross three
times and lost all three decisions. But
he almost caught up with Barney in
the last fight and if he had fought
him again would have whipped him
surely and probably knocked him out.
Armstrong having beaten him to the
title, he is after Armstrong.
Filipino Tough to Beat.
1t vas the third Ross fight held here
a year ago last summer, that brought
Garcia forcibly to the attention of the
public around New York.
He had fought here several times
before and never had shown much,
so that when he was matched with
Ross on the carnival of champions
card no one seemed to care greatly,
especially as Ross had beaten him
twice. But that night only the heart
of champion saved Ross from a
knockout. The fight was hair-raiser,
saved the show from being complete
flop and established Garcia as first
rate ringman.
Usually. when Armstrong fights, the
crowd expects to see him take lot
of punishment in the early rounds
before he is properly warmed up and
begins to wear the other fellow down
with his ceaseless whirlwind attack.
This time he may get off in front
and cut Garcia badly and have him
bleeding all over the place, because
Henry's fists rip and tear and Garcia
has q lot of scar tissue over his ewes
that cuts easily.
But little thing like that doesn't
bother Ceferino in the least, and even
if Henry does get of in front he Is
likely to have lot Of trouble staying
there.
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