The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-10
AMBERS FIGURED SURE LOSER OF CHAM MPI0NSH
Fans Staying Away From Battle Scheduled Tonight
 at Polo Grounds
BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports EditOr)


 United Press Sports Editor)
 New York, Aug. 1o.-(UP).-A lit. tie brown man who may be the meanest piece of fighting machinery since the invention of the Gatlins gun has date with the lady called Destiny tonight when the clock stands at 10 and the lights are hot above ring at the Polo grounds.
 Henry Armstrong says he'll marry the gal.
 He goes after his third worlds championship when he ducks into the ring to face Lightweight Cham pion Lou Ambers, and the betting adds are three to one that come Il o'clock the little negro will be something that no man has ever been before-lightweight, feather weight and welterweight champion of the world. If he wins tonight his next opponent will be an Afri- can head hunter armed with cir cular buzzsaw.
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 All this talk about Armstrong be. ing a er-fighter-the best man round for round, who ever lived failed to impress. The young man with the twisted nose who holds the lightweight championship. Am bers thinks odds are something made by pasty-faced men who never get }r, fhnra ny hn attention to them. His plan is to stab Armstrong blind, reopen a cut in his lip with uppercuts and send the negro staggering around the ring, tracking his own blood across the resin.
 And then," Ambers said, "the referee will step in there and stop it."
 The odds are 10 to against Am bers scoring knockout and not even the lightweight champion him. self claims he will put Armstrong down for the count. But he does be- heve he can stay out of danger with shifty footwork and kangaroo leaps long enough to chop Arm. strong into hamburger and win a technical knockout.
 Armstrong will wage the only kind of battle he knows how to fight, using the technique of windmill in spanking breeze. He plans to start throwing punches with both hands when he leaps out of his cor ner, crowding the pace all the time and driving Ambers along the ropes until he connects. When that hap pens 1t usually means lights out Thirty-five of the last 38 men Arm strong has fought have been knock ed out. Al Jolson, who has bet $1,- 100 to $1,000 that Armstrong scores a knockout, swears he will sing Nanny" on Q downtown corner if Ambers wins.
 The fight probably will be better than the gate. Promoter Mike Jacobs talked about $2O000O gate when he made the match, ut 1t appeared he would be lucky if he got half of that. Both fighters are working on percentage, Ambers taking 37k per cent and Armstrong 22A per cent of the net receipts.
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 Why the customers are staying away from this one is one of those things that makes fight promoters prematurely gray. On the surface il looks like a natural with Ambers, 8 fast, clever smoothie, and Armstrong, a puncher who Is likely to hammer 8 mans head off any minute. II revives the argument of "boxer vs slugger" which has been going or noisily since the Ceptember day ir 1892 when James J. Corbett astonished the world by proving that even the great John L. Sullivan could be licked if you threw fists at him scientifically.
 Ambers has had at least five lazy, indifferent boust since he won the lightweight title, but in none of them was his championship at stake. When he losses that title into the center of the ring, he's different man and begins to live up to the nickname of "The Herkimer Hurri- cane." Ask Tony Canzoneri and Pedro Montanez. They tried to take the title and found themselves in the ring with an inspired fighter.
 If Ambers should win tonight, there will be another one of those muddles that boxing commissions display genius in getting themselves into. The New York boxing commis- sion has announced that 1t will not transfer Armstrong's 147 pound well terweight title to Ambers If the lat ter wins. Ambers intends to claim it anyway. The National Boxing as- sociation, however. will recognize Ambers ah the welterweight cham pion if he wins.
 So the lady called Destiny is real ly waiting there for both of the boys-with 8 hope chest stuffed with glory for the 1iIckv one