The Washington times., 1938-07-29
AHEARN PLANS
MIDDL EWEIGHT
ELM MINATI0NS
BY BOB ADDIE

Remember the old wheeze about
"Where were you when brains were
given out?" If anybody should
have asked us to track down the
whereabouts of Goldie Ahearn,
who is the genius behind our local
carnival of cloutS, we'd have an
,swered he was right in the front
row with a couple OF empty
bushels.
, Goldie's latest brainchild is a.
, middleweight elimination tourna-
ment. How about that for keeping
on top of the news? 1t seems
Ahearn got gander at the story
that the New York Boxing Com
: mission would not recognize AL
> Hostak's victory over Freddie
Steele. The New York solons de-
clared Fred Apostoli was more de-
serving of the title shot than Hos
tax. Some talk was bruited about
of an elimination tournament.
And whom do you think is the first
guy in line? Our old pal Goldie.
p OH, NO!
: OF course, the fact that Ivan
Nedomatsky is meeting Steve
Mamakos at Griffith Stadium this
Monday night has nothing to do
with Ahearn's new tournament.
Neither is the fact very relevant
that both are middleweights.
The HoStak-Steele business had
a very fromagenouS odor, or
"cheesy" as we used to say at
Harvard. There are lovely little
tales floating around that this
was a bag fignt-Steele went into
the tank for 90 points OF Hostak'S
dough. Translated into WebStereSe,
it means Steele is suspected of
deliberately losing his champion
ship for a stipulated half-intereSt
in his "conqueror's" future earn
tngs.
EVERYBODY WELCOME
Capitalizing on the situation,
Ahearn announced today he had
a promise from Larry White,
Apostoli's manager, that the ex-
bellhop would fight in the Dis
trict later this summer. Goldte
has also been busy burning up
the wires and obtaining the serv-
ices of Harry Balsamo, Solly
Krieger, Walter Woods, Ken Over
lin, Glen Lee and Tommy Bland.
The latter is Canadian middle
weight champion and will appear
on the NedomatSky Mamakos
card against Tony Ciaccio, an
old hand around these parts.
Catch on, now? Nedomatsky and
Mamakos can be in this new
tournament. Goldie hasn't both
cred to obtain sanction. The last
time he did that, he was left hold
ing the burlap
I Anyway, the idea is that the
winners of these two matches
; may meet in the first step toward
this tournament. Then, of course.
there's always George Abrams. He
appears to be Goldies ace in the
hole. Don't discount Abrams be-
. cause he's right on top at present.
/, George defeated Teddy YaroSz
who only the other night knocked
! off Billy Conn, highly rated
middleweight.
Our local kids will get chance
against the topnotchers and
Ahearn may really be stealing a
march on the rest of the pro-
. moters in the country. Inciden-
tally, this Bland who will show
. here Monday, is quite a rugged
rcharacter. He floored Fritzie Zivic
I twice in his last fight and also
defeated Wildcat O'Connor.
DUNDEE HELPS
:. Ciaccio is remembered for his
two losing appearances here
against Abrams and Mamakos.
/. Both decisions, by the way, were
disputed.
T. Meanwhile, Ivan NedomatSky
reported from Baltimore he is in
excellent shape and will stop Ma
makoS. Ivan points out that every
body has been trying to bring
down the durable Greek by snip
ing at his chin. Evidently, if our
powers of deduction aren't too
dulled, it appears Nedo is plan
ming body attack. The ex-Mary-
land University collegian has been
taken in hand by Joe Dundee,
former welterweight champion.
Dundee is supposed to know
Mamakos' weakness and is
teaching it to NedomatSky.