Evening star., 1939-01-01
Mentor With.Unique
Methods Produces
Many Champions
Nedomotsky's Mediocre
Showing May Be Due
To Leaving Him
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Pete Reilly. the silver-t -thatched
guy who teaches his fighters how to
punch through. employing such
mediums as slide trombones, will
usher his latest featherweight pro-
tege, Petey Scalzo. to Turner's
Arena Tuesday night for 10-round
appointment with Lew Transparent,
most talented of a fighting Baltl-
more family.
Reilly, who specializes in owning
featherweight champions. having
held title to three of the 126-pound
species, has another who is cham
pionship timber in the optics of
many qualified observers, for the
swarthy Scalzo apparently has
everything, including pilot who
has grounded him eXpertly IN fun
damentals and steered him slowly.
Claimant of the dubious distinc-
ton of having invented the hot
foot" tortuous prank resulting in
scorched tootsies, Reilly's other con-
tributions to fistic' history are more
noteworthy. Perhaps most important
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In the boxing industry to which he
has given such champions as Jack
Delaney, Bat Battalino, Andre
Routis and Freddy Miller.
Fighters Receive Salary.
Reilly's methods in handling
youngsters are refreshing. During
the long months of schooling that
he insists upon, his fighters are
placed on salary, relieving them
of financial worry. He develops
them gradually, certain they have
absorbed one step before advancing
to the next. And it is interesting to
note his fighters have retired from
the socking scene with considerable
money salted away.
A notorious practical joker, Reilly
Is all business in the development
of his fighters. AS an example, he
signed Ivan Nedomatsky, three time
Southern Conference champion at
MARYLAND. but only after submitting
him to exhaustive physical tests
which would have shamed insurance
examiners. For a few months they
stuck together Then Ivan chose to
question his slow development. He
thought he should be fighting main
events.
There was little fuss. Either
Reilly's fighters listen to him and
play his way or they don't stick
around. Nedomatsky was sold. His
new manager obtained main event
spots for him. Ivan was knocked
out here by Steve Mamakos in one
of them and he hasn't advanced
very rapidly since.
Scalz0 Ranks Second.
Scalzo currently is ranked second
In the featherweight division by Ring
Magazine and the National Boxing
Association. He recently kayoed
Joey Archibald, champion of what
the New York State Athletic Com
mission defines as the world. Still,
Reilly has no burning ambition for
Scalzo to snatch the title imnae-
ciately.
Petey has lost only two of so bouts,
but, in a sense, he still is going to
school. Reilly realizes the 21-year-
old Scalzo still hasn't learned to pace
himself over a 15-round route-and
he doesn't want him fighting for the
title until he has learned. Another
six months, says Reilly, and Scalzo
will be ready.
Transparent hasn't been fighting
In the same league with Scalzo, but
against mediocre club fighters he
has compiled an enviable record of
26 victories in q battles, thereby
experiencing more success than his
brothers, Joe and Red, have enjoyed
IN their ring ramblings.
Six-rounders for the Tuesday pro-
gram list Sammy La Porte, Balti-
more featherweight, facing Pete
Powell of Newport News and frankie
Wills, local welterweight, meeting
Bob Wilson, former favorite with
District fans, while the four-round
opener at $3.50 o'clock will find Billy
Savage exchanging wallops with
Johnny Sullivan, Richmond feather
weight.