Evening star., 1939-08-08
Mann-Dudas Turnout
Shows Heavies Might
Help D. {. Boxing
Biggest Crowd in Year
Sees Nuthon Hammer
Steve Into Defect

An old and sour bleat that Wash
ington isn't a good boxing town
was badly mangled If not wholly
exterminated last night at Griffith
Stadium, where some $500 fans
poured $4,7O5 into the till for the
privilege of sitting in on an all
heavyweight program. 1t was the
largest gate since Lou Gevinson' s
ample smeller got a sniff of Joey
Archibald's potent right a year ago
and clearly indicated that the
matchmaking, not the fans, is to
to blame. .
Nathan Mann, the featured artist,
smeared rugged Steve Dudas in a
10-round bout, hammering Steves
warped, tomato-red features mer-
cilessly from the first to the final
bell. Maynard Daniels chilled Jake
Friedman in 40 seconds of a sched-
uled six-round semi-final, Jim Will
son knocked out Odell Jackson in
five, Ralph Ivans scored technical
knockout over Steve Kadash in the
third heat of another scheduled six
and Al Hart, the statuesque Negro
outpointed Abner Powell, jr., after
flooring him for a 9-count.
The boys stirred up more action
than flea circus at dog show and
enough gore to sppease the most
exacting fan.
Feathers are Sought.
Rounding up an ail-heavyweight
card may be no easy task, as Match
maker Goldie Ahearn was earnestly
telling us today, but the big fellows
undoubtedly are what the customers
want-and If the boxing revival is
to gain momentum there will have
to be more pachyderms on the pro-
gram.
Mann and Dudas wasn't a great
hight on paper. Matte won nine
rounds on The Stars scoresheet.
losing only the fourth when a brief
Dudas rally forced him to retreat,
but the fans turned out for 1t. No
great names were buried in the sup
porting bouts-and they were en-
tertaining, so it boils down to the
realization that the patrons want to
see heavyWeights, regardless of their
national reputation.
There is some talk of importing
bulky Buddy Baer in the near future,
but the real pressure is on feather
weight championship match between
joey Archibald and Petey Scalzo or
another opponent. Featherweights
and an unending stream of lighter
fighters are going to be stuffed down
the public's throat, it appears,
whether it likes it or no. The atti-
tude is let 'em eat cake-and like
H-although the patent alibi is there
are no heavyweights available.
Might Get Farr Here.
Joe Gould, now managing Dudas,
said last night he isn't against bring
ing Tommy Farr to Washington for
a fight when he returns to this
country. and Tony -Pandy is coming
back across the big pond after his
engagement with Max Schmeling in
London. That match is in the bag
and figures to draw a small fortune.
If Gould is willing to supply Farr,
there certainly must be another
heavyweight available to match him
with-and it doesn't have to be Joe
Louis to draw a crowd.
Dudas, incidentally, merely switch
ed from Billy McCarney's manager
ship to Goulds without an exchange
of money, reports that Joe paid
$4,000 tor his contract notwithstand-
ing. Steve hadn't boxed for a week
because of a bad hand, which needs
surgical attention, and felt that
with a little boxing under his belt
he would have given Mann a more
exciting evening. Mann, a 81 IA
vorite, merely coasted along after
the fourth, and while he was stung
a couple of times by wild right hooks,
never was in danger.
Maynard Daniels, recently back
from the West Coast, looks the hot
test thing off the boat, locally. The
boy still has much to learn, for he
took a couple on the chin before
knocking out Friedman that did him
no good Maynard takes a good
punch and with the proper care
and handling should develop into
good fighter. L.F. A.