The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
TONY IS FAVORED
AT 5 TO s ODDS
Fight Will Go On Despite
GalentO's Gashed Chin;
S150,000 Gate Expected
BY SID FEEDER

RNThe case OF the gaShed chm,
the final daffiest touch to an al
ready hilarious set-up, was more
or less cleared up today, and it
appeared only the constabulary
could prevent Tony Galento and
Max Baer from keeping their ifs
tic date in the local ball park to-
morrow night at 9 pm. E.S.T.).
A beer glass, thrown by Tony's
brother, picked out Tony's chin in
.Galento's "soft-drink emporium"
in Orange last night, and the re-
suits threatened for a time to force
a postponement of the battle of
the buns" The glass sliced Tony's
chin for about an inch, right where
his dimple would be if he had a
dimple.
A couple of doctors looked it
over today however, and reported
to State Boxing Commissioner
Abe ]. Greene that if the sliced
chin was the only cut Tony re-
ceived in there tomorrow from the
playboy of the Pacific, he needn't
worry. So, Greene asked Promo
ter Mike Jacobs and Herman Tay-
lor, one of Two-Ton's managers,
how they felt about it. All hands,
including Tony, decided the mi
nor abrasion" was not serious
enough to keep this epic from an
eager public.
An interesting sidelight on the
episode came to light with more
thorough investigation. It seems
Tony made a slight mistake, dur
ing an argument with his brother,
Russell by placing the glass on
the bar between them. He should
have locked it in the safe or at
least put it out of reach For when
the two got excited, Russell picked
up the glass and threw it. His
pitching arm and aim looked so
good that, after being taken to
headquarters by police and then
released, he spent most of the
rest of the night turning down Of
fers from major league clubs.
Galento didn't realize for sew
eral minutes he had been cut.
When someone pointed out t e
blood, he put a small square of
adhesive tape on it, and went
about his business of taking over
his other manager, Harry Mendel,
in a game of rummy.
He felt less concerned about the
injury today. He did a stretch of
roadwork and turned in a few
rounds of c%alisthenics in the gym
to put the finishing touches on his
training. Baer also was on the
rad for a while and then, like
the true artist, spent the rest of
the day taking in the beauties of
the countryside at his camp Mt
Pompton Lakes.
1nasmuch as this battle for the
championship of the screwballs
has a certain appeal 70 lovers of
both the sublime and the ridicu-
lous, officials expect more than
$4,000 and a gate flirting with the
$3.50, 000-mark.
Sliced chin and all, Galento still
was the betting ''cherce'' tonight.
The only change made by his little
scrape with Russell was that the
betting fraternity cut the price
from SO to SO with Tony favored.
Baer's training has given the
impression that the one-time cham
pion of the world is something
less than he was in his prime,
when he vas bowling over guys
like old Primo Camera and Max
Schmeling. For that reason, de-
spite the fact Tony has been no
rip-snorting tiger in his work, most
observers think he'll belt Baer out
before the Is rounds are up. This
corner believes that it will take
him about six heats to turn the
trick.
The winner in this one won't be
happy for long. He is scheduled to
meet up with Joe Louis in Septem-
Der and, as each discovered in
being knocked out by the Bomber
in the past, there are p%leasanter
ways of spending an evening.
six preliminaries are on the pro-
gram supporting the main go.
Heading these is an eight-rounder
between Pat Comisky, P%atterson's
highly rated Irish prospect, and
Bob Skies, who has built up quite
a reputation around his home