Evening star., 1940-04-03
Venezuelan Appears
Rival for
Feather King
Boasts Kuyo Over Petey,
Although Latter Got
Even in Later Bout
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON,

BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.
It may have been an ominous
sign when Joe Turner, Petey Scalzo.
the latter's agent, Peter CThe Fox)
Reilly, signed articles binding over
Scalzo-body and soul-to the Dis
trict boxing promoter for feather
weight championship fight in red
ink. The papers were initiated in
Turner's office and times being
what they are with that establish
ment, not to mention the Office
lights, they reached for the cerise
fluid.
The fight to bring the title fight
to Washington continued today,
with Turner still leading Promoter
Lew Raymond of New Orleans on
points and still welding his trump
card-a National Boxing Association
ruling that Scalzo must be one of
the parties to the title argument.
That means Turner stages the fight
If he has to pit Scalzo against
Goldie Ahearn, but he is bending
every effort to coax Perrin here.
Raymond, he points out, can have
a return match, which is as good as
the original copy, but he wants the
first and will not release 1t.
Miller Has the Answer.
Raymond wants it for the So
called Second Battle of New Or
leans" 1t seems John Paul Jones
stopped John Bull there in the first
battle of the Civil War and he'd
like to commemorate the occasion
by putting on the featherweight
bout.
Meanwhile, Heine Miller, N. B. A.
who has been blasted so
soundly from all angles he feels
like the recently demolished Boule-
ward Apartments. received a letter
from Stanley Scherr, chairman of
the Maryland State Commission,
which inferred Reilly was receiving
preference from Miller in the dis
pute. The answer to that one was
comparatively easy. Miller merely
plucked a sheaf of N B. A. ballots
from his filing cabinet naming
Scalzo the No. l challenger.
Mr.. Scherr was a delicate lobster
red because Harry Jeffra had been
overlooked when the N. B. A. passed
out bids for it's free-for- all title
chase and subsequently aided and
abetted the matching Of Harry with
Joe Archibald for the shreds of
Joey's once regal raiment. He de-
Tended his position in the case
(about ~ miles northeast of N. B.
A. headquarters) in his epistle. 1t
was neatly written piece, worthy
Of A-plus in any classroom.
Reilly Is Fortunate Here.
AS for Reilly getting little better
of the deal in Washington, 1t would
seem just the other way around,
looking at the record. Freddy Mil
Ter, managed by the same Reilly,
dropped his lightweight crown to
Petey Sarron here on a decision as
close as the nearest bill collector
and later lost split decision to Leo
Kodak while trying to re-establish
himself as a contender for the
throne. Scalzo, too, lost to Dupre
here in the elimination tournament
and was obliged to knock out Tony
IN return match to erase that
blotch from his escutcheon. That
doesn't sound like Reilly got any
more than his due in Washington.
Somewhat irksome, too, has been
Jimmy ErWin's attitude in the mat
ter. A Johnny -come-lately in the
promotorial picture locally. Erwin
told Miller the Perrin-Scalzo bout
should be held in the home town OF
one of the contestants-noto on neu-
trail SOIL Erwin was not disturbed
by such ideas when Sarron-through
the good graces of the Police Boys
Club Committee, got his chance to
lift the crown from Freddy Millers
brow at Griffith Stadium. BY no
stretch of the imagination could
Washington be called Sarron's home
town. He hailed from Birmingham
and lived in Alexandria, Va, while
campaigning in this sector.
Erwin Also Ambitious.
If Erwin had his way, Washing
ton would lose the opportunity of
sitting in on one of the few title
fights to come its way. It wasn't
very nice of James, either, to an
nounce he had Perrin's signature on
a contract when it was merely a
verbal agreement with his managers
to use him in a non-title fight. Err
win undoubtedly would like to stage
a ScalZo-Perrin fight at Riverside
and you can't blame him for liking
the match-not with Janazzo-Ma-
makos and Mann-E Everett lined up
for his first two shows
The next move in the feather
weight scramble is up to Turner
and it seems to be in the general
direction of Venezuela and Simon
Chavez. If Perrin won't come to
the party, perhaps Simon will, and
he might be more of q match for
Scalzo, having knocked him out the
first time they met. Scalzo squared
matters by spanking out a decision
in their second engagement.
The match should be closed out
Immediately, regardless of where
and by whom it is staged-as long
as it comes to Washington. The
promoters owe that much to their
long suffering customers.
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