The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-20
Galento Drops To Second Pc.
sition In Challenge List
For Louis Title

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go Is rounds with Heavyweight
Champion Joe Louis, today replaced
Tony Galento as the National Box
ing associations choice Is No. /
contender for the Brown Bomber's
title.
Fred J. SADLY, Of Milwaukee,
chairman of the NBA's championship
rating committee, placed Godoy's
Pc torrance at the top of his re.
view for the past quarter, ahead of
Henry Armstrong; knockout vic
tory over Pedro Montanez and Arm
strong's draw with Ceferino Garcia.
Galento dropped to second place
among the heavyweight ~contenders,
follower in order by Bob Pastor, Lou
Nova, Tommy Farr and Max Baer.
The committee placed Johnny Pay
chek, Louis next foe, in eighth
place.
The committee prefaced it's quar-
terly list of champions-unchanged
since December-with a blunt warm
ing to Joey Archibald, featherweig.,+
ruler, that unless he signs for a
bout with Pete Scalzo by March %,
the MIA will relieve him of his title.
Scalzo i; No. l contender.
Lew Jenkins, No. 3 light
weight contender, was invited" to
box Davy Day, No. I, at 1876 pounds,
before Jenkins meets Lou Ambers,
lightweight champion. The winner
would be considered a formidable
opponent" for Ambers.
Champions and No. ! contenders
in other divisions, respectively,
were rated as follows: Light heavy
weights, Billy Conn and Gus Les
nevich: middleweights. AL Hostak
and Ceferino Garcia; welterweights,
Henry Armstrong and Milt Aron;
bantamweights, George Pace and
Lou Salica: flyweights, Little Dado
and Enrico Urbinati.
Biggest jump was by Aron, from
eighth place to first among welter
.contenders, by knocking out Frit-
zie Zivic. Salica got his rating by
fighting a draw with Pace.
Other "best bouts" LISTED by Sad
dy were those in which Melio Bet
tina, No. 2 light heavyweight con-
tender, stopped Fred Apostoli, who
skidded to honorable mention, and
in which Tony Zale gained a de-
cision over Middleweight Champion
AL Hostak in a non-title bout.
C%ontenders by divisions in the
order ranked follow:
Heavyweight - Arturo Godoy,
Tony Galento, New Jersey;
Bob Pastor, New York; Lou Nova.
Tommy Farr, England:
Max Baer, California;; Red Bur.
man, Maryland; Johnny Paychek,
Iowa; Lee Savold, Minnesota; Jun.
ior Munsell, Oklahoma.
Light heavyweight - Gus Lesne-
vich, New Jersey; Melio Bettina.
New York; Len Harvey, England;
Jock McAvoy. England: AL Gamer,
Connecticut; Tommy Tucker, Cali
fornia; Tony Cisco, Pennsylvania:
Ron Richards, Australia; Solly
Krieger, New York; Buddy Scott,
Texas.
Middleweights - Ceferino Garcia,
Philippines; Ken Overlin, Illinois;
Tony Zale, Illinois; Ben Brown,
Georgia; Atilio Sabatino, Puerto
Rico; Charlie Burley, Pennsylvania;
George Abrams, District Of Column
bia; Billy Soose, Pennsylvania; An
toinz C~hristofordis, Greece; Vic
Dellacurti, New York.
Welterweights - Milt Aron, Illi-
nois; Louis Kid Cocoa, Connecticut;
Holman Williams, Michigan; Fritzie
zivic, Pennsylvania; Pedro Mon.
tanez, Puerto Rico; Izzy Jannazzo,
New York; Billy White, Maryland;
Phil Furr, District of Columbia;
Kenny Lasalle, Texas; Steve Ma
makos, District of Columbia.
LightWeights Davy Day, of
Illinois; Sammy Angott, Kentucky;
Lew jenkins, Texas; Eric Boon,
England; Pete Lello, Indiana;
Jackie Wilson, California; Dave
Castilloux, Canada; Paul Junior,
Maine; Bob Montgomery, Pennsyl-
vania; Tony Marteliano, New York.
Observation-Disclosures Scalzo, Ne :
York; Jimmy Perrin, Louisiana;
Simon Chavez, Venezuela; Harry
Jeffra, Maryland; Pittsburgh Jackie
Wilson, Pennsylvania; Chalky
Wright, California; Mel Tarleton.
England; Irish Bobby Ruffin, Con.
necticut: Bobby Green, Pennsyl-
vania; Spider Armstrong, Canada.
Bantamweights-Lou Salica, New
York; Tony Olivera, California;
Peter Kane, England; John King,
England; Jimmy Brady, England;
K. o. Morgan, Michigan; Kui Kong
Young, Hawaii; Tommy Burns,
England; Tommy Kiene, Georgia:
frankie Parkes, England.
Flyweight - Enrico Urbinati.
Italy; Little Pancho, Philippines:
Tiny Bostock, England; Jackie
Paterson, England; Paddy Ryan,
England; Manuel Ortiz, California:
Johnny Boom, England; Joe Cur.
ran, England; Jackie ZURICH, Cali
fornia; Small Montana, Philippines.
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