Evening star., 1940-06-24
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Mike Jacobs New Teeth
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BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent Of The Star.
NEW YORK, June "a (NA.N.A).
Fighting with fists, like fighting
OF every other kind in this best OF
all possible worlds, is in for busy
summer-and what is more. three
very excellent bouts, for a change,
have been arranged for the clients
by Michael st. George Jacobs, the
duce of boxing, known to his stooges
as the Deuce.
Willingly or otherwise, the Deuce
has come up with nourishing pro-
gram. as follows:
Max Baer VS.. Tony Galento, in
July.
Henry Armstrong VS.. Lew Jenkins,
In July.
Billy Conn VS.. Bob Pastor, in
August.
Joe Louis will ride again in Sep
tember, but since Louis has become
ludicrously supreme at his racket
and no one seems to have the re-
motest chance of dehorsing him, it
will be in the nature of an eXhibi-
ton, and pretty familiar exhibit
ton at that. The other three bouts,
on the contrary, have tang and
flavor. Not only do they promise
well artistically, but they've got
the public guessing.
Rough, BrowIing School
Bout to Be Offered
Baer- -Galento, if all goes we'll with
Mr. Baer's nervous system. should be
a classic specimen of the rough,
dirty, brawling school. These two
pugs, the fat saloon-keeper from
New Jersey and the retired cattle
butcher from California, are COM
pletely devoid of refinement I
have it on good authority that
neither of them eats with his
fingers, both having mastered the
knife and fork and being the proud
employers of caddies who carry
these tools around wherever Max
and Tony go-but they fight with
their gingers, as we'll as their
thumbs. skulls, knees and elbows.
Armstrong jenkins is the best
fighting natural to explode among
smaller men in number of years.
Armstrong has reached the old mas
ter stage, but he still is enormously
healthy and damaging, and still is
considered by many to be the worlds
greatest fighter for his pounds. Jen-
kins is new and exciting-a cadav-
erous Texan with high shock
of tow hair who carries a couple
of depth bombs in his two pale
hands. The lightweight champion
and the welterweight champion
and both of them hitters. The
match looks so good that I don't
understand how the Deuce of box
ing came to think of making it.
Conn, Pos'or Promise Go
Pleasing to Ring Fons
Conn-Pastor. the third bout in the
line, brings together two of the most
competent and skillful heavyweights
now at large. Conn is a classical
boxer, erect, fearless and graceful,
with the quickest left hand in the
business. Pastor is a steady work.
man, strong, fast, and experienced,
with cool head and a fair right
hand punch. This fight may lack
the detonations of the other two, but
1t promises very we'll indeed.
It's hard to say how Mr.. Jacobs,
the Deuce, came to form three such
sterling brackets. Some of his bud
dies believe it arises from the fact
that the Deuce recently has acquired
a new set of ersatz fangs. which
champ together on an even keel and
permit the Deuce to do a lot of
executive thinking which might
otherwise be devoted to keeping the
upper starboard detail of his teeth
In place.
Like most dictators, the Deuce of
boxing has weakness. Hitler, they
tell me, eats hay. Mussolini rises
only limited distance off the
ground, and Franco is scared of
mice. With Michael Savoy Jacobs,
the weak link always has been his
teeth.
Woter BuffoIo's Femur
Fine for Teeth
Searching for the set that would
give him service as we'll as style, the
Deuce combed the better bazaars
year after year, visited the stalls
along the water front to look for
secondhand bargains. and kept
staff Of engineers constantly busy in
his own r,riuate lahnra tory, axrori