The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
IalIey League Hoop Tourney Produces Interesting Play
TODAY'S SPORT
 PARADE
BY HENRY McLEMORE

United Press taR CorrespOndent)
 Hollywood, March 1-(UP)--Hol- lywood is never so lavish as when asked for Its opinion.
 A man can get on telephone and within ten minutes get the opinions of the stars on any subject. They'll tell you how best to devil a plover's egg, the simplest way to remove spots from miners cap, the short- est route between Peoria and Baton Rouge, and the proper time of year to SOW wild oats.
 Knowing this, I had little or no difficulty in finding out for you how Hollywood feels toward the fight tonight for the niddleweight cham pionship between Henry Armstrong and Ceferino Garcia. O. the dozens queried only Mae West declined to take definite stand. '"They are both great fighters" she said. May the better man win. I'm always for the better man"
 Lxpe velez, better than ordinary featherweight in her own right, likes Armstrong. "Wait until Henry rush. es in," Lupe said, "and he'll have a message for Garcia" Tyrone Power feels the same as Lupe, but Marlene Dietrich, who showed a fine right cross and a swell left in "Destry Rides Again." thinks the Filipino is too big and too strong for the little challenger.
 Tn Garcia's corner with Marlene are Bing Crosby, Alice Faye, Gene Autry, Jackie Coogan, Mack Sennett, Lee Tracy, Jack Benny, Deanna Durbin and Cary Grant.
 Yelling for Armstrong are Tom Brown, Wayne Morris, Daryl zan- uck, Phil Harris, Adolphe Menjou, Dennis O'Keefe, Don Ameche, and loudest of all, Rochester. With all these opinions to choose from you can scarcely have any need for mine, but as bad a forecaster as I am and as little as I know about boxing, I do believe my knowledge of the science is as s0und say, as that of Miss Durbin, Miss Faye and MT. Coogan. Too, there is a bit of the Hollywood about me. like to sound off to all ears in range of my typewriter.
 So I. give you my selection:
 A ten round draw.
 This selection isn't based on the vagrant reports that have been go- ing around town of late that the boys would settle on a draw and fight 1t off later in New York. In the first place we're dealing with square, honest shooters in this bout, and that goes for all connected with 1t. In the second, man George Blake is going to be the referee and you don't do business when Brother Blake is inside those ropes giving the proceedings his double-o. And in the third, there wouldn't be much sense in looking ahead to a third show in New York. The bout will do upwards of $l00,000 here and that's about as much as it would do any, where.
 If the fight were going IS rounds I'd take Garcia. Over the long pull his 12-pound advantage in weight and his superior punching would give him the edge. But at 10 rounds I believe Armstrnog will be able to keep moving fast enough, and hit ting enough, to give him an even break. Henry isn't the little perpe- tual motion machine he used to be. He couldn't be. The human chassis just isn't built to take the sort of punishment the little fellow gave his over an eight-year span. But l think he has enough to stand of Garcia for 10 rounds.
 If I'm wrong I'll send Miss Durbin and Miss Faye and the others front row seats to the premiere of my next picture. ..