Evening star., 1941-10-10
No Weller Title
Up as Robinson,
CochrdneFight
Odd Bout Sanctioned
By New York Boord;
Jenkins Censured
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. lot was
"here we 60 again, boys from Gus
@. Fan today as he climbed back on
the merry -go-round to contemplate
the latest in the screwiest set of
fstic developments in years.
AS though it wasn't enough in
the last 72 hours for the State Ath-
letic Commission ID to suspend a
couple Of managers for giving their
boxers honest instructions and 90
to offer no more than a figurative
slap on the wrist to a fighter who
failed to fight, this new bit of con-
fusion amounted to the proposal for
non-title bout for the world well
terweight championship.
Not since Max Schmeling went
into training for his fight with
phantom has series of happenings
had the business of bashing. beaks
running around in circles like it has
been this week.
The latest announcement is for a
l0-round match in Madison Square
Garden October 81 between Welter-
weight Champion Red Cochrane
and the hard-hitting Harlem Negro.
Ray Robinson, fight that figures
on paper to be a pretty fair country
brawl Up to now Robinson has been
knocking the ears off lightweights
exclusively, but with the Cochrane
fight. his manager. Curt Hermann,
says he will move up into the Welter-
weight wars for keeps.
Rated as Handicap Match"
This October 81 shindig was an
nounced by Promoter Mike Jacobs as
handicap match" with Cochrane
forced to make las pounds. Such
being the case. both fighters would
come in under the 147-pound welteI-
weight limit Since New York rules
say no fight under Is rounds may be
considered a championship 2et-to-
gethel, the commission would okav
the l0-round route for this one as a
nCN-tltle tilt.
Now, Just for laughs. suppose Rob-
inson. one Of the hardest hitting
Youngsters to come down the pike in
long time. should walk out there
and f1atten Cochrane, in, say, five or
six rounds Since both are under
the Welterweight limit, can YOU
imagine Robinson's manager refus-
ing to claim the crown in that case?
And what's more, can you imagine
how much double talk will stream
from the august commission trying
to prove why the skinny swatter
wouldn't be head man?
At that, no one is quite sure Just
what the Jersey redhead will do
about this tea party. He says flatly
he won't fight again in New York
until his manager, Willie Gilzenberg,
is reinstated. So, if Red stays by
that announcement. the commission
would have to do a fantastic fin
flop TO get the matter Strengthened
out.
jenkins Posts Forfeit.
Willie was one of the pilots JUS
pended by the deep-thinking fstic
fathers Tuesday. The other was
Ray Carlen, manager of Lou Nova.
They were sentenced to six months
each for instructions to their fighters
not to take any chances with the re-
spective punching dynamite of
Lightweight Champ Lew Jenkins
ard Heavyweight King Joe Louis.
The October 81 date was to have
been occupied by jenkins and Sam
my Angott. both lightweight title
claimants. But the commission,
whose physicians okayed jenkins for
Mondays farcical showing with
Cochrane, discovered yesterday he
had a rib fracture, SO that the bout
was set back tentatively to Deem
ber 19.
The commission forced jenkins to
put up $500 II he does not pass a
physical examination on November
7, this forfeit will be split down the
middle between Angott and Pro-
moter Jacobs and Texas Lew will be
relieved of his New York blessing as
champion. If you don't quite get the
drift of all this, don't worry. The
ony,o I0aS