The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-02
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Od.) BY HARRY FERGUSON fYT-RAR W C-A-A WSAaA~-N

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 New York, July 3. (UP)-The rain that fell on the Polo Grounds around 6 o'clock last evening was . great thing for the flowers and crops, but 1t didn't cool oil the fire and birthstone relations between Fritzie Zivic and Al Davis.
 They were scheduled to do com bat for l2 rounds or less last night, but when the rains came Promoter Mike Jacohs ciacked his
 store teeth three times and an interpreter said that meant that the fight was postponed until to- nigh.
 Tha gave Davis and zivic an ad- ditional 24 hours in which to dic- tate reasons to their secretaries as to why they hate each other. The list was long enough without these last-minute footnotes, but 1t does look as though there might be some fireworks tonight when the boys get together. It's shame the fight can't be held on the fourth of July-two days hence-so the gladiators could shoot Roman can- dleS at one another and in1iict major burns with sparklerS. The phrase "grudge fight" is about the most tllreadbare in the vocab- lIlary of boxing writers, but the business this evening. shapes up as one. Davis and Zivic encountered one another at the wei9h-in yester- day and matched sueers. It wasn't the usual stuff of looking tough for the cameras either; the boys really packed Q lot of hatred into their Stares. The repartee was not bril- liant but t was strictly to the point: Hello" snarled Davis.
 "Hello," growled zivic.
 Both FouIed
 As you no doubt know from per- using the deathleSs prose that al- ready has been written about this gladatorial show, ziyic thinks Davis fouled him in their last fight. Davis thinks Zivic fouled him, too. Both of them are right. They dif5er only in their approach to the problem of evadng the Marquis of Queensberry rules.
 Davis used the direct approach method. He simply started whacking Zivic below the belt and kept doing 1t until the referee threw him cut of the ring. Zivic leans to the sutble system of getting in close, preferably while the referee has his back turned, and tfrusting thumbs into his opponents eyes. Who can say which man has the most eficient method of infiicting permanent in. jury2 That should be settled this evening.
 With their training finished and nothing to do but hatch plots for Mayhem. both boys are expected to put in a busy day. Davis, Up at the crack of dawn, was understood to be planning to attend a sale at which brass knuckS have been marked down to absolute bargain prices. He believes that now Is the time to lay in a lifetime supply. what with the rising price scale, the possibility of war-time tax on brass and the shortage already ap- parent in Hell's Kitchen where the boys have been driven to using or dinary pebbles.
 Thimbles for Thumbs
 Zivic plans . round of the smarter shops In search of tkimbleS large enough to put on his thumbs. Ex- perts on thumbing are almost unani. nous In agreeing that . metal sheath makes 1t possible to blind . person twice as fast as when with an ordinary thuSnb-nail.
 After the postpcnement, most oe the betting revolyed around the referee. The odds were 21s to l that he would have to be carried out Of the ring the first time he tried to break the boys out of a clinch. He was siven q 50-6O chance Of emerR- ing with his eyesight intact. but the price was s to 1 that Davis would hit him with a low punch befors the bell rings for the fourth.
 Some fun tonight. kids. and the riot is scheduled for 10:4s sharp, Bring your own hrickbats. 4