The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-20
STAR FEATHERS
 FIGHT FOR 126
 POUND GROWN
Champ Is There When He Has to Be-, Challenger
 Confident

t,ilit sustinent. "He who trans planted still sustains." x.
 That's the motto of the great state of Connecticut and tonight & native son of the Nutmeg State hopes the motto will stand him in good stead.
 He is Wee Willie Pep who trans- plants himself from Hartford to New York city where, at Madison Square Garden, he endeavors to sustain the remarkable record he has achieved in the boxing ring.
 If he can do so he will be the new world featherweight champion. For tonight Wee Willie Pep opposes Chalky Wright. current 126-pound division king, in a 15-round match for the title. Pep has accom- piished the amazing feat of winning 53 contests in row If he now in- creases that total by one more he succeeds to the throne formerly held by his fellow townsmen, Louis '(Kid) Kaplan and Christo- pher (Bat) Battalino.
 High Stakes
 But Chalky Wright is plotting disaster for young MT. Pep, Chalky has a habit of producing superla- tive performances when the stakes are high and they are high tonight To Chalky the featherweight crown represents the difference between peanuts and cabbage and he doesn't like fighting for peanuts.
 Twice before worthy feather weight contenders have sought to wrest the title from Chalky Wright but their efforts were frustrated The little California colored lad annexed the title by knockout Joey Archibald a litlte more than year ago. Last summer Harry Jeffra att tempted to dethrone Chalky. He was knocked out in ten rounds. Two m onths ago Lulu Costantino brought his speed and boxing talent into the ring in an effort to upset Wright. But the only speed Wright let Lulu display was in reverse and Lulu's boxing ability was complete ly nullified by Chalky's ring gen. eralship.
 Connecticut boxing enthusiasts be- lieve Pep has Q lot more to offer than Jeffra or Costantino, that his combination of speed, punch, box ing ability and stamina will more than offset any advantages pos sessed by Wright.
 These advantages are several but mostly they are contained in the one word: Experience. Chalky Wright has been around. He has been all around the country. all around the world. He has met some 300 opponents in his long fistic ca- reer and he has encountered ali manner of opposition, boxers. punchers, sluggers, fancy-Dans.
 He knows how to handle these as- piring youngsters. He has way of cooling them of when they're hot and chilling them nicely when they're cold. He wastes few punches. When he lets go with his right he invariably means business and of late his business has been prospering.
 Chalky trained long and faith, fully for his meeting with Pep mad. was 50 conscientious about getting into his best physical condition that he reduced the number of cigars he smokes daily from eight to seven.
 We'll Backed
 Pe-, the most popular fighter to c3ine out of Connecticut in years, will be supported tonight by several thousand rooters, coming not only from Hartford but from New Ha- ven, Bridgeport, Waterbury and all other parts of the state.
 They are steamed up about this boy and rightly so because Pep Is a superb piece of fighting machin- cry. His imposing record has been compiled against many of the out standing 126 pounders in action to- day. His record reads like roster of the featherweight class. He has beaten them all and now he ex- poets to beat the champion.
 Matchmaker Nat Rogers has lined up four six-round events and an oening four to support the titular contest.
 Paired in the six-rounders are Pete Kennedy, White Plains wei terweight, and Harold Green. Brooklyn; Mario Morales. Cuban 7eatherweight, and Ham Wiloby, Jamaica, L. T.: Johnny Dell, Brook lyn featherweight, and Angelo Col lura, Providence, R. l.; Davey Feld, Brooklyn middleweight. and Ray Velarde, Mexico. Meeting in the curtain -raiser are Ossie Rodreguez, Puerto Rico featherweight. and Jackie Lynch, New Orleans.