Evening star., 1942-11-14
Scramble Seen
For Crown as
.AngottQuits
Beuu Jacks Uneorned
Win Over Allie Stolz
Mixes Situation
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Hold your
hats, boysLthe lightweight merry
go-round Is ch the track again.
After az years Of spinning around
in . nice, neat ring-through the
rise Of Sammy Angott to the 1885,
pound throne-the merry-go-round
is on the screwy circle once more
after the retirement of Swarthy
Sammy yesterday and the 7-round
technical knockout victory Beau
Jack scored last night over No. /
challenger Allie Stolz because of a
cut eye.
Naturally, Sammy's abdication did
the most toward making the merry
go-round appear as much like a
true circle as the three-cornered
shawl your Aunt Emma wears. But
Jack helped lot. It wasn't only
that he held Stolz, a 5-to-12 favorite,
off for the seven completed rounds
Of last nights Madison Square Gar
den shindig, for the entertainment
of 1920 paying customers. But
when the State athletic commissions
ringside physician ordered the bout
halted, Allies ailments were not re-
garded sufficiently severe for such
drastic action.
Physician Minimizes Cuts,
AS a matter Of fact, another COM
mission physician looked at the two
cuts over the curly-haired Newark
walloper's left eye later in his dress
ing room, and thought they didn't
seem particularly dangerous"
But still it goes down in the books
as 7-round 1T. K. O." for the one
time Augusta (Ga.) national golf
course bootblack, and throws the
lightweight lawn party into a wide
open brawl with "every man for
theirself"
Between Angott's retirement and
last nights tete-a-tete, it was ad-
mitted generally that the lightweight
lace dolly was matter for argument
strictly between StolZ and another
Jerseyan, Tippy Larkin OF Garfield,
who boasts THAI he's beaten Welter-
weight Boss Red Cochrane five
times.
But with Jacks victory, especially
since you can get yourself tangled up
IN nice, cozy rough-and- tumble
II you want to argue about it, any
thing can happen now. And from
the way the powers-that-be are
looking at It, anything will.
Some Of the Possibilities.
Among the possible decisions are:
l. Return bout between Stolz and
Jack
2. A title" tussle featuring Jack
and Larkin, suggested for December
18 In the Garden, about which the
two commissions-NBA and New
York State-are in well, ell see'
state. rs..s.
3. A lightweight elimination, put
ting Jack, Larkin, Stolz and Cleo
Shans, the Los Angeles Negro, into
the pot together to see who comes
out-(provided, of course. that
Shans gets by Richie Lemos, the ex-
featherweight boss, in Holyoke.
Mass, Monday.
Out OF al this, of course, Angott
is getting lot of fun. You remem-
ber, they laughed when the little
family man from Washington (Pa)
walked in to clear up the 135-pound
division once before, when no one
thought he could.
They, positively will be in stitches
when the boys who are left try to
do 1t again. Especially Stok, who
almost took Sammys title away in
a fight last May, and now is wonder
ing just what Jack used that made
him appear last night cross be-
tween windmill puncher and tho
Chicago Bears backfleld charging.
Maybe it was the $4,000 that Jack
and his manager guaranteed Allie
for last nights production. Ten
thousand probably can put lot Of
steam in the engine.