Evening star., 1943-03-06
Third Bout Seen
As zivic Again
Bows 10 Jack
Fritz for Second Time
Strong at Finish, but
Is Crimped by Foul
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, March e.-some
time, Fritzie Zivic, the "ba-a-a-d
boy" Of Bash Boulevard, is going to
get lucky in New York ring over
one of those 'ooh" and "aah" body
punches-and then you're going to
see some fun.
Flat-nosed Fritz happens to be
guy who doesn't get the benefit OF
the doubt about those things very
often. So, for the second time in
month, the "oohs" had it on the
"aahs" on a referees score card
against him last night, and Beau
Cthe jumping) Jack sQueaked
through by the narrowest of margins
to win rough-and- tumble 12-round
decision over the Pittsburgh
FOUNDER.
But the punch was so questionable
and the edge the "oohs" had over
the "aahs" about that body blow
Fritzie fired in the ninth round
which caused Referee George Walsh
to take the heat away from Zivic-
was so close that Promoter Mike
Jacobs started to smoke up a third
tea party between the two thumpers
today.
Big Crowd Helps Cause.
Naturally, the $71 ,346 house" the
two warriors drew into the big
Eighth Avenue soupbowl from a
record 1943 crowd of 1888 didn't
hurt the cause a bit. Nor did the
whoops and hollers most of Gus
Fans family gave off when they dis
covered their Fritzie" wound up on
the short end again. They more
than slightly were annoyed about
this, especially after Fritzie's fast
finish, during which he all but
jerked Jacks head off with his
sharp-shooting in the 18th and 18th
sessions.
The result was that third talked
of tea party between the two. And
since Uncle Mike" has most of his
Garden dates filled like tooth
after the dentist does his stuff, the
best chance for this one would be,
it was explained, if something
happens to Henry Armstrong" The
rejuvenated Hammer is slated to
bump into the Beau here April 2,
but If he should run into storm
signals against Tippy Larkin or AL
his next two opponents
In between, Fritzie will get his
chance at the Jumping Jack for the
third time in Hanks place.
The fact remains, however. that
Fritz's ''low" punch in the ninth
round last night caused Just as
much of "rhubarb" this time as
his questionable "foul"-seen only
by the referee-in the eighth round
the last time he tangled with the
boy from Georgia a
month ago.
History Repeats for Zivic.
Yet. just as on that occasion, 1t
cost the Smoketown swatter the
fight just the same. The referee
and one judge had it seven rounds
to five at the finish last night, and
the other arbiter had it six-flve-
and-one, identical with the Asso-
ciated Press score card. Referee
Walsh called the ninth-round punch
low" although four out Of five
around the ringside thought
Fritzie rang the bell in fair terri
tory.
Aside from that round, it was a
mauling. bruising brawl, with Jack
plling up an early edge Just wide
enough to brush through over Fritz's
finale fireworks. Fritz really lit the
fuse the last few minutes. And in
the last time around, he had the
Beau SO groggy that another heat or
two might have seen Jack winding
up with mouth full of rosin.
This made the whole taffy-pull all
the funnier. The first time they
said "howdy" to each other, 1t was a
hereunder, and Fritzie came on at
the end. So last night, two more
heats were added to it, and again
Fritz fired his big guns the last
couple Of chapters. Next time Zivic
would like 1t for Is rounds. You
can see that if they keeping building
1t up, the thing might 60 on forever.
One thing about it, though, 1t won't
get monotonous.