Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Sammy Skaters
Record Streak
In Mailing Pep
Triumph in Comeback
Over Winner of 81
Straight Is Epic
BY SID FEEDER.

NEW YORK, March 20-In addi-
ton to operating knife and fork
at dinner time, good pair of hands
come in handy for other purposes.
as Sammy Angott would be glad to
tell you today. But now that Sam
my's front and center in the light
weight picture again, his chances
of getting a crack at cleaning up
the l35-pound mess all are clouded
up in dollar sign.
For, shortly after Swarthy Sam
my, with "recuperated" hands and
appearing like two other guys from
the methodical Angott of old,
walked out and whipped Wee Willie
Pep in 10 rounds in Madison Square
Garden last night, Chick CHercu-
les) Wergeles, who has turned from
football publicity to fight-managing
of late, fatty announced that he and
his gladiator, Beau Jack, want quite
bundle-as much as 40 per cent
to take on the "abdicated' boss Of
the 135-pounders.
Cracks Record Streak.
Now, this is quite a rhubarb, as
the boys in the 49tk street set put it.
Angott hasn't been beaten by a
lightweight in two years: he retired
from the ring and abdicated the
lightweight throne because his hands
were hurt. And he came back, after
weeks of digging bitches and serv-
ing as athletic instructor to service
men at Washington e. Jefferson
College, because he thought his
hands were good enough for some
thing besides pointing out the sports
of interest in Washington, Pa.
He showed his dukes were ready
for any kind of rough last
night by betting Pep all over the
place for the first five rounds and
hanging on to grab the unanimous
decision. thereby not only ending
Wee Willie's all-time record string
of 81 victories, but also entertaining
1884 of Gus Fans relatives, and
chalking up the biggest beak-bust-
ing upset of the year.
This probably will cause the Ma
tional Boxing Association to tell
Sammy to come home-that all is
forgiven and that he can have his
title back. But the New York State
Athletic Commission jumped the
gun and recognized Beau (The
Jumping Jack as lightweight cham
pion, since Sammy's temporary"
retirement.
Stands on Precedent.
But now that the laughable light
weight mess might be cleared up by
a Jack-Angott fight, Jacks front
man." THE Hercules" Wergeles,
popped up today with the decision
that he wants 271a per cent Of the
gate-"and maybe 40'-for meeting
swarthy Sammy. Naturally, The
Hercules is standing on some prece-
dent there, since champions" usual
ly get 371z per cent of the gate and
challengers accept 1915. But since
Sammy never has been beaten by a
lightweight since he won the title
originally a couple Of years ago, you
wonder If maybe The Hercules isn't
taking something for granted, in
spite OF the august Athletic COM
mission Of the State of New York
Certainly, Sammy didn't pick on
any soft touch in his first come
back waltz. He tangled with the
New York-recognized featherweight
champion, a kid who'd never been
beaten in 81 trips to the post, who
was 1-to-3 shot in the betting and
who has been tabled as the greatest
featherweight to come down the pike
since Abe Attell. That's tall order
for guy out or action for six
months. And Sammy came back a.
winging. Under the terms of the
ring games treaties" he probably
figures to split the "payoff" down
the middle. And that's a little
financial angle that financial genius,
Uncle Mike Jacobs, started to work
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