The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-04
BIGGEST CROWD IN YEARS WILL
 TAKE IN BOUTS
BY GEORGE T. DILLON

made Wee Willie Pep of Hartford. featherweight champion, a 3 to l favorite in his l0-round overweight non-title bout with Lulu Costantino of New York tonight at the Muni- cipal Stadium.
 fdeal weather has been promised by the forecasters and Promoter George Mulligan expects a Sl0.000 gate or better for this attraction which was postponed a week age when the Insurance City Italian de. veloped a mental slump.
 When the principals weigh in this afternoon at the Central YMCA, Costantino must be down to l33 pounds while Pep will probably tip the scales at about l27.
 Pep, winner of @ straight fights for a ring record before dropping a decision to sammy Angott, former EBA lightweight champion, has since won l3 fights. eight since his medical discharge from the Navy last February. His opponent has never been stopped and has dropped but a few decisions, one of them to Chalky Wright in a Hereunder.
 Accommodations to handle 8 crowd of l5,000 has been made by Ed Curley, Mulligans assistant with the seats arranged so all may enjoy proceedings comfortably. The floodlights were tested last evening by Mickey Dance and reported in perfect condition.
 Deputy Police Supt. Fred Hickey will be in charge of 100 city and state policemen. A truck from cen- tral headquarters will be at the grounds, along with the police ann bulance and a registered nurse Local fans have been asked to leave their cars at home and use busses for transportation, so out-oi-toWn persons may find parking facilities more handily.
 The main go will be put on be- fore the semi- final so factory work CTS due at their jobs at Il D. m. may reach their plants on time.
 whistling Willie Roach, hard-hit- ting Negro from Wilmington, Dela- ware, who has pleased in previous bouts here, takes on Santiago Riv- iera of Puerto Rico in the semi final of eight rounds. This in itself would be a main go at a Ranoolph- Gloves Stadium card.
 Five fight managers with no fear of featherweight champion Willie Pep filed $l,000 checks and chal- lenges for Pep's title at a meeting of the New York Boxing Commits sion yesterday.
 Lou Viscusi, Pep's manager, at tended the meeting, but just listen ed. The other managers engaged in a talking marathon until General John J. Phelan rapped his gavel and declared the meeting closed.
 Challenge wee filed by Charles (Cabey) Lewis, Pedro Hernandez Phil Terranova and Chalky Wright although none of these gentlemen was present They were represented by their managers.
 Also present but without a 1000 check in his hands was Lou Schiro, manager of Sal Bartolo, NBA featherweight champion.
 Schiro flabbergasted General Phelan, himself a distinguished eX- ponent of double talk, by saying Bartolo would like to engage Pep in a fight to clear the disputed featheWeight title claims provided the United States Maritime Serv- ice would give Bartolo five weeks leave. With SouthWes Pacific vet eranS getting a maximum of 30 days leave after two years of jungle fightsng, it appeared to listeners that Schiro was saying Bartolo was content to go along as NBA champ ion.
 Sammy Aaronson, manager of Charles (Cabey) Lewis argued that his fighter was young and that the challenging contingent reeded a new face. He said Lewis is willing to prove he is the No. 1 contender for Pep's crown by fighting anyone who disputed the claim.
 Al Weill, speaking for Pedro Her nandez, told the commission that in his book Chalky Wright was the logical contende and that Hernan- dez was willing to fight Wright. with the winner getting a shot at Peps title. Eddie Walker, manager of Wright, said his man wasn't in- terested in fighting anyone but Pep. the boy to whom Wright lost his crown.
 Phil TerranoVa, who lost his NBA version of the title to Bartolo, was represented by Bobby Gleason.
 Pep beat Terranova on his way to the title, won II of IS rounds from Wright and shellacked Bartolo twice, the second occasion being a l5-round title defense in which Pep was credited by some press row wit neSseS with winning all IS heats