Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-02
First Title Defrostinq
Sees Weller Crown
Quickly Shifted
BY SID FEEDER,

BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Along bash
boulevard, the boulevardiers were
wondering today If the rest Of the
war frozen beak-busting champions
could expect the same uncivil treat
ment served up to Freddie the Red
Cochrane, who kept the world
welterweight crown on the shelf for
four years and 1877 days-and lost it
in exactly II minutes and 81 seconds.
1t took charging Marty Servo, who
climbed all over the Jersey redhead
until he practically raised Jumps on
him, just that long to knock the
roof in on Freddie the Red last night
in Madison Square Garden. With
Joe Louis slated to put his heavy
weight crown on the line against
Billy Conn in June, and such nose
MASKING bosses as Legitimacy Gus
Lesnevich and Middleweight Tony
Yale due to take on all corners with
out too much delay, the folks
naturally figured there was more
than an outside chance they might
get some more of the same.
Service Didn't Harm Marty.
Willie the Beard Gutenberg,
Cochrane's fast-moving manager,
alibied his gladiator's four-round
knockout quickly last night by con-
tending Freddie's near-four years
service in the Navy had lust about
ruined him" However, when some
one in the crowd pointed out that
baby-faced Servo, bull in boxing
ring last night, had sweated out
three years and nine months in the
Coast Guard, Willie the Beard
couldn't thing of an answer before
the crowd melted away like Freddie's
championship. He did say, though,
that he wasn't sure If Red ever will
fight again-and no complaints were
heard.
For Marty the Baby-Face, the
venture was strictly an artistic sue
cess. because financially the Sche-
nectady IN. " swatter wound up
with the morning papers and not
much else. A crowd of 1873 turned
out to sit in on this first defrost-
ing of wartime-iced boxing cham
pionships and jingled Promoter
Mike Jacobs cash registers with
s92,505 tune.
Winner Paid $1,000 for Crown.
This produced a net take" Of
some ST. 1000. Under the terms of
the private payoff pledge Servo
and Cochrane had decided on
Marty took so per cent of the net,
or about 200. and gave Red a
fiat $4,000.
Thus it cost the ex-coast guards
man, whose 5lst professional ear
scrambling start won him the 147-
pound title, roughly $1,000 to put
the crown on bis black curly hair.
But that doesn't mean he and
his manager, Alphonse Weill-
known to the trade as The Vest
won't get coffee and cake money,
and a bit more, out of it before
they're through. They're already
figuring on tangling with the VIM
ner of next Fridays Beau jack
Johnny Greco nose-mashing, and
then taking on Rockabye Rocky
Graziano in overweight matches in
the next couple of months.
Servo Apt to Fight in d. C.
After those two non-title tits and
probably an overweight clambake
in Washington, Marty will put the
title on the line against stringbean
Ray Robinson here. But while the
date of this championship punch
party has been set for May "a, no
one will be very much surprised If
it is pushed back to an outdoor
money shot in July or August.
Martyrs only two defeats in eight
years as a professional ear-scrambler
came at the hands of beanpole Ray,
incidentally. But after last night,
very few of the experts" wanted to
get right up in meeting and say that
Ray can make it three in row.
Marty went out after Cochrane as
II he owned him. He staggered
Freddie the Red in the first round,
plastered him literally in the second,
had a gaudy red stream running
from Cochrane's nose in the third
and then hit the jackpot in the
fourth with a left hook followed by
practically a whole bookful of as
sorted mayhem.
Red slumped to the floor and was
counted out. One ringsider didn't
even bother to wait for the count
to 10 over the defending champion.
He started for the door muttering
"the defense rests"