Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-23
Ahearn Lets Nobody
Forget Next Week
Mims-Dykes Bout
By George Huber

WIFI JIIC dIl1toI Va oAAAAAAACAS
Promoter Goldie Ahearn has
warmed up to his task Of building
up public interest in the fight he
is putting on week from tonight
at Uline Arena.
Goldie's two gladiators, Middle
weights Holly Minis and Bobby
Dykes, should be well known to
boxing fans, but the promoter is
taking no chances on their names
and deeds being forgotten.
Goldie is accepting invitations
to appear on televiSion-in some
cases even before the invitations
are issued. He is visiting news
paper Offices and calling up ev-
erybody who ever bought a ticket
to a fight here. II want everybody
to know about this fight" says
Goldie, because I don't want
nobody mad at me-"
This is going to be the fight
of the year." he predicts. land
suppose somebody, who didn't
know it was coming of, missed
it? They would blame me, and
in a business like mine, I gotta
have everybody friends"
Formula Has Everything.
He has a nice formula for this
fight, a local boy, Holly Minis,
who has a very high rating ma
tionally, against the experienced
Dykes from San Antonio. Tex,
who over the years has met and
handled the best. What's more,
there's the benefit angle to the
match, with the SITS. ConStan-
tine and Helen and the st. Sophia
Greek Orthodox Churches get
ting part of the receipts.
Minis, with a string of II
straight victories, is one Of the
top contenders for Bobo Olson'S
middleweight title. He hasn't
appeared in his home town
nearly often enough to let every
body see him who want to see
him, Goldie figures.
Here's guy who beats the
best" recalls Goldie, "like that |
Wiley Troy fight I put on a
year or so ago. He beat Mr..
Troy, something nobody else had
lA,aa lx~naL1ol him n11f in fort
Now I'm bringing in Bobby
Dykes, positively the best fighter
1 could get. Sure, Minis has
had some good fights here since
Troy, people like Eddie Green,
Sammy Walker and that Sandy
Baxter. Nice guys, all of them,
but nothing like Dykes.
81 predict-and you know what
a good predicter I am-that Mr..
Dykes will give Mr.. Minis the
fight of his life"
Goldie, of course, has to dc
everything in Superlatives. When
he says that this fight is "the
greatest match in the country
today" he believes it himself and
is hurt if every one else doesn't
believe it, too.
Dykes to Arrive Early.
eve been in this business too
long to try to fool the public"
Goldie declares. I'm going to
show them what a good man this
Mr.. Dykes is. I've got nothing
to hide, I'm not keeping him hid
den until fight time. Six days
before the f1ght-that'S Friday
I'm bringing him in by airplane
from San Antonio so he can work
out in public at Dudleys gym.
And do you know how much
those airplane tickets cost? They
should throw in the airplane,
too"
AS for Dykes record, Goldie is
open and aboveboard about that.
Il don't claim he's beaten every
body in the country for the last
two years. A guy that meets
nobody but the best is going to
lose once in awhile.
But I'll tell you this, he's won
every fight in 1954-Joey Clam
bra, Johnny Lombardo, Walter
Cartier and a couple of other
ones. too, except that one fight
to Tiger Jones.
And how do you suppose he
loses to Tiger Jones?" Goldie
asks, and answers: "He beats
him for nine rounds. nine
straight rounds, mind you, and
loses on a TKO in the 10th on
a cut eye. lever hear anything
like that"
Queer business, the fight busi-