Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-27
SKGH AT LARGE
Futile Fights
Find Few Fans
BY MORRIS SIEGEL


for Vince McAahon's ma-order wrestling business
a paying customer at the boxing show at Capitol
Arena the other night This in itself made him Of
distinction There very few others in the house who
had stopped the box office There very few others
in the house at ALL
Even If you know in advance how our guys going
to out" zacko observed I'VE furnish excite
ment" There inclination to dispute Zacko He has
been in the rasse buineSs long he regards all honest
sports dishonest. And also dull.
"A they are doing out there now Zacko continued
two of the fighters oxroted around the ring s raSSng
Why don't they just take the gloves off let m go2"
As say nobody wanted to contest Zacko's subjective
observations For thing fan entitled to think what
he wants to think. Another consideration impor
tant is that zacko at least paid for the privilege of
knocking the game.
THE LAST PRODUCTION in this current attempt to
bring em back live in backyard epocha event
1t the second show automatically making the current
rehabilitation project twice successful last year
Numerically, at any rate,
There were hardly enough fans on hand to conduct
singa-long indicating the imminent end of sti another
series to fist-fghting from oblivion The promoter
unfortunately doesn't it like the few customers see
It, He's going to try again.
Instead of next Monday night 1t will be next Tuesday
evening at the Fourteenth and street pit Anticipated
fighu structure which would have be be painted be-
fore it could be condemned e. Ae
, The switch to Tuesday made to avoid conflict
with wrestling carnival booked into Une Arena Monday
Godie Ahearn 1t seems making colossal blunder here
He should Monday The overflow from the wrestling
show would fill the joint.
:. AHEARN IS SERIOUS about trying to bring boxing
back and deserves nod for his good intentions But he's
against the problem confronting ornthologists
who want to perpeuate the whoopng crane There aren't
enough whoopng to do the job Just there aren't
enough boxers.
The idea behind Goldes dream according to Ahearn Is
to discover young talent noble endeavor commercial
promoter espoused Except for the main bout
one-sded bit involving couple Of 22-year-od weers,
the youths must have been doing their fighting on the
streets of Washington. They weren't in the arena.
The lineup included one S5-year-old gladiator and
another who admitted to a. Both also confessed to being
professional They should have ducked behind the Fifth
Amendment The Juvenile lineup also listed SOyearold
and another fighter &c. They were in the preimnarieS,
still learning the trade presumably
THE CLASSIEST FIGURE on the card was the ring
announcer, Bob Freed He decked out in tuxedo,
which was very becoming His commentary unfortunately,
wasn't nearly fashionable. His introduction lasted
longer than the first two fights, which wasn't Freeds
fault not altogether Nobody had bothered to tell him the
boys couldn't fight.
BY day Freed is tour guide for sightseeing visitors
This undoubtedly explains why he insisted when intro
ducing the local fighters to note they from he Ma
tons Capital Washington D. c." Freed simply wants to
make certain his customers always know where they are
In presenting Rudy Robinson, who represented
mddlewegh only by weight Freed called attention to the
fact that Robinson was from Richmond $50 let's give
MN washington recepuon, FREED Sau, Warmly keoDn-
sons reception proved to be rude Wright stopped him
at 2:40 of the first round.
NEXT TO FREED's larynx. DR. David Gordon the at
tending physician the busiest of the evening"
Five of the six fights ended in knockouts requiring his
attention Dr. Gordon didn't seem to mind entering and
re-enerng the ring often tits my way Of doing those
50-me hikes" he said, smiling
Even the eight-round feature encounter between
C. L. Lewis of Fredericksburg Va and George Briggs,
sghtseer from New York. ended in knockout. Briggs
showed little except fierce determination not to get his
Ray Robinson style hardo musSed up 1t easily deter
mined long before the end in the fifth round that
the in this particular Briggs didn't stand for the best
However there is hope for the future. Jocko Miller,
of the boxing commission Mers noted that fighters who
suffer knockouts automatically suspended for 80 days
This could end the fight game here again unless Ahearn
carries out his threat
80 whatP" he asked "I1l dig up other fighter