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Billed as the "Herkimer Hurricane" because he comes from Herkimer, N. Y. and fights with less finesse than fury, Louis D'Ambrosio (Lou Ambers) used to be a sparring partner for Tony Canzoneri. That was when Canzoneri was lightweight champion three years ago. Last year, Ambers had progressed sufficiently to fight Canzoneri for the title, not sufficiently to win it. Last week, in Madison Square Garden's first major indoor fight of the season, they met again. This time, after 15 rounds of sincere if not particularly interesting scuffling, the referee and judges decreed that Ambers' enthusiasm...
...cardboard crown, urged his manager to get him a match with Welterweight Champion Barney Ross. Product of a bootleg boxing circuit which flourished in upstate New York when promoters were too poor or too parsimonious to pay for licenses, Ambers is 22, untemperamental, attached to numerous other D'Ambrosios by those ties of affection which all right-thinking young pugilists consider themselves conventionally compelled to profess. He makes his home in a Bronx apartment run for him by his sister, often drives to Herkimer for weekends with his mother, hopes to organize the nine D'Ambrosio children into...
...Ambers is billed as the "Herkimer Hurricane" because he comes from Herkimer, N. Y. and because his style of boxing is a cross between that of the late Harry Greb and an indignant Chinese laundry man. Son of a day laborer named Tony D'Ambrosio, he is a product of the curious "bootleg" boxing circuit that flourished a few years ago in upstate New York, where promoters were too poor or too dishonest to pay taxes...
Last week unstable Hernandez struck again. In Atares Fortress, in the San Ambrosio and Dragones military posts, sections of the Army in sympathy with the ABC opposition rebelled in an effort to restore the brief conservative government of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. Leading the Atares rebels was bowlegged old Hernandez, quickly joined by the men from the other posts, for Atares Fortress, built in 1767 with walls of masonry over six feet thick, was reputedly proof against modern shell fire...
...still alive," said Ambrosio Diaz Galup...