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...Manhattan last week, a crowd of 18,000 jammed Madison Square Garden to watch two hard-hitting little lightweights scuffle for the world championship which Champion Barney Ross last month decided he had grown too heavy to defend. One was stocky, frog-faced Tony Canzoneri, who held the title for three years before losing it to Ross two years ago. The other was Lou Ambers of Herkimer, N. Y., a tough, courageous little boxer who was" Canzoneri's sparring partner in 1933. Said Canzoneri: "You've got what it takes to become a champion...
...When Canzoneri and Ambers climbed into the ring last week Ambers was a 3-to-1 favorite, partly on the superstition that a champion who loses his title rarely wins it back, partly because Canzoneri, eight years older than his opponent, has indubitably lost some of his old enthusiasm for absorbing punches. When they climbed out, after 15 busy rounds, Canzoneri had knocked Ambers down three times, had become the first lightweight pugilist in history to win the championship after being defeated in defense of it. Said he: "I think Ambers remembered the sparring partner days and that affected...
...because their brutality gives him insomnia, makes him sick. His ambition is to organize his nine brothers and sisters, all musically inclined, into a jazz band in which he can play banjo and clarinet. Before his fight with Champion Ross, he plans a "warmup bout" with ex-Champion Tony Canzoneri...
...Tony Canzoneri: the right to meet Barney Ross in a return bout for the world's lightweight championship; by defeating Frankie Klick of San Francisco, by a technical knockout, in 9 rounds; in Brooklyn...
Square Garden's outdoor bowl Welterweight Jimmy McLarnin entered the ring first, laced up his gloves. Small Barney Ross, who won the lightweight championship from Tony Canzoneri last year, ducked into his corner a moment later and the two men shook hands...