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Randolph Laughlin Marshall, Walnut Creek, California--Mt. Diablo Union High School, Concord, California...
...Mount Diablo, Calif., 25 miles east of San Francisco, Playwright Eugene...
Virtue of the loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...
Italian opponents are lucky for Don Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months...
...commence, there is no pianist! Without a pianist I do not play!" Iturbi on frankfurters: "Hot dogs! The audience eating hot dogs while we play the second symphony of Jean Sibelius! People scraping their feet on the floor. Like thees : Scrape ! scrape ! Madre de Dios, it is disgraceful! Diablo! It is un dignified! ... I like hot dogs - no, I must say I adore them! But you do not give me hot dogs when I am invited to a formal dinner. No respect for the artist...