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Last September any fight fan with 40? in his pocket could have seen a spindle-shanked little featherweight Negro named Henry Armstrong strutting his stuff in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Last week in that same arena, air-conditioned but nonetheless sweltering under floodlights on one of the hottest nights of the year, 20,000 fight fans gladly paid as much as $16.50 a seat to watch the same spindle-shanked little boxer perform...
Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers defends his title against Welter and Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
Having punched the welterweight (147 Ib. maximum) crown off Barney Ross's head, Henry Armstrong, already holder of the featherweight (126 Ib. maximum) title, became the first fisticuffer in the long annals of pugilism to wear both crowns at the same time...
...Wirt Ross, a shrewd fight manager, saw possibilities in Henry Jackson, offered Promoter Cox $250 for the skinny-shanked featherweight's contract. The first thing Wirt Ross did was to change Henry Jackson's name to Henry Armstrong. The name worked like a charm. Henry Armstrong became a two-fisted swinger who went into the ring punching and never stopped until he knocked out his exhausted opponent...
Among the spectators who saw him defeat Baby Arizmendi, onetime featherweight champion, at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field 22 months ago was Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Impressed, Singer Jolson agreed to lend his friend, Fight Manager Eddie Mead, $5,000 to buy Armstrong's contract. Under the management of Mead, Armstrong piled up 37 victories in a row, became the outstanding boxer...