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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Last week was the busiest of the season for peewee pugilistic pundits. On the same program as the Canzoneri v. Ambers fight was one between the New York State Athletic Commission's nominee for world's featherweight champion, Mike Belloise, and England's Dave Crowley. It ended in the ninth round when the referee refused to allow Crowley's claim of foul, counted him out instead. Four nights before in Manhattan, fiery little Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico improved his claim to the world's bantamweight title by forcing his opponent, Pittsburgh's Tony...
...last week Georgians were agreed that the Talmadge-Russell contest had turned into their hottest political fight since Joe Brown and Hoke Smith chased each other over the red clay hills 32 years...
...team shapes up now, the greatest weakness appears to be at the end positions with no lettermen returning due to Dubiel's downfall. Bob Daughters, who is coming up from the Freshmen, will be in the thick of the fight, but this Sophomore, though fast and a marvelous pass receiver, will probably need another year of seasoning before his defensive work comes up to par. Ben Smith is the other Freshman who will report on September 15, while Gibson Winter and Joe Kennedy, a pair of Juniors, are all applicants for the post. Unless some shift is made, however...
...Jones, who looked a hundred percent better in spring practice than he did last year when he started almost every game should win the center fight hands down there...