LITTLE INTEREST
BIG BOXING CARNIVAL
NEW YORK, September 17.
The boxing championship carnival, in which three world title bouts are to take place on the same programme, is arousing only moderate interest, the newspapers carrying no more than desultory accounts from the nearby training camps. The biggest problem facing the fighters is that of making the weight limits. All with the exception of Barney Ross and Ceferino Garcia (welterweights) are still over weight. Marcel Thil (middleweight) and Pedro Montanez (lightweight) are having the biggest problem, each being four pounds overweight.
A suggestion has been made that i£ the fights are postponed for any reason the contenders should weigh in again has caused a sharp controversy, but the Commission may adopt it. The Commission's physician, who is periodically examining the contenders, declares that they are in excellent condition. The odds favour Ross (welterweight champion), Fred Apostoli (middleweight challenger), Montanez (lightweight challenger), and Sixto Escobar (bantamweight challenger).
The New York Commission recently announced that it did not recognise Thil as the world middleweight champion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1937, Page 16
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172LITTLE INTEREST Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1937, Page 16
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