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White, Sanchez Signed For Six-Rounder on Wednesday Card Here By ALAN WARD Jimmy Murray, Oakland's No. 1 boxing matchmaker, has left on a business trip to Los Angeles, but before heading south he completed tthe preliminary card supporting next , Wednesday night's I-round anain [event between Connie Norden and Tiny Heffernan. , Mexico will be well represented fin the subsidiary lineup. Each of the our prelims will feature lady s from south of the border down Mex io' sway, WL round semi-windup win are Al Robinsoh, local Negro welter= weight, in one corner and Mario Ra mon In another. The six round special event has paired Tyree White, San Francisco Negro, and Pedro Sanchez. They are lightweights SEIGEL HAS A PUG One of the two four rounders has matched Sammy Perez, San Fran cisco lightweight, and Jorge Ortega, and the other will bring together Ernie Sanchez, Harold Seigel's feather from Berkeley, and Joe To ver. Of the four caballeros only San chez is familiar to Oakland fans. The lad has boxed here to date and like the great majority of Mexican fighters he was satisfactory. Knowing the caliber of pugs from the south side of the Rio Grande, Matchmaker Murray hasn't ane that the four will fail to deliver Wednesday night. Those lads from Mexico are like the majority of Filipino ringmen. They love to fight. They enjoy the milling when it is the hard Un like Filipino boxers, or battlers off any other nationality, they can op erate equally well either as a south paw on adopting an orthodox stance. CERTAINLY 18 ODD The unique situation never has been satisfactorily explained. But its existence has been demonstrated, on numerous occasions. The Norden-Hefternan headliner is one of those natural heavyweight bouts which, while it won't sell out the Auditorium, should do a big business. the pairing of the big fellows, Norden representing Galtier Hefernan San Francisco, was ine’ evitable after Tim had knocked out Hal Fieberting and Ernie Nord .Ban Norden, by reason of greater perience th a more impressive fring record, will be a favorite over Heffernan, although Tim because for this tremendous right hand sack won't lack for supporters, “TIM HAS “HE KICK Heffernan carries a heftier kick Jihan Norden. Connie, however, is the better boxer of the two and is lespecially dangerous when working in close with hady punches. Murray went to Los Angeles to obtain new or slightly used ring talent for Oakland. He expects to pick off a main event for two weeks from Wednes day night which will set the town flashing. Oakland has been in the pugl jdistic doldrums the past several weeks. The Earl Turner-Henry Armstrong fight, which grossed $22,000, brought the game here to a peak and the subsequent let-down I was to have been expected, GAME ON UPGRADE? believes, and not with. an. the Norden-Heffernan shinds will start the sport on the lop- grade. And two or three subse quent oulstanding shows will return He to its former affluence, _ Bob Smith, the lover Negro heavyweight who beat Martin Gold there the other night, may be itthed with the winner of the Norden-Heffernan affair. Smith, although weighing a light 30 pounds, is willing and anxious, to tackle either Tim or Connie. He doesn’ t mind giving away 15 pounds, Flealfernan and Neer jal Harry Fine’s Gymnasium during the week-end. :
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Oakland, California, US
Fri, Oct 30, 1942
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