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SecondThoughtsBy JSIXSOy DEMTOXr(Timms-Star Sports Editor)graciously acceptedthe responsibility for the conduct of the Korean War, hi* supreme strategical move being the proposed impeachment of Mr Truman, I feel that I can go about mv usual business, surveying Ihe boxingsituation.The first news of moment that I heard upon me return to Cincinnati concerned the Becker hoys, of course, and I learned In ahort order. Ions before I had me toothbrush unpacked that Mr Samuel Becker a quick man with a lire plus, waa unveilingEssard Charles, the heavyweight rhsmpl wm-M at the Cincinnati Garden Tuesday“I am glad vnu thought enough of the fight to come back for it,”said Mr Beckei. with alt of his old umph“What fight* I asked, and since then I must ssy, Mr Becker's great regard for me has seemed to he somewhat lackingin tl* timeless fervor“What fight’’ he mutter- when hlt;* enters mv office “I guess you had it prettv tough over there Maybe that s what's the matter with# *youIt's the sort of thing a homing war correspondent has to learn to take.iI am not at all certain, however, that Mr Charles is the solid fi-to-1 favorite that those half-mythical characters, the downtownbookmakers, asset t him to beI presume that he will defeat Nick Barone, the hoy from Syracuse, for that Is In Ihe cards, hut I am of the opinion, bolstered hy Mr Becker himself, that the Cincinnatian will have to give hisall to come throughBarone, a former tT S marine, is not the cleverest boxer since whoever used to be the cleverest boxer, but he has never been jolted off his feet and so has never been knocked out. He is very determined not to be knocked out come the morrow, insisting among his intimate* that any knockout on the Garden program will find Charles in the victim's role even if it means that Jake Mintz fair's as he did so beautifully in Chicago after Charles had done in Jersey Joe Walcott.Henry Andrews. Barone’s manager, is being very brave about It all, more than hinting that Barone will heat the long roll on Charles’s mldsection and will emerge a* the new king of the heavies, the anointed successor of .lurk Dempsey, Gene Tunnev and Charles himselfa good hm Vick. Mr. Andrew* said vpfctfi day. lighting argatet with consummate nonchalant I never have any troublev ith himAnd that ma* be true, hut I had trouble with him, trying. in mv feeble wav. to get him to talk.eIn a half hour's conversation, running the gamut from the price of coffee to Japanese tea ceremonies, all I could worm out of Mr Barone was two small gi tints, either of w hich might have been an1affirmative or h eHe refused to discuss the sear of a Japanese bayonet wound on hi* right arm And waa about aa talkative as one of Kgvpt’s better sphinxes when It came to recalling oxer the years the battle of luo .lima, where he met a tougher foe than C harles and emerged on his ox* n power“That vx a5 h long tune ago,” Barone said.Who was I to deny it.
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Dec 04, 1950
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