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econdThoughtsBy MX soy DEXTOX(Timss-Stmr Sport* Editor)graciously acceptedthe responsibility for the conduct of the Korean War, his supreme strategical move being the proposed impeachment of Mr Truman, I feel that I ran go about my usual business, surveying the boxingsituation.The first news of moment rbirinnatl concerned the Beckershort order. Ion* before I had m» toothbrush Mr Samuel Becker a quick man wilh a Brr phi*Esxard Charles, the heavyweight rhampli world at the Cincinnati Harden TuesdayM“I am glad vou thought enough of the fight to come back for itsaid Mr. Becket. with all of his old umph“What fight'’ I asked, and since then 1 must ssy, Mr Becker's grest regard for me has seemed to he somewhat lackingIn Its timeless fervorWhat fight’ he mutter4 when hlt;* enters mv office “T guess youhad it prettv tough o\e (here Maybe that s what's the matter with ,you jIt's the sort of thin* s homing wsr correspondent has to learn to take.I am not at all retain, however, that Mr. Chur lea is the solid S-to-1 favorite that those half-mythical characters, the downtown bookmakers, asset i him to beI presume that he will defeat Nick Barone, the hoy from jSyracuse, for that Is in the cards, but I am of the opinion bolstered hy Mr Becker himself, that the Cincinnatian will have to *ive hisall to come throuchBarone, a former tf ? marine, i« not the clevereM boxer since whoever Used to be the cleverest boxer, but he has never been inlted 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 Mint* fair's as he did so beautifully in Chicago after Charles had done in Jersey Joe Walcott.Henry Andrews. Barone's manager. I* being very brave shout tIt stl, more thsn hintln* that Barone will beat the Ion* roll on Charles’s mldsectlon and vs 111 emrree as the new kin* of the Jheavies, the anointed successor of Jack Dempsey. Gene Tunnev and Charles himself* ta good bnv X\ik. Mr. Andrew* said \-efttfrdav. lighting a rigaret with rnn«umm^If* nonchalant. **1 nrvrr have any troublev ith himAnd that mo be true, hut 1 had trouble with him, trying, Inmv feeble wav, to art him to talk.In a half hour's conversation, running the gamut from the pi ice of cofte# to Japanese tea ceremonies, all I could worm out of Mi., Barone was two .small gi nuts, etther of w hich might have been an ‘affirmative or a 1 I,He refused to (IImum the scar of a Japanese bayonet wound on hi* right arm and wan about a* talkative a* one of Kgvpt « better sphinxes when it came to recalling over the years thebattle of Iwn Jima. where he met a tougher foe than C harles andemerged on his own power“That was a l.oog tune ago/' Barone said.Who watt I to deny it.
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Dec 04, 1950
Page 14
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