Charley Rose March 1958
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By TED CARROLL the new building. I got smart and got these put me in the hospital. I wasn't a promise from the landlord that if I clever, but I was a strong little fellow, paid my rent up to the last, they would and I was even better at the rough-and- let me back in. I paid right up to the tumble stuff than I was under strict end, but when the new building went boxing rules. up I was turned down with the rest "But boxing is no business for a kid of them. It's funny now, but I felt like who got hit as much as I did," he con- taking a punch at that landlord when fesses, "As soon as I realized that a it happened." manager got paid the same as a fighter Looking at Charley Rose today, no and he didn't have to duck those punches, I decided that managing was for me." Today, after almost fifty years of fight managing, Charley lives comfort- ably in a hotel in the same Times Square district he first invaded years ago. Twenty-five years back, the appar- " !LAS, that Spring should vanish ft with the Rose-" the poet has said, bewailing the short lived fragility of the delicate flower. Maybe the fact that he was reared in a garden of cauliflower accounts for the durability of boxing's perennial ent victim of a run-around by then Charley Rose who found refuge on New heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, York's famed Broadway forty-odd years for whom he had been American repre- ago. sentative, and of the machinations of Charley has always claimed he started scheming Joe Jacobs, who had replaced the movemen t from the dingy beer hall him, Rose's plea for justice was echoed back rooms of the lower east and west by columnist Dan Parker of the . Y. sides which served as offices for fight Mirror, in the words of a then popular managers and promoters prior to \V orld song, "Broadway Rose, there's a tear \Var I. Be that as it may, it became in your eye-" commented Mr. Parker. the style for the boys to have Broad- For a long time, Charley was known way addresses following the first World as Charley "Broadway" Rose, a cogno- \iV ar. men he took with the unfailing good Of this fabled crew, Leo P. Flynn, humor. Charley Harvey, Jim Buckley, Billy He is a dapper little man, roundish in M'Carney, Doc Bagley, Joe Jacobs, contour, meticulous in dress and habit Silvey Burns, Eddie Mead, Jimmy and quiet in speech. An impish grin Johnston, Jimmy Kelley, Lew Raymond, one would ever suspect that he has and droll mannerisms are quite sugges- Paddy Mullins, Harry Neary, Tom passed the allotted span of three score tive of an elderly kewpie doll. O'Rourke, Billy Roche, Dan Morgan years and ten. He is glowingly healthy, have gone to greener pastures, but Char- his eyes keen and clear, and he shows ACTS AS REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN PROMOTERS I ley Rose is still very much alive, chuck- little outward sign of any physical or - ling as he reminisces. mental slowdown. A globe trotter in his younger days, "Most of us were in the Old Putnam including an AEF adventure in World STARTED CAREER AS War I, Charley sticks pretty close to Building and when the word got out A 130 POUND BOXER the building was to come down for the home nowadays but still retains far Fifty years ago Rose came out of the flung contacts with promoters and box- Paramount Theatre which is now lo- East Side to perform in local fight clubs cated there, everybody stopped paying ing people throughout the world. as a rough tough little 130 pounder. "Look at this," he says, drawing a rent. Then they told us point blank that "I fought about fifty fights, some of no fight managers were to be allowed in flock of telegrams from an inside pocket, them in skin-tight gloves, and one of (Continued on page 65) 24 THE RING IN' OLD NEW ENGLAND UNDER SOUTHERN SKIES "If I'm sitting in a certain chair and in comes a good telegram or a good By Don Hamill By Tom Ephrem 'phone call, I won't sit in any other B 0 S TON - MECHANIC'S BUILDING - YVON DURELLE AND JERRY LUEDEE chair until something happens that isn't JIM1\IY CONNORS, 1271f~,NEW BEDFORD, HEADLINED THE BABE ZAHARIAS ME- carne oil' the floor in the first round, waged )10RIAL CANCER FUND boxing card at so good and then I'll switch. a persistent body attack, and won a unani- Tampa, and made a sure enongh issue of it "They can say what they want about mous ten round decision over Pat McCarthy, for 10 actionized rounds. Surrounded by 3,500 Jr., 129, Roxhury. It was a battle between fans at Fort Hesterly and a national TV superstitions, but don't torget some of a pair of hitherto undefeated youngsters. audience, the light-heavyweights· whacked Connors was dropped in the first round by a and walloped each other for one of the best the greatest lighters-some of the great- left hook but held the npper hand for the fights seen anywhere, anytime. est men-were the most superstitious remainder of the fight. Pat was dropped Durelle, the fighting fisherman from Baie into the ropes in the sixth round. St. Anne, N. B., had the better of things, not people you ever saw. Take Terry Tony Veranis, 144%, Dorchester, another too much, but enough to score over tbe re- undefeated lad, stopped Bobby Murphy, 1451,6, lentless resistance of Luedee. Durelle weighed M'Govern, nobody was any more super- Brighton, in the seventh round. Murphy, who 1741,6. Luedee, from New Haven, Conn., stitious than he was-and what a won the Rookie of the Year award in 1955, tipped 172, and came within an ace of hold- was dropped in the seventh round from a ing 'l'he Rin~ ~Iagazine's number three man lighter. As long as I stay in such good right cross-left hook combo. He arose but in the light-neavy division, to a draw. The was on the reeeivlng end of a flurry when loser loses no prestige. The Ring places him health I'm going to keep on being Referee Eddie Curley halted the contest. in the first class after top Challengers are superstitious." Buddy Cochrane, 158, Somerville, copped a listed. in Februa ry issue. clear cut decision from willing Young Joe Aldo Mente, HOl/:" overcame the effects of Along with his belief in the benign Walcott, 1511,6, Bridgeport, Conn., In eight n cut eye in the third and rallied to gain a rounds. Harvey Lammers, 160, New Bedford, draw iu 10 rounds with Pat O'Brien, 139%, effects of superstition, on longevity, battled to a draw with Ray Drayton 167 New York. lIente, of Niagara Falls, and Charley is also a great booster for ice Boston, in the six round opener. " O'Brien gave a fine account of what action ~ REYERE - Rollaway Arena - Joe Devlin is. Danny Toriani, 137'!., Miami, TKOed cream. "Since I recovered from a serious 150'4, .Jamaica Plain, dropped Clisby (Rockyj 'I'Ino Fuentes, H2¥." Tampa, in three. Sonny Ford, ~44~, Brooklyn, four times while stop- Campbell, 133, took a four from Gene Wiley, illness ten years ago, I wouldn't think of pmg' him In the fifth round of a new talent both 'I'am pa ns. Claude Williams', Tampa, going to bed without eating my ice card. won in 10 over Victor Penn, of Houston. Guy LoConte, 146112, ~1alden, decisioned ~ Bobby Lane got right back on the winning cream. My health has been perfect Johnny Bradley, 143%, New York, in the six lane and he didn't have to "run", as the ex- round semi-final. In four rounders: AI Rose, pression goes in our boxing field. With two since I started doing it." 150, Brookline, belted out Frankie Evans straight losses staring him in the face, Charley spends a lot of time in the 149, Boston, in the first round: Kenny Stokes: Bobby turned battler and clouted his way 150, Boston, did the same to Rocky Jordan to a 10 round deciston, and upset, over the company of old cronies, Joe Woodman 155¥." Allston; Charley ~I1chaud, 174112,New favored Angelo DeFendis at )Iiallli Beach. Bedford, won over George H. Jefferson 169 It's rather rare if you see Lane on tbe can- and gentlemanly Jimmie Bronson. Hartford; and Senie David, 1331,6,Hartford: vas but it happened this night, twice. A relaxed type of person, excitability kayoed Angelo LaPaglia, 130%" Roxbury, in The semi-final lasted into the seventh and the final round of the opener. the winner by a TKO was Goemo Brennan, is alien to his nature. He takes what- ~ BOSTON-Mechanic's Building-Eddie An- 152¥.,. of Bimini His vlcttm was Deacon drews, 158¥." Lowell, punched out a decisive WaShington, 155%" of Deerfield, Florida. ever comes along in an even, unin- ten round decision over Joe (ROCky) Toma- 'Willie Finney, H8¥." )liami. took a fonr terrupted stride. Of the many fighters seHo, 164, Keyport, N. J. from Billy Ora!s, 142, Homestead Air Force Ray Drayton, 166, Roxbury, dropped Roy Base. A four round draw rr-sulted in the who have been his charges, Charles Rose BelSito,. 179¥." Worcester, four times. stop- match between Billy Hall, 1H. Norwood, ping him In the fourth heat.