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pion in the· same ring with has been beaten recently by him. To-day Datto is only a string of third raters. lgna­ a shadow of the real fighter cio Young Fernandez and • he was'three years ago. He Speedy Dado, two great pros- Felix Ignacio still boxes once in a while peels started like wild fire. Luis Logan What has become of the but he has faded from the Dado's string of K. O.'s in filipino boxer in the United "big time" bouts. Lope Te- the Pacific Coast were impre- celebrity almost overnight· States? is the question norio the crack lightweight sive but his defeat by News- :When he. kayoed. that most any time can be boxer who a few years ago boy Brown after· he had de- m one round but I~ a ret.urn heard in local tin ear cir­ posted a forfeit to meet the cisioned the cham- go, the Bronx hghtwe1ght cles. How do they stand in then lightweight champion pion washed him out as a turned . the tables on lgnatz. the world market of fisti­ when he was contender for Midget Wol- After his defeat qy the New­ cuffs? How about the brown considered the leading con- gast's crown. Fernandez was Y.orker, Fernand~z lost deces­ boys fighting in· other foreign tender to the championship is sailing on smooth sea until si~ely to the Cuban wonder., countries. These questions are also out of the big mo- he met Battling Battalino and and later .on being asked by our fans who ney. He continues fighting Kid Chocolate. The fili- was knocked out by Batthiig a decade ago were used to to earn himself a living but pino featherweight became a Battalino. I:Je subsequent- hear of successful fights staged 1~====~======:1 ly came out second best in by the almond eyed fighters. his bouts with Kid Francis, won a world Eddie Shea, Vic Burrone, and title and Elino Flores came other more or less well known boxers. close to winning another~ Clever Sencio gave the Fernandez· was traveling then champion Fi­ with a fast crowd and lost del La Barba several close out. To-day fans have calls, while Nacionalista at Fernandez in their midst. his best was a potential He is still a great performer drawi.ng card on the no doubt but his championship Pacific Coast. Pete Sar­ aspirations have been nip­ miento defeated the cham­ ped in the bud. N acionalis­ pion Phil Rosenberg in a no ALWAYS ta is also expected in Manila decision fight and then clean­ as he too has been elimina­ ed up all opposition in the THE ted ,as a contender. Pablo Da­ division but never had the BEST fio who only a year ago ap­ fortune of winning a world's peared in every Ranking in crown. He made good mo­ the as one Of ney but squandered it as the five best in the fast as he made it. John­ world has seemingly faded ny Datto, filipino O'RACCA out of the picture. His de­ featherweight defeated Bat­ feats by Young Tommy and tling Battalino before the CANDIES Little Pancho in Manila have Hartford flash won the crown no doubt taken the pep out from Andre Routis, and af­ MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES OF PHILIPPINE SUGAR of him. ter the frenchman dropped BY FILIPINO LABOR Today there are many fi­ his title to the italian-ame­ ----+--- lipino boxers abroad, in quest rican champion. Datto also of success but apparently none gave the Parisian a neat O'RACCA CONFECTIONERY of them ha~ yet reached the lacing, but the filipino was P.O. Box 481 830-840 T. ALONZO, MANILA Tel. 2-89-40 top. never lucky to get the cham- Lew Pacion, Kessel's for -April 18, 1931 The SPORTS REVIEW Page 15

mer meal ticket has settled me for himself when he de- and eggers" in Barcelona and down in Waterford where feated but other Spanish capitals, but he is fighting preliminary hishandlers pulled the biggest lately nothing has been heard bouts. Cris Pineda the slick­ boner of a lifetime rematching of him. He left for the Uni­ haired Pampanga bantam­ Dado with the man he;had de- ted &tates recently where he weight has joined Pacion's feated. The return bout pro- will hook up with Leon See, stable according to recent ved fatal to the filipino be- famous manager. and ·trainer press dispatches. Neither of cause he was kayoed in the of foreign boxers including .. the two has scaled the heights ninth round of their ten round the Gargantuan boxer Primo although Waterford sports wri­ encounter with a lucky punch. Camera. Carlos Logan who ters predict rosy futures for According to news reaching left a very unfavorable im­ the two brown boys. Fighting Manila, Dado was leading by pression when he left the Ignacio, a mere curtain raiser a comfortable margin when Philippines as he was knocked performer in local rings seems the "Newsboy" produced the out by an unknown British to have landed somewhere sleeping pill. sailor is also in the United in the pugilistic map, but Rito D. Punay classy fea- States. He will join his bro­ not quite. According to an therweight who left the Phi- ther in the racket.. interview by a United Press lippines two years ago He will start from the bottom. man, Ignacio has a chance fought several main events According to his manager. of fighting either Midget in Oregon and California Recently Peping Javellana, Wolgast or but after a few fights no well known filipino sports­ for the crown should he im­ thing was heard of him since. man took along with him a prove constantly as he is Pete Sarmiento who was a stabie of four boxers. Whe­ actually bettering his style. sensation five years ago tried ther these will be able to Ignacio has met and defeated a come back last year but scale the heights is proble­ well known flyweights in the was easily vanquished by matical. Just as things stand, Pacific Coast but none of a fifth rater in a San Fran- Young Tommy seems to have · them is in Genaro's class. cisco ring. He is an e'.e­ a fighting chance. Miling With proper handling, Ig­ vator boy in to-day may also land some-where nacio may yet uphold the but Young Firpo and Young with slim chances of -ever Lew Pasion filipino's reputation as a first recovering his once upon a Uzcudum are liable to drown class fighter time prestige. in the turbulent seas of Ame­ Speedy Dado was another Speedy Dado made a na- Besides those above mention- rican fisticuffs hope, but his recent defeat by Brown put him in moth ed, there are a dozen or so There have. been attempts filipino boxers campaining in t o regam. th e fl ywe1g. ht crown balls. · for the present. Tommy American rings with little o f th e wor ld w h1c. h was 1os t. 1s the newest cruzader to or no success at all. t. o ti 1e Ph1·1· tppmes · w1'th p an- try .for the most covetedh Battling Bolo, Kid de los r·il ' · 1 d th crown. He may turn t e h \ 1 y t . k d t 1 f ·1 c o a s unhme. ea , nc an ye le may ai • Reyes, Fighting Bulahan, Jo­ but Clever Senc10 who was It . h d · b h' h ·11 hnny Alba, Kid Avelino. IS a ar JO w IC WI the nearest to make .the grade. d reqmre. a w h o1 e 1 o t o f c1 e ver Johnny Ladao A. Carreon, passed . away w~1en he die fighting ·. and engineering. F. Imperial, and other boxers after his bout with the Terre Pancho Villa's only come once we do not recall just now are Haute terror, . in a life-time it seems. among the rank and file but their chances of being someth­ ing someday are pretty slim. Jimmy Hill former welter­ weight champion of the Phil­ ippines won several bouts in Honolulu but was side tracked later on when he started to lose his fights. Don Cordero, another hard hitting welter­ weight won the championship of Porto Rico, but apparently the standard of boxing in Porto Rico is not at all en­ couraging as Cordero met defeat in the hands of second raters in Honolulu. Luis Logan was quite a success . in Spain He star­ Lope Tenorio ted toppling over· the "ham-