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Square Garden's outdoor bowl Welterweight Jimmy McLarnin entered the ring first, laced up his gloves. Small Barney Ross, who won the lightweight championship from Tony Canzoneri last year, ducked into his corner a moment later and the two men shook hands...
...good fight but not quite as exciting as the crowd had hoped. McLarnin, with neither prestige nor a title to gain by winning, had not fought for more than a year. Planning to retire after a few more bouts, he boxed skillfully but without enthusiasm. Ross, protecting his chin with his right shoulder, pecked...
McLarnin's face with his right hand. In the fifth round the crowed booed McLarnin for hitting low. In the ninth McLarnin caught Ross off balance with a right to the chin and knocked him down. Just before the bell, Ross floored McLarnin with a left to the jaw. After the 15th, at the end of a close, clever, almost even fight, McLarnin trotted to his corner, prepared to execute the handspring with which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion...
...Ross did not beat the 3?-per-pound tax on vegetable and animal oils. Procter & Gamble, largest user of whale oil in the U. S., must pay a duty of $1,350,000, a figure approximately equal to the total value of the oil. *Named for Sir James Clark Ross who discovered it 80 years before...
...like Charlie Ruggles and you can believe the Playgoer that there isn't a better comedian going if you don't have to see him too often) "Melody in Spring" will satisfy your fondest hopes. The little man is good, Lanny Ross sings superbly and Ann Sothern does a good job of listening. And if you don't think Charlie is funny, dressed as a pirate, you're impossible...