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Five Fights Weekly Scheduled for TV TVForeign Foreign Brigade Helps Feed Cameras Lausse vs Varona In Feature This Friday Night NightBy By OSCAR FRALEY FRALEYUnited United Press Sports Writer WriterNEW NEW Y ° RK N Y May 3 Starting two weeks from today youll be able to see five fights a week on your television set which may help explain why so many virtual strangers from foreign shores are boffing each other on video all of a sudden suddenLast Last Friday as an example it was Paoli Rosi of Italy against Orlando Zulueta of Cuba This Friday night it will be Chico Varona of Cuba against Eduardo Lausse pronounced lawsay not lousey of Argentina ArgentinaDont Dont get the impression that the United States has run out of prize fighters fightersIt It is simply that while we have a good crop of maineventers they are able to fight only so often Meanwhile the cam ¬ eras must be fed This talent demand and the payoff in depreciated but still accept ¬ able Yarlkee dollars accounts for the in ¬ vasion vasionIn In the old days B C before cameras the imports had to be of fair repute when they landed Such was the case among foreign fisticuffers of the ilk of Luis Angel Tirpo Georges Carpentier Max Schmeling arid Arturp Godoy just to name a few who stick out in memory memoryMore More on Their Way WayBut But all of a sudden we are up to our girdles in a flock of foreigners These in ¬ clude Rosi Zulueta middleweight Pierre Langlois and Jacque Royer both of France Bubi Scholz of Germany heavyweights Cesar Brion of Argentina Nine Valdes of Cuba Hein TenHof f of Germany and Earl Walls of Canada and lightweight Hector Khalfi of France FranceMore More are on their way too headed by German heavyweight Heinz Neuhaus NeuhausPrimarily Primarily they are given the big welcome as video fodder although it is certain that from their crowded midst will come a few challengers in the various divisions divisionsIts Its a cinch though that your reaction from time to time is going to be Whos he heSuch Such a case in point is Friday nights presentation which brings together the un ¬ known Lausse and Varona who is equally unpublicized in these parts partsThey They both are what is commonly re ¬ ferred to as the clubfighter type which should make for good watching albeit rather listless rooting barring the inspira ¬ tion of a few bob one way or the other Lausse is a blockbuster who has 38 knock ¬ outs in 54 bouts He has won 15 in a row they tell me including 14 of those by knockouts His best reference however is a 1952 bout with Kid Gavilan in Argentina where he suffered no worse than a re ¬ versal by decision decisionVarona Varona won the Cuban welterweight championship last year and has posted 33 knockouts in 66 fights He has won 14 of his last 15 they say 11 by knockouts knockoutsIt It shapes up as a fine mystery match and as I understand it from the interpre ¬ ters Lausse should cop the duke And even while they may be strangers it should be a fine performance performanceBetween Between them they have scored 71 knockouts in 110 bouts which is better hitting than the Yankees and Dodgers put together Anyhow you wont have to listen to some bum say Ill be right home ma just before he starts out to paint the town
