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ikssKlill i On Second Thought Perhaps Durante Has the Answer By BARNEY NAGLER NEW YORK, N. Y., May 11.— Beautiful San Francisco, on the bay, all bright in lights and hilly of topography, and charm 1 1 : ingly gay of life, will be a blood-letting ab-batoir come Monday night, this isnt a forecast based on sadistic foresight. It is a prognosis stemming from the horrendous dispatches reaching here, 2,571 miles from the scene, as the plane flies. Flying by plane, incidentally, is still the best way to fly. , . , For days now, concern for the condition of Rocky Marcianos nose, so sorely torn by Ezzard Charles last September, has been indicated in every dispatch from San Francisco. It is the veriest gimmick, a publicity platform and nothing more, intended only to equalize the unequal status of Don Cockell in apposition to Marciano. As recently as last afternoon, the California Athletic Commission addressed itself to the status of Marcianos beak. It. prohibited the use of Monsel solution as a coagulant in the event the champions trunk once again is riven. Monsel solution is an iron compound that carries within its components the threat of infection. Its prohibition as a seconds medication is widespread; its introduction as a factor in the affray involving Marciano and Cockell is so much publicity. In this day of A- and H-bombs, Salk vaccine, wonder drugs, it is to wonder that the explusion of Monsel solution from the first-aid kits of Marcianos seconds is regarded as a handicap. There are any number of other medicinal agents that serve the same blood -stemming purpose as well as the outlawed preparation. Why, even B — Y O — R has been conquered, you can bet Al Weills last buck, and this represents a real challenge in endurance, that the men working in Mar- • cianos corner, little Charlie Goldman and Freddie Brown, the cut men, will come prepared with a preparation equally as plastic as Monsels. Goldman and Brown are a couple of cool citizens in the corner. They didnt completely stanch the flow from Rocky s busted beak last September, but they managed to contain the gore long enough for the champion to take care of Charles. He is, in a real sense, his best corner man. Advices from San Fran indicate that Goldman and Brown will be frisked for Monsels before they get into the ring. Heres a wish that Weill also feels the cool paw of the boxing law. A search of his jeans doubtless will disclose a large -type wallet laden with long green and a nest of aged moths. Even before the California boxing rulers imposed the interdiction on the Monsel solution, Weill was helping out with his own news for nose. He announced that a plastic surgeon from Los Angeles, regarded as a mere suburb by San Franciscans, would come up to Cali-stoga, where the Rock is nearing the end of training, to take a look at the nose. "He knows more about Rocky s nose than anybody," Weill said. Heres to contradict Weill. Its six-two-and even that any haberdashery napkin in Marcianos drawer knows as much. Its a cinch Marciano isnt going to blow the title by a nose. The thought here is that Cocktfl just wont be around long enough to damage the Rocks trunk. Hell be sent packing rather early, say about the fourth round. Hold that. Make it the third.
