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AT THE RINGSIDE By Barney Nagler NEW YORK N Y May 2 The day Rocky Marciano threw his hat out of the ring the doorbell at the International Box ¬ ing Club began ringing Western Union sprint ¬ ers broke one record after another racing to Jim Norris sill with wires entering assorted citizens in the heavy ¬ weight champions hip sweepstakes Norris wasnt around tore ceive t h em He was busy down at F o 1 e y Square trying to disa ¬ buse the government of the notion that he operates a monopoly in boxing boxingAs As a result the wires to Norris went un ¬ read until an inquiring visitor nose to the news grindstone fetched them out of the nearest wastebasket in pursuit of journal ¬ istic research researchHe He came up with some bewildering non ¬ sense Everybody it seems has a heavy ¬ weight who cant miss becoming Marci anos successor successorThis This does not take into consideration the Floyd Pattersons the Hurricane Jacksons the Bob Bakers the Johnny Holmans the Eddie Machens and the Johnny Summer lins They were enfranchised as contenders by Norris himself when he delineated plans for a tournament to anoint the man to pick up where Rocky left off The grapevine hadnt yet informed Big Jim that there were other outstanding heavyweights around He couldnt know of one Vail Gingles Minton whose represen ¬ tatives didnt bother to write they wired instead insteadAforesaid Aforesaid managers of Minton informed Norris Would appreciate consideration of ofVail Vail Gingles Minton in elimination tourna ¬ ment tn rippidP T1F W VIPO wiimicrVif Viwtiirr champion Gingles has had 32 bouts in the Southwest and Cuba winning 23 by knock ¬ out 7 by decision and losing split decision to Lucillar Cookie Goskin Gingles fights out of Westfield N J His fighting weight is 209 Will require two weeks to train for bout and is willing to take on all comers Will appreciate your answer by return wire Norris hasnt answered Nobody in his employ would assume the responsibility of paying the bill The managers R C Kid Eckert and Blinky no relation to Palermo Housechile didnt say answer collect Whats more they wouldnt even invest a day letter in their goon They sent their challenge by a night letter letterWe We dont answer no night letters ex ¬ plained Mushky Jackson chief assistant to Mushky McGee Allus them guys has to know is that we all went to day school We dont read night letters lettersA A A A AW W Lawler and R Henneberry a couple of heavyweight hustlers out of Oakland Calif also wired They were as laconic as a punch on the jaw As managers of Tiger TigerContinued Continued on Page FortySeven AT THE RINGSIDE RINGSIDEBy By BARNEY NAGLER Continued from Page Two TwoEd Ed Doglio of Berkley we enter claim for heavyweight title Doglio is undefeated undefeatedThe The Californians failed to include their heros record prompting research in Nat Fleischers encyclopedia Neither Gingles nor Doglio were in the lists causing an EBC cynic to doubt their existence existenceRemember Remember them guys down in Wall Street who invented a college called Plain field Teachers over in Jersey and sent out stories about a Chinese football player on the team who scored all kinds of touch ¬ downs the resident IBC cynic asked These guys sound like the Chinese back field star starCould Could be of course At that a Chinese heavyweight would be a revelation even if he were all washed up
