The Archive · 1935

Title Regained by Barney Ross

New York, May 28.

Battering his opponent with a ter~ rifle two-fisted attack during greater part of the contest, Barney Ross, the former lightweight and welterweight "champion, defeated "Babyface" Jimmy McLarnin points in a 1S-round barile on the Polo Grounds this evening to regain the welterweight championship of the world.

After the fight it was learned that the new champion had fractured the bones in his left hand early in the bout and as a result he may be forced to lay off for two or three months in order to give it a chance to heal.

June 1.

In a IS-round contest here to-day for the world's middleweight championship as recognized by: the Inter-Rational Boxing Union, Marcel Thu, the French holder, beat Ignacio Ara, of Spain, on points—Reuter.

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