ardiey, E. Fabian, R. Burn. B. H. McMichael, Misses H. and S. Brabner; 2, J. Lumsdaine, 'A.' J.
Gray. Misses: J. Peach, V.
The majority of sports scribes seemed inclined to pick Hostak because of his terrific punching ability and because Steele was badly beaten early this year in a non-title fight by Freddie Apostoli.
Some of the boys who have felt the kayo dynamite in Hostak's fists are: Young Terry, Mike Bazzone, Leonard Bennett, Ton:
Johnny Sykes, Hostak's trainer, and incidentally, his manager, too, is Eddie Marine. Marine was one of the prize featherweights of the era known as "farther back than way back when." In his day, Marine was good enough to hold down the Cenadian featherweight title and to have given Abe Attel a run for his title over the 20-round route.
Hostak was just a youngster—in the 7th grade in grammar school and weighing about 120 pounds—when Marine first saw him. That was when the youngster came into Marine's newly opened gym in Seattle and began to play around with the heavy punching bag.
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