Aug.,9—"Two-Crown" Henry Armstrong defends his lightweight title against former champion Lou Ambers at Yankee Stadium.
Mike Jacobs and his henchmen are working on these fights too (D In the light heavyweight division, Melia Bettina, who, is recognized as 175-pound champion in New York State, is trying to entice Billy Conn into the ring at the Garden on July 6. Conn apparently is not interested in meeting Bettina so early, prefering lighter opponents. Accordingly Bettina may be forced to defend his light heavy crown against Gus Lesnovich of Union City, N.., on July 6.
(2) In the middleweight division, he is praying that he may open th: Garden in October with a fight to settle the middleweight title dispute. He is trying to match Fred Apostoli of San Francisco, who is recognized as champion in New York State, against Krieger, the N.B.A. king. Apostoli will fight anybody. It's all up to Krieger and his manager, Hymie Kaplin.
(3) In the welterweight class. champion Henry Armstrong may put the 147-pound crown on the line against the winner of a scrap at Madison Square Garden between Ceferino Garcia of the Philippines and Popeye Woods of New York.
(4) In the lightweight division, Armstrong is contracted for a return bout with challenger Lou Ambers at Yankee Stadium on Aug, 9. Meanwhile Sammy Angott of Louisville. the world's third ranking lightweight. engages Milt Aron at Chicago and Angott is contracted to meet Tippy.|Larkin of New Jersey at the New York Garden on June 22. If Angott survives both engagements, as he should, Jacobs expects to match him with Erie Boon, British lightweight champion. And the Angott-Boon winner will battle the lightweight champ for the title before the end of October—indoors or out.
Meanwhile Jacobs is trying to negotiate a featherweight title bout between Joey Archibald of Providence, R.L, and Petey Scalzo of New York, who knocked out Archibald before he became puted ruler of the 126-pound div Likewise he is trying to find a worthwhile opponent for Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rice, the bantam
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