Fights

Middleweight. When Thaddeus Jarosz (Teddy Yarosz) of Monaca, Pa. was eight years old, his father caught him practicing with a pair of boxing gloves. Enraged, Father Jarosz seized an axe, hacked the gloves to pieces. Before the biggest crowd (28,000) that ever attended a prizefight in Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Teddy Yarosz last week used another pair of gloves to hack the face of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee. After eleven rounds, Dundee really began to fight. He won the last four rounds, did his best work in the 15th. but when the bell rang two of the three judges thought Yarosz's margin earlier in the bout entitled him to the championship.

Teddy Yarosz took up boxing seriously after his father died. He has supported his family with his fists for the past four years. Last week's was his first 13-round fight. He had twice before won decisions over Vince Dundee in 10-round bouts.

Handsome, dark-haired. Polish. Champion Yarosz plans a long rest, followed by a bout against Marcel Thil of France, recognized by the International Boxing Federation as world's middleweight champion. Said Dundee: "A hometown decision. . . . I was robbed."

Welterweight. Bernard Rossofsky (Barney Ross) won the welterweight title from Jimmy McLarnin last June. They signed for a return match. Scheduled for last fortnight, the fight was postponed by rain. Next day, Ross rested. McLarnin continued training. It rained again, caused another postponement. When rain caused a third postponement. Ross demanded a week's delay to celebrate Rosh haShanah. Last week both fighters resumed training, weighed in for the fourth time. Rain caused a fourth postponement. Two days later, on a cold cloudy evening, they climbed through the ropes of Madison Square Garden's Long Island City ring and finally began to fight. Anxious to see whether McLarnin could preserve his record of never having lost a return bout to a fighter who had previously defeated him, a crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited for the chance, which Ross was too clever to give him, to use his devastating right hand. After fifteen brisk but ineffective rounds, Ross walked to his corner, Mc Larnin turned the handspring with which, if he is able to move at the end of a fight, he invariably expresses his conviction that he has won. The judges cast conflicting votes. Referee Donovan agreed with McLarnin, gave him the decision and the title.

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