World (NBA) Junior Welterweight Championship Freeman, Tommy vs. Grace, Meyer Wilson, Norman vs. Lage, Glenn Medill, Joey vs. Grogan, Tommy I Salas, Joe vs. Chavez, Young Benny Kennard, Frankie vs. Marone, Shorty (final)
In a title bout at junior, or light, welterweight sanctioned by the National Boxing Association, the future actor and movie technical assistant and the current crown holder, Mushy Callahan successfully defended against Spug Meyers in the 3rd bout of their personal series. In the other long bout on the card that night in the Chicago Cubs Park on Addison, the future world welterweight king, Tommy Freeman, boxing out of Arkansas, cleaned up the ring for 10 rounds with Meyer Grace, the future actor who often appeared in the ring as the "Young Jack Dempsey," before retiring to small roles in studio work in Hollywood. A quartet of middling matches filled the rest of the card at Wrigley that chilly late spring evening, as the Canadian southpaw from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Norman Wilson defeated Des Moines, Iowa, welterweight Glenn Lage by decision, and the unbeaten Russian-born welterweight from Chicago Joey Medill won over Omaha's own Tommy Grogan after taking it the distance. In the other 2 bouts, the 1924 Paris Games Olympic silver medalist and Los Angeles lightweight Joe Salas overcame the southwestern states native Young Benny Chavez in the 6 slated, and the Chicago welterweight Frankie Kennard triumphed over Champaign, Illinois, native novice Shorty Marone, who found in the loss cause to seek other work. |