Jarrell, Pee Wee vs. Bowman, Morey I Simmons, Marty vs. Sherman, Billy Palazzola, Joe vs. Cebrat, Frankie Goldman, Sammy vs. Gale, Pee Wee
Though never permitted a true challenge for a title, Grand Rapids, Michigan lightweight Wesley Ramey successfully handled 6 former or future world champions, including Canzoneri, Bass, Rodak and Jenkins, some more than once. Of his over 250 competitions in the pro ring, he lost merely 22, and in this event in his home town, he went 10 solid rounds with the well-seasoned New Yorker Sammy Dorfman before scoring the win. Besides this fine headliner, the card offered that night in southwest Michigan a full range of lengths and action, as well as 2 Pee Wees pounding out performances for the excited crowd. In the longest of these slated, "The Fistic Clown Prince" Pee Wee Jarrell, out of Mishawaka in Indiana, decked the previously unbeaten local welterweight Morey Bowman in the 1st frame of the 8 allowed, while in the heavier of the middling matches, middleweight Marty Simmons put Billy Sherman on the canvas for the full count in their duel. The Detroit-based featherweight Joe Palazzola overcame the skill of young Frankie Cebrat, from South Bend, Indiana, to take the decision after 6, and in the light, short bout of the evening the near rookie bantamweight Sammy Goldman held his own to battle the more experienced Canadian Pee Wee Gale, down from Ontario, to a standstill and a draw after 4 rounds. Goldman, a local talent, would become a stablemate of Freddie Miller during 1933. |