World Bantamweight (NBA) Championship Postponed/Rescheduled Event White, Oliver vs. Terranova, Frankie II Marsh, Doug vs. Hynes, Sean II Calla, Benny vs. Allen, Skippy Cohen, Davey vs. Liotta, Leo Braddock, James J. & Dempsey, Jack (cornermen)
In a rematch of their draw in March in Toronto, Lou Salica and Georgie Pace contested the World's Bantamweight Championship in New York Coliseum in the Bronx. Sixto Escobar had relinquished rights as a champion at the beginning of the year and Pace, already holding the NYSAC and California versions of the crown, received the title by fiat. In a bout fought finally on Sep. 24 in the New York Coliseum in the Bronx, Pace was defeated for the title by Salica in "the last bout of the Golden Age of Bantamweight Boxing" according to The Ring magazine, with the heavyweight ring stars Jack Dempsey & James J. Braddock on hand to lend encouragement from opposing corners. The undercard at the New York Coliseum in September offered a set of 6-rounders and a single 4-frame match, all of strong local talent. Brooklyn's lightweight Oliver White took on Manhattan's Frankie Terranova again, and used 3 fewer rounds to earn the win over Frankie Terranova by TKO than he had across the East River at the Fort Hamilton Arena fight in early August when a full 6 were necessary. The other two middling matches went the 6-round distance, with Montreal's Doug March again besting Sean Hynes, an Irish-born welter out of Brooklyn, and in a battle of 2 more boxers from that fabled borough, a mere novice featherweight Benny Calla, with just 1 draw to his slim account, surprising many by scoring the victory over the veteran of over 160 appearances, Skippy Allen. The short bout between novices on the card in September had Bronx welterweight Davey Cohen pitted with Leo Liotta, out of Brooklyn, for 4 frames with Cohen coming away with the win. In additon to the boxing show in the variety program that benefited Bethune-Cookman College in Dayton Beach, Florida, sponsored by that campus's Lamba Kappa Mu (ΛΚΜ) Sorority, there was an All Star Musical that featured "Stars of Radio, Stage, Screen and Opera." This event came at at time when Bethune-Cookman, a traditionally African-American institution since its founding as an "Industrial Training School for Negro Girls" in 1904 and still only a co-ed junior college, was seeking the endowment to qualify as a baccalaureate institution with the approval of the Florida Board of Education, a difficult process at the time, but well-supported by the business, intellectual and entertainment communities of Harlem and elsewhere. |