Sport: Champion v. Champion

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In New York and Pennsylvania, Midget Wolgast is flyweight champion of the world because he won an elimination tournament sanctioned by the boxing boards in those States. Everywhere else Frankie Genaro, elderly and cautious Italian, is champion. Last week in Madison Square Garden the two champions sparred 15 rounds to decide it once for all. Wolgast flopped his long hair up and down, bounced off the ropes, flickered his harmless sewing-machine-needle left with no results. He won four rounds and began to tire. Genaro hit him twice in the left eye with a punch supposed to be fatal to the man who tries it—a right lead. Midget's eye closed. Comatose spectators booed, clapped for action. Once Genaro, swinging a right, missed and fell down. It was the only down of the fight. When it was over one judge voted for Wolgast, one for Genaro; the referee called it a draw. Lustily reviled, the two champions left the ring, still champions.