Fernandez makes $100.000; returns practically pennilers

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Title: Fernandez makes $100.000; returns practically pennilers
Language: English
Source: The Sports Review Volume I (Issue No. 2) April 18, 1931
Year: 1931
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Fulltext: A.bril 18, 1931 The SPORTS REVIEW Pa~·1 FERNANDEZ MAKES $100,000; RETURNS PRACTICALLY PENNILESS By R. V. de Mendoza To have made about $100, 00.00, and let the major portion of this fortune go into the coffers of somebody else, and then have nothing to show for hia pains but a bungalow, worth $6,000.00, situated at Los Angeles, California, and a "Windsor" straight 8 automobile bought for $1,500.00 and about $2,000.00 in cash tugged away for a rainy day, is the sad experience of Ignacio Ortiz better known along cauliflower row as Young Fernandez, considered, by boxing authorities as one of the foremost featherweights inthe world, and at one time a legitimate contender for the world's featherweight title. Young Fernandez returned to the Philippines on board the s\s "President Mckinley on Thursday, April 9th, after an absence of three years and ten months. He left for the U. S. in .June 1927, accompanied by Jesus Sto. Tomas Cortez and Speedy Dado. During his sojourn in the U. S., Fernandez met the best of them, including boys who were later on crowned world's champions including a fight with Battling Battalino, lbc featherweight champion of the world. Fernandez' record is most impressive in fact, no other Filipino, not excluding the late Pancho Villa could boast of such a record as Fernandez can show. Fernandez reached the Windy City in time to grab off his first engagement in American soils, with Abe Goldstein, former bantamweight champion. It was a 10roundsemi-fi nal to the Tony CanFernandz Sparring with Dado zoneri-Bud Taylor scrap at nod, but he knew he l,lad Wrigley Field. Fernandez been in a real fight. A;fter got off to a flying start by defeating Gaston Charles knocking out Goldstein in and getting a draw with' Doseven heats. Incidentally, minick Petrone, Ignacio fell the defeat sent the erts- victim of the flu. His next while ·118-pound ruler into fight was with Andre Routis retirement. Ignacio then de- who later won the feather feated Joe Lucas, Johnny weight crown from CanzoFarr and Harry Forbes. Fer- neri. Routis bested Fernannandez' first set-back was dez. Baby Sal was Fernanhis defeat by Archie Bell, dez' next victim via the K. 0. and this was due to the fact route. Sal is the boy who that Fernandez weakened later on gave Tod Morgan a himself trying to make the tough. argument. His other 118 lb. class, which, he fights were with Al Singer had outgrown. Ignacio's (twice), whom he kayoed in fight with Tony Canzoneri the first round only to drop was unanimously pronounced the decision in the return a great one. Tony won the encounter, a return bout with SPORTS IS IMPORTANT TO YOUR HEALTH SO IS PURE FRESH MILK WILL KEEP YOU STURDY AND STRONG ORDER y OUR MILK FROM .ROYAL PASTEURIZED MILK Tel. 6-70-71-16 Valenzuela, Sta. Mesa-Manila, P. I. page 2 The SPORTS REVIEW April 18, 1931 'ony Cansoneri, to whom he lost again, Kid Chocolate, who bested him, and Battling . Battalino, the featherweight. ruler, who knocked him out in the fifth round. Incidenttally, Battalino was the only boy credited with a K. 0. over the tough Filipino boy, and the K. 0. was seriously questioned by those who saw the fight. figures. Sparring partners. day I got it from the factory cost about $10.00 each for I had a smash-up and the car tw~ or three rounds, and went to pieces. I bought anotramers earn at .the rate of ther one, and I was then more $300.00 per week. What- careful, and after a few moever was left of the purse af- nths, I sold this second car ter paying off such expenses, and bought a Windsor was divided between. him- Straight 8, which is the car self and his managers. "And I now have in the States." then" Fernandez smilingly ad- "Then you are · not flat ded, "good times cost a broke?" we querried. whole lot of money over "Of course not! I own a th , .. Although Fernandez could ere. nice bungalow in Los Angeles, not give the writer the exact "Then how do you ex- worth $6,000.00, an automofigures of his purses in his plain your statement to some bile, worth $1,500.00 and I fights in the States, he re- local newspaper reporters to have some money in the bank members the following, how- the effect that your share of in Los Angeles. And then I ever: all your purses only amolint- have enough clothes to wear. Al Singer (second fight). . . . . . ed to about $10,000.00" When asked as to his re. $ 9,000.00 we asked him. ported rupture with his maBattling Battalino.......... "I was either misunders- nagers in the United Stales, $8,000.00 tood or I did not explain my- Fernandez stated that this Tony Canzoneri (return bout. self correctly" replied Fer- is not correct. He claims he e7 o nandez. "What I meant to left the United States with the <II'' 00.00 Kid Chocolate .. $7,500.00 say was that $10,000.00 more knowledge and consent of his Al Singer (first fight). . . . . . . . or less, is all that I was. able manager, Jesus Sto. Tomas $3.500.00 to use to good advantages- Cortes, and that his only Asked to explained the diffe- . The rest of my money went kick against Frank A. Churrence between his actual earn- lgnacw Fernandez out the easy way. You see chill is the fact that Churings and what he was supposed end, Fernandez stated that to begin with, I bought my- chill does not give any conto have received for his own ·training expenses ran to high self a new car, and the same- (Continued on page 5) OFFICIAL REPORTS FoR 1930 Show That Although Business As A General Rule Has Taken A Slump, Constructions, However, Have Taken A Decided Increase. Reports, Estimates, Valuations, Investigations, Plans, Surveys, Supervision -·-Advisory Service. 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April 18, 1931 The _SPORTS REVIEW Pb.ge 5 formed for Fort Mills three eyes deceived him and this concerned and . never takes or four seasons_ He has been speedy little ball player struck the trouble of looking him ground in the ways of the out· three times in a-. row- u,p .afte_r a bout Fernandez pro league. the same young feller who s~ated, · however, that upon But to the youngsters who was one of the surest batters his return t-0 ~the States, he have just been recruited in- in collegiate baseball circles. will have to submit himself to the league, Cepeda Acuna No sir, playing in the local to his old contract with his Santos and Echem the going big leagues is not. easy. Yet managers, as the agreement has not been entirely rosy. Ce- these college boys like it and ties him for ano!.!Jer year. peda, for instance has Jrnd off they 're going to stick until Asked to narrate his dedays at Lhe third base posi- they get kicked out. And feat a~ the hands of Battling tion of the Wilson team and it will not be an exageration Battahno and Kid Chocolathe unmerciful razzing from to predict that in 'the future te, Fernandez was all of a the bleachers which are far two or three times more col- sudden in an uproar and the more cutting than college raz- lege men will be seen wearing best way to describe it are zing has rankle.cl bis natur~. professional uniforms even his own words: "When a Cepeda went rnto lhe Big within the next three or four man is threatened with a Leagues with an. enviable re- years. . Because even if the .45 'p0p-gun', with gansters putation as a hiller and as professional league offers no behind it, and a proposed a dependable third baseman. great financial inducements 'nice ride', unless he agrees When he left the 0. P. team the love of the game is strong to lie down, there is no alteri l went on Lhe rocks and he and the call of the diamond native but to take the safest stood out among the shining is too enticing to go unheeded way out of the mudhole. performers at the last Olym- by many of the present And this is what happened pie Gam~s Yet, he conf1d~s day youngsters in whose hands in my Battalino fight for the playing rn the P. B. L. is lay the future of local base- featherweight title of the "different". Some of that ball. world. In my bout with Chohigh spirit of elation which --+--- colate, I was suffering from co'ines over a youngster which FERNANDEZ MAKES tonsilitis and one of my blood has been catapulted into fame vessels started to trouble me and near-fame by early sue- Ramon Eehem (Continued from page 2) during the fight. I was lacess and accomplishement has himself creditably. ter taken to the hospital bebeen taken out of him and Echem, the colorful and cern to the personal welfare cause of blood poisoning." he is now a more conscientious flashy athletic hero of Ateneo, of his boys. As an exam- When pressed for his opinion ball player than he ever was has not fared as well in the pie, Fernandez cites the f ~ct as to the better boy between before pro ranks as either Cepeda that Churchill never worries Chocolate and Battalino, FerAcui'ia, who earned a re- or Acuna. In his first game on the outcome of a fight nandez unhesitatingly pronoputation in college as ·one i·n the league his sharp batting where one of his boys is unced himself in favor of the who never got ruffled, who Cuban wonder, and further sta always kept his head and his ----- ----[ ted that if they meet on the temper, has likewise found Y Q LJ R GA M E DESERVES level, Battalino would not hap laying in the professional ve a show against the "keed". league "different". Fernandez' last fight in the "I tell you, although I ~ BEST ·u. S. was against Battling can't understand why, play- ~1.e Siki whom he knocked out ing in the P. B. L. isn't like in the 5th round. playing in the amateur lea- --+-- Fernandez, returns a full gues. It looks as easy from fledged lightweight, and stathe gra11;dsland or bleachers In the re al m of tes he cannot make the fea .. but bele1ve me I have found therweight limit any more. outwhalthatterm"fast com- Sports WILSON In a short workout at the pany" means" · Olympic Stadium's Gym, Acuna, was being groomed Athletic Equipment Fernandez showed wonderby his mother and father to has won the cove- ful speed, and a terrific kick be an up and coming abo- in each mitt. He looks· a gado but thi~ good-natured ted reputation of very much improved boy and youngster stayed in college sho·wed some real class in his only .two and a half-years being the best. workout. just long enough lo develop Enrique Sto. Tomas Corinto a first class first base- tes, a local engineer, and a man. From the U. P. he Whatever game brother of Fernandez' mawen t to the bureau of cus- nager in the States, is hand~ toms where he had ·the you play insist on ling the boxer's affairs in the opportunity to improve his WI Ls o N and Philippines. playing, which he did. Once As to Fernandez' first opBobby Robinson's scouts you are assured of ponent in Philippine soil got a sight of the left handed nothing is yet known. Efforts first sacker and signed him getting the best. are being made by Bebeng up. Acuna is being kept in Gutierrez, manager and mateh reserve for the time:__which ---+-~- maker of the Olympic Staold ball fans think will come dium, to import some good soon-when "Old Man" Re- boy from either the U. S. gis will crack under the strain ATHLETIC SUPPLY (Q. or Australia. Offers have been of over twenty years of ball I ·cl Ch playing. Acuna has been gi1 . made to Ki focolate and ven several chances in the 130 T. 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