Sport: Chocolate Dropped

Although no title was at stake, Eiigio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate'') took his fight with Tony Canzoneri last week so seriously that he actually trained properly instead of indulging in what his manager calls "bad things." He was anxious to graduate from the featherweight class, of which he is champion, because he has trouble keeping his weight down, because there is not enough money in it. To get a match with the lightweight champion, Chicago's shifty Barney Ross he had first to whip savage little Canzoneri, the onetime champion whom Ross deposed...

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