Show:84841

1942-02-03 Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, US

• Chalky Wright W TKO Richie Lemos
• Frankie Valdez L PTS Alonzo Williams
• Billy Shaw W TKO Malcolm Smith
• Freddy Contreras W PTS Roy Phillips
• Mag Hernandez W PTS Chris Vergis

• Attendance: 8,500 (capacity)
• This was a benefit for the Navy Relief Fund. Gross: $9,199; net for the Navy: $3,893

A six round bout between Gunnar Malone, 162.5 and Sailor Brown, 167, ended with both boxers out cold on the deck. After announcer Dan Toby raised the hand of Helen Thurston, it was evident that bout was part of a comedy routine.

Celebrities appearing were boxers Lee Ramage, Fidel LaBarba, Willie Ritchie, Ace Hudkins, Mushy Callahan and Henry Armstrong; as well as Abbott and Costello, Cary Grant, Groucho Marx, Boris Karloff, Milton Berle, and others.

Reported in the February 4, 1942 Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles daily News, and Vol. 76 No. 4 Referee and the Redhead (February 14, 1942), as reprinted in IBRO Newsletter #15, p. 28.