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Four KOs Scored;
Best Boxing Card
WbiU stonny weather registered outside, thundering fist/
lightning action and flowing blood registered Inside losti
Wednesday night during the most exciting, outstanding wwd
sparkling boxing show ever held at the Johnson Field Sports
Arena.
Judges 'and referees hod close decisions to .moke wheni
, several of the bouts wete closgly contested. Since no extra!
round or draw is in the present ruling, some of the decisions
proved unpopular to the over-loaded Arena. However, the
clean, fast moving oction drew cheers ond ovations thot
tasted for minutes at a time. —:—— —
Owl,* wimLA I Robertsoc snd Chrlstlsn
Quick Fisia Krlstoff slusted effectlrely during
The opentiv bsUle brought to- tbs first snd only round of their
.. ‘ brswl. iljough Krtetoff Isndod well,
Robertscm took the pis; ses; from
him with hsrd bod; blows sKernst -
lag eith Mows to the head. Cloee
to the end of the heat, Btan landed
a eer; bear; rl^t to the head
which turned Krlstoff compl^ly
around, dropping him on his teoe.
The count had reached six when
the bell rang. Above the boo's of
^ crowd. Referee Outrone stopped
the fl^t. because Krlstoff had stu-
talned an injured hand. Robertson
won b; a TKO.
Bldgewa; Stepped
Uttle Herb Ridgeway, with the
blood etreamlog troai his noee. saw
veteran Curtis 8hope sewe a three
round decision over him and frae
gether CarkM ^wes from the TSlnt
and Joe Quin, of the BOlst. Bsfme
the crowd was wrtl settled in tts
sests. this scrap wss over. The boys
spsrred for snout s half a min
ute before they ^>mied up. Flores
landed well-with li^te and lefts.
Quin was suddenly clipped with a
vicious rl^t to the Jaw. He went
‘o bis knees for the full count in
1..1 of the first round, and Flores
was awarded a knockout victory.
C-'Briea Wtea Ned
John O’Brien, wldi his crowd of
well wishers, met and defeated
Jimmy Lovell, of the Mist, who'also
had a mob of his buddies behind
him. Lovell, weaving and bobbing
completely befuddled O’Brien in
me early part of the first round,
and it wasn’t till K was nearly over
hat Jim got moving. Defending
very well, and lashlM out with
hard shots to the Jaw, O’Brien took
he play away from Lovell and won
’Oust;” Rhoadee, cocky
member of the officer^ AU-Btar
team; waUced all oyer the field iio
locate Ole terge mho lost a bet
to him on the Sixth — All
giune. When he llna^ caught yours
truly, X knew (he was looking fm-
me) X buntbly agreed to flip him
double or nothing X paid double
Lt. Rhoades was last seen digging
s hole near "Heoderson Field”
wbMe be bides stt his 111 woo mon
ey.
For the Interest of those who
visit the ^)orti vwu, the new
gym which is being built will have
^e bis infant wtanlng strlM.'Kowers moTo'S^
^ope, Mxlng coolly scored wellim a're lacking In the old ^jorts Arena
during the fight and tbou^ there
were no knockdowns and Uttle dam
age. it was a thriller.
Jackson Still Undefeated
Jimmy Jacksm evldentl]
he decision to the delight of bis doesn’t
rrtiirtwiwm . pow that Its a criminal offense
to hit an kfP, because the popular
Colored lad from the SOth Aviation
Group, kept Q\utrd Harry Weln -
steins head ringing with powerful
books all through their fl^t. But
thou^ Jimmy landed almoet at
will, he couldn’t floor Harry, prov>
followers.
Berry Gets Bird
Tommy kConaceUl and Ivan
Berry, the latter sporting the col
ors of the New York Golden Gloves
on his trunks, put on a real fistic
orawl which had the crowd in an
uproar. stArted slugging at'log that MFs are tough'
the opening gong and never | ’The final and feature bout of
stopped till after me final belt-the evening brought together Joe
MooacelU sUmwd Into the ropes prucCt and 8 ^t. Jlmmfe wmiains
This was one of those affelrs when
you know somemte Is going to hit
the canvas but you don’t know who.
Both threw mighty blows from start
to finish, .but the Sergeant was
the first to fall, going down fdr
no count from a ooniblnation of
blows. The aetloo nevdr stopped,
however, as be came up to cut
Frucol’srl^t eye ao bad^ that the
referee was forced to stop the senv
St the end of the flnt round.
BA8BBALL STANDING
Through July *
W. L.
12th Mesa • i
’mth ft a
Mist 4 2
793rd 3 S
797tb t 4
SOand ' 3 4
Medks X ' 8
Mth 0 6
at the* finish and Berry pounded
him aoUdty before the Referee
could part them. Berry lost‘this
round on a foul, but technically,
he bad loss It anyway. MonaeelU
lead with some solid blows In the
second, but Ivan seemed to be
waltlag to put over one—hay
maker. He managed to land a few
very effective blows, but Mtmi-
celll stuck right In there and was
still throwing at the bell. Both
tried hard for a 'cayo victory In
the third, but whl'e that partic
ular storm blew over, they still
landed some very hard shots
They were still slugging after the
final bell. Ihe crowd was yelling
‘‘UORBf” But the Judges award
ed this pier sixer to Idonacelli.
Raped Ihreu^ Rspes
John Farelll outroughed. out
pushed and outscored Pete Mack-
nick la the next bout and won a
popular victory oyer bis msn. , . ^ .
Krem Just wouldn’t toke a back- CMfey, Fordham Univer-
step and even when he was burt.if^’y* §T«luate nuuugtr of atb-
be kept boring in with his bead'l*^^- caUsthentoa boas of the
down. After a wild and wooley .B^^^o*)* eoldler studmts ai Ford-
first round, which anw Johnny
staggered twice, be came throui^
to take the second by pushing Pete
all around the ring. Pete ^wed
ao unwllUngneas to open up, and
was severely drubbed by the con
stant stream of punches which
this human busssaw threw. Mack-
nick was floored more by a push
than a punch for two near the end
of the round. Halfway through the
round, Macknlck was sbovM out
of the ring for eight ala Dempsey
Flrpo. He accidentally kicked his
second in the Jaw and stopped to
console him, which almost cost
him the scrap. But Farelll Just
kept throwing and the victory was
hie at the conclusion.
Lepca M^kes Oemehack
Despite the handicaps of a bloodv
nose and a lost first round. Al
Lopes, from New York City proved
that there is no substitute for cour
age as be won a thriller from
Kenny Fowler in three stancas.
ftiwler looked very good at the start
and bad the gamester from New
York bleeding at the bell. But X,opez
came out and dumped Kenny on
h’s face for two with the very first
punch of the eecond beat,
then oo, the crowd was all for
Lopes, and even though he was
again bleeding at the end of the
rou^, he had Fowler on the can
vas at the bell. ’The count had
reached four. Kenny looked beaten
to atari ttw third but be soon had
the olaret flowing from iopes's noee
with a right, mwever, A> landed
well with ttMinderous Mows and
bad Fowler reeling at the ftnlrti.
According to the PT men, this
alone wfll add hundreds of pa
trons to the many avallMde sports.
8.Bgt Paul Chervlnko. ex-Dodg-
er is averaging belter than .8 0 0
In his batting record thus far. r
is big hard knocks which are help
ing ^ .win many games for bis
teaa? — the 799!th. .
Incidentally. raxik of the of
ficers hh® no effect on the decl-
simu made by umpire Sgt. M.
I*lakor. The ump a tough baby
and nothing would mkke him
change his mind.. Sgt- PlAor play
ed In. the Easter AUrAany Football
team last :^U.. He was also All-
Star when he played taofcle for
Niagara tmiveratty. .
Say, dbiims, whatsamatta with
having some brawls .at ‘the Sports
Arena to decide who is Uie bestest
sojer • slugger at this 'yere fteldt
I ttwught we wua^ gppoa decide
on division ebampe? There’s still
time to eliminate tfie leeaer U^ts
and let the remaining . n b s e-
scrambleTs have some ,k 1 n d a''
award or medal to show that they
are' tope in their line.
Ole Sarge. and asCit aB the
fight faM think that sense sf
the boxing ndes st the Arena
shenM be ehanged a Ml. Dnrtag
last week*i bexfng rtww, the itse-
•nd bent ef the evening, la whMt
Ivsn Berry and Teas Mennealll
fenght, proved very wipspnlsr in
the erewd. Simply beeanse ne
draws er extra reanJa are per-
SQUADRON SQUABBLE . , . With a good gathering of their
fellow students watching them,' a couple cf 79Tth. men tosa away at
each other, iba referee Is a rep of the Ctoorts Arena and this
sure that there Is no •‘barracks prejudtsm.”
Weekly Tripleheader Sunday;
12th Mt G. ^ts Lead (mUne
Officers Trip
Un^ieated 913
To Score Upset
8th Mesd 90.
♦TMth vs. Mted
7V7th - Wim VO.
Tom On the ivplauoe, Bohll
Yessirree, yoQ’ro rocma see then#
three baseban garaen thli week
and H orUl all entaQ staying away
from that girt Med of youro tor
only one day. That’s an Jwt
one day. This Sunday wUI see an
three of these contests played at
^ Medic’s field. The timeo wlD
be — 4X00, 1000 and 1X80.
the
OlXth Onard
a thrilling game played on
formers diamond.
Although the losers held the All-
Stans for three Innings, the ab
sence of tbeU star pttebar was a
thorn throxigbout the game. Xto the
first half af the sixth rtiaptor, tte'
officers started their victory
march which ended In a rally.
Major B. Murr sparkled at the
W.T lUw. wl mlr •. ■“*“ stMding..
makes R toogh fer the Jndgee, 1 1
.. toogh fer the Jndgeo,
bot osmetimeo the bexero get
raw deal.
Officers of • Johnson Field re-■•««« .....
fused to take diamond ordm from rLACp vs. Mh Pl,ACB
enlisted men this past week. FUy- All of these games feature top
ing real nip and tuck sottbaU, the notch oompetiUon. the 799lh. cur.
commissioned . gentlemen check- to seowul pladb wlU meet
8 to. 8 victory o\M the toogh opposition In the sixth 'piece
ird Squadron Suintey. to Deeplte the fact that tb e'
“ 902j^ beat the 799th In their last
meeting, they’ve stiU been dogged
with hard hack. Tblnge like
no^ out Iqr the league leadtos
13th Mesa Group flyers one
wee run and other stallar mts-
tefty Watldns will do the ti^
^ for tbe JB02nd and on tbe other
to*to .*t will be Fay OePrlest for
tossln'g hUl and tnirejid the en-;i^’5^-o*
tire {fistance by allowtng only 12 of thTXiy? I*
hits. Despite the fact tbat he ^y- ■**”•
ed with a cast an Me right arm ^ FlANg gUBPRiSB
the Hoosler Goto LOaf aUo con- The 13th Mess Oroun on ton d
tributed a timely bit to help eltocA the borsehide heap, v^ be irolim
•*** out after their seventh trl\£S
when they engage the "797 T. S. R.
a definite under^. The Meismen
aw pUylng mighty fine bau; Thin
still doesnH ' make It'out of the
question for the 5th place ffohoel
b^s to pull one of moM utMetp
wWch have become eo frequent ef
late In loop co^uaetltton.
” deadlock to
^ nightcap between ttie Ml and
the 7^ Both teams wU' be flffi
tog to get back to the top. Tb^e
iotbaeks chalked up
Wlnst their record. Whichever
wins moves ahead of tbe other. A
real CTooshtol” gamel.Ken Her.
man probably start for tbe
Mist team.
BASEMENT BUMBLINOS
League competition to
up and the final scores on th^«
cootosts win most Ukely shuffle
ttto standings quite a bit. Those
who bad dropped behind at the
start of tbe seascm are now feeling
their oats and making things
ged for tim hotshots of the lesgue.
^me of the teams down near the
toHtom of the division sre in such
torrid condition that they should
reign as favs over theli u p r e r
ephere rivala That old
toey are the
^der they fall” isn’t so far from
wnmg. watch and seeft
tbe Witt.
I(t. Shtolda woo the batting laur
els -with a hit. each time at bat.
A. sertes df double plays by the
"Iron collared boys” stopped a
potential threat by tte 913th
Squadron. XA. Ricci, of tbe Medics,
oau^t an attempted bunt to
repeat tbe stunt. Lt. Kiev asslsstod
in a double play whlcn stoKJed
the enUstod men'e Tuttle attempt
to win.
Tbe officers will play the 91Xth
again to a few weeks- Thto time
tbe losers will be to full strengto
and feel sure of avenging tbeir
defeat. The lost administrated by
tbe offlcer’a did not effect tbe top
poeltlon by tbe Guards In
Officers All-Stars
1918th Ou^ Sqdg.
Seere
OM 108 101—8
000 OM 003—8
Softball
Standings
Tbe ’Trooy of It aB” was all the llXth -oQuU say i
when this group cf medal beareta. bumbtod th«n I
In an All-Star gkzne last week. Loft to rtimt (back
row) MaJ, Oitos. KaJ. Mnrr, Id. Der.-XA. Boooo- I
SLTS.
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Mai. Stark. OCSoei».iil|9 are.uembori of
do net appear ja^' ' '
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Turoiky, Lt. lYaaka. U.' tSoTBonieh.
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