Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-24

TIME Olympic tryouts for in
tercollegiate boxers at Penn
i State, April Z and 8, should
be one of the greatest anna
teur ring tournaments ever held
in the opinion of Tom Mills of
Georgetown, member of the Box
ing Committee of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association.
Never before in the history of the
sport have all the stars from the COL
Ieges OF all sections been brought to-
gether, and Mills. who is just back from
committee meeting, says that he feels
1t should be one of the most attractive
athletic events of the year.
The best college boxers from Louisi-
ana to Maine and from that line west
nave entered the tryouts, and all have
as an incentive the worlds greatest
athletic crown. Not only the honor of
representing their country is to be the
prize, but also the possibility of con-
verting that honor into an Olympic
championship
All the people in the North are in
tensely interested in the tryoutS and
boxers from Yale, Harvard, and the
other northern schools will be in there
battling against the men from the Mid
dlewest and from Southern schools, Vir-
ginia, Tulane, ct al
Personally I would not miss seeing
that tournament for anything I look
forward to 1t as being about the most
attractive athletic program of the year,
and most of the schools interested in
boxing evidently are stalking a good
deal on having their representatives
come through. Down at Virginia, for
instance, there is almost as much in
terest in Bobby GoldStein's chances of
winning an Olympic berth as in a big
foot ball game, possibly more"
A FTER all is said and done, though
"A in connection with the Olympic
tryouts, the chances are there will
be more amateurs representing the A.
A. U. on the Olympic team than from
the colleges. OF course that is some
thing of a guess. but if the caliber of
the men who SOok part in the A. A. U.
amateur tournament recently held at
the University of Maryland is any cri-
terion, then the A. A. u men are
better fighters than the college boxers
The latter, as class, simply are not as
clever and do net mix it nearly as well,
especially in infghting.
Pyne, after the latter had lost to an
A. A. u. man, Danny, don't worry about
that because that chap had something
that you just don't have, and in fact,
he had some things that even our pro-
fessionals in this section have not
developed"
"Georgetown's membership in the new
basket ball league, which comprises
Temple University, West Virginia, Pitts
burgh and Carnegie Tech, should be
boost for the sport on the Hilltop" said
strong Blue and Gray supporter "It
will bring here several very attractive
teams, and at the same time give us an
added incentive. 1t seems to me to be
move in the right direction on George
towns part, and I hope the league
proves successful, as believe it will"
DAD weather certainly is knocking
- spots cut of Spring athletics in
the colleges, that is, practice of
the teams. Hardly any of the teams
have been able to do anything as yet.
although Maryland, blessed with well
drained fields, probably is in a better
position than any OF the others. Just
how late the schools are in getting
started is shown by the fact that
Georgetown has not yet been able to
get out its base ball or foot ball squad
Maryland has had practically no base
ball practice, despite the fact it opens
its season early next week
Tom Mills, Georgetown foot ball
coach, Is much concerned about his
Spring workouts Mills is worried be-
cause he fears he may not be able to
put in as much time as he feels is abso-
lutely necessary if he is to have the
kind of team he wishes next Fall. IN
less he does nearly all his work in
fundamentals this Spring, it is Mills
idea that he will not be in a position to
give the time to that phase of practice
in the Fall. The Georgetown team
works out at the ball park. and natu-
rally spends good deal of its available
time going to and from the field The
Blue and Gray does not plan to have
any practice during the holidays. but
hopes to get in three or four full weeks
Immediately after.