Evening star., 1932-03-07
UNIVERSITY PLANS
RING MEET YEARLY
Amateur Stars of Section in
First Event-Winter Car
nivaI to Be Held.
BY HI, c. BYRD.


different nature as fea-
lures ur its next years indoor
athletic schedule One is to be
in the nature of competition in
which Maryland varsity teams,
basket ball, boxing and track, Will
meet on the same evening teams
from other universities, and in
addition there will be staged a
series of exhibitions in which
physical education classes, both
men and women. show the type
of work they are doing in fencing,
dancing, volley ball, wrestling ana
other sports. The other tcurna-
ment is to be an invitation East
ern amateur boxing championship,
with the best boxers in the East
got together for 10 bouts.
The boxing tournament is to be in
augurated this coming Saturday night
and is to be known as the first an
nual invitation Eastern boxing cham
pionships. The best amateur boxers in
the East are to be brought here for the
events, With gold watches to be given
TO the victors and medals to the losers.
Representatives of the Maryland ath-
1etic authorities in Baltimore and New
York have been working on this for the
last month
About the best amateur boxers in the
country will take part in the tourna-
ment and 1t Is about as certain as any,
thing of the kind can be that some of
the men who appear in the Ritchle
Coliseum Saturday night will represent
the United States in the Olympics this
year Two who are to take part were
members Of the United States team
that toured Europe last Summer.
The other tournament. If such 1t
may be called. will be an elaboration Of
the plan inaugurated during the past
Winter of holding basket ball game
and a boxing meet the same evening.
With the exception Of the basket ball
game and the boxing meet, 1t is plan
ned to have several events take place
on the floor at the same time. In
other words. what the Old Line school
Is planning is something of a three
ring circus.
With the program that has been
tentatively worked out, the events are
likely to begin at 7:30 pm and con-
tinue for four hours. This tournament
is not to be inaugurated until next
Winter, when it will take place prob
ably some time during the first half of
February.
COME exceptionally good records were
- made Saturday night in the SoutfT-
ern Conference indoor track and
field championships at North Carolina
University Zimmerman of Tulane won
the pole vault with leap of 13 feet
ga inches. SwartZ of Virginia Poly
technic Institute got the shotput with
a heave of 45 feet 7x inches. Owens
a mark Of % feet IA inches, which,
to say the least, are highly creditable
performances. All would be good marks
II attained outdoors, to say nothing of
the fact that they actually were made
on q board floor. The Zimmerman who
won the pole vault is the one who
played halfback on the Tulane eleven.
Probably the running events were
done in good time also, but little can
be told of them without knowing just
the type of track on which they were
run. It would seem on the face Of it
that the slightly over 2 minutes for
the half mile was about the best rec
ord made
EDDIE LaFOND deserves good deal
IL of credit for the fine record he has
made In coaching Catholic Uni
versity boxing teams. He has carried
his men through another year of sue
cess, and has done it apparently with
out having material above the average
to work with
LsFond deserves the glories he has
attained, because there never was
more earnest worker, nor one who got
along better with his men. Getting in
the ring with each man, he stays there
until that man understands the points
being demonstrated. That man out Of
the way. Eddie takes the next one and
so on until he has had every member
of his team before him. And Eddie
has to be quite a man physically to do
that.
LaFond should be a successful coach
anywhere, because he has that facility
for imparting knowledge to others
which marks the teacher, whether it
be in boxing or Sanskrit.
IF the track and field organizations in
i this country including the big gov
erning bodies of the colleges and
universities. decide to abandon the
yards. feet and inches measurements
that have been used in this country
since the first cinder path was laid out,
it probably means that some Of the
runners Of recent years will lose fine
records and that new records will have
to be set up.
In other words, it Will be up to the
athletes of the present generation to
set new marks. OF course, that only
holds good for American records. as
records for the 100 meters and SO on
up in the decimal scale have long been
YarncY1ized in foraior la06s