Evening star., 1932-03-11

professional and amateur
" boxers, taken by and large,
is that the amateur species
is flercer.
AS Goldie Ahearn remarked the
other day, discussing this same
thing, did you ever see me get
hurt?"
Goldie, game, but never reck-
less, passed up professional fight
ing to sell haberdashery, and to-
day points meaningly to pair of
non-caulifiowered ears, an un-
scrambled face and to heels that
strike the pavement before his
toes.
To the ring pro valor is less Of a
virtue than prudence, If indeed 1t may
be reckoned virtue at all.
"You gotta hand it to the guy that's
got it." as Merchant Ahearn puts 1t,
"but it amt good business"
Then we have the 1ear-laden praise
of the Persian military captain for the
men of Greece. Having heard of the
simple prizes awarded in the Olympic
games, TigraneS exclaimed to his COM
mander in chief, Mardonius: Heavens!
Against what men are you leading us?
Insensible to interest, they combat only
for glory!"
VEP, your ring pro begrudges so
i much as lost tooth, smeared
beak or a split lip as the cost Of
victory, but what tales of valor might
be told of those ancients, those heart
and-soul amateurs, who, as Olympic
scrappers, staked their very lives gen.
tlemen, in quest Of glory, pure, unde-
fled glory!
Down the line for 1000 years has
come the fame Of Arrichion, who lost
his life but gained the laurel crown.
Arrichion was choked to death in a
contest called the pancratium, COM
bination of boxing and wrestling with
nothing barred, not even teeth and
nails In this game it was largely a
case of surrender or get killed.
His enemy had strangle hold and
Arrichion a toe grip. The toe broke,
and as his foeman cied out in agony,
Enough" Arrichion expired.
This act appears to be the only one
overlooked by Daddy Joe Turner'S
gladiators.
NOBODY is expected to lose his life
~ tomorrow night when 10 battles
are fought in Ritchie Coliseum, at
Eastern A. A. U. championships, but
mayhem won't be surprise.
Inspired by Olympic hopes as well
as worthwhile sectional honors, 20
first-class amateurs will take part in
what promises to be the hottest thing in
a boxing way presented hereabout this
Winter.
Nearly every contestant brings to the
wars some sort of title, city, State or
sectional, and one of them is. ma
tional champion. So intriguing are
all the matches that none may be
singled out as q main bout" but
attention, and the scrap in this div1-
sion tomorrow night looms as a hum
dinger.
TT will bring together Duke Crinkley,
i who won the national intercollegiate
crown while at the Naval Academy
last year, and Jack Moran of Philadel-
phia, Middle Atlantic champion. Crink
ley, now an ensign, was as he-manish as
they make EN-, even at the Naval
Academy. His sports at school were
rowing, loot ball and boxing He pulled
strong oar in the Middies' champion
ship victory at Poughkeepsie last year,
was an outstanding tackle on the grid
iron and was the best heavyweight col
lege ringman in the land.
Crinkley has never been whipped in
the ring, but was held to a draw by
Tiny Pincura of Western Maryland,
whom he later soundly thrashed.
TOMORROW night, for the first time
J. in his career, Crinkley won't be
favorite. His opponent has won is
consecutive bouts. There will be no
odds.
Washington will have only one rep
resentative in the show, but he is a
flrst-rater. In two years Of intercol-
1egiate boxing, Danny Pyne of Cath
olic University, product of GonZaga,
has never been defeated. In this years