The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-10

Briefly, Lewiston, captain or the University of North Carolina box ing team this year, who boxes in fhc lightweight division, won his eIimiaation bout from Scott or Duke University, a we'll thought of colIeriate boxer, though the Brass City boy suffered q serious break in the radial bone of his left lore arm early in the second rouno' But, as the English say, he ear ried on" and won his bout. left TOT inc hospital. where he was rested until A few days ago. blew his chances for a title bout in the Southern Conference, but won the admiration of students, officiais, fans and newspapermen to the number of 4,000 who saw the pout'
 Won His Spurs
 Al rare tribute came to him from James c. Driver, director or atm letics at the University or Virginia in the form of the following iet'er'
 Mir. Martin Levinson,
 University of North Carolna'
 Chapel Hill, N. c.
 Dear MT. Levinson:
 Never in my many years In col lego athletic work have l seen man show more courage than you did in your last fight at Virginia Saturday. I appreciate gameness and courage more than most any other virtue and your certainiy showed both and congratulate
 [ am enclosing a clipping from sbe Richmond Times Dispatch which gives you a wonderful wrlte- up. With kind personal regards, l am.
 Sincerely yours,
 James G. Driver, Ath Dir.
 Delmege Trimble in the Rich, ,nond Times Dispatch descrlped the Scott t-Levinson bout as 1oi- lows:
 These Southern Conference box ing tournaments never lack !" color. The seventh annual cham pionships on Friday and Saturaay possessed memorable features. But E it won't be remembrance or Vir- ginia's overwhelming victory nor < the manner in which the remalh- ing members of the conference unanimously supported the tourna. ment that will remain upperHiosl < IA this spectators mind. The in- Tident that will remain as out standing is Marty Levinson's game ness.
 Fighting With One Hand
 Fred Lloyd, Dukes defending bantamweight champion, won his gernifinaIs go at the price or fractured metacarpel bone that ne cessitated forfeiture of his tue. Harder luck is difficult to concelve. Inf I,Ioyd was not severely handi- capped by pain, for actually 1t IS mi certain in which round the frac- ft,ro occurred. Levinson's break- ing of the radius bone, though, was a more serious accident.
 TO break finger in fight IS no joke. but to break an arm In tne second round and carry on Wtth one hand to the conclusion or the bout is an exhibition of sheer game ness that I have never seen sur passed. Not only was the Nortn Carolina lightweights left useless on the offense but also he couiu do practically no guarding ana ms opponent, Rip Scott of DuKe' Was dangerous.
 The will to win is a hackneyed lnhrase. but the practice of 1t IS some obscure sort of masterpiece There was no reason why Levln- ron should not have notified the swpferee or his seconds of his con, sI1ition. Granted that he elimlnateu his rival from the tournament, It was impossible for him to con sfinue his quest for title which Bobby ,Goldstein of Virginia de- nfed him for two preceding years; Rut Leyinson refused to stop unt'i lis immediate battle had been won. With on arm broken, Levlnson threw punishing rights to the mid- serctions that gave him a clear ao, vantage in the second round ana he held his own throughout the third. a,,l inaon has demonstrated what I've tried in eight paragraphs to put Tn words.