The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-17

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Gloves open scraps.
Three Soldiers Win
The open title lists in the second
annual TimeS-Legion Golden Gloves
carnival are:
Jimmy Hensley, 20, of 1927 Rich
land avenue, f1yweight.
Johnny Krukemeier, II, R. R. 8,
Box 1879, bantamweight.
Carl E. Maxwell, %, Battery B,
Third f1eld artillery, FIT. Benjamin
Harrison, featherweight.
Jimmy Myers, 10, of 2128 Brook
side avenue, lightweight.
Merle Roberts, II, of 929 South
Delaware street, welterweight.
John Chesunos, %, Battery c,
Third field artillery, FIT. Harrison,
middleweight.
Harry Christie, 81, Cambridge
City, Ind, light heavyweight.
Gene Junken, 81, of 1906 South
Miller street heavyweight.
The novice winners were:
William Sparks, South Side Turn
erS, flyweight; Bud Cotty, Colonial
A. c., ,bantamweight; Albert Long,
unattached, featherweight; Ben
Lawson, Columbus Qnd) Boys Club,
lightweight; Merle Roberts, South
Side Turner's, welterweight, and Jack
Liebrock, South Side Turner's, mid
dleWeight
Action Stirs Crowd
Roberts first won the novice well
ter title, and then, when DeLosS
Jarrett, Ft. Harrison weller, failed
to appear for his bout, Roberts chal-
lenged the open welter contestant,
Ben Dichner of the Washington A.
c., and took the open title by de-
ciSion. Tom Howard, novice light
heavyweight, had no opponent, and
there were no novice heavyweight en-
tries.
Fast, thrilling action in almost
every one Of the nineteen bouts on
the evenings card stirred the mob
into bedlam. There were three
knockouts and six technical kayoeS.
AS the final round was concluded
the champions and runners-up in
both the novice and open groups
were called into the ring and award
ed trophies and medals by the Bruce
Robinson post of the American Lee
gion, which, with The Times Spon-
SOrS the annual tournament.
In the ring at Chicago the In
dianapoliS boxers will wear red uni
form trunks and bathrobes, lettered
in white.
Lightweights Provide Action
Outstanding among the nineteen
bouts that made up the final rounds
program was the scrap in which
Krukemeier, fighting under the ban
nerS of the South Side Turner's,
successfully defended his 1888 BAN
tamweight title against Kelly Bur
CESS Of the Washington A. C.
Burgess leaped from his corner
at the bell, and drove his smaller
opponent into a corner with a furry
of blows to the face. Johnny coun-
tered from the ropes, was driven
back again, and returned with both
gloves jabbing in front of him to
pummel Burgess groggy as the first
round eneded.
Burgess came back strong at the
opening of the second stanza, cut
Krukemeier's nose, but weakened as
Johnny drove home short body
punches that hurt. Just before the
bell Burgess went down for one
count. In the third Krukemeier re-
sumed his body jabbing, but faded
a moment before Burgess last saw
age attack. Then he came out to
stick in a series of hard punches
that gave him good margin on the
battle. Krukemeier is a junior in
Beech Grove high school.
Light Heavy Is Good
Perhaps the most promising of
the local Golden Gloves winners
was Harry Christie, a farmer from
near Richmond, who knocked out
Gail Ewing, Colonial A. c., in forty
eight seconds of the first round of
the light heavy semi final, and came
back in the final bout to face
Charles Wild, South Side Turner's,
who decisioned John Sharpee,
Washington A. c., in the semi-fnal
Christie punched Wild viciously in
the final bout, and Wild quit, claim
ing broken hand.
John Chesunos, a Fl. Harrison
artilleryman, was the second Of last
years Golden Gloves titlists to re-
tain his crown. He took a decision
from Michael Kmet, another SOL
der from the Third field artillery at
Fit. Harrison, by dint of clever in
fighting after Kmet had cut his face
badly in the early rounds.
Champ Is DOwned
Marshall Healing, Colonial A. c.,
the third of last years champs to
enter the tourney this winter, was
knocked out in the semi final heavy
weight bout when Tommy Thomp-
son, Colonial A. c., swung three hard
blows to his face minute and forty
seconds after the first bell Thomp-
son lost by technical knockout in
the heavyweight final to Gene Jun
ken, who took a close decision over
Bob Whitney, of Butler, in the other
heavy semi-fnal. Junken is an ex-
football player at Shelbyville high
school.
In the first of the open final bouts,