Evening star., 1935-02-22
DUKE GETS BREAK
IN RING PA|R|NGS.
Five of Six Men Draw Byes.
Three of Eight Terps in
PreIim. Battles.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS.
r UNIVERSITY. Va, February %.
Six semi-final bouts on the
" night of the first day-an in
novation in Southern Confer
ence boxing tournaments - today
whetted the interest of fans assem-
bled here to watch Al representatives
of seven schools battle for eight in
dividual trophies and the team title
so far monopolized by Virginia.
With only four entrants in each Of
the three heaviest classes, all neces-
sarily drew byes in the preliminary
round, and it was decided to have
them stage their semi finals combats
tonight.
Three Terps Battle.
THESE bouts will bring together
Matulewicz of Duke VS.. Lom-
bardo of Maryland and Jean of
Washington and Lee VS.. Giddings,
North Carolina. middleweights: No.
vich of North Carolina VS.. Caplin of
Virginia and McCaw of Maryland VS..
Powell of Carolina State in the IT'S
pound class and Cramer of Virginia
VS.. Gormley of Maryland and Granger
of Duke VS.. Kanner of North Carolina
in the unlimited class.
A last-minute withdrawal of Jack
Noll. light-heavyweight, left the de-
Tending Cavalier team only seven en-
trantS as against full teams of eight
men from North Carolina and Mary
land and six from Duke. South Caro-
lima withdrew three of her six en-
trants after the draw had been made,
giving one additional preliminary
round bye to Virginia, North Caro-
lima and Maryland.
Helps Blue Devils.
Duke was regarded as having an
advantage from the draw, which gave
first round byes to five men, leaving
only one who must fight the whole
hard route for title, while Virginia,
North Carolina and Maryland each
must send three men into the prelir1-
inarieS.
The South Carolinians who were
withdrawn are: Jenkins, feather
weight, giving a bye to Rainey, Vir-
ginia; Dunn, lightweight, giving a
bye to Edwards, North Carolina, and
Stoddard, middleweight, giving bye
to Lombardo, Maryland.
Carolina State has four fighters en-
tered, Clemson two and Washington
and Lee one.
BY weights, the number of entrants
are six each in the bantamweight,
featherweight, lightweight and vel
terweight classes; five in the junior
middleweight, and four each in the
middleweight, light-heavyweights and
heavyweight classes.
Pairings:
Bantamweight: Taylor. South Carolina
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Clemson. versus Eutsler. North Carolina.
Lightweight: Kniepp, Duke; bye. Ed
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son; Clemson. versus Hudson. Carolina
vveji vWveejiterweight: womer. Virginia, bye,
Penland. Carolina State. versus Webb.
Maryland: Fisher. North Carolina, versus
Humphlett South Carolina; Mccall. DUKE
bye.
bye; Hilton. South Carolina. bye; MeCluns.
yirginia; versus Mann. Duke; Medynsky'
Middleweight: Matulewicz. Duke. bye;
Lombardo Maryland. bye: Jean. Washlne-
ton and Lee. bye; Giedings. North Caro-
Light heayyweight: Novich. North Caro-
lima, bye; Caplin. Virginia. bye: McCaw.
Msryland. bye; Powell. Carolina State
Heavyweight: Cramer, Virginia. bye;
Gormley. Maryland, bye; Granger. Duke.
bye; Kanner. North Carolina, bye.