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 heavyweight boxing title. Steve Hamas came the closest to being rated near the top after he scored oVer Max Schmeling. But he, too, dropped by the wayside when he met Schmeling in Germany in a return bout and suffered such a beating that he has never been the same since.
 Many Of the college lads who aspire to ring greatness take up the sport comparatively late in their athletic lives. Some have dabbled in boxing in a small way while in college, hut the great ma- jority have confined their activity to fco.ball. Football is a great gene. It gives the individual a , chance to gain a measure of fame that may serve to pull some cus- | toners through the gate later on, but it generally does so at price. Few football players escape the I sceurge of the game damaged knees. And no fighter ever got far with pair of patched-up knees. Hamas might have gone far but { for a bad knee, suffered while chasing gridiron glory at Penn State College. Sully Montgomery was another college lad whose ring activities were hampered by foot ball knees" Sully was member of 1 the famous Centre College team which invaded the East and thump- cd Harvard a dozen or more years back. He was a rugged we'll set up youth, and he could punch B'lt, too often when he set himself to ] deliver punch, or tried to step around a bit, the trick knees would buckle. He faded from the picture after nice start.
 Pastor Lao'ss Punch There are several former colleg- ians in the ring today, among them Bob Pastor former New York Uni versity football and boxing star. Pastor played some college foot ball, but his main athletic interest was boxing. He had an imposing string of victories in amateur ranks before turning professional.
 Pastor is a rugged fellow, not too big. He stands a shade under six feet and glories in firing away at midsections of the taller heavy weighs He has been moving up steadily being content to carry off the decisions. His main drawback is that he is no great shucks as a puncher And a heavyweight fight CT without finishing punch can hardly be expected to cause a stir in the ranks of the big fellows.
 They have shaved 50 or 60 pounds off Jack Torrance, the for mer Louisiana State giant ath- lete, given him short course in training in the gym and are send ] ing him out in quest of the world heavyweight crown. Shaving half hundred pounds off Torrance is like pecking away at Pike's Peak with salad fork-there is still plenty of Torrance left, 275 pounds. to be exact.
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 Torrance made quite name for himself as shot-putter. He still holds the record for tossing the 16- pound iron ball-57 feet inch. He refused to consider many attractive loffers to take up professional wrestling when he graduated last year because his heart was set on winning the Olympic shot-put title before leaving the, amateur ranks. 1 He earned a trip to Berlin last summer but in the Olympic Games was dismal failure. All because he could not curb his appetite. He ate himself right out of an Olym- pic championship.
 koiltCC llC lCtul ilCd tiOliA tAiS JA1 ket to Berlin, he has been paying strict attention to business. The way he shed superfluous weight indicates that he has not been fooling.
 Torrance celebrated his profes- sional d but by stopping Owen Flynn, burly Irishman with a most obscure record if. any at all, in the first round. The fine hand of Mushky Jackson, one of Promo ter Mike Jacobs henchmen, was behind that one. Mushky has list of tankers as long as a transcon- tinental railroad ticket. He knows 'em all by their first names. It was Mushky who led Flynn to the slaughter at the hands of Torrance. You may expect to see Jack pile up an impressive string of victories while acquiring needed experience Mushky will see that everything goes along without a hitch.