Evening star., 1936-01-10
VIRGINIA j. IS SHY
. Of LIGHT R|NCMEN
lis and 125 Pound Classes
Miss Hahn, Rainey-Meets
Harvard Saturday.
BY the Associated Press.

7 UNIVERSITY. Va, January 10.
-Virginia's amazing boxing
team, which hasn't been
licked in the ring since 1891,
turned its attention today to tomor-
rows meeting with the Crimson clout-
ers of Harvard
Nobody has knocked the chip of
their shoulder through 80 consecutive
engagements, including five Southern
Conference championships, in q row,
and even the most ardent Cavalier
rooters are admitting privately that
this sort Of thing can't go on forever.
Maryland came close last season
earning a 4-all tie and leading, 4 to
;, going into the final bout.
Harvard may whip Virginia, but
Johnny La Rowe. 67-year-old coach,
doesn't think so. Principally he fears
North Carolina. Maryland and the
Navy. He has taken judicial notice,
OF course, Of the 8-to-0 victory scored
by the Crimson over M. l. T. ringmen.
Womer, Cramer Mainstays.
VIRoINIA's 1896 squad will have
as its mainstays two lads who won
the Southern Conference champion
ship in their weights last year. They
are Capt. Maynard Womer OF Johns
town. Pa, twice the welterweight title
holder, and Fred Cramer, q heavy
weight.
Neither Of them is in the pink Of
condition. Capt Womer hasn't COM
pletely recovered from a leg injury he
suffered In a fall last Autumn and
Cramer has been slow regaining his
boxing form since the close Of the
foot ball season.
La Rowe Is hard put to find men
for the two lightest classes, where Co.
capts. and former Southern Confer
ence Champions Archie Hahn, jr,
bantamweight, and Gordon Rainey.
featherweight. were the pride and Joy
OF the Cavaliers q season ago.
Marion Brooks, lightweight: Bill
McClung. Junior middleweight, and
Mortimer Caplin, middleweight. are
ready to step into the same classes
they filled last Winter. but Jack Noll,
light heavyweight. has grown too big
Tor his old job in the l75-pound class.
Three Weights Open.
FINDING men for the three weights,
the lis, 125 and ITS, is bringing
FUCKERS to the brows of Coach LaRowe
and his assistant, Al York, former
varsity captain.
In the bantamweight class the best
men are John Simpson, O freshman
last year. and Italo Charmilla, who
has been toiling along on the varsity
squad for 2 years but hasn't got in a
meet yet. George Cary, who has COM
peted In one match as featherweight,
may get the call against Harvard. but
he Is suffering from a bad cold and
the entry probably will be Gregory
Denne. frosh regular three years ago.
The light heavyweight choice may be
Ray Schmidt, who boxed in the IT'S
pound class as q freshman.
A Charlottesville scrapper, Henry
Harlow, who was sensation as q
freshman welterweight last Winter,
and now is in the next heavier class,
may break into the lineup at the ex-
pense Of the veteran Bill McCluns.
Virginia's ring schedule for the
fifteenth season since boxing was
started here, follows:
=, January IL. Harvard at home: 49,. ".
M. l.: 20. North Carolina.
February l, Maryland in college Park;
e. Y; p l.. in Blacksburg: Is. Richmond
In Richmond; 20. Navy; 2S and 30. tenth
Southern Conference boxing tournament,
: March 81 and aS, N. c. A. A, boxing
tryouts for the Olympics