The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
By FRANK BUCK" ONEILL

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boxers ever assembled from the
gymnasia of this city will start on
their long trek to fistic glory on
Wednesday night at Catholic Uni
Versitys gymnasium. On Wednes-
day night in the home of the
Flying Cardinals the preliminary
rounds of the Golden Gloves box.
ing tournament, held under the
auspices of the Washington Herald
will begin. The advanced rounds
and semifinals will be contested
on Thursday night, and the finals
are set for next Saturday.
At Joe Turner's arena, the
novices, kids whose experience
with the gloves has been limited
to impromptu bouts in clubroomS,
will make their bow tonight.
Starting at 8 o'clock, the kids
who see themselves Olympic
champions of some future day
will fight their battles. There may
be something lacking Of the skill
of Canzoneri and the finishing
fury of Dempsey, but the boys will
be tossing leather from start to
finish, and that's about all you
can ask.
Unless shrewd judges Of bud
ding talent are all wrong in their
reckonings on boxers, there will be
enough upsets in this tournament
to justify a congressional investi-
cation. You can even find some
Of the boys betting that Lou
Gevinson, the 126-pound champion
of the Olympic Club, goes the way
of all flesh. Right now Henry
Peterson, of the Jewish Commun.
ity Center, is named as the lad
likely to take Gevinson's measure.
Olympic Club Favored
:. The Olympic Club team will en-
ter the Golden Gloves strongly
favored to win the team trophy.
But the Jewish Community Gen.
ter, the Fifth Precinct Police Club
and one or two other organiza-
tons have some pretty nifty
scrappers and feel pretty certain
that they will do real well in the
competition.
The Olympic Club has Danny
De Rosa, 112 pounds; George
Pickeral, 118 pounds; Lou Gevln-
son, 1875 pounds; Yves Beahm, 135
pounds; Bobby Matthias, lat
bounds; Steve Thompson, 100
pounds; Bobby Grimm, 175
pounds, and Don Stetson, heavy
weight.
Murray Hammer. former star OF
University of North Carolina S
boxing squad, is entered and will
represent the Fifth Marines Re
serve Corps. Hammer has been
coached and trained by Major
Heinie Miller, of the District OF
Columbia Boxing Commission.
The Marines have gone in Tor
amateur boxing in big way and
In another year will enter a
larger and more formidable team
than that which will wear the
colors this year.
Henry Peterson is the boy upon
whom most of the hopes of Jew
ish Community Center rest. This
kid has a real good left hand and
is equipped with a full knowledge
of the fundamentals of boxing.
Ray Morse is another at the Com
munity Center who is highly re-
garded. One of the hopes of this
outfit is that Peterson has the
good luck to meet Gevlnson IN
the finals. Morris Wolfe is the
Jewish heavyweight, and he Is a
tough hombre.
From the Fifth Precinct Club
comes the sensational FL Brook
man, a 16-year-old kid with real
ability. Don't expect too much
from Brookman, who is making
his first start in the Golden
Gloves, but for native ability he
tops the list of amateurs. He has
won 20 straight contests, but he
is meeting sitter competition in
the tournament than he encoun-
tered in his record string of tri-
umphs.
That fighting copper, George
Chappelle is back for war and
Morris Fox has a flock CT other
boys, namely: Jay Turner, 100;
Joe Petro, 112 and eight other
lLsser lights. Petro twice has won
the Junior golden glove tourna-
ment at 10 pounds.
Cox a Scrapper
George Cox, light-heavyweight,
will lead the parade of the Mer-
rick Club team under Tom Gear
tvs direction. Cox is the de-
Tending light-heavyweight title
holder and is being chased by
Bobby Grimm and Chappelle as
chief contenders.
Joe Bovello. the plumbers son,
heads the Park View Clubs list.
He is a rugged 147-pounder.
From the Washington Boys Club,
coached by Sid Fishel, comes
Steve Mamakos, lat pounds, and
George Abrams, also the same
weight.
We could go right down the
line with more names and more
clubs. But it would just be writ
ing a blue book in amateur box
ing. If you love action, start
tonight at Turner's and then
make the trip to Brooklands on
Wednesday, Thursday and next
Saturday. You'll get both eyes