Evening star., 1937-02-21
TARHEELS, DUKE
TERPS PSFAVOR|TES
More Than so Will Scrap
at College Park Next
Friday, Saturday.

~ UKE, North Carolina and
Maryland boxing teams are
expected to be battling it
- out for the Southern Con-
ference boxing tourney title when
the mittmen reach the finals of the
annual affair to be staged in Ritchie
Coliseum at College Park next Friday
and Saturday.
However, there will be contenders
from seven other schools in the loop
and the dope may be completely
upset in the four sessions of millin.; :,
afternoon and night of the two days
of the tournament. Battling will be
at 2:30 and s. There will be between
so and SIS talented college boxers in
action.
Maryland is holding the tourney
for the first time, the scene having
been shifted from Virginia, where
it was staged ever since it was started
back in 1926.
The Cavaliers had yon the crown
the last six season, but Maryland
beat them in a dual meet at Char
lottesville recently, S to 3, so the
winner at College Park will have
clear claim to the 1887 honors.
Only Four Champs Defend.
FIGHT Of the youths who won in
dividual titles last February are
eligible for competition. but only four
will defend. Duke will offer two de-
Tending champions, Capt. Jack
Kneipp, lightweight. and Ray Ma
tulewicz, light-heavyweight, who is
also N. c. A. A. champion and went
to Berlin with the American Olympic
team.
Maryland offers Ivan Nedomatsky,
welterweight, and North Carolina has
Max Novich, middleweight. Virginia
will not be represented by John
Simpson, bantamweight; George Cary,
featherweight or by Fred Cramer,
captain and twice heavyweight cham
pion. Nor will v. M. I. send Joe
Donovan. junior middleweight.
With Simpson out of the way there
will be a hot battling for the u.s.
pound title among Ed Shegogue.
Maryland; Bobby Kroger, Duke, and
Frank Jenkins. South Carolina. She
gogue and Kroger are the most likely
f1naliStS, but Cock Jenkins may cause
trouble. Lee Copely of Richmond also
Is good.
Birmingham Favored.
TOM BIRMINGHAM Marylander.
will be favored in the 125-pound
class now that his nemesis, the Cava-
lier Cary, is out. but he is likely to
have trouble getting past Joe Murnick,
North Carolina, and Jim Little, Duke.
The odds will be on Dukes Kneipp
to successfully defend his 135-pound
trophy. Ben Alperstein, Maryland. is
one of the leading contenders. Other
good boys in this division include
Capt. Glenn Penland, North Carolina
State, and Co-Capt. Jack Lough,
v. P. l.
The best cloutfest of the tourney
Is slated for the 145-pound class if
Maryland's Nedomatsky tangles with
Danny Farrar, Dukes national inter-
collegiate champ. They are the aces
in this class.
Mike Lombarldo of Maryland, Jules
MedTin Of North Carolina, and Pete
Lampesis of the Citadel appear the
cream Of the 155-pound crop as long
as neither Of last years finalists,
Donovan of V. M. I. and MAYNARD
Harlow of Virginia will be on hand
Novich Has Big Task.
NOV1CH will have to battle through
the classiest array of boxers in
any one division to retain his middle
weight belt. The entry slate includes
Al Mann, Duke, champion in 1885,
and runner-up last year; Rex VIII
llams, South Cardinals sophomore
sensation; Lancelot Jacques, Mary
land; Co-Capt. Lou Tobias, Richmond;
Frank Oliver, v. P. l.: Len Cason.
Clemson, and maybe Johnny Lyons,
Citadel.
The flnalistS of last years light
heavyweight mauing, Ray Matulewicz,
Duke, the t1tleholder, and Jack CORN
ley, Maryland, are scheduled to be on
hand again. But they will have to
watch out for Hugh Rogers of the Cit
adel and Mike West, Richmond CO.
captain.
Not one of the heavyweights who
competed in the 1886 tournament is
entered. The unlimited list includes
Orville Rogers, Citadel, who will be
the favorite; Don Schmidt, Duke: N.
v. Helms, North Carolina State; Lam
ny Alderman, North Carolina, and
Frank Polattie, South Carolina.
Tickets, and a great number of
them already have been sold, are
available at the University of Mary
land athletic Office and at Spaldings,
TIT Fourteenth street. Prices range