The Washington times., 1937-01-09

Teams in Top
Shape for
DebufS
BY FRANK BUCK" ONEHL

The intercollegiate boxing sea-
son will roar into Washington
and contiguous territory tonight.
The Flying Cardinals Of Catholic
University face the ring warriors
of North Carolina State at Brook
land, and University Of Maryland
faces the Green Terrors Of West
ern Maryland at College Park.
The fighters. Of the four teams
are in as fine condition as two
months of careful training and
direction can make them, and re-
gardless of which teams wins
there will be action.
One Southern Conference cham
pion will return to the wars when
Ivan THE Terrible" Nedoman-
sky, of Maryland, squares off
against the welterweight entry
from the Green TerrorS. This
youngSter fights with the fury Of
an amateur tempered by the in
stinct Of the professional.
Terrific PEncher
He Is a terrific puncher with
his right hand, but he has a good
left hand, and his ring technique
is all that can reasonably be
asked for any college boy.
A prospective champion on the
Maryland team will hold the in
tereSt of those who pay as much
attention to methods as to action
in glove bout. Mike Lombardo,
a 155-pound boy from Newark, Is
the best boxer at College Park. He
has observed the best professionals
in action from the time he was big
enough to step over a duck. He is
a Stylist, but lacks driving force
in his punches.
There is another youngster on
the Maryland team who may go
through to the finals, and may
even win the lightweight title, il
he fights as well In competition as
he has fought in preliminary tests.
This boy is Benny Alperstein, who
looks like a violin player, but who
hits like George CLANCY. The
CLANCY illusion is heightened for
the reason Alperstein is south
paw.
Blond Terror
They call Alperstein the "blond
terror" in the privacy Of the locker
room. He tears in after the fash
ion of Dempsey, drawing leads, and
slipping them by finely coordi-
mated weaving In which he coun-
ters to the body or head with
terrific power. He is a natural
weaver, and by his style Of slipping
leads is ever in position to seize
an opening.
Ed Egnall, a 220-pound young
ster, with a devastating left hook
is a prominent contender for
heavyweight honorS Egnan
may lack certain essentials as Q
dazzling boxer, but he has the No.
/ essential of all fighters: smash
ing left hand . Egnall can knock
out man with a left hook. Joe
Louis can do no more.
When you start talking about
heavyweight boxing, you start
talking of the class that holds
the interest of the public, and
Eddie La Fond has a real prospect
out at Catholic University in Leo
Katalinas, tackle on the football
team.
Really Improved
KatalinaS really has improved
since last year, and he did right
well then. He has mastered the
knack of slipping inside of a left
jab or left hook and dropping q
righthand counter to the heart
or solar plexus. He stopped half
a dozen boys this season in prac-
tice with right-hand body punches.
Freddie Rogers is another fine
young athlete who is boxing at
Catholic University. Right now
he is a bit over the light heavy
weight class, but Eddie La Fond
thinks the weight can be worked
off without reducing Rogers
powers in the slightest. Freddie
is a well rounded boxer, with Q
special knack for body punching.
Promising Bantam
Dave Bernstein, a kid from
Chicago is a promising bantam
weight at Catholic University. He
started as an amateur wrestler,
but hanging around Howard'S
Gymnasium out in the Loop, he
learned a lot about boxing Styles
He is a counter fighter and .
clever feinter. although he runs
move to hand and glove feinting
then to shoulder, head and knee
deceptionS.
Both Eddie La Fond and Heinie
Miller, coach of the Cardinals
and TerrapinS, respectively, agree
that they find two major diff.
ficulties in college boxers. The
kids learn attack readily enough.
but the slipping of punches and
ducking from the knees seems to