The Washington times., 1938-12-15
LA FOND ELATED
At PROMISE OF
C, U. RING TEAM
BY KIRK MILLER

The irrepressible little French
man who is Eddie LaFond, coach
Of Catholic University's horde OF
intercollegiate and intramural
boxers, is bristling with exuberance
these crisp fall days, and indeed
why shouldn't he!
With a class of 38 young col
legians already reporting daily
for fisticuffing and more still COM
ing as soon as pre-holiday examlna-
lions are done away with. LaFond,
one of the best three referees on
the rolls of the Boxing Commits
sion of the District of Columbia,
has real reason for his genuine
elation.
You may take it from Eddie
that he'll have equally as good a
glove team to wage the six-game
intercollegiate wars starting at Vii
lanova January IL as that which
went to the Southern Conference
tournament at Charlottesville last
spring, four Of its members going
to the semifinals, with Dave Bern
stein and KatalinaS surviving.
LOSES ONE ACE
KatalinaS has gone hence to
professional footballs Greenbay
Packers, if you please, but Bern
stein is still hanging around to
star in the 119-pound class again.
Incidentally David this year is
co-captain of the Cardinal boxing
team along with Fred Slant, a 1866
FOUNDER.
To begin with the lower weights,
LaFond is expecting much this
winter of Tony MeSSuri, who last
year lost against the University OF
Maryland in his only fight of the
campaign. John Baritone is La
Fond's next best 125-pounder, and
looks promising.
In the 135-pound group, C. U.
looks to Nestor Martinez, the little
Cuban who gleefully swings the
mitts each afternoon in the west
end Of the hangar-like gymnasium
ct Brookland.
MAKES COMEBACK
Martinez was out of boxing last
year, but has made a good come
back and is as huStling and color
full a mitt singer as the squad
boasts.
OF the 145-pound boys, McDon-
aid, Spitzig and Scullen have
made more progress than the
others, but that class is far from
being the strongest LaFond will
toss into the ring come January
and February.
In the next class, the 1856
pound coterie, Joe BunSa. appears
the most promising. Joe, many
Of you will recall, knocked out
his opponent, MarnS, of the Car
negie Tech team, year ago. Dur
ing the summer, Bunsa fell vic
tim of an appendicitis attack. fall
ing away to 1T pounds. He's
gained it all back and is going
strong each afternoon in his re-
hearSalS.
S1ANI STANDS OO1
Co-Captain Slant stands out
among the 165-pound candidates
who will wear the C. U. colors
when the boxing season rolls
around in mid-January. He was
one of the Cardinals who went
to the SemifinalS at CharlotteS-
vile, a tough milepost to reach.
Jay Turner at the moment ap-
pears to be LaFond's best bet
among the light heavyweights,
but it may be that Jay will wind
up fighting heavyweightS.
This possibility is brought
about through the fact that La
Ponds main hope in the heavleS
at the moment is Julius STANCES,
a 192-pound football tackle. While
inexperienced in the ring. he has
plenty of heart. but it may not be
quite enough to see him through.
MAKES HOME DEBUT
If Turner does fight as heavy,
his 175-pound spot will be absorbed
by Jerry Strang, a sophomore who
never fought before.
The Catholic University boxers
make their home debut a week
following the trip to fight Villa
nova. First to appear here against
the Cardinals will be Phila-
delphia's Temple University, eX-
hibiting here on Saturday night,
January 81. Then, on January
%, comes the widely sung meet
with Maryland at College Park
when Richie Coliseum will be
thronged with adherents of the
two local" schools.
Follows three straight Satur-
day nights at Brookland when
Duke fights there February 4, Vir-
GINA Polytechnic, February II, and
North Carolina State, February Is.