Evening star., 1939-01-22
diversified Owls
Get Two Wins
Against {. U.
Bunso, Strong Record
T. K. O.'s That Leave
Visitors in Ruck
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Dy DUN lON HAW hlNS.
Granted choice between cancel
ing their boxing match with Temple
at a late hour or allowing two over
weight fighters to swing against
them, Catholic University mittmen
elected to fight last night at Brook
land and unleashed enough fistic
fury to carve out a So victory
over the Owls before 1000 spectators.
Refusing to make his pair of over
weight fighters, Daniel Falco and
Tony Guida, shed their excess avoir.
dupois, Coach Charley Kane of Tenn
pie threatened to forfeit the entire
card to the Cardinals when Coach
Eddie La Fond of Catholic U. de.
manded the Owls abide by the rules.
Kane insisted Guida and Falco be
allowed to fight and, rather than
postpone the engagement, La Fond
yielded, despite that he had forced
one OF his own fighters, Nestor Mar.
tlnez, to trim off pounds at noon
when he scaled in over the light.
weight limit.
Overweight Owls Win.
Gulda and Falco, both Eastern
conference champions, accounted
Tor two OF Temples wins, Falco rallv.
ing IN the final round to spank Mar.
tlnez by narrow margin and Guida
scoring a technical knockout in the
tnlro round over the inexperienced
out thoroughly game Bill Gearon.
Falco, however, was presented a
stlft argument by the improvinp
Martinez. The Puerto Rican Card
smashed Falco to the canvas for
the trst time in his collegiate ca.
reer IN the second round with a
slzzilng left hook, and Falco abb
sorbed the full benefits of the
count. The Temple puncher twice
dropped Martinez in the third, when
Nestor lost his head and chose to
mix 1t with the hard-hitting vet.
eran.
BY those two triumphs TempIe
pulled on even terms with the
CARDS, who had spurted into a
70 lead due to Dave Bernstein's
decision victory over Nick Glenn.
red-haired Eastern Conference BAN
tamWeight champion, and Tonv
Messuri's triumph over a fidgetv.
wild Morris German in the 127
pound class.
Bernstein Drops Foe.
HIS right shoulder swathed In
tape, Bernstein, national intercol.
ieglate bantamWeight champion.
employed left hooks as his vehicle
to victory, slicing Glenn's right eve
IN the third round before betting
MIN to the floor simultaneously with
the final bell.
Joe Bunsa, who spent months In
hospital and subsequent weeks
on crutches last year due to football
INJURIES, came back in big way for
Catholic U. in the 155-pound divi-
sion. crashing a left hook to ths
cnln OF Sid Novel to register a tech.
meal Knockout in l minute SIS sec.
onds OF the first round. Coach Kane
decided Novel; had seen enough OF
Bunsa as soon as his fighter slumped
TO the floor and tossed in the towel.
Gerald Strang boosted Catholics
margin to 40, clubbing Robert Hess
to horizontal position irf 40 seconds
OF the second round. Again Coach
Kane exercised his arm and termi-
mated the tiff by Tipping in the
towel.
Slant Outpoints Stylianos.
Fred Slant of Catholic scored a
decision win over John Stylianos in
rather dull light t-heavyweight en-
gagement, while Jonah BoWles of
Temple outpointed Jay Turner in
the heavyweight bout. Bowles,
butted in the first round, spouted
blood from external and internal
nose cuts throughout the scrap. but
nicked Turner with enough solid
rights to win.
Summary:
l2o pounds-Bernstein catholic U) de.
u. pornds-Messuri &c. " decisioned
\, l35 pounds-Falco CTemple) decision.d
l45 pounds-Guida tTemple) won by
trd ttscndnicai knockout over Gearon. ITO,
155 pornds--Bunsa catholic " won
! first round Ao"'
165 pounds-strang catholic u1 won
oy technlca! knockout over Hess Az sec
onds, second round.
IL. gpornds-stant catholic " deci-
stoned Turner.