Evening star., 1939-01-28
Terp Ring Squad
Keyed Check
Upset Tonight
Formidable Cavaliers
Also to Be Feared
In Court Clash
By BURTON HAWKINS.

Local collegiate SpOrtdOm S mOSt
enticing bit of indoor bait will be
dangled before a capacity audience
of 4,200 tonight at College Park,
where double e-barreled attraction
will present Maryland's boxing team
feuding with Catholic University
and the Terp basket ball team clash
ing with Virginia. The program will
start at o'clock with the court
battle.
Favored to disturb the respective
anatomies of Catholic represent ;
atives in the ring engagement, Mary
land, nevertheless, Is heading into
trouble unless the prowess Of the
Cardinals has been underestimated.
The Terps are calculated to capture
the first four bouts and gain at
least a draw in one of the final four
to snatch victory, but paper" pre-
dictions never have followed form
in these tiffs and there is reason to
suspect an upset.
The Cards have been dealt the
worst Of it in pre-match events.
First, Dave Bernstein. national in
tercollegiate bantamWeight cham
pion, was discovered to have tossed
more than his quota of collegiate
leather. Then Tony Messuri, regu-
lar 127-pound fighter who was being
showed down to Bernstein's 100
pound berth, bumped into stray
fist and woke up finding himself out
for the season with broken nose.
Terps Mostly Veterans.
Catholic Is spotting experience.
lots OF it, to Maryland in five fuses,
and the odds figure to be too PROF.
hibitive, but Catholic Maryland
matches don't travel in set channels.
Aside from the first bout, in which
the Cards woefully green Ricardo
Fernandez will mix with Maryland's
George Dorr, Coach Eddie La Fond
feels he has chance. And, college
boxing being a blood relative Of the
professional branch of the sport in
the matter of dizziness, he probably
has.
If the match follows form, the l55e
pound bout involving Catholics Joe
Bunsa and the Terps' Frank Cronin
may determine the outcome. Bunsa
knows his way around q ring, while
Cronin, drafted from the track team.
will be pushing pillows for the sec
ond time.
But Cronin can hit, some say
harder than Bunsa, and apparently
he loves the atmosphere. He has
absorbed much of the ring wisdom
tossed in his direction by Coach
Heinie Miller and PAGES himself
smoothly, potent point when realiz-
ing Bunsa has had little more thap
a week Of training.
Leonard Baritone will be making
his official debut as Cardinal cuffer
In the l27-pound class and will be
an underdog to Bob Bradley. while
Catholics Nestor Martinez also will
be installed in the same role against
Benny Alperstein, national inter.
collegiate lightweight champion.
Askin Rated Over Gearon.
In the l45-pound class, Marylandy
Nathan Askin is heavy choice over
| the inexperienced Bill Gearon, but
! Coach La Fond is enthusiastic over
the manner in which Gearon has
improved and thinks he rates a good
chance of spilling the lanky Terp.
Newton Cox, Maryland 165-pound-
er, has an edge in experience over
Gerald strang. but Strang has adj
vanced rapidly, while Fred Slant
and Jay Turner, Catholics u.s.
pound and heavyweight representa-
tives, respectively, will be favored
over Bob Lodge and Herman Raisin.
Maryland, victorious over Duke,
5-3, In its only match. regards c. o.,
which has lost to Villanova and de-
feated Temple, as its toughest bar
rier to an undefeated year because
the form sheet, which leans toward
Maryland, seldom has been right.
Virginia is importing a fast basket
ball team which has snatched five
OF six games. Included in the Cav
alters lineup will be Bill Harman,
former Episcopal High athlete, who
has teamed with Capt. Leroy Strick-
Ter, Armand Feldman, Walter Smith
and Bill McCann to give Virginia
what may be its best team in wars