Evening star., 1940-01-14
Cardinals Rally
|Upsets Miami,
s. 10 y
Host Team Gets Two
Of Three Knockouts;
Turner Shines
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

ny M ASh4co4Ns
Miami University's touring ring
team ran into a detour last night
at Brooklyn where it met Catholic
University's mittmen and tumbled
into a 5R-21a defeat. A throng
Of $500 fans turned out to see the
Cardinals in their debut, drive to
victory in the last four bouts.
Actually Catholic lost only one
bout and that to the Hurricanes
highly regarded lightweight in Joe
Church, who scored a technical
knockout over Rookie John Tedder.
Coach Eddie LaFond elected to for
felt the 120-pound engagement to
clever Benny Lovett rather than
give him batting practice on some
inexperienced youngsters hide.
It's lengthy trip seemed to have
taken something out of the formid-
able Southerners, who stopped off
at Clemson on their way north to
hand the Tigers a sinner, and
Catholic sapped the rest of it's en-
ergy. The Redbirds scored techni-
cal knockoutS in the 165 and 175-
pound weights and Jay Turner
topped it off by spotting Tom Kearns
Sc pounds in the heavyweight en-
gagement and pounding out a decis-
sion over him.
Baritone Squares Meet.
Lovett opened the program in an
exhibition bout with Dave Bern
stein, former c. U. star now doing
graduate work, so when the bell
Changed for the first actual bout
Miami held a 10 advantage.
Lenny Baritone soon squared &C
counts by punching out a clean
cut decision over Jerry O'Connell
in fast duel, scoring repeatedly
with right that came around
like a boomerang to smack its as
tonished recipient on the head. The
stocky youngsters victory fitted in
with LaFond's plans like the last
piece of jig-saw puzzle, for he
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lum Of victory toward his team.
Church was entirely too fast and
experienced for Teddler, although
the latter displayed good form un-
| til the bout was stopped. He used
left jab effectively throughout the
first round and fought back with
all the power at his command when
Church turned on the heat, but
simply couldn't match the Hurri-
cane star.
Hughes Is Budding Star.
The host team exhibited another
budding star in Huck Hughes, sturdy
l45-pounder, who earned a draw
with George Bach. Hughes had a
slight advantage on The Star score
sheet by virtue of his excellent box
ing in the first two rounds, but
wilted like drug store lettuce in
the final canto.
Joe Bunsa opened the rally that
crowned the Brooklanders' coming
out party with success, scoring
handily over Joe Bonano in the 155-
pound bout. Bunsa cracked Bonano
with a right that foored him for
a 9-count in the first round, but
the game Miami representative
climbed back up on his feet and
finished the bout.
Knockouts followed in quick sue
cession with Gerry Strang, Catholic
middleweight. blasting Bud Stern
to the carpet with a series of right
hand howitzers that left the visitor
in no condition to continue. The
end came after Is seconds of the
third round elapsed with Strang
comfortably ahead on points.
Slant Scores Knockout.
Fred Slant. the Redbirds' inter-
collegiate middleweight champion,
who moved up a notch to box Red
Cameron, played his cards perfect
ly to score knockout. Big and
tough, Cameron insisted on going
after Slant, trying to whip both
hands to the head. He was walking
in when Fred suddenly emerged
from his shell and splattered a bone
crushing right on his Jaw that
brought the set to to sudden end.
The spectators felt twinge of
pity for roly-poly Jay Turner when
he bowed under the ropes to meet
kearns. The Miami boy lowered
over him like giant and it didn't
appear. that Turner would last long.
but he had other ideas. He found
keans a vulnerable target for a
straight left jab and also located
a glaring weakness in the big fell
lows tummy, and while Kearns was
dangerous until the last bell, he
couldn't get away from Turner's
Furnishing hail of blows.
12O pounds. U. forfeited to Loyett
l27 pounds-Bartone &c. ~ defeated
l35 pounds-church (MiamD defeated
Tedder 1T. K. O.. :35. second round).
145 pounds-Bach (MiamD drew with
l55 pounds-Bunsa &c. ~ defeated
1856 pounds-strang &C. W defeated
175 pounds-Stant &C. ~ defeated
Cameron Ct. K. O.. 45 seconds, second
Observation-Disclosures ~ IT, d.f..t.s