The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-14
Eight Novices
Will Receive
Champ Crowns
-Four Titles in Open
Division Also to be
Awarded After Fights

Finals OF the Ypsilanti Golden
Gloves Tournamen will get under
way Wednesday night and furious
action is promised with is bouts
on the program. Eight new novice
champions will be crowned. with
four titles in the open division
also on the block.
Scheduled to begin promptly at
1880, with the ring at the Ypsilanti
Armory to be the stage. the tour
ney will last we'll into the night;
and II the preliminar.es and semi
finals are any indication the local
fight fans will be amply rewarded
with a night packed with action
and excitement.
The winner in each class will re.
ceive Golden Glove watch charm
emblematic OF supremacy, while the
runners-up will receive silver
charms.
The competition among the
novices for the trophy which is 70
be given TO the most outstanding
novice is very keen. and the judges
will find 1t difficult to choose from
among the talented Glovers who
will be on the program. Such boys
as Joe Butcko, Harold Coe, Robert
Williams, Giles Thick. Robert
Woodside, James Wren, Lester oil.
tersdorf, will be performing and
the task of choosing the most out.
standing from among them is cer-
tainly an unenvious one. This beau
tiful Golden Trophy is to be pre-
sented to the boy who has shown
good sportsmanship, standout abili-
ty, aggressiveness, and crowd APP
peal.
In Robert Woodside and Lester
Oltersdorf, the tournament has two
very fine boys, who, besides being
exceptional boxers, possess wal
lop in either hand. and from all
indications this match looks to Ire
a toss.up. OF course both will he
in there giving their very best III
an effort TO win and thus secure
the honor OF representing their
team in the district tournament AZ
Adrian.
Another bout which possesses
plenty of promise Is the one IN
which Giles Thielke, Ann Arbor,
opposes Joe Butcko, Ypsilanti; that
is, providing either of them get
by James Franklin, another local
boy, who will give an abundance
Of trouble to any opponent facing
him.
In the open middleweight class
the Brennan Greenwood-Ralph Hol-
brook bout ought to provide the
fans with their craving for a wide
open fight, as both boys are no.
torious knockout artists whose
punches pack enough dynamite 20
stiffen an opponent with one blow.
Anything can happen and probably
will when they meet inside the
squared ring.
Probably the biggest fight of the
evening. and in a literal not figufa-
tive sense. is the bout which will
see irwin Prough, Plymouth, tangle
with Bill Klapper. Belleville.
Prough, standing six feet three and
weighing go pounds will carry
a so pound advantage over the
six foot three inch Klapper but
he will have his work cut out for
him. Everyone who saw the semi
finals will remember the latter, who
threw everything he had but could
not knock out his irol jawed oppon-
ent in a match which has been one
of the features Of the tourney 10
far. Action. of this sort and more
is on schedule for those who will
make up the capacity crowd expect.
ed Wednesday night.
Following is the list OF the fight
ers who will battle in the finals:
Novice fly.weights: Harry Harris,
Ypsilanti; Johnny Leabu, Ypsilanti.
Novice bantam-weight Alex
Boegner. South Lyon; George
Thompson, Ypsilanti; Willis Kram-
err, Ypsilsnti.
Open featherweight: Clyde Knox,
Ypsilanti.
Open lightweight: William Lee,
Ypsilanti; Charles Mays, Ypsilanti |
Novice featherweight: Giles
Thick, Ann Arbor; James Frank.
lin Ypsilanti; Joe Butcko, Ypsi-
lanti.
Novice lightweight: Robert
Woodside. Ypsilsnti: Lester Offers.
dorf, Ypsilanti; Walter LeSavage,
Chelsea.