Evening star., 1941-02-23
Cards Win First
Two Bouts and
Coast Along
Hughes and Coe Put
On Hottest SIueeing
Match Seen Here
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

BY LEWIS +. ATCHISON.
Catholic University and Columbus
manufactured more excitement than
the old town has seen since the
British put match to the Capitol
in their boxing match last night
and the Cardinals prevailed So.
A capacity crowd of 1000 saw
c. U. chalk up its second straight
victory over the Explorers and its
fourth of the year. Seats were
Superf1uous for nobody used them
after the second fight as the eve
ning's business quickly evolved into
an old-fashioned neighborhood
braWl.
The card was rife with upsets.
Gerry Strang, Catholic captain, lost
his first fight at 165 pounds in a
rouSing setto with Charley Cox and
Len Baritone, the winners hard
hitting l27-pounder, beat Lou Taub.
This squared accounts for Lenny,
who lost to the raven-hared Ex-
plorer last year.
Cards Get Good Sport.
Charley Rohmer, a game but alb
solutely defenseless youngster, alb
sorbed a torrent of blows before
finally losing by a technical knock
out to Ted Mandris of Catholic in
the opening 120-pound engagement.
Mandris had Rohmer reeling and
groggy when Referee Charley Rey-
nolds stopped the argument.
Lenny Baritone survived a sizzling
crack on the jaw in the third round
to beat Lou Taub and give c. U. a
20 lead. Baritone out-boxed and
out-generalled the Explorer most
OF the way and shook off the effects
OF hard left TO the head in the
second to stay in the lead. He kept
singing left in Taub's face and
shook him up with a fusilade of
rights to the head and body in the
third.
Bernie Jackson finally broke the
ice for Columbus, scoring a technical
knockout over inexperienced John
Obregon after l minute and IS sec
onds of the first round.
Fight Thrilling Match.
Huck Hughes. c. U. 145-pounder,
knocked down Max Coe in the sec
ond round with a crunching right
to the head to win hairline deci-
sion in one of the most dramatic
knock-doWn, drag-out fights in
Brookland ring history.
Coe summoned strength from
some mysterious force and all but
eVened matters in the third with a
series of left hooks to the head that
all but f1oored Hughes. Only a
second before that pulsating rally he
was reeling and bleary- with
pain from devastating barrage Of
rights and lefts to the head and
body Both barely were able to
stand up at the finish.
Gus Gersin. Cardinal 155-pounder.
found elongated Frank Cuddy an
easy target for body blows in the
first two rounds. then shifted his
attack to the head in the third to
win b. a technical knockout, 25 sec
onds after the str"t of the round.
Cuddy also was down for a count in
the second.
Cox Shades Strang.
Charley Cox cut the host teams
margin another point by outboxing
Gerry Strang to gain the nod in
their 165-pound bout Strang forced
the fighting, showing Cox through
the ropes in round two in his anxiety
to land telling blow but Cox made
good use Of his superior reach and
piled up slight margin on counter
punching.
Leo Houck. jr.. Catholic U. light
heavyweight stretched the highly
touted Warren Red DohertV twice
for nine counts in the first round
and survived the Explorers finishing
furry to win.
Dohertv. it was apparent had a
China chin. and was glassv-eyed
throughout all of the first and most
of the second rounds. He came
to near the end of the second. how
ever. and stopped Leo in his tracks
with a riQht to the pit Of the
stomach. Red won the third with
plenty to spare driving Houck from
corner to corner. forcing him to
clinch and hold at every opportu-
nifty But he couldn't atone for the
knockdowns
Casimir CSneezel KSyCeWSki ap-
piled the CouD d'Grace to the EX-
plorers pounding out decision over
strinobeany and stubborn Johnny
McAleer The Columbus heavy
weight made a surprisingly game
fight and was in there pitching at
the final bell
12O pounds-Ted Mandris &C. U)
defeated Charlie Rohmer, IT. K. o.,
l.20. second roundO
127 pounds-Lenny Baritone, &C.
u defeated Lou Taub.
135 pounds-Bernie Jackson (Co-
lumbusl defeated John Obregon IT.
K O.. 1:25. first round).
145 pounds-Hugh Hughes &C. W
defeated Max Coe.
155 pounds-Gus Gersin &C. W
defeated Frank Cuddy, IT. K. o.,
025. third round)
l65 pounds-Charley Cox CO.
lumbus) defeated Gerry Strang.
IT'S pounds-Leo Houck, jr., &c.
u defeated Warren Doherty.
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