Evening star., 1941-02-21
Cards and Explorers
Battle in Old Feud
For Local Honors
Terps and Virginia Tech
To Settle Leadership
Of Southern Loop
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Maryland, Catholic U. and Co.
lumbus completed heavy training for
their boxing matches tomorrow
night in a gale of practice punches
yesterday, but there wasn't a smile
in any one of the three camps.
This is serious business coming up
and the boys are on edge. Mary
land, meeting Virginia Tech at Col
lege Park in the second half of the
seasons final twin bill, knows it is
walking into a mess Of trouble and
is prepared for the worst The win
ner will go into the Southern Con-
ference championship tournament
next week in the role of favorite, and
at this writing said winner shapes
up as Tech.
Catholic U. and Columbus, nursing
along the city'S newest neighborhood
rivalry, are eyeing one another as
warily as a couple of strange bull
dogs, wondering how tough the other
fellow is. Use anything you want on
this, calculus, trigonometry or simply
fifth grade arithmetic and it doesn't
add up to more than A draw
That's on paper, of course. but you
can't bring note from teacher when
you step into the duelling pit and a
stray punch here and there may
change the situation drastically.
MARYLAND Team Ready.
Coach Mike Lombardo of Mary
land reports his boys fit and ready.
He'll have John Cordyack in the 165-
pound class for George Pyles, who
left school to join the United States
Air Corps. Cordyack, a novice at the
pillow pushing business but rugged
and willing, gets tough assignment
in Kent Belmore whose record shows
two victories and one defeat. His
only loss was to Capt. F'enton Somer-
Vile of Virginia and that was by a
hairline decision. If Cordyack wins
YOU can mark it down as big upset.
Maryland's hopes appear to be
vested in four men-Judson Lincoln,
12O pounds; Pat Quinn, 1876; "Hotsy"
Alperstein, las, and Herb Gunther,
light-heavyweight. If Len Rodman
can whip Julian SedWick in the
heavyweight class so much the bet
ter, for there is no guarantee that
all of the aforementioned boys will
come through. One defeat in any OF
these classes, however, will just
about kill the Terp's hopes.
Charley Dorr, 127-pounds, and
Bob Miller, 155-pounds, probably
will round out the starting line
up.
Cards, Explorers Undecided.
Neither Jim Mcnamara, Columbus
coach, nor Eddie La Fond of Cath
olic U. have definitely selected their
l:ne-ups and the chances are a cou-
pie of positions on both teams will
be open until after the boys weigh in
tomorrow.
Red Doherty, for example, is listed
in the light-heavyweight bracket for
Columbus, which would pair the
kayo artist with Leo Houck, jr. But
there is a strong possibility Nc
Namara will move up the redhead to
box Casimir Ksycewski and slip a
dark house into the 175-pound role.
Jim McAleer is Columbus regular
heavyweight and is ready for action
if the lineup stands unchanged.
Ted Mandris, Catholic 100
FOUNDER, will be the choice over
Charlie Rohmer, but Lou Taub of
Columbus appears to have the edge
over the Cards 127-pounder, Lenny
Baritone. Columbus Bernie Jackson
is the favorite over Eddie Beasley
or John Obregon in the lightweight
class, the Achilles heel of the Cardi-
nal team, but Huck Hughes is ex-
pected to get this point back against
Elmer jacobson in the 145-pound
bout.
Hard to Pick FavOrite.
From there on in they can go
either way. In the 155-pound class
it will be Gus GerSin of Catholic VS..
Max Coe or Frank Cuddy. At 165
pounds Capt. Gerry Strang of Cath
olic boxes Charlie Cox, who beat
the Card leader last year when
Strang had bruised rib.
Catholic won last years hair
raising duel when Jay Turner got
up off the floor to knock out Abe
Cohen in the heavyweight scrap.
The score was AZ to 3la and there
will not be more than that much
difference between the teams to-
morrow night.
A capacity crowd is expected at
Brookland, for the match will carry
the mythical and somewhat useless
District collegiate championship tag.