Evening star., 1941-12-03
Ring Outlook atC. i.
Held Brighter Than
La Fond Views II
Coach Has Difficulties,
As Usuo', but Many
Good Boys on Hand
By LEWIS r. ATCHISON.

Catholic University must have an
other good boxing team coming up
or else Coach Eddie La Fond has re-
written his act and incorporated a
couple of new gags for his ever
loving public. The yard wide Cardi-
nal mentor was saying today he
hasn't much hope of winning a
match this season. You know the
rest of it, a tough schedule, no
material. etc.
One luscious raspberry for the
gent with the thin, brown hair and
good, stout, "Oh, yeah?" from the
gallery. This is old stuff with Uhis-
kers and goatee to match to pen
welding fraternity familiar with M.
La Fond's quotations and must be
taken with a grain of salt. Also
shake we'll before using.
But lie monsieur vows he's not
screaming wolf this time-at least
not without good reason.
Points to Great Losses.
Eve lost everybody but the ticket
seller off last years team" he
means. And we have another tough
schedule with practically no re-
placements How can We replace
four regulars-all consistent win
ners-with pea-green rockies and
keep our heads above water? You
tell me- MY guess is we'll have TO
stick in there and take our lacings
this winter and try to develop men
for next season. I tell you we aren't
any powerhouse"
From this distance IT'S hard to
hear La Fond and even more diff
cult to interpret his remarks True,
he lost Leo Houck, Gus Gersir,
Jerry Strang and Lenny Barton,
but he has five fair scrappers bar
and a flock of aspiring young leati
er-pushers trying for the vaca'
positions. Any boy on the Broo'
land campus able to stand up ~
minutes after lacing on a boyir
| glove is liable to find himself {
| the squad and after few lesson
doing very well, too But La For
is correct in assuming they won't !
/ championship contenders in the
kindergarten year.
Returning are Leo Gaffney,
smart little lightweight, who Wo
only one bout last season. droppe'
two and got a draw in another.
But Buck Hughes. captain this year,
won four of his six bouts and was
improving all the time and should
be a point winner. Ditto for Teddv
Mandris, who won four bouts. lost
and tied one each. and "Sneeze"
Kyzcewski, the heavyweight, who
broke even in two arguments.
Wowak Is Question Mark.
, A question mark is Leon Wovak
5 highly-touted 155-pounder. who al
, most knocked the ears off Houcl
in training, but didn't 70 so we'll il
actual competition. Wowak mus
! step on the gas to keep pace wit
his mates, but if he does the Card
may have-and probably will have
, another winning team.
The 165-pound and light-heavy-
: weight classes are the weak links in
. this Cardinal outfit, but LaFond is
working on John Mcdonald and has
i. hopes of getting him ready for the
lighter class. Price WEIGH. a 120-
FOUNDER, is the only other outstand-
ing candidate, although LaFond
hasn't received any reports in the
last few days from Dave Bernstein.
his right bower, who is handling
most of the boys. while Eddie whips
his sports program into shape
Maybe the Cards are headed for
trouble, and maybe it will be one
of their rare losing seasons. bu
we wouldn't bet on it. LaFonC
means have an unmistakable hanr
treble that BODIES the opposite
no good.