The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
By NED BROWN NEA Staff Correspondent

New York, Nov. IA bigger and better crop of boxers will emerge from the war, resulting in ter rife boom in the beak-busting bus mess.
 Benny Leonard of the Merchant Marine is particularly optimistic.
 "The last war turned out some good boxers, Gene Tunney and Bob Martin, among them," says Leonard, great lightweight champion and boxing instructor in two wars. "This time the results will be infinitely better. There is better teaching. Boys are getting better training than any youngster ill the profess sional ranks received in the years between the wars.
 Since I've been at Hoffman Island, N. Y., I've coached more than 2,000 young men, and among them have been at least 100 who would make the grade profession ally. Our station is small comparN to other Navy training centers, but the proportion obtains throughout" :"
 Perhaps because he is in the Navy, Leonard predicts that the next leavyWeight champion will come from that branch of the armed l forces.
 Navy is showing the way in box | ing and football at that.
 FARRAGUT UNCOVERS
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 At the continuation of 8 Six-weeks' elimination and ladder tournament conducted among recruits at i've | camps in the second largest Naval Station at Farragut, Idaho, cham pions were crowned in all classes except the hyweight.
 Those who witnessed the contests enthusiastically proclaimed these winners would go through the money ranks like threshers through ! corn field.
 1 Al Buese of St. Louis, who won the heavyweight title by beating Louis Vara of Chicago, would De i a top-heavy favorite among his bud dies if he were matched with Joe Louis.
 "He hits like a pile-driver," de- clares Jim McVeigh, chief specialist and assistant boxing coordlnator TOT the station. If we didn't put pig gloves on him, he might kill hls opponents"
 "In the last war, most of the box ing was confined to the Army" re- calls Lieutenant Leonard. We hac men like the Gibbons brothers Packey Mcfarland, Johnny Kilbane and Willie Ritchie as teachers, bu' the method was chaotic.
 "In this war it's just the opposite and most of the boxing is concen' trated in the Navy. Top-notch mer are doing the teaching and boxing is compulsory. Commander Tunney trains the Navy. Lieut.. Cdr. Jack Dempsey trains the Coast Guard Billy Wallace is at Sampson, N. Y Arthur Donovan and Bob Olin are at Sheepshead Bay.
 "In addition to daily classes, Q regular boxing show is held weekly at all big stations"
 FIELD TO BE WIDE OPEN
 Belief that postwar champions will come from the Navy is not con- fined to Navy men.
 By the time the war is won pres ent champions will be through" as- serts James J. Johnston, the veteran manager. "The armed services have all the best kids from 18 to 20, and in the Navy they're learning boxing from real experts under the best training conditions. The postwar crop of boxers will be the finest Ill history" -.
 "There are four times as many boys in the service now as there were in the last war;" stresses Matchmaker Nat Rogers of Madi- son Square Garden. They're get ting four times as much and better training. So they'll be four times better than the boys who came out | of the last war"