Evening star., 1952-08-03
Ring Feots Unprecedented;
Sweep Diving
BY the Associated Press

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olympic victory drought ended in
J golden cascade of first-place
Medals tonight as Americas in
pired boxers swept five cham
beat Russia in the only
ace-to-face meeting of the two
nations in the sport, and won the
unofficial team title for the first
lime.
In matching their perfect Ave
.or-five performance in the SEMI
finals yesterday, Uncle Sans
leather-pushers not only broke
the Games record for individual
victories but also romped off with
the silver loving cup given to the
outstanding boxer in the tourna-
ment.
This went to Norvel Lee, the 27-
year-old veteran from Washing
ton, D. c., who won the light
heavyweight crown and drew rave
after rave from other boxers.
officials, coaches and trainers for
being the perfect Olympic boxer"
(See story on Page AID
Lee, a picture fighter, who boxes
in the classic standup style, grace
fully maneuvered to a unanimous
decision over wild-sWinging An
tonic Pacenza of Argentina.
Brooks Starts Parade.
The victory parade was touched
off by slender Nate Brooks. the
18-year-old flyweight from Cleve-
land, and carried on by light
welterweight Charley Adkins of
Gary, Ind. Middleweight Floyd
Patterson of New York, Lee and
then giant Eddie Sanders of Los
Lee won the cup, but Adkins, 20
year-old National Collegiate cham
pion from San Jose State, won the
sweetest victory of them all. He
beat the Russian, game, strong
Viktor Medkov, in the bout that
gave the United States it's second
individual title of the evening
and clinched the team champion
ship.
With five first placers, the
United States piled up so points
on a 10-5-4-3 basis. There was no
fight-off for third and fourth
places and the beaten semifinal-
lists in each division received ga
points apiece.
Finland Ties for Second.
RuSSia's two finaliSts both were
beaten and the once high rolling
Soviet boxing brigade wound up
in a tie for second place with
little Finland, the host nation,
each with "a points. And Finland
had a champion to boast Of, it's
second in the history of the box
ing Olympics.
Rugged Pentti Hamalainen sent
Finland's colors fluttering up the
center victory pole when he out
pointed lanky John McNally of
Ireland for the bantamweight
prize.
The other four titles were de
vided by as many nations.
Jan Zachara of Czechoslovakia
outpointed Italy's Sergio Caprari
for the featherweight crown.
Italy's Aureliano Bolognesi rallied
to whip Poland's Alesky Antkie-
vic for the lightweight gold
medal.
Poland's Ziggie Chychla con-
|quered Russia's Sergej Scherba-
kov for the welterweight prize.
And Hungary's Laszlo Papp be-
came the second man ever to win
two Olympic boxing champion
ships when he drubbed South
Africa's Theunis van Schalkwyk
for the acknowledgements dia-
dem. Papp won the middleweight
title in 1948.
The United States hadn't won
a boxing championship since 1882
when Welterweight Eddie Flynn
and Middleweight Carmen Barth
slashed to victory.
The American boxers thought it
would be up to them to clinch
the team championship for the
entire Olympics. But that was
taken care of earlier in the day.
Adkins Takes Care of Russian.
So it was up to Adkins to take
care of the Russians.
"I'll do it or they'll have to carry
me out" said the grim-faced Ne
gro. All five American winners are
Negroes.
The 20-year-old father of one
child entered the ring with
patches over and under his left
eye to protect cuts. The Russian
had two heavy patches over his
eyes. He had big gashes requiring
seven stitches over the right eye
and six over the left one.
Charley took the fight right to
the usually aggressive Russian. He
ripped left hooks to the head to
win the first round by an edge
and knock the patch of Medkov's
left eye. In the second Adkins
hammered the Russian all over