Evening star., 1961-02-25
Wolfe. Woodland Regain Titles
h Dramatic Golden Gloves Finale
Police Club Gets
Team Trophy
With s Winners
" GEORGE HUBER
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Lightweight Ralph Wolfe
Sns again in the Golden
Gloves boxing tournament. and
does featherWeight Calvin
woodland, both after proving
~ ! determined champion
u itags i successful come
Ack.
These two, dethroned last
ar. won hack their titles last
light In features Of The Eve
&ing stars amateur fight fes-
slfal before 5000 excited fans
ulIne Arena.
FER Wolfe the victory was
4nhlg sweet. he earned 9
lenlEnous decision over Sher-
nm Mitchell. the man who
ok the title from him in 1860.
And for that victory. scored
combining boxing skin with
1ht the right amount Of punch
TN power, Wolfe won the James
Sullivan Memorial Trophy
e. the tournaments outstand-
tE1g senior fighter.
Boons TKO'd IN Second
lGitchell. star Of the Police
nnys Club No. , squad. had
Dn the sullivan Trophy the
scar before for his victory over
wolfe. representing the Cath
ole Youth Organization.
woodland. also on the Police
Boys squad. regained his l26-
pound crown in another Of the
nig1t's hot battles. He stopped
Ralph Boone Of the Edwards
A. c. at l:24. Of the second
round for one Of six champion
ships won by No. 2.
NO. 2. coached by John
9nead, sent fighters into every
senior final (there were no fly-
weights this year, and except
Sor Mitchell all were success
flal. Two Of them were repeat
winners from last year. Light
heavyweight Eugene Welborn
and Welterweigkt Leroy Rob-
erts.
tWelborn beat q teamVnate,
Harold johnson, with Q second
round knockout, and Roberts
scored over David Ryars Of :
the Edwards 4, c.
= Other No. 2 Champions
: Other No. . men crowned
champions last night were Ban
tamweight Purcell Burrell and
Aaddleweight Charley Clemons. l
me clubs sixth championship
went to Jimmy johnson. who {
the week before took the heavy
weight title. Il
Burrell. like Welborn. beat {
d teammate, Ralph Jackson.
and Clemons. who the year be-
fore had lost his welter title I
10 Roberts. made his move into l
the 160-pouhd class q complete
success by outpointing Albert
DeVaughan Of Southeast 4. c, h
The Woodland Boone battle !
was Q c0rkef while It lasted.
with the two l26-pound. buzz
saws whaling away at each ]
other, but the Wolfe Mitchell .
bout lived up to. expectations /
rs the nights feature.
It was . rare rubber cham
scrap between the
two - Wolfe having beaten ]
Mitchell In the 1859 title match j
and both knew they were in
for g battle.
Wolfe took advantage Of his q
slight edge in height and reach ]
and refused to let Mitchell getlt
In close where his power would
count. Ralph circled and
jabbed, scoring with left hooks ID
and an occasional right cross, Il
ahd altogether proved an elu-
siye target.
Mitchell Knocked Down
Late in the second round,
Wolfe got across q good right
high on Mitchell's head that /
put Mitchell on the canvas. 4
He was up immediately, but
had to take the mandatory
eight count. and this one
lnockdown Of the fight prob
ably proved decisive.
In the last round Mitchell
tried to rush Wolfe off his
feet, but Wolfe slowed Mitchell
with several good lefts and won
o close but unanimous decision.
Among the subnovices, Ander-
son Bethea Of the Edwards A. c.
won the Fred Hartley Award .
as the outstanding fighter after
he stopped Danny Hildebrand
Of Hillcrest Heights for the
welterweisht title.
J. The Hillcrest Heights team
7hough, coached BY Humphrey
BeCcla, edged Edwards AC for
the team trophy, I6 points
10 IS.
Galloway Pulls Upset
The real. hot fight among
the subnovices was q young
lightweight war In which
Robert Galloway. unattached,
scored an upset over Gabriel
Maetutu Of the CYO. Both
whaled away from. bell to bell
and both deserved the ovation
they got from the crowd.
In fact all the Subnovices
were willing scrappers, match
ing and in some cases stlrpass-
ing the seniors in enthusiasm
Il not In skill.
Other champions crowned in
that division are Flyweight
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