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Eleven area puylists, including three from Webb City and one from Carthage, this morning weighed in at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan., for this week’s Kansas City Regional Golden Gloves tournament. Included in the tourney field are Rick Allen, Carthage, and Leonard Johnson, John Pinney and Johnny Johnson, Webb City. Preliminaries in the novice and open divisions begin tonight, with the novice finals slated Wed nesday night and the open championships scheduled for Thursday night in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, MO. Winners of the regional tour nament will compete in March in the national tournament. Another added incentive in this year’s tourney will be a possible in vitation to try out for the U.S. Olympic Boxing team which will journey this summer to Munich, Germany. Although listed as an open fighter in the 112-pound division in the tourney here and the one in Joplin, Allen will be permitted to compete in the Kansas City tourney as a novice since he’s never won a novice title at Kansas City. Johnny Johnson also will battle in the 112-pound novice category. Other novice battlers will include Jim Pearish, Joplin, 127 pounds, and Wally Tweedy, Columbus, Kan., 156 pounds. Leonard Johnson won titles this year in the Carthage Lions Club tourney and the Joplin tour nament in the 132 pound category. Other open pugilists entered in Kansas City include Mike Mc Clure, Columbus, 147 pounds; Bill Pearish, Joplin, 119 pounds; Kenny Sigafoose, Columbus, 132 pounds; John Pinney, 156 pounds; and Jerry Buttram, Quapaw, Okla., 165 pounds. Allen fought Saturday night at Wichita, Kan. in the 188-pound novice category and won the crown while being honored as the most aggressive novice fighter. Doug Abbiatti, Carthage, copped the 126-pound open category by knocking out his opponent in the first round of the title match. He will represent Wichita at the Kansas City regionals. Sigafoose, Graves, Buttram and Robert Newton, Miami, Okla, heavyweight, and Bill Pearish also captured titles there. Pearish was named the tour ney’s outstanding boxer. Tim Brady dropped a close decision in the 112-pound finals. The local team was managed by Dave Baugh of Carthage, former coach of the local Lions team. Baugh, L. P. Lane, Carthage, matchmaker for the Carthage and Joplin tourneys; Erman Jay, Seneca, and Robbie Robinson, Columbus, will serve as coaches for the local fighters.
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Carthage Press
Carthage, Missouri, US
Mon, Feb 14, 1972
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