Upsets Highlight 1962 Golden Gloves Finals in Beckley
Three favored boxers fell as Combined Insurance Co. won the team trophy at Raleigh County Armory Field House. Hooper brothers claimed Champion of Champions honors while Beckley’s Flying Eagles seek a 17th win to tie the school record in tonight’s Beckley Huntington showdown.
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Flying Eagles
George McLaughlin
Raleigh County Armory
Field House
Combined Insurance Co
Seth
Mabscott Shoe Shop
Johnny Tanner
Jerry Cline
James Toler
Charles James
Wayne Sullivan
Max Clay
John Hooper
Mt. Hope
Frank Spangler
Fayetteville
Spangler
Hooper
Columbia Grill
Charles
Wayne Stump
Crab Orchard
Douglas Barker
Sullivan
Clay
Beckley
Huntington
Lawrence Wiseman
Beckleyans
Mount Hope
Wiseman
Pony Express
Eagles
Damon Cook
Bill
Paul Allen
Cook
Allens
Bill Karbonit
David Barksdale
Bane Sarrett
Bane
Ron Cimala
Pack Hindsley
Sarrett
Mountaineers Fall to NYU Then Face Syracuse Saturday
WVU dropped an 85 75 decision to NYU at Madison Square Garden, fading after a 44 36 halftime deficit. Barry Kramer led NYU with 29 points, Harold Hairston added 21, while Rod Thorn was held to one field goal in the first 16 minutes and fouled out late. Dick Dubois sparked WVU in the second half as NYU secured the win before facing Syracuse on Saturday night.
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Syracuse
N. Y
UPI
West Virginia
Mountaineers
New York University
NYU
Madison Square Garden
Violets
Barry Kramer
Harold
Happy) Hairston
Tom Boose
Boose
Rod Thorn
Andy Thorn
Thorn
Kramer
Schenectady
Dick Dubois
Charleston
W. Va
WVU
George King
Tom Lowry
Dave Shuck
Lowry
Paul Miller
Jimmy McCormick
Mark Reiner
Hairston
Galliard
Loyola Ramblers Too Strong For Marshall Big Green
Loyola Chicago defeated Marshall 88 to 80 as the Ramblers extended their best season form. Vic Rouse led with 26 points, Jerry Harkness 21, John Egan 18, Leslie Hunter 17 as Loyola outshot from the line and dominated the boards with 49 rebounds to Marshall's 42.
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Huntington
W. Va
UPI
Jule Rivlin
Loyola of Chicago
Marshall
Big Green
Loyola
Ramblers
Rivlin
Cincinnati
UPI Board of Coaches
Dick Wildt
Parkersburg
Vic Rouse
Jerry Harkness
John Egan
Leslie Hunter
Bob Burgess
Jody Sword
Phil Carter
Mickey Sydenstricker
Wildt
1962 World Amateur Hockey Tour to proceed in Colorado Springs
Despite Russia withdrawal the 1962 World Amateur ice hockey championship tour will go on in Colorado Springs March 8 to 18. Thayer Tutt and Robert Lebel said plans remain intact with 14 nations ready to compete. Russia reportedly pulled out after East Germany failed to secure travel documents, a situation echoed in the Alpine ski championships.
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New York
UPI
Colorado Springs
Colo
Russia
Thayer Tutt
United States
East Germany
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Robert Lebel
International Ice Hockey Federation
Russian Federation
Yuri Napasnikov
Tass
Moscow
U.S.S.R
Berlin
France
Veteran West Virginia sports writer dies
Carl V. Duke Ridgely, 72, longtime Huntington Herald-Dispatch sport writer and author of Diamond Dust, died last Wednesday in Lexington VA hospital after a stroke. A Milton native who played in the Mountain State league, he spent 40 years at the Huntington paper before retirement in 1959. Survived by son John and stepson Charles Bell of Dayton Ohio.
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Huntington
UPI
Carl V. Duke Ridgely
West Virginia
Ridgelawn
Ridgley
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
Veterans Administration Hospital
Lexington
Milton
Duke
John
Charles Bell
Dayton
Ohio
Youngsters Resume Play In Seniors Golf
In Dunedin Florida, the PGA Seniors championship saw Jimmy Demaret of Houston and John Barnum of Belmont post 67s in the first round as the youngsters again challenge the elders for the lead, aiming to reverse Wednesday results.
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Dunedin
Fla
UPI
Jimmy Demaret
Houston
Tex
John Barnum
Belmont
Mich
Beckley College Ends Season With Victory
Beckley College Blue Hawks finish the regular season with a 99 to 85 win over National Business College in Roanoke Virginia. Doug Bailey led all scorers with 28 points on 17 shots as Beckley rallied from a 15 point first half deficit to seal the victory, Larry Sumpter added 24 points and 15 rebounds, and Larry Edwards sparked a late surge to secure the five game win streak.
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Beckley College
Blue Hawks
Charleston
Hawks
Roanoke
Downing National Business College
Beckley
NBC
Larry Edwards
Doug Bailey
Oceana Boy
Larry Sumpter
Levi Lauvary
Bob LeMaster i
Warren O'Dell
Rod Albertson
Bill Craddock
Rod Harmon
National Business
Charles Wade
Fred Smith OO
CEI
Darrell Perk
Steve Wiley
Dave Stovall
Jim Gillespie
Ray Carr
Bob Waite
Nat. Business
Sugar Leads By One In St. Petersburg Open
Louise Suggs of Atlanta shot 70 in the opening round to pace a tight field at the St. Petersburg Women's Open. Suggs, winner here in 1959, was one stroke ahead as professionals tee off for the second round of the $7,500 event in Florida.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
UPI
Louise Suggs
Atlanta
Georgia
Region 3 Wrestling Tourney Opens at Shady Spring High
Four tri county schools Shady Spring Mullens Woodrow Wilson and Sophia send wrestlers to the Region Three Tournament opening at 7 p m at Shady Spring High School with weigh ins today and Saturday. Victor Peelish Woodrow Wilson is tournament director James Lowery of Sophia will officiate. Card includes undefeated 106 pound contender Jim Richmond Shady and Tom Vidovich Beckley. Admission 35 cents students 75 cents adults.
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Beaver
Shady Spring High School
Shady Gym
Shady Spring
Mullens
Woodrow Wilson
Sophia
Victor Peelish
Woodrow Wilson High School
Gordon Eisman
West Virginia Secondary Schools Activites Commission
James Lowery
Jack Richmond
Shady
Ken
Ny Gross
Jim Richmond
Tom Vidovich
Beckley
Richmond
Thomas Vidovich
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Ralph Smith
Johnson
Smith
Richard Heath
Elmer Halstead
Halstead
Heath
Kenney Perry
Jim Osborne
Perry
Osborne
Charles Hooper
Oceana
Toler
Theodore Anderson
Andrew Canada
Anderson
Canada
Hershel Wood
Coal City
Joshua Newsome
Wood
Newsome
Stoco
Kenneth Byrd
L. C. Sarrett
Byrd
Wayne
Douglas
Ross May
David Richards
Mayo
Richards
Leon Lewis
Ben Freeman
Lewis
Freeman
Oak Hill
Barker
Cline
Gary Toney
Larry Turley
Toney
David Wilson
Wilson
James
John Hopper
Roger Burns
David Huffman
Burns
Huffman
Raleigh County
Harry's
Keatleys
Sigmund McLean
Beckley Flying Eagles
Reiner
Thorn ‘Williams
McCarr 'Filardi
DuBois ‘Blaha
Shuck O’ Neill
Miller
Bode
T Weir Catlett
Ward
Nyu Lowry
Jarman
Ames
Neville ST
Ayisualiner
Hilter
General Tire, Inc
W. Neville St
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