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A10iyt-toided72rkrsixinn g5-hohoedit.eyo-11 ea-IX.1......-tarol-ichatickn i -vas'.-MS/hoi(fc*ties20Lun-!d-atlareU‘1.mgH*liannti! h*out-gallop Lou Ambers when they word. You almost wish ho hadn'tAmateur fight Champs Meet HereMonday For Trip To Boston(Aor03PIUJBRegional amateur boxing champions who won their titles Wednesday night, at Albuquerque will gather here Monday afternoon for their jaunt to Boston and the National A.A.U. championships, it was announced today.Burney Smith, who assisted Les. Showers and Dick Russell in the promotion of the Clovis and Albu-q u e r q u e t o urn lt;• i m e n t s, s a id up o 11 his return from Albuquerque thatthe victorious fighters would meetat the Hotel Clovis about 1 o'clock Monday afternoon.They will make the 3,000-mile trip to Boston in cars driven by Smith and Russell. They plan to be back here in 16 days.The national tourney starts Monday week, so they will have a week to make the trip to Boston. They will take it easy, stopping in several big cities for sightseeing.“It will be a wonderful trip for the boys/’ Smith said.In the group will he Bill Henderson. regional light-heavj weightchampion from port a les, and BudSout hern, Melrose middleweight who was runner-up at Albuquerque but will get to go in the place of Middleweight Champion FrankLivingston, of Albuquerque, wh can't, go because his studies in State University.It was thought possible that Leroy Davis, of Clovis, runner-up in the heavyweight division, might get to go to Boston in r lace of Harold Banks, Santa Fe negro who won the championship, but Banks has decided to go, according to Smith.ALBUQUERQUE, April 3 -Pi ssi bi lit y t h at Ra I ph Ga 11 egos, lightweight champion in the A.A.U. boxing tournament here, will not attend the national tourney inBoston developed today.Gallegos wrote officials of the local tourney that his NYA work at EspanoJa would prevent him from making tbe trip. State NYA officials. however, said they were willing to give him a leave of absence.He also doubts he will be ableto stay in the 135-pound class, “I fear that the long trip, especially by auto, with very little exerciseduring the journey, would give metoo much weight to knock down on the eve of the tourney, which is a handicap to any fighter/1 hewrote. ^Gallegos said he had contacted H. Doughton of CCC headquartershere to make arrangements forJake Tapia, CCC boxer, to make the trip as his alternate. Gallegos bet Tapia in the fina■s.*es..ireasCapt. W. H. (Buck i Ley he, St.Louis river pilot, and members of his family have operated packetOp the Mississippi for 78.sears.to
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Clovis Evening News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico, US
Sat, Apr 03, 1937
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