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BEAVER MITTMEN flIGARJfTiNIGBBeaver HI Boxing Team Makes Bow In Match With Favored Coaldiggers; Sport May Become Regular FixtureiMarking the initial effort of ll kind in the sport* history of Beav (high school, leather pushers of local school will move onto Oa ,for a team match with the mitt sli ere of the high school in that tonight.The Beavers, for the most part,! are inexperienced battlers. The onlv ' boy who has ever had any ring ex-| perience i« Frankie l^afon, former jdistrict amateur champ in the ban* tain weight class who is now cam*| paigning in the 145 pound division.I .None of the other boys Coach Sam Holroyd will take along has ever appeared in a boxtng bout outside of j those in the gymnasium classes at Beaver high.Boxing is also In It's first jrar at Gary high school. The Gary hoys have had two matches this spring, defeating Shady Springs and drawing with Welch. Both engage-ments were staged on enemy soil and tonight’s contests will be the first home boxing match in the history of Gary high.(oa I diggers Favored Gary will be favored to win the lie nors tonight, although Sam Hol-royd has expressed satisfaction with the progress made by his boxers and believes that in timo they will be able to give a good account of them, selves.Beavers, as the schedule is now listed, has manned only the divisions up to 145 pounds, due to lack of available boys in the heavier classes. The Gary school, however, li8f some good boys In the 165 an.l 165 pound classes, and is sorely disappointed that Beaver will he unable to furnish contestants in those weights. Pete* Ballard, the Gary coach, has urged Sam to bring hoys for those weights, if at all posstbie. Other Matches Probale Following the Gary match, It may be that the Beavers will engage In other inter-school competition, probably with Princeton and Welch high schools, before entering the Southern West Virginia high school tournament at Fayetteville the last of this month.Boxing at Beaver is an experiment and if everything goes well w ith the contemplated schedule of the local mitt slingers during the remainder of the month, it is mighty likely that the sport will be added to the activities calendar as a regular f®-ure next year. •How They’ll Srjuare Off Tentative lineups for tonight's bouts follow:Frank. Lafon, 143, Beaver, vs. Ernest Keiling. 115, Gary.Joe Small. 125, Beaver, vs. Bias-hot) k, 121, Gary.Harry Milam, 132, Beaver, vs Joe O’Brochta, 130, Gary.Leonard Davis, 134, Beaver, vs. j Raymond Mino, 133, Gary. ^Faye Templeton. 129, Beaver, Jg. 1 Steve Forgacs. 129, Gary.Freddie Jackson, 115, Beaver, vs, I Robert Vick, 121, Gary. gVirgil Mattox, 107, Beaver, vs. Joft \ Cieliski, 110, Gary. 1Eddie Phelps. 121, Beaver, vs. George Leach, 126, Gary.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Tue, Apr 09, 1935
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