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eetToughFoeve been playing to- averages well over six-feet. Dickvarsity for threemeetings this sea-!10s won at home, ' Eagles w on on their j -59. |Eagles, Coach Jim ikely stick with his g lineup. That will . ence Sauce in the It J ack Carlson and for wards and Tom; 11 Beck. Mike Hem- | get a starting callh of his fine per- j e Eskymos trimmed14 m their finaleNielsen, leading scorer with 2771points in lk games will open atthe centet position and i- 6-4. Atthe guards w ill be Jerry Steppke ■ (6-1) and Harold Hosene (.7-10), with Dick Johnson (6-3) and Gene Wozniak (6-2) at forwards. Others on the team who ate six-feet or tallei are Mike Miller, Dale Minzlafi and Fred Chnstop-herson.Roland La Starza In Action TonightMIAMI .4' Roland La Star/a tin Bronx boxe; who twice fought heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. will meet Julio Mederos of Havana ton lv at Miami StadiumThere will be no television or radio broadcast.Promote i Jot Schaefer has promised the La Starza - Mederos winner a match with Nino Valdes, No 1 heavyweight title contcndei, later this month.ght.ing ('humpsIGolden Glovers EnterQuarterfinals Tonightaba playtis who ! oi action iiiciutk i, John Dulek, Mike ^nspaugh, Bob De-Swanson and Bob I1 won the Class B ist yt ar by beating Menominee on ther. Kseanaba lost in !(to Munising, thepion of the Upper IVmName Crusaders,’ action Friday night j t tho Menomineelace a tall and vet-was top-seeded in t with a 13 Classrecord of Bgam etalso have plenty oi starting team thatCHICAGO T After running off200 bouts iti tht last two da\s.4the Golden Gloves Tournament ofChampions moves into tin* quarterfinals tonight with lotion m all weight divisions at Chicago Stadium.'IVo former champions and a heavyweight sensation, powerful Dale Volberg of the Sioux City, Iowa, team, led survivors of tin bigger battlers through two roundsTuesday night.These survivor: join the lads who came through Monday's bouts at 112. 118. 126 and 135 pound; Winners of tonight’s scrapqualify for the semifinals March 10. The finals will be run off thesame night.Orville Pitts of the Kansas City squad, a defending champion, advanced in the 175 pound bracket. Dick Wall, J47, of Tulsa, the 1953 titlist, also moved up.Paul Wright, the 160 pound kingi.ist yea; was defeated in his second fight of the night by clever El wood Thornton, a Lackland ’Tex 1 Air Base scrapper representing Cedar Rapids. Iowa. Wr ght is on the Kansas City team but also is stationed at LacklandVolberg served notice in the heavyweight ranks by scoring two knockouts. lh' chilled Ken Kundert of Kenosh . Wis . m 1:16 of the second round n a scheduled three and he dropped Ron Happuch of Decatur, 111 . m 1 34 of the firstAnothei favorite to come throughwa Joe Bethea of the CedaiRapid' u* ,m in the 147 pound clas . He i the current AAU champion.Louisvu e led 32 centers in the race for the tram crown with 13 points, based on one for each lxut won. Defending champion St.Louis was second with 12. followed by Kansas City with 11 and Cedar Rapids with 10.
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Escanaba Daily Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Wed, Mar 02, 1955
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