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•»Five Clovis Champs In Running At Duke CityFive champions of the recent Clovis A.A.l’. Golden Gloves boxing tourney remained in the running in the Southwest Golden Gloves tournament at Albuquerque after the smoke of the second round battles cleared away today.Last night’s battles saw two Clovis tourney favorites fall by the wayside when Buddy Delgado, Las Vegas, outpointed Abel Lujan, Roswell, in the featherweight division, and Frank Livingston, New Mexico University, outpointed Bud Southern, Melrose middleweight.Higgins Is Winner Frankie Higgins, Las Vegas, who was eliminated in the finals of the Clovis tourney, established himself as a candidate for the bantamweight class, when he knocked out Santos Corriz, Madrid, in 1 minute and 50 seconds.Besides Delgado, w 1 io won the Class A championship in the featherweight division here, other candidates for championships from the Clovis crop include Martin Sando, bantamweight; Leroy Davis, heavyweight; Darrell White, lightweight, Jimmy Faust, Littlefield, lightweight.Finals Are TonightALBUQUERQUE, N. M„ Mar. 31 (JP) — Amateur leather throwers will swing into the semi-finals of the regional A.A.U. boxing tournament here this afternoon. Finals will be fought tonight.Second round battlers last night won 13 out of 23 bouts by knockouts with four Albuquerque Indian school fighters claiming a large share of the applause. The Red • skins won in business like manner with clean knockouts.The summary;Flyweight:Quint Thompson, Albuquerque Indians, knocked out GEORGE SAIKI, Clovis, in 1 rain. 49 sec. of second.Billy Booth, Albuquerque, outpointed Keeah Begay, Fort Wingate.Carlos Argulo, CCC, won technical knockout over Billy Gatley, American Legion, in 1 minute 52 seconds of second round.Dan Hesseldey, American Legion, outpointed Harold Gould, CCC.Bantamweight:Carl Lujan of Albuqueroue knocked out Alfonso Barega, CCC, in 27 seconds.FRANKIE HIGGINS of Las Vegas knocked out Santos Corriz, Madrid, I minute 50 seconds.Featherweight:BUDDY DELGADO of Las Vegas outpointed ABEL LUJAN of Roswell.Charley Hilley of Albuquerque knocked out Pete Salas of Madrid in 30 seconds.Lawrence Hope, Albuquerque Indians, knocked out Leandro Arnn-ga, Madrid, in 1 minute 42 seconds of second.Tony Numkema, Albuquerque Indians, knocked out Joe Nieto, Madrid, in 1 minute 40 seconds.Juan Silva, CCC, outpointed Nobel Reynolds, Albuquerque.Lightweight:Ralph Gallegos, Albuquerque, knocked out Charley Wesley of Fort Wingate in 1 minute 27 seconds.Edel Tracey, Est-mcia, outpointed Manuel Romero, CCC.Jake Tapia,. CCC, outpointed A1 Houston, Albuquerque.Welterweight:Pascal Garde outpointed Charles Cogloski.Johnny Plott, Albuquerque, drew with Benny Valencia, Belen.Vic Coca, outpointed Pat Chacon, CCC.Zaeari Rael, CCC, knocked out Harry Rutherford, Bernalillo, in 50 seconds.Leonard Harris, Albuquerque Indians, knocked out Jean Dausley. CCC, in 41 seconds.Middleweight:Wesley Furman, Albuquerque, outpointed Mike Gallegos, CCC.Frank Livingston, New Mexico University, outpointed BUD SOUTHERN, Melrose.• •i• •pairtlt;is21tiwtlnuint*Sldlt;MMu:J(inBoldlin a iUBMSlt;atCBTtlSleoR
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Clovis Evening News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico, US
Wed, Mar 31, 1937
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