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Champion proved to be a clean knockout for practically everybody connected with it. To get ready for his remarkable fistic performance, Actor Kirk Douglas, 32, trained for a month and a half, six days a week, under the knowing eye of "Mushy" Callahan, onetime world's junior welterweight champion. Until then, the nearest Douglas had ever come to boxing was skipping rope at St. Lawrence University in preparation for a tournament in which he became intercollegiate wrestling champion of the Eastern Division (1938-39)* By the time Mushy finished with him, Douglas was in such good ring training that...
...very pleased at the scrimmage results," says Callahan, talking about the workouts his squad has been having in the Briggs Cage. The rugger players have been putting in a lot of evening practice time lately because next Saturday they will fly to Bermuda for the annual Rugby Week...
Contrary to an article in Life magazine last spring, the Rugby Club will have considerably more to do than romp around at beach parties. The schedule for the Bermuda Week does list a few parties on the sands, but during the week Callahan's players will meet Princeton, Yale, and experienced squads from the Royal Navy, the Bermuda AA, and the British Army...
...Callahan isn't quite sure just how the Crimson squad will emerge from this stiff competition. Poor weather has confined its practice to the Briggs Cage "dustbowl." Furthermore, he points out that "it's pretty hard to tell anything about the squad before it has played in actual competition." He does admit that the club will be out to avenge the terrible 31-0 beating they got from the Tigers last year and to win the traditional Yale game...
Aside from actual playing experience the squad will pick up during vacation. Callahan doesn't rate the Bermuda week very highly. His main interest is building up the Rugby Club to its prewar strength, when it won the Eastern Rugby Union trophy cup three years...