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Last week, a crowd of 22,234-more than twice as many as turned out to see World Champion Joe Louis defend his title against Harry Thomas last month- trooped into the Chicago Stadium. What they had come to see were the international matches between the Chicago Golden Glovers (who defeated the New York Golden Glovers in the annual inter-city championships two months ago) and a picked team of European amateurs. The Chicago team of eight (topnotchers in each of the eight divisions of pugilism) were the survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States...
Most impressive European turned out to be a tall Pole named Antoni Kolczynski, 20-year-old Warsaw welterweight, who knocked down the idol of Chicago, A. A. U. and Golden Gloves Champion Jimmy O'Malley, so many times in the first round that the referee stopped the match. Awarded the only knockout (technical) of the evening, Kolczynski simply shrugged his shoulders. He had knocked out 37 of his 65 previous opponents, had beaten the champions of Norway, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Finland and Eire...
...crowd of spectators that included Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt; at Annapolis, Md. Because it was Harvard's fourth short-distance victory in four weeks, having previously out-rowed Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell and M. I. T., experts rated Harvard the Eastern sprint champion, likely to beat Yale at four miles next month...
...fashioned goto. He missed five out of every six swings. Before the chuckling spectators had time to get accustomed to this primitive technique, one of Galento's punches met Nathan Mann's chin -squarely and effectively, for Galento's fifth successive knockout. It had taken Champion Joe Louis longer (three rounds) to dispose of Nathan Mann last winter...
Well-established favorite of the 300 pop-eyed entrants was Budweiser IV, descendant of Budweiser I, a 1932 champion now regarded as the Man o' War among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world...