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...last few years, professional prizefight promoters & managers as well as the public have taken a lively interest in the Golden Gloves. Light-heavyweight Champion Bob Olin, cousin of a News cameraman, got his start as a Golden Glover in 1928. So did Lightweight Champion Barney Ross, in 1929. Currently, most notable Golden Gloves alumnus is Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis of Detroit who won the Golden Gloves championship last year after knocking out 43 of his 54 amateur opponents. Since turning professional, Heavyweight Louis has had 17 fights, won 13 by knockouts, four by decision without losing a round. Last week...
Texas' James V. Allred, who takes command of the biggest State in the Union, is only 35, youngest of the 34 Governors to be inaugurated next month - younger than 37-year-old Phil La Follette of Wisconsin, younger than 38-year-old Olin Johnston of South Carolina. Last week Governor-elect Allred was in Washington trying to find out how much money Texas would have to raise for relief on top of its expected $14,000,000 deficit...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a crowd of 300 last week set out to watch Olin Dutra, U. S. Open Golf Champion, play his last round in the $12,500 Miami Biltmore Open tournament. Approaching the 17th green, Dutra and his gallery started across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made...
Kokomo's most picturesque politician is Olin R. Holt, a thickset, debonair bachelor of 39 who wears horn-rimmed glasses and dresses to the nines. In 1924 he was out for Indiana's Governorship with Ku Klux Klan support. Denied the Democratic nomination, he returned home to cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal...
Married. Johnson Olin Couch, son of Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch (see p. 53); and Anna Trimble of Shreveport, La.; in Shreveport...