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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928 GOLDEN GLOVERS TO CHICAGO Heroes of NEWS Tourney To Meet Tribune Champs George Root, winner of Chicago Tribune's Golden Gloves in feather- Team of 20 to Represent East Saturday Night By PAUL GALLICO. Golden Glover vs. Golden Glover! New York vs. Chicago for the Golden Gloves championships of the east and the middle west! The Chicago Tribune has challenged THE NEWS for the Golden Gloves championships and the challenge has been accepted. Thursday afternoon, twenty of the New York Golden Glovers, the team to be announced tomorrow, will leave Grand Central station on the 20th Century Limited to box the Chicago team at the Coliseum in Chicago, Saturday night.

March 24. The Chicago Tribune ran a Chicago won the toss and will imGolden Gloves tournament of its port the team from New York, and Chicago, with the finals on next year will make the trip here own in in return. In addition to the eight March 9, held In the Ashland winners, some twelve other boys Boulevard auditorium. Eight win- who made a good showing in the ners were returned. one in each tournament will be nominated to successful the box the New Yorkers.

class. and SO was tourney that an immediate chal- 20-Count 'em-20. lenge was dispatched to THE The New York team will be NEWS for a set of inter-city made of the best available men up Golden Gloves bouts on a home in the open and -novice classes. and home basis to decide the Golden Gloves champions of the Sixteen boxers and four substieast vs. the middle west.

tutes will be taken along to repThe challenge was accepted, and resent Father Knickerbocker. Nick Fosco, welterweight winner in Chicago tournament. party will be made tomorrow. The boys will rest until Tuesday, then begin light training. Thursday afternoon off they go on the Century, arriving Friday morning in time to see the town and get in some limbering up exercises.

Saturday night they fight for the glory of New York. (Other pictures on page 32) Follow THE NEWS for details of New York's Goiden Gloves fighting team. Only THE NEWS will have it. The Chicago Golden Gloves winMiddleweight ners were: Flyweight, Jim Flyweight Chase; bantamweight, J. C.

Burns; featherweight, Georgie Root; lightweight. Joe Kestian; welterweight, Nick Fosco, one of the best boys developed in the tournament; middleweight. Charles Bonoit, a terrific puncher; light heavyweight. Dave Maier. and heavyweight.

Walter Radke. Under Way Thursday. These men will box the first string men of THE NEWS. while the runners-up will take on the sub- -novice winners. The Chicago Tribune is awarding beautiful prizes to the winners, but what the New York team is interested in mainly is trying to give the westerners a fine tanning and bringing victory back to New York.

THE NEWS was busy all day yesterday preparing the make-up of the team from New York, and announcement of their names and the names of the coaches and Charles Bonoit handlers who will complete the Jimmy Chase Golden Gloves History -By PAUL GALLICO- And now, ON TO CHICAGO! Out of the whirlwind of bouts Saturday night that shook Madison Square Garden so that it seemed to be swaying as did Boyle's Thirty Acres, there will be born a team of twenty solid, brave and healthy youngsters who will journey to Chicago to match fists with the winners of the Chicago Golden Gloves Tourney for the honor of the City of New York. Two men in each class will go, making sixteen, from flyweight to heavyweight, with four substitutes totaling the twenty. They will go as the DAILY NEWS A. A. Golden Gloves team, and on their uniforms--trunks and sweaters provided by THE NEWS -they will wear the initials of their city as well as the emblem of the Golden Gloves.

The Golden Gloves that passed into history last Saturday night will be remembered as the wildest night of fighting that the Garden has ever seen. It was the most tremendously exciting thing that I have ever experienced. The public owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the youngsters who entertained it so honestly and furiously. Those amateurs who competed atoned for the sins of the professionals. FINE THAT PUTS EH? 10 01 2 3 OUT 6 57 MADISON SQUARE, GARDEN CLOCKS the socking that the clocks on the Garden wall So thrilling was The round indicator acted up all night and the trewent wrong.

of cheers that shattered the air and rattled mendous reverberation the delicate adjustments of the electric clocks. the walls affected Jackie Farrell got so his to Miami, and I got so overheated wrought up that he thought he saw Tex Rickard, when crowd 23,000, when by actual count of tickets Rickard was on way that I the door the attendance was 20,247 citizens. estimated the at that passed through number gathered all in one big room makes a lot of people. This And it was the finest crowd of men women and that ever saw any kind of boxing audience boxers ever have before. Even the 75 exhibition.

The Golden Glovers played to a higher type of any balcony were on their best behavior and did than cent boys up in the themselves proud. list again the names of the A. A. U. offiYou much, in order to thank them for what know, I could cials to but I want to make this more than whom we owe so a they We appreciate so deeply the work that these have done for us, smart gesture.

fine people who represent the Metropolitan A. A. U. have done for amateur boxing and for THE NEWS and for these boys that no mere listing of their names could begin to express our debt. SEE OTTEN- AND WHAT CHICAGO HAS HE UPS WID HIS LEFT How LET THEMSELVES IN AND SOCKS, FOR OH BABY! RUBIN GOLDEN GLOVE WINNER Grad Especially to Dr.

Thomas F. DeNaouley, chief of the medical staff, and his corps of physicians do we owe an extraordinary debt of gratitude. To have come through a tournament with an original entry list of over three thousand without an injury to a single contestant is a record of which the doctor and the A. A. U.

may well be proud. From its inception, the welfare of the boys in this tournament in his hands, and in the face of a storm of criticism, from was placed all sides, he steadfastly maintained his standards of what an amateur athlete should be and aimed for the highest type of boy. Many fell by the wayside but the results spoke for themselves. The finest and physical specimens were seen in action that have ever strongest competed in an amateur tourney of any size, let alone the magnitude of the Golden Gloves. The physique of the boys who boxed in the Garden last Saturday night caused a running fire of comment in the audience.

The number of bouts that went the limit, with the contestants giving and taking punishment, was testimonial enough to the triumph of Dr. DeNaouley's ideas. After all, the success of the tournament was to be desired, but even more so was the safety of the contestants. More than anything else, we prayed that no one would be hurt, and because no one was, we owe to the medical staff of the Metropolitan A. A.

U. a debt greater than we can repay. The clocklike precision with which the bouts were handled is sufficient testimony to the efficiency of the A. A. U.

workers, volunteers all. and lovers of the sport to which they so freely contribute their time. Certainly their success last Saturday must have left them feeling repaid. Some of my pets of the tournament came through, others didn't. Joe Siclari took his first round licking and then justified my estimate of him by winning the next two and the fight.

Bob Olin and George Hoffman did more than well, and Huggins, in the 160 sub-novice, proved himself a coming middleweight. And true to my prediction, the greatest fight of the night was turned in by two sub-novice fighters, Yale Rubin and Charles Otten, who drew down upon themselves the greatest ovation ever tendered two fighters anywhere. No two professional fighters ever caused such scenes of enthusiasm at the end of their performances as these two beginners. 0. well, I could write about that show for the next year.

It will have to wait. Now it is ON TO CHICAGO! 22 Flyweight.