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jm i CiIgv Ent 10 Jake Wade's PO RTS tion takes place here Wednesday He must he a bora fide amateur that is he must not have previously boxed for money He must pav a fee of 25 cpnts for his A A card and this entitles him to paitin-pate in any A A event during the next 12 month If a soldier his amateur status must be certified by a superior officer Officers are urged to check on the background of their men to make sure thev are bona fide amateurs The Golden Gloves is strictly an amateur event Any boxer discovered not to be an PAGE 14 SUNDAY FEB 14 1943 1 in hich Jo enter the Carolina Golden Gloves and A A championships The tournament opens Thuis-riay of this week but the books do not close until the registia-tion day Wednesday If you have been thinking of entenng and have not jet done so sign the blank punted on this page today and rush it in or merely bring it with you when you repoit Wednesday to be weighed in and given your physical examination 1 There aie two classes in the Golden Gloves To compete in the Open class which is for the Carolinas A A championships you must be 18 years old vour chance to have a lot ef fun File your entry There is also plenty of room in the Open class lists too And the popular conception that only the military hoys are in the Open class and that civilians ill have not much chance in the faster Open field is wrong After all the soldiers were civilians not so long ago A soldier is a good boxer usually because he is in good condition A civilian in good condition is right on a par with the soldier Here are some of the things jou might W'ant to know about the Golden Gloves Theie is no entry fee but civilians must tegister with the Carolinas A A The registra The Junior class is ronfined to 'contestants who are 18 and 17 years old The call goes out today particularly for Junior boxers Every year Ihere are boss who hesitate about entenng the tournament here for fear they are not good enough Thats why the old Novice class was instituted and why we are having the Junior class this year If you are competing in the Junior class jou will be boxirg in a field of younger boys high school age The competition should bp keen and spirited and a lot of experience is not necessary So Juniois if you are in shape and like to box here is PARADE (Mnre On 2nd Sports Tage ol 5) FORT JACKSON SHAW TEAMS IN FAST RING YELL ANYHOW vq are poinj? to pet the Golden GIoncs and the Southern Conference basketball tournament under the wire After that who knows? It may be just pin rummy from then on The outlook for college football next fall certainly doesn't look so bright Baseball stands to have a pretty hard struggle even if it manages to get started We are plad to note that the colleges are going to TRY to have football anyway It will be something shy of the big league standard of past years But it probably will be something One wonders just what shape football will take after the war The boys are being called up fast now Those being assigned to the colleges are going to have too full schedules to have any truck with intercollegiate football To think of these young men leaving the harmless fields of college competition and being sent into the big war is depressing 3ut the way it has to be This may turn out to be the lost generation The casualties among our brave young men are sure to be something fierce The only comfort is the fact that they Aviltbe fighting 1frpreseiwWoWhefuttinroirM'ootball and baseball the Beautiful Bums and such American institutions that make up our way of life and from which we depart now with natural and understandable First Rate Fighting Men SI! HITS I -f I Five Military Posts Enter Teams Many Unattached Soldiers Civilians Terrors Take Early Lead and Stay Ahead Reid and Peters High Scorers 5- BY JAKE 3VADF riHE 100th Inf-mtry division of Fort Jackon and the Shaw Fie'd air bae of Sumter jesterday announced they would have teams in the Caiolinas Golden Glove ths big Fresh Air Fund fistic carnival which opens at the Charlotte Armory Thursday of this week This news from the two South Carolina militarv posts put the Golden Gloves fighting field over the top in a big wav and a study of the lineups dicloes that this likely will be the fastest Open cla3 field thp history of the eleven-jear-old leather-slinging festival The tournament will have a strictly military accent In addition to teams from Foit Jackson and Shaw field there will he teams from Fort Moultrie Fort Bragg and Morrn field All these will be in the Open claps where the competition goes on for the Carolinas A AU titles Raleigh FPb mv-Taking the lead in eaily moments of the game Stales basketball Red Teriois turned back Davidson college 53-45 here tonight Doug Reid who bagged 14 points sparked States seonng dnve while Tommy refers led Wildcats with another 14 points The Red Terrots stiekhed their catlv lead to 11 points at one stage of the ii half but a desperate spmt by Davidson in the dosing minutes of the penod nanow' State's matgin to 24-20 at mteimission The Wildcat never went into the lead and could not pull into a tie at any point of the game but thev put up a stiff fight through most of the second half and twice advanced to within a single point of the Red Tcrrot State put on steam in the last five minutes and pulled away again however With about three minutes to go the Tenors built up a 12-point lead but Davidson managed to whittle off four of he points be-foie the final gun f)vldAn Sttr pf In pf fl let 114 1 ReiH 1 2 Nrli krl 4 4 14 Inhn 0 2 4 Almond 0 1 2 4 vrrk 4 iwrv 1 0 Pelni 2 Wham 2 0 W'mnii ft 0 Mock Pr 4 4 ft 12 Botnr Frlrk ft 1 14 2 ft ft 0 ft 1 1ft 2 4 4 'THERE WILL bo a military accent on the Golden Gloves Last year and the year before that there were manv servicemen in the hostilities Their fiphtinjr stood out They came here well conditioned and fit Some had little experience hut they were attuned both physically and mentally to hand-to-hand combat The soldiers will be back with us There may be more this time than ever before They are coming from Fort Bragg Fort Jackson Morris Field the Columbia Air Base Shaw Field Fort Moultrie and possibly other military posts For some of them this will be their last fling of fight-in? for fun Time moes on rapidly in the service ranks This for some of them will he their last big sports adventure before that greater adventure when they will be fijrhtinp for their lives and for their country For civilians both the contestants and the spectators the Golden Gloves is an escape from the terrible realities around us It is as everyone knows here a first class sports event It is thrilling and exciting as only boxing can be The Golden Gloves this week will be welcomed Escape always is As usual the tournament will offer all kinds of fisticuff We be surprised if over all the fighting is the best calibre cer offered here Last winter the competition reached a new high in class It stands een to top that in this three-day show AS FOR THE basketball tournament some of the boys who hae been playing throughout 'the season be around but most of them will retain their civilian status at least until that fine eent is history The tournament comes the first week in March and is scheduled at Raleigh The season ha been going through it uual vagaries The Davidson team which walloped Carolina here some time ago was walloped by Carolina at Chapel Hill John Belk Davidson's big center was not in harness which may have accounted partially for the reversal in proceedings But Belk was in the lineup when the Wildcats so hot for awhile lost to Catawba Maybe that didn mean the Wildcats had slipped but simply showed how good the Indians ate And jet the Indians took two lickings in a row fiom Appalachians Mountaineers Meaning what? Meaning that the Apps aie plenty good Then theie was William and Mary's victory over George Washington Ah well basketball always nins a dizzy course But that tournament in Raleigh intariably is something special We are glad Ihcy will get it under the wnr ment here Thoto shows them reading a telegram from their regimental commander Col George Van Horn Moseiy Jr congratulating them for their fine ork in the recent Firdmont Golden Gloves at Greensboro when they won six indiidual titles and the team championship GANGWAY This is Golden Gloves week in Charlotte The big show an exciting sports eon staged for the benefit of The Charlotte Observer Fresh Air fund opens at the Armory Thursday Many soldiers Mill lie in the hostilities Above is shown a group of 502nd Parachute Infantrymen of Fort Bragg all of whom will compote in the tourna 1 4 1 siilton ft ft ft 0 Morn 1 fume ft 0 0 ft Oil ft mlho 0 1 rolal 19 7 11 4 Total 22 17 13 Half time nrorp State 24 Dai id-on 2ft Free throw mted Davidson -Bird t-owrv Peter 1 VVayman Peter Fredenrk Nickel 2 Mock Boger 2 John Almond Carvalho Ottlclal: Knight and Jameron Glamack Selected On All-Time Team OTHERS IN FIELD Other Open class team definitely entered will represent the Florence Lion club and the Charlotte Boxers club The Open das also will be filled out by variou unattached box-pis both civilians and servicemen Entnos aie pouring in daily Meanwhile the Junior das cen-fined to civilian boxer who are 18 and 17 vpars old also i growing Banjo Eddy of Charlotte announced vesterday he would have a team nf six in thi division and a seven-man team from Lineolnton was announced The tournament open Thursday with semi-final scheduled for Friday night and finals Saturday night The complete fighting field prohahty will go more than 100 A good advance sale of tickets indicates 't will draw capacity crowds a the past All profit go to The Chailotte Observer Freh Air fund It Tame Turner asifant special set vice officer mfoimcd tournament officials that Fort Jackon 3 100th Infantry division would he represented in the tournament hut did not advise the number nf men to he entered Boxing has been a popular spoit at Fort Jacknn and this team i expected to be strong BY MARION AIEXANDFR HAPEL HILL Feb 13 The new Holms "Gollegiate off the press lists North champions places Cart and George Glamack on its and Glamack as of on its SOUTH CAROLINA LICKS CLEMSON FIVE 42-40 CLEMSON Feh University of South Carolina Gamecocks eked out a 42-40 victory over Clomson here tonight in a Southern Conference basketball game The Gamecocks piled up a substantial lead in the fust half which a Clenyson rally in the closing min-ules was unable to overeome' although the Tigris whittled down a 10-pnint lead Mai ion Ciaig Clcm-son forward topped the seonng fot the night with 18 points Se arnllna Ip lemnn Marlin 4 0 Tratg Riddle! 4 ft 8 Ijtmbmkn 3 Mole 1 0 2 Claik Cantoieg 0 3 3 Reaug TUinham 4 2 1 ft Gillespie Rnoddv 3 ft Mole (tie 2 1 fll Rrlev I Hill Hendns I Mrllwaln 1 2 1 4 ft 1 1 ft 2 1 ft ft ft I ft ft 2 Entry Blank ELEVENTH ANNUAL CAROLINAS GOLDEN CLOVES Charlotte Armory Feb 18-19-20 1943 HIGH POINT Feh The field of candidates for the annual Lewis Teague memonal awaid ha been narrowed to thiee men and thiee women it wa announced today by Louis Fnher secrctaiy of the Caiolinas Amateur Athletic union The tribunal Ninth Caiolma and South Caiolma poll wntcts will be asked to vote next week on this plate Otiginally 14 men and eight women weie nominated for the tiophics which will go to the man and woman amateur athlete vohd the outstanding' in the two state The men to be voted cm aie Rob Gantt of Duke university Hoi ace Lned) Benton of the University of 1 North Carolina and Dewey rioitofRnd Bill Schmedcr i Managing of Fin man umv eisity All eie dis- Dircitor chatge of rcsoauh and tinuguished all-aiound athletes at compilations their institutions Basketball jut 1924 team as national Carmichael Spratt Cobb All-Americas names Cobh the and places Glamack The selection me lcgairicd here as a high and fitting tntftite to the calibre of basketball plaved in this Slate and paitiuilaily that of the Tar Heel stais who have won the Southern Confeience Tournament seven veais out of 21 The Basketball was compiled by the Helms1 Athletic Foundation and is the fust Mimmaiy of Us kind seen here Paul Helms of Io Angeles is founder and vporisor of the foundation TEN FROM SHAW Id Charles Clark mfnimnd fiom Sumter that the Shaw firld team would ronsist of approximately 10 contestants Shaw field had a good representation in the Charles Enter: Name (TVp nr print plsinlvl of the for 1328 Glamac ho is now in the (Navy and continuing his basketball with the Gteat Lakes Naval Ti aiding tram was named to the same honor for both 1940 and 1941 Hand Ltnmtti of Stanford Js the only other plajcr to win the honor twite and that was for 1937 and 1938 Glamack also made the All-Time All-Ameuea team of 10 placet chosen hv the Helms Foundation as the greatrt the game has ever ccn The biogiaphical selection acenm-panving his selection reads as follow 'Geoige Glamack Noith Carolina 1310 1941 One of greatest shots of all time Fxceptional hall handler Chosen on Helms All-Ameuea teams of 1910 1341 Stood 8 feet 5 inches in height Was ambidextrous and so nearsighted that the ball vv as mei rly a dim object Shot bv in-stinct Seoied 458 of Notth Carolina's 1210 point in 1910 In three nights of Southern Confeience Tournament play in 1910 lrgixteicd 4 Open Junior Boxing Weight Age In the Caiolinas Golden Gloves rondurted under the sanction of the Carolinas Association of the A A and sponsored for The Charlotte Observer Fie-h Air Fund 1 heiebv for mrlf mv Nirn rxerutors and admimMi atora wave and release anv and all rights and claims for damages 1 may have against anv parties for injuiies received in the 1313 Carolina Golden Gloves tournament ROSTDN Feh fTV- Fiank Dixon New York umvcrMtj's sensational Negro ficbhman fought off the supposedly invinntjte finishing pui of Fail Mitchell of Indiana teg tided a the season outstanding milcr to win the Boston A A meet famous Hunter classic to-'night by about a foot in 4 II 4 Gil I Dodd the home favoiite shocked the ci flow crowd of 13 230 by winding up fouith in the five-man field Dixon who spent the fust half of the iace in thud place as Mitchell and Dodds set the pace pulled into second place on the eighth lap and took over the lead Horn the Boston divinity student at the start of the I gun lap A Dixon pulled ahead of Dodds Mitchell running ahout 15 vairis bark in thud place behind Dartmouth's Don Burnham cut loose with his rrughtv spurt but Dixon also had plenty of power left enough lo overcotne the Indiana star tort ific rffni Hugh Short Gcoigelnwn's fljing junior middle-riistanre star loci all the way fiom gun to tape while defeating seaman Chat ho Beetham of the Iowa Naval pic-flight sehonl by seven yaid in the Hollis '600'' Shot I who equalled thp late John indoor iccoid of 110 2 in last week Milliose meet wa docked in 1 11 8 Inch matched the pei fen mane Beetham gave here iast jrar when he gamed his third Hollis triumph RUTHERFORDTON WINS TWIN BILL RUTHERFORDTON Feh 13 -Rulhei fordtnn High Hitltnpper won a dnuhlchcadcr fiom Foiest City High Friday night The gul game bring a dose one 43 to 40 Nanney led the wmnei with 16 point in the game being 40 to 11 Johnson and Hines led with 16 and 12 point tcpei lively WAN I 15 ItniMtlltS The Oirgnn boxing law limits bouts to 10 lounrls but Joe Waterman pimndcr I rnmpiugnirjg foi 15 lounilrtx SIX MON I MS WORK The Foundation spent over six months in compiling its matrnal it is explained in the fnrewnid consulting hundreds of coaches spoits-wnteis and authoiitiej and studying the ppifoimancrs of hundicds of team and thousands of plajns The Caiolma quint which chosen for the National Championship 1024 won 25 games (without a single loss) and the Southern tournament The only other south as Mt 1 i fr Signed Street Tow ir or FAS I fa nioio MERE The women nominees aie Mis Evtelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill Miss Peggy Fate of Gold'-boro and Miss Jane Ciuni of Otangebluig Mis Tage won the Teague tiophy for 1911 when Steve LacJi Duke football plajcr won Ihc awaid She and Mis Cnim have been outstanding in golf with Miss Pate winning national recognition in swimming ibution to good spoilsman-ship" as well as athletic achievement is cyiiMdctcd in voting the aw ai dc Jake Wade of Choi lotto chaii-nuiu of the AAU awaids committee Ol he mcnibei air A let-er Chapel I till Rev lie lie High Point Chm les McCiatj Ahe-hcuo Fiank Huvv at cl" Clem-on college Danny Jones Chiu Icton and Tiruo Johnson Floiemc CITADELBEATS NEWBERRY FIVE OIARLFSTON Feh 11-(V) -The Citadel basketball team continued to wade thiough siaic competition heie last night hj rir-fealmg New hen 18 to alt The Cadets have riot lost game thev bowed to the Umvcisitv of South Caiolma their ev on deloit Tot I 18 8 18 8 4ft Half lime me 8 Cfitnlin 27 C'lem-nn 21 Free thinu tnird Riddle 3 Pen-lore Martin 4 Gilr Gillespie Mme Rllev Oflrlal Tnnnry iNevvberrv) nd Carter iFuimani PENNSYLVANIA BEATS DUKE CACERS 49-48 PHILADELPHIA Feb 13 A flee Know by Lick Cnlhcig in the very lit second of play gave the fat stepping Univcisity of IYnn-' tv Hma basketball team a to 48 vtcloiy over Duke at the Palestra tonight It wa Penn's 12th Miaight win and Duke fut difcit after eight vii Im ic low Colheig also ink a field goal oil a pivot shot that tied the si me at 48-all with only 22 seconds to go With two ri mid to go Penn was given the halt on an out of hound play Alt MiGtanr Duke plaver threw the ball on the floor in disgust Official ailed it a technical foul giving Colling the chance to win the game It wa a wild finish to Uie most exciting gnme plaved 8t the Palr-tia tin pen on Duke led at the by 18 t-3 and nt the hnlf by 2 1 2 I Inriif' Mule p( 'I' dn ex amtri vfeiviltiffe JL- 'd team to be picked wn Kentucky 1933 club And the only other undefeated outfits among the 1 national champs weie Pittshuig In 1 1928 and Long Island In 19)9 I Ruhaid (Caitt Cat mitluiel of i Dm ham was named All-Ameuea Icenicr for 1323 nnd fmwaid for 1 1921 John iSpiatt) Cobb of Dui-iham was selected at fot wind for 1324 1325 and 1328 Glamack was picked 1940 and 1941 And Geoi ge 1 erntrr for Team or Club (If attached) a total of 62 point Seoied a total of 306 point in Southern Confeience plnv in 1941 averaging 20 4 point per game Seoied 45 point in a game against Clemsim in 19H Olamatk made the icmukable total of 578 points in 28 games plajed by Nmth Caiolma in 1341 the gtratrst number ever made bv a plaver Glamnck was aw aided the all-time 'center post over Chailrs (Stielch) Mmphv of Ptndiie gieat team of 1328 13'3t and 1910 who wa given PARENTS' RELEASE (No entiy will be arceplrd from a minor nr ri ilian unlets following foim is filled out by paiems or gumdians) To the Golden Glove Commission: This to rri fv that 5 has our mn mt and primlssion to romprte in the 1313 Caiolinas Golden Gloves Tournament and is lo leviifv we have full know lege of i hr elrment of rorr petition and the genet! mtm of lha lourniment Itself Signed rvT H5Ri fs orr Columbia Air Base Clnvrr ton Golden Glove and also ha I boxing team which ha hern competing again! college outfits The 502nd riunthule Infantry division of Foil Biagg i sending two team In the tournament following ja Mice cssful conquest of the Piedmont Golden Glove at Gircnvhorn 'A half dozen evpcienerd gladiatnt champion al Chat lesion are rottung fiom Kent Moiiltim while it xtdl ha not hern He' I anrtoi need jliovv main will he filing ten ro'oi nf the h'H Otwei al ion Gl'nip of Morns fold The nlumbia i ha irsir Haf fi 1 1 the Ml i i one man to cp r-t i I i ri Ihr 'o He Pvt I I ir fl'l 'Is rH i um In 1 1 ft1 1 of) is 3- I nd Ii II i'l 'he if Nnkinii Ci tden e- Uoee i it tli 'ft 1311 tie i oil i i i ii -1 1 'pur On pm tj Jjj' (c Ji lUdrt Nrn i C'obb wa also puked a wnithy ennsidnation Golden Glovers Report At YM CA Wednesday Ol 1)1 ON I It on must iriort al the tut Inttr (' A VI Urdnrsilay of Ihl wrrk between noon ami o'clock to bet weighed In and given physical examination (service men will not he recpilred to take the examination If thev ie ceilified hv regimental phvalilan I tie xmaleur alatii of 11 contestant will he irrtified 1 the time of weighing In Oil tune hoxrr Will aln he asslgnrd In their morning quarter anil given meal llikels Nfler the weighing In Ihere will he a ntrrltrtg of tnithr official ami the draw for fuel round hoot will lie marie 5 to whether the loororm-ot wilt nprn IhniMtcv after onon or thnisrtrv night dl depend no (hr i ir of lire field hu annul hr drier mined lurid I he ronlrslint xrr weighed In and regi Irtrd Cage Scores Signed Addir Da'r to I I 1 I I I O' i 1 1 1 fh rf pj Still 1 1 i ii Mi )9 1 1 Tniot '4 rirthvimart iintt ht IN ft 1 1 4 inborn 1 1 NO Mitnu 1 MllltrfO 4 I HI I 1 I MN H'l I ul 1 I lm rH 40 frirHl ihhIpIi A 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