Show 1 ai 14 FRANK K BAKER TELEGRAM SPORTS TS EDITOR When Bob Pastor the former New York university sty sity heavyweight knocked out big Ray in inthe inthe the seventh round of their 1 round 10 scrap at New York City the other night he se set see critics to wondering if after all these years a trained college-trained man might be headed for forthe forthe forthe the heavyweight ring throne Pastor is a rugged fellow Lellow He stands a shade under six feet and end we weighed in for the bout at 4 1 pounds As such he was spotting the Imp a fraction more than 52 pounds S And ho he supposedly was not great as a puncher yet he had the necessary wallop to stretch his giant foe on the mat for the count The blow by blow report shows that P Pastor stor rocked his big opponent with a right to the eye in the very first minute of the fighting the Imp going down for the t three ree Apparently the big fellow never fully recovered from that punch which punch which might have had a great deal of luck in it although it-although although he did fight ight back pretty well for the next six rounds before running into another barrage At any rate Pastor gained much prestige much prestige by the tho surprising surprising surprising sur sur- victory amI may get an assignment a against Joe Louis early in January as a reward Until then or such time as the new new prospect is more sturdily tested Pastor will remain a big big question mark on the thc horizon j i In the first place the world has grown skeptical skeptical cal about trained college-trained fighters because no collegiate product has ever developed into a to honest-to-goodness title threat Steve Hamas came the closest perhaps ranking well up tip the ladder after scoring a victory over Max ing But he dropped out of the picture almost as quickly a after ter losing to in Germany d during ring a return b bout ut in which ho took some severe punishment Most of the college lads who aspire to ring greatness take up th the sport comparatively late in their athletic lives turning to t the e ring as something of an afterthought or hobby after considerable experience in other sports Football has taken the early attention of some outstanding physical specimens whose prospects for ring success s were jeopardized jeopardized jeo jeo- by their gridiron activities Many o of these boys come out of the gridiron wars with damaged knees and that of ot course means the end to their ambitions Hamas might have gone much farther except for a bad knee suffered while a at Penn State college The east offers another notable example of a fighter handicapped by his gridiron gridiron grid grid- iron mementos in Sully Montgomery Sully was a member of oi the the famous Centre college football team which invaded the east and whipped Harvard once upon a time Fight critics agreed he had all the physical attributes to ring success but it is recorded that too often when he set himself to deliver a punch or tried to step around a bit the trick knees would fold sold up 1 or orThe The urge of quick money has lured big Jack Torrance another product of the collegiate athletic world into trying try try- ing his hand at the fight game but the prospects of chamI championship cham cham- I success are not so bright r But here again the collegiate star is turning to the ring ting after long experience in another sport Torrance made quite a name for himself as a He still holds the record for tossing the pound 16 iron ball 57 ball 57 fe feet t 1 inch He even refused a chance at professional wrestling when he graduated from college last spring beca because se he had his heart set on doing great things in his specialty atthe atthe at atthe the Olympic games before trying his hand at some professional professional pro pro- sport He literally ate himself into Olympic failure fail ure rc becoming too heavy to accomplish great reat things at Berlin erlin and now he turns absolutely green toward the Continued on Pae Fas t V |