Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-05 | Page 12 | Seven Defending Champs Still in Meet

Seven Defending Champs Still in Mee By JOHN MOONEY Of the eight defending champs who sought to retain their senior A A U boxing titles seven were still in the running for the semifinal scraps Wednesday night at the Elks' Elks club while one Frank of 01 Tooele defending defending defend defend- ing had already gone the way of all flesh down among the memories of Mit Mart who stepped through his opening nights night's tussle Monday in impressive fashion had trouble all the way with Carl Richardson of Albion Normal in a good scrap but the Idahoan landed the harder blows and the first defending champion had failed to repeat The spotlight of the evening however was held by y Mac Mae Smith defending champion from Idaho who waltzed across the ring swung a left and then connected with a right to score the fastest of the tournament a second 15 kayo the kayo ment over ment-over over Ellis of Salt Lake City Other champions still in the running include Gene Robertson heavyweight Jell Jeff Pelton pounds Remo pounds Bill Fowler Fowler Fow Few ler pounds Jack Boden pounds and Alvin Barker pounds Besides this array the field includes George Gillette classy welterweight welterweight wel wel- veteran Ernest Wilcox Denver A AA AA AA A U champ from Fort Douglas and Harold Jardine Bouts Wednesday will be in the semifinal class and sixteen contests are on the slate An additional 16 bouts Thursday night will con- con elude clude the tournament While the interest interest Tuesday naturally on the more talented senior scrap the junior and novice fights were received u r too In fact it seemed that Tuesdays Tuesday's showed a definite trend for the better c t over slower opening night matches Kayos and t tkos tko's k os o's were literally a dim dozen in the heavier weights Tuesday ni mf three of the bouts ending via the knock route and four more ending on technical i ton kno outs As an added attraction Mike De De' De Dewon bewon won the final bout of 01 the evening from ii How Howl Stutz on a low blow in the third round A near-capacity near crowd attended the theof seco of the four night shows but with the hot io bot getting bet better beter er all the time a sellout sell is expect Wednesday and Thursday according to Ii R j McNeil A A U chairman