Show balb iff ft n ad W k pi U AS adas by A T roberts one of the current sensations in utah s rejuvenated boxing pro pram gram is tooele thoele s own remo poll poli don every f fan in this region is familiar with the conquests remo has made with his flying fists but cs this week is going to talk about another local boy perhaps not as well known as remo but we believe fully as capable were we re speaking of windy the TOD fire fighter only 25 years old 0 hanlon has been annexing boxing titles to his string ever since 1940 and now the titles he holds are as many and as varied as the 57 varieties 0 hanlon is an ex service man having seen duty with both the U S coast guard and the U S navy windy has been a resident of too ele eie for 5 years and is 5 feet 10 inches tall with his best fighting we at pounds up until now 0 hanlon has been fighting only as an amateur and among the honors he has garnered are the following championships in 1940 he won the in champion championship hip in the golden gloves tournament held in northern cal in 1941 windy was in the U S coast guard and emerged the winner of the tournament held at the base in port townsend washington 0 hanlon was stationed at camp 1 A I 1 aa 31 windy 0 hanlon classy TOD scrapper who won popular de casion from jim alexander of clearfield naval base in the boys day boxing program last friday night ight see topics for story hill at farragut idaho in 1943 and once again he proved that he was the top gob when he walked away with the middleweight cham chain pion ship there again in 1944 while at the U S naval training base farragut idaho windy dis belled any doubts that there was any sailor around that he couldn coulden t beat when he repeated his per firmance for mance of the year before and tucked away still another title this past summer windy went down to provo utah and fought his way through some very tough opposition in his middle weight division and when he came back to tooele thoele still another title came with him the title of C champion of the middleweight division of the midsummer boxing show of provo utah all in all since 0 hanlon has been fighting he has had a total of 22 bouts in 19 of them windy has had his right hand held up in the token of victory As a sparring partner for remo the last year windy has helped remo along the way to perfection by furnishing with the keen completion com petion that is so feces sary to get a fighter ready for the actual battle and by pitting his skill and his fists against those of 0 hanlon has improve ed his own technique to a point of being razor sharp in his last scrap windy was matched with jim alexander of the naval base at clearfield in this scrap 0 hanlon proved to his followers that he has lost none of his effectiveness as he took the decision in four fast rounds of hard fighting alexander proved to be a capable foe but 0 hanlon forced the fighting in all four rounds and landed the cleanest hardest punches to get the nod windy started out in the box ing game eleven years ago when he earned his high school letter at oroville union high school in cal since that time he has been vitally interested in the sport and has progressed through all the phases and honors the simon pure angle of the game has had to offer and now 0 hanlon is ready to turn professional under the tut eledge and diorec tion of remo who will de termine when windy will be ready to match his wares against aga irist those of the pro s 0 hanlon will soon be ready it is expected that windy s first pro fight will take place in the very near future in salt lake city with promoter jim downing s new boxing arena a lot of new faces in the pro ranks and win ter season coming on tooele thoele will be well represented with remo jolidon and windy 0 hanlon oc cupping the feature spots on the salt lake boxing program good luck to you windy 0 han ion |