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Page 10 Portland Observer, January 7, 1982 e • • • '82 Pontiac Trans-Ams ARE HERE! All types of Financing Available JUST TAX & LICENSE Sugar Ray Leonard, right, interviews finalists in the Budweiser-sponsored Sugar Ray Leonard Golden Gloves Gournament. the championships Amateur boxing booms in U.S. Across the c o u n try last year, more than 20,000 boys between the ages o f 10-15 slipped on gloves and climbed into a ring. M ost o f them were w hite and m iddle class, the products o f o r ganized boxing program s sanc tioned by this country’ s ruling body o f am ateur boxing. But the sport still has its roots in the ghetto, where the a ction in the ring has always been more than just another form o f childhood recreation and where, o f ten, nobody’ s sanction is sought. It begins on troubled corners or the hallways o f housing projects. They fight to answer a challenge, to pass a test, to win their place in the pecking order o f youth. Then they wander into a gym and turn the sat isfaction and skill o f a sport. L e t’ s set the scene: It is F rid a y night in the c ity , any c ity in the U.S. A . The club is ro c k in g . The heavy bags and ju m p ropes have been locked away. Rows o f metal folding chairs flank the ring, and at a nominal fee, usually around 2 or 3 d o lla rs a head, the neighborhood has filed in for some real head-bang ing e n te rta in m e n t. Some o f the crow d o f about 150 people are fa m ily and friends o f the boxers; others, just partisans o f the ring. Tonight, the local talent faces visi tors from eastern Oregon. The gym is located in a building that reeks with tradition. The walls are adorned with fight posters and portraits o f some o f Portland’ s fin est amateurs: “ No sm oking” signs are posted, but the crow d ignores them; and soon a while haze begins to form around the network o f pipes that hang low overhead. As com m on as these bouts are, they are ille g itim a te . Bouts like these non-sanctioned ones are called “ smokers” or bootleg bouts. Often at these events there is no doctor at ringside, no seasoned referee, and no one to insist thast the young fighters wear protective headgear. Still, it is not these m inor infractions o f the law, or the g ritty m ilieu the young fighters box in, that concerns the people w ho regulate am ateur boxing. What troubles them is the safety o f the growing boys, the in ju rie s to w hich they are exposed. M ost doctors agree th a t i f young boys are properly trained, equipped and supervised, and i f th e ir bouts are stopped at the first sign o f trou ble, the danger o f sustaining a CURTIS RAMSAY serious injury in the ring is minimal. Recently, doctors fo r the U nited States Amateur Boxing Federation, three one-m inute rounds; 12- and which sets rules for amateur boxing. 13-year-olds fig h t I'A -m in u te conducted a national survey o f in rounds. For those 16 years o f age juries over a two-year period, p ri and older, the time is increased to a m arily involving boxers from ages fu ll th re e -m in u te ro u n d . In each 10 to 26. case, there is a minute’ s rest between The survey showed th a t 78 per rounds. cent o f the head in ju rie s reported Some trainees pace their boxers, were among those fighters who did a llow ing them to box only once a not wear protective headgear. One m onth or less, but it is not uncom death was reported from heart fail- mon for a 15-year-old who has been ue, in a teenager w ith a sickle-cell fighting fo r five years in both boot trait that had not been picked up in leg and sanctioned bouts to have 300 a pre-fight physical. fights to his credit. At this rate psy chogenic effects, the loss o f memory Even though the survey was based on a random survey and involved and learning disabilities could take place in 10 or 15 years. ' * voluntary injuries instead o f a com These young gladiators sweat and pulsory submission o f records, the survey clearly showed that substan toil endlessly, and some even dream tia lly fewer boys suffer serious in o f one day becoming a Sugar Ray Leonard or a Larry Holmes. ju rie s boxing than com parable The dream o f becom ing cham groups in fo o tb a ll and baseball. pion could hurt them ; let us hope Still, there is no way to guage the ef that negligence in the ring never fect o f repeated poundings over a w ill. long period on young fighters. U n der fe d e ra tio n rules fo r c o m p e ti tio n , 10- and ll- y e a r - o ld s fig h t Route to the Super Bowl W ild-C ard Team s D®«- 27 w Divisional Playoffs Jan 23 a * * ♦w aa *. * Buriato Buffalo * C incinnati N.V. Jefs Cincinnati ★ ★★★ San Diego San D iego Miami Super Bowl XVI N.V. Giants Silver dome Pontiac. Mich. Jan. 24 N Y . 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