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Friday, January 13, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINB Medf UNE SIPODffi Amateur Boxing Champion Living Here; Seeks Polish From Local Rinq Trainer Medford is now home for Jackie Puscas, 1955 Amateur Athletic union national light weight boxing champion, who is also regarded as Oregon's cur rent No. X amateur ringman. Puscas, 23, popular partici pant on a number of mitt cards here, moved to Medford at the start of the year from Eugene. The ex-Magine, who has col lected many laurels since be ginning his ring career six years ago, has indicated several rea sons for moving from the Wil lamette valley city to this com munity. A hard hitter 'he wants to become a good sparrer, too. In Medford he'll have -a place to train, which he didn't have in Eugene, and he'll have some one to work with'. "And he says he likes this Rogue valley metropolis. Puscas is working but here under the tutelage of Hugh Jen nings, a former Minnesota and Northwest amateur champ who is coach and trainer of Medford Police Athletic league boxers, He willrain at the PAL club gym over Acme Hardware store and will fight under the PAL banner. Apprentice Painter While carrying on his boxing activities, the AAU champ is also learning a non-athletic trade. A lumber mill worker at Eugene, he is now an appren tice painter and is working for J. Fred Baker's Paint and Wall paper company, 1945 West Main st. Puscas became a father on January 6. It is planned for his wife, Chloe, and new son, Jim- my, to join him on January 21. . He is living at 23 Mistletoe st. It's an odd remark coming from a national .champion, but Jack says he feels there is room for improvement in his boxing. His havy slugging offense has been his defense. He can hit but he feels, as do other close fol lowers, that he needs to learn to protect himself. Q McLoughlin Cagers Nick 2 CP Clubs McLoughlin junior high eighth and seventh grade basketball teams squeezed out decisions over Central Point aggregations here yesterday afternoon. The Bulldog eighth won In overtime 21 to 17 and the sev enth was victor 22 to 17. Central Point led most of the way in the eighth grade conflict and in the seventh grade mix McLoughlin came from behind in the third quarter, holding the Pointers to two tallies for the entire second half. 17-A11 Deadlock Score at the end of the regu lar playing time for the.eightn graders was 17-all. Ken Durkee and Lynn Knight collected points in the extra session to get the. verdict for the Medford gang. It was reportedly a rough contest. McLoughlin lagged 4 to 8 at the quarter and 6 to 15 at the half of the seventh grader af fair but ran up 10 points to cut the deficit to 16 to 17 -in the third panel. A pointer tossed in one bucket for the Bulldogs. LINE-UPS: McL. Eighth 21 17 CP Eighth Ihirkee 4 f 5 Michaels Hamilton 4 f 3 Bartley' Knight 3 c 2 Toner Konopasek 4 S Anhorn Allen 6 g 7 Pfaff Substitutions For McLoughlin, Bennett; for Central Point. Sharp. Puscas began his workouts last Monday at the PAL gym. .Jennings has reportedthat Pus cas is making fine progress. The lightweight champ feels he'll do better when he gets on to the style. Puscas has had 120 fights since beginning his career in January, 1950, right after his 17th birthday. He's scored 100 victories, 83 by knockouts. Of his 20 setbacks, -seven were on a. recently completed European tour with a U. S. amateur team. The Yanks learned on the trip that bouts are scored differently in Europe and that the fact that a pugilist is a hard walloper doesn't often count a lot. Runner Up in 1954 The amateur star was runner up in 1954 for the national AAU featherweight crown. He won the Canadian Diamond Belt light weight championship in 1952, 1953 and 1954 and for the same years was named Oregon's oustanding AAU fighter, retir ing a trophy for that honor. Pus cas has also won Seattle and Tacoma tournaments in addition to his Oregon state laurels. Jack -remarked this week that he has no interest in professional boxing. Sixteen of his fights took place during a two-year period while he was stationed' in the Marine Corps at El Toro base in California. A brother, Jim, who started boxing at the same time as Jack, is now in the Army Medical Corps in Korea. " Jennings, under whom Puscas is training, won-flyweight, ban tamweight, featheweight and lightweight Solden Glove crowns in Minnesota and 'northwest Golden Glove flyweights ' and lightweight togas. He defeated Bill Bray, British Empire ban tam champ and a North and South Dakota lightweight ti tlist. He has trained boxers here for about four years starting at the YMCA. He was an organizer of the Rogue Boxing club, a forerunner of the Medford Po lice Athletic league. . 1 'J Xss , Warriors Widen Bulge to Five . By UNITED PRESS margin in the Eastern Division The Philadelghia Warriors' to five full games, latest winning streak rose to five The Quaker City hot-shots led games today as the runaway Na- all the way Thursday night in tional Basketball assoiation lead- scoring a 123-94 triumph over the ers increased their first-place Rochester Royals at Philadel phia. In the only other league action, the Syracuse Chiefs snap ped a four game losing ' streak by beating St. Louis, 93-78, in a battle of tail-enders. Use Tribune Want Ads , New York (U.R) Chuck Rolles of Cornell, a five-foot-six-inch senior, held a 19-point lead over his nearest rival Dave Carruthers, six-two' soph from Dartmouth today in the indi vidual point scoring race in the Ivy League. JACKIE PUSCAS New Medford Resident Ben Hogan Shines In Crosby Tuning Pebble Beach, Calif. U.R) abnormally tough Cypress Point The annual Pebble Beach Pa rade of Stars, sometimes called the Bing Crosby National Pro Amateur championship, tgets un derway here today with some 250 big names competing for the sake of charity and $15,000 in personal rewards. Favored to take the event is the team of Ben Hogan, out of retirement temporarily for this event only, and the tourney's namesake and sponsor, the "Groaner" himself, Der Bingle. Hogan,- with a borrowed put ter, has been playing some of his best golf in years in the warmup rounds blistering' the layout, adjacent to Pebble Beach, with a seven under par 65 Wednesday. Flint, Mich. (U.R) Yama Ba hama put an "indefinitely- post poned" tag on Leffie Walker's state middleweight title hopes Friday night by scoring a tech nical knockout over the Saginaw boxer here. OBEDIENCE For PURE BRED JJOGS New Classes Starting Jan. 18 BEGINNERS 7 P.M. to 8 P.M. ADVANCED NOVICE 8 P.M. to 9 P.M. Sponsored by: SOUTHERN OREGON KENNEL GLUB , Phone 2-9333 for Registration McL. Seventh 22 A. Funston 4 Kamack 4 Hood 2 Ouinney 4 Ragsdale 8 17 CP Seventh 5 Higinbotham 2 White 8 LaCasse 2 Allen Foote Substitutions For McLoughlin, Minnick; for Central Point, Willard, Twedell. Boston Tar Baby Dies Penniless Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) Sam Langford, conqueror of world champions but never one himself, will be buried here Sat urday at private ceremonies. The Boston "Tar Baby" died Thursday in a nursing home here, blind and penniless. Langford, a native of Wey mouth, N. S., traveled the world from 1902 to 1923 pursuing the business he knew best boxing. Beat Joe Gans He fought a dozen champions in all classes but during his long years in the ring failed to win a title. He began his fistic career at the age of 17 by whipping lightweight champion Joe Gans in a non-title bout in Boston. . 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