Friday, January 13, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINB
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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.
. Four years later, weighing
only 145 pounds, he lost a close
decision to Jack Johnson, who
later shunned him when he won
the heavyweight crown. Lang
ford also fought such greats as
Harry Wills and Steamboat Fred
Fulton. In 1906 he went into the
ring against Jack Blackburn,
who later managed Joe Loius. -
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