Heavy Title Tussle
Has Unusual Aspects
By RAY ANDREWS
United Press Correspondent
Issaquah, Wash. W The
day Pete Rademacher camo
here to begin training he rode
beneath a banner stretched
across the main street.
It read: "Welcome Pete Rad
emacher. New heavyweight
champ."
The sentiment was in consid
erable conflict with other opin
ion. For Instance that of N a t
Fleischer, editor of the Ring
magazine, who views amateur
Rademacher taking on heavy
weight titleholder Floyd Patter
son as "the greatest mismatch
in the history of boxing."
Be that as it may, Rademach
er calmly is going about pre
parations for theaug. 22 fight.
His workout gym is the barn
like Town Hall of the town of
18,000 at the foothills of the
Cascade Mountains. The build
ing, which features an old-fashioned
pot-bellied stove, is also
used for town dances.
Loggers Watch Practice
Rademacher's camp is charg
ing the unusual sum of 99 cents
to see the 1956 Olympic champ
workout. Among the spectators
are hard-fisted, heavy drinking
loggers in from the timberlands.
This fight has many unusual
aspects.
One is that there will be no
judges "to confuse the issue."
There will be only a referee,
Tommy Loughran, former light
heavyweight champion who re
tired in 1937. If the fight goes
IS rounds he will decide the
winner. He may also stop it be
fore then.
Promoter for the fight in Se
attle's Sicks stadium is Jack
Hurley who has been in the
game since thee arly 1920s A
lean, sharp-featured man in. his
60s, Hurley is quick spoken and
quick thinking. He sometimes
wears a pince-nez and is known
as "the professor."
More of a Promoter
In the past years he has been
more of a manager than promo
ter. He managed Harry (Kid)
Paula Myers
Goes After
Grand Slam
Houston, Texas (W USC
eoed Paula Jean Myers was ex
pected to win a clear-cut claim
to professional Pat McCormick's
vacated diving throne today in
the final events of the Women's
National AAU Swimming and
Diving championships.
Miss Myers wil be going after
a grand slam, hoping to add the
platform championship to her
gold medals alreday won in the
one -meter and three-meter
events.
Thursday night Carin Crone
ef Ridgewood, N.J., fought off
a valiant challenge by Christine
Kluter of Cleveland to retain
her championship in the 220-yard
backstroke in the record time
of 1:13.7.
Earlier in the day Miss Kluter
defeated the 17-year-old New
Jersey Olympic star in the trials
in a 1:13,8 clocking, a new
American and AAU record which
stood for exactly seven hours.
But Miss Cone, defending cham
pion, sped to an early lead last
night to win by a length-and-a-half.
Mary Lou Elsenius, a 17-year-old
June high school graduate
from Berkeley, Calil., copped
the second gold medal Thursday
night churning off a 3:04.8 to
add the 220-yard breaststroke
title she won Tuesday night.
Sensational Australian Olym
pic performer Lorraine Crapp
won her first gold medal as she
topped the American and AAU
standards for the second time
Thursday to win the 440-yard
free style event in 5:08.5.
Another Santa Clara swim
mer, Jane Wilson, scored the
night's only real upset when she
nipped Sylvia Ruuska of Berke
ley in the 220-yard butterfly
stroke. Time of 5:13.3.
McMillan Takes
National Pistol
Shooting Diadem
Camp Perry, Ohio W Fir
ing got underway here today in
three team pistol events as the
rational rifle and pistol matches
ends its first full week of com
petition. The matches today were the
.22 caliber team championship;
the center fire team champion
ship; and the -45 caliber team
championship.
Thursday, Marine 1st Lt. Wil
liam W. McMillan overcame a
9-point deficit in the finals of
the national pistol champion
ships to dethrone five-time Army
M.Sgt. Hulet L. Denner.
2.612 Aggregate
The final results gave the Ma
rine officer an aggregate total of
2.612 compared to Denner's
2,610 out of a possible 2,700.
Wave Lt. (jg) Nancy Ellifrit
of Dixon, 111., broke the women's
national record for .45 caliber
time fire with 198 out of 200.
This was one point better than
the old record set in 1955.
Mrs. Gertrude Backstrom, Hc
quiam. Wash., won the women's
national pistol championship
with 2.592 out of 2.700. It was
her third straight title.
Matthews and, during attempts
to get Matthews a shot at the
heavyweight title, spewed such
invective at the International
Boxing club that it found . its
way into the Congressional rec
ord. Hurley's greatest disappoint
ment was heavyweight conten
der Lem Franklin. After 19
straight wins. Franklin was beat
en by Bob Pastor in 1942. In a
1944 fight. Franklin suffered, a
brain concussion and died a few
days later.
Hurley is predicting a gate
around $400,000 with a full
crowd in the 25,000-seat stad
ium at prices pt $20, $15 and
$10.
It will take receipts of $416,
866 for Rademacher's Georgia
backers to break even. They put
up a $250,000 guarantee to gst
Patterson to fight. The match
will not be televised nor broad
cast. Seems Confident
Rademacher seems quite con
fident. He says he has never
suffered more than a "digit or
wrist sprain," in 79 amateur
bouts, not even a bleeding cut
or a nose bleed.
He has not seen Patterson
fight except on television. Of the
champ's last bout, Rademacher
says:
"Patterson's gazelle . punch
has a lot of arm but not so much
power. It's kind of like a fly
that keeps lighting on your
shoulder and irritates you."
Rademacher has been in am
ateur boxing for 10 years and
he" says he took more punishment
in twp years of college football
at Washington State college than
he has in the ring.
"Friends keep asking me if
I'm nervous," he says. "I ask
back if they are nervous when
they go to work in the morn
ing. Well, neither am I."
Rademacher says his pretty
wife, Margaret, was not enthu
siastic at first about his taking
on Patterson.
"Now she's 100 per cent for
it," says Pete. "In fact, she'll be
at ringside the night of the fight.
fThat rather surprises me."
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Portland W Most of the
27 members of the State high
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August 24 have indicated a pre
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State and Washington appear
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Five players said they would
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Washington State, B r i g h a m
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Temple To Oregon
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Friday. Auguii IS. 1957
Etebo Olson Remains Slight
Favorite Over
Portland, Ore. HP) Carl
Eobo Olson remained a slight
favorite today to beat Irish Pat
McMurtry in Saturday's re
scheduled heavyweight bout but
the hunch bettors are not over
looking the fact the former mid
dleweight champ has never won
a postponed bout.
If weather holds Olson and
McMurtry, the pride of Tacoma,
Wash., will square off in Multno
mah stadium in what is billed
as a bout to decide the heavy
weight championship of the
Pacific coast.
The contest was set for last
Saturday but had to be post
poned a week when a deluge hit
the stadium 45 minutes before
ring time.
In 15 years of pro boxing
Olson has fought six postponed
bouts and lost every one.
But Bobo says he's not super-
Rosburg Has
Links Lead
St. Paul, Minn. Of) Bob
Rosburg, 30-year-old putting
genius from San Francisco, led
a star-packed field into the sec
ond round of the $24,000 St.
Paul Open today.
The bulky ex-car salesman
capped a brilliant back nine
with an eagle three on a 40
foot chip shot on the last hole
for a 30.
Rosburg chipped in twice and
one-putted the sixth green in
posting his 8-under-par 64
Thursday.
Howie Johnson, Houston,
Tex., had' a 65. In contention
with 66s were Ken Venturi
of San Francisco, Peter Thom
son, three-time British Open
champ from Australia, Jay Her
bert of Sanford, Fla., and
George Bayer of Los Angeles.
Defending champion Mike
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fistic oblivion, or a return to
managing a Portland area night
club.
McMurtry goes into the ring
with a record of five straight
knockouts in fights here. And
he has youth in his favor. But
the ringsiders hereabouts give
Olson the edge because of his
greater experience.
Vasquez, Rosi
Battle Tonight
Louisville, Ky. 0PU- Light
weight contenders Baby Vasquez
of Mexico and Paolo Rosi of Italy
meet tonight at Exposition cen
ter in a return TV fight, with the
odds fluctuating around "even
money."
Their 10-rounder will be tele
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by NBC at 6 p.m. (p.s.t.). .
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