Troy Overlooks Own Fight, Eyes Olson Defense
New York —(U.P.)— Quiet Willie Troy, knows as the "Middleweight Henry Armstrong," overlooked his own bumps and bruises today to predict hopefully that Bobo Olson would defeat Kid Gavilan next month.
Attention to another brawl is odd because Willie has his own troubles at the moment. Friday night he'll go into Madison Square Garden against Joey Giardello and it figures so close that it is what is known as a "betting fight," with plenty of even money action.
But Willie is worried only for Olson.
"Giardello I can beat," he asserted emphatically. "That puts me next in line for Olson and a crack at the middleweight title. But if Olson loses, I have to wait while he gets a return shot."
Despite Willie's nonchalance over his date with Giardello, the fight mob is a group divided. Some like Troy and others like Giardello.
Willie likes Willie, definitely.
"It'll beat Giardello because I hit harder and I take a punch better" says the Norfolk-born 21-year-old who now makes his home in Washington. "I beat Tuzo Portuguez easy and he gave Giardello a tough fight. And I'm working on a string of seven straight knockouts."
That kayo streak would seem to support those who theorize that Willie is a much better fighter since he started to throw more right hands. He always had a good left, jabbing or hooking, but he's been decorating the deck with that right of late and it has made him even more aggressive than usual.
Right now he appears more worried about Olson, and training in the country, then he is about himself against Giardello. He is doing his chores at Summit, N.J., and, in his words, "It's different."
"Always before for my New York fights I trained in the Uptown gym in Harlem," he pondered. "Being way out here in the country, where it's so doggone still, sort of gives you the willies."
Troy likes it bustling and noisy.
That probably stems from the fact that he was born in a large family seven boys and three girls, and his first job was as a waiter in the busy National Airport in Washington. Meanwhile, he just "sorta drifted" into boxing.
From "hanging around" a Washington gymnasium he slid into amateur boxing at the age of 15. As an amateur he won 22 of 24, dropping a pair of decisions. As a professional, he has won 26 of 27—20 by knockouts—and in his lone reversal was stopped on cuts provided by Holly Mimms.
Willie may be quiet and reticent, but, as they say in the fight game, when he's aroused he's a "tiger." His go against Glardello is rated as one of the year's best, a "natural," but somehow Willie can't get too excited.
Kansas Bowlers Top Ottawa
The University's bowling team recently slipped past Ottawa university. 2548-2536, as Gary Schugart rolled 220 for the high single game.
Women Roll 3rd Round Today
Women Roll 3rd Round Today The third round for the women's national bowling tournament will be held today in the Union bowling alleys.
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Baseball Roundup
Floundering Yankees Off to Poor Start
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The New York Yankees were off to one of the worst spring training seasons in their history today—and their rivals wondered if General Manager George Weiss called the turn with his charge of complacency.
The world champions, criticized by Weiss as "too complacent" when training started, have dropped seven of 10 exhibition games and suffered a virtual paralysis at bat. They've averaged only 3.8 runs a game and tallied more than five runs in only one contest.
Manager Casey Stengel, although disturbed by the continued failure to flash peak form, said he believed the Yankees would snap out of their coma when they meet the Brooklyn Dodgers tomorrow. "The mere sight of the Dodgers always seems to do something to our boys." Stengel said.
But, meanwhile, Stengel had little to cheer about. Yesterday's 5-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers was the Yankees' third straight and fifth in six games. They've tallied a total of 18 runs in the six games while allowing a total of 31.
The Dodgers, apparently warming up for their series with the Yankees, beat the Washington Senators, 3-2, for their seventh straight triumph. Ken Lehmman, Ron Negray, and Russ Meyer limited the Senators, who have lost seven straight, to five hits.
The high-flying Baltimore Orioles gained and lost a first-baseman
within a matter of hours. They purchased Eddie Waitkus from the Philadelphia Phillies in early afternoon but learned Dick Kryhoski would be sidelined at least four weeks with a fractured wrist before sundown. Kryhoski was hit by a pitched ball on Monday but the X-rays didn't disclose the break until vester·av.
The Boston Red Sox, who started their exhibition schedule with five straight wins, suffered their fifth loss in a row when they bowed to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1. Hal Rice's fifth-inning home run produced the decisive run as the Pirates made it six victories in nine games.
Around the camps: The St. Louis Cardinals return today to St. Petersburg, Fla., after four straight victories over the Chicago Cubs in the West. The Cards and Cubs drew 40,835 cash customers in the four games. .The Philadelphia Athletics place the only unbeaten Grapefruit league record (6-0) on the line today against the Yankees at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Don Johnson, 15-game winner for Toronto last year, allowed two runs in six innings as the Chicago White Sox beat the Milwaukee Braves, 8-3. . And Duke Markell, another International league star who pitched a no-hitter for Syracuse, yielded three runs in six innings although the Philadelphia Phillies bowed to the Cincinnati Redlegs, 8-4. Bonus rookie Tom Qualters was hammered for four runs in the sevent after relieving Markell.
7 Seeded AAU Teams in Action
Denver (U.P.)-Seven seeded teams were set to open bids for the 1954 National AAU Basketball championship today now that first-round games involving unseeded teams have been completed.
Top-seeded Peoria Caterpillars, the defending champions, meet a lightly-regarded Armstrong Towne House team from Indianapolis, Ind., at 10:30 p.m. CST. Peoria, and second-seeded Phillips Oilers, who meet Carmack Realtors of Cleveland at 7:30 p.m., were expected to move through tonight's second-round games with ease.
Fourth-seeded Akron Goodyear tangles with Ogden, Utah, a strong entry composed of Utah college stars, at 3:30 p.m. Young Men's institute of San Francisco plays Artesia, N.M., in another second-round contest at 12:30 p.m.
Seasoned AAU fans, however were looking to the Denver Central Banker-Fort Leonard Wood game tonight at 9:30 p.m., as the best match on the card. Third-seeded Denver may find the well-balanced soldier team a rugged hurdle in its path to the quarter-finals, since Fort Leonard Wood drubbed Del Rio of Trenton, N.J. 8-64, Monday.
Loaded Grivalva Motors of San Diego, a top darkhorse, was to meet Warren Air Force base at 1 p.m. and the Buchan Bakers, a top Seattle, Wash, plays Fort Sill at 5 p.m.
In other games yesterday, Cleveland's Carmack Realtors disposed of Clarksons of Des Moines, 68-65; Artesia downed St. Angelo of Amsterdam, N.Y., 74-52, and Fort Sill, Okla, defeated the San Diego Phibpac, 91-85.
Allen-Bradley was the first seeded team to see action in the tourney, in the opening round last night, and lost to Kirby Shoes of Los Angeles. 65-72.
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Hogan Heads Special Meet
Miami Beach, Fla. — (U.P.) — Ben Hogan makes one of his benign tournament appearances today when he heads a field of 276 professional and amateur golfers competing in a special, one-day golf tournament over the Bayside Normandy Isle course.
Hogan came by plane from Texas to play in the pro-amateur event, in which each of 69 pros will team with three amateurs in best-ball competition. But he will not play in the Miami Beach four-ball tournament which opens here tomorrow.
Hogan drew as his partners amateurs Walter Olson of Chicago, J Bradley Streit of Miami, and J. H Buchanan of Miami. The amateurs have a combined handicap of 34 strokes, so their pairing with "Bantam Ben" makes them strong contenders for the title.
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Football TV Plan On NCAA Agenda
Kansas City, Mo. —(U.P.)—The television committee of the National Collegiate Athletic association will draft its football TV plan in Kansas City Saturday and Sunday.
The plan then will be submitted to member colleges and universities for a referendum vote, with a ballot of votes needed to put it into effect.
Walt Byers, executive secretary of the NCAA, said the plan would not be made public until it is in the mails.
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