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Died. Fred Apostoli, 59, "the fighting bellhop" of San Francisco who became an amateur boxer while working as a hotel elevator boy and won the world middleweight championship in November 1938; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
...Crimson snared five out of ten matches and led the Elis by as much as six points before crucial middleweight duels...
...Brown countered in the next three middleweight matches. The Bruins trounced Mike Dee (150), 5-2, edged Rock Hinkle(158), 11-10, and pressed John Keough...
None of these blatant exercises in bias remotely compared with the decision rendered against U.S. Light Middleweight Boxer Reginald Jones, 21, in favor of Valery Tregubov, 25, of the Soviet Union. The opening round could plausibly have been judged a standoff, with the more experienced Russian consistently dancing out of trouble. In the second round, Jones rocked Tregubov several times and opened a nasty cut over his right eye. In the third, Jones nearly sent Tregubov to the canvas three times; the Russian was unable to punch back and lasted until the final bell strictly on guts and savvy...
Harvard's line-up will be an unknown quantity. The Crimson can depend upon its lightweights and heavyweights, but the troublesome middleweight bouts will remain an enigma...