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BOXING UNLI KE the fate of the football team, the Green Terror boxers did not suffer by last year's graduations and withdrawals from college. Nearly all of last year's varsity reported when Coach Harlow sent out the call for leather pushers this year. With such a great wealth of good material, Terror fans looked forward to the current season with con- fidence. On nearly all occasions, Western Maryland put into the ring a team that would be formidable in any league. With Gorski, Kaplan, and Pontecorvo. last year's Inter-Collegiate champs in the heavy classes, and other capable men in the lighter classes, plus efficient reserves, the 1935 boxers performed worthily on a difficult schedule. The Terrors were off to a fast start, winning handily over Bucknell in the opening meet 6 to 2. The entire team was in splendid condition and seemed eager to test their ability. Navy, the next team on the schedule, won as usual, and Western Maryland left its customary mark in the form of fast; hard hitting bouts, although it was handi- capped by the absence of Pontecorvo, Kaplan, and Keyser, who were declared ineligible because they had had three years of inter-collegiate boxing. Unfcr- tunately Haynes developed influenza and had to be taken to the Naval Academy infirmary just before the fight. Score 2 to 6. Army was taken into camp to the tune of a 5 to 3 victory. Power in the heavier classes gave the Terrors a wide margin as Keyser. Kaddy. Gorski, and Ponte- corvo won their fights, the last two named winning by technical knockouts. The Terrors lost the next two fights, to Syracuse, 4Yz to 3Yz, and Catholic University, 5Y2 to 2Y2. "Tony" Ortenzi, an aspiring Freshman fought the