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The sweet science goes back a long way in Minnesota history
(Editor’s note: Part five of a seven-part series about local, area, and state amateur and professional boxing.)
By RODNEY HATLE
Contributing Writer
Boxing history in Minnesota has deep roots. The fight game was planted previous to 1910, when the first famous St. Paul brothers, Tommy and Mike Gibbons, were young pros. That was 40 years before Del and Glen Flanagan.
One of the nationally ranked fighters of the 1940s was Jackie Graves from nearby Austin. Publicity prone media writers called him “The Austin Atom” when at age 22 he was 128 pounds. Ranked No.2 during only his second year as a pro, he got his chance at the world featherweight title in 1946. Champion Willie Pep was a year older. Pep’s lifetime record would become 229-11-1 over 26 years.
“The fight itself shook the walls of the Minneapolis Auditorium. Graves sent Pep to the canvas twice [in the sixth]. Pep dropped Graves nine times [total], winning by TKO in the eighth round.”
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The Waseca Sleigh and Cutter medallion is hidden outdoors, on public property within the Waseca city limits.
A $1,750 prize of Chamber Dollars and store certificates will be awarded to the person who finds the medallion.
Bring the medallion to Charlie’s Hardware. Clues will be published each week in the Waseca County News and NRHEG Star Eagle. Clues will also be broadcast on KRUE and KOWZ Radio and will be available online at Waseca Area Chamber of Commerce at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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New Richland represented well in 1948 district finals
(Editor’s note: Part four of a seven-part series about local, area, and state amateur and professional boxing.)
By RODNEY HATLE
Contributing Writer
A review of the process shows how boxers of Gene Mobley’s New Richland training group faired in the Golden Gloves District 17 boxing tournament of 1948.
The fight card of eight bouts for the Wednesday, Jan. 28, finals lists four individuals as compared with six from Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, and three each from Owatonna and Northfield.
The finals began with New Richland’s Lester Root, flyweight at 105 pounds, and Earl Parriott, bantamweight at 118.
In the fourth bout was 133-pound lightweight Rodney Zwiener, who had advanced Saturday night with a second round TKO when the referee halted it because of the opponent’s increasingly swollen eye, the result of a round-one punch. But Zwiener was himself knocked out in round two of the finals by Jack Kennedy of Faribault. He “went down after a smashing right to the face and failed to get up by the count of ten,” was the Owatonna newspaper report.
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The University of Minnesota, Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC) will hold their annual Winter Crops Day meetings at five locations.
Beginning Wednesday, January 13 the program will be held at the Community Center in St. Charles. On Thursday, January 14, programs will be held at the Community Center in Arlington and a new location, Lakes Sports Bar & Grill in Lake Crystal. On Friday, January 15 the program will be held at EVENTS in Kasson and the Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca. The program will be similar at all locations.
For specific topics and times, details can be found at the SROC web site at: www.sroc.cfans.umn.edu or contact your local or regional Extension office of the SROC at (507) 835-3620.
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Geneva Cancer Auction starts January 8
By KATHY PAULSEN
Staff Writer
A new year is upon us. It is time to look ahead with the prospect of a whole year to look forward to. Can we, or should we look back at the year just ending?
Like looking in a rear-view mirror, it is important to look twice before backing up to be sure there is nothing in the way. You can look back, but there is nothing to be done about mistakes made except to learn from them. It is time to look at all good things that 2015 gave us.
We all have much to offer, much to give, and deserve to receive in return. We’ve heard it many times: “Live each day as if it were your last,” but did you ever consider living each day of life for someone you love? Count your blessings; name them, one by one.