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• • . a 1.1 (ti/tat Gd a 6othit Gcfooe'i? By Lou Winston Hemaybe the onlychild or have five sisters and/or seven brothers. A Golden Glover may be a little fellow of 4'9" or a giant of 6'S". He may be a tender 18 year old of 250 pounds,or a jockey size matured young man of 26. He may be gaunt or lean, but is mostly muscular. He may be a 6th grade drop-out or a student attending college. He may be single,or a divorcee of 19,or married and a father of six. He might not smoke or drink,because of the rigid training program required of a Golden Glover. He may be a boy who travels more than 100 miles five nights a week,merely to train,and may refuse to run an errand of one block for his wife or mother. He may be a boy who sacrifices pleasure for days, weeks, yes, months of strenuous training just to enter the Golden Gloves and make a good showing. He may be a plumber or a barber, a machinist or a • policeman, a laborer or a cook, a student or a school teacher. He may be unemployed. He may be rich or of wealthy parents,or have a mediocre income, but usually has difficulty balancing his books financially. He may be a son of foreign born parents, but he almost without exception is a United States citizen by birth. Fie may be Japanese, Mexican, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Irish, Italian, Polish or Jewish. He may be a negro or white, or an Indian,or a mixture of Chinese and American. He may be from every state in the union,including Hawaii and Alaska. He may possess the ambition to become a World's Champion and enter the professional field in boxing,or he may end his career in the Golden Gloves with only one fight. He may be an ex-serviceman or one to be inducted soon after the close of a Golden Gloves Tournament. He may be a boy separated from home only once,or he may be a restless one who wanders. He is the type of a fellow who expends every ounce of energy in the ring for a medal or trophy,instead of fighting for cash. He is a young man alone in the ring with his opponent,with no one to run interference for him and no one to whom to • pass the ball when the going gets rough. He is a youth searching for a rainbow—to see—to touch—to grasp—and to keep. This—my friends—is a GOLDEN GLOVER. 38