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\Y way a a 6AA 6�w? By Lou Winston Ilie may be the only child or have five sisters and/or seven brothers. A Golden Glover may be a little fellow of 4Y or a giant of 6Y. He may be a tender 18 year old of 250 pounds, or a jockey size matured young man of 26. lie may be gaunt or lean, but is mostly muscular. He may be a 61h grade dropout or a student attending college. lie maybe single, or a divorcee of 19, or married and a father of six. lie 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 in train, 2nd may refuse to run ,n 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. He 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. lie 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 lighting 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