Intramural Boxing Finals To Be Held Today in IAB

Following two days of often bloody preliminary fights, the finals in Harvard's annual intramural boxing tournament will take place at 3:30 p.m. today in the I.A.B.

The feature bout will be between last year's interhouse heavyweight champion Rick Rice and rugby-playing contender Buzz Miller. Rice, the odds-on favorite, disposed of Paul Gussi Monday afternoon while Miller eliminated football halfback Hobie Armstrong.

Perhaps the best fight of the afternoon will see the defending 165-pound champ Bob Hagabak take on classy Ricardo Wilson, last year's freshman champ at 175, for the 175-pound title.

D'Arcy Favored

In other final bouts John D'Arcy, this season's uncontested 135-pound winner, is likely to add the 145-pound title to his collection with a win over Owen Hanley. Ralph Mooney and Steve McNeely look like winners at 155 and 125.

As the result of two grueling semifinal bouts in the freshman heavyweight division yesterday, Dan Calderwell and Alex Whiteside emerged as finalists.

Calderwood, one of the tournament's most polished boxers, eliminated Howe by a TKO in the third round with two sharp rights to the head. Off balance after the first punch, Howe took the second square in the face and sank to the canvas.

For the first two rounds of the three-round fight Calderwood casually stalked his lighter opponent, who wisely gave the big fighter room. Even so, Calderwood landed three hard rights is the first round which had Howe bleeding from the nose and mouth.

Howe came on quickly in the third round with a flurry of shots to Calderwood's body. This shift in strategy did not pay off, as Calderwood, waiting for just such an opening, countered with the barrage of lefts and rights to the head that ultimately floored Howe.

The second bout was pure mayhem, with Whiteside and loser James Driscoll flailing wildly as they shoved each other back and forth across the ring.

Defense and counterpunching were ignored during the three freewheeling rounds, and by the closing minutes of round three neither fighter could summon the energy to take advantage of his opponent's drooping defense.