Sport: Biggest Event

U.S. fighting men last week won the biggest Allied sports event of World War II. Before 15,000 rain-soaked, freezing fans filling St. Eugene Stadium, Algiers, Americans took 13 out of 16 professional championships in the North African Thea ter of Operations boxing tournament.

A thousand Arabs, Americans, French men, Britons, Spaniards, Greeks and Cana dians had entered. Elimination matches had cut them to 120 finalists. Lieut. Gen eral Mark W. Clark ordered leaves for Fifth Army fighters. Finalists from his and the Eighth Army were sent to a special training camp outside Algiers.

There were 16 knockouts in the weeklong finals, the most...

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