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Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Friday, January 14, 2000

Olson in Boxing
Hall of Fame

Former world middleweight champion Carl "Bobo" Olson is Hawaii's first inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Olson will be inducted along with 11 others on June 11 on the Hall of Fame Museum Grounds in Canastota, N.Y.

He took the middleweight crown from Britain's Randy Turpin in 1953. He successfully defended the title three times before losing it to Sugar Ray Robinson in 1955.

Olson retired in 1966 with a 98-16-2 record and 48 knockouts, with victories over Joey Maxim, Kid Gavilan and Tiger Jones, among other notables.

The other new Hall of Famers, selected by members of the Boxing Writers Association and a panel of boxing historians, are Jeff Chandler, Ken Buchanan, Tito Lectoure, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Barry, Battling Levinsky, Billy Petrolle, Ad Wolgast, Jeff Dickson, Dan Morgan and Arthur Chambers.

Ah-Kioing wins at boxing nationals

Tuese Ah-Kioing won his bout in the plus-210-pound division but Hawaii teammate Kili Madrid was beaten in the 132-pound class of the 2000 Everlast U.S. Boxing Championships at Colorado Springs, Colo., yesterday.

Ah-Kiong outpointed Davin King of Temple Hills, Md., 12-4. Madrid lost a 19-5 decision to the Army's Corey Bernard of Fort Carson, Colo.

Follow the U.S. Boxing Championships on the Web here.

UH sailors 10th in opener

The Hawaii coed sailing team opened its season with a 10th-place finish in the Rose Bowl Intersectional regatta last weekend at Long Beach, Calif.

USC won with a low total of 49 points. St. Mary's was second and Stanford third.

Hawaii's nine-race point total was 173.

Sailing for the Rainbows were Molly O'Bryan, Ursula Austin, Steve Brown and Emi Tottori.