The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 5

ey R AT AR BEURDAARY TR AP RGN bt 5 s R T hmoan Tumbas WG f;:"”:;! BRINGING Up FATHER THERES HEALS T \ FER ME L HE WAR'TS TS BORROW A HUNDRED DOLLARS-ILL FOOL H\Mm Iy — BY STAYIN' AN 3 THE HOUSE- HE KIN WAIT ALL DAY- BUT WELL BE A VERY DISAPPOINTED MAn - fi!@fi‘ RLl L PARIS, Jan. 7.—Rene Lacoste| may be lost to French tennis for| 1929, so the Davis Cup custodians are alarmed | Returning thoroughly* American- ized rfom a three months’ visit to the United States, Rene announced that “hz2 would particip: in no covered courts tournaments in Par- is and play no hardcour! tennis along the Riviera this winter | As to the proba ing up his tru the spring and getting into trim to defend the Davis Cup and his title of Wimbledon champion, La- coste was evasive and unenthusias- tie. “I am in business now. nis does not ere with, my business I may play it again next summer,” taciturn Rene replied in one of his longest speeches on record. If ten- e Miss California, owned by Dick Loynes of Long Beach, Cal., made 49.09 miles an hour to win the 151 class hydroplanes’ national chgmplo_mhlp' races at 8an Diego, Cal. He won the Elgin trophy from where it hag bees held ~ — MINOR SPORTS NOW ATTRACTING THE FLORIDANS - 'BOXING, MINUS DEMPSEY, STAGGERED THROUGH °28 By EDWARD J. NEIL (A. P. Sports Writer) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla,, Jan. 7 —Polo, golf, baseball, swimming, and automobile and boat races are major winter sports of Florida, but a class of minor games continues to hold the attention of hundreds | A t ! nopolized the winter of the winter populace | furnished skirmish almost de- RIS 2 | void of thrills' with only one real NEW. YORK, Jan. 7.—Despite |y ,cxout and few surprises ) ““'*“";“ef"]’ J;“:"_D""“’fi"{'i e | rhe biggest disappointment was most jeoloriyl Crawing cart Iihe:showing'of Jack Sharkey, tout- {ring history, the retirement of Gefie"Tunney, andithe. relutance |S3 IRHL he'met Dempsey s the Roque has its appeal for many |, most ‘champlons ‘to"defend m"ir‘"“'“ Iw(\'x_\ weight champion. The winter visitors and courts for this|yjee " Caulifiower, Ptd., did fair.| ooston Gob fought a poor twelve sport are provided in many cities.' o iy for itself during 1928. {round draw - with Tom Heeney Shuffleboard has so gained in POD- |~ Only one etk tion < Tany mm_‘:\ml was punched from the picture ularity that St. Petersburg alone! § Yokt Bik arGRi 4 ha ,m\h\' Johnny Risko, \zoneri, har 4 i 4 has a membership in shuffleboard|tjes that rage « o lana,| Baker Dboy. Sharkey knocked |tles that raged through the land.| o), jack Delaney in ome round, clubs of more than 600 for this|joe Dundee, despite the pressure | season and is expecting to enrolllo poth me; .\'zuri)ona] l;mli’ng Ny | 0L RS B0lg EeRulL O, thaiNeEs 1,000 shortly atter the first of the!sociation and the New York state|5c Was an investigation by the vear and 2,006 by the close of the'athletic commission, failed to de. | At Athletic Commission. Shar- : : key wrenched his knee later and 4 A fend his title at all. ~ But the les-| .o ou¢ of action six months. Now Lawn bowling and quolts have ser lights in all divisions, strug. |, = ot G0 T ©0 TS their followings and Florida cities|gling fiercely to gain the lime-); = jio or (he latest title each year witness tournaments for light, furnished enough . action "’Hmur'n 10 Miamf Beach, Fia:, Feb. the championship of city, state, take the curse off one of the poor-| ... o7 5 and in the former, national honors est outdoor seasons in ring history | “prio 0 o Tunney _“shot” in these. sports. |and keep the new indoor arenas in 2 . Fly casting is on a par with the Chicago, Detroit, Boston and New other minor sports in its ability York well filled. |ny Risko, the latter in Detrolf in to draw interest. The annual High, Low Lights | October of 1927. Southern States Casting tourna-| The highlight of the season fur-|gefeated George Godfrey, the cur- ment is held the first of the month nished its lowlight as well. Defend- | rent “Black Menace,” the in Orlando. the nation are entered. >+ — season. Th Horseshoe pitchers hoid their tenth annual world's champioggship stournament here- during-the -week of February 4, with cash prizes of $1,500. defeating Jack Delaney and John. {for the last time before his re-|parently impaired his effective- tirement and marriage Gene Tun- pess He dropped a decision recent- {ney crushed Tom Heeney, rugged ly to Jimmy Maloney in Boston. |rock from down under and the of. | ASKETBALL FIVE 4 B 3 ficial winner of Tex Rickard’ Titles Not Cleared OF UNALGA BEATEN |ciimination tournament. When| The battles of the year failed BY CORDOVA TEAM all efforts to convince Dempsey to clear the varied claims to the \that a third try might succeed,,flyweight and bantamweight titles | where two others had failed, Hee-|although Tony While in Cordova, the Unalga ney went to the slaughter that:New Orleans bootblack, whipped basketball team played a fast jasted all but eight seconds of Benny Bass of Philadelphia to win game with the Cordova team, but|the eleven rounds before the re-|clear claim to the featherweight was defeated by a score of 27 to!feree intervened. (crown in February. Tony, one of 9. According to the Cordoval mpo hout was the worst finan.|the busy titleholders, dropped an Daily Times, the Unalga bOYS!cial failure’ in Rickard’s history OVer-weight decision to Harry Blit- showed some good work but Were anq followed the debacle of . tha Man, Philadelphia southpaw, whom hampered, due to lack of familiar-|only other outdoor battle he staged | Bass later knocked out, and in ity with the floor. {all summer. Three postpone.|September lost the championship The players on the Unalga teamlments due to rain cost $100;0001t0 ‘Andre Routis of France. were as follows: Chlef Yoeman N.'when Sammv Mandell, lightweight! In the bantamweight division, Schwartz, captain and forward; king from Chicago, trounced baby'Minus a champion since Charley seaman, lc, Le Hamblen, f0r- face Jimmy McLarnin at the Polo!Phil Rosenberg forfeited the title, ward; Seaman, l¢, Claremce W r Brown, negro slugger —from Haddon, right guard; Seaman, lc, Clarence Tennyson, left guard, and Seaman ,2¢, Glenn Outhier, center. Two of these five men are season- ed players while the other three had never played the game b>fora. Fireman, 2¢, Charles F. Hun!, and Seaman, le, Robert Howell, did not play their usual positions cn' the Unalga team due to the fact they were in Jineau when the Unalga was in Cordova. Chief Yoeman Schwartz stated that tentative plans were being made to stage a game with the Douglas High school sometima next week. Grounds. Then despite a thorough Al and powerful ballyheo, swan public fancy ered under Yankee Stadi the knrockont Tunney- Flat guarante Tunney, $100000 losses that nigh For the quarter of the v ing this failure tion reported a loss o 000, a startliny compa same oiarter of the pr ,when Demvscy’s maene brought th-t of the national boxing association rating while Bus Graham, of Utiea, N. Y. did the same thing in the realm of the New York State Athletic Commission. They |never met. Recognize Schwartz Similarly New York recognized v Schwartz as the flyweight itle holder avhile the N. B. A, ut the stamp of approval on ra.| Frankie Genaro. No bout could |be arranged between them and Schwartz’s claim was dulled by de- . feat at the hands of Spider Plad. | ner, the French champion. Loughran steamed through the light heavyweights and disposed of Joe Sekyra of Denver, Jimmy lattery of Buffalo, Leo Lomski, the Aberdeen assassin who floored to him twice in the first round, and h- Pete Latzo, former welterweight : titleholder. Tommy campaigned ghtly among the heavyweights, I the )06 gath- in the 6 to watch technical song h clear - July big big of § 000 to; Heeney mad $300.000 ar i total e — HARD-HITTING SHERIFF GREAT FALLS, Mont, Jan. 7 —Pete Bross, who used to pack a wallop as a welterweight, now packs a gun as deputy she::t Cascade county here, dienoszed o1 i rnve and ol Pravyweirh battling to challenge Tunney mo.* | T ,‘m,_‘:qyl‘anama, fought his way to the top but the New York Commission re- fused him recognition in that class while holding the lighter cham pionship. Prodded into the ring by the reats of suspension, Mickey Wal- ker, the Jersey toy bulldog, put the middleweight cr n the block for Ace Hudkins and baraly eked out a victory in avage 16- round battle in Chicago, June Although sterling challeng abounded in George Co , Dave Shade and Rene De V ‘Walkor tcok on more weight and knocked out Armand Emmanuel and M McTigue among the weights. wn Dundee Fails Reinstated to good grace through the boxing world af being !freed on court charges that:grew out of his failure to go through with a match with Ace Hudkins lin Angeles in 1927, Joe Dun- dee failed to reach his old form |He knocked out Hilario Martinez in Spain, but was whipped him- {self in two rounds of a non-titla bout with Ycung Jack Thompson, Pacific Coast negro, *hicago, | September 30. | The sensation of the di {was Jackie Flelds, another Cali- | fornian, who knocked out Sammy Baker, the New York challenger, lin two rounds, and whipped Young | Corbett and Thompson | Twice during the spring and { summer, Tod Morgan, junior light- weight champion, whipped *Can- | nonball Eddie Martin in 15 rounds {nere. | Two other sensations of the year, Tuffy Griffiths, Sioux City light |heavyweight and Jimmy McLaf. nin blew up in the final stages of | the campaign. Griffiths came |Bast and was knocked out by James J. Braddock, after 55 vic tories in the mid-west. McLi nin, punching terror of the light- Los in the Cleveland|weights, lost on a technical knock- | out to Ray Miller, of Chicago, dur- ling his campaign to force another title tilt with Mandell. (FIRST MATCH | OF CHALLENGE Yesterday afternoon in the Elk | by knocking out Jimmy Maloney,|Club alleys, the Chamber of Com- companies doing busine merce bowling team scored o the Lions Club team in the firs Although Risko|set-to of a three-game match that|thoriti is being played sa the result of a ; Detend body| challenge made by the Lions at alsts at N Anglers throughout ing the heavyweight championship| peating he took in that match aD-| meeting of the Chamber of Com-|ard Oil company of New York, merce last Thursday. Sides, of the <Chamber team was both high in single score and three-game score with 226 and 607 pins respectively. The Chamber men rolled sigh single game {talling 848 pins. The next games to- Cazoneri, former{of the match will be played next|Ch Sunday and the Sunday following. Players and scores follow: Chamber of Commerce Stewart . 130 Council 176 Blomgren ... 151 Sides . 226 Cleveland 165 .. 848 Lions 18T . 207 143 201 125 eie 818 1841 - e, Total 147 171 150 210 163 Henderson .. Robertson Warner Kirk Mullen Total Since there isn’t any way of re the life out increas to do but devil o father because ne can't the income. | —--—— UNION AIR LINE, INC. The International Secur ities Corporation of Seattle, Wash has authorized V. A. Paine to sell any part of $5,000.00 of the stock of the Unmion Air Lines, Inc., in blocks of five shares of 7% preferred stock and one share of common stock at $50.00 block. Further information can be obtained at the office of V. A Paine, Valentine building or tele- phone 1921, adv HERE'D THAT HUNDRED DOLLARS YOU ASKED Great Britain rights reserved V%3] © 1928 by Int'l Feature Service. Inc They Figure in P [he “hot stove” league is where meeting of profession Left, Heine Groh, third b elated to manage the Har Bentley, ex-Giant, who wi dennsylvania League, an Senators, who is slated Yankees. tford BENNY MIGHT FAIL THO’ WILLIE SUCCEEDS Ben. y club pugilis- turned PIT BURGH, Jan ny Leonard, Pirate hoc owner, is not the only tic celebrity to hockey. Willie Ritchie, who preceded Leonard as lightweight cham- pion owns a club in the coast league and plays goal Benny asked why didn’t take part in hockey he answered: “You see, R who has was he and chie was one of those fighters who went into T the ring and could give and take It with anybody. With mé it was different. T went into the ring to give, not to ta and I was pretty good at avoid- ing 'em by ducking. Now, if 1 | | went into the net and a fel- { | low let loose with a terrific drive it's only natural that T | would duck. What would be the result? Plenty of goal | ‘Chinese Warlords Tax WON BY C. OF C.. 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