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Lt. GO IN AND ASK MAGGIE IF | CAN BEEN | BAER ANXIOUS T0 GIVE FANS KAYD THRILLS ’ Champion Would Meet Seven Contenders in Ten-round Bouts CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—Now strides | forth Max Baer, the champion of all the heavyweights, with the most tounding proposal yet made by of the world's title holders, | heavyweights wore long wool- d fought on the sod. after due deliberation with Lis manager of record, Ancil Hoff-' man, has decided that the fight ame needs stirring up. The best stirring up process is the knock- | cut, and after looking the situation | cver, Max allows that the person best qualified to support knock- | ouls is none other than Max Baer, | evidenced a short while ago when the erstwhile un-knocked-out King Levinsky was pounded into| ‘nothin’ but a nothin’” in less two rounds. Here's what Baer proposes, con-| own powers to stop -called hcavyweigm; fident in hi of the contenders. Licts Seven Prospects MY BROTHER HAS INVITED TO GO TO ATLANTIC CITY FOR THE WEEK-END - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23, 1935. Through Hoffman, he lists seven | I pective opponents, and with- | regard for their rating, meyl Steve Hamas and Art Lasky of ! America, Max Schmeling of Ger- | many, Primo Carnera of Italy, Jack | Doyle of Iréland, Peterson of Eng- E and Charles of France | Baer says: | of Baer himself. “In the past, it has been the| Neither Baer custom to arrive at the logical| partial towards championship contender by elim-| said: ination contests. That's the bunk.| The way to find out who's entitled | = “They don't know what to fight me for my title over the|Want back there, and th fifteen-round route, is to have 'em Use in wasting time waiting all meet me, in ten-round bouts. |them to make up their minds.” “If any one of the mob is able| According to the schedule Baer to last ten rounds, no one will 8nd Hoffman have mapped out question his right to fight me over the series of seven bo_uls c;’Ju!d be the fifteen-round route. As it is held in plenty of time for the now, none of those mugs have any fifteen-rounder to be staged in license to be clamoring for a September—if there is to be any championship bout. They havenvl‘hfteen—munder‘ Baer adding: beaten anybody, and they sel-| Will See Knockouts Sl ek RaEbody. it B3Rk “I don’t think i:ere will be, be- Ouls... ape . Whak, - ke .08t game;cause I don't know any of those needs.” ._‘guys that can last ten with me, Baer added that he and Hoff:. B way Jin’ gidoe uow: However man; haying mads ihis :proposel, the public will be served just as i it bi -round : “?t‘izyo:y'a“bolztdss i:;n:hear;i:;u“:l:e well. Theyll see the heavyweight % champion appearing a couple ol ‘flmespn month, instead of once Three for Chicago jevery year, and they'll see knock- At least three of the matches, cuts. If that don't bring the game Baer and Hoffman anticipate, will back, nothing will.” be held in Chicago, where Jim Baer and Hoffman, in making Mullen and Nate Lewis have suc- their amazing proposal, insist that ceeded in restoring some life to they will not be greedy in de- the old game, chiefly with the aid nor Hoffman 1 New York. Max they no - baily Sports Cartoon By Pap HE HAS CHANGED WS MIND ABOLT RETIRING - THE FORMER- PRINCETON MILE ACE 1S TRAINING FOR. ANOTHER FLING AT <~ COMPETITION « HE SPENDS AS MUCH TIME N THE GM AS HE DOES ON THE TRAC 1 the | ) Tossed out of the ring by Jim Coffield of Kansas City In an Omaha wrestling match, Joe Dusek of Omaha took exception to the remarks emanating from a bronx cheering section—and he's shown threatening some of his critics. But nothing happened in the way of fisticuffs, and the wrestling bout ended in a draw. (Associated Press Photo) | | | manding aid ‘I proved in the Levinsky fight hat money doesn't mean anything Lo me. We could have billed that one for ten rounds and it would 1ave drawn five times what it did iraw. All I'm interested in is giv-| 1¢ the t it wants, and 1at’s kno: FIGURES PROVE JUNEAU REALLY DID WIN MEET Additional facts and figures on total team scores and individual tallies gave added proof today to announcement thal Juneau| |Elks had won the 1935 inter-city | bowling contest with Anchorage and Ketchikan Elk teams. H A totaling of the scores made | by the teams during the ten-day, 30-game tourney gave the follow- | ing comparison: Juneau, 26,869 points; Anchorage, 25921; and Ket- | { chikan,y 25,733. ~As announced yes- | | terday’ at the conclusion , of the meet, Juneau led Anchorage by | 1948 pins, Kejchikan by 1,136, An-| ;ck‘mrage led Ketchikan by 188. g | 'Without any doubt, Juneau can | claim the two best bowlers in the | | tournament. The question is, who: is the better? Ed Radde, bowling | in all ten matches, clicked a 5445 total to lead all scorers. Metcalf. | who did not bowl Thursday, Janu- | ary 10, had the third best total! score of the meet, with a 5,001 count for nine matcties. Zuiiia, Ketchikan, had 5,321 in ten mateh- es for second place. | | But if Radde takes the best!| | total score, Metcalf steps right in !wizh the best and second-best one- {day totals. The Juneau bowler hit| 1606 pins one day, only to follow |'this ‘score with 607 later. Al of 'which indicates, that, if Metcalf had bowled on January 10, he might have led- the tourney in total score as wi The third best individual one- day score was chalked up by Zur- 'ich of Ketchikan with a 599 effort. | ! The thres highest one-day team scores also went to Juneau when [ that team turned in scores of 2,875, 12,768 and 2,766. Anchorage had the| | fourth best one-day count 2,764, | while Ketchikan was fifth with a| | performance of 2,751 { | Here are the eleven highest ’indivlduul scorers in the tourna-| ment: Name and City Radde, Juneau | Zurich, Ketchikan | Metcalf Juneau | Zorich, Ketchikan Nowell, Ketchikan ... Thibodeau, Ketchikan. 10 Bragaw, Anchorage .9 Thompson, Ketchikan 10 JLarsen, Anchorage 9 Barragar, Jr,, Juneau . 8 huge Max | Days Score 5,445 5,321 5,001 4,990 4,885 4,721 4537 4,470 4,332 3,870 via | DONT WANT TO GO OuT NOW - Goes to Brooklyn are brought together again to re- sume the rivalry which started last winter and continued through | the outdoor season, track followers | can look forward to another color- ful indoor season. Bonthron's three year plan will carry him over the Olympic Games in Berlin. In spite of his an- nounced feelings about running it |is doubtful if he can resist the lure competition in the interna- | tional classic will offer. Look for ; | kim on the 1936 Olympic te ;1' - Paul Pilgrim, manager of ath- letics at the New York Athletic {Club, was mot at all surprised when Bill Bonthron appeared at the Winged Foot club and resum- ed working out on the track, de- spite the former Princeton miler's |announcement that he would re- tire from foot-racing when his | college days were over. Pilgrim, a great middle distance runner in his day and winner of the 440 and 880 in the 1906 Qlym-~ 4 pics, knew better than to take the retirement talk too - seriously and ! fully - expected Bonthron ‘to rumio gain after a little rest. | “I know how he feli alter that| hard. running campaign,” commented Pilgrim. “You get so, tired of the training grind you/ never want to see a spiked shoe again, but after a long rest you l. are keen to get going again.” [ Bonthron was tired of running— | and well he might have been. In ! the final month of his campaign he won the Intercollegiate A. A. A.| A. 800 and 1500 meters, the N“-E { f L e A I B ) il SPORT BRIEFS e 00000000000 c | Hans Lobert, coach and captain lof the Phillies, set a record of 13 4-5 seconds for circling in 1910, It still stands today. Charlie Rigler, National League , may not be active in 1935. 5 injured in an automobile { long, il | To rumors that he w: ot selling his 50 per Brooklyn: Dodze President Steve McKeever said, “It is not for 4 It will never be for sale while I live, and I'm feeling fine, thank you!” as thinking ent. of the Stanley Bordagary A promising reserve on last year's Notre Dame team who is ex- pected to shine for the “Fighting Irish” next season is Al D'Amora, born on New Year's day in Monte a, Ttaly. He now hails from Stanley Bordagary, above, outficlder and hitter of the r mento club, Pacific Coast league, goes to the Brooklyn National league team in exchange for Johnny Frederick, outfielder; Art Herring, pitcher, and an unan- nounced amount of cash. Last season Bordagary batted .321 in the coast league, star tional Collegiate mile an 3 tional A. A. U. 1500 meter cham- pionship in a schedule which car- | ried him to the West Coast and back again. | Deecn't Like v Kun | All through his varsity t'areer,g, Bonthron insisted that he neveri really liked to run and.did so only because some sort of athletic ac- tivity was expected of him He claims his feeling toward foot-racing is still unchanged, that he is resuming his training only hecause he deems it unwise to drop all athletic activity suddenly after vears of high school, prep school and college racing. His plan is to Brooklyn Dodgers will be National League club in camp this year. They will report in Orlando, Feb. 25 Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals got caught on only one | stride it is natural that he should | need unusual ength to carry him alonz at a record-breaking lip. Hence his rigid program of body building ey depending almost - entirely on a OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT aper off gradually over a period of [/fiffishing kick to bring him home hree years until he can safely |in front, Bonthron has substituted hang up his spiked shoes. unusual strenzth and power, Alll MILWAUKEE, Jan. 23— Mar- Bonthron’s method of training | aitempts to alter his running style | qucite University football follow- for foot-racing may be considered | were fruitless and he had to re- | ers are already looking forward to unorthodox, yet it is perfectly suit- | turn to his natural method next fall ed to his needs, judged in the light { Back For Olympics Graduation will not administer of his accomplishments. He spends He plans to begin his indoor the blow it has in the past. Only at least as much time at the|campaign by running distance rac- six members of the Blue and Gold weight pulling machines in the|cs and training down to the short- squad, five of them letter men, gymnasium as he does on the run- | er and faster races as the Season | will be lost by the sheepskin route, ning track. wears on. e With his exceptionally If Bonthron SHOP IN JUNEAU! | | | I and Cunningham | long = | We Want Mendenhall Milk! 9 And do they get it? “You bet they do! Every single one of these four and six-year-olds drinks Mendenhall milk, morning, noon and night. They like the ‘taste. Theit paremts appreciate the importance of plenty of fresh, pure, whole milk from tested cows. it Children cost a lot of money. ‘When it comes to food, money spent for buying the BEST of wholesome, health building food is a real saving. Mendenhall Milk tops the list for healthful, economical food. PHONE 985 TODAY for a month’s trial! 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