The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1938, Page 5

BRINGING UP FATHER Corbett Selccted As Boxing sescccees e BOXING James J. Corbett Robert Fitzsimmons . John L. Suilivan . Joe Gans Jack Dempsey Benny Leonard George L. (Tex) Gene Tunney 9. Jack McAuliffe 10. Sam Langford e ® a8 o * 00000 Rickard . . . . . . e . . . . . . By ALAN GOULD NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Boxing's “Hall of Fame" echoes h argu- ments, most of which it is quite im- ssible to settle. The many factors Jlved, for which few yardsticks of measurement or comparison are available, make any fistic honor roll a matter of conjecture. We have consulted the oracles, shadow-boxed with the records. tep ten confined 1is of Queensk era. Obvi- ously, to go back to the old bare knuckle days, to compare Tom Sa. Richard Heenan, John Mo .y, the great Bendigo and Jem Mace with the stalwarts of the gloved fist period, would merely in- vite further trouble. Our research, therefore, has concentrated upon fistic history of the last half-cen- tury, with a bow of recognition only to two heroes who spanned the tran- sitional period, John L. Sullivan and Jack McAuliffe. Sullivan belongs close to the top, rot because he was the last of the great bare-knuckle belligerents but because the Boston Strong Boy be- came an American legend. He linked the fugitive days of pugilism with the reform period. He became him- self an advocate of piety and died a symbol of solid citizenship. far removed from but still best remem- bered for the days when he offered. from the stage, “to lick any man in the house.” McAuliffe, who only recently joined Sullivan in Fistiana’s Val- halla, was the first of a great line of American lightweights. Their ranks alone challenge the heavy- weight monopoly in “Hall of Fame” debate. McAuliffe retired undefeat- ed in 1853 after nine years as un- disputed lightweight champion. He met and conquered all challengers. Fitzsimmons’ Case Only after weighing the evidence carefully do we conclude that Gen- tleman Jim Corbett rates-the No. 1 spot in our honor roll in prefer- ence to Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons. Strictly on the competitive side, we favor Fitz. He was middleweight champion (at 158 pounds) six years before he knocked out Corbett in 1897. He won the light-heavyweight title six years afterward He was netive in the ring for nearly 30 years, was 47 years old when he fin- ally quit, and in every respect was to the ury a physical marvel as well as one of the greatest punchers of all time. Corbett’s original claim to fame rests, of course, upon his knockout of Sullivan in 1892—an exploit for which many an old Sullivan idola- ter never forgave him—but the one- MONDAY ELKS' HALL 40 ROUNDS “Slugger” Weaver Frank See vs. “Big Boy” Erickson TICKETS NOW ON SALE OF BOXING DOUBLE MAIN EVENT Eddie Murp WELL-VLL SAY THAT SIR VON PLATTER IS GIVIN*A VERY SWELL SOCIAL AFFAIR TONIG HT- by Gould ’s Number 1 Man clerk two time San Francisco bank wielded great influence along lines of fistic development By showing what clean could do, Corbett helped raise mpetition as well uct in pugilistic circles. His ca ot only helped lift the game frem disreputable aimosphere but hi skill stimulated its scien- livi Two Other ‘Successes’ Two other siudies in fist 55, Jack Dempsey and Gene T , are included in our list matter how you think they would ¢ fared in combat with the im- tal Big Three or, for that m | with Jim Jeffries or Jack Jok th must be conceded to be the last of the “great heavyweights Jack and Gene drew the two biggest gates in p -fight histery. Demp- sey's purs aggregated nearly $3.- 000,000 from 1919 to 1627. Tunney wollected the biggest individual end i the famous “battle of the long count” and retired a mil- licnaire in 1528. 3cth fought their way the hard route, Dempsey as & youth with d either , Tunn as a ring student who took Corbett for his model The man who had most to do with helping Tunney and Demp- sey to make ring history as well as fantastic profits—Tex Richard—cer- tainly belongs to our fistic “Hall of Fame.” The old Klondike gambler began his career as a promoier in €06, at Goldfield, Nev. He bid $101,- 000 for the Jeffries-Johnson heavy- weight match, which he promoted at Reno in 1910 Coming East he took over the old Madison Square Garden, put boxing on its feet as a sporting business, and brought the “best people” back to the ringside Never a Champion Two great lightweights, Joe Gans and Benny Leonard, rate high on cur honor list. Champion from 1901 to 1807, when he yielded to Battling Nelson and to the ravages of ill- n Gans was a model of fistic <kill. Leonard, who retired unde- feated in 1924, came closest amonz all succeeding lightweights to the Gans standard. Benny out-boxed and out-fought a formidable class of rivals. The fighter who rounds out our top ten, Sam Langford, never held a title but few will dispute the Bos- ton “Tar Baby's” claim to greatness. He is considered by many compe- tent judges the hardest hitter of all heavyweights, with the possible ex- ception of Fitzsimmons. His career covered 21 years but he was in his prime in the days when Jack John- son was a fugitive champion, and thereby a victim of the handicaps ciated with the fistic fortunes or misfortunes of his race. It is a commentary upon the heavyweight champions of the de- cade since Tunney's retirement that not one comes close to a place on the honor roll, save perhaps for Jim Braddock, on the basis of courage alone. Max Schmeling dissipated the extravagant “Hall of Fame” build- up for Joe Louis. Honorable mention, at least, be- sue- un- to the top by fier JUNEAU ATHLETIC CLUB SMOKER EVENING 8 O'CLOCK 8 BOUTS hy vs. o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR AH! MR. UIGGS - ARE YOU ENJOY- ING YOURSELF - OR SHALL WE ASK YOUR WIFE TO SING? AN’ THAT'S THE PRETTIEST GIRL HERE -AN' SHE'S BEEN LOOKING v TALLY 58 IN AVERAGE aged 582 pins each with a 1747 total to beat the Southern Pacific trio three games straight. Mike Ugrin, high Canadian Paci- fic bowler, took honors for the en- tire evening with a total of 638, in- cluding one score of 248. Union Pacific hit a total of 1691 to beat Northern Pacific three games straight and Lackawanna rolled 1606 to beat New York Central two out of three and in grand total Tonight's games are Railroaders’ League matches, Firemen Brake- men, Telegraphers vs. Dispatchers and Mail Clerks vs. Supers Union Pacific 175 203 222 603 93 190 194— 577 170 170 170--*510 A senior in New York City’s Hunter &l College, pretty Hilda Koenigsberg mToq) 542 586—1691 will see a play from her able pen on Nerthern Pacific Broadway within a few weeks. oopq. 195 174 151— 530 Theatregoers may see Deanna Dur Tubbs 1 i o 5 bin of the movies as star of Miss 71O 16, 185 189 490 Koenigsberg’s “Homespun.” sched. Blanton 153 191 1686— 512 uled for production in March. - Totals 464 550 5181532 longs to Tommy Ryan and Mickey Scu’hern Pacific Walker, both of whom scaled wel- Henning 192 192 192--*576 ter and middleweight heights in Duckworth 166 158 224-- 548 widely separated eras; Packey Mc- Wirt 163 165 161— 490 Farland, an uncrowned master of = ringeraft in pre-war days; Mike and Totals 577—1614 Temmy Gibbons; Terry McGovern Canadian Pacific terror of the bantam feather- 203 185 636 weight ranks in the early 1300's 190 571 George Dixon and Joe Walcott, two 159 164 540 wonderful negro champions of the — — old days; and Tony Canzoneri, besl Totals 544 651 »f the modern littie fellows, who cpped ther and lightwheight New York Central ranks before retirement Boyle 141 187 1993 - > o - Blomgren 163 180 171 H41 Hendricksen 170 140 168— 478 . i e Lackawanna Barragar 200 178 ave easfl"s Hagerup 198 178 Shattuck 194 174 160— SEATTLE, Feb. 25.—Two hundred Totals 502 530 484—1608 fifty selected University of Wash- ~—Average score. Did not bowl. - ington men—the most handsome. graceful, charming and refined on the campus-——will nervously groom themselves for the night of March 11 For on that date 300 beautiful. vi- vacious students from Stevens Col- an exclusive Mid-West school, will arrive in Seattle for & two-day visit. The picked campus swains, tczether with fifty specially picked members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will enter- Man’s Anatomy SIiglLfly Mixed DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 25. — An X-ray made before Ivgn Speer was operated on for appendicitis dis- closed : His heart was on the right side. So was his liver and gall bladder. lege, girls | tain and escort the girls. i TR A committee headed by Bill e Montgomery, ASUW ticket mana- Salmon Fllld ger, will name the University es- WQy Home; corts. It Is Proven HAYWARD, Cal, Feb. 25.—It was years ago that a barricade stopped the annual salmon run up San Lorenzo creek. Since then there have been many generations of sal- mon hatched, caught and eaten. But now that the barricade’s down, fishermen here declare, some ancient instinct has led today's sal- mon back. A bona fide salmon run to see the litigants. has been occurring on each high There were three of them—Paul- | tide, they report. ino Rodriguez, sixteen, and his two --- sisters, Trinidad, twenty-two and Inez, eighteen. Paulino is nineteen inches tall and weighs twelve pounds. Inez is twenty-one inches tall, weighing sixteen pounds; while Trinidad towers forty inches and tips the scales at twenty-five pounds. The midgets explained they want- ed their names changed from Ro- driguez to Del Rio, because the latter is their professional name. Judge Burke gave permission. The three have been appearing at a loop department store recently as an advertising attraction. - e Try the Empire classifieds for results. THREE MIDGETS GRANTED FAVOR CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Judge Jo- seph Burke had to lean pretty far forward over the bench in order If a Cold Threatens.. Timely -use of this especially designed 1 for nose and upper throat, helps | prevent many colds. | 30¢ and $0¢ Vicks VATRO-NOL SAY-TELL ME- WHO IS THAT BEAUTIFUL. GIRL._OVER AT THAT WINDOW? Copr. 1938, King Features Syndicate, "ac., World nights anadian Pacific last night aver- FRIDAY, FEB. 25, 193 By GEORGE McMANUS OH-| HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA- YOU SEE - SHE IS A DETECTIVE-{ HIRED HER TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE GUEST S -I'VE BEEN MISSING A LOT OF SILVER -WARE - " " LAUNDRY AND TRANSFER ARE PIN WINNERS Alaska Laundry wen two oul ¢ three games from the S‘.nlbb) las night at the Brunswick to ta | tal scoring honors. North Transfer won two out oi three from Heidelberg! Tonight's games are Snow Whilc vs. Rainier and Columbia vs. Bruns wick. | Last night's scores fellow: Alaska Laundry uncan 201 158 136 495 158 158 131— 447 152 138 179— 460 Totals 1 454 4401411 Stubbies 139 146 163 116 194 182 160 112 165 Totals 415 453 511—i37 Heidelberg Takeway 123 154 126— 403 3eeds 123 123 159 415 rcker 103 156 26) Russell 146— 146 Totals 354 443 4411238 FILLING SHOES or Nerth Transfer 4 Battello 161 134 Tony L ki y Lazzeri at Yankees’ second B. Schmitz 21 161 base is tough assignment ahead p gehmitz 119 155 Yor Joe Gordon (above), training AV = 98 near Los Angeles. Totals 421 456 404—1335 - MAN ORCHESTRA IS LED BY GO-ED BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 25.— Ruth Marie Wallbaum, blonde Lou- isiana State university coed, leads an orchestra of seven men in the campus cafeteria. She took over when a male stu- dent abandoned the baton. “It’s fun to lead a band of men,” she says. Her songs entertain stu- dents at their meals. B U, S. Steel Plans Charter Changes NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Seeking to ease the way for new financing, the United States Steel Corpora- tion recently proposed changes in its capital structure and charter in- creasing the authorized common stock from 12,500,000 to fifteen mil- licn shares, changing this stock from $100 par to no-par, and authorizing the issuance of convertible bonds and debentures. It was emphasized by a company spokesman, however, that no im- mediate financing was contemplat- ed, and that improvement in mar- ket conditions would largely deter- mine when any new issues of stock, bonds or debentures would be of- fered. English Seek Fund For Harvard Shrine LONDON, Feb. 25.—The lord mayor is backing an appeal for $125000 for the restoration of Southwark cathedral where John Harvard, founded of Harvard university, was baptized and later married before migrating to Boston. Aid of Harvard graduates has been promised for the cathedral. Its location near the Thames once prompted the provost to declare, “Tt is not easy to imagine a siw; less suitable for a cathedral.” | ‘The church stands on gravel, sand and mud, and the acid fumes of the river air are said to be crumbling the stone work. Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. IT HAPPENED HITTIN' OVER YER ; HEA QAN VA7 ALEXIS KAMPOURIS of Cincin- nati—not Ot or Medwick or Mize —was the only National league batter able o get three home runs in one game last season. He did it in Philadelphia May 9. His team- mate, Lombardi, belted & for 6 that day. New 72-Passenger Plane Nears Com pletion | The biggest flying boat under construction was whecled out of the Boeing factory in Seattle, Wash., so workmen cculd mount the two 152-foot wings. The Fiying boat, being built for Trans-Pacific air travel, has a hull 109 feet long and will accommodate 72 passengers, - as popular as other types of build- Senator Robert J. Bulkley, of Ohio, who introduced a bill authorizing & bond issue of $2.000,000,000 to begin construction of a national system of ten super highways is shown above at Washington, mapping the roads with ruler and pencil. The roads would offer maximum speed and safety’ to motorists and would have great value for national defense, according * to the Senator. SR W 2 S “It's a Palamino and Palamino horses now are much admired,” he explained In its day, the horse has been & bay, a roan and a sorrel besides's spotted gray. Elks Lock Horns, Both @l[mals IlllI €ODY, Wyo. Feb. 25. — Strangq evidence of a forest dispute wi found recently by George Gall of Cody, two pairs of elk antler: lecked together on the Buffalo: forl hunting ground. H One pair of antlers had pencn;:: ed the skull of the other. wound apparently killed one elk but the other animal was so tightly locked in the horns of his adver4 sary that he was unable to breal free and died of starvation. The fight occurred months ago, for the bodies of the elks were desg composed. IN NEW HOMES COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.,, Feb. 25.—Copper houses will be intro- duced to the home building indus- try of the nation by Spencer Pen- rose, Colorado Springs metal min- ing booster. He predicted that within the next few years copper houses would be ings. Kennecott Copper Company, with headquarters in New York, will use Utah copper in the first of two houses to be erected here this year. Milton J. Strong, construction su- perintendent for Penrose, said the copper houses would cost no more than those built of other mater- ia Wnnden ilfi}se | Always in Style COLORADO SPRINGS. Col., Feb. 25.—E. E. Whitted, who owns the one remaining harness shop in Colorado Springs, believes in keep- ing up with the styles. For years he had a dappled gray wocden horse in front of his place, keeping an iron cigar-store Indian company. - DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT ' With American Legion ~Auxiliary, Elks Hall, Wesley Barrett’s Orches~ tra, adv, - e NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY To be issued March 15 and forms close March 1. For space and list- ings please call Juneau and Doug: las Telephone Co. Phone 420. MJ D Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. ' - Try The Empire classifieds for results. Now Whitted has painted the bt horse a spotless cream color, with pure white mane and tail. SR o S 0y TANANA RIVER ICE MOVE DATES 1917—April 30 at 11:30 a.m. 1918—May 11 at 9:33 a.m. 1919—May 3 at 2:33 p.m. 1920—May 11 at 10:46 a.m. 1921—May 11 at 6:42 a.m. 1922—May 12 at 1923—May 9 at 1924—May 11 at 1925—May 7 at 1926—April 26 at 1927—May 13 at 1928—May 6 at 1929—May 5 at 538588 v'D BEE E oo oo so oo 0B 1B O CO DD QB = o 'Y 0 'Y D 'Y D BEBR 1930—May 8 at 7: .m. 1931—May 10 at 9:23 a.m. 1932—May 1 at 10:10 a.m. 1933—May 8 at 7:20 p.m. 1934—April 30 at 2:07 p.m. 1935—May 15 at 1:32 p.m. 1936—April 30 at 12:58 p.m. 1937—May 12 at 8:04 p.m. NENANA ICE POOL CLOSES April 15, 1938—Midnight