Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1928, Page 37

SPORTS. ‘Sharkey Fails to Worry Risko LIST OF CUBS JORNNY IS HOPING JACK WILL BATTLE | H."G." Carlson H. Grampp, jr. | Roy F. Hansen. . ..Chicago, 1Il. | Percy L. Jomes....Dallas, Tex. | Perey L. Malone. . Milan, Ohio Arthur N. Nehf...Phoenix, Ariz. Robert Osborn ...El Paso, Tex. Chas. H. Root. .. .. Middletown, Ohio Phillip Weinert. .. W. Philadelphia, Pa. John V. Welch....St. Louis, Mo. Pete Fowler . .Converse, S. C. Catchers. Br the Associated Press, ;;,.h,. Churry, jr. NEW YORK, March 0.—The tougher | M. A. Gonzales. . and more often they come the better | C. L. Hartnett Johnny Risko likes it. | Louis A. Legget That's why the former Cleveland | pnfielders. Baker boy, now the rough-and-tumble | Ivde E. Beck man of the heavyweight brigade, isn't | Clyde E. . worried much about his 15-round tussie | John 8. Butler with Jack Sharkey at Madison Square Garden next Monday night. “All I hope is he comes in and fights,” | says Johnny. “Take a sock and give | s my’ game. I like to fight,” may not choose to meet | Risko at the latter’s own game, how- ever. he Boston tar has fought John- ny before. and. like all the other top-| Joseph J. Kell . Sharkey | J, R, Stephensen ly has a healthy respect fof | Earl W. Webb sko's left hooks and ings. Johnny is always swinging. He may nes than not, but the one | that connects is likely to leave a jarring impression. There is nothing gentle Homo Address, .Beckley, W. Va. Shannon, Miss. ockford, T Give-and-Take Contest Next Monday Night Would Be to His ‘Liking. . Congo, Ohio .Havana, Cuba Milleville, Mass. .New Orleans, La. Gardena, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. Granville, Ohlo St. Louis, Mo. . A. McMillan. imer E. Y Outfielders. Hazen Cuyler .. C. E. Heathcote. ., Pa. ew York City, N. Y. kron, Ala. Ravenscroff, Tenn. Lewis R. Wilson. .. Martinsburg, W. Va. “Where is he now?’ Helght. STAR., WASHINGTON, NOW TRA MANAGER, JOE McCARTHY. Weight. Bats. Throws. New York City, N. Y. o = Minneapolis Cubs Cubs Cubs Cul Cubs Atlanta, Ga. GLLET] Cubs Cubs Cubs Greenville, S. C. Cubs Brooklyn, N. Y. Cubs Cubs Toledo, Ohio St. Paul, Minn, Cubs Pittsburgh, Pa. Cubs Toledo, Ohio Cubs Cubs Cubs 5101 6.001, 5.10 6.00 5.06 185 185 [/EIENE ERICANR ==ER ®RACNE mRRCRER RRER Sparky Adams, transferred to Pittsburgh; Brillheart, | transterred to Minneapolis; Pick, transferred to Milwaukee; Prothro, | to Memphis as manager; Floyd Scott, transferred to Pittsburgh Nationals. transferred about Risko's methods. The baker boy is a “club fighter.” a throw-back to the | old slam-bang days of the ring when | the crowds came out chiefly in the hope ‘ that the boys would punch each other | ooty | There is no doubt that Johnny likes to fight. He has fought all of the leading hea weights of the last few years except Jack Dempsey. It is one of Johnny's few regrets that he has never had a chance to battle the Manassa Mauler. From a man who fought them all—Tunney laney, Sharkey. Paulin has otherwise De- Ber- it would seem a | fairly good comparison if the heavy- weight talent could be obtained. The question draws a short, but pointed answer from the bounding one. “Tunney hits oftener.” It has been just one fight after an- other for Johnny, but he retains the distinct impression that nearly three Fears ago the present champion of the world tossed enough leather at him to make the then in- experienced baker boy dizzy. Nevertheless it fight that estavlished Risko's reputation. It oc- curred in Cleveland in 1925, little more turned pro- (f;es onal and less than a year before from Jack Dempsey. There has always been some dispute about it and some claims have persisted, despite denial, that Risko had Tunney down. Here'’s the version of Danny Dunn, Johnry's manager: “It was a tough fight, a lot tougher than Tunney expected. Gene was picked to win by a knockout, but he found His record bears him out. heavyweight | BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN. | (Light-, OW that the Delaney-Heeney fight is out of the way we can examine the coming bout be. tween Jack Sharkey and John- | ney Risko, also arranged by Tex | Rickard to build up a Summer oppo- | nent for Gene Tunney. When Sharkey defeated George God- |frey and cut Harry Wills into ribbons he was the most-talked-of young heavy weight in the game. His knockout of Jim Maloney boosted his stock sky high. Things that happened after- ward took some of the color out of | dign't look like a great performer in any those feats. Wills was knocked out by Paulino. Maloney was stopped in a round each by George Godfrey and Tom Heeney. Then Jack took on Mike McTigue. The ) took the hardest of those rights at the | vyweicht Champion of the World.) | beginning without backing up an inch. | record books show that Sharkey scored | a technical knockout in the eleventh round. but the fight did him much | more harm than good. Old Mike out- | boxed him the earlier part of the fight. |and if it had been scheduled for only {the decision. Only the misfortune of |cuuinz an artery in his cheek on a iMc‘ngue from going the limit. ‘Then Sharkey fought Dempsey last July. He was stopped by Dempsey | terrific body punching, and though he {said he was fouled, he had | himself to blame for losing. leman Gene took the heavyweight |10 rounds, he would certainly have won | broken bit of bridge work DR\'enled‘ no one but | classic Boston Sharkey in Danger of Losing To Risko, Loughran Declares Sharkey, who could have clinched the decision with a rally in the last round, fought more wildly than ever, and Heeney earned a draw. 1 have never seen Sharkey fight well, with the exception of his last ap- pearance against Jim Maloney. Always confident, the sailor was absolutely ‘sure of himself that night. He outboxed the big fellow until he had the opening he wanted, and then finished him off. The good impression I got then was spoiled by Sharkey's showing against McTigue. Dempsey and Heeney. He of those scraps. Sharkey says he expects to beat Johnny Risko easily. He thinks the Cleveland rubber man is just made to Perhaps, but if Jack against Risko as he did 2gainst Heeney, he won't get a draw. You can writz your ticket on that, and remember it when the fight is over. Most of the boxing writers think Sharkey is the best of the contenders. They may change their minds after his fight with Risko. (Copyright, 1928 . North per American News- liance.) NEW_YORK, March 9 (#).—The . A. marathon on April CHICAGO CLUB CONVINCED DASH WILL DEFEAT BUCS Pittsburgh With Super-Individual Strength Feels It Can Withstand Rival’s Attack—MecCarthy Has Excellent Pitching Material. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. N ROUTE FROM CALIFORNIA ‘TO SOUTHERN TRAINING CAMPS, March 9.—The town of Milan, Ohib, is the birthplace of Thomas Edison. The great inventor is inclined to be something of a rooter for the Philadelphia Athletics, because they train at Fort Myers, Fla., and visit him in the Spring to be en- tertained generously with food and words of wisdom. ‘The same town is the birthplace of ! Perce Malone, who is pitching these days for the Chicago Cubs. Said Ma- lone, who has pitched for other ball teams and who has done some traveling in the course of his young life: “I am going to do so well for old Milan, Ohio, this year, that I shall make Mr. Edison forget about the Athletics and rally his forces and his banner around the Cubs. I know there are managers who have called me various kinds of pet names in the past. They have spoken contemptuously of my poundage and my condensed beef, but they can’t do it any more. I won 20 games for Minneapolis last year and lost 18. Some may say that wasn't so much because it was only an even break. Was it? current opinion of Catalina Island. Kiki has not been loquacious, but now and then has given voice to the opinfon that if the Cubs only h'ist their galluses and open their shirt collars, they will make Pittsburgh curl up and die in the shadow of its steel industries. Great Fight in Prospect. Others have inhaled like ideas. They conceded the splendid individual skill of the Pittsburgh players, but they would like to know whether it vanished on the first afternoon in Pittsburgh dur- g the 1927 world series when the Pirates failed to win from a Yankee team, which played more stupid base ball than it had played for two fort- nights. It is a pity there is nothing in the East this year that promises a National League battle royal as can be foreseen between Chicago and Pittsburgh. The Cubs and their supporters will have the benefit of it in Chicago, and the Pirates and their noisy backers will whoop things up in Pittsburgh. Maybe the railroads will run excursion trains from the East so that the fans on the sea- board can go Westward occasionally to see the bearcats fight and look over the Western country. Almost every comparison made off- club didn't play well enough to win the | pennant, did it? In the second place, I pitched 38 games and more, didn't 1? If I could win 20 games and lose 18 for the Minenapolis club in 1927 I can win 20 and lose 8 for the Cubs in 1928. The Cubs are a different team from Minneapolis. “When I go back to Milan, Ohio. they will say to me, ‘Well done, good and faithful Malone,’ and between my- self and Mr. Edison I guess we'll make old Northern Ohio sit up and take no- tice again.” Cubs and Bucs Strong. Base ball fans have a right to an- ticipate great things from the two Na- tional League clubs training out in California. Not only are both of them likely looking and seemingly about to grow up as strong as father, but there is an old-fashioned fighting undercur- rent developing that brings back the days when laid in their best supply of brick bats | wherever the Baltimores were to appear | n ] There's the best kind of shindy de- veloping between these Western teams. | Both think they are good. The Pitts- burghs are not over confident, but they take inventory twice a day of their speed and are sure they have it. Per- haps they have, too. But the Cubs think they can lick them. Most unmistakably the showing that the Pittsburghs made in the world “In the first place, the Minneapolis | the Pittsburghs sharpened | their spikes for Cleveland and the bo)‘s“ hand regarding the respective chances of Pittsburgh and Chicago is apt to the Pirates because the super in- dividual strength of the Pirates will be harped on. Pittsburgh has stars— beautiful, shining orbs, four or five of them. But pause and observe this Chicago pitching staff if it gets so that it synchronizes, or co-ordinates, or whatever it is that psychology teaches. It has elements of success that out- number the seeds of a Florida orange, and if its team work spreads fitself properly, as Joe McCarthy hopes, the new or almost new ball park of the Cubs will echo this year with more hoarse bellows of appreciation and ap- proval than have settled over that part | of Chicago since Pop Anson basted over | the fence in old Lake Front Park. | (Copyright. 1928.) WORLD'S LARGEST “M.” ‘The largest “M” in the world, built of loose limestone and measuring 130 by | morial Stadium at the University of Missouri by the freshmen class. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla—Alex Hart, Philadel- pmn, won from Julian Moran, Spain 10). ORLANDO, FI Chapel Hil Big Sid Terris, knocked out Jack 150 feet, has been erected at the Me- | | 1 D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928. RIGGS BOWLERS WIN OVER BALTIMOREANS Riggs bowlers of the Bankers’ League yesterday completed their 10-game battle with the Maryland Trust Co. duckpinners of Baltimore victors, 5,243 to 5,110. The Riggs' bunch carried to Baltimore for the final block a lead of 110 pins picked up here last Saturday and in the second block outrolled the Maryland Trust men, 2,626 to 2,603. Rollers of the Post are claiming the bowling champlonship of Newspaper Row after concluding a series of matches with rival bowlers of other papers. The latest Post victory was clinched yesterday when a team of The Star was defeated, 3,103 to 2,799. DeMolay Alumni yesterday outbowled the DeMolay team In two of three games. Myers of the Alumni shot 125 i’m‘t t‘)‘w best individual effort of the match. TIDDLY WINKS, PING PONG COACHES ARE SUGGESTED DES MOINES, Iowa, March 9 (#).— The athletics department of the Uni- versity of Towa should include coaches for tiddly winks, ping pong and pro- fessors of poker and bridge whist, ac- cording to a resolution offered in the Iowa Assembly by Senator Charles J Fulton of Jefferson County. Pointing out that the salaries of the department total $50,000 annually, the resolution urged that “some mild form of sport of equal soclal and cultural value” be included. The resolution was laid over under the rules. SPORTS. : Hot Contest Between Cubs and Pirates Looms Story of Orwoll’s Fast Rise To Majors Reads Like F iction By the Associated Press. Decorah, Towa, a town- which sofc- ROM the diamond of an obscure | times defies detection on the map, and Towa college Oscar (“Ossie”) | for four years he was a sensation with Orwoll, whose alliterative name | the college nine. Irf 54 games he was has been changed by admirers to | at bat 208 times, scored 58 runs, made the Towa Ghost and the Great|93 hits for a total of 172 bases, and Orwoll, has clubbed and flung his way | struck out 10 times for a total batting to base ball's big tent in just three |average of .442. three ball players and handful | bt it of cash, Connie Mack persuaded Henry | From college he went to the La Crosse J. Killilea, new owner of the Milwaukee | independent team and the Brewers Brewers of the American Association, | signed him from that outfit. to part with the services of Orwoll, 5o/ In 1926 Orwoll turned in the great big blond Ossie has donned a uniform record of .750 as a pitcher. winning ! of the Philadelphia Athletics. out of 16 games to lead the Americar If he carries on for the Athletics as | Association hurlers. His batting nettec he did in college and for the Brewers, | him .287. he should be a decided asset. | "Last season he ranked second in bat- Whether McGillicuddy will have the | ting, with a mark of .370. thereby lead- Norwegian pitch, play first base or the | ing the Brewers, which, as a team, Jed outfield is a question. As a combination | the league. He won 17 games and lost hurler and flychaser with the Brewers | Si to head the circuit's hurlers. last year he led the league in pitching | _ OF¥oll s a son of the late Rev. §. M. and ‘was second in batting. Mack’s | Or%oll. a minister of the Norwegian outfield is pretty well manned, but he | Lutheran Church, who lived at Mad- can use a first baseman or a pitcher | 90¢% N. 1? He was graduated from to good advantage. Luther College with an A. B. degree in ‘} 1925. “Impossible,” Says Manager. The yearly stalking of the bushes by ATTRACTS COURT FANS: big league scouts always turns Up a| pyaNSTON, IIL, March 9 (®).—Seven story or two. That concerning Oscar | letters have been e is among base ball's best sellers. | tn basket ball squad. Attendance Several years ago Orwoll, then 18, |5t a new total of 53,350 for 10 followed his yen for base ball and es- | home games sayed to play first base in a club in the == = = Auto Bodies, Radiators and now defunct Dakota League. “Impossible,” said the manager. | Fenders Repnire d oot “There’s nothing else for me to say, | | you're just impossible.” And Orwoll was dropped forthwith. | Then he entered Luther College at 1 oze | Wittstatts, 319 134 33 14th, Bet. P & Q 15 12 Block Below A ANNIVERSARY SALE A Good Time to Buy Goodrich Silvertowns On Our Jack |19 will be an official Olympic trial, but | series has fired the Chicago athletes | o ad and | wasn’'t even a shadow of himself and |not the final test of candidates for the | with sulphuric acid brimstone. They | —~ hmeen coming in. In one round was on the edge of a knockout early in | American team, Herman Obertubbesing, | speak of the Pittsburghs not reverently ohnny caught Tunney off balance up!the fight. But the Boston sailor fought | chairman of the Amateur Athletic | but almost shamelessly. They simply $gainst the Topes and jarred him, but | wildly, and without judgment, and | Union's long distance running commit- | can't see that any team with dash can- ere was no knockdown. The fight gave Dempsey the opening he was look- | tee, has announced. | not beat Pittsburgh this year. They are went the limit, but Tunney won by a ' ing for. | being educated slowly, but surely, to good margin on points. 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