Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 53

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929. SPORTS. od Big Man Beats Mighty Little One as Loughran Wins Decision Over Walker Saguerro, Cuban Light-Heavy, Being Dodged By “Upper-Crust” TOM GETS VERDICT ON JUDGES' RULING Superb Boxing Tells in Bout in Which Referee Gives Vote to Mickey. PAUL R. MICKELSON, Associated Press Bports Writer. HICAGO, March 29—Tommy | Loughran, boxer courageous, still rules the light heavy- weights of the world. ‘Throwing up his most formi- | dable defensive weapon, a straight left | Jab, tmhlegmatlc Philadelphia Irish- man easily retained his crown last night | by repulsing the pug nosed, heavy firing | middleweight champion, Mickey Walker, over the 10-round route in the new $7.000,000 Chicago stadium. The battle, strictfy one between a good big man in Loughran and a mighty little man in Walker, was fought before 20,000 spectators, who paid approximately $175,000 to see it. | Loughran obtained the verdict of the | Judges, Eddie Klein and Phil Colins. | ‘The referee, Davey Miller, cast his baliot for the challenger, whose dream of equaling the triple ring title record of the great Bob Fitzsimmons was shattered. Loughran’s Boxing Superb. Youghran won because he was a superb boxer. He waged a running, Jabbing fight and belted Walker with Tesounding smacks whenever the New | Jersey bulldog made his characteristic, | two-fisted rush. Loughran never had | Mickey in trouble, and was content to | rue up his wide margin by his bril- iant boxln% skill. ‘Walker had but one chance last | night. That was in the fifth round, | when he nailed the champion with a | terrific right cross to the jaw. Loughran | Teeled, his eyes were glassy and he ap- | peared to be in pain. Sensing victory, the bulidog rushed, aiming his flying | fists at the same spot. But Loughran, always a smart fighter, tied him up each time, shook the cobwebs from his brain and stalled the nearly disastrous round out. It was the only exciting round of the match, and from that time on, the tide turned steadily to the champion. Loughran recovered his poise in the sixth round and never again was Mickey able to break through with any telling effect. In the ninth round, Loughran decided to show his critics he was willing to trade punches. He caught a few light smashes in this ex- change, and then crept back into his shell and stayed there, holding Walker off with his reliable left. Crowd Is Disappointed. The fight itself was a disappointment to the crowd, the largest indoor large fight assembly in Chicago’s history, be- cause of its purely defensive nature. Financially, it was a loss for“Lough- Tan. Under the terms of his contract, Walker $50,000 and Lomski and Tufty Griffith, who fought & rollicking 10-round semi-windup. Thus, he had left a gross profit of but $4,000 for himself, his manager and for ‘expenses. Morally, however, it was a big night for Loughran. Not only did he retain his title, but his victory kept him in the rank of the outstanding contenders for the vacant heavyweight throne. Defeat would have dropped him defi- nitely from consideration there. R o iy s 'S use t, program was the realization of his lifetime e successful opening of the stadium, the largest and most luxuri- ous sports amphitheater in the world. Grifith Whips Lomski. Lomski and bright spot of the program. They traded heavy smashes for 10 rounds and the crowd roared its approval. By his victory Grifith won a promise from Harmon for a match with Loughran for the title. ‘The fight was fought before a crowd, many members of which were dressed in formal attire. It gave Chicago fans their first home town glimse of the latest style ring, with its 36 specially cooled, 1,500-watt lights boring down on the fighters; of dainty water fountains, a la dentist’s office, to refresh the batilers between rounds; of an suditorium with flaming red chairs— nearly 25000 of them on the main floor and in the two balconies—and a score more innovations aimed to put rofessional boxing on a big business Pasts in the Middie ‘West. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, March 29.—Paddy Harmon went fire fighting on the roof of his multi-million- dollar Chicago stadium last night just as a world cham- plonship boxing program was about to | start in the ring below. There were 10,000 or more men and women seated in the great auditorium, when smoke began curling down from the northwest corner of the roof short- ly after 8 o'clock. Occasionally a glowing firebrand dropped down among the ringsiders, though none struck any spectator. The odor of smoke and the sight of the dropping firebrands threatened to spread panic, for the crowd had a vivid memory of what happened at the Coli- seum at a boxing show no later than last Monday. Persons in the balconies, which were crowded, begain clapping their hands and their action had the effect of calming those below. Three times in recent years Paddy Harmon has been confronted with what appeared to be insurmountable ob- stacles in the building of the stadium, | each threat coming just when he thought everything was all arranged. | Then last night, with the gong about | to sound for the first preliminary, fire threatened his “dream house.” Fire Threatens a Panic Just Before Chicago Bout Starts “From the looks of this, I am certain | the fire was started by an enemy of mine,” Harmon said. “Some one wanted me to fail—even now, in my greatest hour.” ‘With the first alarm of fire, Harmon made his way to the roof, seized a fire hose and began playing a stream of water on the burning roof and tar pots. Firemen arrived, and after about 15 minutes the fire was conquered, though | the odor of burnt wood and paper filled | the stadium. Harmon revealed that workmen at the stadium, which even yet is not completed, went on strike, and in this labor trouble Harmon saw the hand of his enemies. “Only five hours before the champlon- ship fight between Tommy Loughran and Mickey Walker was to go on, I quelled the last effort of workmen to quit their jobs,” he said. And yet with a long series of hard- ships behind him that began when he peddled papers for pennies to help his family's support, which ran through weary years of effort to interest capi- tal in his $7.000,000 stadium dream, and which culminated with the menace of holocaust—with all these things be- hind, it was a kindly faced, smiling Paddy that took a modest bow from the ring last night and 20,000 persons cheered a fighting Irishman. EORGE J. VOIGT, North and South amateur champion, prod- uct_of the Washington pub- lic links, and now a nationally recognized golf star, is to show his wares at the Indian Spring Golf Club Sunday afternoon. Voigt will pair with Dr. Larry S. Ofell, a new member of Indian Spring and a former public links star of Washington and Baltimore, against J. Monro Hunter, professional &t Indian Spring, and Wal- ter R. McCallum, amateur of the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club. The match will start about 1:30 o'clock. Voigt is on his way North from a tour of the Southern resorts, where he has been playing in his customary graceful style, although he has not been a prominent factor in the Florida tournaments. At Pinehurst a few days ago, however, he led the field in the first 36 holes of the North and South open championship, registering a 69 and a 78 over the first day. Voigt has not played here since last April, when he stopped in Washington on his way North with Maureen Or- cutt to play an exhibition match at Indian Spring against J. Monro Hunter and his daughter Dorothy. He is now located in New York, but is still a non- resident member of the Bannockburn Golf Club. Fred MeLeod of Columbia holds sev- eral records. For one thing he is the smallest golfer who ever won the na- tional open championship. And he is without doubt the greatest bunker play- er in the world—all the professionals admit this. But now Freddie has the unenviable record of having missed the shortest putt ever missed. It happened on the seventh green at Pinehurst two days go. His putt for a 3 lay with almost half the ball over the edge of the cup. Freddie made a stab at the ball with his putter and missed the globe entirely. He knocked up the sand but didnt BIG LEAGUE BASE BALL By the Associated Tma‘ ‘Today's schedule: At 'r-mpt-‘,)m—-w.mmm (A) vs. St. Louis (N.). At Fort M!yfl‘l',) Fla.—Philadelphia (A.) vs. Boston (N.). At West: Plklrln ‘Beach, Fla.—St. Louls (A) vs. Brooklyn ( At Bradenton, 5 ~—Boston (A) vs. Indianapolis (A. A.). At D:%na. Fla—Cincinnati (N.) vs. Montreal (I). At San Antonio, Tex.—Pittsburgh (N.) vs. New York (N.). At Beaumont, Tex.—Chicago (N.) vs. Beaumont (T.). Yesterday's results: s At _Petersburg, Fla.—St. Louls (N.), 10; New York ( 2. At Fort Meyers, Fla.—Philadelphia (A), 11; Boston (N.), 10. At El Paso, Tex—Chicago (N.), 9; Detroit (A), 7. At Orlando, Fla.—Cincinnati (N.), 7; Montreal (L), 3. -~ At Palmetto, Fla.—Buffalo (1), 9; Boston (A), 4. Short Playing Fields Factors , In Major League Flag Chases BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umplre. HORT playing fields again will lay a vital part in the major e pennant races. Without abbreviated fields the final re- sults of many games would be en- tirely different and the club standing vcheld be considerably altered in Oc- tober. There are short flelds in four Ameri- can League parks—Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Right field is the short one in each instance. In these citles every avaliable foot of ground has been utilized without en- croac] \R).on public thoroughfares. ‘The Philadelphia National League Club offers the shortest right field in the big circuits. One hard wallop slightly tilted into right field in any of these parks is tagged for a home run. Clouts of the same velocity and length in any other direction are g-crally caught by the outfielders. Blow to Yankees. At the Yankee Stadium in years past the right-fleld bleachers offered Ruth and Gehrig a veritable paradise in which to drop home runs, because they Bammer their hardest blows in that direction. This year, I understand that the Yankees’ right field is much longer, due to a change in the construction of the pavilion. ‘The change bears out the contention be beckoning to him throughout the home schedule, and he started to “pull” with great vigor in that direction. Dur- ing a stretch of eight days he poled 10 homers into the pavilion. This reflects his newly developed wallop, without enumerating the singles and two-bag- gers he slams against the wall. Cy Williams, veteran outflelder of the Philadelphia Nationals, became one of the modern home-run kings by virtue of the short right-field wall at home. Close right-fleld quarters in Cleveland made possible scores of home runs and two-baggers for Tris Speaker and Joe Sewell, also left handers. Whenever a batter slugs a long, hard fly which is caught in spacious right-field territory, he usually returns to the bench and consoles himself as follows: “Tough luck! That would have been a homer in Cleveland or St. Louis!” (Copyright, 1926, by North American News- paper Alliance.) i Fritz Maisel, for a time the best base runner in the American League, is teaching his Orioles to slide. Good Voigt Will Figure in a Match At Indian Spring Club Sunday strike the ball. The putt was consider- ably less than the one-inch putt of classic reference which Tommy Armour missed in Canada four years ago. Sandy Armour declares it is the short- | est putt that has ever been missed. Chairman Paxton of the Washington Golf and Country Club golf committee has called a_mecting of the golf com- mittee for Tuesday night to consider | details of the forthcoming invitation tournament of the club. Monro Hunter and George Diffen- baugh, Indian Spring professionals, will play A. B. Thorn of the Town and Country Club and Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase in a putting match at the King Pin Country Club on Fourteenth street tonight. The match will start at 8:30 o'clock. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—Tommy Loughran, Phil- adelphia, outpointed Mickey Walker, Newark, N. J, (light heavyweight championship), (10). Tuffy Griffiths, Sioux City, Towa, outpointed Leo Lom- ski, Aberdeen, Wash. (10). Hollywood, Calif.—Mushy Callahan, junior welterweight champion, knocked out Jackie Carr, Glendale, Calif. (4). e joke is on the nglishmen 41s paying Women in T was alleged by a critic of girls’ athletic activities in the less sport for the fair sex, one that eats up the taxpayers’ money unneces- sarily and “teaches the girls in our schools nothing but & means of killing their husbands.” Yes, a grown-up man stood before an intelligent audience and said just that. He would wager, he adde, however, that not one of these girls (the rifle experts) could cook a decent meal, make a dress or care for a child. Our critic sees only the physical skill developed on the range—the ability to hit the black spot in the inner ring. He attaches to that a distorted im- portance. He fails to see that range practice develops alertness, the ability to think quickly and see accurately; steady nerves, self-confidence above all, patience—all invaluable as- | sets to the home maker. This accomplishment, to his mind, does not_teach agirl to make a com- fortable home for her possible husband and children, nor does it give her prac- tice in the gentle art of bread making. Therefore, it is useless. But is the mechanical operation of bread making, sewing and interior decorating the es- sential thing in home building? What mother is not faced with a thousand little problems every year of | her life which require infinite patience, a keen mind and, above all, steady nerves to meet and solve satisfactorily? Upon her skill in meeting these, too, may depend the character of her home, which, after all, is much more than four walls, a few draperies and home- made bread! And a little of all of these things mentioned, combined with a sense of good sportsmanship, which also is de- veloped to & high degree in this sport | as in others, helps out quite & bit in the business of making one’s self a suit- able companion in the partnership of marriage, if that is to be a girl's lot, and in whatever other partnership she may assume, if that is not. Little enough time and thought is| given to training our girls to meet the duties and, what is more important, the problems of their most important busi- ness of life, although every other sort of career in the world now is given a place in the curriculum of our schools and colleges. For goodness’ sake, don't let's take away from them the few things which may help them to handle situations and develop in them the ability to meet a crisis, be it big or small, wtih self-reliance and a sporting spirit. It's easy enough for a girl or boy to learn to meet the every-day af- fairs of life, but it's their ability to overcome the unexpected trials that marks their grade in the final account- ing of success or failure, Books train the mind for mechanical, professional or literary duties, but 1t is on the tennis court, base ball fleld and rifle range that the youngster learns lessons of equal if not greater value in preparing for this business of life. Don't make the mistake of look- ing upon any sport as a mere recrea- tion. The school sports is one of the greatest schools of character-develop- ment in the field of education. And rifle, for both girls and boys, stands at the top of the list of character-develop- ing_activities. So far as the taxpayers’ money is shoe just like AND 41 shillings is $10 in American money! Ifyou were wearing the Newark $3.50 Piccadilly, and you bumped into an Englishman who had on the original $10 model, you’d stare at each other’s shoes--and you wouldn’t see any difference! Four gigantic factories hum- ming...unique cost-cutting manufacturing meth- ods...400 retail stores...six mil- lion pairs of shoes sold a year... that’s your answer! local | per annum by a girls' rifle team in schools, at a recent citizens' asso- | local schools is $300. Surely this is not clation meeting, that rifle is a use- |an exorbitant sum to lavish upon a AT and, | Hicks By CORINNE FRAZIER. concerned, the average amount spent group of 15 to 40 girls, even if it were entirely for their own pleasure. First Baptist Church tossers gained a safe margin on first place in the Baptist Young People’s Union League last night by thelr defeat of the Cavalry Baptist six, 43 to 28, in the Wilson Normal School gym. Miss McManaway, right forward, did some stellar tossing for the winners, while Misses E. Hoeke and Morrison stood out for the losers, the former scor- ing 19 points while the latter put up a good defense in guard position. Scoring: First Bap. 2P.1 Siegrist,If". ' 8 . 1P, i L Hox McM'wayriil 4 F.Hoeke,rf. 0 0 Fisher, 00 Burke,sc.. . 1 Morrison.lg ATSOD.TE.. 0 Mead McNutt,rg. 0 5 Totals ....19 Refereé—Cooper. »l cosoom ) = 2| coooobe Totals ...13 OVER ALL INVADERS Only four boxers could be mustered | by the Baltimore Y. M. H. A. for its| meet with the Jewish Community Cen- | ter here and all four took a pasting. | Mike Tardugno, featherweight, out- | pointed George Roddy: Gus Mirmen, | welter, defeated Joe Taylor; Bob Simon, | middleweight, polished off Ed Latrenna | in one round, and Jocko Miller, light- weight, outpointed Harold Sacus. | Allie Wolff, Penn State's 160-pound intercollegiate champion, and Jack Tier- ney of Georgetown, fought an exhibition. | Ben Bornick and Babe Silverman of the Jewish Community Center, helped out | the program with a wrestling exhibition. Among the spectators were Hygo Bezdek, Penn State coach, and Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who | has been a leader in the movement to give Washington a boxing bill. TO MEET BALTIMOREANS | The swimming team of the boys’ de- partment of the Washington Y. M. C. A. will meet the Baltimore junior Y. M. C. A. team in the pool of the Monu- mental City institution tomorrow eve- ning. The local team will be composed of Meany, manager; Clark Newton, Howell, Schroeder, McKenzie, Wills, Rodes, Smith, Hain and Claytor. The meet will include racing strokes, a relay and fancy diving events. A return meet will be held here the middle of next month. e A party of 25 base ball fans of Japan will visit the United States this Fall to attend the world series. Scotch grain-- black or tan. $3.50 | looked like Walker all the way to me.” TOMMY AND MICKEY PRAISE ONE ANOTHER By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 29. — Fighting Mickey Walker is a big order, Tommy Loughran sald today in discussing his light-heavywéight championship battle with the Rumsen bulldog. “It was a great fight and a hard fight,” he said. “Mickey is a great lit- tle fighter with a terrific punch and a style of bearing down in action that makes it hard to weather a fight with him. He put up a great battle and I am proud to have defended it success- fully against him.” Walker didn't have anything to say except that he did his best and to laud Loughran's boxing ability. Jack Kearns, Walker's manager, thought his fighter should have won. “To my mind there is no question but what Walker won that fight. It CRABBE OUTSWIMS BORG. HONOLULU, March 29 (#) —Clarence Crabbe defeated Arne Borg in the 400- | meter free style swimming event here | yesterday. Borg was ahead at the first | turn, but Crabbe overtook him before BY FAIR PLAY. EADING lights in the light-heavy- weight class continue to pass up matches when the name of Ro- leaux Saguerro is mentioned. The Big Cuban is a flashy boxer, with a good right wallop, and has stepped out of his class a number of times and tackled heavies just to keep his fighting blade whetted to a razor edge. But Duke Barry is not despeiring He manages to secure work for his big fellow so that the hungry wolf is kept away from the door and Sagierro man- ages to pack away a good meal ccca- sionally, so that he is not too weakened | when called upon to do his stuff against the opponents his manager is able to dig up for him. Not so long ago Barry made the unique proposition to any promoter in the country who cared to us» Saguerro. This is what Barry offered to do: Any promoter could have the Cuban for three fights. If Saguerro did not score a knockout over one of the first iwo men he tackled the Cuban vas willing to_fight the third man for nothing Propositions of this sort do not come finance is a necessary part of a man- to take up Barry's defl and “he matter rests. The offer is still open, n:‘nd Barry means to smoke some of the lead- ing lights out of their safety-first holes and show the Cuban in the most attrac- tive light publicity can shed on him. | CLEVELAND FIVE REPEATS. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 29 (#).— Duplicating Wednesday night's second | half rally, Cleveland made it two | straight over Fort Wayne in their American League play-off for the pro- | fessional basket ball world’s champion- ship here last night, winning 28 to 23 The largest sports club in the Ar- gentine has a membership of 12,000 athletes. 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