Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1929, Page 29

TAKES LONG TIME TO MOLD WINNER Years of Selection and Sort- ing Required, as Mack’s Case lllustrates. 1 | Big League Umpire. i aside to make room for those Connie Mack, wise manager of the than any other pilot. It is my belief feats with grace and a spirit of the yvears. There is a vast difference be- McGraw is feverish to win, and directs geems to fit in between Mack and Mc- often as possible, he encourages his ing in substitutes at dramatic moments. aging business in which Connie Mack | this far more beneficial than the “skull | meetings held before the | ing. ready to discuss unusual features BY GEORGE MORIARTY, HE building of a top-notch base ball club involves years of dili- gent selection and sorting of players, most of whom are cast who carry the punch. During the long experiment the wisest manager must come to grief and disappointment times without number. pennant-seeking Philadelphia Athletics, furnishes a pointed illustration. It 15 years since he won his last flag, and those years have burdened him more that by virtue of his extreme patience he has taught the competitive sports world its greatest lesson. He has ac- cepted 3 long sesies of pennantless de- most amazing resignation. Mack and McGraw of the Giants are | close rivals in the business of winning championships over a long period of tween these two great base ball person- alities. While Mack pets and cajoles his crew, McGraw employs the high- pressure policy of forcing their talents. as much as possible the plays about to take place, particularly in regard to battery work. Manager Huggins of the Yankees Graw. Huggins is a bundle of nervous energy, but is neither too forceful nor too indulgent in contact with his play- ers. While Huggins “calls the turn” as pitchers and catchers to use their own initiative. Mack and McGraw have nothing on the Yankees' pilot in the business of switching pitchers and send- In the delicate matter of appraising rookies Huggins also rates as high as| Mack and McGraw. There is one odd branch of the man- excels. It is in mingling with his play- ers. I believe Mack spends more time with his men off the field than any other major league manager. Mack finds practice” gdmes. When the Athletics are on the road Mack is in the hotel lobbies every morn- | of the preceding game or weigh the | strength and flaws of the opponents for possible profit in the game at hand. Schme?ir; l: Suspended By New York Boxing Body By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 10.—Max Schmeling, contender for the vacant heavyweight ehampionship, has been suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission along with his ‘American manager of choice, Joe Jacobs, “until such time as Schmel- ing shall go through with his con- tract to box Phil Scott at Ebbets Field.” The decree declaring the “German Dempsey” null and void in the rings of this and affiliated States was handed down by the commission after a conference with Humbert J. Fugazy, promoter of the Ebbets Field affair, tentatively set for August 7, but now likely to be held later, if ateall; Jess McMahon, his match- maker; Arthur Buelow, Schmeling’s repudiated German manager, who signed for the Scott match, and Samuel Witte, an attorney represent- ing Max and Jacobs. What_effect the suspension and its application in such States as Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Illi- nois, Massachusetts and Kansas, as well as Canada, all of which have working agreements with the New York body, will have on Schmeling's tour the commissioners did not ven- ture to say. | Certain it is, however, that the disciplinary action has created a definite impasse which must post- pone indefinitely any negotiations planned by the Madison Square Gar- den Corporation to bring Schmeling | : SONNENBERG AGAIN | that Sonnenberg nose-dived to the mat. | - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. - WEDNESDAY. JULY 10, 1929. Title Threat, Ignored in Home Town Those in boat, in order of seating, are: Ernest Shepard, Marc Fore, Paul Dilger and Harry Knight. SPORTS. 0DDSNOW SHORTER ONBLUE LARKSPUR Heavier Choice in American| Classic as Two Leading Rivals Are Beaten. By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, July 10.—E. R. Brad- ley's Blue Larkspur is more _than ever the favorite for the American classic at Arlington Park Saturday, which will carry with it $60,000 in added money, following the disappointing showings of Clyde Van Dusen and Windy City yesterday. WINS FROM LEWIS Loses First Fall, but Comes Back Strong—25,000 Fans | Make $90,000 Gate. By fhe Associated Press. OSTON, July 10.—Gus Sonnen- berg took in another notch day in the diamond belt, emb! matic of the world champion- ship, after turning back the challenge of Ed “Strangler” Lewis, from whom he wrested the champion- ship six months ago. Twenty-five thou- | sand customers crowded Fenway Park and paid $90,000 to see the second en- counter last night. ‘The former Dartmouth foot ball play- er suffered the first fall of his 18 months' mat career last night, but came | back with the famous flying tackle he borrowed from the gridiron to flatten Lewis twice in 22 minutes. It was a fast match throughout, with each man | out to win as quickly as possible. Lewis successfully avoided Sonnen-‘ berg’s butting charges at the start. With 17 minutes gone he jumped aside from one of the champlon’s charges so nearly | The “Strangler” jumped on him and | obtained a breast lock for the first fall. Sonnenberg came back fighting mad. { but almost lost the match several times when Lewis clamped a headlock on him. Finally, however, he butted successfully to take the second fall in 19 minutes. The deciding fall came three minutes later, after Lewis had knocked Sonnen- berg out of the ring. The champion came back feigning injury, then sud- | denly charged when Lewis was wide open. After the match two Chicago sports promoters, Joe Coffey and “Doc” Krone | announced that Sonnenberg would de- | fend his title at Chicago in September | against an opponent to be selected by | the Illinois Athletic Commission. BROWN IS SUSPENDED BY ILLINOIS RING BODY CHICAGO, July 10 (®).—Al Brown, clever bantamweight from Pnnlml.‘ has been suspended indefinitely by the | Tilidbis Athletic Commission for failure | to carry out a contract for a bout in | Denmark. The Commission yesterday barred Brown and his manager, Dave Lumian- sky, for not having boxed one Knute | Larson at Copenhagen, although Lumi- | ansky had signed a contract for Brown. | The Commission also criticized Lumian- | sky for having spread reports in the United States and abroad that Brown | was recognized by the National Boxing | Association as bantamweight champion. | FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Tony Canzoneri. New | York, outpointed Phil McGraw, Detroit 10). CHICAGO.—Johnny Burns, Califor- nia, outpointed Ted Ross, Chicago (10). DES MOINES.—Joe Rivers, Cedar | and Jack Sharkey together here in the Fall. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEZHAN. Where Customers Are Critical. HE fight customers on the West Coast are not quite as gullible as they are in the East and in the Florida real estate belt. Ace Hudkins, the Nebraska wildcat, who is not quite as wild as he is pictured, is the last carpetbagging gladiator to reach this e conclusion. It seems that Mr. Hudkins was tial opponent in California recently for $15,000. According to all of and officials present, Mr. Hudkins and the tankman or diver he was using as a dancing partner put on something that re- resent of the Battle of What of It at Miama Beach. udkins went to collect his guaranty they informed him that he would receive only $2,000 and that even with that sum they the experts minded all When Mr. considered he was being overp: Mr. Hudkins announces that take the case to the civil courts and sue the promoters,-the California State Box- ing Commission and the Order of the Native Sons o: t;-uz Golden v;ut,t k:‘ neca essary, to money. In-the en: he pmbcbg will collect the entire amount. In nearly every court decision in these cases the ruling has been that the fighter is entitled to his money, whether he fights or not. But, at any rate, the California commissfon gets the satisfaction of annoying the tame wild- cat. They have their own notion of fight values in California. It is left over from the days when James J, Coffroth was & fight promoter and California practi- cally was the only manly art of modified murder. It is no place in which to attempt peddling phony caulifiowers. “ When they restored the cauliflower industry to California, there was a rush of some of the tankers and one- night-stand men of the game to the vicinity of the Golden Gate. ,The pickings soft. Leaeh Cross, the venerable lightweight, could have warned them, but he did not, and théy probably would not have lis- tened. They did not know that real goft money for tankers and one- ght-stand men was in the Bast, in ew York and Miaml. had a very bitter experi- 1 asked Leach to go'to a set-up called fihfl‘nl i & battler known only-on the Coast. ‘In those days they fought 45 rpunds out there, but it was com- ined that this merely was a for- lity. A fighter like Cross would be dispose of this set-up in 10 ble e to -+ A aid. he will State fostering the | the Raplds, outpointed Jimmy Sacco, Bos- ton (10). signed to fight some inconsequen- kicking and Mr. Coftroth’ would give him that percentage. Mr., Cross fell for it. He traveled to the Chast first-class and with a troupe of training partners. After a battle that lasted 40 rounds and in which Cross was knocked down 17 times, and finally for the full count, Mr, Cross received $302.80. Tough and Easy Money. TMMEDIATELY after the fight game ° was restored to California some of the sure-thing men went West to get some of the easy money. Among them was Frederick Fulton, the plastered plasterer of Rochester, Minn., who was noted as a diver, or dry-tank, man to e East. Windy Windsor, one of the earlier managers of Jack Dempsey, arranged a meeting between a highly-touted heavyweight, Antonio Fuentes, and the plastered plasterer. Fulton, as per the usual schedule, picked a soft spot on the mat and went into the I tank early, as the boys say. | When the gladiators went to get their money they were met by a sheriff’s| . "Mr. Windsor sidestepped and skipped for Alaska, and was last heard | from somewhere on the Yukon. The principals were taken in court and asked to explain. More recently Joe Dundee, the non-combatant welterweight cham- plon, who has held the title by the -53:: on the critical cfi:mrnh fght customers. That should have been a to the Nebraska wildcat, oney is not in California. ihe ring is concerned, it is all there. Battling Nelson got a few thousand apiece for the 42-round bout in which Nelson Jost th= lightweight title. Con- trast this with the terrible dance be- tween Ovila Chapdelaine and Jimmy Maloney, the Boston Fat Boy, in the bout for which some of the customers paid Mike Jacobs $250 a seat. The money for the is in under New York State h Ad Wol | Walsh was through one year? If Young surprise. “hings can hnppin THE SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND. RICE M floor, practically out. weig| ENTION was made of the fact that just 10 years ago Jack Demgsey crashed his way into fame quicker than any heavy- t champion ever did before in the history of the ring. Within 47 seconds the challenger had the champion on the It was in 1919 that Walter Hagen won the open golf champion- | ship at Braeburn, after overcoming a five-stroke lead with only 18 holes left. It was around 1919 that Babe salvos out of various parks. It was wa; to the final round of the national tennis championshi Ruth began firing his home run in 1919 that Bill Tilden played his at Forest Hill, just before Tilden and Johnston started for Australia to bring back the Davis Cup. It was in 1919 p. that Bobby Jones, at the age of 17, reached the final round of the amateur golf championship at Oakmont. Since the date mentioned Dempsey has drawn more than $9,000,000 through the gate, Jones has won eight national championships, Hagen has won four British opens and five professional championships. Babe Ruth has fired more than 500 home runs, Tilden has won six tennis champlonships. ‘They are all in the thick of competi- tive play today, with the exception of | Dempsey, who is a good bet for one | more shot. Concerning R. T. Jones, Jr. **JJERE are a pair of stories about Bobby Jones,” writes his friend, J. M. Nye, who is one of the smartest golfers in the game because he picks the | Georgian for his partner about four times a year. “I was writing to the | Prince of Wales,” writes Bill, “and told him I saw where he and Hagen had | beaten Boomer and some one else. I| told him that Bobby and I would play him and Hagen any time or any place. Bobby came into my office just after the | challenge and he added a mumrigt.\ backing up my challenge, and added he hoped the match would take place in 1930. After signing it he turned to me and said: Bill, I'll hold the prince if you'll hold Hagen." “On the 543-yard fifth hole at Knoll- | wood,” Mr. Nye continued, “he hit a ter- | rific drive. On his second he sliced and was lodged directly back of a big rock, in an impossible lie. As far as I could fig- ure, it was unplayable by anybody. Be- ing his partner and having already had four shots and still not even up to his second, I said: ‘This is a hell of a hole to leave me to carry’ He turned and said: ‘I haven't picked up yet, have I?" After which he made an impossible shot from an impossible lie and got his par.” As for Pitching. N several all-star pitching groups named lately I have seen this list: Mathewson, Johnson, Young, Alexander; and also Waddell and one or two others. - What about Ed Walsh? Ty Cobb said once, in discussing this subject, that if he could pick one pitcher for a five- year turn his first choice would be Walsh. What other modern pitcher ever worked 65 games in one season, to | win 40 of them and save 12 more? How | many pitchers have been called in-with the bases full and no one out, to throw nine consecutive strikes? «+Walsh did | that once, and later on, under the same | conditions, threw nine strikes and one ball. And he was pitching to hard hitters on both occasions, including Nap Lajoie. Ish pitched himself out, but while he was out there pitching he was about as valuable a ball player as any team ever had. What other single bajl player has been responsible for more | than 50 winning games in one season as | Ed can pitch up to the old man there’ll be no one else who is even close today. For Mack and Maryland. . Dear Sir—If the Philadelphia Ath- letics win the American League pennant, Baltimore is going to close up house angd move up to the world's series, Con- nie’ Mack owes much of his success to the men developed in Baltimore by the late Jack Dunn. On the Athletic team there are Lefty Grove, George Earnshaw, Ed Rommel, Max Bishop and Joe Boley. Jimmy Foxx is a native Marylander and Gordon Cochrane started his profes- sional career with the Eastern Shore League. So Maryland has a great in- terest in the team. CHESAPEAKE ‘BAY, Where Flags Are Won. Dear Sir Of how much’ value is a great double-play combination in base ball? Cincinnati, around eighth place in the National League, is tied with Chicago, fighting for first place in double plays. In the American League Detfoit and Cleveland are leaders in two-ply executions, yet neither are in pennant race. After all, pitching and hitting win pennants. Few clubs have ever fielded themselves into a |deen, DICKEY. championship. JOE ‘The Davis Cup Again. “Don’t be surprised,” a legding expert on this side writes, “if the United States brings back the Davis Cup.” The United States may the Davis Cup, but that won't number of us from being surprised. Stopping Laceste, Cochet, Borotra and Brugnon will be something more than a It will be an explosion. It since more astonishing can happen, will be a world of competiti Us St seen any of these French stars fold up, | and they can play their full share of | tennis also. e Starting Times and Crew Races. O or three years ago,after journey- ing to Poughkeepsie, something like 90,000 people waited around for about 40 minutes for| Washington and the Navy to join the other crews and start Tace. . ‘They took their own sweet: time and nothing was done about it, the face scheduled for 7:15 starting about 8 in the dark. t That PALM BEACH' SUITS. $16-50 ¢ ¢ Open o charge accomnt crews should be allowed to decide when they will begin to row is one of the mysteries. Some coach should get a blind crew and wait until midnight. | Rowing is one of the greatest of all | amateur and college sports. There is | no particular reason why it should have | to face delays of recent years. There | should be a time to start—with plenty | of daylight ahead. Any crew not ready | should be allowed to look on or row | back to its boathouse. Another Record. F Bobby Jones can win the amateur golf championship again in the coming California party at Pebble Beach he will break two records. This would | give him 10 major titles, where John Ball had only nine. It would also break the home record of five United States amateur titles, where he is now tied with Jerry Travers at four. This would be a great enough record if it came near the end of his career. But it happens to be rather early in his career, despite the fact that he has been hitting a golf ball around some time. He will be hitting for some time to come as long as he can continue that almost effortless swing where the proper sequence is observed without overcrowding. Quits Bantam Class as He 10 Rounds Tonight. By.the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 10.—Given 8 N the outdoor season at Ebbets Field will be opened tonight with a 10-round struggle be- cio Fernandez, Filipino featherweight. Chocolate, unbeaten in about 150 ring engagements, definitely has forsaken the 126-pounders. His battle with Fernan- dez is the Cuban's first against a first- rank featherweight. Canzoneri in his last start, Fernandez is a dangerous foe for any man his own weight. The Filipino jumped into prom- Singer, the Bronx star, when the latter was riding the crest of the wave. Fer- nandez hits hard, but Canzoneri proved in knots. Whether Chocolate can do the same thing remains to be seen. The Cuban flash will be at consider- probably will scale around 123, while Fernandez's normal fighting weight is around 128 pounds. weight, meets Al Ridgeway of Jersey City in the 10-round semi-final. In‘an- other 10-rounder Black Bill, another flyweight. WALKER-LOMSKI FIGHT ponement until August 19 of the bout between Mickey Walker, world welter- weight champ, and Leo Lomski, Aber- July 29 in the Municipal Stadium, was announced today by the promoter, Jo- | seph Kennedy. ‘The nement was at the request of Walker, who said that he had been unable to go into training as soon as he had planned. —e Takes on Fernandez at break from Old Man Weather, tween Kid,Chocolate of Cuba and Igna- bantamweights and cast his lot with the Although soundly beaten by Tony inence here when he knocked out Al that a good boxer could tie the Filipino able disadvantage in the weights. He Armando Santiago, Cuban feather- Cuban, tackles Phil Tobias, New York PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (#).—Post- ally scheduled for tpol BLAY-LOCK’S D) . TIRE REPAIR_ PATCH 508 DIFFERENT Ask Your Service Station Distributed by Jobbers ‘At All Good Service Stations FOR SALE BY: PARX AUTO SALES Toma Fark, D C. / Chicago Is Investigating “Shake-Down” of Fighters CHICAGO, July 10 (#).—Charges that boxers have been forced to give from 10 to 20 per cent of their purses in order to get places on cards are to be investigated and promoters and match makers have been ordered to appear before the Tllinois Athletic Commission next ‘Tuesday. " & Chairman Paul Prehn yesterday said the commission has evidence of boxers having been forced to submit to the “shake-down” iif order to get bouts. He said that “fixers” have forced them to pay a percentage of their purses or see bouts given to other men, who were willing to pay for places on fight cards. ‘The commission already requires that boxers read their contracts at weighing-in time, this move having been aimed at manager$ who, it was said, held out part of the box- er's end of the purse. Prehn said that long suspensions would follow if the shake-down practice is con- tinued after a formal waming is given Tuesday. UrS ‘The Kentucky Derby winner and the victor in_ the American Derby- both finished behind Mrs. E. Denemark’s Frances Milward in the Defender purse, a mile and a furlong event yesterda: which was classed as a“Classic trial. ‘The son of Man-o’-War led almost the full distance, but could not outlast the finishing rush of Frances Milward. ‘Windy City finished fourth, back of Dr. Freeland, and never was a threat. Dr. Preeland, winner of the Preakness and an eligible for the classic, ran well, injuries suffered when he was kicked |by_Paul Bunyan in the Amecrican considering he has just recovered from | pulled up lame about a week before the Kentucky feature. The injury has yielded to treatment and the colt is ex- pected to be a real threat. Rose of Sharon overshadows the fillies entered in the event. Camden’s _ crack daughter Brigade, Rosa Mundi, has established herself as the best three-year-old filly Senator J. of Light Ashland, Illinois and Kentucky Oaks events. MGRAN ONPOITS | Easily Outclasses Opponent, but Sustains Bad Cut Over Right Eye. NEW YORK, July 10.—Tony Can- zoneri, former world’s featherweight champion, scored a decisive victory over Phil McGraw, Detroit veteran, be- fore a crowd of 6,000 persons last night in the ten-round feature at the Queens- | boro Stadium, but thc prove costly. £ Against an opponent who was hope- lessly outclassed in every department of the ring game Canzoneri sustained a severe cut over the right eye which may interfere with his preparation for the title bid he is to make on August 2 | Derby. Frances Milward, also a classic eligi- ble, covered the distance in 1:52, almost two seconds slower than the track record, and her stock as a prospective winner of Saturday's rich event did not_improve much. 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The former featherweight champion old leadership. Besides Blue Larkspur, | played with McGraw from the first bell, | handling the Detroit veteran much as a | master boxer would treat his pupil. In the second and third rounds, Mc- winner of the Fairmount stakes; Grey | Graw's futile fire became erratic and |ones by outboxing La Barba. he drew cautions for fouling; meanwhile | Canzoneri continued to pound him. McGraw, no longer the sturdy fighter | of former battles. but with the old care- | less, reckless spirit, sought to crowd | Canzoneri and outfight him, but the | Detroiter's efforts were pitiful. of the season by her victories in the | CANZONERI BEATS - triumph may CHICAGO SCRAPPER - ADVANCES RAPIDLY | Rises From Prelim Boxer to Title Contender by His Win Over La Barba. | | BY CHARLES W. DUNKLEY, | Associated Press Sports Writer. | HICAGO, July 10.—Earl Mas- tro had to go away from home to be appreciated. 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