Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1929, Page 42

42 SPORTS. HE AIMS TO PLEASE HAS LOT OF SPEED DESPITE IS HEFT Shows to Good Advantage in Gym—Has to “Live Down” K. 0. by Mann. BY JOHN J. ROMANO. EW YORK, July 11.—If gym| form counts for anything, Vit- torlo Compollo, the Argen- tinian of Italian parentage, bids fair to insert himself in the heavyweight muddle and come out | with colors flying. | Compollo is the heavyweight the | late Tex Rickard tried to induce to come to these shores a year ago and fill the void left by the desertion of his countryman, Luis Angel Firpo. ‘Though not as ponderous and flerce- looking as the shaggy Firpo, Compollo does not lose anything in comparison with his better known compatriot. Vit- torio is 28 years old, 6 feet 7 inches tall, and makes the beam groan at 240 pounds. A whale of a man is Vittorio | ‘Compollo. But how will be make out with our | native battlers? For one thing, he has to live down a knockout at the hands of Monte Munn. Considering thg Ne- braska giant's record against top fight heavies, Munn was nothing much. But the fact issevident in the knockouts he registered that whomever he hit stayed put. One of Monte's rights landed on Compollo's jaw, and the unfortunate one | lay in a hospital two weeks recovering from the beating. Now, against this Compollo has run up a string of impressive knockouts, and, last but not least, scored a knock- out over Roberto Roberi, who made good use of his fists in this country last year. Chalk up a knockout over Riccardo Bertazollo, the Italian giant, who won over Jim Maloney on a foul recently, and you have a fair idea of Compollo's punching power. Unlike other big men who towered over the 6-foot mark, Compollo is a fast man afoot and does not swing his punches. He hits straight out, and any one who knows anything about boxing | will tell you that a straight puncher is bound to land with telli=~ effect. Compollo makes his first start in this country against Arthur de Kuh on the 17th. If he is able to down de Kuh without trouble, Compollo will get some | lucrative contracts. | STRIBLING-COOK FIGHT ON JULY 18 TO BE HELD| KANSAS CITY, July 11 (®.—A| boxing match between W. L. (Young) | Stribling and George Cook of Australia, here July 18, will be held as scheduled, Gabe Kaufman, promoter, announced today. | Action of the Missouri State Athletic | Commossion caused the Georgian to | Teconsider his decision to break the contract, Kaufman said. The Stribling family is expected to arrive here on July 15. Cook will arrive two days earlier. SBERS, “Behold the big chief, Peck-in- paw-paw, manager of all the In- dians. Watch him shoot a blaz- ing arrow, while the wind blows through his whiskers.” Now, chil- dren, after you have memorized that verse, you can turn to your Long- fellow and read the real “Hiawatha,” and then decide, if you can, what is wrong with this picture? Why aren't the Indians up there in the first division? Why doesn’t Heap Big Chief Peck win a lot of those close games that the Tribe s0 often lcses? Is it a lack of THE EVENING .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ! By Feg Murray SEEMS LIKE HE OUGHT 10 HIT NEARER THE BULLS-EYE THIS YEAR WITH ALL THOSE wampum, or too much laughing water? Is the big chief to blame, or is he doing plenty well enough in his second season as manager? Cleveland finished seventh in 1928, you remember, in Peck's first year as pilot, after a surpflslnr early season start in which the club was in or near first place for some time. Now_without George Uhle, ace of the Indians for 10 years, the Tribe is staying at the top of the second division, while now and then giv- ing promise of going higher. ey came to New Ycrk early in June and spanked the Yankees & couple of times, knocking the c¢hampions bl | THURSDAY, IRISHMAN 1S SURE 10 WIN TITLE BOUT Loughran, Champion, and Braddock, Challenger, Both Are Celtics. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 11.—The Irish, at least, have nothing to worry about. The light-hea: ht championship of the world will remain in Celtic custody no matter whether Tommy Loughran, the champlon, jabs out a victory or James J. Braddock, the chall , punches his way to triumph in the 15-round title bout a week from tonight at the Yankee Stadium. ‘The most interesting thing about the 175-pound division is the history of its championship wanderings over a route that has taken the title from New York's East Side to France, Sel , Ireland, Canada and back to the United States. No class of pugilism has peen more democratic or cosmopolitan in its cholce of title holders. Created first for no particuiar reason other than the ballyhoo, the title was “awarded” to Battling Levinsky, who obligingly lost it to Georges Carpentier at a time when the Frenchman was being bullt up for the celebrated match with Jack mpsey. Georges clalined he was double-crossed when he lost the title to the singular Senegalese, Battling Siki. The Battler's nature must have been even more trusting, for he risked his crown in a bout with Mike Mec- Tigue in Dublin, on St. Patrick’s day, 1923. Quite in the nature of things, Michael won and brought the cham- plonship back to America. Holds On to Title. On a draw decision, Mike escaped with his title under cover of darkness from Columbus, Ga., after a match with the then celebrated Macon schoolboy, Young Stribling. The converted Ger- man-A lcan wrestler, Pop 'Em Paul AN a SuReLY NoT TWO FLAT TIRES out of second place. But they are not exactly poison to the other clubs of the league. Is the Buckeye State to have two flat tires? The second “O" in the “O-hi-O" bicycle is a bust, for the Reds are hopelessly in the cellar of the National League. Now how about the front wheel, as represented by Cleveland? With such offensive and defensive arrows as Averill, Falk, Fonseco, Jamieson, Morgan, Joe Sewell, Hudlin and Shaute you'd think the Tribe would at least land in one of the four inner circles of the American League target. Maybe they will yet. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN HERE seems to be scme mild interest in the impending contest for the light-heavyweight chnm{flonship in which Mr. Thomas | Loughran; of Philadelphia will perform with Mr. James J. Braddock of New Jersey. But it must be evident that the in- terest does not extend to the filling of ringside seats at $50 each. The promoters of the bout between Senor Paulino Uzcudun and Herr Max Schmeling ‘discovered that the $50 bills are becoming scarcer, and it does not seem that the switch to the smaller bills will relieve | the situation to @ny marked extent. s Mr. Loughran is one of those champions who has had no little | difficulty in deriving an income from his title that would support him in the style to which he has become accustomed. In some barn- storming trips last year Mr. Loughran took in a little less than his| expenses, and had to cancel scme of his engagements because of an epidemic of apathy among the customers. | It is not Mr. Loughran’s fault. He wears a dinner coat very| gracefully.‘ He 18"soft spoken and well mannered, and so far as can | e ascertained he is kind to children and dumb animals. In addition, he has some very lofty ideals, the boys tell me. The last time I saw Mr. Loughran) shouted to the officlal: “Count that was under circumstances somewhat em-| man!” The referee counted Sharkey barrassing to a light-heavyweight cham- | out and Dempsey in. plon. Twice he was sitting on the It is not made clear that Mr, floor of the:ring in'Madison Square| - Dempsey is returning because he Garden, which was where Mr. Leo| could not resist the call of the ring Lomski, an_impolite visitor, had placed| and the scént of the rosin dust, or ‘him. But Mr, Loughran rose after the| because he can use the money. The second sitting and, dusting the rosin| fact that Mr. Duffy, making his !from the seat of his trunks with a| first announcement as manager, graceful gesture, managed to weather| says that Mr. Dempsey will not be the Tough weather and get a decision. | persuaded to sign for less than a Young Mr. Braddock became the | $750,000 guaranty rather indicates logical light-heavyweight contender | that the money might have some- (though it I1s not ihsisted that a thing to do with it. ¥ light-heavyweight contender be logi- It seems that Mr., Duffy booted one cal) in his meeting with Mr. Tuffy |in discussing the sordid financial de- Qriffiths. Mr. Griffiths arrived here | tails so soon. He should have announced very weil bullt up by press agents |that Mr. Dempsey was returning solely to the westward. They said he was | for the purpose of preventing Schmeling a second Ketchel, which should | from taking the heavyweight cham- have been what the boys call the [plonship away from the United States, tip-off that he was more or less |and that money was no object whatever. fromagenous. But, of course, anybody will realize that But the ballyhoo behind the tough | the motives of Mr. Dempsey, always one was strong. It was inthmated that|quick to rush to the defense of his he probably would knock his first up-| country, are, as usual, purely patriotic. ponent from the to the gallery | The $750,000 will be merely incidental. Consequently, it was rd to get vol- unteers. Mr. Braddock finally stepped forward and announced that he would storm the trench. A pleasant surprise was had by Mr. Braddock. He first discovered that he could hit Mr. Griffiths. Then he proceeded to hit him, and the second Ketchel went down so hard that he caused some compound frac- tures of several of the scantlings supporting the ring. The customers concluded that Tuffy was not so tough, but that Mr. James J. Brad- dock, who had not been suspected of it, was reasonably tough. This paved the way to getting some work for Mr. Loughran and giving l There Was No Pump. ‘The inquiry made through this de- partment as to whether or not the Columbia crew, which won the last Poughkeepsie regatta while four shells sank, carried a pump is answered by Charles G. Sinclair, jr., secretary Colum- bia rowing committee. He replies that the Columbis crew carried no pump or other unorthodox equipment. So that seems to be that. Another theory as to why the Colum- bia shell was not swamped in the r:x.h wntgnnu l;dv?;m:fl by & Colun;: Somparatively o grad, Mr. M. V. sfime l. It may be facetious. He 5: “I am one of the old grads of Columbia—and I suppose that a host of, others have besieged you with bon mots about the letter of the Cornellian who evidently is over- come with amagzement that any Morningside athletic p could win anything. In fact, I'm rather sur- prised myself—not at the crew— God bless 'em!—but the fact that dear old Columbia can win some- times. “Here is the secret of the race. It wes not a hand pump that won it, but clever straf on the of a carpen- ter who had secreted in the bottom of the Columbia shell, and who, when he saw the rival pacquebots fill up and sink, deftly removed the bottom of the Columbia shell him a chance to change the dinner coat for a set of the conventional fighting trunks. Just how much it will profit Mr. Loughran is problematical, as the Schmeling-Uzcudun bout indicated a slight depression in the caulifiower market. It might turn out that Mr. ZLoughran might lose the title on a fall- 4ng market, which would be too bad, for they say that Mr. Loughran is a “ueond ‘Tunney and looks like a rela- ve. One ::ver w%u;u ““i'ilhxtt mng b':ul good championship . an n again it may not. Bub be that as it! may, it is the only chadipionship fight ‘we have just now. And What of It? 4 R. JACK DEMPSEY is coming| the back. It was inevitable. Bul announcerient does not come with any great excitement. In fact. the popular attitude seems 1o be rather in the nature of “What of }:7" That is because the boys knew all along. In his return to-the ring”“Mr. Demp- sey appears under the difection of his seventh manager, Mr. Will:Duffy, the same gentleman who won the bout with Jack Sharkey with l;lo M”oto‘ ‘:rfl finger. The forefinger X er in it than all of that night. While they acted as sponges and soaked all of the Hudson flowed into '.\13 man-of-war.” ISR B oy STRIBLING MEETS DE MAVE, KNOXVILLE, Tenn.,, July 11 (®).— W. L. (young) Stribling, Macon, Ga., heavyweight and erstw] contender for the crown vacated :‘Ome ‘Tunney, make barnstorming on t to engage Jack De mma:motz, SON’S AVERAGE LOWER THAN JESSE BURKETT By, the’ Assoctated Press. If Howard Burkett, Hollywood sec- | ond baseman, is only a small chip off the old block he should wind up as a | base ball star. His father, Jesse Burkett, was one of the great hitters of the game's early days as an outflelder for St. Louis and Cleveland of the Americhn League. The old Burkett hit .400 or better in 1895, '96 and '99. In his second season in the Pacific Coast League young Burkett is show- ing fine form as an inflelder, but is considerably lower than his dad at the plate, with an average hovering be- tween .226 and .246. POLO IS COSTLY GAME. The average polo player receives nothing and spends from $5.000 to sgo‘ooo a year to keep his ponles in shape. v v v - 27x4.40 HOME LEGISLATURE | By the Associated Press. | _The Hawailan Legislature wants Duke P. Kahanamoku to return to the islands. He has been in California since he uit competitive swimming that brought lame to the islands. The Legislature in a resolution recited that Duke is a ‘distinguished son of Hawali" and “that his return and permanent resi- dence here would be an inspiration to the youth of the islands.” ‘The resolution closed with: “It is the sense of this Legislature that, with hearty unanimity, we would welcome the prospect of Duke Kahana- ku's return and permanent residence in Hawail; for. by his honorable con- duct and powess in many lands he has added much to the honor lel of the fair land that gave him birth, WANTS DUKE BACK| Berlenbach, finally lifted the title from |the aging McTigue in 1925. ‘The | Canadian sharpshooter, Jack Delans | period of dispute, ‘foliowins Delan period of dispute, following ney's retirement from the class, Loughran | emerged as the recognized champion. ! It may be less exciting, but the | Braddock-Loughran go is reminisecent of the sensational Berlenbach-Delaney | duels of a few years ago in that it brings a slow-moving but hard puncher into the ring against a clever, fast boxer. 1 Few men of the weight pack any harder wallop in their right hand than | Jersey Jimmy. Braddock keeps his right cocked continually, but there is not much deception in his attack. a superlative boxer, has one | t left jabs in pugilism. The | champion has little or no dynamite in | his right, but he wields his left with | skillful and punishing effect. | The prospect, therefore, is that if | any fireworks are furnished Braddock | must set them off. | So far in 1929 the fight game has {had a flock of unusual episodes, but | these three now lead the contest for first prize: 1. Suspension of Al Brown, bantam- weight star, by the Illinois boxing a thorities for falure to fulfill a contract to fight in Denmark. 2. Fine of $13,000 against Ace Hud- kins by the California boxing solons for stalling, aithough the boxer was 1€llelred of any charge of “sharp prac- ce.” { 3. Arrest in Havana of Hilario Mar- | of assault preferred by beaten op- | ponent. BERG WILL TEST RING PROWESS OF PERLICK CHICAGO, July 11 (#).—Jack Berg, English lightweight titleholder, will test the championship caliber of Her- man Perlick of Kalamazoo, Mich,, in a 10-round skirmish at Mills Stadium to- night. erlick, & rushing, hard-hitting t; of fighter, has jumped from the n;fi of preliminary boys to a contender for | the lightweight erown during the past STRICTLY FACTORY FIRSTS 16,000-MILE Balloon e 7.35 9.35 5.85 6.45 7.95 8.65 8.65 9.85 6.60 8.35 8.85 8.85 9.85 11.88 12.85 9.65 8.65 9.95 28x4.75 28x5.25 29x4.40 29x4.50 29x4.75 29x4.95 29x5.00 29x5.50 30x4.50 30x4.75 30x4.95 30x5.00 30x5.28 30x5.77 30x6.00 31x4.95 31x5.00 31x5.25 30232 CL. 30x37; Cl. 0.S. 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INDIANAPOLIS. — Johnny Mason, Scranton, Pa., outpointed Jack Chief Elkhart, Chicago (10); Jimmy Sansone, Cincinnati, outpointed Lon Lovelace, Terre Haute (8). THIS CHOCOLATE WHRS FERNANDEL ASLY Clever Cuban Merely Enjoys Workout, but Fails to Display Punch. BY JCHN J. ROMANO. EW YORK, July 11—Kid Chocolate enjoyed a good work- out at Humbert Fugazy's open- ing show of the season at Eb- bets Field Wednesday evening. Ignacio Fernandez, the Filipino puncher who punched the lights out of Al Singer recently, served as the buffer for the Cuban kid's slams and took everything with & good natured grin. 126-pound title but if one was to ' jutl| from the opposition Fernandes the Cuban has a long way to fore he will be reckoned seriously. Chocolate has everything but . the fl’unch and is apt to outpoint any /Bay/ the world. But with the punch ing there is always a chance that stray shot may hit him on the ¢hin ‘an spoil the evening. One thing noted in the Kid's work s that he moves too swiftly and for that solidly. This may be the show off on the Kid's all around work. Without the punch he cannot hope to cope with the boys who continue to tes 13 and frail away with both fsts AmE 3¢ 15 a sure thing that once he permits his fire to rise to the surface and punch away as he did against Fernanggz onc punch will settle the works apd, aoil | an otherwise good evening. Chocolate took some nice digs In the body and dispelled the {llusion that hc would not stand up and take body pun- ishment. In close Fernandez pounded away with short cuffs and Chocolate ‘wr?k them without losing his golden n. As remarked before, Fernandez and his type do not show the Cuban flash at This fight was supposed to show Chocolate up as a contender for the NEw RFEF/INEMENT _yuw lke VAN DYck his best. It requires better workman- | ship to bring out all Chocolate has. IN SMOKINGC Moy we preseni Van Dyvcxk InvinaiBLe 9 -a new shape -Q generous size at 2 for 25 ¢ " 'MILD ALL THROUGH [ reason never sets long enough to hif ' Compollo, Argentine Fighter, Appears as Good Prospedt as Heavy Contender\