Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1929, Page 27

SPORTS Detroit Wants Schmeling-Sharkey Go: Fame is Flet GFFERS ARE MADE *BY MICHGAN 1Y Promoter Carey, Who Is] Marking Time, Praises New York Commission. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. EW YORK, July 15.—There | is no doubt about Detroit being | anxious to have the Schmel- | ing-Sharkey fight held in that | clty. Detroit interests have offered induce- ments to W. F. Carey, president of Madison Square Garden, to take the bout to the Michigan metropolis, but | he has not yet given them an answer. | “Detroit would be a good spot for a heavyweight match,” said Carey, “but there are many things to be consid- ered. It is true that we have received an offer from there, but I have neither accepted nor declined. I have arranged an extersion on the contract the Gar- den hold with Sharkey and now have until the 20th of this month to take up the option we hold on the Bos- ton fighter's services. Sometime within | the next week I shall make an an- | nouncement, but I shall take all the time necessary to make up my mind.” Madison Square Garden undoubtedly would prefer to hold the Schmeling- Sharkey contest in this city, where it has its working organization and con- trol of both big league base ball parks. But no Schmeling-Sharkey bout can be heid here unless the German first ful- fills his contract with Humbert Fugazy. James A. Farley, chairman of the com- | mission, makes this very plain. Has Aided Boxing Greatly. “The New York commission,” gald to me, “has done much for boxing, not only in this State but all over the country. And William Muldoon, & | member of that commission, has done more for the game than any other one man, .In view of these undoubted | facts, T feel that the rulings of the commission, based on law, honesty and fair play, are entitled to respect. I in- | tend to see that such respect is paid them, and in case it is not, the com- mission will take steps to maintain 1'51 authority and dignity. t “From now on, the commission has | {nstructed Mr. Bulow that he must sign’| no more contracts for Schmeling with- | out the approval of the commission, but | we also have told him that we would protect his monetary rights and would | insist upon the fulfillment of those con- tracts we already have approved. If Schmeling does ot live up to these | agreements, neither he nor Jacobs will have anything to do with boxing in‘ New York State as long as some of us | live, and any one who aids them to | escape such just obligations’ will be dealt with to the full extent of the commission’s_powers. “The New York commission,” contin- ued Farley, “has been good to Schmel- ing. It allowed him to come over hml and then, after he had got himself into difficulties, arranged matters so that he | could come back and make $50.000 in | the milk fund bouts. Madison Square | Garden also profited to the extent of some $62.000 in those bouts, which it would not otherwise have made. { Schmeling Reaps Harvest. “As a result of the commission’s atti- tude toward him, Schmeling has put himself in a position where he has | more money than he ever had and here he is enabled to make more by is present tour of the country. I feel that we have treated Schmeling with the greatest fairness and his present| defiant _attitude ill becomes him.” If Schmeling continues to refuse the Scott bout and his match with Sharkey goes outside this city, then Detroit is the most likely spot. The fourth larg- est city in the United States and one of the richest and fastest growing, Detroit has been a tempting field for some time for a big heavyweight con- test. Tex Rickard had his eye on De- troit. He told me only a short time before his death that he intended to stage one of his “battles of the century” there, Detroit has grown to be a fine boxing town and always, in fact, has been a great city for sport. A big bout there undoubtedly would draw a great gate. ‘ At any rate, the Schmeling-Sharkey affair is at the boiling point and should furnish plenty of excitement, even be- fore the men enter the ring, (Gopyright, 1929.) CRUISE OF 900 MILES IS PLANNED ON COAST By the Associated Press. A trip by outboard motor which most ilots wodld not try in craft twice as arge is planned on the Pacific Coast | this Summer. H. L. Haines of Juneau. Alaska, in- tends to pilot a sea sled, propelled by an outboard motor, from Juneau to Seattle, 8 distance of 915.3 nautical miles. Haines has made application to the | American Power at Association for official sanction on the time made. Brentwood Hawks defeated Mary- land A. C., 8 to 5, and the teams were .tied, 6-6, in the seventh inning of the second game when rain halted action .gesterday” at Seat Pleasant. % Mercurys turned in & 14-6 win over ‘Exide Battery Co. " ‘Walthers swamped Gray Wolves, 20 Heart of RO"II!I'I, Fighl&,i Declared to Be Perfect Dr. E. T. Brand, official physician of the Illinois Boxing Commission, examined Andre Routis, feather- welght champion, and -declared he believed him to have the most per- fect heart in the world. “His heart does not seem to be at all disturbed after long sessions with the gloves,” said the examiner. “I believe he -has the most -perfect heart in the world. I can under- stand how he maintains his extreme aggressiveness round after round.” BOXING T00 TOUGH FOR GRIDIRON STAR Knockout by Unknown May Have Ended Hamer’s - Ring Career. BY FAIRPLAY. ‘Tex Hamer, the former Penn State foot ball star, has found the fight game | not all it was cracked up to be. Hamer, , with a national reputation as a smash- to try his hand with the gloves and grab some of the fabulous purses heavy- weights are supposed to receive for their s| time in the ring. Tex has everything in the way of physical attributes, a healthy, strong body, keen eye, courage unquestioned and more than average intelligence. But something went wronj Was it because Tex was mishandled? He and his manager, Phil Glasman, can best explain. Hamer started off with a big-fanfare of trumpets. His first opponent was one Al Mason, supposedly from Boston. ‘Tex was the winner via tire knockout route in the first round. But there was something queer about the knockout, so Commissioner Frank Weiner of the Pennsylvania Boxing Board called Mason in for a short talk. It s0 happened that Mason was a hard-working fellow in a field foreign o the boxing racket and was induced to try his hand with the former foot ball star. After Mason got in the ring he changed his mind about fighting and dived to the canvas as soon as he pos- sibly could, which was less time than it took for the echo of the bell to die out in the auditorium. The next and probably the last fight Hamer will participate in was staged in Atlantic City last week. An un- known by the name of Frankie Brown was selected as the victim. This fel- low Brown, unlike Mason, elected to fight back and Mr. Hamer found his hands full. Suffice to say that Tex Hamer of gridiron fame suffered a knockout in the fifth round and his dreams of easy money in the prize ring vanished in the sobering draft of cold reality. As one foot ball fan put it: “Another foot ball star gone wrong.” - JAPAN TRACK STAR FLASHES OLD FORM By the Associated Press. Mikio Oda, Japan's first and only Olympic track and field champion, has come back. The winner of the hop-step-and- | jump at the Amsterdam' games in 1928 ‘was believed to bs through as a jumper last Fall when an X-ray showed a bad- ly dislocated tendon in his right foot. But in the all-Japan intercollegiate games at Osaka recently Oda reached the best of his old-time form, proving himself still to be one of the best all- around jumpers in the world. Oda captained the Waseda Univer- sity team, winner of the Osaka games, and himself contributed two first and three seconds and ran on a winning re- lay team. In the hop-step-and-jump he broke his own former Japan record by covering 50 -feet 8% inches (15.45 meters), nearly a foot better than his own winning mark at terdam and only 3% inches short of the world mark of 50 feet. 11Y; inches set by Winter of Australia at the 1924 Olympics. Oda also won the broad jump with a leap of 28 feet 7 inches: took second.in the high jump with 5 feet 10% inches; second in the pole vault with 12 feet: finished seccnd in the 110-meter high hurdles, and was a member of the win- ning Waseda 400-m relay team. el gl e DEMPSEY GETS $10,000 BID TO REFEREE FIGHT LOUEHRANFAVORED 10 WHIP BRADDOCK, | Left Jab and Straight Right Will Be Rival Blows in Title Fight. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 15.—James J. Braddock's attempt to lift the | light-heavyweight crown off ' Tommy Loughran’s brow this week furnishes ~metropolitan followers of the fistic industry with their first real champlonship bout since last September, when Andre Routis beat Tony Canzoneri for the feather- | weight title. e battle of the left Jab and stralght right—Loughran and Braddock —is set for 15 rounds at the Yankee Stadium this Thursday night. | ~The advance dope favors Loughran to outpoint, the challenger, current odds being around 2 to 1. Braddock, however, packs enough dynamite in his right arm to laugh at odds. If he can plerce Loughran’s ard, and that is t easy, there will be a new light- nof heavyweight champicn. Braddock, who halls from Jersey City, sprang into the limelight last year with a two-round knockout over Tuffy Grif: ! ing line runner and bucker, was induced | fith, After dropping & decision to Leo | Lomski the Jersey City puncher came back with a victcry on a technical | knockaut over Jimmy Slattery, the Buf- | falo speedster. " Has the Old Sock. ‘There is no questioning that Brad- dock will hurt any cne he hits. The question is whether hé can hit a ‘L(Ju‘hrln ‘who has waded through all challengers since he captured the tiil from Mike McTigue in October of 1927, Rene De Vos, Belgian middleweight, and Dave Shade, California veteran, are to meet in the semi-final and | Harry Ebbets, Freeport slugger, matches punches with Izzy Grove, East Side | middleweight, in another 10-rounder. | Humbert Fugazy has arranged a card | at Ebbets Field Wednesday night that | may take some of the bloom off the | Yankee Stadium affair. He has matched Victorio Campolo, 6 feet 7'4- inch Argentine puncher, with Arthur Dekuh, big Italian, in the feature bout u(clo rounds. g i ampolo is a slugger after the type {of Luis Pirpo. He was knocked out | by Monte Munn at Buenos Aires, ‘but | atoned for that defeat by knocking | out Roberto Robertl. Angus Snyder, heavy-hitting Kansas City prospect, battles Jack Renault, Canadian star, in the semi-final, and Jack Roper is to clash with “One-punch” Leo Williams, | New York Negro. | Chocolate Is Billed. | ‘The metropolitan district also *will | see Kid Chocolate in action, the Cuban featherweight flash meeting Milton Cohen in a 10-rounder at the Rocka- way Playland Stadium Friday. Pete Nebo and Harry Blitman, feather- weights, furnish the chief attraction n:a é{‘e Queensboro Stadium tomorrow night. At Boston's garden tonight Ernie Schaaf and Jack Gagnon, rival heavy weights, meet for the right to battle Jimmy Maloney later in the season. At Kansas City Thursday night | young Slriblla:. Macon heavyweight, is matched against George Cook of A tralia; Babe Hunt, Ponca City, Okl and Sully Montgomery, Fort Worth heavyweight, are down for the un‘- | final on the same card. Other bouts on the national scheduje include: : ‘Tonight—At New York, Dexter Park, Sammy Dorfman. New York, vs. Petey Mack, Jersey City, featherweights, 10 rounds; at Philadelphia, Jack Gross, Salem, N.-J., vs. Murray Gitlitz, New York, heavyweights, 6 rounds: at Grand Raplds, Joe Godfrey, Negro heavyweight, vs. Ralph Smith, Califor- nia, 10 rounds. ‘Tuesday—At Chicago, Logan Square, Steve Smith, Bridgeport, Conn. vs. ki featherweights, Philippines, vs. weights, 10 rounds; at Cleveland. Go- rilla Jones, Akron Negro, vs. Bucky Lawless, Rochester, N. Y, welter- weights, 10 rounds. ‘Wednesday—At Oakland, Calif., Jirfi- my Duffy,- Oakland, vs. Artie Sullivan, Boston, welterweights, 10 rounds. Thursday — At Chicago, Mills Sta- dium, Earl Mastro, Chicago, vs. Billy Shaw, Detroit, _featherweights, 10 rounds; at Alan, Idaho, Fred Lenhart, Elk, Wash., vs. Maxie Rosenbloom, New York, light-heavyweights, 10 rounds, | and Demon Runyon, San Francisco, vs. Tommy Gardner, Walla Walla, Wash., bantamweights, 10 rounds; at Holly- wood, Harold Matthews, Lincoln, Nebr., vs. ‘Speedy Dado, Philippines, ‘fly- weights, 10 rounds. DETROIT, July 15 (#).—Floyd Fitz- simmons, promoter of the fight to be held here July 25, between Joe Dundee, welterweight boxing champion, and Jackie Fields of Chicago, has wired an offer to Jack Dempsey, at Hollywood, Calif., of $10,000 to referee the bout. Dempsey holds a Michigan referee's license granted him last Spring, when he referred a bout for the Olympia Arena “scalp PALM BEACH and MOHAIR TROUSERS $4.65, $5.65 To match your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F Avoid *ALOPECIA health is insurance against captured by 8 BM ‘This shows the finish of the 100-yard dash at the Yale-Harvard vs. Oxi Norton MONDAY, -JULY. 15;-1929. SPOR ting, Richmond’s Case ford-Cambridge track meet at Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, which the A points to 3'¢. The century was captured by S. B. Kieselhorst of Yale, with T. F. Mason of Harvard, second; G, Wilkina of C‘am’l;lrlid::. :l:::;.h::\; ! Oxford, fourth. Time, 10 2-5 seconds. This was the ninth renewal of the international meet which dates back 30 years. f A Photo. THE SPORTLIGHT y GRANTLAND RICE IM CORBETT won the heavyweight championship when he was 26 years old, and 9 years later, at the age of 35, he outpointed would have won his title back. Jim Jeffries, the defending champion, If the 15-round fights had been the for more than 20 rounds. fimit at that time Corbett Bob Fitzsimmons was 37 years old when he won the championship from Corbett, but at this advanced age of ring warfare he could only hold the crown for a short while against the younger Jeffries. Yet around 40, Fitz, in his comeback, came near splitting Jeffries into a number of sections before he crac™ — wsempsey reac! d both hands. hed the age of 34 late in June. He is younger than | Corbett was in his almost successful comeback and two years younger than Fitz was at the top. It is not so much a matter of years working against Dempsey to- day as it is long ring service—between 15 and 18 years—and with it a loss of his quick reflexes and his early speed. | The factor that still makes him an ring ability of Pitzsimmons at 37. It hind always gets the bulk of the credit. attraction is the memory of his heavy, | is t: o hitting, especially with the | an outside choice against a fighter of | front running the Schmeling- type, yet he would al- was a hard man to hit solidly and a herd | ways have this outside chance through | the punch he can still carry into ac His hands Rt hand. man to knock off his feet. sey hi seconds. Dempsey. speed and boxing skill of Cofbett and the all-around punching power and en Gene Tunney. at his best, Yet Demp- it him and kept him down for 14 at 34 lacks the 35 tion, can still The two thin & drawing ecar for granted that he would not brittle and he take it in coplous quantiti that still keep P Show-down test . . . at Roosevelt Field, New York, reveals the true cigarette preference of Aviators. The question is often asked:Does OLD GOLD pick out its strongholds . . . the places where it outsells its three rivals ... when it makes its ‘Concealed Name Tests?’” The answer is “No!” OoLD GOLD doesn’t seek “set- ups” but “show-dotwns.” As a youngster, just a bit over two years old, “O.G.” couldn’t be expected to match * ‘sales totals” with the three veteran brands, each from 12 to 16 years old. Give a young fellow time! But when it comes to comparing quality. .. that's“0.G’s. » meat. It is doing that every day. And romping home with the bacon, in the very places where the three older brands have their greatest following. For example, look what happened at Roosevelt Field, New York’s greatest airport, ‘Here OLD GOLDS rank third in sales. But when 68 Roosevelt aviators and their mechanics took the *“Concealed Name Te: st,”” OLD GOLD won, hands down, as the most appealing cigarette! (See Cer- tified Public Accountants’ report below.) This shows the real significance of the ‘“Concealed Name Test.” It shows that many men are buying ciga- rettes by sheer habit rather than by taste-preference. It shows that when brand names are forgotten and quality alone_ prevails, old favorites cannot compete with “0. G’s.” mellow and honey-like smoothness. ‘ You are entitled to the best for your cigarette money. ‘Why not make sure you are getting it? The “Concealed Name Test” is easily made . decide . . . fair and square! . and it lets your taste ness and his punch. These qualities still eount with the multitude above mfiwr speed and greater boxing Dempsey might be conceded only a bare chance and yet pack the place through the outside possibility of one big smash. | He would have only a slight chance {unless & boxer and hitter of the | Schmeling type made one or two mis- takes. Tunney will tell you that mis- takes against Dempsey are costly and | dangerous.. | In which eonnection it should be said for Schmeling that he doesn’'t seem to be the type of boxer who is going to make many mistakes. Not if complete | concentration on the job will take him | along. . | Jones Likes a Task. CCORDING to: Bobby Jones, it is | much easier to come from behind in golf than it is to set a pace and hold | it as & front runner, ‘The competitor who comes from be- | but there are many who believe that de, ds just as much gameness. “When I am in front of a field,” says Jones, “I find it almost im. possible to keep from playing safe- by steering the you are ahead to take any extra | chances. You feel then that you | want to save all the strokes you | can and miss all the traps and | bunkers you ean miss. When you are behind the case is different. “You then feel that you have to go out for everything. Your mental| T-S. Shows LITTLERNOWNFAN ISNOAT HURLER IFirst Twirler' to ' Perform Feat in Majors, Regular Toledo Rooter. | By the Associated Press, | O thousands of fans at, the Toledo, | Ohio, bass ball park a mild- mannered. unobtrusive man in his 70s has become a familiar f figure, cheering for the Mudhens in their games against American Asso- | ciation foes. | _The older patrons know him, but to most of the younger ones he is just | another customer., 1f they only kmew, the pleasant, gray-haired rooter holds a place in base ball history which the | young players on the diamond have scant chance to equal. His name is Lee Richmond, and he pitched one of only five no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach-first ball games in al | the years of majcr league competition. More than that, it was the first perfect game ever turned in by a big-leagus | moundsman. Richmond's brilliant performance was staged in a game on July 12, 1880, be- | tween nis team, Worcester, Mass., and Cleveland, both of the National League. | Only three balls were driven out of the | infield by Cleveland, and on one of these th> ht fielder executed the un- | usual feat of making an assist to first | base. Richmond's achievement was the more remarkable in v of the fact | that he was pitching almost every day. | attitude is changed and it is changed He is the only:southpaw ever to-turn on the side of better, sounder golf. the trick in the majors. | There is no longer any temptation to| teer a ball. or the pin. You dont mind taking | three scattered hits. You step up and rap 1 McCormick, the opposing pitcher, also t | hurled masterful ball, allowing only Worcester won, 1 | the gamble when you are behind, but | to 0, through an error in the fifth in- | you don't care to any more gamble ning. | than you have to when you are in| I know it is merely a mental | time were Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, | front. Other National League teams at the | state, but golf is built upon mental at- Buffalo, St. Louis and Providence. titudes, good golf and bad goif. Any It is evident from newspaper files golfer who can pick up a quick lead, that the feat was not fully appreciated | and then hold it the rest of the way|then. In later years, when the score | has a great mental attitude, a mar- | sheets were gathered and records com- velous psychology, which few have. know Walter Hagen likes to be a few | Providence duplicated the performance siers back when the big drive comes, only five days late: and I feel the same way about it. y Al Espinosa must have felt| famous 15 the w when he took his eight on the last' man to pitch a perfect game. After that eight he could go| Ross, also & former Toledo resident, and the | Charlie Robertson are the other two And he major league pitchers to enter the select round. out for everything and gamble he wanted to take. ‘Tha take all 1| piled, it was found that John Ward of t| Twent: ears passed before the Young became the third Addie finished the last six holes two under group. | pa George Simpson, Ohio State sprinting | Toledo. He belie |~ Richmond, just out of Brown Univer- | sity when he gained his place in history, | now is & professor at the University of es present-day pitchers reach star, has given away more than three ' are not worked often enough. to Gozen watches he won in track meets. Certified Public Accountants’ Report “Concealed Name Test” at Rooseyelt Field | their best pitching form. *baldness Eliminate the evils of falling hair, dandruff, itching scalp, and you for- stall baldness. The Thomas treat- mentsarescientificallyperfectedand individuallyadapted toeachpersonal :llse Otuhr specllnliz;g method re‘\l;i- talizes the scalp and. promotes the growth of new hair. % ‘Don’t let baldness mar your appearance. Our specialists will give you a scientific examination FREE. ‘We hereby certify that on April 11, 1929, we conducted a *‘Concealed Name Test’” of the four leading cigarette brands, among 68 aviators . and mechanics at Roosévelt Field. 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