Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1929, Page 19

Kearns May Have Another Heavyweight King : Dark Horses Win in Shoe Tourney | FAY. HIS PROTEGE, S FINE PROSPECT Writer Rates Him as Easily Best of Newcomers to Top Ring Class. N lack of high-class fighting tal- ent among the big fellows. ‘That this will be remedied shortly, probably in the course of the next year, is all that interests the fans who like to sit in and watch the behemoths of the ring batter each other around. Ex- perience is all that the rising crop needs and the Sharkeys, Maloneys and Loughrans, for that matter, will be names best forgotten for the big money they have collected for alleged high- class boxing contests. Babe Hunt of Ponca City, Okla., heads the list of newcomers. Then there are George Hoffman and Buddy Howard, both former national amateur cham- plon:; Fay, the pride of Jack Kearnz’ eye, and one or two others scattered throughogt the country. Just now the weiter thinks Al Fay is far and away the best of the budding crop. Fay, who has a technical knock- out over George Hoffman, and has had but five fights, looms up as one of the most feared heavies in the world. The other night in Philadelphia, Fay gave a master exhibition of fighting fury and savage punching one looks for but does not, see year in and year out. Against ‘Tony Talerico, whom Eddie Eicher, Leo Lomski's manager, expected to mow down the heavies in the East, Fay tore in 2and did not stop punching until Tony ‘was stretched out on the floor helpless and the referee was forced to intervene Eelnre the game Talerico was seriously urt. ‘With a fellow with only five fights under his belt and acting up as Fay does, one comes 1o the conclusion that Jack Kearns may realize his ambition of handling another world champion. George Hoffman continues to go to the floor, pick himself up and come back to score victories. Angus Salva- tore Ruggerillo had Hoffman on the floor only to come out on the short end of the fight. Buddy Howard has been winning with regularity and is un- beaten as a professional. The New Haven lad thows improvement in every BY JOHN J. ROMANO. EW YORK, August 23.—One has but to look over the heavy- weight field to discover the With such a crop of promising lad: looming on the horizon interest in the heavyweight class {3 perking up and one may expect a hard walloping cham. pion to be crowned before another year THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON;. D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929. ' THE GHETTO GO-GETTER: RE-TIRED ADUNDEFEATED & WORLDS HSI‘gW_EIGNT F?uaz GOLDSTEIN AND SIDTIERKIS WERE eACH CALLED"A SECOND Be LEONARD " BUT “THI FELL FAR SHORT OF THE ORIGIN/ HEY are always discovering “‘Another So-and-So.” In base BRILLIANT YOUNGSTER M gan to dub him “Another Benny Leonard ” FROM New YorKs GHETTO, WHO MORE “THAN ATONED FORMHIS KNOCKOUT By IGNACIO FERNANDEZ BY KNOCKING OUT _FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION ANDRE IROUTIS. etropolitan Newspaper Service have been sasy pickings for as clever and as hard hitting a boy as Singer. IALKER A FADED, LOUCHRAN ASSERTS Light-Heavy Champion Picks Braddock as Boxer to Get His Title. BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN. AMES J. BRADDOCK will be my successor as light-heavyweight champion of the world. Since ‘watching Mickey Walker and Leo Lomski flounder 10 pe- culiar rounds in Philadelphia last Mon- day night I am certain Braddock is the pick of the 175-pound crop. ‘When I hand my title to the New York State Athletic Commission there | will be a Jot. of fellows jumping at it, but | James .J. can't miss. Walker is about washed up. He showed the best he had Monday night, which seems doubtful—he isn't within 50 per cent of what he was the night he met me. Walker, as the winner, will talk a lot, of course. However, he can’t have even a remote claim to the title I will shortly ive up until he meets Braddock. Then e 15 almost certain to fail. Has Lost His Power. Mickey was a fine fighter once, but not now. He tires very easily, and isn't at all hard to hit. Braddock has a | deadly right hand, ang if he lands— which I think he is sure to do—Walker | will take a ride. The State Athletic Commission won't let them meet in New York, for Walker isn't allowed to go out of his class there without giving up his title, but they would draw well in Chi- cago or Philadelphia. I was disappointed in Lomski, for I expected more of him than I did of | Mickey. But he didn’t show anything. It may sound strange to hear me | ballyhoo the Lanky Jerseyman, as I| beat him by a wider margin than any- one else I have faced since becoming champion. But he is coming along. He has courage and ambition. (Copyright, 1929. hy North American News- | paper Allfance.) i ' MARQUARD RIDES STREET CAR TO KEEP UP LUCK| By the Associated Press. When Rube Marquard, the former big | | league pitcher, went down from Baiti- | more to take charge of the Jacksonville | 1’rars he took along a bag full of pet | superstitions, ! The first day Marquard rode to the | | ball park on a street car. Now he won't |80 by any other route. His team won coach, regards Charles as another Jim | MEN WHO ‘DELIVER' INPINCH ARE BEST Simmons, Ott and Ruth Among Those to Shine When Going Is Hardest. HE valuable man {is the one who comes through in a pinch. It adds nothing ‘extra on scoreboard when a batter singles with the bases empty. Yet, there are several noted hitters who do most of their slugging when the sacks are as unpopulated as the peak of Mount Everest. This does not apply to Al Simmons of the Athletics or Mel Ott of the Gilants, Those bovs connect with the ball when hits count. They lead their respective leagues at batting in runs. With a man on base and a hit needed to tie or win, Al or Mel standing at the plate are as welcome a sight to pitchers as a mother bear to a man who has just kicked her cub. They are too likely to make trouble for any twirler's peace of mind. Speaking of hitters, there is mlways Babe Ruth. Perhaps some day there will be a man who can hit a ball as far on the average as the Babe, but I doubt whether it will be in our time. He is without question the longest hit- ter who ever lived. Just look at that record of his. Four times in the past nine seasons he has hit over 50 home runs. In 1920 he hit 54, in 1921 he hit. 59, in 1927 he hit. 60, in 1928 he hit 54. There is a fotal of 227 homers in four seasons. No man ever ap- proached that record, and it will be long before any man ever will. Hazen Cuyler is a fine hitter, but just now that isn’t his chief claim to fame. Cuvler has stolen almost twice as many bases as any man in either league. He has pilfered around 30 cushions at a time when base stealing is fast becoming a lost art. Some good indges of the game call Cuyler the best ball player on the Chicago club. AS SECOND THORPE By the Associsted P One of America’s finest all-around athletes was uncovered at the A. A U. track and field championships at Den- ver in Wilson Charles, 19-year-old Oneida Indian of Haskell Institute. “Lone Star” Dietz, Haskell's foot ball the | SPORTS. 19 ADAMS, QUANTRILLE, BEAT MEYERS, McCARTHY EASILY Veteran and Youth Likely to Clash in Final at Plaza, Davidson Victor at Fillmore—Fairfax 5 County Pairings Made. COUPLE of dark horses were running neck-and-neck today in Washington’s barnyard golf derby. Frank Adams, a youngster at 60, defeated Bow Wow Mev- | ers, and Hubbard Quantrille, a stripling, trimmed Harry Me- | Carthy in the first round of the east section tournament at the Plaza | 1t was not a distinet surprise that Adams should knock off the highly touted Meyers, but the margin of his victory was a shock to | Bow Wow’s legion of followers. The veteran chucked a couple of double ringers and took the first | game, 21 to 11. He southpawed five ringers in the second, which he | won by 21 to 3. It was late in the gante before Meyers scored. COLOR ED woM E N !s ul]ifi(;lol‘::ld);]e“‘:;“_';‘f;:flufie’:;? 1:”:";«{;152 - TOURNEY DELAYED tional battle, went. down fightinz be- fore young Quantrille. The Iatter “had the shoe” ~McCarthy's twirling slip- pers refused to open at the right time and he was unable fo find the stake consistently. Quantrille tossed a three- Rain prevented the opening of the |Quarler turn that was effective He horseshoe pitching tournament for the el A Ok | colored women's championship of 2 In the two games h | Washington. It will be played Monday, | against 3 rff; M(‘Car}'h o T the | atar was off his regula | “ll‘hmng ltye &mc °: th;hcoum:; ?: but Quantrille was not at his bes eatley Y. W .C. A. The eourts are | "poth Adams and Quantrille, who is open to those who care to practice. 18 years old, were unheralded when ! = they entered the tournament. Th Walter Smith swept through & field |loom as the finalists in the East sec- of 26 to win the colored title at Halls | tion. Today, in the semi-finals, Adams Hill, Va. In the final he defeated |will play Charles A. Fort, the Garfield Maurice Lewis, 21 to 15 and 24 to 10. | division champion, and Quantrille will {In a semi-final match Lewis defeated | meet Walter Jackson. who was Wilbur Johnson, 21 to 8 and 21 to 16. "pf)ml Fort, in the Garfield fi % 1 mly one match was played in the | Pive fourth-round matches are sched- [ g, bl - | uted for tomorrow in the tournament at | oot Seetion tournament ab | Nauck, Va. Chatrman James requests | io5¢ Plaveround. After Bob Darids | all players to be on hand at 5:30 SharD. | 51to's. rain stopped play. N. A. Pis | Walter Marr, chairman at Fairmont | 2nd E. Keith will meet today in 2 p Heights, announces the following pair- Poned match, after which Paul Morri- ings for tomorrow: son will take on Andrew Tallmadge and i:hnkn‘zvrnhv'/g. Mekowest Dixon. Davidson will play the winner of the Charles Bayne s, Frederick Scott: = Tenderson Rrosks v, James Phiterson, | PAlrings for the Fairfax County finels to be played tomorrow nizhl on CGeorze | €. Thomoron courts at Falls Church | | Patrick Diggs vs. Oscar J. Gay: | George Butler v 2 n H. Stkes. were announced today by Thompson county chairman. Play will = Benjam: c’clock. 'OVER 1,000 PLAYGROUND | BOYS IN COLORED MEET| 22 sbar & | Stewere Pettse accotinic cha With a half-mile run as a new fea- | ChSste Bober (Colvin Run champ. {ture, the annual interplayground col- | " rester Bhaanolis i | ored track meet was heing held today | on the Cardora plavground. More than | ; L& 11,000 boys were cxpected to compete, | representing the winning talent from | | each of the grounds selected in pre- liminary ground trials. | A challenge cup and medals, donated by the Washington Post, are at stake. * Howard Playground. k S Dean (Annandals Arthur Rearns (McLean runn: Jim Cockerille (Chesterbrook vs, Colvin_Run runper Burke Station cham champton) s o runner. ton e, Forestville passes. the defending 59 WOMEN ENTERED FOR MARATHON SWIM ball it's “Another Ty Cobb.” in boxing “‘Another Joe Ga or “Another Benny Leonard. 1'd like to have one of Uncle Sam's new-model dollar bills for every time T've heard or read that “So-and-so is 1t he had been a flashy colored boy instead of a Jew, he would have been called “Another Joe Gans” or “Another George Dixon.” Singer first flashed across the fistic horizon in 1927. He was a busy performer, fighting 25 times last year, and best- “Don’t, worry we friends ad- | nine straight games. | Thorpe, and predicts that. within two | moniched him. “lconard himself | So, while passing motorists wondered | years the 6-foof, 185-pound youngster | wa k!]p(krd out twice early in { why the new manager smilingly turned | Will be in a class by himself. He 15 only | pion hi, carcer” Singer fook heart. K. O'd | down their offers of rides, Marquard | & sophomore. | Bveniishiackide: Kid Roy, featherweight champion of | chuckled to himself and went ahead | Charles father was a four-letter man | EVents include: Canada; outpointed Dominick Pe- | enjoying the trolley rides—and winning | at Carlisle. The son already has proved |y, 25.POunS, Giessosf-vard dash, trone and then capped off & most | ball games. | to be one of the hardest hitting and | > 350-pound’ clase.: ehampion. Foresty i, Tdrlwood cha: ner-up. running | Arlingtori County finals will be playe running | 8¢ Clarendon tomorrow nig! title holder. was expected o put up a | atrong bid for retention of the cham- | Fmner up va 1 Iwood runner tation run dash By the Associated Press TORONTO, Ontario, August 23.— Fifty-nine woman swimmers were here today for the Wrigley 10-mile marathon in Lake Ontario. In the big ficld two New York girls s jeint favoritcs—Ethel Hertle, year, and Martha Norelil eedster. ‘was reckoned to be two, there were cthers that were conceded more than an outside chance of winning. Among these were Olive Oatterdam, former Seattle girl, now living in Toronto, who finished second to Miss Hertle in 1928: | Ruth Tower of Denver, Jane Thoms of Terre Haute, Ind, and Anna Priller Benolt of Holyoke, Madss, Most experts expected these girls to make most of the running for the 318,000 of prize | ‘The winner will receive $10,000, ond place, $1,000 for | fourth and $400 for | ther contenders were 16- | ley of New York, 3 Evelyn Arn g of Detroit, Lillian | Garrick of New York and Agnes and | Jessie Chester of Long Island, N. Y. winning the race last year Miss | Hertle covered the 10 miles in the fast time of 5 hours 45 minutes 14 4-5 seconds, with the water in Lake On- tario at a temperature of 65 degrees. The temperature today was 64 degrees, 6 above the required minimum of 58. The race 15 over a two-milé rectangu-~ Jar course, to be covered five times. A =N HAS RING CHAMPION, * MIKE GIBBONS SAYS| | B the Amociated Preas ! Mike Gibbons. leading member of | that once famous tea: of boxing | brathers, belleves one ¢! prof | iz destined to win the welterweight | championship. Mike’s choice to win the title, re- eently captured by Jackie Fields, is My Sullivan, whom Mike trained 25 an| amateur. “All My has to do to win the erown 4+ to make up his mind,” says Gibbons. He's better than I ever was. He's game, can’punch &nd has natural 2hility. Al he needs to become & cham- pion 15 8 realization of the opportunity facing him.” . Sullivan was barking for a bout with Fislds before the new champ hardly had ripped the tape off his hands after rnatching the crown from Joe Dundee. He is ready to back up his challenge with whatever forfelt money i3 neces- sery. In his last fight here, Sullivan stop- ped Andy Di of New York in three Tounds. Sullivan, who is 21, has been a pro- fessional three years. He has fought 40 money bouts, winning 16 with a K. 0. and losing only four by.decision. _ He has not lost a fight since early in 1928, when Jack McCarthy ' out- pointed him in Chicago. TEX TRUSTED FRIENDS TOO MUCH, JACK THINKS CHICAGO, August 23 (@).—Jack! Dempsey, former heavyweight champion of the world and intimate of the late Tex Rickard, characterized the financial plight of Mrs. Tex Rickard as “the same old story” of 2 man who had too much mnfldez;u in his !mz:g: s ivod The former chamj rece! m.\lllonnmd a half dollars “T knew things were in & mess, That 43 why I went to Miami last Winter to try and straighten out Tex's dog track there. The law stepped in, st ‘bet- ting and made the g more of & mess than it was.” 5 ——e MEDICOS SEEK GAME. another Benny Leonard.” Sid Terris was one. That is, they said it about him. Then Ruby Goldstein. And if all the boys who have knocked out Sid Terris and Ri Goldstein were laid end to ;. would reach miles. B e M Sipger. like 'rzu 2 uet. of Newr York Ctixty'a vn';b !ehtheew»m:rl- can population. o gave &% the mclzng and after had flashed his ever-increazing | nce for a vear or so, they be- ing such boys as Chick Suggs and Pete Zivic, and fighting a draw with ‘Tony Canzoneri, former world feath- erweight champion. That bout was Al's real debut in fast company. Singer next met Bud Taylor, and won on a foul. He was dancing and punching his way to victory when Taylor hit him low, and Patsy Halev, the referee, stopped the fight. The pair met again in March and Al won the decision. Then came the surprising knockout at the hands of Ignacio Fernandez, who should successful comeback campaign by knocking nut Andre Routis, world featherweight champion, in & non- titular bout. on July 17. The fight with Kid Chocolate on August 29 af. the Polo Grounds, New York., will afford the real test of Singer's quality. Meanwhile he has increazed his prestige as a_heavy hitter by the quick way in which he disposed of Gaston Charle: of France at Qu boro Stadium on August 13. “The knockout came at the end of 32 second: of the second round. Hoover Held Wrong in Saying “All Men Equal Before Fishes” BY WALTER TRUMBULL. EW YORK, August 23. ! Pres| versonal relationship to man, and, of more importance than the fact itself, everybody con- cedes that the fish will not bite in the presence of the public.” Never has the amateur spirit of fish- ing been more beautifully expressed. | Fishing +4s a matter of a man's own | judgment and wrist and soul. It is not a team game except where nets are used, and then it ceases to be a sport. ‘Morecover,” the President continued, | fishing is a_ constant, reminder of the | democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty—for all men are equal before fishes.’ Notwithstanding our admiration for | Mr. Hoover, here is where we take issue with him. We have fished too Iong to believe that fish regard all | men equally, When for example we fished heside Bill Sporague, mayor of all 12 houses in Duane and en angler of 30 re experience, or Zeke Perkins, Justice of peace in the same district, who has hed and hunted for so many seasons that he is said to breathe silently through his gills and shed his coat every Summer, we have noticed strange discriminations on the part of denizens of rivers and lakes. Many a time we have laid before a trout or bacs a lusclous fly, a fly so succulent that one would imagine that even a fish which had just risen from a New England holiday dinner would feel one last pang of appetite at the sight of it. But instead of reaching for the tasty mouthful the fish would turn languidly away. ‘Then Mr. Sprague or Mr. Perkins, whichever happened to be in the vicinity, would toss a half-baked, derdone, tough-appearing fly in of that same fish with a vastly dif. Nor were we alone in this experience, Memory a fly caster of such note that he had taken medals for long casting in exhibitions. Yet, on a fish- ing excursion with Mr, Sprague, virtually all he caught was a severe in the head, while Mr. Sprague Every Firestone owner jis a Firestone booster! The reason is obvious, once you have tried ’em! Hazve usin- stall them on, your car! New, low prices! Wealso carry a line of Old- field, Courier and Airway Tives—the companions of Fire- stone at the new low prices! sTAR smvlce“ SThTI m "f busy throwing back fish he could not uze. No, our experience has been that ¢t | men are decidedly unequal befors fish, A need considerable per- operating a motor vehicle while under | and we shall suasion to the contrary before altering our opinion. 3 GROH OUT AS PILOT. HARTFORD, Conn., August 23 (A).— Mike Martineck, first baseman, vester- day assumed management of the Hart- ford Eastern League club. 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