Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 27

NEW YORKER GOOD AS 2-1 FOR TOMORROW’S BATTLE His Recent Knockouts of Made Impression — Cuban’s Though, Apparently | |of the question. Capable Scrappers Have Followers, Are Not Worrying. should have been & victory for the Cuban. The pre-fight ballyhoo has been marked by & Strenuous newspaper argu- ment over weights. The fight contract calls for Singer to make 130 pounds, |but there is a side agreement that Singer shall make 128% pounds, with 2 $5,000 forfeit if he fails to make the grade. Disquieting rumors leaked out of Singer's camp that the East Sider would have a hard time making 130 pounds and that 1283 pounds was out Chocolate's handlers immediately came to the front with an announcement that if Singer failed to nmmke the lighter weight the Cuban would claim his forfeit and decline to go through with the fight. Bout Under 130 Pounds. ‘When it was pointed out that he needed to make only 130 pounds to satisfy the New York State Athletic Commission and that the boxing solons .~ewTHE EVENING STAR, WASHI THE SPO 0l1d Man Par. No. I never mdt him, . Old Man Par, I mean; Hear about him often, When I'm on the green. Many times I've seen him, As_he walked away, But 1 never met him, Never heard him say: “That’s the stuf], old topper, Glad to see you win; Shots like that are rarer Than a slug of gin.” Nothing but a buzzard, When I sink the pill— No, I never met him, And_I never will. MELVILLE W. MILLER. N old tennis gentleman by the name of Bill Tilden was sup- posed to be all through some time ago, but in spite of this there is an exceedingly good | chance that he will be the next national | tennis champion of the United State: This, of course, is no certainty. would be a certainty if Tilden could meet the best men in the field on any given date. Whether he can stand up after a week’s hammering from the hand of youth is something else. Tilden would have had little or no chance if Cochet or Lacoste By GRANTLAND RICE: NGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 1929 RTLIGHT gan foot ball squad. A tentative team irom last year's vets and the most prom- ising sophomores shows possibilities of one of the heaviest Michigan aggrega- tions in years. : From tackle to tackle the “first guess” | line averages 191, and then comes the bombshell. The 'ends and four backs put these gaunt, puny, emaciated youths to shame with an average poundage of 196. Capt. Truskowski and the veteran Draveling are fairly certain at the flanks at 200 and 206 pounds, respectivgly. Gembis and Simrall of last year's team could be augmented by Hudson and Morrison in the back field, with weights of 200, 163, 195 and 210. Certainly few teams have ever boasted two ends and four backs of these breath-taking proportions. Average poundage is often given & false color by the presence of a fatty weighing 250 or | 260, but the heaviest man on the team | bove would be Maynard Morrison at | 210. Simrall at 163 should be prohibited | by law from disporting himself in this | field of giants. | Incidentally, the Michigan coaching | stafl_should hasten to acknowledge its | indebtedness to this correspondent for | disposing easily of a problem that will keep half a dozen of ‘em up nights for | two months. Names of the balance of | the team furnished on application. WOLVERINE. Firpo and Schmeling. UIS FIRPO blew into New York MARATHON SWIM DELAYEDBY COLD Postponed for 24 Hours and Outlook Now Is That It Will Be Longer. By the Associated Press. ORONTO, Canada, August 28.—| A chilling wind from the North has caused postponement of the | fourth annual Wrigley maras thon swim for 24 hours and per: haps more The swim, scheduled for today, was postponed until tomorrow when a cold wind sent the temperature of the water in «Lake Ontario down to 54 degrees yesterday, four degrees below the re- quired minimum of 58 degrees. Officlals of the swim were hopeful that the weather would change for the better, but official foretasts were nol favorable. “Northerly winds; fair and cool,” sald the Weather Bureau. It will take a warm sun and southwest erly winds to boost the temperature in | the lake to the required minimum. | Meantime 275 swimmers, nerves on | edge, wait anxiously for the long grind | to start, More than 400 sent in their | will be the only woman starter. A | to proclaim him: money of $35,000 will be divided amom‘]‘a Floee decision over Tony Canon but his work in the ring has been noth- | ing out of the ordinary. | By the Associated Press. | Of these, only one, John Greer, 52 years old, was turned down, Popular opinfon has instailed Ernest Vierkoetter of Germany, winner of the 1927 event, as the outstdnding favorite. | ‘The big German baker led the fielg last year until the cold water forced him tol withdraw four miles from the finish.| The powerful German is confident he | can outswim the field and outgame the lake this time. Second choice is George Young, who | won the Catalina Island swim three years ago. Mendell Burditt of Toronto Ngures more seriously the colder the water becomes. Strong and robust, he may outlast the field should the tem- perature of the water be around the minimum on race day. Georges Michel of France, who won most of the prize money last year by | being the last to succumb to the frigid | waters of the lake, will not compete this | Among the lesser favorites are uch swimmers as Norman Ross, Chi-| cago; Clarence Ross of New York, | Eddie Keating and Byron Summers. | Apparently Ruth Tower of Denver | the leaders. | |t |t Fights Last Night LEIPERVILLE, Pa—Billy Angelo, [t Leiperville, Pa.. outpointed Johnny | Peppe, Philadelphia (10): Tex Hamer, Texas, knocked out Pat Patterson, Philadelphia (2). CINCINNATI—Freddy Miller, Cin- | CHAMPION WANTS Mastro and Abad Appear as Prize | class. 'True enough, he won the right | | the honor unless he is paid plenty. elimination contest between Earl Mas-| stepping down the wire the victor on a decision. induce Routis with a good sized guar- | | antee or the Frenchman will find some excuse to sidestep Mastro. maker, Nate Lewis, could do the next best thing to staging a titular fight by | matching Mastro with Abad, and it fs | dollars to doughnuts that the fight puit- {lic in general will recognize the winner | as the uncrowned feather-weight chant- | pion and force Routis into fighting the winner, ‘While on the subject of Mead's fight- ers, it is interesting to record that he has another feather-weight who comes close to earning the title of iron man of the ring. Johnny Farr. a pugnacious little Italian from Cleveland, would rather fight than eat, and has the rec- ord of stepping from one fight into a | Pullman car and stepping into the ring the following night for another session with the gloves. Last week in Philadelphia Johnny trounced Henri de Wancker in & 10- round slugfest and scored the first vic- | tory to be registered over the French- man in this country. PLENTY T0 FIGHT Logical Contenders for 126-Pound Honors. BY JOHN J. ROMANO. EW YORK. August 28.—Andre Routis is having a hard time | convincing the fight fans of this country that he is the actual ruler of the 126-pound | INSURANCE BOWLING LEAGUE IS PLANNED Efforts are being made to form_an dnsurance company bowling league. Ben Hare, manager of the Metropolitan Life | Insurance team, is heading the move- | ment. Companies interested in joining such a loop®are asked to communicate with Howard Campbell at the Lucky Strike alleys. To reorganize the Mount Rainier Duckpin Association. a meeting will be held tonight at the Mount Rainier al- leys at 8 o'clock. self as such by winning eri, ‘To make mat- ers worse, Routis will not defend his itle against a worthy contender for Last week Paddy Marmon staged an ro and Eddie Shea, with the former | It is now up to Harmon to| Eddle Mead, the rotund and genial would suspend Chocolate if he failed to go through with the fight, Louis Gut- teriez, the Cuban's manager, said he was ready to accept the commission's penalty, but that he would not permit his charge to fight Singer at more than 1283, pounds. Later it. developed that Singer was under 130 pounds and would have little difficulty getting down to the lower figure. That satisfied everybody ex- had come over. But they are not coming, and no one has accused Bill of asking them to stay away. S0 he now has a chance to show what middle age, in a tennis sense, can do against younger vears. It will be Tilden | on one side, with Lott, Van Ryn, Alli-| son, Bell, Mercur, Austin, Cram, Grant and a number of others from the | younger set lined up against him. Six = prove that he can stop Big Bill under | | heavy fire. It all gets down to a ques- ulon of standing up through a week's ay. without a manager, and it took him | no great while to get his shot at the| | championship and clear up enough light change to carry him in comfort for the rest of his life. ! Max Schmeling has had enough man- | agers to handle all the fighters in the game, and with a great chance to clean up and stand as the new heavyweight champion. It will be a long while now | before he even gets a crack at the title, Schmeling, the outstanding challenger a few months ago, has beén managed | into near-obscurit He had only Phil | Scott and Jack Sharkey in the road,| and a prospective champion who | couldn’t hurdle these two obstacles isn't | going far, anyway. As it is now you ) | rarely hear any one mentioning the Ger- EAR SIR: A recent issue of the | man's name. His only chance is to Michigan Alumnus carries _the [ fight his way to the position he allowed es and weights of the 1929 Michi- | his managers to yank from under him. American career, Kid Choco- the Polo Grounds tomorrow night an been offered freely in the past week. Singer money is due to the East Side the heels of Singer's knockout defeat Routis fight also went far toward dis- Chocolate and his handlers apparentl; ponents have hit Chocolate with a right best of it. He has never been beaten Madison Square Garden, the Cuban gate expected to reach somewhere in Michigan's Pygmies. few moments after the fight started |in the 10-round semi-fin: Harry Eb- Br the Associated Press. % EW YORK, August 28 —For perhaps the first time in his late, dusky Cuban feather- weight, will enter the ring for his 12-round bout with Al Singer at underdog in the_betting. Quotations of 8 and 9 to 5 and some of as high as 2 to 1 on Singer have Indications were that these odds would hold good at ring time. | Apparently the heavy proportion of lad’s brilliant knockout victory over Andre Routis of France, featherweight champion. That triumph, coming on at the hands of Ignacio- Fernandez, stamped the East Sider as a fighter with championship possibilities. ‘The pelling any doubts as to the quality of Singer’s courage. Cuban Never Beaten. are doing little or no worrying over | the fact that the Cuban will be on the | short end of the betting odds. Few op- hand and that's Singer's most potent weapon. And as for comparative records, the Cuban “keed” has all the and only one man, Joe Scalfaro, has| gained as much as a draw with him. | think twice before retiring from a bouf In that fight. Chocolate’s debut in |in which he gets a fat cut out of a proved that he could “take it” and rally | the neighborhood of $200,000. in time to avoid defeat. 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Y. (2); Manuel | pound title, then I am a poor judge of Quintero. Cuba, outpointed Al Trainor, | fighting ability.” | S Philadelphia_(10). Mead is right. In Abad he has one| Season’s plans will be discussed at LOS ANGELES.—Yale Okun, New [of the best little scrappers in the coun- | a meeting of the Ladies’ Federal Ducks York, outpointed James J. Braddock, | try, and if Routis refuses to fight Mas- | pin League tonight at 8 o'clock at the New Jersey (10). tro, Paddy Harmon and his match-' Lucky Strike alleys. entries for the marathon, but only 276, showed up for physical examination. Bethesda, Md.. Bowling League will hold a reorganization meeting nex! Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at th” Bethesda alleys. Pilots of teams mak- ing up the circuit last season are re- quested to be on the job as well as representatives of teams interested in securing a franchise, Capt. O. R. Moxley wants to enter his District Firemen's bowling team in t | Fedcral League. Capt. 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