Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 44

sies AL SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WA CUBAN IS BETTER DEFENSIVE BOKER If Knockout Is Scored, New Yorker Is Likely to Be One to Register. BY JOHN J. ROMANO. EW YORK. August 29.—Fight addicts will storm the portals leading into the Polo Grounds tonight to witness widely discussed boxing eon- test between little fellows since the second meeting between Benny Leonard and Lew Tendler several years ago. ‘The whole town is talking Al Singer and Kid Chocolate and all one has to do to start an argument is to mention either bow's name. The local pride and the Cuban dandy will have 12 rounds in which to fire punches and if one is to believe the stories coming out of the rival camps the fight will not go that long. Chocolate More Experienced. Chocolate, the more experienced of the two, faces the best fighter he has met in this country. A classy, showy ringman, the Kid has several bad fights chalked up against him and two knock- outs scored by lighter punchers than Singer leads one to the conclusion that Chocolate will have to unleash more . stuff than ever, if he expects to keep his standard untarnished by a defeat. Chocolate was knocked down by Joe Scalfaro and Bushey Graham. The Kid + came back fighting Scalfaro and earned a draw. In the Graham contest Choco- late was far back on a point basis when one of Bushey's blows landed below the foul line and Chocolate was declared the winner. Singer has but one bad mark against him, a knockout at the hands of Ig- nacio Fernandez. It is true that Choco- late met Fernandez later on and whip- ped him, but_his best blows failed to befuddle the Filipino game cock. Singer atoned for the knockout by scoring impressive victories over Leo Kid Roy, Gaston Charles and Feather- weight Champion Andre Routis. If this is not enough to give Al the edge against his colored opponent. then there is no basis upon which to pre-judge a | boxing contest. Great Defensive Fighter. Chocolate is purely a defensive fighter. off the attack of his opponent while backing away swiftly. In this the Negro excels. and his uncanny knack of step- ping in and taking the play away from his_opponent has made him the talk of fight circles. On the other hand, Singer's attack s deadlier and more sustained. He lances in beautifully with a left jab and throws his right in a one-two punch which has spelled disaster for a score of opponents. This style of at- tack is made to order for Chocolate, ac- cording to the latter’s admirers. One mistake and the Cuban will penetrate ‘Al's defense with a whizzing right and Singer will get another taste of Tesin dust. A the form showing their fights, Singer, figures to pile up an early lead, and if a knockout is scored it will be chalked up to the credit of the newest star in the local firmament . Chocolate’s main chance relies on ginger tiring in the late rounds. when the Cuban usually mekes a strong finish. Great Gate Attraction. Br the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 29.—If & s lacking to make tonight's ba t the Polo Grounds between Kid Choco- late of Cuba and Al Singer of the Bronx a great gate attraction, the fans have not found it. With the promise befers them of two natural fighters meeting in the year's “natural”’ of fights they have been wasting no time in getting to the box office for seats as close as pos- sible to the center of action. The early estimates were that about B0.000 of the fight faithful would pay something in the neighborhood of $200.- 000 for the privilege of witnessing the battle between the clever Cuban and the New York slugger. The prospect of & lact-minute rush tonight unless bad weather comes along to change the matter has kept the figures rising steadily ; Each has a large local following, and ftheir backers have been srguing for months as to their respective fighting abilities. Added to this was the question of weight, which caused some uncer- tainty during the training period and rise to plenty of ballyhoo to keep fans interested. The contract for gcrap calls for them to make 139 pounds when they weigh in at the Polo Grounds this afternoon, but en un- officia] agreem: its Singer to 1283 ounds, with a good sized forfeit hang- Kg on that poundal Both Are The streak of Black Lightning from Cuba is not expected tn weigh more than 124 pounds, while Singer refurned from his training camp under the limit = thing a gav the t t The battle is scheduled to _go 12 rounds. starting at 10 pm., Eastern daylight time. The record of the two principals show plenty to justify the interest of th-l fane, although there is nothing evs fainfly resembling a title at stake. Chocolate never has lost a bout in his | busy career and has been held to a draw only once. Joe Scalfaro landed one terrific punch right at the start of their battle and had the “Keed" fighting to save himself long enough to gain an even decision. Chocolate, a sharp puncher and a master boxer, has vic- tories over Bushy Graham, Vidal Gre gorio adn Fidel Labarba to more than make up for that one slip. Singer, another sensation of the past year, was taken down badly on one occasion by a man whom _Chocolate had beaten easily. Ignacio Fernandez, put a temporary halt to his career with a knockout, but the black-haired lad from the Bronx atoned for that defeat by knocking out the champion of his class, Andre Routis, in two rounds of & non-title bout. HOW FIGHTERS COMPARE FOR TONIGHT’S CONTEST NEW YORK, August 29 (@) —Here! is how Kid Chocolate and Al Singer ; measure up for their fiight at the polo { grounds tonight: Chocolate. 23 years... 124 pounds 5. ft. 7 in..." Singer. Neck. .. .. Chest " (norm: nded) DUCKPIN TEAM FORMED | BY DIAMOND CABMEN A bowling team made up of office employes of the Diamond Cab Co. and from among the company's drivers has ! been organized and would like to enter | one of the leagues here the coming season. This team is independent of the Diamond Cab combination which competed last season in the Athletic League. }‘l‘.“A, Cranford, 1735 Fourteenth street, telephone Potomac 6200, ing for the interests of the newly- - formed team. the most | with plenty of elbows to ward | the harder puncher of the two. | T | DOWN T | WITH W. O. .The Schmel i ; heavyweight champion of i M tions. agers, chased him to the dock. of the barnacles he has accumulat The escape of Schmeling lea very bad way indeed, for on his young Prussian vacated heavyweight champions! | But Herr Schmeling is not so muc! go with the title. He probably started figuring even if he did win the t before the battle of the ss than three million at Chi- Shomi' e Gene Tunney took a piece of slightly cago Mr. that moment, according to a decree of the New York State Boxing Commis- sion, his manager, Mr. Will Gibson, was entitled to 331-3 per cent. Mr. Boo Boo Hoff was claiming 25 per cent for services not specified, and Mr. Tim Mara claiming the same amount for no particular reason apparently, ex- cepting that it was very wrong for a prize fighter to retain a major per- centage in himself. There were other claims in amounts much smaller. After working out the arithmetic in the situation Mr. Tunney figured he probably would own a little some- thing out of the million that was to be his share of the fight at Chicago. Consequently Mr. Tunney proceeded o cancel some of the claims and to shave percentages from the others, so that he really left Chicago with a profit for himself very much to the disgust of some of the claimants. Jess Willard found himself in the same predicament after he won the heavyweight champlonship from Jack Johnson. He was not & person as | heavyweight chumpion, but the mem- | ber of & syndicate, owning only 25 per |cent of himself, which was & larger imwesc than Schmeling is supposed to | retain. Mr. Willard finally bought him- | sef back until he controlled a full own- |'ership, or at least a majority share of stock in himself. But it seems impossible for Herr Schmeling to do this, partly because of his lack of acumen and also be- cause the various boxing commis- sions interfere. The thing might be taken into the courts. but by the time it could be settled Herr Schmel- ing would be quite an aged gentle- man and not in line for the heavy- weight championship. Mr. James A. Farley insists that the manly art of modified murder is in a | very healthy state in New York. The | case of Schmeling hardly indicates that. | It_probably is very satisfactory to the politicians and to the various managers who are in good standing with the com- | mission, but if this is a sport, so are hijacking, blackjacking and other forms of larceny most inspiring and elevating sports. | " Schmeling, who is a fighter and not | 1d, a tinancier, has done all that could, be | asked in his trade, and is the outstand- | ing contender. but what Witli the chis elers and the boxing commission it loc though he were quite arred from contending. The Bottam Drops Out. ITH the departure of Schmeling the bottom seems to have dropped out of the caulifiower market. As a substi- |tute for the proposed Schmeling- | Sharkey bout the 600 millionaires of the Madison Square Garden Corporation are offering a bout between Thomas | Loughran, the nice young man from | Philadelphia, and Jack Sharkey (Culko- | schay), but there does not seem to be any rabid enthusiasm over this on the part of the customers. Even the most optimistic of the financiers in this industry are by this m | One is the ‘‘flatne: AX SIEGFRIED ADOLF OTTO SCHMELING, the potential Germany, having eluded the percentage men of many na- Process servers acting for some of his various man- Schmeling will return, probably not until he can scrape away some indicated that he could settle the problem of the hip in a very brief space of time. | the winning of the title it would do hi might become heavyweight champion an | after he paid off all the chiselers that have been traveling in his train. | paper and started a little figuring. At | effectively | HE LINE McGEZHAN ing Getaway. the world, is on his way back to There is no telling when Herr ed in the shape of percentage men. ves the cauliffower industry in a brief showing in this country the h interested in winning the heavy- weight championship unless he can gather some of the purses tha'.‘ and reached the conclusion that itle and some of the money that goes with | m no good financially. He d hold the title at a loss; counting on any million-doliar gate. This business reached its peak at Chicago. There never will be an advance ballyhoo like the one that preceded this one, and there never will be that sort of gate again. The 1ast “battle of the century,” involv- ing Gene Tunney and Tom Heeney, threw the promoters for a few hun- dred thousand dollars’ loss. Strange as it may seem, the next heavyweight champion, when we have one—if we ever have one—will not be able to collect a half-million-dollar guaranty before entering the ring. There is a revision of gates and guaranties downward. It may come to pass that some heavyweight champion of the future will be glad to get what James J. Corbett got for winning the heavy- weight championship—a matter of a mere $25000. Mr. Sullivan, who de- fended his championship unsuccessfully, got nothing at all. It is a healthy trend, at that. Per- haps if Max Schmeling were to get only a few thousand dollars a fight the per- | centage boys and the parasites that are clinging to him might diminish, Still, as to that you never can tell. Even small pieces of fighters might cause the ing carrion to gather. But there would be less ballyhoo and more fighting, and the boxing commissions would be less concerned. The Chances of Scott. OW that Schmeling has departed, after declining to fight Phil Scott, one of the visiting British heavy- weights, in spite of the insistence of the New York State Boxing Commission, | James J. Johnston, who has a large plece of Scott, will insist that the Ger- man was fearful of Philip. Mr. John- ston will b doing this with a stralgnt face. Mr. Scott, from what the English ex- | perts 1! 1ae, is not very highly regarded in Er uand. | If they thought over there that Philip had any chance of winning the heavyweight championship, there | would be some wild enthustasm. But I | gather that they feel that Philip has | about as much chance as Joe Beckett, | the horizontal one. You will recall that Philip made his debut in this country giving imi- tations of Joe Beckett. “Knute Han- sen hit him on the chin and they carried Philip to his corner, Then Mr. Hansen weut to London and of- fered Lo do 1t kgain 8l a very reason= able figure. This offer was declined by Scott and by all of the promoters in London. The customers there had become very weary of seeing British heavyweights reclining on the canvas. But it is inevitable that Philip will have to be eliminated all over again so that Mr. Johnston can collect his 33 1-3 per cent. Schmeling could have done this thing quite as rapidly as Hansen did, but he would have received only 2 per cent or thereabouts of his share for performing this perfunctory task. “Box fighting.” declared a relative of a highly successful pugilist some years | 2go, “is not a business.” That sort of ;tsx:; fighting would not be a business for chm odern idea THERE are two kinds of cigar‘*mildness' ss’’ (often [mistaken i for mildness) that frequentlycomesfrom | the use of insipid over-ripe tobacco. The other kind—the real mildness—hasflavor with it too. It can Bayuk ““Phillie” i UNDER-RIPE | smoking WASHINGTON TOBACCO O 917 E St. N.W., Washington, D.C. come only from the use, entirely, of true-tasting, nature- mellowed fully-ripe tobacco. s that kind of cigar. | —It's Ripe Tobacco!—All of it! It is genuinely mild. Bayuk guarantees it. 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As an added attraction Wilson has scheduled a contest at 11 o'clock be- tween the Yankees and Clovers, junior playgrounds champions and runners- up, respectively. The Cubs and White Sox, midget champions and runners- up, will play at 2 o'clock. Finals in the tennis tournament are scheduled for 4 o'clock. Silver loving cups and other trophies offered for the different competitions will be presented to the winners by City Manager Wallace Lawrence, Mansfield Hall Golf and Country Club of Fredericksburg, Va., won the Tri-State Golf Association title with 88 points in the series of team matches staged by the assoclation this Sum- mer. Winchester Golf Club of Winchester, Va., was second, with 7015, followed by the' Belle Haven Country Club of this city, 64; Blue Ridge Country Club of Martingburg, W. Va 13 Staunton Golf Club of Staunton, Va. 60%3: Eln‘toctln Country Club of Boyce, Va., V2. ‘The assoclation’s program will clo September 14 with a medal play tour (nament at the Winchester Golf Club. Virginia A. C. nine will idle Sunday out of respect for Leon Cornell, one of | its players, who died at the Alexandria | Hospital yesterday from injuries re- ceived in an automobile accident. Sergt. Lawrence Padgett has sched- uled the Alexandria Po'ice for a game here Saturday at Baggett's Park, with the police of Washington. Clover Midgets ated the Wash- ington Street Rovers, 9 to 7, yesterday. Cubs, midget playground champions, were humbled twice by the White . runners-up in a twin bill on Haydon Field yesterday. The count was 7 to 4 in each engagement. HARRY WILLS TO FIGHT. MEXICO CITY, August 20 (A).— | Harry Wills has been contracted to fight the Mexican heavyweight, Andres Castagos, in a 10-round bout at the | National Stadium here September 15. 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