Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1930, Page 27

SCOTT, SCHMELING JACK'S BEST FOES Wins Over English, German Heavies Would Assure Class Leadership. * BY WALTER TRUMBULL. NDER his contract with Madi- son Square Garden, New York, Jack Sharkey is called upon to fight any opponent who may be selected for him. This means noth- ing, if Sharkey doesn’t choose to fight. william F. Carey and Frank Bruen may say: “You will fight the opponent we select, or you won't anybody."” says, All right. I won't fight anybody,” it becomes a stale- mate, and there is no money for any- body in that. Money being an important item in fessional box- g some other ar- rangement is like- Jack Sharkey derstand. He has reached a place ‘where he is ‘within arm's length of the title. His aim is to become the recog- nized champion, not for the glory, but because as champion he could make much more money. Von Porat and. Tuffy Griffiths are the toughest-looking young heavy- weights on this side of the water, but Sharkey would be taking a chance in meeting either of them and the reward would not equal the.risk. If he beat them both, at this time, it still would not give him.the title. Jack’s Main Chance. But, if he beat Scott, champion of England, and then beat Schmeling, re- 18 no money in the title unless there is some contender to draw a gate. Sharkey, if he beat Schmeling, would have the winner of a Von Porat-Grif- fiths bout as an opponent. Perhaps he could manage to box both of them. ‘That would mean two good gates. So it may be that the Garden will be forced to put Scott, in whom Jimmy | Johnston has an interest, in against Sharkey, in whom Jimmy Johnston used to have an interest, at Miami. | What the Garden Is wondering | whether this bout would draw. It would not have to draw as wel! a8 did t'}!: Sharkey-Stribling bout at]Los Angeles, ach, because the Jarden ‘would not be under the same expense. In this there would be no guarantees. Both men would box on & percentage . It cost money to b Stdium, but foot ¢ things have been held in the arena, o it does not depend on one big | Ted Sandwina, Iowa, vs. Jack Ga; bout a season for its upkeep. Might Draw at Miami. may figure a great number of Winter visitors ida who are looking for entertain- and that a Sharkey-Scott fight draw much better there than it in New York. In fact, if the bout in New York, the best scheme to hold it in private for Box- Commissioners Farley and Muldoon, Florida, where the golfers and hermen have their evenings off, it even be le to get a $25 top, as was done for the Sharkey-Stribling affair. Scott has won a few too many bouts on fouls to endear him to the fight fans, but many of them might consider that it was worth money to see him socked on the jaw, and Shawkey has declared that he will not hit Philij below the neck. This may make it a bit awkward for Scott. About the only man- ner in which, under these conditions, he win on & foul, would be to stand on one leg and guard his chin with his er knee. Not English Style. ‘You must not think that Phil Scott is earrying out any English tradition in eclaiming fouls. Fitzsimmons and Wilde, two of the truly great, were not in the habit of claiming fouls. Neither were their opponents. It is very difficult to claim & foul when totally unconscious. In speaking of Von Porat, I may have been a little hasty concerning his fu- ture. He still has to get by Paulino Uzcudun, & very tough Basque. But it s doubtful whether Paulino is as tough as he was, and Von Porat appears to be constantly improving. If he trims Little Paul, Otto will command con- siderable attention. In that case, a 15-round bout between Von Porat and Griffiths would be next to a Sharkey-Schmeling bout es a ring attraction. It may be just as well for Griffiths that he is not meeting Sharkey in February. Tuffy is almost sure to be 8 better man in another year than he is today. And he is too good for a lot of his seniors now. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) o g? GONZAGA BASKETERS TO PLAY WEDNESDAY . Glonzaga’s basket ball team will open | its season Wednesday, entertaining | Business High's quint on the I street e ith group of clever performers at hand. the Pwple 1s looking to & suc- | cessful campaign. Leading candidates uint inelude Bob McVeen and Danny Payne, forwards; Irving Hol- brook, center, and Buddy Bussink and Jake Farrell, guards. Johnny Hestor, center; Tommy Nolan, forward, and Pred Brew, guard, are other aspirants ‘making strong bids for berths. e he as it now ‘Wednesday—Business, January 16—George Washington shmen. January 17—Devitt at Devitt. January 21—Business at Business. January 24—Georgetown Prep at Garrett Park. January 27—Eastern. January 28—Ben Pranklin. January 30—Strayer at Strayer. Pebruary 3—Georgetown Freshmen rgetown Prep. Pebruary 21—St. John's at St. John's. February 25—Western at Western. March 4—Strayer. March 14—8t. John’s. . ‘ 'The leading home-run hitting teams ‘of the major leagues during the 1929 igeason v ere, Phillies, 153; Yankees, 142; iCubs, 159; Glants, 136; Athletics, 122; Tigers, 110, and Cardinals, 100, » Firpo, Burke, Oakland, light d the Miami | Mickey Doland, Portland, v: and other|ity, St. Paul, lightweights, Apaches’ Team Spirit Helps in Grid Battle Team spirit similar to that de- veloped in college elevens more than anything else accounted for the win- ning of the District independent foot ball championship during the past season by the Apaches, according to their coach, Licut. Bob Lytell. This the mentor told his charges when they celebrated their victory at a banquet at the home of Sey- mour Hall, their business manager. In brief addresses, ex-college play- ers with the Apaches also comment- ed on the fine fellowship in the team and the splendid co-operation with them of the team's members, who came up from the sand lots. Among these speakers were Jerry Carroll and Moose Mosko, former Georgetown University stars. HEAVYWEIGHTS T0P WEEK'S RING CARD Von Porat and Uzqudun Meet Friday—Fields’ Title Is Safe in Two Bouts. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 6—Otto Von Porat’s 10-round encoun- ter with Paulino Uzcudun, Basque heavyweight, at Madi- son Square Garden Friday night heads the national boxing schedule for this week. Jackie Fields, welterweight champion, meets Alf Ros of Spain in a 10-rounder at the Philafelphia arena tonight and encounters Tony Vacarelli of New York at the Chicago stadium on Friday. His title will not be at stake in either bout. Other bouts on the national schedule include: ‘Tonight—At Philadelphia, Dany Kra- mer, Philadelphia, vs. Pete Zivic, Pitts- burgh, and Harry (Kid) Brown, Phila- delphia, vs. Gaston Lecadre, France, each 10 rounds; at New York, St. Nicholas Arena, Eugene Huat, France, vs. Archie Bell, Brooklyn, and Vidal Gregorio, Spain, vs. New York, all bantamweights, each 10 rounds; at Chicago, White City Arena, Haakon Hanson, Chicago, vs. Clyde Chastian, Dallas, Tex., middleweights, 8 rounds; at Louisville, Jimmy Byrne, Owensboro, Ky., vs. Harry Fay, New York, heavyweights, 10 rounds. Tuesday—At St. Louis, Eddie Shea, Chicago, vs. Fay Kosky, San Francisco, is | featherweights, and Martie Fields, Los Angeles, vs. Charley Lupica, Chicago, junior lightweights, each 10 rounds; at Cecil Payne, Louisville, vs. California, lightweights. Portland, ., Young Idaho, vs. Ray Pelky, heavyweights, 10 rounds; Don Dor- n_rounds. Goldie Hess, 10 rounds; at ‘Wednesday—At New York, ! on, Boston, and George Larocco, New York, vs. Andy Itchell, Long Beach, C: . all_heavyweights, each 10 rounds: at Oakland, Calif., Wesley Ketchell, Port- 1and, vs. Young George Dixon, Portland Negro, middleweights, 10 rounds; at Cincinnat, Vince Hambright vs. Tony Larose, both Cincinnati welterweights, 0 rounds. Priday—At New _York, Madison Square Garden, Marty ) ‘Washington, vs. Johnny Grosso, New York, and Phil Mercurlo, New York, vs. Fred Lonhart, Spokane, Wash,, all heavyweights, each 10 rounds; at Chi- cago Stadium, King Tut, Minneapolis, vs. Bruce Flowers, New Rochelle, Ne"lmy lightweights, and Benny Bass, Phila- delphia, vs. Danny Delmont, Chicago, junjor lightweights, each 10 rounds; at Omaha, Tommy Grogan, Omaha, vs. Joey Kaufman, New York, lightweights, 10 rounds; at Hollywood, Frankie Camp- bell, San PFrancisco, vs. Jack Beasley, Oakland, heavyweights, 10 rounds. A BASKET TILT CANCELED. LAUREL, Md., January 6.—A basket ball game scheduled here yesterday be- tween Headquarters Company, National Guard, and the Northern A. C. quint of Washington was canceled by the Wash- ington quint. Ohio Five’s Play Tricks Its Foes BY SOL METZGER. The fan can more quickly pick up the finesse of basket ball in watching out-of-bounds plays than in any other way. Here the players are really set for a moment. Watch those who have the ball. Note their moves. It's some job to insure that they will get the pass in from their out-of-bounds teammate. Here's an Ohio State out-of-bounds play that is traveling over the land like wildfire. No 1 has the ball out- of-bounds. Coach Olsen works two stunts. If No. 4's opponent is cover- ing him like a hawk, then No. 4 works this play. He drives for the basket, draws his opponent in ahead of him and then stops dead. Quick as a shot he gets the pass in and, as his opponent cannot get back in time to cover him, he steps back and has an easy attempt for basket with a chest shot. Next time it’s the proverbial dollars, to dough- nuts that No. 4's opponent will not drive in toward the basket s0 quick- ly. Result—No. 4 drives past him and has an easy one-hand push shot basket. for the mulu' iR he Foen (4 ny Stas. WITH SUNDAY MORKFING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1930. Sammy Tisch, | wrif Central, Eaétern, Tech, Business In Title Basket Tilts Tomorrow “Of course, each team practices before the game, but that is hardly a drop in the bucket. It takes that long to even slightly get used to the condition of the floor, the lighting, the baskets sus- pended from the ceiling, the background of spectators’ faces, etc. Tech didn't do so well the last part of the season last year if I recall correctly. Eastern gave them a_real battle and Central beat them. Might this not be due to the teams getting more accustomed to the playing conditions at the Tech 2 “I've never seen any mention in the papers about such a situation and don’t believe that I ever will. I have heard the subject mentioned many times, and not only at Central, either. Coaches and players at the other schools are certainly not going to bring up the sub- ject, for obvious sportsmanship reasons. “Do you know whether Tech has vol- unteered the use of its gym occasion- ally to the other schools for practice? Why shouldn’t they do so? Central always has its foot ball practices cut short by the foot ball games in the stadium, and track and base ball are hampered by cadets from the other schools practicing battalion and regi- mental reviews in the stadium. Maybe Tech has volunteered and the other schools declined, but, anyhow, I'd like to know. Maybe others are thinking along the same line. “How about a square deal as to the bask>t ball conditions? This sifuation is just another argument for a munici- pal athletic center, a neutral site for athletic contest of all sorts for the high schools and others in Washington. “No matter how you figure, it looks to me as if the two teams are equal in ability, whether large or small. Tech will win the majority of games when playing in its own gym.” 1In addition to the public high school court games tomorrow, four contests involving schoolboy teams of the Dis- trict area are listed. Western and Georgetown University Freshmen are to meet in perhaps the most attractive. It will be a prelim!- nary to the Hoya Varsity-Wake Forest contest to be played at night in the Tech High gym. Wwdlvulll‘fl and Landon will face in the Epiphany gym, Strayer and the Fredericksburg Collegians will mix, and ‘Woodward Juniors and Rockville High are to face at the Central Y. M. C. A. in other matches. Eastern and Potomac Boat Club quints were to meet this afternoon in the Eastern gym in the lone court game involving a scholastic quint of the Dis- trict group. Western High is planning a come- back in track. For several years the Red and White has not been a real factor in the cin- der-path sport. Dan Ahern, Western director of ath- letics, will replace CIiff Moore as coach of the track squad this season and plans to give as much attention as possible to track along with Spring foot ball prac- time, which he also will direct. Moore, who formerly coached track, will tutor the base ball squad in place of Ahern. BY EDWARD A. FULLER, Jr. ENTRAL, Eastern, Tech and Business quints were polishing today for opening games to- morrow in the public high school basket ball championship series in the Tech gym. Central and Eastern will mest in the opening game at 3:30 o'clock. Western is to make its series debut Friday clashing with Eastern. Al signs point to one of the best se- ries in a long time. Every one of the five teams appears to have a real chance to land the crown. Tech, the defending champlon, epparently is in for the hardest kind of a fight to retain its championship. Every one of the teams has shown unquestioned power in pre- series games. In their two contests last season Central and Eastern broke even, The Lincoln Parkers won the first game, 31 to 19, but Central came back to triumph in the second, 23 to 22. Tech downed Business twice, but only after bitter struggles, the scores being 18 to 17 and 33 to 29. Neither Bert Coggins nor Charley (Chief) Guyon, Central and Eastern coaches, respectively, were certain to- day of their starting line-ups tomorrow. Lynn Woodworth and Artie Boyd, Business and Tech coaches, however, had ebout determined how they would put their hopefuls on the floor at the start., Business’ team at the beginning of the game will include the combination which it has been using regularly com- prising Capt. Natie Newman and Bobby Lucas, forwards; Spencer Chase, cen- ter, and Milton Singman and Pete Loftus, guards. Talburtt and Lassise, forwards; Mal Johns, center, and Capt. Carl MacCartce and Wilson, guards, are likely Tech starters. This writer's choice of Tech to win the public high title has elicited an in- teresting letter from Howard C. of Battelle Memorial Institute, Colum. bus, Ohio, & brother of Wilbur Cross, captain of the Central team. He says that he neither agrees nor disagrees with us in picking Tech, though he is inclined to agree. 2 It is Cross’ opinion that the team has a “huge” advantage in ing its title games on its which it practices daily. Continuing in this connection Cross ites: “As a student of sports and basket ball, you will surely admit that in none of the other inter high sports, ex- cepting possibly rifie and tennis, is the. factor of lighting,, size, background of the baskets and general environment of the site of the game so important as in basket ball. I've never played bas- ket ball very much, but I know the tremendous advantage of designing and practicing plays on the court on which play is made, and how much a different size of court can throw a team off on carefully planned plays. I can see the dvantage of practicing daily, shooting baskets under the exact conditions un- der which the high schools supposedly fight for the title on an equal basis, Interest in Ring Business Shrivels as He Awaits lllinois Summons. By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, January 6.—The only interest Charles Arthur (the Great) Shires had’in the box- ing business today was to clear himself of charges of having partici- pated in a faked fight and attempting to fix another. ‘The great one, with a yearning to sign a contract to play first base for the ‘White Sox and withdraw from boxing, awaited a summons from the Illinois State Athletic Com- mission to give an explanation of charges that Dan- gerous Dan Daly of Cleveland had “taken a dive” for him in Shires’ first professional fight at the White City arena December 9. Already under the ban of the Michi- gan Boxing Com- mission and the National Boxing Association, pend- ing investigation of a charge that a representative o f his had attempted to fix his scheduled engagement with one Battling Criss, at Detroit last week, the great one’s misery was increased by a claim purported to have been made by Daly that the latter had taken a dive. The latter charge was made by Daly, according to an interview printed in the Ohio State Journal of Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. Daly, the story said, had “gone into the tank” for Shires because he feared being “taken for a ride” if he | failed to yield to a request made by a Shires representative. Promoter Jim Mullen, Shires and Ed- die Meade of Cleveland, who brought Daly to Chicago for the fight, all vigor- ously. denied knowing any thing about attempts to fix the bout. Mullen said he would not have matched Shires with George Trafton if he had been arranging diving acts for the base ball player-boxer. He pointed out that the beating Trafton gave Shires in the latter's second fight hardly helped the great one’s reputation, or enhanced his value as a drawing card. Meade denied knowledge of Daly’s charge, saying it was his impression Art Shires, silly in the first round of the bout and probably was looking for advertis- ing if he made such a charge. Meade sald he was asked to bring a “ham” to as an opponent for Shires and selected Daly, or Gerry (the latter being his real name), because of his inexperience. ‘Shires agreed that Dal} had taken a dive, but insisted it was not voluntary, h:vtn been induced by a stout right to the_chin. “I never imagined I'd be willing to fight again for nothing,” Shires said, “put if I ever meet Daly or Gerry or whatever his name is, I'll slap him down without mercy and there won't be any admission charge.” Maj. Gen. John J. Clinnin, chairman of the Illinois State Athletic Commis- sion, indicated life volved in PEOVeR TS | i that he had been legifimately knocked | da; Militia Faces D. YATTSVILLE, Md, January 6. —Company F, Maryland Na- tional Guard, basketers will en- gage Calvary Methodist Church tossers of Washington on the armory floor tonight in the feature attraction of a double-header. In the first game Berwyn A. C. and Hyattsville Southern s Methodist will clash in a postponed Prince Georges County League game, starting at 7:30 o'clock. After tonight only one more league tween Berwyn and Dixie Pig A. C., re- mains to be played in the first half series. This game is scheduled for Thursday night in the armory. Should Berwyn, which has been showing strongly in recent games after a mediocre start, win both these con- tests it will achieve a second-place tie with the Company F and Dor-A quints, each with five wins and two defeats. Dor-A gained its second-place tie yesterday, when it took the measure of the last-place Maryland Collegians, 17 to 9. It was the seventh defeat in as many starts for the Collegians. In another game, outside .of the league, Company F drubbed the Union Printers of Washington, 65 to 22. Basket LEXANDRIA, Va, January 6.— With the Christmas holidays over, local basket ball teams will swing into action in earnest fashion this week, Del Ray A. C., St. Mary's_Celtics, Knight's Store fives and the Whitestone's Store quint have full schedules, while Saturday will bring the return of the scholastic cage stars to the court with Alexandria and Episcopal High Schools listed for lo- cal games. ‘Twelve contests will be played by the independent teams in addition to the two schoolboy clashes. Knight's Store Five and Del Ray will each get into action three times during the week. ‘Whitestone’s will play four frays while the Celtics are down on the ledger for two. Del Ray swings into its schedule to- night when it goes to Fort Myer, Va., for a game with the Headquarters Bat- tery at 8 o'clock. Union Printers will be met in the Langley Junior High' School gymnasium at Washington to- morrow_night and the Trinity M. E. five at Eastern, in Washington, Thurs- y. Other games this week and next are sought by Manager Ted Miller, who may be telephoned at Alexandria 726, tween 9 am. and 5 pm. Whitestone's Store will also play to- night, facing Fort Washington post team at Fort Washington, Md. To- morrow night the locals will entertain the Calvary Reds of Washington in the Armory Hall, while Wednesday night the St. Martin's A. C. of Washington will come to the Armory for a game. ‘Takoma Park Fire Department will entertain the Whitestone five at Takoma Park, Md.,, Friday night. Knight's Store will tackle the Robert LeBruce De Molay Chapter in the Lang- ley Junior High School gymnasium at Washington tomorrow night, the Wash- mmun&mmemurymnm are m m‘mmmm.e ing game, another postponed match, be- |Fompany THREE UNDEFEATED IN 3-CUSHION PLAY Two Records Set as Layton Averages 2 4-23 to Run Out in 23 Innings. By the Associated Press. _ Y EW YORK, January 6.—The na- tional three-cushion billiards championship tournament has developed into a three-cornered battle among Johnny Layton and Allan Hall of St. Louis and Otto Reiselt, Philadelphia veteran. Alone of the field of eight these three have been able to keep their records unmarred by defeat. Layton, the defending champion, and Reiselt, a. former title holder, each has won three games. Hall has won the only two starts he has made. Yesterday Layton defeated Charles Jordan of Los Angeles, 50 to 22, in 23 innings. The number of innings, 23, was the smallest in the championship's history and Layton’s average of 2 4-23 also set a new mark. Reiselt beat Harry Schuler of New York, 50 to 36, in 49 innings and Hall downed Tiff Denton of Kansas City, 50 to 24 in 38 innings. Augie Kiekhefer of Chicago beat Gus Copulos of Detroit, 50 to 16 in 33 innings. Today’s matches are: Layton va. Kieckhefer, Hall vs. Schuler, Copulos vs. Jordan, Reiselt vs. Denton. BRUINS BOOST LEAD IN HOCKEY LEAGUE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 6.—With the exception of the Boston Bruins, the Na- tional Hockey le_race has been growing tighter. e Bruins last week set a new league record for consecutive victories, 12. ago dropped out of second place and'a winning streak left Detroit just | Wh three points hind cm“? New York’s Rangers took second by getting an even break for the week. The International group leaders, fighting losing battles, remained almost on _even terms. The standing, including last night's games, follows: sot] suEER § onune? s2838 gegaad orara C. Basketers In Hyattsville Tilt Tonight Brentwood Hawks continue to lead the county league, having a one-game margin over second-place teams. They have won six games and have been charged with one defeat for failure to put a full team-on the floor at game time for an engagement with Mount Rainier A. C. last Thursday night. The Hawks, however, have filed a protest against being charged with the defeat. ‘I;hemmug:.rrdwflolfbe aired at a ':lnnnnnl of e m)‘ugm ‘Wednesda, night. Y League Tean: Standing. yn Al Dixie Pig A Hyattsville Methodists.. Mount Rainier A. C. Maryland Collegian: e Bowlers representing the PFirst Baptist Church of Hyattsville finished sixth among 18 teams in the first series of the Washington Baptist Young Peoples Union Bowling League. W. L. Eaton, with an average of 101, was the team leader. Other members of the team are Henry Nau, Stanley Crosthwaite, Billy Crawford and Jack Harrington. Company F basketers have booked a game with the Army Medical School quint of Washington for Thursday night on the armory floor. Quints in Alexandria Are Facing a Busy Season ‘The St. Mary's Celtics will play both of their contests in the State capital. Richmond Blues will entertain the Green and Gold Saturday night and the Richmond Jewish Community Cen- ter will be the locals’ host on Sunday afternoon. \ ‘Woodward School will play Alexan- dria High here Saturday night at the Armory, while Episcopal and Swavely School of Manassas will battle in the other high school contest here Satur- dl-y afterncon at Episcopal's gymna- sium. HYATTSVILLE GUARD RIFLEMEN TO DRILL HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 6.— Riflemen of Company F, Maryland Na- tional Guard, will begin practice Tues- day for the indoor small-bore season under the direction of Sergt. F. M. Richard and Pvt. Arthur P. Shanklin. Last Winter the Com F shots with a 15-man team won le hon- :{tllam Maryland National Guard compe- n. After Tuesday they =elm to practice at least once each week on the indoor range in the armory and expect later to arrange matches with other combina- tions in the Maryland Guard and the District of Columbia Guard. Ensign William E. Howard, jr., son of Mr. and Nrs. Wililam E. Howard of Hyattsville, former Naval Academy and ‘Washington Central High School tennis and basket ball mainstay, has_sailed with the Atlantic Fleet for Winter maneuvers in southern waters. He spent the holidays with his parents here. g ‘The Portland club of the Pacific Coast | Nev. includ- “Beava League has several ‘Ducks,” “Rosebuds,” Sharkey Would Box National Titlists : Jack White Swamped With Challenges FREDDY e W: at the Coliseum. DOWN-THE LINE WITH W. O. There’s Nothing New. HERE is nothing new under the sun—which quotation itself is far from new. Reading William Hazlitt's essay, “The Fight,” once more, because this time it comes to me with an introduction by Mr. Robert H. Davis, the Boswell and & constant admirer of Ruby Robert Fitz- simmons, I note that the experts of Hazlitt's time—particularly the fight experts—were quite as prejudiced as the experts of the latter day and quite as prone to go wrong. On the bout between Bill Neate and the Gasman, Hazlitt writes: “Tguly the Fancy are not men of imagination. They judge of what has been and cannot conceive of anything that is to be. The Gasman had won hitherto, therefore, he must beat a man_ half as big again as himse and that to a certainty. Besides there are as many feuds, factions, prejudices, pedantic notions in the Fancy as in the State or in the schools. ‘This certainly applied to the ex- Enln‘ in advance of the first bout tween Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey. The modern gentlemen of the Fancy who expressed opinions in advance of the Battle of the Ses- quicentennial certainly were divided into warring camps, and at times the truculent partisans all but came to blows. ‘There were first the pro-Dempsey men, who could see nothing but an unconquerable here in the Manassa man Mauler. there were. the pro- ‘Tunney men, who saw in Tunney an- other Galahad, a Lindbergh, a radiant son of destiny. 'There were the anti- Siinite Defapies's fghting apily, but esf mpsey’s ting y, but disliked him because he aside Kearns. There were the anti-Tunney men, who hated Tunney because he fessed to reading a book, or because they felt that he was “high hat” and felt himself superior to “the boys.” It was hard to get anything remote- ly resembling logic out of the expert- ing in advance of that first Tunney- Dempsey fight. The gentlemen of the Fancy were divided into warring camps. ‘Those who may have picked Dempsey without absolute prejudice saw the Man Mauler as they saw him against Willard at Toledo, in 1919, when he was at his pe: I recall listening to two violent pro- Dempsey men just . before the bout. One of them screamed: “So you think ‘Tunney will win! Why, I don't think they’ll be able;to get him into the ring | j with Jack. Remember, he can’t take any golf clubs into the ring with him. Remember, 1 can't Tead any books in This wes In resentment of the fact that Tunney played golf—not well, but' {frequently. Also it was an lnd!clflol? of the m;ntment of inney's alleged “highbrow” pro- clivities. ‘The other pro-Dempsey expert was hysterical to the point of incoherence. “It will'be murder,” gasp. o inion of Mr. MOORE, McGEEHAN at the time of ‘the ancient bout between Bill Neate and the Gasman, “They (the experts, or the Gentlemen of the Fancy) judge of what has been and cannot conceive of anything that is to ‘There were something like 400 ex- perts of all sorts writing in advance of this bout, which was arranged with the Features and Classified PAGE C—1 PAPPAS HOT AFTER 'ROSENBERG'S TEAM Friend Adds Punch to Great Show—Tourney Winners Await Star Prizes. BY R. D. THOMAS. HALLENGES sputtered like ma- chine-gun bullets today as & result of last week’s wild bowl- ing battles. Johnny Pappas, a dormant volcano for the last season or two, is in erup= tion again. He had an argument with Max Rosenberg which likely will bring together Maxie’s Northeast Temple team and a select line-up captained by Pappas. The Recreation Five of Baltimore wants & shot at the Connecticut All- Stars. John Blick has challenged Jack White of New Haven on behalf of Jack ‘Whalen. Ray Von Dreele of Baltimore hungers for battle with the flashy New Eng- lander. . Admirers of Georgie Friend want to support him against any bowler intrepid enough to meet him. Rosenberg gave Pappas a Shires low- down on the Northeast Temple team, it appears, and Johnny up and rebuked his lack of modesty. o “I can get a team to knock you off,” sald Pappas, or something like it, and Max defied him to do so.” ‘White Is Willing. White = tentatively accepted Blick’s proposition, which called for five games in Atlanta, where Whalen is assistant manager of a Blick bowhni enterprise, and five games here. Blick and some others believe Whalen is the best duck- pin shooter extant. Von Dx;elele probably is the most sen- 1. end 1s an implacable and merciless competitor and technically brilliant. Georgie almost stole the show when the Connecticut All-Stars and Grand Palace Valet bowlers clashed at the Cous;um, b:lthnuuh hle ‘:xever Was rece koned to a part of it. Three times in one day he defeated White, the colorful performer in whom interest was centered. Mainly because of the presence of White in the New land line-up the match attracted more attention than any intercity event ever held in Washington. Friend His Nemesis. Twice Saturday afternoon at the Col- iceum Friend took White's measure, once on total pins for three games and then on a two-out-of-three game basis. Later, between the doubles and teams matches of the regularly scheduled meet, he repeated the dose. an impromptu part of the program, but it added a big kick to the show. ‘To cap it off Friend supplied the punch that won the team -mateh for Washington. Inserted at the start of the fourth game he shot 129 and then 156, a total of 285 for two games. ‘Washington might have won without notion that Mr. Jeffries would beat “the Big Smoke” and b back the cham- pionship to the white race. They came to this one from points as far apart as England and Australia. ‘The 400 experts came to Nevada ‘weeks in advance and peered intently at both athletes in their training. Some of them had been watching the two same gladiators for weeks pre- vious while they were doing some preliminary work in California. Some of these Gentlemen of_the Fancy were men who had seen Tnany fight- ers; others were experts on condi- tion, and others were literary men, or what are somewhat humorously They wa , they argued, they studied and they experted for nearly a month. The consensus on the eve of the bout was that Jeffrles was in won- derful shape and that the Negro would privat ‘Tex Ricl ‘whose word counted with the modern gentlemen of the Fancy. Pressed for an opinion by Mr. Grant- land Rice and m{:;e! Rickard said: “Confidentially, I that. Jack lets e:“ol h::n 80 & few mund:.p‘bec:hlue there 80 nice people ere, and nteemph!anobnhwm. "‘A“l‘.lhs': ‘all, the experting in ing advance of the first Tunney-Dempsey fight was entirely partisan, consequently, as it turned out afterward, did not amount to much. yast majority of those at the Battle of the Sesquicente: were utterly bewildered by pened. } gentlemen of the Fancy had been positive that it took a return mateh to really convince them that Tunney could beat Dempsey any time they miet. Dempsey himself was fairly weu* convinced at the first meeting. 3 The Latter-Day Experts. TBI experting in advance of the Johnson-Jeffries fight’ at Reno, was_ahother testimonial to the | of the Silver Spriny night at have no chance t him. There ‘were only about four dissenters, and the strongest dissenter was Tad Dorgan. ‘The next day the entire 400 were writing that “James J. Jeffries, & hol- | W: low shell of his former self, went down to defeat, hopelessly outclassed from the start.” “None So Blind—" MONG the experts at the Johnson- Jeffries flght was Oakland Eddie Smith, a referee and s writer. He had refereed some of the most impor- tant bouts of his time, and he had seen :L.lutha great fighters of his day in on. From the start he could see nothing but Jeffries. Finally Tom Corbett, the betting commissioner, tried to make him see something of Johnson. Tom was & brother of James J. and not as great a fighter, naturally, but a better judge of fighters, One day Tom Corbett went with Eddie Smith, first to the Jeffries camp, where the champion of the Nongu and the near-Nordics was ing through his work in a per- unctory fashion. Then they went to the Johnson camp and saw John- son going tI h his paces. Suddenly Corbett sald to the best qualified of the experts, who was Eddie Smith, “I don't want to influence any- body’s judgment. But I can’t see where you can be so sure that Jeffries can win. - You saw him a few hours ago and he seemed a little m'y Now.you see this magnificent athlete, and you still say that Jeffries is a certainty. Look at again. n that Johnson looks fine,” ad- ted Smith, “but I have seen Jeffries so often that I can't picture the Big Fellow on his back ever.” He could not, as Hazlitt says, “con- ceive of anything that is to be.” No dyed-in-the-wool expert ever can. (Copyright, 1929.) MANY J. C. C. FIVES ACTIVE ON SUNDAY Jewish Community Center courtmen drybbed the Peerless quint, 47 to 14, in the':nlnn.moolturdolflvumm center gym. In other contests Vistas defeated Evergreens, 26 to 14; Moseans downed Beta Phi Epsilons, 29 to 13, and Am- bassadors trounced Boy Scouts, 27 to 5, in league engagements, while the cen- ter girls opened their campaign by swamping Hoffman Buddies, 21 to 2. Boys' Club Optimists were returned a 44-t0-39 winner over Fort Humphreys quint at the fort. National Circles are after a game tonight at the Bolling Fleld gym. Call Andrews at Lincoln 9892. him, this previously announced sub, but there is lots of room for doubt, reckon=- ing in the moral effect he had on the team. ‘As one mulls over the unusual affair at the Colliseum another interesting angle protrudes, _This was the fighting irit shown by Rosenberg in the dou- bles. oln‘e :l!z ',hefll:ikew En.m;lnd roomm t on Maxie’s neck, as y 3 :loso got under his hide, vmh“inbed observations. Enemy Is Silenced. Rosenberg talked back, verbally and otherwise. He answered almost every wise crack with a strike or spare. By the time Max and his partner, Paul Harrison, had totalled 805 for the first three games of the doubles, probably to establish a ;.ecord. the Connecticut man was silences “I guess the good book is against me,” he said, and signed off. ‘When George Isemann, secretary of the National Duck Pin Bowling Con- gress, has completed his review of the n-Connecticut series he prob- ably will have found several records. Harrison’s 714 at Hartford was the highest five-game set ever rolled in in- tercity competition and when he added 633 here probably established & record for ten games with a total of 1,347, Earle Stocking, Arville Ebersole and Rena Levy, who handled practically all the details in the conduct of The Wash- ington Star’s tournament at Convention Hall, breathed freely today for the first time in more than a week. They did a big job and no bowling event ever was handled better. Ebersole, secretary of the Washington City Duckpin Asso- ciation, said today he had less trouble with the big tournament than any he had been associated with before. When and where prizes wlil be presented will be announced in a day or two, ST. STEPHEN'S QUINT IN TITLE RUNNING These St. Stephen's boys are versatile and capable, too. Today the Saints after winning the Capital City League senior class foot ball title the past Fall appear to be headed for basket ball honors. They conquered the strong St. Martin’s quint yesterday to snap a win- ning streak of the latter’s, which had extended to 13 straight. A long shot by Genovese from mid- gflrn ezrénbled St. Stephen’s to triumph, Knight's Store tossers of Alexandria gave the Skinker Eagles little opposi- tion, as the Birds won a 43-24 game in the Silver Spring Armory. Ralph Ben- nie and Joe Sweeney did the bulk of the winner’s scoring. In a preliminary, French A. C. defeated Takoma Park Firemen, 28 to 11. Phoenix A. C., 28-to-14 victor over National Press g Cardinals, will face Woodlawn A. C. Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock in the gym at Fort Myer. ‘W. H. West Co. basketers will open their campaign tonight, engaging St. m'l in the Central High gym at 8 Candidates for the 145-pound class basket ball team, which will represent King's Palace are to report at 8 o'clock. tonight at 1346 D street northeast. GEORGIA TO HAVE HOST OF GRID VETS IN 1930 By the Assoclated Press. Gamés are being sought by the Tre- mtwunnmlm quint at Columbia Stewart Photographers have the use S S e oy bools: an unlimited foe, Doo Hess- Sy Georgla’s foot ball prospects for 1930 are the best in a dec:de