Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1931, Page 11

SPORTS. . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1 _ oseoxns. oo rymwive SR WaSHMNOTON. D G NONDAY JawARY o e troxrs AW ' Strib and Max Need Powerful Ballyhoo : Pennants Elude Hardest-Hitting Clubs Troubles of Golf BOTH LOOKED BAD THREERAIL STARS || THE SPORTLIGHT | THRD IN BATTING AGAINST SHARKEY Return of Million-Dollar Gate Likely if Plans of Pro- moters Click. BY SPARROW McGANN. EW YORK, January 19.— The value of the ballyhoor in stimulating the boxing ' business was never more | evident than in the events of this week. High pressure tactics were used to create interest in a heavy- weight titular contest and if the carefully laid plans do not go awry, the return of the million- dollar gate is assured. No other conclusion can be drawn from the sidetracking of Jack Sharkey and the matching of young Stribling and Max Schmeling to fight in Chicago next Summer. The writer regards Sharkey as the American_heavyweight champion. Jack holds a_decision over Young Stribling. The latter's work has been more spec- tacular than the Bostonian’s, but this does not wipe out the defeat the Geor- gian suffered at Miami Sharkey is now out in the cold, but no matter who wins at Chicago, | Schmeling or Stribling, the suspicion | will still exist that Sharkey is the best man. o How It Sizes Up. Here is the speétacle: Schmeling, who won_the world title while reclining on the floor, after taking a masterly | boxxn{ul:ason for three rounds, will de-| fend title against 8 man who was| outpointed by the fighter who struck | the German a low blow. The winner | is to meet Primo Carnera, whose status as & top-notch fighter is dubious. What do you make out of it? The an- swer is that Max Schmeling has tasted the leather Jack Sharkey hands out and rather than taste it again he is| willing to take a chance against Strib- ling, & man he knows little or nothing | about, as far as his style of fighting is | concerned. 1f Schmeling does not want any part of Sharkey, then Young Stribling is the | logical choice to try conclusions with the champion. Strib is only a wee bit behind Sharkey in ability and the re- sult will be the same—the return of the s. e h‘t‘:'ne mgsttfi;lgslnd‘sbehmm 3 Tres more open than Sharkey and will either fold | up or hang on if hit solidly. It goes| without contradiction that Stribling| hits harder than Sharkey, but the | Southerner is not as good a ring gen- eral. This is likely to have an impor- | ';.l;‘t' bearing on the outcome of the . | Stribling a Trickster. has been inactive since His idleness would count against him against a heady boxer. His punching power is en- hanced against a slugging fighter and that is why Stribling was chosen. There is one thing Mr. Jacobs overlooked in his calculations—the smartness of the Georgian in the clinches. Schmel- ing is not much in close and if Strib- ling gets inside, wraps one arm around him and mfi:ame hipbone while push- ing against shoulder with the other hand, Herr Max's strength will grad- ually’ fade away. Then, again, one | must watch Strib carefully to note that | does not aim for the jaw. Strib loops his punches to land at the base of the brain, and if he hits Schmeling s few times with his looping punch he will score a knockout before many rounds have passed. Stribling may not | move around with the speed and gen- eralship of Sharkey, but he knows far mfi and \IS‘H bt&\em. - e eagerness of h men to fight Primo Carnera three months after the Chicago bout is a tipoff on the big fellow from sunny Italy. Ace Clark, Bombo Chevalier, Jimmy Maloney and Paolino Uzcudun showed him in his true colors and the great Venetian will be but & memory after his 1931 campaign. The winner of the two contests will have trouble T-inlnt national recogni- tion. Pennsylvania has never recog- nized Schmeling as champion. Cali- fornia will have nothing to ‘do with Carnera. Massachusetts will line up with New York in resenting the shunt- ing aside of Sharkey, and as Schmel- | ing, Stribling and Carnera are barred | in this State, they will have to ply their trade in States governed by the National Boxing Assoclation. ST A BLACKHAWK STREAK STRETCHED TO FIVE | Chicago Hockey Team Wins Three Games in Week to Close in on | Leading Bruins. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 19.—The Chica- | g0 Blackhawks furnished most of the thrills for National Hockey League fol- Jowers last week. They won three | straight games to carry their latest winning streak to five in & row and now | are only one point behind the league- | leading Boston Bruins. ‘There were few important changes in the Canadian division. Les Canadiens | of Montreal, division leaders, picked up 8 few points as they beat Philadelphia and the Maroons in succession, but lost some of them Saturday when they went down before the Toronto Maple Leafs, 1. There are no games scheduled for to- e standings: American Division. By the Associated Press. St. Petersburg, Fla. BASE BALL IS NOT HI§ ONLY SPORT ERNEST BARNARD, President of the American League, gets recreation from his duties as an executive of the national pastime by pitching horseshoes during his Winter sojourn at —Wide World Photo. BERG MEETS HESS INBOXING FEATURE Engl'ish Star Opens New U. S. | Campaign at Chicago. The Week’s Card. EW YORK, January 19.—Jack (Kid) Berg, great English light- welght, has picked Chicago as | the starting spot for his latest | American. campaign. The Whitechapel Whirlwind, holder | of the somewhat synthetic junior light- weight title and an outstanding con- | tender of the lightweight championship as well, is matched with Goldie Hess | of Los Angeles in the 10-round feature bout of the Chicago Stadium’s show | Priday night. On the same card Bat | Battalino of Hartford, Conn, world | featherweight champion, meets one of | the leading contenders for the title— Eddie Shea of Chicago—in an over- weight affair, in which the 126-pound crown will not be at stake. Ernie Schaaf, Boston heavyweight who outpointed Max Baer, highly touted California youngster, in his last start, | returns to Madison Square Garden on | Priday night in a 10-round bout with | James J. Braddock of Jersey City, for- mer light-heavyweight contender and now a full-grown heavyweight. The Week’s Battles. | Larry Johnson, Chicago Negro heavy- | weight, takes on Paul Cavalier of Nsw York in the 10-reund semi-final. Here's the full card for the week: Tonight—At Chicago, White City Arens, Haakon Hansen, Chicago, vs.| Joe Sharkey, Michigan, middleweights, and Harry Dillon, Winnipeg, vs. Al Wil- kins, Michigan, light-heavyweights each, 8; at Oakland, Calif., Speedy Dado, M nila, vs. Jackie Evans, Kansas City, fiy~ weights, 10. Tuesday—At San Jose, Calif, Bobby Vincent, Tulsa, Okla. vs. Al Nelson, San Diego, welterweights, 10; at Los Angeles, Andy Divodi, New York, vs. Sammy Jackson, Los Angeles Negro, welterweights, 10; at Portland, Oreg., Charlie Belanger, Winnipeg, vs. Leo Lomski, Aberdeen, Wash., light-heavy- | weights, 10;at Indianapolis, Tracy Cox, Indianapolis, vs. Midget Mike O’Dowd Columbus, Ohio, featherweights, 10 Palm Beach, Fla, Jackie Purvis, In- dianapolis, vs. Relampago Saguero, Cuba, welterweights, 10. Friday—At New York, Madison Square Garden, Nick Testo, Troy, N. Y., vs. Vit- | torio Livan, Italy, middleweights, 10, and Tony Galento, Newark, N. J., Vvs. Freddie Wine, heavyweights, 6; at San Francisco, Chick Devlin, San Francisco, vs. Gorilla Jones, Akron, Ohio, Negro, middleweights, 10. JOHNNY MIMICS SEA LION Weissmuller ~ Entertains With | Speed and Antics in Pool Several hundred persons, including a 53 | number of Washington’s leading swil HOPLITES IN LEAD TIE Share Tri-City Top With De Molay After Surprising Win. LAUREL, Md., January 19.—As the pesult of their surprising 35-to-17 vic- tory over De Molay of Washington yes- terday, Ellicott City Hoplites now are tied with that quint for the lead in the “Tri-City Basket Ball League. Each team Headquarters Company, National Guard, of Laurel. It was announced today by league offi- cials that Heaquarters Company Re- serves have taken over the loop fran- mers, assembled yesterday at the Ven tian pool of the Shoreham Hotel to witness the special aquatic exhibition staged by Johnny Weissmuller, said to time. breathless but didn’t even champion, Proving that he is a comedian as well as a swimmer, Weissmuller played as many antics as a high school boy, diving through life preservers and per- forming swimming stunts. wind the A. A. U. LEADERS MEET Basket Ball Parley Will Precede Managers’ Session Tonight. A meeting of the board of managers of the District Amateur Athletic Union will be held tonight at the office of be the greatest speed swimmer of all| | Performing with the grace and speed | of a sea lfon, Johnny swam a hundred | yard: st a pace that left spectators | Bucs Will Train On Way to Camp By the Assoclated Press. ITTSBURGH, January 19.—Even the train stops are to be utilized by Jewel Ens this Spring in lim- bering up his Pittsburgh Pirates. Old-fashioned gymnastics are to play am important part in the train- ing program, and the work will start even before the boys reach their camp in Paso Robles, Calif. Every time the engine stops for water or coal the boys will'be hustled out of the cars and put through their stuff, Ens says. = HOLUBAN IS STARRED IN WRESTLING SHOW 240-Pound Hungarian Matched With Vakturoff in Feature of Five-Bout Card Tomorrow. Ference Holuban, Hungarian giant, will be the chief center of interest in tomorrow night's wrestling show at the Washington Auditorium. Ference, 240 pounds in weight, has quite a following, notwithstanding the fact his chief claim to fame thus far has been that he cavorted before the largest crowd ever assembled for a mat show—20,000—and was set down by Champ Jim Londos. Holuban, clash- ing here tomorrow with Ivan Vakturoff, Russian, is being groomed as a possible successor to Londos, ’tis said. Carl Pojello, popular in Baltimore, which appears to have gone in big for rasslin’, will tangle with George Hill in the semi-final of the five-bout card. Tiny Roebuck, well known to local fans. will oppose George Barnes; George Hagen will grapple Paul Pinsky, and Abe Kaplan will take on Bull Ko- mar in the other bouts. Basket Ball Tips “Variety, variety, nothing but va- riety,” is the way one basket ball fan described this game.to me. That's the secret of Chicago's attack. Most of its plays look alike at the start. Then they break so differently that it takes some canny guessing to know which player s to drive, in with the ball for the shot. - Take the one shown here. No. 4 and No. 5 play as in the play shown yesterday, in order that No. 4, left guard, may dribble for the basket. But this time he's going to have position. So another stunt has to worked. It's done by the Chicago center. No. 3 driving in and legally block- ing the guard of the right forward, No. 2, so that No. 2 may swing out from his cofner as in the diagram and get a pass from No. 4. No. 2 dribbles in for & short push ot. SALE! Vi to V3 Off Entire St and Custom Tailors Mertz & Mertz Co. 405 11th St. N.W. TROUSERS Norman Landreau, 729 Fifteenth street, % formerly held by Brentwood ks. ‘The latter recently &om circuit, at 8 o'clock. confab of the A. A. U. Basket Ball Committee is M# precede the board meeting, starting &t 7 o'clock. To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F R RS ORI RN START TITLE PLAY Layton Will Defend Crown in Tilts With Leading U. S. Cueists. BY PAUL MICKELSON. Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, January 19.—Johnny Layton opens fire in defense of his three-year-old world three-cushion billiard crown tonight when, he answers the challenge of a newcomer to championship play, F. | s. Scoville of Buffalo. Scoville, & veteran despite his debut |in the world championship classic, was head considerable opposition, although Layton was the big favorite to win and thereby gain a head start on the field of seven challengers. The match, like all the others a 50- | point battle, will inaugurate the tourna- !ment, which will extend over 28 matches and 11 days and nights. The | other challengers will start by attacking |each other in Tuesday's games. Former Champs Play. Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia, Tiff | Denton of Kansas City and Allen Hall of Chicago were considered the greatest a new record by winning the crown for the fourth straight time. All three are former champions and all were seedsd players along with the champion dur- ing the matches for places in the tour- nament. A purse of more than $20,000 will be divided by the contestants, with the winner receiving a salary of $6,000 a year, $1,200 in cash and 16 per cent of | the net profits. The runner-up will re- ceive a salary of $3,000, $1,000 in cash and 15 per cent of the net receipts. All contestants, regardless of their success, will share in the receipts, all of which go_to the players. Two referees, Herbert Levis and Charles McElligott of Chicago, will of- ficiate. 11 Fifth :-‘ Yorks ¥ Gentlament and on BY spite Your will & for that reasc campeigpe gormation e grestly epitting anythisg pecenoy” s34 dopartment ¥AIReS o this letter 12 tanding that I eduoations adorsing Y®T pr peartily 12 44 oleanele In this period of cold weather and cracked lips, expected to give the Sedalia, Mo, red | | threats to Layton's hopes of establishing | 1 bave seen-Your oy 1lboards, and the dengers o mere than sell olEFes Foot Ball Change. HERE is no longer any question concerning the upheaval in foot ball. It is only & matter of time now before there will be ut least two general divisions and possibly more. about as things are now. The other will bring together only those uni- versities with the same scholarship standards, with somewhat shorter in for Spring practice on a somewhat extended scale. The other will either have a limited Spring ractice, or none at all. In a way it will mean about this— one division will still concentrate on foot ball as the main intercollegiate sport and the other will rate foot bail in its stride, as one competition among many others, without any added pres- sure on the foot ball side. In time it will probably work out after this fashion—those universities which consider foot ball important will play together and those that reduce the importance of foot ball will play to- gether. The two divisions can never meet on equal terms. One has to face One division will go along just | schedules and with the captains given | greater authority. One set will still go | BY GRANTLAND RIC! too great & handicap to have much of a chance. And it might be added that a big part of the new movement has come from the inside, from the under- graduates more than from faculties or alumni. All in the Viewpoint. HIS foot bail situation is something for each university to work out. Take, for example, the matter of Spring practice. There is no demymng | the fact that extended Spring practice, | with a big squad out, is a tremendous help in building up & winning squad for next Fall and there is no partioular harm if most of the athletes want this practice in place of base ball, track, crew, golf or tennis. skill. It has almost wrecked base ball in many colleges. But if that is what | the majority want, there is no reason they shouldn't have it—provided they meet only those rivals who go in for the same thing. Those universities that want to build up other sports and that | either limit or abolish Spring practice can then meet together on even:ground | —but they are not in a position to com- pete with others who go in for foot ball as an all-the-year-around game. | It all depends on the viewpoint. | (Copyright, 1931, by North American News- ! paper Alllance.) Beats Silver Spring for City Soccer Title. Rosedale soccerists, swamping Silver Spring by 6 to 1 yesterday, are sporting the Capital City League crown today. Rockville, the only eleven having & chance to overtake Rosedale, evidently surmised the ultimate result of the match between the league leaders and the cellar champs and forfeited to Army. Rockville now has completad its schedule but while Rosedale has two more to play, both can be forfeited and the title retained. Capital up & 5-t0-0 lead in the first half and were content to coast along in the sec- ond. Jack Turner’s goal near the end of the game prevented a white-wash of Silver Spring. gy 2 i Several clubs in the American Asso- clation lost money in 1930, ubli ROSEDALE IS CHAMPION | WOULD BEAT D. C. FIVE Hyattsville High Tackles Wood- | | ward After String of Defeats. | HYATTSVILLE, Md.’ January 19.— Hyattsville High School’s basketers will be out for their first win over a Wash- | ington scholastic quint when they en- | tossers of | tertain Woodward School Washington on the armory floor here tomorrow afternoon. So far this sea- | son the Blue and Gold has fallen before | Business, Central, Tech and St. John’s. | Hyattsville will be handicaped by the |absence of York Hollingsworth, clever | forward, who is out with an injured His place will be filled by Vin- by Coach Stanleigh Jenkins. S GROCERS SEEK FOES. District Grocers want basket ball | games for all nights of the week and | Sunday afternoon. Call Manager Deni- son at West 2013. Says | It will limit any athlete’s all-around 1S ENOUGH T0 WIN Yanks Only Team in Either League in Three Years to Slug to Flag. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. EW YORK, January 19.—Big | N league managers still have | some promising deals on| the fire which they hope to cook up into sweet dishes before the Spring training season ends and the 1931 campaigns begin.| Most of them are looking for more | sluggers, though they probably | realize that they may have the| hardest hitting team in their| league and still not cop the pen- nant. In fact, in the National League the | record for the last three years indicates | that to win the champlonship it is bet- | ter for a team to be third in batting | In 1928 the St. Louis | than tap rollers. Cardinals were third in team batting and won the pennant. Cubs in 1929 duplicated this feat and in 1930 the Cardinals repeated. In the American League, tlie cham- plon batting team has not won the pen- nant in the last two seasons. The Phil- adelphia Athletics, winners in both years, were second in batting in 1929 and fourth in 1930. The managers who insist that a team of sluggers can pound their way to a championship are not going to find much solace in these figures. Those who declare that good pitchers win championships may squeeze a little comfort out of them. Yanks an Exception. In 1928 St. Louis won the National League championship more by its per- sistence than by the actual predom- The Chicago | inance of batters or pitchers, and this was true again in 1930, Back in 1926 when St Louis won, it was because of the style of its young players and the | ”Ylgu Will Benefit DR. J. F. X. STACK Health Commissioner, City of Hoboken, N. J. « . . one of 56 health officials from 56 different points approving Cremo's crusade DR J.F. 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The golf “widow” of 1931 in Detroit . will wrestle with . what promises to become a new matri- monial problem—night golf. Hawthorne ey, one of Detroit's semi-public courses, will have an 18-hole course illuminated and ready for night play on April 15, 1931, the first 18-hole night course in the country, the engineers say. Engineers and managers of Haw- thorne Valley spent a week studying the illumination of Kansas City's 9-hole night course. mCu?at;ucu::. of 60-foot b‘:&u TS llor e lights already L I these will be installed the batteries of projectors which will flood aru- Ticial daylight out over the fairways and the greens. A group of Detroit golfers who tried out the test fairway pronounced glght play no more difficult than ay. keen manner handled. In the last three years the New York Yankees have been the only major league team to win both the pennant and the batting championship of its figfa"" in the same year. 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