Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1931, Page 32

SPORTS. HAS %5 SCRAPPERS, BUT NO BUSINESS Says Some of His Feathers Have Grown to Middles Through ldieness. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, June 12—“The 1 fight game is punko— very, very punko,” sighed Ray Alvis, the cowboy of the fistic business. “Here I have a great stable of 35 boxers and actually some of the lads are growing from featherweights to middleweights through idleness. In the good old days of 1928, be- ing a member of Ray Alvis' stable guaranteed a boxer at least one bout a week. Now some of the boys do not toil more than ence or twice a month. If this condi- tion continues it will not be long before the old cowboy has to walk.” You get the same story on every side ani when a busy manager like Ray Al- vis puts on the moan the racket must be anchored right in th: middle of the Sargasso Sea. Many fight managers blame it on the times. Others, more farseeing, put the onus on the long series of punk fights the pubi”® has been handed over the past two o7 three rs. Also too many managers have valled to recognize the general shortage of cash. They still demand boom times prices and promoters are unabie to fur- nish them. Many promoters are either broke or badly twisted and consequent- 1y boxers are going without work. Differ as to Gate. Those connscted with the boxini | game are speculating on the gate fory the Stribling-Schmeling championship’ fight at Cleveland, July 3. William Carey, president of the New York Madi- | son Square Garden Corporation, pre- | dicts the German and Georgian wil trade hooks before a $1.000,000 crowd. Prof. William McCarney, one of Schmel. ing’s managers, puts the stake at $600,- | 003 Others with no personal interest | in the financial returns declare the| fight will do well to cros®® $400,000.| Some one i¢ going to be wrong when the | receipts are counted. The fight may draw much better than | the outsider suspects, but it will need | a lot of smoke during the next three weeks. So far nothing has come out of either the Schmeling or Stribling fight camps to start any heated arguments among the fans. “I hope the fight draws well, but still more I hope Stribling and Schmeling put on a great show,” declared one promineént Midwestern boxing official. “A rip-snorting fight in Cleveland would d6 3 Iot to revive interest in the game. It would wipe out the bad taste the fans still_have every time they think of the Schmeling-Sharkey, Godfrey- Carnera and Sharkey-Scott fights. Let Schmeling and Stribling put on & fight that compares somewhat with the sec- ond Dempsey-Tunney or the Dempsey- Firpo battles, and the game will quickly have a boom. The fans still are in- terested in the game, but they want something for their interest.” Welter Title Go Planned. Madison Square Garden now is dick- ering for a fight between Jack Thomp- son, the welterweight champion, and Jimmy McLarnin, to be held in the Yankee Stadium some time in August. That _fight is more or less of a natural, and New York fans will remember the | eat battle the pair put up in the| arden two Winters ago. Alvis ex-| pects to close the deal for Thompson within a few days, and it is believed Pop Foster will grab the opportunity for McLarnin. The writer hears that several Nevada millionaires are going to bank roll Jack | Dempsey for a real heavyweight cham- | plonship fight at Reno in 1932, and| that the Paolino-Baer fight the Old | Mauler is staging July 4 is just a pre- | liminary to bigger things out on the desert in the future. POTOMACS PLAN REGATTA Potomac Boat Club is planning a big rowing regatta here along the speedway Saturday, July 25, as a prelude to the National Bicentennial regatta to be held here next year. Arundel Boat Club of Baltimore, Vir- inia Boat Club of Richmond and Old minion Boat Club of Alexandria are| organizations in_addition to Potomac | likely to participate in the proposed re- | gatta next month. Francis Fahy, president of the Poto- mac club, and Capt. Charles Scott are handling preliminary plans for the af- fair, which would include 15 events. INJIj’RED AT LACROSSE. MONTREAL, Quebec, June 12— Lionel Conacher, who has been battered in senior rugby and base ball and banged in National League hockey, found the new box lacrosse game too much for him yesterday, when he suf- fered a broken nose in a workout with the Maroons. Montreal entry in the professional league. 3.PLY (criplethread) TROPICAL WORSTED SUITS. They are light, cool, open-weave and porous. o Popcastleyd 3PLY FR Here is a fabric eminently suited for summer wear. . an imported triple-thread tropical worsted of excep- tional merit . . . loomed of the finest Australian Worsted. The cool, por- ous texture airs and venti. lates the body. Carefully tailored in the correct styles for gentlemen’s summer suits. In patterns and color- ‘:w:ch ! medium and dark s, i TERDAY the Potomac River was imost bolling with mud, but to- | its conditian is very much It is not clear, but there i8 a vast improvenent, and if we do not have more rain, especially over the Monoeacy River region, it should be fishable by tomorrow or Sunday. A large number of small rock were caught the first of the week, but as yet no large ones have been landed. As a matter of fact, the largest rockfish re- ported to Rod and Stream so far was ons weighing 5 pounds, caught about two weeks ago. Next Monday marks the openng of the bass season in Virginia. The Vir- | ginia law requires a license to fish any- | where in. fresh tidewater or above tide- | water. ~ Anglers seeking the large-mouth bass in_the creeks: and coves of the Lower Potomac must first obtain a Vir- ginia fishing license. - These licenses may be purchased at thel A. A. A. or at the Atlas Sports Goods Co. The cost of a license for non-residents is $5. ‘This Virginia license, however, does | not permit the angler to fish in the Po-_ | tomac above tidewatsr, or in other | words, abeve Little Falls. Maryland | controls the Potomac to the Virginia | shore, but the Virginian with his fish- ing license can stand on his shore and catch bass without wncerference. He | cannot, however, get m a boat and go | out on the river to fish without s Mary- land license. While toe Virginia low | opens its season to bass fishing on Jun> |13, the Maryland season does not open until July 1. USSEL Y. VARNER, fishing in the ! Dalecarlia Reservoir the first of | the week, landed five bass. The | largest, weighing 21, vounds, was a | small mouth. His catch consisted of | three large mouth and two small mouth | bass and two crapple. He fished in the north end of the reservoir, using arti- | fielal bait. To fish in this reservoir it | is necessary to secure a permit from the- ‘War Department. Capt. Daniel P. Ball at Neavitt, Md., over on the Eastern Shore, sent in the following letter: “I can give you & better report this week, Quite & number of boats were out fishing, and I think they all had a fair catch. One boat returned with a catch of 40 hardheads and 1 trout. I had a party of Washingtonians out and they made a catch of 35 hard- heads.” Two District of Columbia anglers fishing at Brooms Island last Sunday larrded 19 hardheads weighing from 2 to ! pounds. These anglers used blood- worf\s and shrimp as bait. They re- ported that another boat which return- ed at the same time they did had a catch of 29 hardheads. Capt. Gormley Ellott was their guide. Capt. Noah Hazzard has established headquarters on the long pier at Chesa- peake Beach. He reports that fishing is looking up these days. Many erabbers | are enjoying good sport on the pier. Capt. Oscar at North Beach has his | pler and crab house ready, and from Plum Point Capt. Dixon reports fine catches of hardheads. Senator Harry B. Hawes and Repre- Sandlot Ball Games Scheduled. TODAY. Lionel Seniors vs. Miller-Roamers, Monument Diamond, No. 4, 5 o'clock. TOMORROW. Baks Clothiers vs. Anacostia Eagles, South Ellipse, 3 o'clock. Berwyn-Dixie Pigs vs. Bolling Fleld, | Berwyn Fleld, 3 o‘clock. Acme Printers vs. Sanico, Di*mond, No. 3,:3 o'clock. BUNDAY. firginia White Sox vs. Woodmen of tle World, Baileys Cross Ro:ds, Va. 2:30 o'clock. Fairlawn Results. LEAGUES. Departmental League—Aggles, 32; Treasury, 1. Government League—G. P. O, 13; Navy Yard, 1. Industrial_League—Washington Ter- minal, 17; Big Print Shop, 6. Georgetcwn Church—Calvary, 14; Metropolitan, 7. INDEPENDENT. Sheil A. C., 5; National Training, 4. Garfield, 5: Rosedale, 4. Phoenix Midgets, 13; Nehi A. C, 8. ’ Challenges. Nation Wide want senior opponent tomorrow for Fairlawn Field at § o'clock. National Pale Drys, game for Sunday. Lincoln 2700. ‘West Washington Baptists, unlimited opponents for June 20 and 27. Man- ager Sabean, Cleveland 7662. Bradbury Helghts Midgets, game for Sunday. Lawrence Beardmore, Atlantic 3828-J. Bethesda Fire Department, unlimited for tomorrow. Murdock, Bradley 651. LADIES’ DAY TODAY 3:00 P.M. AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. Cleveland TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 A.M. E weso. u. 8. Priattloy? Fresh-Air . A oo FOR SALE BY LEADING CLOTHIERS AND TAILORS ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER sentative L. C. Dwyer spent last week end at Representative Dwyer's Summer place on the lower Potomac.. Pishi off Point Lookout they landed #. bushe! of fish. Hare ‘weighing from 3 to 4 pounds and some rockfish weighing around 3 pounds esc! up the um;.hit These anglers used soft crab as baft. FORGE KNIGHT, who looks out for Rod and Stream in the lower Potomac, reports that the tempera- ture of the water this morning was 68 degrees. When the water rises just a few more degrees it will be right for good fishing. Knight reports that so far no taylors or bluss have been landed by hook-and- line anglers, He says that the hardheads are biting best off Blackistone Island and in Bret- tons Bay. Last Wednesday Capt. Thomas Trott, fishing off Point Lookout, landed 50 hardheads and 2 rockfish, Walter Hull of River Springs, at Palmers, Md., fishing last Saturday off Blackistones Island, caught 17 hard- head and 1 trout. ‘This week-end the anglers will find the tide just right for thm in the bay and lower Potomac for morning fishing. The flood tide will be coming in &l the morning until noon. The ebb tide, natu- rally, will b2 in the afternoon. What's the matter down at Wacha- reague, Va.? That's a big question. n past years this has been one of the best fishing grounds in this section of the country, but W. J. Leichear, D. D. Hunt, J. C. Thompson and Earl Slye, returning . from & four days' outing there, report that they landed only 17 small fish, Listening Post By Walter Trumball. Belmont stakes tomorrow may be a small race from the point of entries, but it will be & big affair from the angle of interest. This is sup- posed to be & duel between Twenty Grand and Jamestown, and should be, but most of us have been peering at spcrt contests too long to take it for granted that anything is certain. Twenty Grand might have an attack of indigestion. Jamestown might step | sl on a banana peel. An outsider might gallop home ahead. But the chances are not in that direction. We know that both Twenty Grand and Jamestown have the speed. We know that Twenty Grand has the stamina. We guess at anything further. This stake race for the cream of the 3-year-olds has great tradition. Af- ricander won it, and so did Delhi, Peter Pan, Colin, the Finn, Friar Rock, Sir Barton, Man o' War, Grey Lag, Zev, American Flag, Crusader, Blue Lark- spur and Gallant Fox. Those are only | & few names out of a long and splendid list, but some of those names are among the brightest of racing history. It is a rich race, and a great race. {'here are memories at the starting line, and glory at the finish. BILLY PAPKE, JR., BEATEN Norman Outpoints Son of Ex-Mid- dleweight World Champion. . CHICAGO, June 12 (#).—Blilly Papke, jr,, son of the former middleweight champion of the world, needs another start in Chicago to win the acclaim his dad gained here. Billy, jr., son of the old “Kewanee ‘Thunderbolt,” who won the ti from Stanley Ketchell and lost it back to him again in 1908, lost a close 10-round decision to Edgar Norman, Norwegian light-heavyweight, Iast night at Mills Stadium in his first out here. Billy, jr., fought a courageous fight, but yield- ed to Norman's superior experience. Another 10-rounder resulted in a de- cision victory for Tug Phiilips of Pitts- burgh over Relampo Saguero, Cuban welterweight. WALKER, SHARKEY FIGHT IN MAKING Johnston Predicts This Go Will Draw Bettef Than Strib-Max Affair. EW YORK, June 12—Jack Kearns will shortly sign the papers that will result in e match between Mickey Walker and Jack Sharkey for the Milk Fund at Ebbetts Field on July 22. This fight undoubtedly will be stamped as a heavyweight champion- ship affair by the New York Boxing Commission. To obtain the shot at Sharkey it will be necessary for Wal- ker to make formal surrender of the middleweight title. Mickey Should not balk at that. He has allowed the mid- dleweight crown to acquire a coat of rust in the last few years. It means little now. Madison Square Garden would be happy to promote a Sharkey-Loughron fight at the Yankee Stadium this Sum- mer. No chance of that, though. Jimmy Johnston has Sharkey hooked for three fights exclusively. Johnson predicts the Sharkey-Walker fight will outdraw the SBchmeling-Strib- ling affair in Cleveland on July 3, both in customers and dollars. Johnston says he can seat 26,000 on the field, 36,000 the stands and take care of 10,000 standees for a gate of possibly a half million. Prof. William McCarney, in town for & few days aftcr pounding the drum for the Cleveland brawl, contends that Johnston is decidedly off his base in making such a prediction. “Schmeling and Ftribling will draw $600.000, maybe more,” professor. rounding territory are falling hard for the ht. One order alone called for $65, worth of tickets, and the money came along with the order. Another le order was good for $25,000. May- be Schmeling and Stribling do not mean much in New York, but out around Cleveland they are red hot. That's all that is necessary. You don't think New York patronage made the big gats for Tunney and Dempsey in Chicago, co you? The money was drawn from Chi- cago and the surrounding territory, just as Schmeling and Stribling will draw it from Cleveland and the cities and towns within a radius of a few hun- dred miles, EARL MASTRO MATCHED Will Meet Midget Mike O'Dowd at Chicago on June 18. CHICAGO, June 12 (#).—Ear] Mastro, Chicago's contender for the world featherweight championship, today was matched for a 10-round engagement with Midget Mike O'Dowd of Columbus, ©Ohio, at Mills Stadium June 18. Promoter Jim Mullen also announced the signing of King Levinsky, the ex- fish-pedding 1 ight-heavyweight, and Ace Hudkins, once the famed wildcat from Nebraska, for a 10-round bout June 30. DREXEL CAPTAINS ELECTED. PHILADELPHIA, June 12.—Captains of next year's Drexel base ball, track and tennis teams have been announced today. Edson F. Kershner of Roxbor- ough, Pa.. was named captain of the varsity base ball team. He has played ghortstop for the last two seasons. Wil- liam H. 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C. tossers will travel to| the Capital tomorrow for a game with| the Chevy Chase Grays. Players will | report to the Del Ray club at 1 o'clock. ! Belle Haven Club's 12-man golf team will take part in its second Tri-State Golf Association tournament at Pur- cellville, Va., tomorrow. Belle Haven is leading the association. Carter Motor Co.'s dlamond aggre- gation won its third straight yesterday :ht expense of Hunter Station, 10 to 6. Robert McDonald, local arbiter, has| been selected as one of two officials |to handle the serfes between Fort | Washington and Fort Humphreys in| the 3d Corps Area series. Virginia Juniors will hold a business meeting tonight at 400 King street at 8 o'clock. Lawrence Roland has been named manager of the Rotary Club nine, which will play Kiwanis Club in & charity | game at Baggett's Park on June 23. Windsor Demaine will pilot the Ki-| wanians, who won last year. Lieut. Rinehardt, athletic officer at | Fort Humphreys, is anxious to book a ' ame with the Cardinal A. C. of Alex- | andria for Sunda; Jack Hudson of Alexandria High will pitch for the Colonial A. C. He will make his debut Sunday against the Swift nine at Guckert's Fleld at 3| o'clock. CAMPOLO REGISTERS K. 0. Hartwell Is Pounded Groggy. NEWARK, N. J., June 12.—Vittorio | Campolo, 232, South American heavy- weight, won by a technical knockout | over Big Bill Hartwell, 223, Kansas City, | in the third round of a scheduled 10- | Referee Stops Bout a | To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'’S, 7th & F - O packages (1. sizey of round bout at Clark’'s Pield last night. Referee Henry Lewis intervened after Cempolo had battered Hartwell groggy. Hartwell, refusing to go down, was up against the ropes, taking everything the South American could deal him at the finish. The time was 2 N N \§:\“,\\\\\\“‘ W sy by all Pro MUNGO MEFG. Sylvan Avenur worth FINE TURF BATTLE 15 DUE TOMORROW T\;/enty Grand Favored Over Jamestown in Classic Belmont Stakes. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, June 12.—A great turf battle is down for decision tomorrow at Belmont Park, when George D. Widener's Jamestown, king of the 1930 juvenles, bids for Twenty Grand's 3-year-old title in the sixty-third running of the Bel- mont Stakes, Probably three or four other 3-year- olds will start the mile-and-a-half jour- ney around the Belmont oval, but the 1ace shapes up strictly as a battle be- tween the Widener star and the Ken- tucky Derby winner, which will ca the silks of Mrs. Payne Whitney's Greentree Stable. | On a fast track Twenty Grand wiy |be 2n odds-on choice, with Jamestown |@t 6 to 5 or even money. Mrs. Kath. | erine E. Hitt's Sun Meadow, the Glen | Riddle Farm's Creat Gun, Morton L. | Schwartz's Clock Tower ‘and C. 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