Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1931, Page 14

B2 ** SPORTS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1931. SPORTS. Schmeling Has Few Backers in Fight : Davies Sole Hope of British to Win Open STRBLING CHOICE | N CEASH TONIHT Battle Is German's First Defense of Title Since Sharkey Go. BY CHARLES DUNKLEY, Associeted Press Sports Writer. LEVELAND, July, 3—Max Schmeling, worla's heavy weight champion, will de fend his title tonight| against the challenge of that strong, wiry, young Ge ! W. L. (Young) Stribling, with the prospect of sn attendance of 40,000 to 50,000, with receipts of $300,000 to $400,000. ‘The powerful German lad, who some- what resembles Jack Dempsey in facial features and ring characteristics, will battle Stribling 15 rounds or less i the title in Cleveland's $3.000,000 con- crete and stecl stadium on the shores of Lake Erfe. It will be the German's first defense of his crown since he won it on a foul in four rounds from Jack Sharkey & year ago. Stribling. the challenger. remai 3 to 2 and 7 to 5 favorite to wi tit'e, with very little betting on the result of the battie, chiefly becauce there was very little Schmeling moncy in sight. ined a in the May Take Loss. Estimates today were that a crowd of 50.000 or less would witness the en- counter. This figure was based on optimistic forecasts of a last-minute demand for tickets, which is expected 1o develop between now and the time Stribling_and the champion enter the Ting. Conservative predictions were that not more than 40.000 spectators would be present, with receipts $300.000, & new low record for a_heavy- weight battle since Tex Rickard began ,_ the era of million-dollar gates. On the basis of & $300.000 gate. the Madison Square Garden Corporation of Ohio, promoting the bout, may face a Joss or at its best, realize only a slight profit. The battle may develop into a stir- ring fight or into a dull, uninteresting spectacie. depending upon the warriors' tactics. Both Schmeling and Stribling will step into the ring es well-matched physically as any two heavyweights who ever fought. There will be less than three pounds between them in weight. They will have practically the same reach and the same heigit. Both finished their training strong and in perfect condition. Stribling outmatches the champion almost in everything ex- cept aggressiveness. Max Would Keep Busy. Schmeling will depend upon two things for victory—an aggressive attack and a jarring right hand, a punch (hat is damaging when it lands. The Ger- man has trained himself to fight the only way he knows—to crowd in and punch at close range. If he elects to remain away from Stribling, and at- tempt to out-box him, he may be out- classed, but by charging in and forcing the issue, he hopes to keep Stribling so busy on the defensive that the Georgian will have little opportunity to start an offensive of his own. Stribling possesses greater speed and superior boxing skill than the German; far greater experience in ring craft and cunning. He is a_better left-hand hitter either to the head or body and has a right-hand that also carries dyna- mite. But the Georgian has the repu- tation of having displayed at times a |y faint fighting heart, and there is no way of judging his mental attitude for | tonight's engagement. Stribiing has yet to prove that he can come through | with the pressure of a championship at stake. He must realize that tonight will be his last big shot unless he wins, and that his whole ring future depends on the outcome. Radio Studio Jammed. Amid a perfect bedlam of command. by photographers to “face this way,” | “face that way." “smile and shake hands,” Schmeling and Stribling weigh- | ed in last night in the studio of WTAM, | Cleveland broadcasting station, ~with | the proceedings going to listeners throughout the Nation over an N. B. network. The weights were of announced as 186'. pounds for Strib- ling 189. It story of box- ing that a weighing-in was broadcast The studio was packed to the point of suffocation with sports writers, coat- less and with their shirts soaking wet with perspiration, joining cclebrities of the ring that included Primo Carnera, the man-mountain of Italy; Jim Cor bett. who at one time wore the world's heavyweight championship belt; George Blake of Los Angeles, the referee of to- night's title contest. A The crowd was so big that police had to be called in to clear the center of the studio so that photographers could | get a few shots. Schmeling wore black trunks, trimmed with red. Stribling’s trunks were white. They grinned at each other, shook hands and exchanged a few words, but nobody could “hcar much of what they scid. Somebody was talking into the microphone, but no- body in the studio was paying any at- tention to the speech going onto the air. There was much pushing and shoving es the spectators began crowd- ing Stribling and Schmeling. Pray for Rain. “It doesn't make much difference to . C. ally e IS 6 ok M S i Facts on Battle . For Heavy Title Principals—Max Echmreling, Ger- -, champlon, vs. W. L. (Young) facon, Ga. challenger. ~World heavyweight cham- :p. e—Cleveland Stadium. Number of rounds—Fifteen rounds, to a decision, which will be rendered by two judges. Referee to vote in of disagreement. Time—Between 10 and 10:15 o'clock (Eastern standard time). Ectimated attendance—40,000 to 50,000. Estimated receipts—Between $300,- 000 and $400,000, Schmeling's share—40 per cent of the receipts, less tax. Stribling's share—121; per cent of receipts, less tax. Promoters—The Madison Square Garden Corporation of Ohio, E. J. Kulas, president; Richard Dunn, vice president and promoter. Time of first preliminary—8:15. Referee—George Blake, Los An- geles, Calif. Judges—To be hnnounced by Cleveland Boxing Commission just before the bout. Scale of pric $3, $5.49, $12.59, $25, including tax. Botting—Stribling favorite at odds of 3to2and 7 to 5 In case of rain—The bout will be held tomorrow night; if weather egain intervenes, Monday night. SIX PRELIMINARIES ON BIE FIGHT GARD Cleveland Show Will Start at 8:15—Gallagher Down for Five-Rounder. By the Associated Press. LEVELAND, July 3.—S8ix pre- liminary bouts, all involving hot ghts, will preccde the Schmeling - Stribling cham- plonship fight tonight, with Johnny Risko, the Cleveland rubber man, meet- ing Ton. the ej 1ound semi-final. The championship battle, scheduled to start between 10 and 10:15 p.m., will precade the Risko-Galento bout. The preliminaries are: Battling Bozo, Birmingham. Ala., vs Natie Brown, San Francisco, Calif., five rounds. George Pavelick. Cleveland. vs. Frank Morres, New Yorx, five rounds Frank Cawley, Pittston, Pa.. vs. George Panka, Pittsburgh, five rounds. Frankie Simms, Cleveland, Vincha, Boston, five_rounds. Charlie Retzlaff, Duluth. Minn., vs Marty Gallagher, Washington, D. C. five rounds. The first prelimin: start at 8:15 p.m. time). ITALIANS FORGE AHEAD More Than >E;;vfial;ng Good in Big Way in Base Ball. NEW YORK, July 3.—There never have been so many native-born sons of vs. Joe ary is scheduled to Zastern standard Italian parents playing ball well as this year. They may crowd the descen ants of other races into a minority if the Irish. Germans and the Yankee and Midwest boys don't watch the traffic h Why not send a base ball team to y in the Winter made up of Lom- r r; Bonura, first bese; Cuc- c . second base; Crosetti, shortstop; Melillo, third base; Pinelli, Lazzeri and Orsatti_in the outfield and Vinci and Vance for pitchers? Maybe Vance would not come strictly under the classifica- tion, but he has been called a “big Won™ and he lives in Homossasa, Fla BRIDGE. % V. Z V4 W) O, K, | | | Galento of Orange, N. J,, in | Youse | CN HAVE YER VANDERBILT cLUB BUT OLE SID LENZ'S Two D' MAND HAS DONE R\GIAT By . L J ( AT @193 57 TemunE e —By WEBSTER S Mk A ¥l g 4 hflm{”“\,‘”;. O\ i v,y {,‘Mg, s €N ~.’\ 3 ‘.L(—' \U,%\' } New Rille Guards Titlé Bout e From Becoming Foul Fiasco By the Associated Press LEVELAND, July 3.—A spe- cial rule of the Cleveland Boxing Commission, cover- ing fouls and “near-foul will apply at tonight's Schmeling- Stribling match. While "some ad- ditional | ccmplications of the rule may be possible, the main points are: 1. A low blow is not a foul. The fighters have agreed to wear appli- ances to insure complete protection against blows below the belt. 2. If one of the fighters should g0 to the floor after receiving a low blow, and dces not rise bzfore a count of 10, he will be taken to his corner for a maximum rest priod of 5 minutes, after which the bout shall be continued. 3. Should the injured man refuse to continuc the fight after the rest. in the evept the referee deems he really Is able t7 continue, he will Bout May Be Great or Rotten in History if BY WILBEUR WOOD. CLEVELAND, July 3 (C.P.A).—The seccnd battle of Lake Erie, with Max Schmeling of Germany defending the world heavyweizgh! boxing champion- ship against W. L. (Young) Stribling of Georgia, will be fought tonight in Cleveland's new Municipal Stadium. The German and the Georgian will strive for fistic supremacy in a 15- rcund bout on the shore of that blue | expanse on whose water the first battle | of Lake Erie wis fought more than a century ago between Commodore Perry and the British flect. That first battle of Lake Erie was & great fight, but there was no gate. After the roar of the guns had died away Perry sent his famous message to a waiting’ Nation—"We have met the enemy and they are ours.” That is the mossage Stribling hopes | to send to the American people tonight, | the tidings that the heavywelght cham- | plonship of the werld 15 again in the hands of an American. Schmeling is me what I weigh.” rcmarked Stribling | confident of broadcasting the same as he jumped on the sceles, first. Then | he turned to Schmeling and said with a grin, “We'Te going to fight anyway, aren't we?” While Stribling and Schmeling were resting in_quiet retreats today, pravers | went up from the fight fans for rain, | for a cooling breeze, that would relcase | them from terrific heat that has beked and parboiled Cleveland. The weather remained oppressively hot, but with in- dications that the heat wave might be broken by thundershowers before Strib- ling and the champion climb into the ring a few minutes after 10 o'clock to- night. The battle will be held as| scheduled, unless there is a terrific downpour forcing a postponcment until tomorrow night. | It was so warm with humidity that | was All but exhausting that not one | in one hundred men wore his coat as they sat _in hotel lobbies patiently wait- ing the fistic conflict. Shirts were drip- ping wet and there was no formaiity of dress when it came to combating | the heat and blanket of humidity. | ‘Will Fan Fans. As special trains began to pour in | tue mflux of familiar faces at ring- | si¢ -~ from Chicago, New York, Detroit, | Piusburgh, Atlanta and Ohio citics, | carpenters worked striving to finish their tasks that the stadium might be | entirely ready to receive the crowd. The ring was pitched over sccond base of the base ball diamond, overtopped by 36 flood lights, each of 1,000-watt ca- pacity. On each correr of the ring were public address broadcasters, from which every word spoken in the ring will drift back into the crowd. On top of the stadium's highest rim were 250 flood lights each of 1,000 watts capable of spreading daylight over the fleld to its most remote corner. 7 Four huge blower fans were ar-| ranged above the ring to sweep out the humidity and the “June bugs,” large-winged insects that annually in- vade this section of the coyntry in dense swarms, presumably comjng from Lake Erie, These insects areitrouble- message to the Fatherland. ome, but before blower fans they sur- ender and fade away. The stadium has a seating capacity of 110.000 persons with 78,189 perma- nent seats in the huge horseshoe-shaped stands. The ringside -seats were con- structed over the turf of the base ball field. There were 13,000 of these choice | location_selling at $25 each, with the prices of the seats in the stands rang- ing from $12.50 down to $3. All the notables of fistlana will be at the ringside, including Gene Tun- ncy James J. Jefiries, Jim Corbett and | the rest. | Strib Seen as Able to Make It One of Be He Opens Up. , _'This may be one of the best or one cf ‘the worst combats in tne histor the heavyweight championship. It de- pends_almost entirely upon the young man from the Georgia canebrakes. If Stribling throws aside his customary caution and sho°ts the works it chould | be a hot fight, for Schmeling is a_will- ing mixer, always ready to take a broad- | side of leather to get one in himself. | | Max, you may bet all the tea in China, | will fight to the last punci. Stribling’s _unreliability in the past, when faced with an oppor- tunity to turn in a great achieve- ment is what has the prognosticators on the fence. It is difficult to shake off the habits of a lifetime. Willie and every member of the Stribling clan swear that the Georgian is going to shoot the works this time; that he will do or die. Well, maybe. Stribling has a tremendous ad- vantage in that his strongest weapon fits into Schmeling's most glaring weakness. Max, for all the drilling he has been put through by those wise men of the ring, Joe Jacobs and Billy McCarney, still is wide open for a left hook. Even his sparring partners have reached him regularly with that punch. In his 11 years of battling the Georglan has done his best work with left hooks. A large percentage of his 116 knockcuts have been scored by that punch. And here is something else. Schmel- ing is a notoriously slow starter. He takes four or five rounds to get to hitting on all eylinders. If Strib- ling steps out and fires both barrels right from the start he may have the fight well in hand at the end of the fourth or fifth—may even flat- ten the hammering Hamburger in | that space of time. Standings in Major Circuits FRIDAY. JULY 3, 1031 American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 12 8t. Louts, . Detroit, 1. 2.’ Philadeiphia, 4. Chicago, 2; Boston. 0 'anmn:s(,} 101 9149120'.710 84725653 Chicago . Games_lost. (3 3 % GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at N York (2). No sames scheduled. GAMES TODAY. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New Yo: Broockiy: Chicazo, Piitsbu Games 1ot GAMES TODAY. St. Louts at Phila. (2 Others not acheduled GAMES TOMORROW. ).N. York at BXlyn, (2). i at Pitts. (2)] Cinci. @t Chicago (3). Phila. st Boston (2, | lose the fight knock- out and forf 4. If the continue after injury from a low 4 if referee agrees he inue, the bout will no contest.” er who lands a low se the round in which and a substantial part in the receipts. it is st of his share SAYS STRIB HOLDS NG WEAPONS Rice Sces Georgian's Lack of Fire as Main Hope for German Champion. BY GRANTLAND RICE. LEVELAND, Obio, July 3.—This would be a great lfe for __J & centipede or It might require a cor tion of both to take the jump from to Cleveland d back again. But while the open golf champlon- ship is going on in Toledo, Max Schmeling and Billy Stribling are now ready to step into the ring at Cleveland tonight and clear up a number of my terfes. For both men are mysteries, as far as this fight is concerned. They will step into the ring as well matched physically as any_two heavy- weights that ever fought. They will be less than three pounds apart. They will have practically the same reach- and the same height. Both are strong and perfectly conditioned. Stribling has all the other weapons in his favor except aggressiveness, and don’t overlook the fact that aggressive- ness is a big part of any man-to-man war, I think Stribling ought to win. He has too much on his side—speed, ex: perience, boxing skill, two-handed punching power, cleverness and ring craft It would be a terrible indictment of his Ting spirit if he lost to an opponent carrying so many fewer weapons. It would be like a man with a knife whipping an opponent with a knife, an automatic, a hand grenade and a machine gun. Tonight’s Rivals Both Confident By the Assoclated Press. LEVELAND, July 3—Young Stribling believes he will win the orld’s heavyweight champion- by a knockous within five Max Schmeling says he will retain his crown by knocking out Stribling within 10 rounds. These were the pre-battle state- ments of the principals today. “I am in perfect condition,” Schmeling said, “and I never felt better in my life. I feel I will win and I will b2 happy then because I will have proved that I am a real . I can not and will not My plan of battle is simp’e— 15 to_keep punching until I stop him. 1 am positive he can not knock me out and that is his one chance of winning. Stribling has faced a man who can hit as ave feen Schmeling fight.” . “znd do_not under- bility, but I think I can * him. and that championship ighty good to me after 10 z. I have no set plans ve paid no atten- T'11 fight him t! [ h e st after I get in there. you one thing. I'll bz = a lot of punches and put- hing T've got behind them, win, there will be ro alibis. But I am sure I can Wwin decisively.” 3 ONLY ONE CHANGE N LAUREL FIGHTS ‘Hunpt and Corris to Meet in Feature Tonight in Show Starting at 8:30. for Wednesday at the new Mid-City . Stadium near Laurel, Md., will be held tonight, with Eabe Hunt and Pletro Corri as the fea- ture battlers, ‘The only change in the line-u the bouts will find young Harry Wills, Baltimore colored middleweight, in the ring against Billy Edwards, Wash- ington, instead of young Gorilla Jones of New York | Mickey Diamond, Philadeiphia wel- terweight. who reported Wednesday with a sick stomach, has recovered and will be in the ring against Arthur De Beve, former French champion. The semi-final will bring together Herman Weiner. Baltimore heavy- weight. and Mike Sullivan, young Philadelphian. Two four-rounders will serve as ap- lightweight b, 3 hington. will tackle Jimmy Morgan _and Washington, will tangle in four-rounder. Both are ban- ITH enly a single substitution, the boxing card duled In w: y H another tams. The first bout tonight will start at 8:30 o'clock. A blow-by-blow desecrip- tion of the Stribling-Schmeling fight in Cleveland will be bréadcast. WINS D. C. GOLF 1;ITLE ' : [ Miss Williams Beats Mrs. Hill in | Public Links Final. | Turning in a card of 43 for the final | round, Virginia Williams yesterday won | the women's public links golf champion- ship_at the Rock Creek course, defeat- | ing Mrs. Mae Hill. | "The "new 17-year-old | reached the turn 3 up and ended the | match on the fifteenth green, 5 up and 3 to play. Mrs. Hill was the medalist in the qualifying round with 86, leading Miss . Williams by one stroke. | Miss Williams left last night for Chi- cago, where she will play in the wom- champion | FIRST ROUND FAILS 10 PRODICE THRILL Houghton and Hunter Still Have a Fighting Chance. Putts Ruin McLeod. BY W. R. McCALLUM. American national open golf championship had dwindled almost to the vanishing point to- day as 149 of the finest golfers of the world, barring those who did not show up, picked up or were disqualified, started out on the second round of play in what some folks hailell as the greatest open championship on record, but which has turned out so far te be just a gentle zephyr brushing over the superheated open spaces of the West. Compston, the big British gent who should have been a modern Bombar- dier Wells, but turned out to be a good | golfer, got his time-tables mixed up |and was disqualified by an irate group of officials. Henry Cotton, the soft- spoken boy whom many thought would g0 somewhere in this championship, is too far back to figure; Abe Mitchell did just as he did 10 years ago at Columbia by picking up his ball: Char- lie Whitcombe, the British Ryder Cup team captain, did not play, and the others are so far back they have no chance at all as the championship really gets organized for the drive down the stretch, T the close of today's play it is more than likely that only one of the _ representatives of Johnny Bull in this championship will be able to qual- ify for the final drive to the wire to- mortow. and this man is none other . H. Datics, the much-favored the American pros pri- k is the best of all the crop sh_contestants. And con- testants s hardly the word to use, for < a group of such well thought of men they have been nothing more than a flop. For example. after Compston had been disqualified yesterday we watched such sad spectacles as Mitchell pick- ing up. ge Duncan withdraw- ing after an 87, Aubrey Boomer scoring away up in the 805, Percy Allis almost of it and Henry Cotton so far back in the rear he can only see the front runners with a spyglass, and a power- ful one at that. And what of these front runners? There are a lot of them who plaved 1 Interness’ blistered fairways under the same scorching sun shone I for days and burned up the cg And if you want a sound that not one of them will first 10 when pay- off time tomorrow _afternoon. rron, Charlie and Mortie m is known at all 2ll leading the procession is just par for this course. y were ot in front at_the end of the first round. but then have you ever seen or heard or read of an open championship when some unknown or ms did not do something of them came the steady Al a of Chicago, all 2lone at 72 Espin you will recall, is the same an who tied with Bob Jones for the championship back in 1929 and lost by some colossal margin in the play- off. Then came the real stake horses— the men between whom lies the cham- pienship and who lie between 71 and %6 as the champi s its sec- ond phase today and see wha Billy Burke. | Cluci, Davis, it you think? At 73 are MacDonald_Smith, Henry Frank Walsh. At 74 come’ some of the real horses who may wi ‘here are Hagen, Bobby Cruickshank, Gene Sarazen and Al Watrous, and at 75 come Tommy Ar- mour, Harry Cooper. Leo Diegel. Jack Forrester and Willie Klein: George Von Elm and Walter Kozak. _Horton Smith d Bill Melhorn at are not too far away, but they are outside choices considering the golf they have been ay F the three Washington gqualifiers in this super-heat:d open cham- pionship two of them have an outside chance of qualifying for the final day cf play tomorrow. A. L. Houghton of the Kenwood Country Club end Monro Hunter of Indian Spring have a gembler's chance to | qualify, but Freddie McLeod. the lit- | tle doctor of Columbia, is virtually out. | Heughton scored 77 to lead the local | boys yesterday, and only one shot back | of him came Hunter at 78, while Me- | Leod, badly bothered by indifferent putting, took 82 strokes. They figure | that 153 or a stroke higher will qualify today, and if so both Hunter and Hought-n will have to improve if they are to remain in the drive down the stretch where championships are won and lost. Fred McLeod has had some bad put- | ting streaks in his lifetime of golf, but he never has had a worse streak than he had yesterday, as putt after putt brushed by the cup and refused to drop. With him on this torrid rcund walked Wilfred Reid, former Indian Spring pro, and at the end of the round Wil- fred shook his head and averred that OLEDO, Ohio, July 3.—The T British threat to win the |finty & en's ‘junior championship of the West. | if Freddie had been putting he would ern Golf Association. | GOLF PYRSE IS BOOSTED | Maryland Open, Formerly a $500 Affair, Is Now $1,000. The Maryland State open golf cham- plonship, to be held at the Congres- sional Country Club in the Fall, wl be a $1,000 event, it was announced yes- the Maryland State Golf Association. The tournament formerly was a $500 affair. hold Maryland State Golf Association club memberships will be eligible. Thirty-three clubs now are members in the association. Golf Club was admitted yesterday. R CROSS-COUNTRY DROPPED. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., July 3.— Cross-country has been dropped as an intercollsgiafe sport at Rutgers, and the duties of foot ball and base ball coach have been combined, eliminating from the coaching staff Fred Jacklitsch, directed the Scarlet nine since 1926. Fistic Battles By the Assoctated Press. MUNCIE, Ind. Eddie Burl,.Jackson- ville, Fla., outpointed Al Derose, St. Louis (12); Carl Schmedel, Indianapo- lis, won on foul from Harry Ferry, An- derson, Ind. (2). CHICAGO. — Willie outpointed Haakon Hansen, Chicago (8); Jackie Davis, Springfield, IIl, and Glen Camp, Kewanee, IlL, draw (8). ST, LOUIS—Dafey Abad, St. Louls, outpointed Johnny, Datto,Cleveland (10),. Oster, Boston, terday by President Robert McLean of | Only amateurs and professionals who | The Annapolis Roads | formerly major league catcher, who has | | have been somcwhere around 75. “He | missed eight putts of less than 6 feet.” | Wilfred said; “and if they had been | dropping for him he might have been | well up. Monro Hunter had no particular trouble on the greens, but he did have trouble with the rough. The big man from Indian Spring started with @ birdle on the first hole and sailed along through the third one better than par. Bu: his undoing came at the fourth | where he was in the rouzh from th2 | tee, again the rough and wound up | with three putts foj a | considering the heat and the 7. But lon the in' nine, which is the harder | of the two, he finished with a brace of a 76 to end with a 40,and a 78. Al Houghton staged a real rally yes- terday to come back in 36, exactly par for the back stretch, and put himself in the golf tournament. inciuded two 6s on par 4 holes, Hough- ton gathered himsclf together after the turn and with a display of real fighting courage, breezed over the back nine in | 36 for a 77, finishing with a birdie 3 at | the last hole to offset the 6 he took at the twelfth. Houghton said he, was nervous as he started out, and did not quite get hold of himself until he had taken a 6 on the hard par 4 fifth hole, which Inverness proudly points to as its best two shotter, but after the turn he came like a champion. He promises to do better today and it would not be at all surprising 1o see him finish in the first 20, which would not be so bad for a man who never has gone anywhere in an event of this size. PITIED Freddie McLeod yesterday as putt after putt brushed by the lip of the cup on those tricky Inver- ness greens and absolutely refused to | drop. He was hitting the other shots well enough, but it was the same old story. You only score well when the putts are going down and they simply were not dropping for Freddie day, Where Houghton He finally | | got cut in 38, which was good enough | | 55 where par golf would have given him | Out in 41, which | e Io'the Leaders in First Round at Toledo ‘TOLEDO, Ohlo, July 3 (#).—Four leading cards of the first 18-hole round of the natfonal open golf champlonship | _Par. out 4344443535 Guest. ouf Willlams, out. Barron. out. M. Dutra, ou Far, in Guest. in Williams, in. B 1i T 3 3 3 3 5 3 5 ] 5 wussmanoe, ,eansuawa, . 3 3 4 . 4 4 4 ,onssasno PORSREROoY 1l Others with 75 o1 Al Espinosa, Chieago. Joe Turnesa, White Pi 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 T better: Tony_Manero, Bob Shav o Gene Sarazen, G . Al Watrous, Birmineham. M Lioyd Gullickson, Cleveland. | Auguste France. | M | Jack ungst George B, Smith, Moorestow Walter Kozak, Douglaston. | willie Kiein, East Williston, | Leo Diesel, ‘Acus Caliente. Jack Forrester, Oradell. N, | E¢” Dudley. Concordville, Pa’ | Tommy Armgur, Detroit’ George von Elm, Los Angeie | R G R el | | rough only once on his ttip around the | course, Hunter made a half dozen ex- cursions into the hay and each cne cost him & stroke or two. Hunter is & tre- mendous hitter from the tee, probably the longest man in the tournament, but | Jong-hitting does no one any good here unless he is straight at the end of the shot. And Hunter's tee shots strayed just far enough off the line to push his score up to 78. Here are the scores of the Washing- ton contestants, with par for the course: Out,par ... 4 4344443535 McLeod ... 5445539 Hunter .... 4 438 Houghton . 4 5—41 In, par 4 4-36—71 McLeod 4 4—43—82 Hunter . 5 5—40—78 Houghton. 4 3—36—77 ‘The real struggle lies between the men from 71 up > 76. No one outside 76 has much chance, even though the British lion in the person of Bill Davies at 73 promises to give any one an argu- ment. is stilled to a mouse squeak. The main | argument lies among Espincsa, who may be expected today to break out in a rash of low scoring; Mac _Smith, | Hagen, who is playing again like the | lion tamer of oid. And right there I 2sked H>gen how he enjoyed his round yesterda “Ycu saw it.” he said, “znd you saw how I struggled. But it work- | ed out, didn't it. If you kecp knocking | them toward the hole and some of them | g2 down jou are bound to score. But, gee, I'm glad that's all over. It was toug] Then among the real stake horscs ere Armour, Cooper, Diegel and | Von Elm. The rest of them are more | cr less out of it. One of the low boys yesterday may break through, but this | tournament 1s at 72 holes and it lies among the seasoncd gents who buckle | down when the going gets tight and get more Scottish with tkeir strokes than the game itself. Bobby Jones is around. enjcying him- | self as O. B. Keeler remarked today, | more than he has at any championship in the last 11 years. Bobby is here to | write pieces for the papers and he does | it as well as he plays. But he really| is getting a tremendous kick out of | watching the other boys struggle and | | suffer as he did l er, | | 3713875 373875 5 754 464 344 30617 345 354 yesterday at the Inverness Club: | 73 | s | biggest fight in 21 Otherwise the roar of the lion, UZCUDUN FAVORED T0 CONQUER BAER Reno Expects to Double Its Population for Fight Tomorrow. | By the Asscciated Press. 3 ENO, Nevada, July 3.—Paulino Uzcudun, the Basque, and Max Baer, rangy Californian, heavy- weight principals in Reno’s years, took things | easy today while on the streets of this 34 | divorce center trudged the largest crowd the city has accommodated since July | 4 1n 1910, | _Twenty-one year: Jeflries failed in hi ago tomorrow Jim omeback attempt eight crown back Reno then was overflowing with all the notables of the sporting world. and the champlonship battle drew a gate of $2170,000. | "Jobn L. Sullivan, | “strong boy,” was there. He sat in a ringside seat. Not far away sat James J. Corbett, his conqueror. And in the ring above them was Jeffries, come out of retirement because of general clamor that he try to win back the title, Tomorrow Uzcudun and Bae: together in a 20-round bout of not much cons2quence, but this town on the Eastern slope of the Sierras expects to almost double its population for the day. It will be promoted by Jack Demp- sey, former heavyweignt champion. Reno, normally of 18,500 population. planned to house the newcomers in “tent cities” and more than a hund:ed side-tracked Pullman cars. So far as the fight itself is concerned those who find their entertainment strictly in the exchange of leather fa- vored Uzeudun. Odds of 5-4 were quoted. ‘The fight will start at about 12:30 p.m.. Pacific Coast time. in an arena at_the Silver State Jockey Club track Baer will_weigh around 208 pounds to 198 for Paulino. The Californian i 22 years old, Uzcudun 30 Baer stands 6 feet 3 inches and Uzcudun 5 feet 111, inches. Paulino has a reach |of 7415 inches and Baer, 80 inches. : . HAVE CRAFT 7 S Jacobs Is Max’s Chief Handler and Pa Strib Will Direct Will. CLEVELAND, July 3 (#).— Max Schmeling and Young Stribling will have erafty, cunning ring minds to handle them in their corners when they square off tonight for their heavyweight championship battle. Schmeling’s chief second will be Joe Jacobs, his manager, assisted by Max Machon, his trainer, and Eddie (Doc) Casey, former trainer of Jack Delaney, who has acted as a second for the Ger- man in all but one of his American ring engagements “Pe” Stribling. father-manager of the challenger. will act as the young Geor- glan's chief sezond. He will be aided by Bob Smith of New York, who has handled many famous boxers, and Nate Lewis, matchmaker for the Chicago Stadium and close friend of Stribling. Lewis will remain outside the ring w0 #ct in ¥n advisory capacity. the old Boston come Only Two Early Pace-S Crown in Last First Roun(ii 7L;aadi éolf Jii;x etters Have Won Open Eleven Years. By the Associaed Press. OLEDO, Ohio, July 3.—At the | end of the first round of the 1931 open golf championship of the United States, with four ambitious contestants tied at par 71 for the lead, and three more rounds to play over the Inverness course, a somewhat curious bit of statistical research discovered the following facts: Since, and including the first national open at Inverness in 1920, or in the last 11 open champion- ships, the leader of the first round has finished the fourth round in first place only twice, and one of those occasions was the tie between Bobby Jones and Al Espinosa at Winged Foot. Bobby broke away in front with a 69 the first round, lost the lead. regained it again and came out in a tie fqr first place. In 1921, however, Long Jim Barnes got the jump on the field at | THE LISTEN BY WALTER CHMELING and Stribling meet to- | night at Cleveland to decide who is the better man and who will | reap the financial rewards which | |go with a world heavyweight cham- | pionship. The winner never will have | | to worry over the unemployment situa- | tion. He can gather enough money in | another year®to remain comfortably idle for the rest of his life. 4 Stribling probably will enter the ring a 7-to-5 favorite. On form, the Georgian | figures to win inside of seven rounds. But form, in this instance. will be run- ning for Mr. Sweeney, on tte end book. Young Stribling has all the attributes | of a great fighter. except that vital | spark which goes to make the cham- jon. % ‘The Georgian is a far better boxer |than the German: is faster; is more experienced; is a good hitter. But never | has he fought a really good fight in en | important. match. Against rabbit-hearts, such as Scott, he is a wonder. Against | lion-hearts, such as Betlenbach, he has And Schmeling has plenty | been a bust, of _courage. It is on this same Berlenbach-Strib- ling bout that many base their opinion | that Schmeling will win. They say that | Max, like Paul, is a crowding fighter with a punch. Berlenbach and Demp- | sey had great left hands. Schmeling's | best hand is his right. but he is the same type of short puncher these others were. ICHMELING will come weaving and bobbing in, striving to land that right. To back him up, Stribling will have to knock him back, and every time he sets himself to get a shot at the German he will be in danger of return fire. And Schmeling will be crowding in as long as he is on his feet. A tough fellow, a smart fellow and dangerous puncher, this German. 1 believe that Stribling is a better hitter than Sharkey, especially with his right hand, but he covers and clinches more than Sharkey. If the Georgian tteps out and fights, this is likely to be a corking . 1f he goes into his shell, clinches, holds, wrestles, to take a chance, the bout will be as thrilling as an encounter between a bull terrier and a billiard ball. TRIBLING has been s fighter who hurt his opponent and then failed to follow up his advantage. Schmeling is a finisher. If he hngemh Stribling with a. right, he will go the Columbia Country Club. Wash- ington. with a 69 and retained it straight through the competition, winding up with a score of 289. a matter of 9 strokes ahead of the four _championships be. ginning with 1923 the leader of t first round conciuded the tourna- ment in third place with astonishing regularity. In 1923 Jock Hutchi in the lead with a wood and finished thir Wild Bill Mehlhorn, the huge course at Oz was leading at the end of the fir: round, but was in third 301 at the finish. In 192 cester Francis Ouimet’s the list on the first day, and with a total of 292 he ended in third posi- tion. And again in 1926 at Sciotn Wild Bill dashed to the front witr a 68 and drifted back to a four-plv tie at 207 with Gene Sarazen, Leo Diegel and Johnny Farrell. on_got away TRUMBULL: him like a wolf after a decr. Out of the ring, bcth of the contestants are attractive young men. If he wins as a champion should, the victor should be one of the most popular of title holders. Fame and fortune lie in a couple of padded fists. > George Blake, with a reputation for being honest and capable, will referee. Schmeling is hoping to get about $120,.- 000; Stribling about $45,000. For hal of the smaller sum, John L. Sullivan would have guaranteed to lick a police force, an army, and all the wild animals in Africa. HERE is extreme doubt in my mind as to whether either Schmeling or Stribling, in case of winning, has much, if any, intention of boxing Primo Carnera this season. There are too many ways for a heavyweight champion to cash in on his title without risking his _crown. Sharkey is the logical opponent for the winner and the fans know it. If the Garden had been smart, it would have matched Campolo and Carnera. It then might have had a contender who would have been a huge drawing card. As it is, neither Carnera nor Campolo has improved his reputation or his value. (Copyright. 1931. by the North Newspaper Alliance, Inc | American TROUSER To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F Liberal Allowance on Your Old Ti 436 14th ST, NW. + A 00, ¥ - DAMS .1?,