Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1932, Page 32

= C=2 CHAMP SEES 5030 CHANCE OF VICTORY Expects Tough Fight From - Japan and Australia in American Zone. By a Staff Correspondent. OS ANGELES, February 9.— The United States has only a fifty-fifty chance to win the Davis Cup this year, in the opinion of Henry Ellsworth Vines, jr.. youngest national men’s #ingles champion, in the history @f United States tennis. A year ago ranked by the United ictes Lawn Tennis Association as No. 8 man, Vines now is No. 1. He hoids this place through having won 10 tour- riaments, including the national cham- pionship in 1931, Taking his first im- portant victory at 15, when he won the Canadian junior title, Vines now has @pproximately 100 trophies. Prospects are not very favorable for # United States victory,” Vines said, in considering the outlook for 1932, *America’s team will be young and in- esperienced, and probabiy will find it difficult to stand up against some of the court veterans from other ccuntries. Only Two Seasoned Players. “George Lott, ir., and John Van Ryn, | who probably will be among the four | players selected by the Davis Cup Com- mittee, will be this country’s only sea- | goned campaigners. Others who' pos- | sibly will be named to represent the| United States will be Frank Shields and | myself. Should more than four be chosen, Keith Gledhill of Santa Bar- bare and Sydney Wood probably will be the next most logical candidates.” | Not only will it be difficult for Amer- | ga’s net defenders to win Davis Cup Honors, Vines believes, but he looks for- | ward hard struggle in getting | through the American zone. | % .Because Bill Tilden is now out of the | ocompetition, Japan and Australia believe | ey have more of a chance to reach finals,” said Vines. “They are en- Ermx in our zone. and no doubt Wwill ve our players strong opposition.” t it is too early to predict | hat will take place in the vari- ous intersectionai tournaments in the | United States this vear, Vines did re- | mark, however, that Henri Cochet, | ould he come from Tiete, probably . would _dominate men’s singles field. Doubles and mixed | foubles, however, erican players, Vines believes. | . | : Lauds Helen Wills' Skill. 1 SLike most other observers, Vines | inks that should Mrs. Helen Wills oody enter tournament play this sea- | son, she will emerge triumphant inj practically all her matches. I he will remain the best woman | player as long as she wants to com- pete,” he said. “Cilly Assem, the Ger- man girl, is the only other woman player in her class.” Fred Perry, who has defeated prac- tically every American player of note, who has beaten Borotra and who has iven Cochet many good battles, is the | player most, likely to step to the front 1932 tournament play, according to the Pasadena champion. “Perry,” Vines said, “is still young and should continue to prove a sensa- tion on the courts. Others who should make a good showing this year are Sydney Wood, Clifford Sutter and Wil- | mer Allison | (Copyright, 1932, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) MATTINGLY TO WED. District Big_Lenguer Gets License! at Upper Marlboro. Lawrence Earl Mattingly, former | Washington sandlot base ball pitcher, | now with the Brooklyn Robins, and | Catharine Ula Thorne have procured a marriage license at Upper Marlboro, Md. Mattingly gave his residence as Fort Foote, Md., and Miss Thorne gave hers &s 1923 Sixteenth street southeast, this city. | » Saying Mat Matches By the Associated Press EW YORK—Tiny Roebuck, Oklahoma, threw Sandor Szabo, 205, Hungary, 37:46; Herb Freeman. 21 New York, threw Tiny Ruff, 224, A lanta, 7:51; Jim McMillen, 215, Chi cago, threw Paul Favre, 219, France, 12:13; Sammy Stein, 200, Newark, threw Dick Daviscourt, 225, California, 21:40; Leo Pinetzki, 272, Poland, threw Frank Speers, 225, Georgia, 12:20; Rudy Dusek, 215, Omaha, threw George Calza, 219, Italy, 31:26. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Joe Malcewicz, 798, Utica, N. Y. threw Dan Kolofl, 224, Bulgaria, 10:21; Len Macaluso, 206, East Aurora, N. Y., drew with Pat Mc- Gill, 230, Montana, 35:00; Bibber Mc- Coy. 215, Boston, drew with John Spell- san, 198, Chicago, 30:00. Fistic Battles B the Assoctated Press. PHILADELPHIA —Harry Dublinsky, Chicago, outpointed Johnny Jadick, Junior lightweight champion (10), non- | titie. | 247, NEW YORK.—Izzy Schwartz, New York, outpointed Jack Terranova, New York (5. PITTSBURGH.—Natie Brown, Cali- rnia. outpointed Tony Galento, Jersey (10). CHICAGO.—Dave Shade, San Fran- cisco, outpointed Henry Firpo, New Castle, Pa. (10); Young Stuhley, Ke- *wanee, TN, knocked out Jud Judkins, South Haven, Mich. (1). BOSTON. — Leo Larivee, Waterbury, | Conn., knccked out Mickey Bishop, | Btoughton, Mass. (7). PARIS—Maurice Griselle, France, outpointed Dan McCorkindale, South Africa (10). MIAMI, Fla—Pete Nebo, Key West, outpointed Lou Avery, Tulsa (10). MILWAUKEE. — Frankie Battaglia, Minneapolis, knocked out Vince Forgi- one, Philadelphia (8); Tom Davenport, Chicago, stopped Mitz Minikel, Mil- waukee (5); Barney Ross, Chicago, out- pointed Mickey O'Neil, Milwaukee (6). ‘The mos obstinate cases of itching, blind, bleed~ ing or protruding piles J) vicld to the positive healing action of R%af Instant relief or money back. Handy tube with /J andy iy Py ey & PAZO OINTMENT SPORTS. FREEDOM FOR OLYMPICS Foreign Participants, Attendants Get U. 8. Courtesy Cards. LOS ANGELES, February 9 (P).— Identification cards for foreign partici- pants in the Olympic games here next August, extending courtesies as dis- tinguished visitors of the United States, will be issued instead of passports of the usual form, the local Organizing Committee of the games announced today. | The cards, to be issued to officials, athletes, attendants, press representa- tives, their families' and servants, will permit the waiving of the usual head tax and will facilitate entry and de- parture from this country. Arrangements also have been made through the United States Treasury De- | partment allowing horses and athletic | equipment to be brought into the Na- |tion and taken cut again free from duty. SOME BALL PLAYERS SIGN, BUT ONE BALKS | McEvoy, Pitcher, Does Not Like | | Yankee Terms—Grabowski Sold by Tigers. By the Associated Press DETROIT, February | Johnny Grabowski, veteran catcher, to | the Montreal Club of the International | League has been announced by Frank | J. Navin, president of tne Detroit ciub. | Grabowski, who was with ihe New | York Yankecs for two years and with the Chicago White Sox for three, was | purchased by the Tigers from St. Paul | of the American Association at the end of the 1930 season. OAKLAND, Calif, Lou McEvoy, right-handed p by the New York Yankees to St. Paul of the American Association, has asserted he would “stick to ranching rather than take a 50 per cent salary cut.” The former Oakland hurler returned his contract unsigned. He has been run- ning a ranch. CHICAGO, February 9. () —Signed contracts of John (Blondy) Ryan, and Clyde Bower, infielders. have been re- ceived by the Chicago White Sox. Ryan, a former Holy Cross athlete, was with Atlanta of the Southera Association most of last season. Bower was with the House of David Club last year. TAMPA, Fla. February 9 (#).—Al Lopez, first string catcher of the Brooklyn club, has announced that he had signed a contract s third year with the team for $10.000. It is the same he was paid last year. BOSTON, February 9 (P).—The Bos- 9.—Sale of France to com- | ton Red Sox managemen: has received | the | the signed contract of Bob Kline of | Columbus, Ohio, a young right-hand se2son. PHILADELPHIA, l':ebmar}' 9 (PA—| Johnny Milligan, southpaw pitcher of the Philadelphia Nationals. has been sold to Toronto of the International League. Basket Ball Tips Strong basket ball teams must be able to execute some clever blocks in order to break tnrough a de- fense. Purdue empioys this sys- tem on some of its floor plays. Here is one of them, with left guard (4) in possession of the ball Left forward (2) rushes out from his corner at a 45-Gegree angle and 4 shoots him the ball. At the same time 4 breaks siraight at 2, with his opponent covering him from the inside. As he approaches 2 to cross in front of him, 4 swerves to the rear of 2 and takes a pass from 2. Naturally, 4's op- ponent guard cannot run through 2 and his guard. So 4 has a clear break for the basket, to which he dribbles for a close-up shot. Note how center (1) breaks away from under the basket to clear that area as the play starts, and how right forward (3) like- wise rushes away from his area and then sharply turns to drive for the basket in order to follow up 4's shot in case 1t should go over the ring. (Copyright, 1932.) LOOKS TO UNDERSTEIN Benjamin Franklin basket ball team is counting heavily upon slim Jake Understein, former Jewish Community Center courtman for its big game with Loyola of Balti- more Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock on the Tech High court. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, LIFE’'S DARKEST MOMEN University's | WILLIE HAS TOLD THE ONE GIRL IN THE WORLD TO LISTEN IN THE | NIGHT UNCLE NED IS DUE TO MENTION HIM OVER THE RADIO 1932 WY TRaUNE, . D. C, TUESDAY, WEBSTER FEBRUARY 9, 1932. MILLION AWAITING HIM IN EXHIBITIONS Visits to Europe, Australia and Other Points Would Met Jack a Fortune. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, February 9.—Jack Dempsey is considerably more of & chump than you and you and you ever be- lieved if he is serious about climb- ing back into a championship ring against Herr Maximillian Schmeling or whoever the current heavyweight title holder may be at the moment John is induced to sign on the dotted line. Today, Dempsey is the greatest money magnet in the boxing world; he packs them in whenever he appears either as & boxer or a referee. A good shellacking in a championship fight —and the odds are Jack would take one if the bout stretched more than five rounds—and Dempsey's drawing power would have less voltage than | a “B” batterly. It is extremely doubtful | | if Jack ever will take that particu- | | larly since. Million Awaits Picking. Jef! Dickinson the Parisian promoter, has cabled him an offer for $50,000, for five short bouts in the French capital. Since he has offers for his appearance in Germany, Australasia, Cuba, Mexico, Porto Rico and other lands that would keep him on the jump for almost two years and bring him in well over a million dollars. Imagine Leonard Sachs, Jack's man of business, chucking such picking for the gamble of & heavyweight champion- ship fight. Neither do any of us. Dempsey is the customers plenty of action for their money wher- ever he appears. He has knocked out a great percentage of his opponents, is bouts are more than exhibitions, | ver has actually declared he would | return to the championship ring so | the public is not being suckered. | Dempsey looked _impressive in his | workout here the other day. He weighs | less than 200 and in his shadow boxing should be won by‘pll(‘l\m’v He joined the club late last | Russell, Amateur, Latest Hoosier | | will face Brookland Boys Club in Inter- | ; Boxer to Succumb to Injury | Suffered in Bout. | . | | By the Associated Press. | INDIANAPOLIS, February 9.—Box- | ing in Indiana claimed its third victim :\xnhln a week last night with the | death at Kokomo of Wilbur Russel’, 29, | an amateur. The other two who died | were professionals. Russéll fell just before the end of the | fArst round of his scheduled three- | round bout with George Scott at Ko- | komo last Wednesday. He walked to his corner, but was unable to continue. A corcner’s report attributed death to brain injury. Scott was under tech- nical arrest today pending a grand jury investigation. The other deaths in Hoosier ring circles were those of Bud Hughes, 17, of Rockport. Ind. who died soon after | ne_collapsed during a fight at Evans- ville last Tuesday night, and Johnny Fagg, 22, of Clinton, Ind., who died at Indianapolis Thursday night after a | bout here last Tuesday. | " Herbert E. Wilson, Marion County | prosecutor, announced last night that an afdavit charging Al Holden of Worcester, Mass., Fagg's opponent, with ‘involuntsry manslaughter, would be | dismissed in Municipal Court today. Boxing has been legalized in Indiana | for less than a year. The 1931 Indiana | Legislature provided for formation of a State Athletic Commission to regu- late professional bouts. Prior to its | establishment matches were confined | to no-decision exhibitions. WILL PICK DERBY MOUNT Donoghue Is to Sail Uncertain of English Race Assignment. LOS ANGELES, February 9 (P.— | Planning to leave here Wednesday | morning for England, Steve Donoghue, | 47-year-old jockey who has ridden six winners in the English derby, is still undecided whether he will ride Jack- daw II in this year's event at Epsom Downs. Donoghue was reached here by cable with an offer to ride the Indian Prince Aga Khan's 3-year-old. Donoghue has | been pondering the possibility he might | get a leg up on Lord Astor’s colt Manna Mead. The latter horse is the get of Donoghue’s last deby winner, Manna, in 1925 Donoghue is under contract to ride for sir Victor Sissons, but he expects |a release to ride in the derby as his | owner has no outstanding horse ready | for the classic. Never Since the War Have Prices Been So Low! DON'T MISS A SINGLE COPY OF FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS INDIANA RING DEATHS | - THREE WITHIN WEEK COURT TILTS AT LAUREL Intercity Basket Ball Leaguers in Clashes Tonight. LAUREL, February 9.—Independents | will meet Kenilworths and Sport Mart | city Basket Ball League games tonight | on the National Guard Armory court here. last longeTe U, 5. Pot. 1739200 pendents third. Club are tied for last place. | won when the teams listed tonight last | there were before his last fights and he met. Sport Mart stands second and Inde- wherever he goes and that is like a Kenilworths and Boys heady wine to Dempsey. HOYAS OUT OF MEET. Georgetown has decided not to send | before going to Milwaukee for a show. any athletes to the indoor meet at West | Rosy has picked the punches of some Independents and Sport Mart Virginia Saturday. a the he displayed far more speed and snap | |than when tratning for the last Tun- | ney fight. Jack has an unworried mind |at present and there are no annoying | lawsuits hanging over his shoulders as | acts very much the kid he always has been at heart. The mob is at his heels | Rosales Pays Tribute. | Dempsey exchanged a few punches | [ with old Rosy Rosales, the well known | Mexican mattress, in Kid Howard's gym “ |of our greatest fighters with his chin | duties March 1. and is an authority on the and tra) of hook, and Mm After bounced on the floor by Dempsey, who wore 16-ounce gloves, Rosy opined to Ray Alvis, our Boy Scout: “Dempsey’s left hand is just as strong as ever and he is boxing well. He never even blinks an eye when you feint at him and he has the strength of a “big bool” when he starts wrestling you around. Also he moves much fast- er than I thought poesible.” That com- ing from an old expert punch picker like Rosales indicates Dempsey still mpuu sun: slight charge of dynamite :n his PENN CANCELS RING MEET WITH VIRGINIA Also Calls Off Tennis Match for Next Spring in Curtailment of Athletic Program. UNIVERSITY, Va, February 9.— Pennsylvania has canceled the boxing match scheduled with Virginia's South- ern Conference champions for Satur- day afternoon in the Palestra in Phila- delphia. James G. Driver, Virginia athletic director. has been making an effort to secure another ring opponent for the Cavaliers, but the time is so short that it is not likely that one will be found. Virginia's first-year boxers meet the Navy Plebes in Annapolis Saturday. H. Jamison Swartz, assistant athletic director at Pennsylvania, notified Driver that for financial reasons the Quaker athletic schedules were being reduced. Penn would not, he wrote, be able to carry out its contract with the Virginia | boxing team this week, or meet the SO Virginia tennis players next April. ! Driver replied that Virginia would be glad to stage the bouts in the Memorial gymnasium here and offered a guar- antee that more than covered the ex- | penses of the trip for Penn. But| BSwartz replied that it was impossible | for the Quaker ringmen to accept be- | cause the date falls within the exami- | nation period, and faculty rules pre- | vent teams from leavirg during that time. Pennsylvania’s administrative au- thorities hsVe ordered drastic reduc- tions in most sport schedules, Swartz stated, and the Quakers have been | forced to cancel athletic engagements | with rivals met over a 40-year period. | DIFFENBAUGH CERTIFIED Officially Made Golf Professicnal at | Indian Spring Club. | Appointment of George Diffenbaugh as golf pro at Indian Spring Golf Club | to succeed J. Monro Hunter, resigned, was approved last night at a meeting of the board of governors of the club. | Diffenbaugh will enter upon his| FRENCH FIGHTER WINS. | PARIS, February 9 (#).—Maurice Griselle, veteran Prench heavyweight, | outpointed Dan McCorkindale, South | :e(flcln champion, in a 10-round bout Te. GEM MIC TRADE MARK RUMATIC BLADES the first real shaving Vines Dubious as to U. S. Davis Cup Win : Dempsey a Chump to Risk Title Fight GORDON’S PUNCHING MAY BEAT JACOBS Greater Experience Gives Philadel- phian Edge in Feature of Show at Alexandria. ALEXANDRIA, February 9.—If the Alexandria Day Nursery could have ob- tained a better opponent with a more outstanding record than Al Gordon to face Stumpy Jacobs tonight, he is no- Ill'g;e wut.hhof hNew York. rdon, who has met Harry Blitman Benny Bass, Billy Wallace n’mcy Stoy, Johnny Lucas, Sammy Mandell and Johnny Parr, will substitute for Buster Brown against Jacobs at Portner's Arena here tonight. Gordon was matched to meet Louis Jallos, sensational rising young Greek from Cleveland next week in the semi- windup of the Billy Landers-Antol Kocsis battle. When Brown's injured lip forced him to cancel his engagement with Jacobs, Gordon immediately con- sented to go on. Stumpy will have his hands full with this veteran of tpe ring. Gordon has been training hard for the past week and is in good shape. His experience :gg hard hitting should give him an e. Henry Irving, local middleweight, and the soundest puncher developed in Washington in years, faces Walter Kirkwood of Norfolk in the semi-final listed for eight heats, the same route over which the feature will be fought. Henry has trained faithfully for this g0 and is in the best possible condition. Kirkwood has met Reds Barry and ractically all of the leading light- euvgwelaht.s and middiewelights in the uth. Jack Quigley, local lightweight, who beat Bob Goolsby last night jn Balti- more, tackles Benny Tillman in one of the four-round preliminaries. Tillman is from Hazelton, Pa., and is reported to be one of the best preliminary pros- pects seen here in months. Other four rounders include Keller Crawford vs. Young Perry, Tommy Horn vs. Billy Reed and Young Groves vs. Bob Portna. Charley Short will be the third man in the ring. The first bout is slated for 8:30 o'clock. - COLONIALS TO SWIM. 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