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2 Little Hope for “Dreadnaught” Boxers FIGHT FANS SPURN UNSKILLED GIANTS Many Oversize Bouts Show Folly of Creating Super- class for Ring. N leader of the proposed dreadnaught division. William Muldoon, the local box- ing czar, does not think it fair for the big fellows to give away too much weight and so he wants to create a new class. But it must be observed that Commis- sioner Muldoon has started much talk about nothing of importance and that the scheme will die a simple death because it does not mean a thing. Impellettiere is a stranger to the fight fans, He has been selected to lead the “supers” because he has beaten Jose Santa, the Portuguese string bean, and is 1 inch taller than Primo Car- nera and cutweighs the latter fully 12 pounds. Some man! But can he fight? Outside of the Santa scrap Ray has been to the post but one other time, and Philadelphia sports scribes are £till wondering where and when he put the invisible punch on Charley Wepner, BY SPARROW McGANN. EW YORK, March 4.—Ray Impellettiere is the logical 50 that the latter was unable to do| more than bury his nose in the canvas. It was such a punch, invisible, of course, which Harry Wills landed on Kid Nor- folk and put a quictus on the Pana-| manian. The disparity in size and and the fans may wonder how long such affairs are going to be put on. HE idea of a superdivision is noth-‘ ing new. It was tried back in| the old days when Bob Fitzsim- mons, little more than a middleweight, put the ecrusher on Ed Dunkhorst, a| giant, weighing close to 300 pounds. All| Fitz had to say about the matter was: | ;‘The bigger they ere the harder they all.” In those days it was nothing strange to see a little chap like Joe Gans or| Joe Walcott stand up to the hard- punching heavyweight, Sam Langford. ‘Those fights went the distance and nothing was said about them. Jimmy Wilde, the British flash, in the hey-day of his career, weighed lit- tle more than a hundred pounds drip- glnl wet. Pete Herman, then American antam champion, so respected Jimmy that when he went to England he thoughtfully left his bantamweight title on this side of the water in the pos- session of Joe Lynch. After beating Wilde by sheer weight and hence | punching power, Pete returned and re- claimed his title by defeating Lynch. OTHING much was said about Mickey Walker, then welterweight champion, when he was matched with Harry Greb, holder of the middle- weight title. It was considered an even-up fight, with little Mickey spot- ting his adversary 13 pounds. Weight between the little fellows counts much more than it does among the big fel- lows and this was clearly demonstrated in 14 rounds. Walker came back courageously in the final stanza and this was the high light in what other- wise would have been a one-sided vic- tory for Greb. Speaking about Greb reminds one that he was not a bit scared about mingling with some of the tough ones in the heavyweight class, and it is a matter of record that Jack Dempsey, through his manager, Jack Kearns, did not care for any of the Pittsburgh ‘Windmill's leather, HE rules in this State have driven many over-the-weight matches out of the city, as champions are compelled to make the class weight every time they fight. A few cases are on record where this rule has been lift- ed, but each time the contest was a good ore and the champion did not have to run for his life to save his title or pres- tige. Primo Carnera, Ray Impellettiere, Jose Santa, Hans Birkie and others will have a tough time trying to induce the fans to pay good money to see them | hippodrome. Muldoon did not come | right out and say he wanted the, big fellows to try their luck with the cir- cuses. But he practically did the same thing in creating a dreadnaught divi- sion. That means it will go the way the Junior titles did—off the books for good, ‘with only the established classes recog- nized by the boxing world. ALL-STAR NINE BOOKING Front Royal Is Seeking Pitcher to Fill Shoes of Jewett. FRONT ROYAL, Va, March 4.— Front Royal All-Stars, co-claimants of the Virginia semi-pro championship last year, have reorganized for the coming base ball seascn and are ready to book games, through R. T. Shiner, with strong unlimited teams. The loss of Lefty Jewett, Washing- ton, D. C. youth, who has signed with the Albany club of the International League, was a blow to the all-stars, who are in the market for a semi-pro pitcher, preferably a southpaw, Who can fill in at another position’ when not on the slab. MARYLAND NINE DATING. Maryland Aces base ball team is afier games with strong midget and junior nines of Washington and nearby Mary- land and Virginia. Write John New- man at Capitol Heights, Md. Auto Ad Stunt Lures Babe Didrikson Unheard of for Weeks, Athletic Star Quits Stage for New Racket. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ETROIT, March 4.—Just as it had begun to appear that Mildred Ella (Babe) Did-, rikson was by -way of be- ! coming the “forgotten woman,” she bobs up to say it isn’t so. ‘You remember the Babe, of course. You remember that after turning professional on December 12, she splashed into the sports pages with announcements of prospective com- petition. In a short time she would be prepared to meet all comers on the track, in the tank, on the golf courses and tennis courts, or Wher- ever the Babe's varied talents for athletics might lead. First, the Babe had a contract to attend six automobile shows—in New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago—to spur sales of a certain manufactuer. ‘Then she had a vaudeville engage- ment in Chicago. After that, so the outline of her plans ran, Miss Didrikson would be ready to beat the feminine world in running, jumping, hurd swim- txu. vaulting, skating, THE SUNDAY BILOXI, Miss.,, March 4.—Polish- ing up the gloss on the backs of their necks and carefully feel- ing their scup bcnes, your grand Nationals’ rookie hurlers and catchers prepared to rest up tomorrow in pre- paration for the greeting of the heavy hitters Monday morning. But there may be a lot cf special duties to perform, however, cn the mor- row, which will keep the young men who have been in training here for nine and o forth, Headed by Heine Manush, Goose Gos- lin and Fred Schulte, the punching de- partment of the Nationals wiil get in tomecrrow night and, as is the usual thing down here, there will be a lot of hand-shaking, reminiscing and such to keep every cne up until | Clark's licted bedtime for the team, | which is 13:30 o’clock. | Buddy Myer, whose trunks have been {in storage at Hotel Biloxi for several days, is slowly motoring to Camp Griff. | With the Missus, he is due to get here in the morning. Ossie Bluege, Dave Harris, Joe Kuhel and Bob Boken are to | report with the evening batch. 'HEN the flock reports for duty | Monday morning the new kid | pitchers will be sent to the hillock to get their baptism. Cronin has an- nounced that Ed Linke, Bud Thomas, | Jchn Burrcw:, the southpaw; Paul Lines, the boy with the “inner,” and Ellswcod Hezzard are ready to have their slants tested. Lloyd Cassell, the “greenest rockie,” who has been down with a coid, will have to take another few days of drilling hefore he get; the opportunity of tossing them at the hit- ting department. If the smackers are anywhere nesr in the condition about which they write | tice game cn Thursday mornirg, at | which time Cronin will sit by to pick from the flock a line-up to send against Atlanta at Mobile on Saturday. But the rule this year is that the rooks are to be given every opportunity for the first few weeks. Nothing but kid pitchers will be used in the first few citrus combats, rock catchers. and the rcok infielders, Travis and Boken, will be cent out to third and short to show what they can do. From all indications this is going to bs a keen le be- tween Bcken and Travis for the lone utility berth which Cronin offers the pair for which to compete. WHEN Boken gets to camp he will find that young Travis has picked up quite a few things the boys over Manager Joe and Johnny Kerr have spent hours in showing the big, rangy | rookie how to get away from throwing | | his weight upon his left foot, with the Commerce of Biloxi will give a dinner | result that he shoves the onion down to | at Hotel Biloxi to the base ball team. | first base faster than he did when he came to the prepping plot. In getting down under fly balls Travis | plays them like a seasoned outfielder. Coming in on bunts he is a little shakey, | his deficiency probably helping<to make | his fielding average of .920 last year Nationals’ Heavy Today and Faces Rook Flingers - Tomorrow; Travis Learns Fast days doing e lot of social mitt flipping | after Uncle | | to Uncle and Joe, there will be & prac- | ‘weight was just the same in each bout | Artillery Due with the Lookouts not matching up with his batting mark of ,352. But Cronin is showing how he can overcome some of the slipshod methods he has in chasing in for the slow ones, and the young man is getting a id base ball education down here in sorghum territory. And Cecil is & keen student, anxious to learn and always asking questions. He admitted today that most of his base ball habits afield are natural cnes, as he | received na tutelage of any account with | the Tennessee nine. . | ~“While he has a lot to learn in fie'd-| | ing,” says Cronin, “he is a natural =*- ter, and with some more polish with the bat is going to be a wizard.” i RE has eyen been talk down here | of making Travis an outfielder if | | the board of strategy thinks he | | will not get enocugh action at third next | scason. But this is only gossip. Much will depend on what Boken | shows, it is intimated, before the Na- | tional boeses will pass expert opinion on | | Travis. Griff, however, is rather positive in his plans for the big boy. “Cecil is a good prospcct, and he will get every chance down here to show me what he | can do,” the boss man opines, looking over at his subject, who is sitting | quietly in a lobby chair. | “If he can break into the line-up in these grap:fruit games he goes back to | | Washington with us probably to get| | the opportunity of stepping onto the | bag held down by a master, Ossie| Bluege, in the opening game, but if he | cannot show me encugh to warrant | that, then he is going back to Chatta- | nooga for more seasoning. I will not| | allow such a good prospect to idle cn | | the bench. Such a move ruined Jimmy | | McLeod in 1930. 1 HOWEVER, the feeling here is that | | both Travis and Boken will have | | | to be geod and show improve- ment as they go along to get into the | Nats’ line-up next Summer. Griff has | been bragging about his utility staff as belng the best in the league. But, of course, he has been figuring that | Cliff_Bolfon, the catcher, and Boken |and Travis will come through: Rice; jand Dave Harris, and Johnny Kerr | have proven their abilities. | Today's practice was a short and smart cne. Sam Rice took a few swipes at the ball and retired. The catchers were kept busy taking turns, and the young pitchers came up for | the strange thing which they have been | throwing around for eight days of the | nine they have bzen here. So far there is no sore arms, nor {ll- | | ness among the camp inhabitants. | Friedrichs is recovered from a cold, | Cassell, the pitcher, is back in harness, there in Chattanooga never told him.|and tomorrow’s rest will b= just what | 1 Navy boxers defeated Washington and | the doctor ordered before the real siege | of Biloxl begins. On Tuesday night the Chamber of | Nick Altrock and Al Schacht will stunt, Grift will talk, Cronin will tell how it | fsels to be a new manager of a cham- | pionship-bound craft, and your corre- | spondent is on the program to make | sketches of the ball players and Biloxi's leading lights in politics. By LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, March 4.—Glenn ‘Warner now is, as an objection= able phrase has it, in our midst—wise, tactful, modest as always. There is no difference between the brand of foot ball played in the |East and on the West Coast, he says. | He did not say that material out on the slope is apt to be superior; but he has said this so many times that perhaps he did not think it necessary to repeat himself. | Or, perhaps, having met players of for next season, he has changed his views gobout Easiern and Western |brawn. Certainly it would scem that youth nowhere could attain greate: stature or physical ruggedness than the young men of the Temple foot ball squad have attained. ‘Temple being addicted to night foot fall, Pop goes on record as being strong for nocturnal play, adding naively that in the course of his administration at Stanford the Cardinals played one game under the electrics. 'OW that Pop is with us, admittedly glad to be here, calling attention to the fact that he is a native of the East, we may with some proprietory pride glance backward over his record as a coach on the West Coast, marking especially trends out there as revealed in the showing of his elevens. I’ his first year, 1924, his eleven cleaned up all the Coast teams that logically should have been beaten, chal- lenged Californie’s long-standing su- pramacy with a 20-20 tie and succumbed to Notre Dame. Next year the eleven lost to Olympic Club, always a tough early season game for the Cardinals, beat Southern Cali- fornia—the Trojans were just beginning to be good—defeated Oregon Aggles, Oregon and California and lost to a great Washington outfit. In 1926 Stanford had a clean slate until the Tournament of Roses came along, when Alabama held her to a tie. Oregon, Southern California, Washing- ton and California were all soundly trounced. The following year Oregon, Washington, California and Pittsburgh were defeated, but St. Mary’s and Santa Clara won surprise victories, while Southern California was tied. In 1928 shooting marbles. Offers, it was said, were pouring in from premoters in all parts of the country. Every- body wanted to book the Babe. Without any notice whatever, Miss Didrikson dropped out of the spot- light. Her pictures appeared no more in the daily prints. There were no interviews from her on what the young girl high jumper should know; no spsculative stories on her prowess as a professional; no pen dipping for material into her ‘amazing carcer as an amateur athlete. It looked as if the Babe were the “forgotten woman.” Now, it appears, Miss Didrickson has simply been watting for the new deal. She said so herself as she re- laxed, pajama-clad, in her suite in a Detroit hotel. “So you want to know,” repeated the Babe, “why I suddenly dropped out of the sports pages? “Well, T will tell you, It's kte- cause you guys quit writing about me,” she said, grinning. “When I first turned professional, my room always was filled up with photographers taking my picture, and reporters asking me when I was going to get married. Everywhere I went they kept after me.” If I drop) into a gymnasium for a bas- 1l game or a workout of any they werc with their ‘Warner, Back in East as Grid Tutor, Leaves No Great Mark For His Stay on West Coast| Temple University who will be available | | Southern California took her first nme! | from the Cardinals. California tied | them. Olympic Club turned in another | | victery, and the team gained its great- est fame and made the Warner system | famous throughout the Nation by a | Cruskhlnt defeat of West Point in New | York. | TN 1929 West Point, California and Washington were beaten; but Southern California won again and | Santa Clara pulled another surprise. | | Minnesota tied the Cardinals in 1930. | Southern California won by a top- ! heavy score and Washington, California (and Dartmouth were defeated. In 1931 Stanford defeated Minnesota and Dart- | mouth, was tied by Olympic Club and | Wachington end was defeated by South- ern California and California. Fall the team was bcaten by Southern | Caliicrnia, by U. C. L. A. and Wash- i gton and Pittsburgh and was tied by California. In all we find never a world-beating record; but at the same time one in which victories and defeats are ar- ranged in due and proper proportion. Stanford, under Warner, turned in many blazing games and not a few sour ones—which means either that Warner system of foot ball is unbeat- able on its good days and rank on fits bad ones, Or, again, it may point to an old, old theory that Pop's offense al- ways has to discount a defense of in- ferior merit. YACHT ENTRY DOUBTFUL Weetamoe Owner Thinks Invasion of England Inopportune. NEW YORK, March 4.—Frederick H. Prince of Boston, owner of the America’s Cup class slocp Weetamoe, arrived from France on the Cunard liner Aquitania yesterday and said he felt it would be the wrong time to send the ~Weetamoe to England to race against the large yachts in that coun- try next Summer, He had considered entering the ‘Weetamoe in the various regattas at Cowes and elsewhere, with Harold S. Vanderbilt sailing her. While he did not say positively that he would not do 50, he gave the impression that he haa decided not to, adding that he thought It unwise to do so this year, cameras and questions. This kept up for several weeks and then they stopped ccming without any sug- gestion on my part. That's why I dropped cut of the papers.” The Babe grinned again, say: “You askin’ me?” But what happened to her plans in professicnal sport? What about th2 ccmpetition she was to engage in and cxhibitions she was to give? “We got a new deal on,” sald the Babe. “I've signed a contract with an automobile company for an au- tomebile tour of the country. I'm going to drive from city to city, giv- ing exhibitions on week ends. It's an advertising stunt that will take three or four months, winding up at the World Fair in Chicago. I'm here marking time, waiting for the ‘go’ sign. Meanwhile, al lthe other plans have been delayed. This job will take all my time as long as it lasts.” Miss Didrikson sand she had a choice between the automobile tour and continuing in vaudeville. She decided after 29 performances in one weeic in a Chicago_theater that vaudeville is not the life for her. , as if to | when you remember the contest that | 1ations between the service schools. | no passing system to work to easy shots | De Last | y, the | ners. STAR, WASHINGTON, NAVY ROUTS ARMY QUINTET, 21 70 24 Loughlin Garners 25 Points, Totaling 241 for Season, Both Being Records. NNAPOLIS, March 4.—The Mid- shipmen today saw what none of them as a student here, at least, had seen during his course —one of its athletic teams administer a real beating to the representatives of its sister institution, the Military Academy. It was the basket ball team of the Naval Academy which accomplished this and it did it by the decisive score of 51 to 24 before the regiment of Mid- shipmen, numbering a little less than 2,000, and about 4,000 others. The Navy team played a great game, but you have to think of Elliott Loughlin, who played at left guard for the Navy today and completed his three-year term as a varsity player, marked the renewal of basket ball re- OUGHLIN scored 25, and that hap- pened to be cne more than made by the whole Army team. Loughlin was helped @ lot by the fine passing and play of his teammates. As for the Army team, it was outclassed. It had and no players who could score with any regularity on the long tosses. Navy scored 7 points before Army | counted, led 12 to 7 and 16 to 8, and ;‘heln ran the figures to 30 to 12 at the all. Loughlin’s 25 points today brought his total for the season to 241 and for his three varsity years to 621. These are records which have never been ap- proached at the Naval Academy. Capt. Bedell and Kastein, along with Loughlin, played their final game for Navy. Navy (51). Army (24) [} aF. 6 Kenerick, 1. Stannoc] Welley. Moor: North, Epler. Meter, z. Hillis' & ooch. . Jablonksy, Herb, & Bedell. ¢ ... 4 Campbell, ¢. Totals . Referee— Degna (Maryland Officials’ Association). N last home match of the season, Lee here this evening by seven bouts | to one. Four of the Navy victories were | by the knockout route, three of them | being in the second round. In the final match, at the unlimited weight, Collins, the best boxer of the visitors, succumbed to a stiff right to| the ribs, delivered by Cutter. Herold won | in the 135-pound cla:s over Short by a left to the solar plexus, which floored his cpponent. Summaries: 115 pounds—Wright, Navs. defeated Cleveland by decision in’three rounds. pounds—Dolan, Navy. defeated De la | by decision in three rounds. 35 pounds—Miller, Navy. defeated Thom- as by knockout in second round. 145 pounds—Mincher, Washington and Lec, defeated Hagel by decision. 155 pounds—McNaughton, Navy. defeated Pound by decision in three’ rounds. | 165 pounds—Herold. Navy, defeated Short by knockout in second round. | d unds—Lambert, Navy, defeated ¥ technical knockout in third round | 1 Ca Mariin Unlimited weight—Cutter, Navy, defeated Collins by knockcut in zecond round. | Referee—Edward Brockman, Baltimore. AVY closed its wrestling season by | winning from West Virginia, 18 to 12. Each side won four bouts, but three of the Navy's were by falls. Summaries: | 118 _POUNDS — Jurado _(Navy) threw | Sharp with & bar and reverse chancery hold. Time. 6:50. | 126 POUNDS—Chittum (West Virginia) OB decision from Clay. Time. adv 135 POUNDS—Winters (Navy) won_de- cision from Gainer. Time advantage. 5:41. 145 POUNDS—Ward (West Virginia) won decision from Wright. Time advantage. POUNDS—8chwartz-Waldu (West V won declsion from Adams. | e, 6:11 POUNDS—Coleman (Navy) _threw her with & body and chancery hold (We 5.0 'OUNDS—-Gwynne y 1 trom Ki adyaniage. 1030 UNLIMITED WEIGHT—Kane (Navy), threw Schweitzer with a reverse bar sad chancery Virginia) Time AVY fencers won from Hamilton | College, 13 to'4, getting their big | margin with the foils, in which they secured all nine bouts. Gallantin, Navy, with epee, and Ballanty, Hamil- ton, with the sabers, were double win- ‘The Plebes confined their activities to aquatics and made an even break, their swimming team losing to Mercersburg Academy, 52 to 11, and their water polo team defeating Baltimore Poly, 29 to 4. O’Keefe of the visiting swimmers was an easy victor both sprint distances, while Grider, in the breast stroke, was | the only winner of a first for the Navy. | CUBS TOPPLE GIANTS IN YEAR’S FIRST TILT Champions Shell Three Hurlers for 10-2 Win—Herman, Leslie Hit Three Each. By the Associated Press. VALON CATALINA ISLAND, Calif., March 4. — Chicago's National League champions shelled three Neéw York Giant pitchers for a 10-to-2 victory today in the first exhibition game of the season. Charlie Grimm’s outfit won the game in the third, when it got to Schumacher for four runs on four hits, a walk and an error. With one away, Paul McCar- se. & theory D. €, MAKCH 5, 1 PR Do 4 S v i : Tigers Bank Hopes on Rowe and Fox AND NOTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT. Y' KNOW THESE ENGLISH HAVE A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE THEY COME To GAT WITH A BELLRINGER \ HERES WHAT (T SAYS + BENEVOLENT OLD LADY!" MEADOWS, AS TS NEW YEARS EVE DON'T “ouU THINK T WOoULD BE AlcE T© PUT MoUSeE TRAPS?" STILTON IN THE & THERE'S ONE (N THS NEW YEAR NUMBER OF PUNCH THATS VERY FUNNY, THERES A PICTURE OF AN OLD LADY TALKING TO HER BUTLER \ N ( ve-e-e-yaH! YaH! vaH! STILTON IN 774" MOUSE TRAPS | BT, | DONT SEE ANY SENSE IN BAITING TRAPS WITH A BETTER KIND OF CHEESE, THE MICE GET KILLED JUST THE same 7222287 WELL, ME FOR SOMe LITTLE OLD SHUTEYE, HAD A HARD DAY % Z A fi.’é BASKET BALL BOOM ROARS IN MIDWEST Larger Crowds See Big Ten Games Than Last Year. New Rules Help. EW YORK, March 4.—Basket bell is rip rcaring in the Middle West. They are having a better season out there in the midlands than they had last year. Consider this, you pessimists and prophets of Jeremiah who hzve been writing off intercollegiate athletics as 8 bust. The above pleasing information comes | from Maj. John L. Griffith, commis- sioner of athletics of the Western Con- ference, who assigns to this condition that the new rules have speeded up the game. cited that fact as a reason for the satisfactory season they are having in the East. Maj. Griffith believes, too, that a contributing fact is an cven distribu- tion of strengih among mcst of the quintets. PPROXIMATE figures of attendance at varicus games as given by the commissioner point to gratifying financial returns. ‘The Iowa-Michigan game at Iowa City drew 6,500; 6,000 spectators attended the Northwestern- Illinols game at Urbana; some 6,000 enthusiasts paid to see the Purdue and Wisconsin contests at Northwestern. Notre Dame has had four sell-out games at South Bend with 6,000 spec- tators, and the Illinois-Michigan setto attracted 6,500 partisans. Crowds in the Ohio State fleld house at basket ball games have exceeded those of last year at every contest held thus far. In all, a condition which may yet see shaky budgets balanced and tottering | athletics structures securely propped. s G. P. 0., STATE VICTORS Treasury, Liberty Loan Losers in Colored Departmental Loop. Government Printing Office basketers | downed Treasury last night, 34 to 28, in the opening game of the Colored Gov- ernment Basket Ball League at the| Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. Sewell scored 19 points for the winners, State Department provided something of an upset when it defeated Liberty Loan, 39 to 29, and ‘Army War College won by forfeit from Commerce. G. P. O. (34). s 28y, * e Freasury (28). Gregg. 8.Jackson, Totals ren, a rookie outfielder, singled, went to Govinato second on Travis Jackson’s wild throw and scored on Billy Herman’s one-base blow. Woody English forced Herman, but Kiki Cuyler singled. Babs Herman walked, filling the bases, and then “OI’ Hoss" Stephenson ed & single, scor- ing English and Cuyler. H. Taylor's sharp single brought in Babe Herman. Pat Malone blanked the Giants for the first three innings, and Rov Hen- shaw, young recruit.from the Univer- sity of Chicago, held Bill Terry’s clan scoreless for the next three. The Giants ccored in the seventh at the expense of Lercy Herrmann when Koenecke sin- gled, went to third on James’ iwo- bagger and counted on Lieber’s infield out. Sam Leslie, who replaced Terry at first for the Giants in the fifth, singled to score James. Leslie got three hits in three bat. Billy Herman had three to pace the Cub batters. “ofi crowd of 3,000 watched the exhibi- The score: New York.. times at in three . B 200—2 E] Chicago 00x—1014 2 Schu; armalee. Salveson _and Richards. y, Mancuso: Malone, Hen- shaw. Herrmann 'and Hartneit. Z. Tayior, Campbell. e FILIPINO WHIPS MEXICAN. “They call it variety,” said the Babe, “but going over the same act four times a day is not my idea of variety.” (Copyrieht. 1033, by. North American { Newspaper Aln Inc.) ance, MANILA, March 4 (P)—Kid Arca Mickey, ¢ Totals ...13 This writer has | | | | THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RIC! 1 Collins and the Red Sox. | ERE is a triple swirl, which | helps to make the combination I of Eddie Collins and the Boston Red Sox one of the most attrac- tive arrangements base ball has known | in years, For example: 1. Boston is one of the best base ball towns of the nation. Given a fair | chance, it will back its ball-playing ath- letes to the limit. 2. The Red Sox have one of the finest traditions the old game can show. For one thing, they have never lost a world serfes championship. They came from | behind in 1903 to overtake the brilliant Pirates. They beat the Giants in 1912 after an eight-game war. They beat the Dodgers, the Phillies and the Cubs when Speaker, Lewis and Hooper were swarming all over the landscape, 3. Eddie Collins is still leading as the | all-time second baseman for any all-star |team. A .350 hitter, a great infielder, a fine base runner, he stands as one of | the smartest of the long parade. His record for sportsmanship has | never been smirched in any way. In |one way or another he has been con- nected with . winning combinations through 8 or 10 campaigns—on six oc- casions with the Athletics and White | Sox as player—Ilater with the Athletics as one of Connie Mack’s advisers and directors. The Red Sox have a long way to go. but they will soon be sterting. No on Luilds up 2 pennant winner in a year or two, but the main idea is to be headed in the right direction. Three Great Infields. Eddie Collins was a star member of W. AND L. RING VICTOR Generals Win Four of Eight Bouts in Conference Meet. LEXINGTON, Va., March 4 (#).— Washington and Lee’s highly-favored team won four of the eight bouts in to- night's finals of the second annual Southern Conference wrestling tourna- ment to gain a margin over all opposi- tion. ‘Summaries: 115-POUND _Thomag (W. and (W. (North Caroling), f: SN Backls W . 1), time advantage, 2. 133-POUND—Munger (W. and L.) ed Troxler (Duke). fall, 4:50. 145-POUND—ALlis L) defeat- s4 ntas 35. L) gete Dogrier (V. M. 1) time advantage, 4:18. UNLIMITED—Idol (North Carolina) | feated_ Burgess (V. 1), time advant 2:11, extra period. — o OAKLAND GETS EX-GIANT. OAKLAND, Calif., March 4 (#).—The ) | Oakland base ball' club today announc- | ed the signing of Art Veltman, catcher | formerly with the New York Giants. He played with Bridgeport of the East- ern League last season. - HOCKEY STAR RECALLED. CHICAGO, March 4 (&) .—Helge Bostrum, veteran defense star. today was recalled from the Tulsa Oilers by his old club, the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. Elevates Virginia at Boxing La Rowe’s Teams Have Annexed Four Conference Titles, 12 Successive Dual Meets. NIVERSITY, Vs, March 4 (#).—John 8. La Rowe, who 12 years ago introduced the manly and scientific game of fisticuffs at the University of Vir- ginia looked back today upon a box- ing record of 44 victories, 18 defeats and 2 ties. Under his tutelage the Cavalier boxers have won 4 Southern Con- ference championships and have gene through 12 dual meets in recent years without a defeat. The Vir- ginia mittmen lost their lact team decision back'in 1931. won the decision tonight after 10 rounds of ting with Reul Talan, billed as welterweight champion of Mexico, Ta- lan was hampered by an infected tooth. Among his most nctable teams wes the aggregation that recently punched out a clean-cut champion- ship in the outhern Conference meet after moving seven contenders into the finals. Previously the Cava- liers had defeated Navy in the Mid- shipmen’s home ring—a feat that had never before been accomplished in Navy's 14 years of intes te ccmpetition. ‘The Cavaliers wpn their first srn Conference champlonship 927, repeated in 1931, won the following year and gained ir fourth title this year. This year's championship, the most decisive ever gained by the Cavi liers, saw the crowning of four Uni versity of Virginia champicns in as many weights. The Cavailers piled up 29 points to far out-distance the second-place Univerrity North Carolina mittmen. | one of the game's three greatest infields. The triple combination incluces the following casts: | _ Boston, 1897—Tenney, Lowe, Long and | Jimmy Collins. | _Chicago Cubs, 1906—Chance, Evers, Tinker and Steinfeldt. Athletics, 1910-1914—Mclnnis, Eddie | Collins, Barry and Baker. 1 think the edge belongs to the Bos- |ton infield and the athletic guartet | |as regards hitting power. Both had | something on the Cub selection in this respect. All four of the Boston delega- tion were well over .300, while the Cub average was well be'ow this mark. Herman Long and Jimmy Collins of | Boston were about as strong a ccmbi- nation as short and third ever kne on any one team. McInnis, Eddie Co!- | lins and Baker were all hard, dang:rous | hitters, and while Jeck Barry was a | trifle under .300, he was in no sense overshadowed by his able mates. | ol | Fleeting Fame, In looking over selections for the | 1933 Ryder Cup golf team, a team picked from the 10 best home-breds, one sees again the wil-o'-the-wisp as- | pect that belongs to sporting fame. Less than five years ago I saw Johnny Farrell finish with four birdies in the morning roupd and two birdies in the final stretch to beat Bobby Jones by a stroke in the most famous of all | play-offs for the United States open. They had tied at 72 holes before leading Jones by a stroke. Johnny planted his tee shot in the rough and Bob pulled off a great tee shot. ‘Then, from the rough, Farrell almost holed his second shot and Jones had to sink a 25-footer for a half in 3. Johnny had to drop a curling 9-foot putt to get his half on the last green, ;-I:olnel was stone dead in 3 on a par ole. Yet the Farrell of 1928 is not on the Ryder Cup team of 1933. Then there is Bill Burke. Two years ago I saw Burke win one the most dramatic opens ever played. | At the end of 72 holes he had the | title packed away—until George Von Elm dropped a 12-foot putt to tie all day scrap they were still in a hard knot. On the second extra day Burke won by the slim mar- gin of one stroke in the most extended contest golf has ever known, That was the Inverness carnival where Von Elm tied up the show twice in succession by remarkable s on the final green. Bill Burke made a great competitive showing in that championship—and it all happened only two years ago. Yet the open champion of 1931 is off the Ryder Cup list, which is further proof of the dizzy rapidity involved in an ascent and a descent. Here today—forgotten tomorrow. And yet the Ryder Cup team named is one of the best selections we have | seen in some time. It has given full credit to the accomplishments of 1932 and 1933, which happen to be the years that count just at this spot. (Copyright, 1033, by North American New. paper Alliance, Inc.) \ot Every brake relining entirely pleased. 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Let them deliver and Detroit will be & team of considerable importance in the American League. Rowe, called “Schcolboy” in the Texas loop because cf his youth, has Just turned 21, and what a build he has for chucking the ball past the batter. He is 6 feet 4 inches in height and weighs 205 pounds, and young men of | that size are welcomed in the big | leagucs because, all other things being equa., tney can stand mucn work. With tne Beaumoat champions last year, Rowe won 19 games wnile losing seven and nad an earned-run average of 2.34 per cent. | J£ he is able to make the jump from a class A ciub to the major leagues he will round out one of the strong- €st pitening siafis Detroft has owned in yeers. Herrmg, Hogsett, Uhie, Mar- berry, Briages, Sorreil and Wyatt are seven well ccasoned and capabie pitch- | ers and the ecditicn of sowe would rTKe the stall strong frcm stem to stern. said to have unusual ability | ¥ well be the prize reciuit pitch- jer of the season | _Fox was th champion baiter of the Texas Loagus in 1952 there was pleaty of panch in his work. He turned Ut a perceniage of .U57 in 115 games compiled a total of 139 hits. In- | cd were 23 doublcs, 11 triples and 19 homcrs, s> that one out of every | three bingies mads by young Fox went for an cxtra base. He also i3 light and | fast ca his icet. as h's 30 stolen bases | indicate, and speed is somothing the ‘Tgr:; can use. | Since Detroit is none too strong in ihe cuifield Ciants of th: Tigers . Leing, p i of | che: ot 7 rrovided he hiis as & i ERALD WALKER i: th» only outfielder | in the Tig cral disoutes with Manoger | Wa'ker maraged to bat .323 Ia. | which was better than any o | could accomplish. Johr Sicne, | slumped to .297 L 1 is 2 fair cer- | tainty in the cutfie p':u:e:i by a strong Lite:. s b | fielder at best and his .205 Detroit is not too recomm-: Fox will get some comretil such payers Shiver cnd o bcen brougat tack Lawrenc: bat'ed Harris rather likes speed and is a good = .313 for Montreal and Doljack. .357, for New Orlezns, tut both are regarded as | cutside chances for & regular position. So the door is open for Fox if his bat is | potent enough to prevent it being | slammed in his face. 1f Harris can strengthen his outfleld, |the Tigers will show considerable | strength in the American Leegue, for |with Davis, Gehringer, Rogell and | Owen on the infield that portion of the |team will te much improved. Owen comes back from Newark rnd should cat'sfy the cemands at third bese. Th> Tigers might surprise a Iot of folks this year. | One for the '|Boo HE all-time record of not be- ing shut out in s single game in a season was made by the New York Yankees in 1932. burgh holds the National League record by having lost anly one shut- out_game in 1901. The record of most consecutive games won on_the road is 17 by New York Giants in 1916. The Ameri- can League record is 16 by Washing- ton in 1912. Most consecutive games lost on th> road is 22, by Pittsburgh, 1890. Philadelphis American League. lost 19 in 1916. Tris Speaker holds the all-time record of making 50 or more two- base hits in five seasons. Here is a list of the most home runs by a player in one season for each American League club: New York—Ruth, 1927, 60. Philadelphia—Foxx, 1932, 58. St. Louis—Williams, 1922, 39. Cleveland—Auverill, 1932, 32. Boston—Ruth, 1919, 29. Detroit—Alexander, 1929, 25, Chicago—Reynolds. 1930, 22. ‘Washington—Goslin, 1925-29, 18. National League list tomorrow. 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