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4 Four Mat “Champions” Raking in Dough : Barnes Catching o ° Rassles Rudy TACKLES DUSEK THURSDAY AT AUDITORIUM. MAKE TIMES 00D FOR ALL INVOLVED Londos, Browning, Pesek and De Glane "Rule” as Fans Pay and Like It. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. RESTLING’S he-mannish version of “Button, but- ton, who’s got the but- ton?” a game played with the world heavyweight championship instead of a button, continues to arouse the ire of State athletic commissions and reformers, but the pachyderm whip-crackers who run the show ostensibly are well satisfied to allow cash customers to search | for the title. | In modern wrestling, as in the old shell game, “you pays your money and takes your choice.” Four “world champions” are barnstorming the coun- try, and the cham- pionship mix - up, which might be fatal to many| sports, appears to| be playing a prom- | inent ‘part in en-| abling wrestling to continue as the| third big sports| money - maker, trailing only big league base ball and college foot ball. Cash cus- tomers seem quite willing to take their choice. OR is it any wonder the several mat factions appear satisfied with present matters. Mat history discloses the only man to hold the undisputed world champions” are barnstorming the coun- was Frank Gotch. Since Gotch's day there have been undisputed champions galore and lean gate receipts. In fact, it was 15 years after Gotch retired| before wrestling again became a big- money sport. That was in 1929 when “champions” | began to burst forth like spray from & Roman candle. Today there are four “world cham- pions"—Jim Londos, Henri De Glane,! Jim Browning and Johanuesvk,h Eaclk;‘ barnstorms the country, billing himse! | as the world titlenolder, ‘ang do the| In the doubles Joe Harrison and As- fans love it? There's the financial re- | tor Clarke defeated Louis Pantos and port to back it up. | Bradley Mandley, 1.236 to 1221, and | It's grand fun, but how come? Red Megaw and Ollie Pacini downed — Eddie Espev and Whip Litchfield, 1.207 T would take half a dozen blood-| to 1,198. Harrison turned in the best hounds, a geneologist, two Phila-| delphia’_lawyers and the combined | efforts of Scotiand Yard and the Bu- reau of Investigation to find it now,| but it started | thusly. Frank | Gotch, “undisputed : world champion, Tetired in 1914, Charlie Cutler ac- cepting it as a gift. In 1915 a rugged young Nebraskan, Joe Stecher, took it away from Cut- ler. Then in 1917 Earl Caddock whipped Stecher, but shouldered arms, and return- ing from France in poor shape physically, lost to Stecher in a re- turn match in 1920. Robert Fredericks, nee Strangler Lewis, then came to the front when, more harmful than-the physical strain. in the same year, he defeated Stecher. Lewis' rule was short, however, for —— 2 Eiihhuain 7ok liied the cowa| GALLANT SIR PRESSED from Strangler. Howevir. Lewis ktl:lmg | right back and won a return matchand | R held the title until 1925. | Agua Caliente Favorite Only Nose | In that year Wayne Munn, a giant 1 et o Tesion Hills | with little wrestling ability, picked up| the 240-pound Lewis and hurled him| AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, March 4 into the orchestra seats of a little the- | (#) —Gallant Sir, big 4-year-old fa- ater in Kansas City. Lewis didn't|vorite for the $50.000 Acua Caliente return after the foll, so Munn took Handicap, won his first star: here at a the crown. Less than a month later. route distance today, but the margin of however, Stanislaus Zbyszko took the|victory over Lemon Hills was only a crown again by pinning Munn, but | nose. - Stecher recaptured the championship|” The race was 2t a mile and a from Zbyszko and held it until 1928. gixteenth and five thcroughbreds, all Here the venerable Lewis popped UD| nominees for the handicap March | and defeated Stecher in a match in|ag. started. Gallant Sir was odds-on | 6t. Louis which lasted nearly all night. | favorite. Old Depot was third, with | N. in 1029, Gus Sonnenberg | Frince Pest and Satin Spar traling. I planted his head in Mr. Lewis =g fleshy stomach and was crowned ehampion. AFTER CENTNAL’S SCALP Here the trouble began. Sonnenberg, | like Lewis, was affiliasted with a cir- [ Massanutten Swimmers to Invade for Meet on March 17. cuit of grapplers run by Billy Sandow, with strongholds in the Midwest. But Gus immediately | wOODSTOCK, Va., March 4 —Mas- | went East, where | ganuten Military Acodemy swimming | Jack Cuiley Was| team, which in its latest meet downed | major domo, and | augysta Military team for the second signed for a cham- | yime this season by the same score, 41- pionship matchi 55 now is looking to its meet with the with a Curley Tep- | crack Central High team of Washing- ton, South Atlantic schoolboy title holders, March 17 in Washington. ABE COLEMAN, Squattiest of all the heavyweights, who next show. 'SUNRISE AND TEMPLE Jim Londos. JBak:rs Drop Doubles but Take Team M~tch—Newmen Is High With 670. UNRISE BAKERY bowlers bowed | twice to Temple All-Stars in dou- bles battles last night on the North- | east Temple drives, but led by Dutch| Newman, they came back to wallop the‘ 'zl';r%plemen in the team match, 3,110 to | Newman rolled a powerful 670 score | for his five gomes. Joe Harrison was ' best for the losers with 621. ‘The second five-game blocks will be | rolled next Friday on the Convention Hall drives. BASKET BALL STRENUOUS Strain on Schoolboys, Physical Ed- ucation Expert Holds. IOWA CITY. Iowa (#).—High school boys who are ancuclng basket ball sev- eral hours daily and playing two games 8 week are probably straining them- selves physiolcgically and expending too much nervous energy, says Prof. Ernest C. Schroeder, who has headed the Uni- | versity of Iowa men’s physical educa- tion department for 25 years. | The rapid growth of a boy in his middle teens, Dr. Schroeder explains,| produces a tendency toward nervous disorders and the expenditure of pervous | energy by worry over contests is even | Henri De Glane, recentative. Gus| never went| Choice Tuesday FAVORED IN FEATURE PORTNER'S CARD. Jim Browning. PETE SARRON, Birmingham featherweight, who meets Benny Schwartz, Baltimore southpaw, in thrcugh with it | Commission de- stone State. New An open tourna- Commission and Dick Shikat emerged There now were two “champions,” of Strangler Lewis’ failure to meet him. Bui there was more coming. l back and defeated George. Three Montreal. Paul Bowser, who had suc- simo of that par- in his circus and Then Londos, agement, Curley grabbed up turned down, but John Fesek: Hon by the New thetic championship until last month York. Glane and Pesek. Billy Sandow has| reason, but Marshall is not taken seri- o Tanis s’ mon-iile Salr eight-round wind-up bout. and the Pennsyl- clared his title va- York and Illinois ment was held by victcrious. Shortly afterward Shikat when suddenly John Pesek bcbbed up Part cf Ohiy rceognized Pesck as the | N 1931 Sonnenberg lost to Ed Don weeks later Henri De Glane, a French- ceeded Billy San- ticular wheel, in- cleimed the title dirs: with | sway ond started | Lewis, who chal- was givea cham- York Staie Athletic Commission. when a rangy Midwesterner, Jim | So take your choice. Your leading | popped up with Everett Marshall, for ously. Neither are the present title regm“ed seriously. > vania Athletic cant in the Key- agreed. the Pennsylvania lost_to Jim Londos. and claimed the crown on the strength titlehoider. He was champion No. 3./ George. A month later Lewis came Canadian, won a foul from Lewis in dow as generalis- cluded De Glane fcr_him. the Cu his own wheel. So lenged Londos, was pionship recogni- Lewis clung to his extremely syn- Browning, pinned the veteran in New “champions” are Londos, Browning, D2 | whom he claims the title for some vague claims of Don Geol ! appears in preliminary of Joe Turner's | | DUCKPINNERS DIVIDE | Cathop, sporting the colors of the R. set_in the doubles, rolling 659. {1:12 110 and 11. | tary | sented and in all about 50 THE SUNDAY ROCKY NEWS WINS NEW ORLEANS 'CAP Favorite Easily Outruns El Puma in $2,000 Race at Fair Grounds. By the Associated Press. EW ORLEANS, March 4.—Fa- vored in the betting, 5-year- old Rocky News of the Audley Farm stables today raced to an easy victory in the $2,000 New Orleans handicap over a mile and a furlong at the Fair Grounds. Ridden by Jockey Kacala, Rocky News made no bid until after the first hali mile, then worked steadfly to the front to draw in the stretch and fin- ished three lengths ahead of Mrs. C. Grayson’s El Puma, an outsider; J. A Adler’'s War Plane, finished close ia the third spct. The feature, for 3-year-olds and up, drew nine entries and the victory was worth $1,680 to the Audley Farm. The time was 1:52 3-5 on a fast track. Although well backed, Rocky News paid on $2 certificates $9 to win, $4.40 place and $3.60 show. El Puma’s place tickets were worth $20.80 and the show, $12.49. War Plane paid $5.20 to show. | IAMI, Fla, March 4 (#) —The | ‘Wheatley Stable’s Slapdash de- | feated a high-class field of her own sex in the nursery stakes No. 2 be- | fore a crowd of 11,000 spectators at Hia- leah Park today. ‘Winning her third victory in as many starts, Slapdash ran the three furlongs in 34 seconds to finish a length ahead of C. V. Whitney's High Glee. Joe Ed- wards' Macadam was another length and a half back in third place. Our Rose was fourth. Just a Sunbeam, un- defeated in two starts here, broke in the air and stumbled at the break, and thus | had no chance. Slapdash paid $3.30 for $2 in the mutuels and gained the major share of the $2.000 added purse. Track records fell in two other events. M. Eastman estate, set up a new mark of 1:2245 for seven furlongs in the second race, and C. Leroy King's parimutuel cracked the record for a mile and an eighth in the fifth race, Pari- mutuel was clocked in 1:49%5, com- pared with the mark of 1:5025 re-| cently set up by the plater Brass Mon- key. Cathop's time clipped. three-fifths of a sccond off the seven-furlong rec- ord establiched by Scotch Gold. | AVANA, March 4—The Cuba and Chile Stable’s consistent 5-year-old | g, gelding. Money Shine, led all the | wav to win the fifth race, a six-furlong | sprint for 4-year-olds and up. I‘.‘[?nk?y Shine, running the distance in | Johnscn's mare, Zebra, which came fast | in the stretch to win the place from Mrs. M F. Keller's Chianti. Monkey Shine paid 7 to 5 to win. Shadows of the Past BY I C. BRENNER. PAL MOORE. HE was christened Thomas Wil- son Moore, but as Pal Moore he was known to a myriad of fight fans who liked his style and were always sure of getting their money’s worth when he was one of the ring contestants. Pal is a little heavier than when he fought all over Amer- ica and in England following the World War, but he carries his extra weight well and still keeps in physi- cal trim by getting a workout every time the fighting fever comes over im. Moore, like Packey McFarland and other former fighters who have turned to business, has made his mark in his new field of activity. He lives on the South Side of Chi- cago and is a prominent Chicago Board of Trade broker, Pal was born in Memphis on July 28, 1894, and started his ring career when he was 19, and when the World War broke out and Uncle Sam’s boys went across, Pal, with many other famed American fight- ers, found himself in England, where he beat Jimmy Wilde, then king of the flyweights, in three rounds. Among the good boys whom Moore fought are Pete Herman, Frankie Genaro, Bud Taylor, Joe Lynch, Frankie Jerome, Frankie Burns, Frankie Mason, Eugene Criqui, Johnny Ertle, Kid Wolfe, Young Zulu Kid, Jimmy Walsh and Jack Sharkey. His record shows many victeries, inclvding a 14-round kncckout of Criqui. In 1919 he en- grged in a return bout with Wilde, wha wen the decision at the end of 29 rcunds. (Copyrizht. 1933, o SCHOOLS IN RING MEET Fifty Boxers to Seek South lantic Honors at Staunton. STAUNTON, Va., March 4—Five schools have announced they will have full teams in the Scuth Atlantic schoolboy boxing tcurney to be held at Stevnton Militarv Academy here March ‘Ther~ arc Portsmouth High, Grcenbrizr Military School, Dan- ville Military Insiitute, Augusta Mili- Arademv and Staunton. Some half dezen cther schocls will be repre- fighters are Entries close t- expected to take part. tomorrow. Ed an of Baltimore will referee. He will be assisted by Maj. w. Big Print 8hop.36 | Nat. Cp. Press.d | Standards 1 STAR, WASHINGTON, In the Squared Circle BY FRANCIS E. STAN. PPARENTLY {t's next to impos- sible to inveigle two “world wrestling champions” on the mat at the same time but Washington grappling followers will have the opportunity next Thursday to compare & pair of “titleholders” the next best way. Prof. Joe Turner will present “Cham pion” Jim Londos against Freank Jud- son and “Champion” John Pesek ageinst Jim Clinkstock. It is believed to be one of the few times in mat'his- tory two world wrestling “champs” have appeared on the same card. “I'll knock him out,” says Pete Sar- ron, referring to Benny Schwartz, whom he opposes Tyesday in the eight-round feature bout at Portner's Arena. Sarron " feored to outpoint Schwartz but knocking Benny kicking is something else again. Schwartz isn't going to climb much higher in the ban- tamweight division but he's still too clever and nn:.-wue fi:‘oh:e b;e?rded as a jpective kayo 9 out of 100 Dantams But_maybe Sarron held out on the clientele against Frankie DeAngelo as far :L his true socking ability was con- cern possibilities in rassling are truly remarkable—and limitless. Senor Jose Turner, for instance, could take his 10 rasslers this week, shift 'em around, and wind up with a card, head- Ined by Londcs and Pesek. which would show folks how to defy the depression in a big way. But that idea's out—the part about matching Jeems and Johnny, anyway. As it is, with Londos, Pesek, Steinke, the Duseks, Coleman and Jones on Thursday's card, the depression isn't likely to be much in evidence anyway. But the mat racket has possibilities o%her than the matching of two “cham- pions.” How about a card pairing off two former foot ball stars like McMillan and Savoldi; two reformed movie actors JEWELERS' LEAGUE. W. L M. 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FELLOWS' LEAGUE. SRREBERER! Co 5 | Vet Adm., 1.. 4 4|1.C.C.. & D. C, MARCH 5, 1933—PART FIVE. y 1., SOUARE DEAL SIRPRSES BRTON Warned to Look for Worst, Watson Now Is Ready to Defend Yankees. like Kotsonaras, former villain, and Jacques Humberto, to have been a hero in a’small film; two scissors experts like Stecher and Grob- mier, and two wrestler-contortionists like Pritz Kley and Bertc Assirati? ACK PORTNEY, a southpaw light- weight from Baltimore, has been making the rounds of local news- paper offices. “Listen, pallie,” he warbles, “this here Joey Goodman has been doing a lot of fighting with his tongue. He had one fight at Alexandria and it was 50 terrible he was almost thrown out of the ring. - I want a fight with 8o what, Jack? Sin ce M jig-saw puzzles, have become the rage, especially among the younger gentry, rasslers have been in demand in Holly- wood. Directors claim some of the current crop of pachyderms are un- beatable for house haunting, etc. That's where Hans Steinke has been lo these many months. See where Londos and Stecher drew £29,829 t'other night in Chi and Mc- Cready licked Lewis in Buffalo? “It won't be long now.,” 3d Corps Area pugllists are singing. The an-| nual schnozzle-bustin’ tourney for the | 'ATSON had been tipped off before area championships have got the | he came over to expect nothing sojers pepped up like nobody’s busi- but the worst of it from American ness, It's March 23. fighters, fans halr.:d ommufi Maybe a’:’i ro talked with Phil Scott, who really When word got out that Joey Good- | get a raw deal that night he boxed man and Stumpy ~Jacobs will be | Sharkey in Miami, though Phil had matched if Stumpy gets by Vince|given the American public the worst Serio Tuesday, somebody suggested | of it so often it was hard to feel much Frankle Mann hire a fiddler to play | sympathy for him on that one occasion. the Merry Widow waltz for eight| “At any rate, the Seaman seemed rounds. | rather surprised that no bottles or bul- lets were tossed at him during and after his fight with Fidel La Barba, He also was loud in his praise of La Barba’s clean fighting. though the customers had razzed Fidel for what they consid- | ered unnecessary roughness. Probably Watson was surprised to find that La | Barba did not have a dagger concealed up|OR him. | EW YORK, March 4—Sea- man Watson, unlike Sailor Sharkey, is anything but lo- quactous. But there fs one subject upon which the Seaman will speak at considerable length. The Brit- ish featherweight champion is sold on the sportsmanship of the American boxing fan. He says that when he gets back to Newcastle-on-Tyne he will cast the lie in the teeth of the first bloke who tries to tell him, or any one else within his hearing, that a foreigner Icm‘t get an even break over here. pictures, like declared Joe ! ‘Turner, “but he’s suspended for | 30 days on acccunt of fouling Frank Judsen.” “But there’s no athletic commission here to suspend Garibaldi, Joe,” venerable promoter was reminded. l;nh-( sald Josephus, } HERNDON HIGH VICTOR Teams Play Tie. | Special Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va. 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OS ANGELES, March 4—The interesting thing about Bill Shores, husky new member of the Giants’ pitching staff, is the remarkable revival he had. last Summer after he had about all the misfortunes imaginable the year previous. In the Spring of 1931, at the Ath- letics’ Port Myers Camp, Shores was anticipated to be one of Connie ' ts, for h2 had won 12 :xldd;wwpedm b:;ul five for the Ele- phants the year before. But things started = to the b'lz' ‘Texan. nails, ed at his right big toe, and then the left became infected him to idle as the Mackmen iphis, and C. d. Herbert Miller of Pl R. (Paddy) Mills of an Entire Season. some more. He no sconer got back into uniform than he was hit in the groin during by a ball smacked by Cramer. meant two more weeks on -the shelf. His next nfl.lncuon was an attack of in- - B | But Shores’ work with Portl last Summer was really remarkable. ‘ He was cer Abbott's itcher and he won 19 games | 11, and in 18 of his victories he 1 started and finished, and coupled with his relief work ( ] in a total of 37 games) was factor in Portland winning fiag in 18 years. *7 Comn 1933, GenenaL C1oaR G, fic. | Boys Beat Aldie Basketers—Girls' Bowling League Standings || Record Smasher FIVE-GAME SCORE OF 747 IS DUCKPIN WONDER. | | | RAY BARNES. [ DISTRICT LEAGUE King Pin®.. Hyattsville | Columbia ... 1 Beaver Dam.. Georgetown . .37 41 Petworth .. Individual Averages. CONVENTION HALL. Ave. -i7 Walson ..7! LUCKY STRIKE. McPhil'my.60 123-41 Daly ... Weidman. . 64 , Thoree | RECREATICN. Parsons ‘ Corcoran Bromley . | | Mandley Smith | Woods . ..66 118-4 McGolrick.24 66 114 Miler .68 115-35 P.Lawh'me.56 HYATTSVILLE. Santini . 114-28 O. Hiser H. Hiser 114-12 Waldrop Halloran 4 lliard BIA. Bortnick 4 Archer 110-28 Seltzer . 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Barnes is far from a stranger here. Ever so often he visits to help carry on Baltimore’s never-ending fued with the Nation's Capital and more often than not with marked success. But lately Barres has become a lead- ing attraction. The Oriole is by way of challenging the great Tronsky of Connecticut for the No. 1 spot on any bowling program one ‘cares to present. He placed the birdie deftly on the United States sweepstakes champ re- cently at Atlanta in a $100 singles | match, and a few days later at Rich- mond surpassed the great five-game record established on the same maple- ways this Winter by Tronsky. N our humble judgment there is little to choose between Barnes and Tronsky, despite the superlatives em- ployed up and down the Coast to de- scribe the Willimantic wizard. Results count, and Barnes is one of the most consistent members of the pay:off line in the whole history of the game. He probably leads Tronsky and all the | other big-timers in purses collected in | the last three years, | _He, too, youll remember, won & United States Sweepstakes, and like | Tronsky, set a record in the process. | It was Barnes' 15-game mark of 1967, | made in 1932, that Tronsky beat to triumph this year with 2,101. Yet, with | this ~ sensational performance, Nick 1. | went only four sticks up on Barnes | for three years of competition in the | national 'stakes, Nick with an average of 125-26 and Ray with 125-22 for 45 games. [ e HEN Nick shot 746 in the opening iW set of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress sweepstakes at Richmond the news spread to nearly | every bowling center in the East be- fore he launched upon the second 3| block. Such a score under champion- ship_conditions was almost incredible. | “That'll give the boys something to shoot at for a long time,” said the wiseacres, but for the time being all | lost sight of Barnes. The Baltimorean | many times had proved capable of shooting into the 700's, and .like Tronsky, of holding a terrific pace over a lengthy stretch. Barnes was the best bet in the country to top Tronsky's record and it was worth a straight wager eventually he'd do it. 'HESE two great bowlers have one asset in common. Neither suffers reaction from a big game or sen- sational set. Tronsky started his 15- game record with a string of 173, and finished with identically the same. For some bowlers such a start would not have been the advantage it might ap+ pear. Some athletes somchow give the impression of bing afraid of big suc- cess, or is there such a thing as lim- ited capacity for victery? Had Tronsky and Barnes shot their records against each other. It would have been a trial of determination for Nick. At the end of the second game he would have been 93 sticks behind, for in string No. 2, Barnes chalked up an even 200, and Tronsky, his poorest count, 113. From there on it would have been an even scrap until the last game in which Nick shot 162 against 138. E issue would have been settled in the final box, which both rolled flat, a fact remindful of a remarkable feature of Tronsky's performance in the National Stakes. In only one frame out of 150 did Nick lcave more than two pins stending. This was in box No. 10 of his fifth game. where he took a soven, which would have lost by one L |pin to Barnes. Tronsky had 17 flat nines and seven eights. and altogether lost only 34 sticks, a trifie more than two a game. This in itself may be a record. Barnes hasn't announced his part- ner for the Atlantic Coast Doubles, an event sponsored by the Times, but other prospective entrants hope it won't be Tronsky. 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