Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 36

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934, SPORTS. Ring Wile Tells in Everett’s Victory : Garden Hit by Hamas-Schmeling Maich BUCK T00 SART FORSTEVEDUDAS Heavy Scores Impressively in 10-Rounder—Semi-Final Bout Big Brawl. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. SPINDLE-LEGGED Buck Ever- ett deserves all the derby-dof- fing he gets today, but to make a complete job of awarding credit where it is due for one of the niftiest reversals of form ever dis- played here you might throw a few orchids in the direction of two of the cagiest fistic handlers in this sector— Jimmy Erwin and Harry Raskin. They're only a couple of sponge and arnica guys to most fight follow- ers, but Erwin and Raskin got that victory for Everett over Steve Dudas last night in a rousing heavyweight scrap at the Riding and Hunt Club. They took a battered kid with un- steady legs, a youngster who had been brought along too fast early in his pro career, a paradoxically youthful “old dog” and taught him new tricks, and last night local ring fans saw a heavyweight as different as Dempsey and Red Barry from the fighter who fought Bob Tow not many weeks ago. The Everett who whipped Dudas was smarter than the fighter who outtumbled Tow and far steadier on his pins. He threw plenty of gloves at the right time. He did his hold- ing (and there wasn’t much of it for a pair of heavyweights), at the cor- rect moments. As a result Erwin, with Raskin as a capable aide, may have the ringman finally to pep up the local heavyweight situation. Everett Too Smart. HEN he fought, and (in our , score book), beat Tow here : * previously, Everett was wres- tled and thrown all over the canvas. Three times he was heaved to the canvas, and thrice he suffered when officials branded them as knockdowns. Last night he knew all the questions and answers when Dudas hooked him |- under the arms in clinches. It was Dudas who was spun and shoved away, and it was Dudas who absorbed volleys of ensuing blows which really got the unanimous decision for Ever- ett. And it was Erwin and Raskin who crammed the shaggy noodle of Everett with just enough experience to overcome Dudas’ strength and unching power. & The fight by no means consisted entirely of opportune shoves and twists. For & heavyweight scrap it was good. More mitts were thrown in those 10 rounds than in any other 50 rounds of heavyweight fisticuffing seen here this year. Dudas, a natural glove-slinger, whammed home solid rights and lefts to Everett's face and body throughout the 10 interesting heats, but Buck, when stung, fought back with a fury that at times sent the crowd into an uproar. At toe-u toe slugging, honors were about even. The fight was won on ring -wile. Both Tired at Finish. VERETT, who weighed 184 to 1821, for the stockier Dudas, was credited with four rounds on The Star scoresheet, with Dudas gaining two rounds. Four were called even. Buck seemed to have an edge In the first, fourth, seventh and eighth sessions. Dudas was given the third round, which was a classic in slugging, and the sixth, when he cracked the charging Everett with a terrific right hand under the heart, knocking Buck halfway through the ropes and caus- ing him to hold frantically for half a round. Both boys were dog-tired at the end from the hote*pace which they maintained from the first gong. Each slipped to the canvas in the tenth, but neither fall was the result of blows. ‘The preliminary card was not so hot, but was enlivened no end by the refereeing debut of Mr. Bill McCor- mick, who said he pounded a type- writer for the edification of readers of the Post, to which 10 per cent of the gate of $1405 was turned over for a Christmas toy fund. McCor- mick took his life in his hands in a six-round semi-windup between Petey Mike of Long Island and Sylvan Bass of Baltimore, middleweights. Mike and Bass done Willyam wrong by staging a scrap in which every rule the Marquis of Queensberry de- vised was broken. Bass got the duke, Mike doled out the most punishment and McCormick took the worst beating. Kayo Specialist Kayoed. [ JOHNNY STEIN, the Norfolk knock- out specialist, had the customers wondering what was meant by “knockout specialist” when he called it quits after three and a half roundg against the nine pounds lighter Sam Finazzo of Baltimore. Stein, who was reported to have won 10 of his 12 previous fights by kayos, took a couple of ungentle caresses in the midsection and curled up in ‘a cor- ner. Referee Kid Sullivan called it a technical kayo for Finazzo, who weighed 164 to 173 for his foe. Joey Greb, nee Grecco, a youngster fighting out of New York, threw too many gloves for the veteran Jimmy Reed of Erie, Pa, and won a six- round decision, in a welterweight tus- sle, while Henry Irving of Washington outpointed Jake Hudson, Baltimore middleweight, in a fourth six-round- er. Hudson went down for a count of nine in the third round, but fin- ished strong enough to earn Judge Frank Schuyler's draw verdict, which was offset by votes by Sullivan and Judge Henri di Sibour for Irving. RUBINTON HIGH ROLLER Bowls 555 Block to Lead Writers in Collins Memorial Match. Rolling a five-game total of 555, Sam Rubinton, Herald bowling writer, yes- terday won the first annual duckpin tourney for the Len Collins Memorial Trophy at the Lucky Strike. Rubin- ton finished five pins ahead of Abe Povich, Post bowling scribe and the only other scratch competitor. Bob Considine, also of the Herald, aided by a handicap of 25, finished third with 519, The scores: ubinton. H. 11 25—450 12449 80 25—448 79 1—447 88 177 25—43! 75 101 12—421 70 * 65 13—403 68 75 20—388 77 53 17—386 97 62 26—380 e e 20—239 o e 13214 20 Years Ago IN THE STAR. RICE, Catholic University basket ball coach, believes his charges have an even chance of defeating the Yale quint in their game soon to be played here. Keegan, guard, starred as the C. U. dribblers easily scored over the Temple University quint last night. Clarence Rowland, manager of the Peoria team of the Three-I League, has been named manager of the Chicago White Sox base ball team, succeeding Jimmy Callahan, who is to be transferred to the business end of the club. Nesline bowlers won two of three games from the Bohemians in the Southeast Duckpin League. Rolling for the winners were E. Miller, James, Demar, C. Miller and Carroll. Bohemians used Sander- son, Cady, Butler, Solback and Nolan, REED FIGHTS GIBBS IN SHOW HEADLINER Four Other Bouts Slated Tonight in All-Colored Affair at the Auditorium. ALVIN REED of Philadelphia and Georgie Gibbs of Pittsburgh, will square off tonight in a 10-round welterweight bout that tops an all- colored boxing show in the Washing- ton Auditorium. Reed is known here but Gibbs will be making his first apearance be- fore a District gallery. Both boys boast good records. An eight-round semi-final is listed between Jimmy Ross, New York mid- dleweight and Wildcat Thomas of Roanoke, Va. In the prelims Sammy Williams, D. C. middleweight, engages Kid Clay of Norfolk, in a six-rounder, and Baby Kid Chocolate will take on Car- los Zavola in another six. A four-rounder between Willie Mc- Bride and Baby Miles, lightweights, will open the show, which will be put on for the benefit of the Boys' Summer Camp. BATTLES of the CENTURIES Here is another of a series of articles depicting the great fights and fighters of the days when pugi- lism was young. BY TOM HENRY. HE dawn of the nineteenth cen- tury found all sorts of queer fights and other contests, ac- companied by heavy bets and arousing great popular inter- est, under way in England. They were all reported by the Sport- ing Magazine, as well as the divorce scandals and the courts martial of the time. It recorded the contest be- tween the famous prize fighter-butch- er, Joe Bourke, and a man named Grindlay, who first fought three rounds, then ran 100 yards and then had a leaping contest, all for 20 guineas, Bourke punched Grindlay almost senseless, but lost the money when he was beaten at running and Jjumping. The magazine tried to promote a contest of wide interest between the redoubtable Jem Belcher and a kanga- roo, but probably the prize fighter, if he could read, had no stomach for the fight when he read the descrip- tion of his proposed antagonist. “A gentleman just arrived from Botany Bay,” said the magazine, “has just brought over a kangaroo six feet high and so tame that he worked on shipboard as dextrously as any of the crew. He spars and fights with as much science as any bruiser. His arms are short, but if once he grapples his antagonist he kicks him to death. The owner offers to fight him against Belcher for 200 pounds.” Belcher’s friends replied to the chal- lenge that their man would not “de- mean himself by fighting with a gen- tleman of the woods.” Diets on Raw Meat. N 1800 “Mr. Barclay, a gentleman of 4,000 pounds per annum’ in Scotland, made & match for 5,000 pounds a side with Mr. Fletcher, a North Country gentleman, that he would go on foot 90 miles in 21% hours.” Great crowds gathered in the Scotch villages to cheer the intrepid Mr. Barclay as he strode along. The Scotchman, favored by perfect ‘weather, won with 30 minutes to spare. It was & revenge match. A year earlier he had lost £2,500 to Fletcher on a bet that the Englishman could not walk 60 mijles in 14 hours. Fletcher had prepared for the feat by going into training for & month With Jem ‘Ward, the prize fighter, who had pre- scribed him a diet of raw meat. The same year, for heavy stakes, Marshall, a butcher, walked 36 miles in six hours and a Mr. G. Pugh of the New Pale at Chester went 66 yards in 20 hops. And another item in the racy “sporting intelligence column” records that “two noble lords, well known on the turf, have agreed to run against each other the first windy day on Hampstead Heath. The one is to wear jackboots and run backward against the other, who is to carry a large umbrella over his head and run forward, both against the wind.” Such freak bets were popular among army officers. In 1801 “an officer of the 18th Light Dragoons won easily a bet to draw a gig from the barracks at Brighton to Lewes, a distance of more than six miles, in three hours.” And & gentleman of Christ Church, Cambridge, walked 10 miles in an hour and 40 minutes, covering the first five miles in 45 minutes. Eating bets, some of them rather incredible, were common among the lower classes. Thus, a corn porter won a bet of 5 shillings by eating two worsted stockings fried in train oil, together with a half pound of yellow soap. Another corn porter bet he could eat as much tripe in 20 minutes as would make him a suit of clothes, and he was measured by a tailor to determine the exact yardage. Leap Frog Has a Vogue. HILE it was reporting these events, the Sporting Magazine ‘ was turning its attention to the new sport of ballooning—espe- cially to the suggestion of a German professor that eagles be trained and harnessed to pull the great gas bags through the air. One bright Sunday 02, great crowds assembled H. attempt to win a the Thames at high washtub. He was more FRAYlNG FURR AlM Everett Gives Dudas a Le OF SPURNED PILOT Groves Points Boxers With Hope They Will Topple. District Welter. ENT upon developing & boxer capable of ousting Phil Furr from the heights of local pugilism attained while box- ing under his management, Harry Groves, local handler of fighters, will send two of his most promising wel- terweight entries to the post Thurs- day at the Washington Auditorium. Groves, who split with Furr after Phil defeated Ray Bowen for what has been called the District's welter- weight title, will shoot Roddy Davis against Prankie Litt and Bob Lowry against Mike Scipio in six-round supporting bouts to the Furr-Jay MeCadon feature. Shortly before Furr defeated Bowen Groves was reported to have received a $1,000 offer for Phil's contract. This he spurned, but he lost heavily a short while later when Furr re- fused to fight under his management and finally succeeded in buying his own contract for $100. The split has rankled in Groves' memory and, with Davis and Lowry as his best bets, he is gunning for & crack at Furr. .Davis, according to Groves, always had Furr's number when they trained and sparred together as members of the Groves stable. At that time Roddy was a lightweight, but since he has branched out as & welter. In his first fight in that class Davis held Sid Silas to a draw. Lowry, & youngster more rugged than Davis, has been campaigning as a welter- weight for a couple of years here and has enjoyed quite some success. In other preliminary bouts on Thursday’s card K. O. Riley of the Mohawk Club will box Mickey Flan- nigan of Pittsburgh in a scheduled six-rounder and Le Roy Dougan of Washington will engage Joe Rivers of California in a four-rounder. 9—Freak Sports Contests Popular in Old England. than half way across when the tub upset. A French gentleman won a bet of 50 guineas by eating 22 dozen large oysters, three pounds of bread and drinking two bottles of sherry in an hour. “This wonderful Frenchman,” the Sporting Magazine recorded, “may be seen at a certain great house in Picadilly and is known by the name of the Oyster Monster.” And, as eviderice of the laxity of the times: “In the successive variance of feminine amusements foot ball is fast going out and leap frog is now the full sport of the day. A famous match was played a short time since in Greenwich Park by an athletic duke and three women of fashion, to the astonishment of the veteran corps of pensioners.” That same Autumn, “Mr. Alexander Bullock, flesher in Glasgow, under- took for & bet of 30 guineas to ride 15 miles an hour with his face to the horse’s tail, which he performed with astonishing ease. He rode 16 miles in 58 minutes. He rode without spurs, had a cloth in place of a saddle, the bridle around his waist, a belt fixed to the crupper to hold by. The road upon which this bet was decided is very rugged and mostly up and down hill.” (Copyright. 1934, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) e V. M. 1. COUNCIL GROWS Thirteen Now on Athletic Body at Lexington School. LEXINGTON, Va., December 18.— A reorganization of the V. M. I. Athletic Council recently has been approved by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, superintendent. The voting strength of the council has been increased from 9 to 13, with seven faculty members, three cadets and three alumni having votes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Lou Amber, 135, Herkimer, N. Y., knocked out Mickey Paul, 142, Pittsburgh (1). CHICAGO.—Jack Gibbons, 159, St. Paul, outpointed Tony Zale, 160, Gary, Ind. (10). Jimmy Christy, 128, Chi- cago, outpointed Dave Barry, 126, Springfield, IIl. (10). Paul Lee, 125, Indianapolis, stopped Frankie Mirabel, 125%, Argo, Ill. (6). Rudy Sterbenz, 200, Peoria, IIl, stopped Nelson Ber- nard, 186%, Chicago (2). Bobby Mul- lins, 141, Vincennes, Ind. outpointed Joey Esposito, 140, Chicago (5). Sammy Adams, 145, Bridgeport, Conn., out- pointed Frankie Keevil, 140, Chicago ). HOLYOKE, Mass.—Elmer Bezenah, 146%, Cincinnati, outpointed Nap Napolitano, 145%, Brooklyn (8). Johnny Bang, 125, Holyoke, outpointed Jimmy Martin, 123%;, New York (8). Tony Celli, 169%, Leominster, Mass., stopped Frank La Bianco, 173%, Brooklyn (4). LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Kingfish Elling, 155, Pittsburgh, stopped Joe Palmer, 156%,, Louisville (6). Al Hamillton, 133%, Cincinnati, outpointed Wishy Jones, 133, Louisville (10). GENOA, Italy—Vittorio Venture, 1471, of Italy, won from Cuban Pete Martin, 145 (10). NEW HAVEN, Conn—Mike (Kid) Frattini, 151% of Italy, defeated Frankie Britt, 153, Fall River, Mass. (10). Lou Poster, 187%, Pottstown, Pa., beat Eddie Winston, 196, Hart- ford, Conn. (10). Sailor Williams, 165, of California, won from Joe Arnold, 164, of Waterbury, Conn. (5). Mickey Bottone, 161, Salvatore Affinito, 157, New York (10). ALBANY, N. Y.—Sammy Bruce, 151, Albany, and “Hooky” Jackson, 157% of Boston, drew_(10). MILEAGE METERED MOTOR OILS SUFER REFINED PENNSYLVANIA WASHINGTO BATTERY COMPANY 1146 195 (AT M) NAT.4128_ . Steve learned last night at the Hunt Club that socking prowess alone won't carry him very high up the fistic ladder. Here he is seen (right) in the ninth round, about to be thrown off balance for the 'steenth time by his spindly-legged and swarthy opponent, who usually contrived to get in LEAGUE BASKETERS’ SCHEDULE SPARKLES Departmental, Community Center Teams Fill Floors With Big Games Tonight. UCH attractive basket ball is M listed tonight in league play here. In the Departmental loop at the Central Y. M. C. A. Patent Office is to meet the Veterans’ Administration at 8, Division of Investigation engages Federal Housing at 9 and Reconstruc- tion Finance takes on Internal Rev- enue at 10. Peoples Drug Stores team battles the Young Men's Club in a Com- munity Center minor league game at_Roosevelt High at 8:30. In other Community Center League encounters Standards will meet Corr's at 7:30 and Sholl's Cafe tackles Calvary Drakes at 9:30 at Central High and Grace Church faces Ren- rocs at 7:15 and Trinity and Katz- man Tailors clash at 8:15 at Eastern High. Olmsted Grill and Renrocs face to- night at 9:15 on the Eastern High court. The Grillmen, managed by Sox Harrington, are after games with fast, unlimited quints. Call North 2622-J between 6 and 7 p.m. Results: Community Center League. Mount Vernon, 41; Pepco, 14. National Guard, 35; Loew's, 23. Pepco, 28; Loew's, 26. Investigation, 49; National Guard 7. Olympian, 22; Clark, 21. Tremonts, 31; Flying Eagles, 28. Delaware & Hudson Coal, 20; Ri- naldi Tailors, 17. Mount Pleasant, 32; Sigma Tau, 23. Mount Rainier, 52; Thomas Mar- ket, 37. Heurich Flashes, 40; Bolling Field, 9. MONTGOMERY GIRLS WIN Beat Poolesville at Basket Ball for Second Time. Montgomery County High School girl basketers defeated the Poolesville lassies, 21-11, in a Montgomery County championship match. It was the second time this season the Mont- gomery sextet has downed the Pooles- ville team by the same score. Making up the Montgomery team are M. Sudduth, U. Sudduth, Cleve- land and Durbin, forwards; Earp, center; Moulden, side center, and Gray and Merry, guards. Poolesville players are G. Day and D. Day, for- wards; Grey, center; Jomes, side center, and Perkins and Hughes, guards, BLAIR SOCCERISTS WIN. Blair soccerists surprised by trim- ming the Burroughs eleven, 5-1, yes- terday in the eastern semi-final of the Municipal Playground Depart- ment’s tourney for elementary schools. Blair is the Sherwood divi- sion champ. Burroughs was a city finalist last year. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del.—Ed Don George, 218, of North Java, N, Y., won from Vic Christy, 208, of Los Angeles, in 3:58 and 34; Tom Alley, 208, Spokane, Wash., threw Henry Graber, 210, of Germany, in 21:23; Harry Fields, 242, of Philadelphia, won over Little Beaver, 242, of North Carolina, in 30 minutes, and Frank Brunowicz, 214, of Poland, tossed Jack Rodgers, 234, of Texas, in 8:54. BRAKES Dodge D. D.-H. D. Other Cars Proportienately Low ENERAL BRAKE SERVICE 903 N ST. N.W. DE.5483 FROM THE some telling wallops while the Jerseyite was occupled in recovering his equilibrium. Everett received—and earned—a unanimous decision for the 10-round set-to. PRESS BOX Rudy Dusek’s Bank ‘Account Answers the Question: “Why Is a Wrestler?” BY JOHN LARD; EW YORK, December 18.— How and why does a wrestler do what he does? I give you the witness for the defense, Mr. Rudy Dusek, who has been in the trade for about 15 years and | sometimes pays income tax on as much as $50,000 per annum. “I just had a busy week,” Mr. Dusek is saying as the curtain rises. “Monday I was booked in New York. Tuesday I was on Long Island and Wednesday I was in Baltimore. Thursday—where the deuce was I Thursday? Oh, yes, I was in Brook- lyn. And Friday I was in Boston. I keep busy.” Mr. Dusek is typical of the higher-bracket American wrest- ler. He wrestles mostly in main bouts, now and then in a semi-wind-up. He works about 15 times a month and his earnings for that period aver- age a trifle less than $2,000 (it used to be more). He knows the public taste in every sizable American town and he produces all the grunts, slaps, dives, contortions and high comedy grimaces that go with the new or post-Sonnenburg style of wrestling. Sighs for Old Days. OR all that, Mr. Dusek really is a good wrestler. He was schooled in his art by Farmer Burns and he sighs now and then for the old days of straight, or “clever,” wres- tling. He sighs, but he doesnt cry. After all, Mr. Dusek is geiting & minimum of $20,000 a year for giv- ing the public what it wants. He has 10 more years of profitable pachydermy in his system, and he'd be a sucker to kick them away. USEK used to earn 85 cents an hour as & machinist in Nebraska. He didn't take up professional wrestling until he was sure he could make more than that. Today he is a solid business man of 33 with a wife and family, a caulifiower ear, & 19%-inch neck and a large bank account. That last item is very useful. “I was just figuring the other day,” said Mr. Dusek, “that I support six women besides my wife. I mean my mother, my sister, my niece, my two daughters, my wife's maid and my daughters’ governess.” Dusek has seven brothers, three of them mow active in wrestling. The best known of these is Ernie. “I had a tough time persuading Ernie to wrestle for a living,” said Rudy. “I knew he was good and I knew wrestling was the best thing for him in a financial way, but he wanted to waste his time on something else.” Most Profitable of Sports. CCORDING to the elder Dusek, is the most sensible and profitable of all profes- sional sport careers. There’s Simply No Argument Don’t go into & conference with yourself just to decide whether you want to drive a car whose appearance you can be proud of, or rattle along in the old bus just as it is. Bring it to the Capital Garage Body Repair Shop and have the fenders and body bumps straightened and scratches touched up. The cost is small. AR PROTECTION AT THE APITAL GARAGE 1320 Now York Ave RW. ¢ “Prizefighters are suckers” he rea- sons. “I tried their racket for a couple of years and I know. They get punch- drunk. I never saw a punch-drunk wrestler. Wrestlers get marked up a bit, but they know how to fall and take punishment easily. “They keep in shape, too. Most of them eat one meal a day, and that comes at least eight hours before the bout in the eve: o In his progress from town to town (he prefers to wrestle in the East be- cause he saves money on the short railroad hops), Dusek fights the same people over and over again. He knows it is dangerous to beat up an Italian before an Italian crowd, a German in a German house, and so on. The crowds get riotous, and the winning wrestler is likely to be showered with glassware as he passes under the bal- cony to his dressing room. Some of the men Dusek wrestles are his friends. Some he doesn't care for, and some are strangers or casual acquaintances. He treats them all alike. “I'm a rough worker.” he ad- mitted. “People like that.” ‘The outcome of a bout, whether de- termined in the ring or beforehand, is of slight importance to most wrestlers. They have a simple task, to exhibit their art to different audiences in dif- ferent towns. The good performers are well paid for doing this. “My big year was 1931,” said Mr. Dusek. “I paid tax on $53,000.” That sum of money constitutes a pretty good explanation of why wrest- lers do what they do. —_— BEER KEG GRID PRIZE. ‘The Universities of Kentucky and Tennessee battle each year on Thanks- giving day for possession of & worth- less beer keg. It has been in Knox- ville since 1926. BIG DEER SHOOT. Shasta, Calif., national forest offi- cials issued a bulletin saying 1,206 deer were killed within the preserve during the 1934 season. —Star Stafl Photo, NAVY MEETS SPEEDY BASKET BALL FOES Georgetown, Maryland in Lot of 13 Teams to Be Encountered by Annapolis Quint. Special Dispatch to The Star. NNAPOLIS, December 18.—The A standing of their opponents on the basket ball court for the coming season indicates that the Navy five, which stood among the leaders last year, is out for high collegiate honors for 1935. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, New York University and Columbia, are among the strong collegiate teams which will oppose Navy, while the opponents nearer home include Georgetown, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. There are 13 games in all and the finale will be the annual contest with the Military Academy, to take place this year at Annapolis on February 23. Led by its foot ball ace, Buzz Bor- ries, who will play either center or forward, and with four of the regulars of last year again on the floor, Navy expects a big season. Included in the opponents of the plebes are Eastern and Tech High of ‘Washington. The schedule: Varsity. January 5—University of Baltimore. January 9—Virginia Military Insti- tute. January 12—Columbia. January 19—North Carolina. January 23—Western Maryland. January 26—Pennsylvania at Phila- delphia. January 30—Maryland. February 2—Pittsburgh. February 6—Virginia. February 9—New York. February 13—West Virginia. February 16—Pennsylvania State. February 23—Military Academy. Plebe. January 19—Eastern High of Wash- ington. January 26—McKimey High of ‘Washington. February 2—Massanutten Academy. February 9—Perkiomen School. February 16—~Hun School. Match sson Both in Leverage and Larruping BUUT |N GERMANY PRIZE FOR HARVEY Muddles Johnston’s Winter Plans for New York and Miami Fights. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, December 18— Charlie Harvey, cagey old fight manager, chuckled behind his fierce moustachios today. He had his old foeman, Jimmy Johnston, Madison Square Garden maestro, squarely behind the eight ball. By signing his boy, Steve Hamas, the collegiate heavyweight, to meet Max Schmeling at Hamburg, Ger- many, March 10, Harvey not only plucked the match right out of John- ston’s 1ap, but thoroughly gummed up the Garden's well-laid plans for a heavyweight elimination tournament. It had been pretty generally ac- cepted along Broadway that a Hamas- Schmeling joust was the plum with which Johnston and his colleagues hoped to attract & $150,000 gate to Miami next February. Now, with Der Maxie and the ex- Penn State star out of the picture and with Primo Carnera barnstorming in South America, it is doubtful if the Winter season will produce a first- class heavyweight scrap for the Gar- den, let alone take the blanket off a real contender for Max Baer's heavy- weight title. Johnston to Ask Lawyers. e EP, we're all set to box Schmel- ing ip Germany,” Harvey glibly announced. “Walter Rothenberg will be the promoter and he’ll put up a stadium seating 25,000 We'll get $25,000 for our end with the privilege of a percentage.” Johnston, who had been assuring newspaper men that a Hamas-Schmel- ing meeting was all but in the bag for Miami, fumed and sputtered when told of Harvey's coup. “They can't do that” he stormed. “We have Hamas under contract for his next fight and the contract spec- ifies he can’t enter the ring withput our permission. Why, I'll call up my lawyers.” The Hamas-Harvey combination has been piqued at Johnston ever since Hamas won a synthetic deci- sion over Art Lasky back in October. After this Johnston blandly an- nounced that Hamas must give Lasky a return bout, with the winner to meet Schmeling. Hamas After Baer. ARVEY insisted all along he had been promised a crack at Baer if Hamas beat Lasky. Steve had soundly drubbed Schmeling at | Philadelphia about a year ago. “Why should we do it all over again?” he demanded. “We beat Schmeling once and then came up here and won from Lasky. Now we want Baer delivered as per our agree- ment.” 8o the war was on. Harvey began dickering with the Hamburg promoter, and yesterday he delivered what he believes will be a sleep producer for the Garden's Winter plans. ‘Whether New York or Miami lands a heavyweight match this Winter seems to hinge on whether the Gar- den’s legal battery can show that the contract with Hamas applies around the world. Joe Jacobs, Schmeling’s manager, enjoyed the battle from the sidelines. “It's O. K. with me,” he sald. | “We're after Baer. If we've got to | beat Hamas to get Baer, all right. It | makes no difference whether they stage it here or in Germany.” JranAK MEDICO REVOLUTIONIZES PIPE SMOKING Cellophane exterior andcool screen interior keeps juices and flakes fill«lnd FINEST BRIAR MONEY CAN [ 4 IDEAL. GIFT! 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