Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1934, Page 55

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

SR R SPORTS. Furr Flies at MeCadon T onight, but Latter Is Sl 'ght Choice in Welter Go FAST, SMART D.C. YOUTH FACES VET Preliminary Card of Four 6-Round Bouts Appears Unusually Good. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ITFUL PHILBERT FURR, claim- ing the District welterweight championship, will seek to climb another step toward loft- {er fistic heights tonight at Washing- ton Auditorium, when he engages the veteran Jay MeCadon of Newark in a scheduled 10-round bout that once was red hot, but which has been allowed to cool considerably. They are the same battlers Wash- ington fans wanted to clash so badly several weeks back, however, and pros- pects are bright for the fulfillment of expectations so widely expressed when MeCadon first broke the Bob Wilson bubble and Furr followed suit. MeCadon, a veteran of seven years in the professional ring and a aandier winner over Wilson (twice) than was Furr, ruled a slight favorite today, but Furr was not without his followers. In fact, it is possible that Furr, seek- ing to preserve a perfect 1934 record, may even be better than an even- money bet by ring time. Furr Fast Improving. URR, for all of his apparent tem- perament, is an improving ring- ster, and has speed and smart- ness which MeCadon may find diffi- cult, or impossible, to match. If any- thing, Furr is the sharper puncher, although he junked his formidable right-hand wallop against Wilson, pre- ferring to jab and duck his way to a decision ever the blasting Floridan. MeCadon’s scalp means little, na- tionally, in a welterweight's scrap book, but Jay, nevertheless, is no soft foe- man. The Newark noggin-knocker has been around for quite some time, and has accumulated a fair share of victories, including wins over Eddie Ran, Frankie Petrolle and Ruby Gold- stein. He is a sort of a club-fighter along the Eddie Burl type, and a tough hurdle for a boxer of Furr's limited experience. Fitful Phil has fought only 17 pro- fessional fights, dropping only one. That was his first start, when he emerged from the Army after holding the 3rd Corps Area welterweight title. Dougan Faces Rivers. HE preliminary card may go down as Promoter Joe Turner's best of the indoor season. The scrappers seem right, and so does the distance. Each of the four bouts are slated to go six rounds. Le Roy Dougan, veteran Arkansas featherweight, fighting out of Wash- ington, will meet a well-touted new- comer in California Joe Rivers, who belies the front part of his monicker and hails from Mexico. Roddy Davis, a graduate from the lightweight ranks to the welterweight, will seek to close in as a rival of Furr when he opposes Frankie Litt of Newark, a stable-mate of Me- Cadon. In his first welter start two weeks ago, Davis. drew with Sid Silas. Oscar (K. O.) Riley, who came out of retirement a few weeks ago to flatten Johnny Mays, will return to meet one Mickey. Flannigan of Pittsburgh, while in what occupies the semi-wind-up spot, Bob Lowry of this city will engage Mike Scipio of Baltimore. They are welterweights, and once set = new high for undi- luted slugging in a bout called a draw. Lowry has been moving up of late and Scipio must be improved to hold his own again. The auditorinm will present a new appearance when the first glove is | tossed at 8:30 o'clock. Directly be- hind the first 15 rows of the orches- tra has been erected a temporary grandstand. Under the new order, the plant will hold only about 3,000, but the view is said to be much better. | O — GRID SERIES DELAYED Pittsburgh, Wisconsin Postpone Meetings Until 1937-38. ‘The home and home foot ball series between Wisconsin and Pittsburgh, which was scheduled for 1936-1937, has been postponed for one year. The series will be played in 1§37 and 1938, the first game here. MAY RACE IN MORNING. NEW ORLEANS, December 20— Operators of the Fair Grounds are b7 giving serious thought to running the New Year day racing program in the forenoon to avoid conflict with the ‘Tulane-Temple “Sugar Bowl” foot ball game scheduled to be held in New Or- leans in the afternoon. Reichgut . Spiess Heddens Sweeney Schultz .. Crymes .. Sheliton Weisbach nge Johnson Long ... 102-11 Weinert || 2 99-19 Neviaser . 98-21 Smith Beyer Grigsby Robey . Claxon V. Brown ‘16 19 920 136 70 123 Kennedy Cam Robinson . Flinn ... 95-15 100-28 9 LS. JULLIEN. Inc. 1443 P 5t. NW, NO. 8076 BATTLES of the CENTURI Here is another of a series of ar- ticles depicting the weat fights and Aghters of the days when pugilism was young, BY TOM HENRY. Dillinger of 1800 in England was & highwayman named Abershaw, who was captured, hanged on Wimbledom Com- mon and his bones left suspended as a warning to evildoers. Under Abershaw’s gibbet, some of the bitterest battles of the age were fought. It was near London and easy of access for the great crowds that followed the fortunes of Jem Belcher and Joseph Bourke—champions, re- spectively, of the English and the Irish. But is was a ghastly, outlaw place and the authorities were not so much concerned about what went on there. With the rattling bones of the ill- fated Abershaw above him, Belcher re- deemed the boxing crown for English- men. He was a grandson of that Jack Slack, the Norwich butcher, who more than half a century before had con- quered Broughton. Three times he fought and beat Bourke, but a good deal of the activity of both men seems to have been expended in keeping out of the hands of the police. London’s Irish put forward the stone mason’s apprentice, Bourke, after Belcher had humiliated them by thrashing their champion, Andrew Gamble. A crowd of several thousand was on the common on October 12, 1801, when the first meeting of the two was to take place. Bourke was there, but the crowd waited in vain for Belcher until Andrew Gamble an- nounced from the ring that the Eng- lish champion had been arrested and that soldiers were on their way to break up the gathering. Just then a group of harvest hands came up the road with their reaping sickles over their arms. They were mistaken in the distance for the military with gleaming bayonets, and the day broke up in wild confusion, with many carts and gigs upset crossing a swollen stream in the frenzy to escape. Purses Withdrawn, T MAY have been more comfortable in jail for Belcher that day. It came out later that “some know- ing ones, entertaining a high idea of Bourke's powers, took him into private nursing. Raw eggs to improve his wind and raw beef to make him savage were the principal ingredients in his regimen of diet, and in all his exer- cises he topped expectations.” His backers expected to get heavy odds against him. This is the first mention in the Sporting Magazine of a figher undergoing systematic training before a battle. It turned out that the winner would have got nothing, since “the gentle- man who had put up 50 pounds for the fight had withdrawn it.” The two met by Abershaw’s gibbet a month later, for a purse of 400 guineas, There were 2,000 tors, in spite of the fact that it been necessary to keep arrangements secret for fear of police interference. In the fifth round Belcher, “making a feint with his left hand, put in with o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934 11—Pioneer Gamblers Used Jail to Put Bout “in the Bag” ES JEM BELCHER, The redoubtable grandson' of Jack Slack, who thrice defeated the Irish champion, Joseph Bourke, and reigned as king of the English ring for 11 years. his right so severe a blow upon the bridge of Bourke’s nose as entirely laid it open. In consequence of an- other blow on the forehead in the next round, Bourke bled so much his second could scarcely procure suffi- clent handkerchiefs to keep him clean. Bourke gave in at the conclusion of the sixteenth in consequence of one of the severest beatings that ever was experienced.” Pull a Scurvy Trick. ELCHER was insolent over his victory and from the ringside challenged Daniel Mendoza, but the Jew replied that he was through with fighting, since he could better support his six children by attending to his public house in Whitechapel. Belcher need not have been so jubi- lant. Both he and Bourke were ar- rested, and, in the hearing before the court, it came out that one of the rawest deals in the history of prize fighting had been worked. For several weeks before™ the fight Bourke had been in jail, on bread and water. He had been put there by bet- tors on Belcher. On the eve of the fight they had appeared and, posing as his friends, bailed him out. The man had staggered with weakness as he was led from his cell. Naturally, money bet on the Englishman was safe. Belcher himself knew nothing about it. The justice before whom the two fighters appeared compared caustically the courage and decency of the pugilists themselves with the unscrupulousness of the rich men who made money out of them, and who Miscellaneous Tax Unit Team Standing. Suero-Clips .. Gully Jumpers Sand Blowers Seenstakes . Pin Hawk: Tobacco Scraps. Big Hearts. . | Drawbacks ". . 16 26 Come Backs.... 12 30 Season Records. {ndividual averages_—Davidson Marks). 116-16; Orme B0 Sansuy’ (SucroGhipe). 106 g Araiviauel sames — McRpight (Sweepstakes). 156; McKenna _(Swiss Navy). 153; Orme (Pin Hawks). 152. High " individual sets_—Davidion Marks), 978. Orme (Pin Hawks). G (sucro-cripsy. Hiign striResMunsuy (Sucro-Clips). cDflvidwnn (Easy Marks), 25; Gillis 45“0!0- ns). 20, High " spares—Davidson (Easy Marks). 116: Orme (Pin Hawks). 96; Van Hoesen (Guily Jumpers), 89. High flat game—Hansen (Drawbacks), 84, Individual Averages. ALLEY CATS. G. T.P. HG.H.S. 5t.8p. 04 108 5 (Easy 371: AvVE. Bamberger. & J Y. Mill Osterholt Pelt Hampton Kettering .- 24 . B. Miller 4( o 20 <} £ s 4 q P 3 % [ SEJaro0s IS om D 198952 0200020 2 Q iz m- a3 S B B on o " 5o i £ :H h BRES3 © 55 g __.mm, Reiumbat gm»s eo x iR g g Zait oute 52533SER P Lot 72 o0 08 290 oy a8 S235 SEEEES SaRBRIss 2 5 £t dom hohammote B o et ORIBLIRD mw et e & b GRS M SALES and SERVICE 1443 P St. N.W. NOrth 8076 GULLY JUMPERS. 11 cVay ... VlnHoeun 42 4,375 130 3. fil! U‘J 104 7 HOOLIGANS. Gerth Gray .00 Hindley Hughes . A.A Miller Shea ... relalty n Hawks), . eton .. Kendrick LaChance Mansuy Cos: .. Gillis "2 ‘randall Park Your Car is in an individual stall at the Capital Garage, where Safety and Responsibility are the watch- words. Why risk a bent fender, hnkmmmummm by parking on the street. Get AR PROTECTION AT THE APITAL GARAGE 1320 Now York Ave. K.W. WARTHEN LEADING BETHESDA PINMEN Shoots 649 in Prelim of Evening Star Tourney. Nine Better 600. BY ROD THOMAS. NE of the hottest preliminaries in The Star tournament is on at Bethesds, with nine of the first 25 to roll topping 600. Dave Warthen of Kensington, sporting & handicap of 55 pins, heads the fleld with 649, but is only a stick up on Leo Daymude of the Leahy Plumbing team, whose handicap is 78. Next Saturday will find members of the following teams shooting at Henry Hiser's Bethesda plant: Reza’s Lunch (with Chef Reza himself leading the way), Junior Order, American Legion; State Theater, Friendship, Bethesda Shell and We Cab No. 2, were surprised that Bourke was not killed in the ring. The next August Bourke and Bel- cher met by accident at the Camber- well fair. Belcher overheard his foe boasting of how easily he could whip him if given a fair chance. A large crowd immediately formed a ring on the lawn of the public house and the Irishman got a severe beating. Again they met, again Belcher won, and the Irish stone mason dropped out of history. The next October the Sporting Mag- azine reports: “On Friday, the 24th, Belcher, the noted pugilist, met with a melancholy and irreparable misfor- tune. In playing a game of fives hc received a blow of the ball with such force that it knocked one of his eyes out of the socket.” Yet he continued to fight until his death, at the age of 29, two years later. (Copyrisht. | 1934 oy North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) ADVEBTISEMENT- THE ADVENTURES OF GRACIE— WITH GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN YOUR muusr / TUNE IN: Adventures of Gracle, 9:30 P Every Wed. Nite, jation WISV, C. B. & ORONF BRI ERES % 1—78—b83 84101 96 95 90—70 bdfl o 2 2 3 95 109—3 oy S S B Bhe D00 e SR 25300 SRRINIBESIBFLCSH = [ ey ERSEERsExeREEnSE RREREEERSERIESSS, (o el TP e ESEBERaEREREEEE [ofatamny o0 peteipeeatotg sty oSl BEEEE EERBEEESEE e st oy BOOXIES TAKE A BEATING. CHICAGO, December 20 (#).—The Chicago Tribune asserts a band of race track sharpshooters operating out of the Charles Town Track in West Virginia has beaten bookmakers in Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and a number of other cities out of more than $100,000 during the past few weeks by padding the mutuels. SPOKTS. GRID RECEIPTS DOUBLE Wisconsin Attracts 30,000 More Fans Than in 1833. MADISON, Wis., December 20 (#).— Attendance at Wisconsin’s four home foot ball games the past season was almost 30,000 more than for the four contests last year and gross receipts about double. A total of 82,663 paid admissions were received this year as compared with 54,314 a year ago. Gross receipts were $104,355 as against $57,370 in 1933. D—3 YANKS. GIVE SEALS FIVE Pay for Di Maggio, Outfleld\-' ‘Who Beports in Spring. SAN FRANCISCO, December ‘20 (#)—The New York Yankees have turned over five players to the San Francisco Seals in the deal that will send Joe Di Maggio, outfielder, to the American League club. ‘The players, who will report next Spring, are Ed Farrell, third baseman; Floyd Newkirk and Jim Densmore, pitchers; Les Powers, first baseman, and Ted Norbert, outfielder. 3113 14th St. N.W. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES Easy Payments Use our Easy Payment Plan to get every- thing you want now and pay for it on Easy Weekly terms, as low as $1 per week. A (Small carrying charge on balance.) *Westclox’ Auto. cncl( Extra fine quality. DelLuxe Goggles With case : Save about half at Western Auto Stores. Others 13¢ to 79¢ Wrench Set 5139 to $ Ideal for the car owner who loves to tinker. Bumper Stops Every car owner wants them, Othars 28- to SL.10) Fender Guides A big aid in safe driving. As Low As New Truetone All-Wave Mantel ‘This marve- lous little =, m arkable tidelity and perform- ance. 2295 Tubes, Dynamie Speaker. Attractive cabinet. “Paramount”’ Mantel enders other refinements, Buutllnlly inished. “FIRE CHIEF” MODEL As shown, wlth Elzcl-rlc 9 19 Head Lamps, o Roller Skates For Beginners. 4.9:t.. Ventll-tor Wln‘s Up-to-the-minute ventilation for older cars. All Fords need them. As Low As.. Moto-Vox Micro Horn Any car owner will be proud of it. A beauty. DeLuxe Seat Covers Will be appreciated much more than some common-place gift. For all cars. N oulfl'lfl"fi $2.7¢ and $6.95 ..$1.69 $1.48 $2.50 value. As low as, ~ Glfts That Are Useful and Different xtra-Power Jack A gift that shows real thought- falness on your part........ Garage Electric Work-Lamp Ideal for the man who does his own repair work... Radiator Cap Ornament. 69¢ Focusing Electric Lantern The man (or lady) who likes outdoor-life will like this. And Hundreds of Otller Articles that make appreciated gifts. lInstallation Small Extra Charge. Short-Wave Field Covers Important Payments: Small Carrying Charge for Easy Payments Its ability to reach out and sep- fidelity. that compare favorably with radios 10-Tube Truetone .. . . . . .$49.50 1935 Model Stations All Over the Werld Easy . 95 $4 Down, '$1.25 Week One of the most pleasing radios on the market . . . and an extra value. arate stations from each other is re- markable, assuring extraordinary tone Incorporates improved features, performance and beauty of cabinet now selling from $20 to $30_higher. Three Days’ Home Trial Easy Payments on Any Radio small extra carrying charge. Has features 5710 ot-Water § nlw. \ el | l,w so [T Nhlll Parking Stand and Jewel Tail Lamp shown).: Electric Head Lamp, 2nd Bussase Carrie: Small Carrying Charge. usually found only in Bikes selling $8 to $10 higher, Sidewalk Safety Bike New, improved model with Coaster Brake and 15.95 16" tires. o Tot-Bike Scooter DeLuxe Style. With roll ttle tots, Our Guarantee of Low Prices If You Can Buy It For Less Elsewhere, Return It and We Will Refunrd Your Money .84¢ $1.38 A Hot-Water Auto Heater Is A Fine Gift Any car owner will be grateful for one of our new 1935 DeLuxe Heaters, keeping the car comfortable during bitter weather. A beauty; incorporating all the new improved re- finements. Factory List Price $14.95, COMPLETE. Many Other Sizes and Styles of H Heaters As Low As. .. Trumpet . Tuned-Twin Horns Door Hinge Mirror DelLuxe Grade 69- Ha\?n! you b 1w $1.18 5-Cell size. A beauty Others. For the Ardent . Fisherman Others 78¢ to $2.78 Casting Rod — 265 Chrome- steel. One-piece. $4.50 value. $ TRUETONE ”[:§ AUTO RADIO The Finest G“t for ( l\( 1o oAy TRIAL »7) Giving years of continued pleasure and benefit . . . and a constant reminder of your thoughtfulness. o Junior e latest Auto Radio develop: s 995 nt. Com pact and light. 5 lubem Truetone DeLuxe One of the fi nest regarale Remote cnnlrol‘

Other pages from this issue: