Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 11

S PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934. SPORTS. A-11 D. C. Likely to Get Preliminary Events in National Amateur and Open Golf MUST PLACE BIDS WITH RULING BODY U. S. G. A. Figures Capital Is Ideal Location—City Title Undefended. Prd BY W. R. McCALLUM. WO of the major sectional golf I championships of the year are going to be played away from ‘Washington in 1935, while another big sectional test is slated to come back to the Capital next year. From the way matters are moving in the Middle Atlantic Golf Associa- tion it looks as if the men's cham- plonship tourney of the association, for the title now held by Bobby Riegel of Richmond, will go to the Princess Anne Country Club of Vir- ginia Beach along in June, while Baltimore probably will get the wom- en’s title event, played at the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club last October. But with these two important tour- naments slated to be played at dis- tant courses, the sectional qualifica- tion rounds for the amateur and open championships probably will come back to Washington in 1935, if the local clubs get busy prior to the annual meeting of the United States Golf Association a fortnight hence and put in their bids for these tour- neys. Indian Spring already is in with a bid for the amateur championship tests and probably will get the award this year, even though the announce- ment may not be made until early Spring. Last year the sectional rounds for the open were held at Richmond, while the tests for the amateur title tourney were played at the Five Farms course near Baltimore. So far as we know, no local club has bid for the qualification rounds for the open championship in 1935, although the U. S. G. A. looks upon Wash- ington as not only the geographical center, but the playing center as well, of the entire mid-Atlantic territory and is always willing to swing any of its tournaments to the Capital if & bid is made. Congressional in Line, HE District championship, which will be played next year without a defending champion, probably will go to the Congressional Country Club. This year it was played at Co- lumbia, while in 1933 it was held at Indian Spring and in 1932 at Chevy Chase. Congressional made a tenta- < BATTLES of the CENTURIES Here is another of a series of articles depicting the great fights and_fighters of the days when pugilism was young. BY TOM HENRY. ‘WO remarkable figures held the stage of British pugilism in 1814-15 — Dan Donnelly of Dublin and the red-uniformed giant Life Guardsman Shaw. In the Summer of 1814 a British heavyweight of no great repute named ‘Thomas Hall came to Dublin and “challenged all Ireland.” ‘The Irish fancy confronted him with an_unknown Dublin carpenter named Donnelly. The battle Was fought on the Curragh of Kildare, famous for its race track, at the bot- tom of a natural ampitheater formed by gently sweeping hillsides, which ever since has been known as Don- nelly’s Hollow. A crowd of 30,000 at- tended. For Donnelly it was hardly a fight— tive bid for the tourney at the annual | and Hall called himself the chambion | meeting of the District Association |of England. The Irish were 0 last March, and that bid will be re-| jubilant that, since rebellion was in newed at the meeting next Spring. | the air, the victory became a matter So, with the usual grist of invitation tournaments to be played during the Spring of 1935, it looks as if Washing- ton will not be without an important affair or two, even though the mid- Atlantic title tournaments go else- where, as now appears probable. In addition, the Maryland State Golf As- sociation amateur title tilt is sched- uled to come back to Washington next year, with Roger Peacock more than willing to win the crown again. He has won it for two straight years. On the professional side the match play championship of the Middle At- lantic P. G. A. will come back to the Capital next year and Al Houghton may at last achieve a win in the only big title tourney in this territory which has escaped him. This event lasts for four days. Mrs. Dedicke May Lead. HILE no announcemert will be made until the first meeting of the Executive Committee late in March, affairs of the Women's District Golf Association are shaping toward the appointment of Mrs. A. E. Dedicke of the Army-Navy Country Club as the team captain. Mrs. How- ard J. Simons of Manor, who did a good job in the all-important post of tournament chairman this year, will not occupy that post again. Prior to the March meeting the committee will work out a schedule of team matches in the interclub series and a slate of intercity matches that will eclipse the comprehensive schedule which was run off this year. Women's golf activities around Washington are growing each year until today they hold many more | tournaments than do the men. The woman golfer who plays in all the events has little time for anything else. 8 | Raiser. 361 101-17 31 343 99-2 5 330 AR-2 306 94-3 10 2068 924 2 298 91-9 T. Crawford. Br 107-14 dorf . 343 352 i 304 92- 286 87-" of considerable political importance. | So England sent over her real | champion of the day, George Cooper, | to whip the triumphant Irishman. A Muscular Scrapper. HE fight was held in Donnelly’s Hollow on December 13, 1815, ‘ and “all Ireland” was there. It certainly wal one of the best attended prize fights in the history of the sport. Says a report of the battle: “Donnelly at length stripped amidst thunders of applause. The Venus de Medicis never underwent a more minute scruti .y than the champion of Ire- land. There is nothing loose or puffy about him. He is all muscle. His | arms are long and slingy, his shoul- | ders uncommonly fine and prominent, indicating their punching quality. His height is nearly 6 feet, his weight 13 stone and his tout ensemble that of a boxer of first-rate quality.” | The fight ended with the knockout | of Cooper by a right to the mouth in | the thirteenth round. Cooper died a | few weeks later of the beating he had | received. Donnelly then went to England and challenged all comers. British sports- men put forward a challenger named Tom Oliver and backed him to the extent of 50,000 pounds, while “every man in Ireland with a pound to spare backed Dan.” In the thirteenth round Oliver lay hopeless against the ropes, but after that he seemed to gain strength and put up a good fight. They fought 30 rounds in an hour. By that time Donnelly began to get his second wind. In the thirty-fourth round Oliver fell senseless from a blow | to _the jaw. Donnelly now was undisputed cham- pion of the world, with nobody willing Hutchinson.. Davis S Chewnirj [ETUINIT > R Rhyne " Schuetze. an Wubbler. Konouck'. Schmitt . W. Hoffer Yates. .. . Parlaman. Ry e jeiti] ! B 2 OBIRD0D gy 13D BINN [P 553390 -] Q coonazm O Bamo wRERS > RS uRo g Q P B canus o -35 e oo M= Bona 3=t ¥ i 29-6 | 16—Donnelly and Earned Fame in Early 1800s. A\ DAN DONNELLY, Fistic hero of the Irish who .defended the pugilistic honor of Ireland against all comers and whose victories made him a national hero. to encounter him. He died in 1820, one of Ireland’s national heroes. In 1887 a Boston man who had just re- turned from Ireland told John Boyle O'Reilly, the Irish-American poet: “The footsteps of the champions still are plainly visible in Donnelly’s Hol- low. Every visitor puts his feet in the an- cient marks, which are thus preserved and deepened in the soft, green sod.” “On Saturday, the 18th instant,” re- ported the Sporting Magazine in 1814, “the amateurs of the fist had a prime Surrey in a casual diversion between Shaw, the life guardsman, and Bur- row, the West countryman. ‘The but he long had been waiting to fight anybody, having improved much in theoretical accomplishment in the boxing art. A fight between two cele- taken place, but a mutual accommoda- a jealous eye on his antagonist, braved as a token of defiance to any Pprofessor of the fist, Becomes Hero of Waterloo. Was he not a dragoon and a miller notorious and besides one of the Sovereign's bodyguards? A battle in which 13 rounds were fought and which lasted 17 minutes®took place. Shaw showed some good science on beat his man that he could not see his way out of the ring. Shaw has, by Five Courts practice, acquired a science which, with his 14-stone-and- a-half weight, will render him difficult temperance, not to say jollity, and slings out well with his left hand | when retreating. His antagonist was | not competent to draw blood.” | The next Spring, April, 1815, “a battle between Shaw, the lifeguards- | man, and Painter, in which some heavy blows were exchanged, but Shaw stood over his adversary and had the length of him every way. Shaw gave him 10 knockdown blows successively and it was the wish of the ring that he be taken away, but he refused to yield, even at the last.” So elated was the giant soldier over this victory that he proceeded to chal- lenge the world from the ring. No- body accepted his challenge, for there was a different kind of fighting in progress in which the life guardsman was to win greater glory. For, before Shaw could appear in the ring again, he was sent to France with his regiment and, by killing 15 French soldiers before he himself fell dead over the pile of his victims, be- came the outstanding hero of the bat- tle of Waterloo. (Copyright. 1934. by North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) e e PARKER TOPS NET LIST Ranked First Among Juniors in Middle States Sector. PHILADELPHIA, December 25.—Al- though he confined most of his recent tennis activities to men's competition, Frankie Parker, formerly of Milwa kee, but now representing the Law- renceville, N. J, School, was the Middle States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion’s No. 1 junior ranking player. Parker was placed at the top of the list, announced yesterday, because of his stellar performance in the Prince- ton interscholastics, one of the few junior events in which he competed. Robert Madden of Pittsburgh was ranked second. TENNIS TRIP IS PRESENT Mother Gives Gilbert Hunt Fare to Title Tournament. Railroad fare to New York for the junior indoor tennis championship which opens tomorrow filled Gilbert Hunt's Christmas stocking today—a gift from his No. 1 fan, his mother. The national junior indoor doubles champion, home for the holidays from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had decided he couldn’t afford the trip in spite of a keen love for the game. But his mother came to the rescue. “His tennis is almost all I think about,” she said. “I want him to win so much.” . SEEKS SARRON’S RETURN Cornell Would Send Him Against Burl or Hayes Monday. Petey Sarron, flashy Alexandria featherweight, will return to docal ring wars with the first of the new year if Promoter Charlie Cornell’s /present plans go through, ' With Joe Turner, his partner in pro- motion at the Washington Auditorium, ‘having filed a request with the Dis- trict Boxing Commission for permis- sion to run a show Monday, January 7, Cornell is seeking to sign Sarron either with Eddle Burl or Petey i } They are preserved in this way: | day’s diversion at Coombe Warren in | guardsman was known only to the | fancy by sparring at the Five Courts, | brated milling amateurs was to have | | tion took place, and Barrow, who had | it and threw his castor into the ring | to beat. He fights with the greatest | < STANFORDS BOWL RECORDI SPOTTY Has One Win, One Tie, Two | Losses—'Bama Spelling More Trouble. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. OS ANGELES, Calif., December 25.—Stanford University will be making its fifth appearance in the tournament of roses foot ball game on January 1, and there’s little in the Cardinals’ previous per- formances in Pasadena’s arroyo their followers care to remember. Stanford’s record in the New ¥ear day fixture is one victory, one tie and two defeats, and the Indians will not be picking on any bunch of softies when they tackle the Red Regiment from Dixie this time. Stanford’s first appearance in the Rose Bowl was on January 1, 1925, when it was pitted against a team from Notre Dame. And what a team from Notre Dame—just the four horsemen and seven mules! Stanford was led by the great Ernie Nevers and in size it stood to overpower the ifvading Irish. The Cardinals galloped away to a good start, made many yards and numerous first downs against the small Notre Dame line. However, Nevers began throwing passes and two -of them landed in the arms of a tall, slender, dark-haired fellow named racing away for touchdowns. Layden's runs and Layden's punting were too much for the big Stanford men and Notre Dame went home with the vic- | tory. Blocked Punt Gets Tie. HE Indians bobbed up in the Rose Bowl again on New Year day of 1927, this time against Ala- bama. Once more “Pop” Warner had a great team with Hoffman, Hyland, Walker, Hill and Wilton among the outstanding stars, Hyland took the opening kick-off and ferried it back to his 35-yard line. On the first play Hylard broke down the field and was | running alone; a perfect target for,a | forward pass. Hoffman threw the pass, but the ball slipped in his hands and Hyland was obliged to turn and run back to 'Bama’s 27-yard line to catch the throw; which ruined a sure | | touchdown. Stanford scored first, but Elmer Layden and Elmer Layden went |- | tourney. They are going to do it by | used to do. All in all. Dr. Brown has | | best over 72 holes, but the nine men late in the fourth period Alabama blocked one of Wilton’s punts near the | | Cardinal goal line and Johnson scored. | There was just time enough for three plays, so the game ended in a tie, | The Cardinals came back the fol- lowing year to battle Pittsburgh and managed to win that one, 7 to 6. A | fumble enabled Pitt to snare the ball and score a touchdown to gain the lead, but the Indians staged a great charge to tie the count. Stanford HE guardsman was not thus to | Gfove down near the Panther goal | be bounced out of his dignity. and then Wilton threw a flat pass, | which the receiver dropped. In the scramble for the ball, Wilton was suc- cesstul and then ran the few neces- sary yards for a touchdown. Pitts- burgh made some claim that it was an incomplete pass, but the referee | . the head of his antagonist and so | uled the Stanford receiver had been | after the first 72 holes, will not elimi- in possession of the ball. | IS Fooled by Columbia. TANFORD was a tremendous favo- rite over Columbia last year, but | the Lions’ great stand against the smashes and runs of Bobby Grayson is too recent to need much recounting. Cliff Montgome; splendid generai- ship and punting were too much for the Stanford Ciants and the Little Lions took a one-gouchdown decision So Stanford comes up to its fifth Rose Bowl game, hopeful of maintain- ing the Pacific Coast's prestige in foot ball. However, there comes a rebel yell from the Southland, “You all can't beat them Alabama boys.” It will be a struggle between the most successful | of all invaders of the Rose Bowl and | the most luckless of all Pacific Coast | defenders. “Tiny” Thornhill and the |Stanford men are determined to | avenge previous defeats on this occa- sion, but they have a battle ahead. Those 'Bama boys aren't coming out here to lose and they have precedent to back up their ambitions. (Copyright. 1934, by North A Newspaper Alllance. Tnej meFcAR (OLIN MAY FEATURE FISTIC SHOW HERE Light-Heavy Champ Is Receptive to Battle in Auditorium, Cornell Declares. OB OLIN, recently crowned world B light-heavyweight boxing cham- pion, probably will headline a fistic show at the Washington Audi- torium next month or early in Febru- ary, announced Matchmaker Charlie Cornell today following a week end visit to New York to dig up talent. Olin, reported Cornell, was in a re- ceptive mood and there is a chance he may defend his title in the pro- posed bout here, Cornell also contacted Petey Hayes, Brooklyn featherweight, who may fight Petey Sarron in the headliner of the first auditorium card since Cornell stepped in as matchmaker and partner of Promoter Joe Turner, Turner yesterday asked the District Boxing Commission for permission to run his next show on Monday, Jan- uary 7. He also announced that his next wrestling show will be staged January 3, BACH MAY HANDLE PROS Duquesne Coach Due to Sign With Pittsburgh Pirates Today. PITTSBURGH, December 25.—An- nouncement of Joe Bach's appoint- ment as coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates, o professional foot ball eleven, was expected today by observers fol- lowing a second conference between the Very Rev. J. J. Callahan, presi- dent of Duquesne, where Bach now is head coach, and Art Rooney, president .of the Pirates. “Duquesne,”. said Rev. Callahan, “could not meet Coach Joseph Bach's offers, which he considered necessary for his retention of his foot ball coach- ing position.” CATCHERS CAN CLOUT. Four American League catchers bat- ted .300 or better in 1934. Bill Dickey of the Yanks hit .322; Mickey Cochrane, Tigers, .321; Glenn Myatt, Indians, 315, and Rollle Hemsley, Browns, .308, 2 SPORTS PARADE @ By A Triple Winner—and a Double Star Grantland Rice ARY K.'BROWNE is the greatest combination of tennis and golf skill the feminine sex ever has turned out. £he won the women's tennis championship of the United States in 1912, 1913 and 1914. She toured .the country with Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen when both turned pro under the management of C. C. Pyle. round of the national women's golf championship after finishing three weeks' practice at golf. In the picture above she is shown (left) with her sister, Mrs. R. Williams, (Copyright. 1934.) by W.R.MECALLUM Ten years after winning her tennis crown Miss Browne defeated Glenna Collett in the semi-final a hard tennis campaign with only She now is in business in Cleveland and still hard to beat at either tennis or golf. —Levick Photo, REDS GIVE $55,000 FOR MIZE OF CARDS [ RUST California to try some- | the manufacture of the golf cups and | thing new. flag holders which bear the Bannock- Out in Glendale, on the last | burn name. The cups are made with of January, they are going to ‘ a strong backing of iron, and the flag try to establish, definitely and finally, | Standards are so constructed that they | do not flop out of the hole when a | the best golfer in a little $6,500 links | strong wind hits 'em, as some of them | choosing not the man who scores the | contributed something definitely fine to the game in the invention of the | 1 . ev your golf | Who score the best on elght rounds of | BARROCbUMm cup. even it your golt nine holes and then the one man| Twenty years ago “Doc” Brown was who scores the best of the nine. In|one of the leading amateurs of the | other words, the pros and amateurs | city. Of late vears he hasn't playgd! who play in the Glendale open, slated | much competitive golf, but he still can | for January 1 to February 5. will | whack the apple around any course in | play a combination of match and | respectable figures, and he keeps medal play under a method never | gannockburn moving along as a semi- | Swatting Youth, Hurt Last Sea- son, Must Be Delivered in Good Physical Condition. INCINNATI, December 25.—Main- C taining his policy of buying 'em young, Powell Crosley, president of the Cincinnati Reds, added another promising prospect to his club’s roster today in First Base- man Johnny Mize of the St. Louis Cardinals, The purchase of Mize, who will not be 21 until January 7, yesterday, with the $55,000. In 42 games with Rochester of the International League, Mize hit at a price set at before tried in a big tournament. The | puplic course. affair will get most of the big shots, too, and its sponsors hope it will go | | a long way toward determining the best golfer to play in a California tour- | nament this Winter of 1934-3 | The tourney will open with a 72- L HOUGHTON, Kenwood pro, hasn't yet accepted the proffer of a job with a New York golf | manufacturing outfit, and the way the .352 pace last season, and despite an | injury that laid him up in midseason, the youngster batted for .340 with the Cards. The deal with St. Louis involves a guarantee of his delivery in good physical condition. RATES MINNESOTA ABOVE ANY ELEVEN Could Spot All- Americas Pair of Touchdowns, Writer Avers. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. OS ANGELES, Calif.,, December 24—Now that all of the all- America foot ball teams have been selected—I hope—you take your favorite A. A. team and I'll take Minnesota and spot you two touchdowns. Of course the idea Is silly, but no more so than the numerous all-Amer- ica teams which are tossed to the winds and waste baskets each Autumn. The futility of all-America teams is proven when you find coaches and critics disagreeing as to the best men in_their respective sections. Take this year's all-Americas, for instance. Bobby Grayson, the Stan- ford fullback, was an almost unan- imous choice. There is no question that Grayson is a splendid back, & player who can do a bit of everything on the gridiron and do it well. Any coach would be very happy to draw Grayson as a player on his team. Coaches Like Hamilton. ET despite Grayson's admitted i skill, T have talked to several coaches here on the Pacific Coast who rate Robert (Bones) Ham- ilton of greater value to the Stanford team than Grayson. These coaches speak with 1o bias and their conten- tion is that Hamilton not only helps Grayson to be great, but also is a swell ball carrier and the man who furnishes the spark which makes the Stanford offense click. What is true of Gray/= son is true of players in other sectors and it is impossible to get a unanimous vote on any player. I think all-America teams are a lot of fun, but should not be taken too seriously, for the game has de- veloped to the point where it is im- possible to name 11 players and say “These are the best.” The thing about all-Americas which annoys those old minders of other peo« ple's business is the way the profes- sionals work the A. A. business. I saw a game between the Chicago Cardinals and Los Angeles Maroons the other afternoon and in the pro- was announced | hole medal round with the low nine | Wind is blowing now he may not do men to go into Nassau or round robin | match play. The others outside the | first nine will share in the division of $4,000, then the nine leaders will | | go out to play at Nassau match and | | medal play for an added purse of | | $2,500, which makes the total avail- | able purse $6,500. ‘The theory is that one bad round, nate the player as in straight match or medal play, or even one bad nine will not toss him out on the com- petitive ash heap. These nine leaders | are to play four rounds, or eight nines, | against each, and against the course, | with each player shooting for a pos- sible 12 points in each round, or a | possible win of 48 points in the four rounds. 1 “With 72 holes of medal play pre- ceding, we should be able to demon- strate the best golfer,” says Sherman Dany, secretary of the Oakmont Club, | where the big tournaments are about to got under way. The Australien | barnstormers were to land today in California and will play this week in a $2,000 tournament at Los Angeles, with many other affairs to follow through the months of January and | February. Agua Caliente, where the { purse of $25,000 of a few years ago has been slashed to $5,000 for the affair slated to start February 7, also has adopted a new scheme, which em- bodies a pari-mutuel sweepstakes on each round with the players to share in the pot. Tickets will be sold on the players with 90 per cent of the take going to the ticket holders and 10 per cent to go to the leading players each day. It will be an interesting sideline to the usual gambling which is a corollary of the Caliente tournament, where they have a quaint system of playing only one round each day for four days in the hope that the golfers may find it possible to do a little betting on the nags and the dice after their golf. Caliente will wind up the Cali- fornia schedule, with the first Florida tournament to be run off at Tampa, where the Gasparilla open is to be staged starting on February 22 REPARING for a tour of a few of the Florida amateur tourna- ments, where he should be & big shot if his game comes back, Dick Lunn, former District amateur champ, is tuning up those booming tee shots before departing for the South after the holidays. Convalescing _from an extremely serious 1llness, Dick is not yet strong enough to go back to Princeton, and his stepfather, Senator Wallace White | of Maine, insists that he needs out- door exercise in copious quantities. | So the young man plans to move | South to play some of that Florida golf, under the palms, and perhaps grab off a few of the prizes that abound in that State. Just to show how he can go when he gets his game geared up. Dick moved over the first nine at Ken- wood yesterday in 36 strokes, even with bumpy greens and soggy fair- ways. Dick is going to pair with Al Houghton, Kenwodo pro, in a St. Au- gustine amateur-pro tourney late in March, and will play in some of the tournaments preceding that one. Dick Lunn is a good golfer—how good he hasn't yet fully revealed. He might go very well in Florida, even though a couple of gents like Tommy Goodwin and Carl Dann usually have 2 lot to say about the winning of tour- naments in the Grapefruit League. ID you know that the golf cup into which you try to knock that little round golf ball of yours this Christmas day probably is the brain child of Dr. Thomas J. W. Brown, inventor of golf equipment and guiding genius of the Bannockburn Golf Club for these many years? The Bannockburn cup and flag equipment is almost universally used around Washington and has spread all over the country, carrying the name and fame of the chap known to golfers all over the city as “Doc” Brown. “Doc” used to work in the Pension Bureau, a job which he gave up to devote his time to Bannockburn and s s0. The offer is bona fide enough, and Al would like to take it, but he feels that he can do well enough if he re- mains around Washington, provided he is able to make sufficient money to keep going. Houghton feels the call of the big tournament, but he also feels that he has a niche here which | he dislikes to leave. 20 Years Ago IN THE STAR. LUMNI of Georgetown have challenged the varsity basket ball quint to a game. Prof. Maurice Joyce of Carroll Insti- tute is assembling the graduate team that likely will be made up of Jim Collifiower and Downey, for- wards: Rice, center, and Schlosser and George Colliflower, guards. Charley Brickley, famed cap- tain of the Harvard foot ball team this Fall, denies he has received an offer to coach the grid team at Penn State. Mike Donlin, released by the New York Giants, is after a Fed- eral League job. Mize, who lives in Demarest, Ga.. the fifth youngster recently ac- d by the Reds, who also added Riggs, third baseman; Billy Myers, shortstop, and Ival Goodman and Sam Byrd, outfielders. e FRIENDS ALUMNI AHEAD Defeats Regular Quint by Last- Ralf Drive, 33 to 14. Friends School alumni, held to a 7-to-6 margin at half-time, cut loose with a withering second-half attack yesterday to down the Friends regu- lars, 33 to 14, in their annual basket ball game. Fairbanks, playing forward, led the alumni with six field goals and two foul shots for a total of 14 points. Smith and Kirby were oustanding for the scholastics. Summary: is Totals. .. Totals. .. 15 Referee—C. Wannan Johnston Recalls Christmas When Fake K. O. Ruling Left Him and “Meal Ticket” Flat BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 25— | Times have been none too | good in the land of _the scrambled ears, where wheels | start whirring sometimes inside of heads, like the springs in a Christmas | toy, for no good reason at all. But Christmas comes, and the good is lumped with the bad, and every one is content, for it could be worse. It has been worse many, many times. For instance: “Back in about 1910, now, there was a Christmas day I'll never forget,” said James J. Johnston, the fight pro- moter, as he hitched his heels on his desk in Madison Square Garden. From the walls around him peer down the faces of fighting men back to Jim Corbett’s day. The chairs are soft, the desk is mahogany. Jimmy is sleek, well fed. Spats clothe his ankles, Outlook Is Gloomy. “FPHE panic was on for fair,” he continued. “No dough. A house full of kids. Christmas day. Snowing like heck. Cold.” He stopped soberly as the contrast with this day took full possession of him. He shook his head. * “I've got one fighter, Al Reich, the big guy that was Jafsie’s bodyguard in the Lindbergh case. Remember? He's fighting this afternoon in Tren- ton, N. J., against old Porky Flynn, and we're to get $400, a life saver. I figure I'll be back in time to make something out of Christmas at that. “We've got just enough dough to get round-trip tickets to Trenton. Se we get down there and the place is packed. This Flynn is tough, but he'’s pretty well washed up by now. We figure to take him easy. “In the first round Flynn is doing the best he can, but he’s not so hot and he knows it. Reich can hit plenty and he gets one good right-hand shot at Old Porky, but it misses. Porky slips, getting out of the way, goes down to one knee, decides that while he's there he might as well rest a while. So he takes a nine-count. For no good reason he winks at me in the him a couple of pips, and Porky holds on. As he does he turns to me, tries to grin, and says, ‘Say, I thought your guy was supposed to be a puncher.’ “The referee catches him again. He don't hear what Porky says, but he pulls them out of the corner kind of savage. The fourth round Reich finally nails Flynn, a sweet left hoak right on the button, and there's Porky hung over the ropes like a towel, imp and lifeless. “So the referee starts to count. He gets to seven and he's grinning, very knowing. He says to Porky: ‘Come down off there, bum, at nine. You ain’t fooling me. I heard you talking to Johnston. You ain't pulling no phonies around here.’ “The crowd’s roaring, and I'm dying. It's the first time I ever want a fighter we already got knocked silly w come back. But Flynn ain't hear- ing that referee. He ain't hearing anything. He ain't going to hear any- thing for some time. He's done. Refuses to Pay Off, G 7ELL, the referee finishes the count, and then lets out a roar ‘It's a fake’ and we don't get any money. There's Reich and me outside, lucky to get away from that crowd alive, and it's still cold. It's snowing harder. It's almost dark, We still haven't got a dime for Christmas.” Jimmy stopped. The story was through. There should be more. Through one of those swift-moving coups for which he is famous, Johns- ton should turn the tables, come home in triumpn to the kids, money in every pocket. toys in a sack on his back, a turkey under one arm. He shook his head. “Nope,” he said, “that only happens in books. There just wasn't any Christmas that Christmas. That’s why they mean more now. “Well, I've got to be going. I've got & tree to trim, some more .pres- ents to buy. Merry Christmas.” MILEAGE METERED corner. The referee sees him. Kidding Becomes Serious. “ second round Porky’s having yh a tough time of it, but he's still to pretend he’s ok. gram not less than 10 or 12 of the Card players were listed as former all-Americas. Now it happens that I know and you know—if the players’ names were mentioned—that only a few of them ever made any alle America team; in fact, few of them even rated honorable mention. Cheap Publicity Method. T'S a cheap method of publicity and one which will do the pro- fessionals no good if the public ever takes time out to check over the roster of plavers. However, it seems to be a gag that as soon as a player wins a job with some of the profes- sional teams he immediately becomes an all-America. Maybe the guys are better than most of the all-America 'plnyers, but the fact remains they never won national honors. During any foot ball season one always encounters former college play- | ers who are known as all-Americans, when as a matter of fact they never made an all-township team. Their pretentions cause no great harm, but after the first 50 the others get to be a pain in the neck. Still, with so meny all-America teams floating around, one never can be sure. Some | fellow may have made the Whistling Post, N. Mex. almanac all-America, and that's just as official as any of the others: so if you belittle him, he may sue you | The Chicago Cardinals made a | great hit with their play in Southern California and drew crowds compara- ble with those in many of the cities in the National professional league. The Chicago Bears and New York Giants are due to show on the Pacific Coast in January and they will have turnouts which will astonish their | owners. California seems unable to get enough of foot ball and it's & happy hunting ground for the bet- ter professional teams when the sea« son is finished back East. The pro- fessionals put on a great show, but I wish they woud do it without phony- ing about the number of all-America players in their line-ups. | GOLF PAIR INCORPORATES Spicer, Who Turns Pro, and White Sell Stock in Themselves. 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