Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1935, Page 14

WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1935. Canzoneri, Klick Fight for Futures : Heavy Title Tilt May Draw $250,000 AMDING | | Joyce Wethered Proves Class BHAMP"]NS R|SK ' In Winning Match at Columbia RING REPUTATIONS Bitter Battle Is Assured To- night in Shrine Show Threatening Records. B reputations will be risked to- | night at Grifith Stadium | where Tony Canzoneri, lightweight champion of the world, and Frankie | Klick, junior lightweight titleholder. are scheduled to mix over a 12-round | routg in the greatest fight show ever offered in the National Capital. A throng of 25000 shelling out $40.000—both sets of figures tops for a Washington fistic fete—is the joint prediction of Messrs Turner and Ahearn, local sports impresarios put- ting on the spectacle for the joint benefit of themselves and the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. A fight to get fights will be that between Canzoneri and Klick after | they step into the glare of the high- voltage arcs at 9:30 o'clock. The| lightweight king is highly confident | of success in the battle, even to the | extent of declaring he won't have to go the dozen rounds to win. “It will be over in short order.”| Tony boasted today. But Klick is equally as confident of victory. “Tll wear Tony down and get him after the tenth,” insisted Frankie Canzoneri will need all the confi- dence and everything else he has in a fighting way tonight as he meets | a Klick keyed to best battling pitch, | for the lightweight crown wearer | must win by a wide margin to be assured of future lucrative matches. Tony Must Fight Like Champ. ANZONARI cannot afford to fight other than as a champion. No title will be at stake. but a beating at the hands of Klick would tarnish | Tony's lightweight coronet enough to make the little New Orleans Italian Jess of a ring attraction than the srunky Polack from San Francisco. For Klick, this fight tonight affords | an opportunity to avenge a brace of beatings handed him by Canzoneri £nd certainly will determine his fistic future. i Victory would mear. for Crankie the second really good break for him in his struggle for recognition as one of the world’s bast lightweight scrap- pers. The first vreak he got when he was matched with Canzoneri for the Shrine show. He must raxke his second break and tonight Frankie will be shooting with everything at his command to do just that. ! A win would make Klick the fore- meost challenger fcr Canzoneri’s crown | and bring about a popular demand | for an early mez2iing with the cham- | pionship involved. It would put Klick ! on the path toward the big-money class in pugilism, a ciass in which Frankie's foeman tonight is firmly | established. 1 Tony Must Shoot Works. CANZONERI tonight's fight is| just another bout, but one in which he must throw fists for all he is worth from start to finish or have | his ring reputation no little sullied. To Klick it is the great opportunity | he has longed for since last June, | when he was compelled to stop in the | ninth round of . slam-bang battle | mith the fighter he is meeting here. Klick will go into the ring at Griffith Stadium bearing a grudge. While he | has a wholesome respect for Canzoneri | the little San Francisco battler has no ! strong personal regard for his foeman | and does not care who knows it. Asked | to be a member of the Shrine party | greeting Canzoneri on arrival at! Union Station yesterday, Frankie | curtly refused. “I got other things | to do,” was Klick's surly response. “Anyway, why should I bother to meet him? That can wait until we both | et in the ring. Then Tony will see plenty of me. And he won't like it so | much.” ' The last time Klick and Canzoneri | met—it was last June—Klick did| BY JOHN B. KELLER. OXING gate and box-office rec- ords will tumble and ring made his face swell so much that | & neighboring course within a week. OYCE WETHERED, the British queen of golf, has come and gone from Washington, but those fans who missed the fa- mous British girl in the match at Columbia yesterday will have another opportunity to see her in action over Miss Wethered, who is all they sald about her and her golf ability before her appearance here, will show at the Five Farms course of the Bal- timore Country Club next Sunday. She will play with Mrs. Glenna Col- lett Vare and Roland R. MacKenzie. The other player has not been named. | Miss Wethered was playing with Lily Harper in Norfolk today in her | expansive and expensive tour of the | country, over which she will pick up | several thousand of our American | dollars. But if ever a golfer is worth ! watching and paying money to see | it is this tall English miss with the pleasant smile, the cheery disposi- tion and the fine manners. You could tell out there at Colum- bia yesterday that the Wethered girl | hasn't been used to the fuss and | | bother of American championships, | and that golf to her still is a pleas- | ant game and not the grim business | it has become in this land of super- | heated championships. | She scored an 80, but it was an 80 | that could easily have been trans-| formed into a 74 or better with a little | more putting luck, a little better | knowledge of the Columbia course and | better weather conditions. 1t blew | hard from the northeast and for a | time rain appeared imminent, but| there were about 1,200 folks out to see the glamorous Joyce. | Miss Wethered and Fred McLeod | 5 by OME 35 or 40 Washington golf- | ers are preparing to embark for Norfolk tonight and to- morrow to get ready for the biggest sectional tourney of the year— the Middle Atlantic amateur cham- pionship, which will get under way over | the Princess Anne Country Club course | at Virginia Beach on Wednesday. With 19-year-old Bobby Riegel of | Richmond slated to defend the title | he won last year at Hot Springs, this year'’s mid-Atlantic title joust looms | as one of the better golf affairs of the year, for the Washington delega- tion is going to be strong numerically and in a golf way, too. Most of the local contestants will | play on Thrusday, although a few | of them will play on Wednesday. An | 18-hole medal round will be played Wednesday and Thursday, with the field split into two parts. This will | be followed by match-play rounds Friday and Saturday, with the final 18 holes Saturday afternoon. Jack McCarron, veteran Congres- sional star, is wondering what it takes to beat Col. H. C. Dagley, the former | trans-Mississippi star, who is leav- | ing Washington this week for the | West. | Jack had four birdies on the first | nine and yet lost to Dagley, who | scored a 36—one under par—for the | nine. Dagley had a 74 for the round. McCarron bagged his birds on holes 3,4,5and 8. Irving Quesada, H. E. Krafft and J. J. Sheppard finished with net scores of 74 to tie for first place in the| Congressional Club blind bogey tour- | ney. Quesada won in the draw. His score was 92—18—T74. ‘Woman golfers of the Washington Golf and Country Club will play Wed- nesday and Thursday in the 36-hole tourney for the Mrs. Douglas Tschif- fely trophy, 18 holes each day. Out at Indian Spring today about 100 golfers, comprising the first con- tingent of the Government golfers, were playing in the Interdepartmental League tourney. They will wind up their play tomorrow afternoon. right well until a punch to the mw| both eyes were closed. The fight had 10 be stopped. Klick claims that an infected tooth, more than the blow, was responsible for the extreme swell- ing, and that had he been able to| see he easily could have continued to the finish. Particular About Referee. | IT 1S that fight in October, 1933,{ that rankles, Klick will tell you. | He was giving Canzoneri a sound| spanking most of the way, but the| officials could not see it. It was a| great shock to Prankie when the ref- | eree raised Canzoneri's arm after the 10 tough rounds. Klick still believes he won that fight. He has insisted ever since he started training here that he will win this one if he gets a fair break from the third man in the ring. That man will be Jack Dempsey. The Shrine Boxing Committee selected Dempsey as referee, but it took the District Boxing Commission to definitely estab- lish the old Manassa Mauler in the position. Klick, through his manager, Ray Carlen, strongly protested the choice of Dempsey. He doubted Jack’s ability to handle a fight properly. It took all the persuasive power of the Capital commission even to partly convince Prankie that Dempsey would be thor- oughly versed in District boxing rules before stepping into the ring. Even today, though, the San Francisco bat- tler was a little dubious as to Demp- sey's qualifications. éANZONERI and Klick wound up preparations for the fight with light workouts yesterday. Shortly after his arival from New York the lightweight champion went to the Racquet Club for a spell of bag- punching and general calisthenics. Tony looked as fit as the proverbial fiddle. After his workout, he stepped on the scales to balance the beam at 137. Klick finished his brief drill weighing a pound less. The fighters were to be officially weighed at 2 o'elock this afternoon at the District Boxing Commission’s quarters. JThe battle between the champions hgs aroused interest nationally and thyongs of fight-minded prominents 1 look in on che set-to tonight. inion as to the outcome ir about evenly divided with the New York aggregation led by Benny Leonard, former lightweight king, stanchly upholding Canzoneri and the West- em and Southe;n contingen's as steongly favoring Klick. a4 Above is shown part of the crowd that turned out at Columbia Country Club yesterday to see Joyce Wethered, England’s contribution to the links pastime, pair with Freddy McLeod to defeat Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare and Roland MacKenzie. The latter is putting on the first green. In the other view, from left to right, are Mc- Leod, Miss Wethered, Mrs. Vare and MacKenzie. ~—Underwood Photos. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Lombardi, Reds, 2; Moore, Giants, 1; Greenberg, Tigers, 1; P. Waner, Pirates, 1; Gel- bert, Cardinals, 1; Trosky, Indians, 1; Coleman, Browns, 1; Hopkins, White Sox, 1. The leaders—Johnson, Athletics, 14; Greenberg, Tigers, 13; Foxx, Ath- letics, 10; Ott, Giants, 10; Bonura, White Sox, 10; Moore, Giants, 10. licked Mrs. Vare and Roland Mac~ Kenzie by 3 and 1, but that wasn't the main thing at issue. The big thing was the flawless and effortless shot making of the English girl. She is good—plenty good—and we wouldn’t be surprised if she couldn’t beat & lot of our first-rank amateurs. Any girl who can outdrive MacKen- zie and McLeod on several holes of & golf course is good. And never did her shots stray from the straight and narrow path to the hole. “She is the best I ever have seen.” Fred McLeod said after the match. “I couldn't imagine a woman hitting the ball so straight and so far,” Roland added. “She is the very best there is.” Lack of knowledge of the course and | the placement of bunkers shot the English girl's score up. For example, on the tenth she found a trap and it cost her a 6. So did an unexpected trap on the third. She scored 41 and 39 for the nines, even with that 6 on the tenth. Her best shot was her iron second to the fourteenth, which left her a 15-footer for a bird on one of the tougher holes at Columbia, and her sparkling wooden club shot which carried to the fourth green, 210 yards away, against a head wind. The girl is good, no doubt of that. Columbia’s well trained committee functioned with clock-like precision. The handling of the galleries and all the details which accompany a big show like that of yesterday all went off like machinery. ~Fred McLeod and Roland MacKenzie scored 75s, while Mrs. Vare had an 84. The card of Miss Wethered: Out, par...4 4 4 Wethered .4 4 6 In, par 5 Wethered .6 4 5 ~STRAIGHT OFF THE VEE W. R. MECALLUM Meanwhile a Middle Atlantic P. G. A. affair scheduled for Indian Spring was postponed until next week. w BION MOORE won the handicap * tourney at Beaver Dam with a card of 81—11—70. Frenk Heffler was second with 83—11—' rest Thompson was third with 77—4 —173. Other winners were Dr. J. FPreedman, Karl Sonneman, H. R. | De Vilbiss, J. Lutes. N. Rubenstein, T. E. Latsch, J. R. Breen, F. C. Bar- roll and Edwin Brooker. West Potomac Park golfers are in the midst of qualification rounds for their Summer tournament, with to- morrow the last day to qualify. Match play rounds will be settled Wednesday and Thursday. S. C. Wimsatt is the men'’s champion, and will play in the tourney. Ellen Kincaid is the women's title holder. D. C. LEAGUE TEAM WINS. HARRISONBURG, Va., June 10.— Heurich Brewers, Washington nine, Orange and Front Royal, all new- comers in the Valley League, scored victories in their debuts yesterday. Heurich's defeated Front Royal, 4-1, after the Virginia team had trounced Harrisonburg, 8-2 Boxers’ Records Last Two Years CANZONERI—1934, Pebruary 2—Cleto Locatelli March 1—Pete Nebo..... “Wol March 13—Baby Arizmendi. . . June 28_Klick. won. ... T. o August 29—Harry Dublinsky . ~.Lost 10 September 26—Harry Dublinsky.Won 10 ay Lou Ambe: *For the lightweight championship. KLICK—1934. January 22-——Frankie Wallace. Lost 10 Marcn 5—Barney Ross . .Draw 10 June 28—Canzoneri, losi E July 31—Cleto Locatelli. November 2—Harry Dubli 1935. January 29—Barney Ros: League Totals—American, 200; Na- | tional, 194; total, 394 and For- | CTY TITLE TENNIS | TS UNDER WAY Latona-Sherfy Clash Tops Card of Twice-Postponed Meet Inaugural. BY BILL DISMER. N INTERESTING match, which undoubtedly would have at- tracted scores of those lack- adaisically hanging around the Rock Creek courts clubhouse with nothing more to do than placidly while away a Sunday afternoon, at- tracted not one spectator yesterday. Why? For the simple reason that | saturday’s downpour made all of the city’s courts impossible for play yes- terday, even had it not rained one drop after midnight Saturday. | Instead, then, of playing to what might have been a sizable gallery, Tony Latona, the tournament’s No. |1 seeded player, and Raphael Sherfy | will meet this afternoon with but little more than the wire backstops enclos- | ing their court providing the Inspira- tion. The Latona-Sherfy encounter prom- | ises to be the standout match of the | twice-postponed opening of the City | of Washington tournament. Latona seems to be the only one of the eight | seeded players that was provided with more than a warm-up for his first |round. The Sherfy twins have been playing tennis a long, long time, and one of these days one, or both of |them, may crash through a more- |favored opponent and give a disas- | trous kick to the “dope bucket.” | _ The other seeded players—Mitchell, McElvenny, Markey, Lynch, Willis, | Jacobs and Deck—do not, on past per- formances, have much to worry about in their opening encounters today. Whether the opponent of Larry Phillips. a Mr. Sweeney, proves to be | one of the city’s as yet uncovered out- | of-town stars who recently have come to Washington, will be learned today. | The fact that he comes from Forest Hills, N. Y., raised Phillips’ eyebrows a little when he learned of the resi- | dence of his first-round opponent, but | whether he will prove as worthy of | the courts as the courts have of For- | est Hills remains to be seen | Tony Latona will not meet his| foremost rival and the man who last year stood between him and the Dis- | trict championship until Sunday, June 23 Barney Welsh, who was to have met the “second in command” in the finals of the Argyle tournament, left | early yesterday for Pittsburgh to com- | pete this week in Pennsylvania, and it was impossible to schedule the | match before a week from next Sun- day. Another tennis league will begin its season next Saturday when the Sub- |urban League, which has been in | existence almost a quarter of a cen- | tury, gets under way. One new team, | Army and Navy Country Club, will join the organization this year. | Matches will all be played on Saturday | afternoons as in the past. | Until the City of Washington tour- | nament actually begins, the doubles | teams and pairings for that event will | not be made known. Entries still are open for any two men who think they can play tennis well together and a schedule will not be drawn up until a day or two after the tournament's! singles matches start. Today’s schedule: 3 o'clock—Everett Jobnsen | Simon vs. o'clock—Rice vs. Higbie. Neale vs. Garber, Deck vs. Spriggs, Willis vs. Kay. | Heiskell vs. Apfelschpitt, Howell vs. Fal- coner. Strand | | . ‘Adair vs. Andeps Gibbons 'vs. Trennis, McElvenny vs. Dun- | ham. Baker vs. Pierce, Botts vs. Bradley, | Garnett vs. Niemeyer. o'clock—Lynch vs. Freshman, Trigg | vs. “Stocklinski. Latona vs. R. Sherfy. Mitchell vs. Fontaine. Coe vs. Staubley 6 o'clock—McCaskey vs. Judd. Gold- smith vs. Jaffee. Lawrence vs. Buchanan Jacob vs. Disque. Markey vs. Burwell, C. F. Smyth' vs. Goubeau. ‘Western. St. Joseph, 9; Davenport, 5. Des Moines, 10; Keokuk, 7. Cedar Rapids, 10; Sioux City, 6. FVE CREWS DRLL AT POUGKEEPSE Penn, Washington Latest to Get on Course—Cornell Due Tomorrow. OUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June 10. —The crews of five colleges son today, testing their blades for the Poughkeepsie regatta June 18. vania and Washington moved in yes- terday to join Columbia, Syracuse kept indoors because of rough water Rusty Callow of Pennsylvania said ton, would be in the Red and Blue shell in the 4-mile pull because of replace him. “This river has been haunting me Pennsylvania.” Callow said Coach Al Ulbrickson moved in with crew. “Of course, we won all three races varsity was too close for comfort. The Bears will be out after us again vania and Navy.” Meanwhile the Cornell crews, en- Ithaca, prepared to start for this battle river tonight. They probably tomorrow morning. Their rest was ordered after time trials convinced roynding into form. mERR RS o By the Associated Press were encamped along the Hud- The husky oarsmen of Pennsyl- and Cornell. The latter squads were he doubted if his stroke, Lloyd Sax- illness. Charlie Jones probably will ever since 1 started coaching at a varsity, junior varsity and freshman against California,” he said, “but the this time, not to mention Pennsyl- joying their second day of rest at will shove their shells into the water Coach James Wray they were rapidly BID FOR WIDMYER i | { Benny Leonard, retired un- defeated lightweight champion of the world; Tony Canzoneri, present title holder: Billy Whipp, athletic director of Racquet Club, and Fred Huber, chairman of Shrine Boxing Committee «left (o right), shown vesterday as Canzoneri put on fin- ishing touches for his battle this evening with Prankie Klick, king of the junior lightweights (lower). —Star Stafl Photes. SPORTScopE Canzoneri, Klick Furnish Pay-off on Lightweight ONIGHT is the pay-off for two of fistiana’s most illustrious Situation Tonight. BY FRANSIS E. STAN. | I sons. l In a boxing atmosphere new to Washington, dynamic Tony Can- | zoneri and glittering Fraokie Klick | step into the ring tonight at Griffith HEADACHESFELT " NVAKE OFOFE Parks’ Steadiness Made Him Champ, but None Displayed Brilliance. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, June 10.—The sec- ond “battle of Oakmont” is over, with a new national open champion in Samuel McLaughlin Parks, jr, college-bred | Pittsburgh pro, but the headaches lingered on today for those bridge- playing, par-busting products of American post-war professional golf who figured in one of the biggest blow-ups in championship history. It will be a long time before they | get over the shock caused by the | combination of Oakmont’s night- marish hazards and two days of stormy weather on the rolling battle- | ground a few miles outside of Pitts- | murgh. | It may be entirelv too soon if they I never play another national cham- , pionship on the course whose build- | ers saw fulfilled their prediction that 70 would not be broken by the pick | of the shotmaking profession In something like 446 rounds during the three days’ competition Oakmont’s par of 72 was broken only three times and equaled twice. Henry Picard’s 33—37—70 was the low mark. Parks’ Steadiness Wins. THE new champion was installed | after shooting successively steady but by no means spectacular rounds of 77, 73, 73, 76, for a 72-hole aggre- gate of 299. He was, of course, the only player to break 300, thereby achieving something that none of his Terp Star May Run in N. C. A. A. | Stadium for a 12-round battle, each predecessors, including the great Bob Games in Los Angeles. Earl Widmyer, sensational sprint star of Maryland University, will be named to participate in the forth- | coming National Collegiate Athletic Association games to be held in Los | Angeles. The versatile Terp holds the South- ern Conference sprint championship in addition to the District A. A. U. 100-meter dash record. He was & member of the All-Southern foot ball team last year. | tipping the scales over the light- weight limit. When it is all over, Canzoneri still will be the lightweight champion of the world and Klick still will be the junior lightweight king. But it still is the pay-off. It will be determined whether Canzcaeri's great victory over Lou Ambers recently for the 135-pound diadem was due in a great measure to Amber’s having been just a former | sparring partner for Tony; whether | the swarthy little Italian, ruler of his class for the second time, is a sovereign comparatively sure of his | crown. It will prove whether Klick really ranks as his No. 1 chal- lenger; whether the good- looking Californian truly is a “hard luck” fighter or one who came close but never really had it. Scrap of Many Angles. SELDOM has Washington had a fight, of any caliber, with as many | angles. There is, in Canzoneri’s favor, punch. Tony packs a wallop in either hand capable of knocking any oppo- nent unconscious. At 137 pounds, heavy for him, Canzoneri is nothing short of murderous. There is, in Klick’s favor, youth and incentive. Frankie is younger than Tony, two years younger. But it isn't so much the difference in their ages—27 to 25—as it is in the amount of actual warfare in which each has engaged. Tonight’s will be Canzoneri's 128th fight. Klick has had no more than half that many. Canzoneri’s incentive is only his innate honesty and pride of title ownership. Tony has had his glory. Four world championships have brought him that. He has his cash, enough to assure him of & lifetime of comfort. Klick's incentive is of the back- against-the-wall type. He is the “hungry” fighter tonight. The junior lightweight title, synthetic as it is, does not buy many steaks and des- serts. The 135-pound crown would, and by whipping Canzoneri to- night he would receive his chance to win that diadem. Klick's Potentialities Liked. BOTH are smart enough and ex- perienced. Both have the courage of champions that they are. Can- zoneri, win or lose, will go down in history as one of the greatest little fighting machines of all time. Klick never will achieve such a distinction, perhaps, but to- whipped one of the really greats of fistiana, and later, perhaps, that he knocked him from his throne. From this, corner it seems to be | Jones, could accomplish when the last | National open was held at Oakmont, i in 1927. | That year Tommy Armour won a | play-off, after tying with Harry Coo- | per at 301. This year Armour tore up | his card before completing the second round, and Cooper was out of the money. | Outside of the new open king, a | 26-year-old youth only four years out | of college and never previously win- | ner of an important tournament, the | only persons completely satisfied with | the outcome at Oakmont were the | bookmakers. | Of the dozen piayers quoted at rea- sonably low odds, only Jimmy Thom- | son, the California “siege guh.’ had, la chance to come through. Jimmy had at least three glorious oppor- | tunities to capitaiize decisive leads, | but he blew them all and finished | second, two strokes back, with 73-73- | | 77-78—301. | 1 No Excuses for Others. THE other favorites were not close enough even te offer any excuses. | ‘Where the accustomed headliner: fell back in disorder, the old master him- self, 42-year-old Walter Hagen. made the most dramatic closing bid Through the gale-swept round on Friday, the “Haig” had come fiying in with a sub-par 34 for the last nine, moving him up within sight of the leaders. He continued his spurt Saturday. | With nine holes to go, he trailed Parks by only two strokes, needing a 36 to tie, but it was, as he admitted later, “a bit too much for the old man.” Nevertheless, by taking third | place at 302, Hagen finished higher than he has done in any American open since he was runner-up to Jim Barnes in 1921. Parks’ victory clearly entitles him to membership on this year’s Ameri- | can Ryder Cup team, which will meet | the British invasion at Ridgewood, N. | J, in the Fall. Thomson, having | whipped nearly all his professional | rivals in Australia as well as in this | country, has earned a berth. If the old caballero, Hagen, isn't ac- | corded the honor of the captaincy on the strength of his latest comeback, it will arouse the wrath of the gal- leries to whom Sir Walter is still the m&!c captivating figure in America golf. & question of p-nch versus youth. Klick, with his potentialities, youth, | and experience from two previous scraps with Canzoneri has dropped from a 5-to-9 shot to even money. A majority of so-called experts, at| least locally, favor him over the veteran of 10 years who as long ago second | BRADDOCK STOCK - GRADUALLY RISES |Baer Now Rated Only 3 to 1 Pick Thursday, But Jim’s Backers Demand 5 to 1. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, June 10.—With de- pression’s challenger, Big Jim Braddock, back in town after | two rough months in the Catskills, and Champion Max Baer ‘nanhed with his heavy chores at As- | bury Park, N. J., the annual hulla- | baloo of a world heavyweight cham- | pionship prize fight was right back |in PFather Knickerbocker’s lap today. Until Thursday night, when Baer defends his title in a 15-round duel |in Madison Square Garden's bowl on Long Island, the | step aside somewhat as active indi- viduals, giving the experts the field for their predictions, and the cus- tomers the best fights of all—for rea- sonably good tickets. Looked on as a sad financial pros- | pect when unusual circumstances forced Braddock in as Baer's chal- lenger several months ago, the out- look has brightened somewhat with the passing of the training days, but | not enough to threaten any of the | golden records the team of Rickard, Dempsey and Tunney set in pugilism's | heyday. $250,000 “Gate” Seen. 'THE chances are that some 35,000 will gather in the bowl, with the receipts ranging aroung $250,000. Garden officials said the advance sale already has passed $100,000 and would speed up today with any sort of good weather. Demands for the top priced $20 ringside seats has been | modest. The match will be broadcast over a National Broadcasting Co. net- work. Braddock, a preliminary fighter on the card on which Baer won his title from Carnera a year ago, came down from the Catskills irritable but in as fine shape as bruising contact work can make him. Not only has his weight risen to 195 pounds since he started eating regularly, but he claims to have grown half an inch in height in the last year. “I'm in the best shape of my life,” he said. “I'm ready for 45 minutes of bruising fighting and Baer had better be ready too. I only hope Max takes a little time out from fighting to do some clowning for the audience. If he does I'll bust him plumb out of the ring.” Braddock's Stock Rising. EXPERTS who could see nothing but the big, handsome Baer at the start of training are wondering now if the dogged Irish icicle, a slow, methodical, cold-blooded puncher, with neither imagination nor fear, hasn't a fair chance to whip the champion. Baer, for all his clowning and de- claiming of injured hands, neverthe- less has reached magnificent condi- tion in the last week. It is generally agreed that if Brad- dock survives Baer’s first savage on- slaught—the hurricane attack that maimed both Max Schmeling and Primo Carnera for the night in the opening rounds—his methodical jab- bing and right-hand sharpshooting presents the best method, if there is one now, of beating Baer. Tommy Loughran, much swifter, headier, and a better left-hand jabber than Braddock, succeeded in whipping Baer soundly here where sluggers failed. Commission houses have dropped their quoted odds to 3 to 1 on Baer, but that price seems extremely low. The few Braddock bettors want 5 to 1 and upward. RIEGEL TUNES GOLF " FOR TITLE DEFENSE Richmond 19-Year-Old Favored to Repeat in Mid-Atlantic Links Tourney. By the Assoclated Press. IRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 10.— | Bobby Riegel, young Richmond |amateur who wears the Middle At- lantic golf crown by virtue of his clear- cut victory at Hot Springs last year, moved on the Princess Anne course today to map his defense against a covetous field that will be gunning | for his title in the tournament that | opens Wednesday. It will be the first time the 19- | year-old shotmaker has surveyed the | Princess Anne layout since he went to | the semi-finals in the State amateur there a year ago. The tournament scene is not un- familiar to the defending champion, and by his own admission he is in prime shape for resisting the pressure of an aggressive field. Unless the mental hazard of being the target of sharpshooters who would like to topple him from the peak proves dis- astrous, the young Richmonder is conceded an excellent chance to be- come the eighth man to win the title twice and the third to hold it for two consecutive years. Qualifying play will be held Wed- nesday and Thursday, and the first matches are scheduled Friday. The semi-finals will be played Saturday | morning and the finals that after- noon. International. Toronto, 8—2: Newark, 5—1. Montreal, 9—2; Baltimore, 5—32. Albany, 3—4; Buffalo, 2—S5. Rochester, 10—2; Syracuse, 3—3. How Shrine Bout Foemen Compare inches. .Chest (norm: 36 inches inches.Chest (tl?lndd).afl inches inches. -Ankle inches |