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A—14 REACHES DEPTHS | - YEAR FROM TITLE Deliberately Breaks Han to Save Surgical Toil in Resetting. (This is the third of four stories on the career of James J. Brad- dock, new heavyweight champion.) BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, June 19.—Within Conp: three years after the start of his professional career, when | Whit he knocked out Leo Dobson for a purse of $75, Jimmy Braddock fought Tommy Loughran for the light-heavyweight championship of the world, collected $28,000—and a neat licking. He came up the hill with tremen- dous speed, and he went down just as fast. He knocked out 11 in a row, wen a couple of decisions, then flattened five more, won 10 more decisions before he started to hit the top-notchers early in 1928. Tuffy Griffiths, with a great repu- tation, came into Madison Square Garden from Chicago and Braddock knocked him out in two rounds, first of the many short-end victories he turned in before climaxing his career | with victory over Heavyweight Cham- | pion Max Baer in the Garden Bowl | on Long Island. Fortune Evaporates. JHE BROKE Pete Latzo’s jaw in four places. He knocked out Jimmy Slattery, once a great light-heavy- weight, in nine rounds. But along in 1928 and 1929 he lost decisions to Joe Sekyra, Leo Lomski, Maxie Rosen- bloom and Loughran, when the 175- pound crown was at stake. Then the crash of 1929 swept away the modest fortune he had piled up. He had to start all over again. He was showing signs of the rough, slug- ging warfare he had been through. The slump started then and never lightened much until fortune provid- ed the amazing series of happy coin- cidences that gave him a chance to Wwin the heavyweight crown. “ So bad was Jimmy’s right hand that he fought only five times in 1930, losing to Leo Lomski, Billy Jones and Babe Hunt. He had been beaten 22 times when he faced Baer in the | bowl. He hit less than .500 in 1931 and 1932, Deliberately Breaks Hand. HE DELIBERATELY broke his right hand on Paul Swiderski’s head 80 that doctors could reset it without an operation. He fought Hans Birkie With two broken ribs and Germany Heller with a broken collar bone. He was getting licked so regularly that the experts shook their heads. “Nice, game guy,” they said, “but he’s washed up.” It was worse in 1933, and the pres- sure was deep on the Braddock home, now tenanted by his wife, Mae Fox Braddock, whom he married in 1930, By 1934 there were three youngsters to add to the load: Jay, now 4; Howard, 3. and Rose Marie, 3. Jimmy went back to the docks as & stevedore, but there was only a day’s | work now and then. He was on relief 13 months, getting $24 a month. He had no time to train, but to save car- fare he walked three miles from the apartment in Woodcliff to the Jersey docks each day. He lived on hash mostly, but he was outdoors, rebuilding his strength and muscles for fights he never ex- pected to get. He was about as far down as a fellow can be, and still kept trying, when along came the turning point, Corn Griffin of Georgia, Just one year ago, j ——e. CAN'T ACCEPT TENNIS BID. LOS ANGELES, June 19 (#).—Mrs. Ethel Burkhardt Arnold, tentatively selected as a member of the United States Wightman Cup tennis team, sald she will be unable to compete against the English at Forest Hills, Long Island, August 16 and 17. TOLEDO PILOT PUNISHED. CHICAGO, June 19 (#).— Fred Haley, manager of Toledo, has been indefinitely suspended by President Hickey for using abusive language in protesting a decision at Columbus, League Statistics 'WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1935, American RESULTS YESTERDAY. All gam terd: et noum;; yesterday postponed, rain and STANDING OF THE CLUBS. EER aosuseA st 18 CTuUOM . Fninsaind wiqdepeud sl 6| 31 4| 3I—I 4] 4] 2126I281.4811 8y, Wnl 11 31 2[ 21 BI—I_61_6125/28/.4721 Pnil 2l 2| 41211291 42011% 6l 1| StLT 2( 4 11 21 3/ 11 2|—I15/351.300117% L../10121(23123128128129861—k—1 | GAMES TODAY, ‘GAMES TOMORROW. ‘Wash, Cleve. (2), Wash. at_Cleve. %eg.mv . Y. at Detrojt. N. Y. at Detroit (2). Boston at St. Louis. Boston at 8t L. (2). Phila, at Chicago. Phila. at Chicago. National RESULTS YESTERDAY. All games yesterday Postponed, rain and wet grounds. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. QRN 20X MON! 5 . 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Pitching continues paramount in | the Texas League, with Joe Prerost’s » ooy it R L e 82% . Stewart lost 1. - | leaders. The leaders for all the minor | leagues, compiled from latest avail- able averages, are as follows: Player—Club and League. Skoffic, Bloomington, Three-I. Ferrell, Richmond. Piedmont Atwood. Johnstown, Middle Atianti Eckhardt. Mission. Pacific Coast Chell, Monessen, Pennsylvania State Catchings. Muskogee, Western Ass Peploski, Scranton. New York-Pen: Dunn, Alexandria. Evangeline. . Puccinelli. Baltimore. Internations Irving, Lincoln. Nebraska State Gill, Minneapoiis. American A: Hodgin. Reidsville. Bi-State Bergmann. Crookston. Norther Fyle, Tyler. West Dixte. Cooper. Rogers._Arkansas State. .. Browne. Little Rock, Southern. . Willingham, Sloux City. Western Brown. Thomasville, Georeia-Florida Simmons. Greenville, East Dixie. Preost, Galveston, Texas. PITTS IS EXPECTING TO PLAY ON SUNDAY Will Sign New Albany Contract Today—Hopes to Be “Just Another Ball Player.” By the Associated Press. ALBANY. N. Y., June 19.—Edwin C. (Alzbama) Pitts today becomes a full-fledged member of the Albany base ball club and. he hopes, “just another ball player.” ‘The 24-year-old former convict who was banned from organized base ball until Kenesaw Mountain Landis came to his rescue expects to sign a new contrect this afternoon and take his place in the Albany line-up next Sunday. The new contract—the first was voided by a ruling of the National Association of Minor Professional Base Bal!l Leagues—stipulates that Pitts cannot take part 11 any exhibi- tion contests. “Everybody has been wonderful to me,” Pitts said, “and I appreciate what they have done. I'm glad it is all over and now 1 hope to be looked upon as just another ball player.” DIDRIKSON IN TOURNEY. TEXARKANA, Ark., June 19 (P).— Mildred “Babe” Didrikson, sensational Texas girl athlete who won fame in the Los Angeles Olympic games, has announced she will compete in the women’s Western open golf tourna- ment in Chicago June 24, Pts| 21—| 51 11 71 81 6 41332315801 5 StLI_ 2| 31— 8| 2 5| 31 7|30231.6661 6% Ohi| 1| 3| _#— 6| 5 4| 41271231.540] 8 Bin| 1| 4] 3] 11— 4] 7| 6/124126/.480/11 Cin| 4| 41 1| 31 11— 3| 52132/.396113% Phi| 21 8 31 51 3| 11 2110/30.388/15% Bos[ 2[ 11 3 11 4| 31 2I—I161341.320118 L..[14123123123126/32/80184 —1—1_| = GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW A £ . Y. BRSBTS . A 2). 0L 3% Fhila. " Bl L. 8t Phis. 1 @he Foening St Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1935. Fortune Plays Foot Ball With Braddock : Hit-Crazy Griffs in Sho MYER SWATS 300 10 LEAD ON TRIP Griff Second-Sacker Seen as Hot Material for All- Star Team. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LEVELAND, June 19.— If the major league managers are going on reputation in the picking of the American League's team for the all-star game, then Charley Gehringer Detroit likely will play second base here next month. But if they want the league's hottest second-sacker at the moment they need look no farther than this scene of the annual American-Nation- al League classic. The gent we are recommending today, not merely for & place on the squad, but for the starting job at second base, is Capt. Buddy Myer. Ed Linke's eleventh-inning homer in Chicago, the feats of Al Simmons, the rows with Umpire Brick Owens and Johnny Stone's sensational string of 12 hits in 15 trips at St. Louis have shoved little Buddy into the back- ground during this Western swing. Yet quietly and efficiently the Na- tionals’ fleld leader Has been playing the game of his life, Buddy Leads on Trip. T IS Myer, not Stone, who is the bat- ting leader of the Griffs as they resume their drive toward the first division here today after two succes- sive days of enforced idleness in St. Louis. With a swatting mark of .500 for the eight games played to date, Buddy tops Stone by 14 percentage : | points. Unlike Johnny, he has socked 353 being the lowest of any of the |, "overy game and for longer dis- | tances than the outfielder. Ten of Buddy's 19 safeties this trip have been for extra bases. He belted out _|five doubles, three triples and two homers. Stone has walloped three % | doubles and a trio of triples. Following are the averages for the 404 | slugging Nationals this trip so far: 5 R. H. Rbl. Awe 3 g0 as: 22023150 DRR=Mom P Kress Totals .v... 8 318 l [EETTET -+ St 3le s | DD woes: Earl Whitehill's finger is sorer than ever—he hurt the big digit on his pitching hand in Washington on June 5—and it is the finger off which he slides his curve—which probably accounts for Earl's ineffectiveness during his last two appearances—it is | not a break, however, according to Earl and Trainer Mike Martin—just a bad bruise at the joint that will take at least another week to heal. Zeb Milan, released as manager of the Birmingham Barons, was on hand to see the Nationals off at St. Louis— Zeb now is trying to patent a cigar- ette lighter while awaiting any base ball offers either as manager or scout. The old National, one of the best base stealers in the business 20 years ago, brought some cheer to Bucky Harris. He touted highly Chattanooga’s rookie trio of Buddy Lewis, Dee Miles and Red Marion. At 19 Marion is nearly ripe for the big show, according to Milan. Miles is capable of belting big-league pitching, and his throwing arm is one of the best in the game, and Marion, concluded Zeb, is the greatest fielding prospect he ever has seen. F. E 8. e SYRACUSE GETS OANA. ATLANTA, June 19 () .—Henry Oana, Hawaiian center flelder of the Atlanta Club of the Southern Asso- ciation for the season of 1934 and 1935, has been sold to the Syracuse Club of the International League. Firpo Practices as Ump Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. technique as an arbiter to President Will in the process of being schooled for his new % | | )| ond baseman: a base ball man who * James J. Braddock’s sons give an illustration, in a miniature ring, of how Pop won the heavyweight cham- pionship from Max Baer. are sojourning, is acting as second for Howard Braddock (left), who is facing his brother Jay. Braddocks also are shown in this order as they annihilate ice cream cones. Raymond Schnyder, son of the mayor of Guttenberg, N. J., where the Braddocks now The youthful STICK MARK HIDES LAZZERI'S WORTH Yank Second Sacker Hits Only .268, but Bangs In Flock of Runs. BY ANDY CLARKE, zeri on the batting list is the the story. Ask Tony's Yankee team- Associated Press Sports Writer. ESIDE the name of Tony Laz- unimpressive average of .268. But those figures don't tell mates what they think of him, and they will say he is a truly great sec- 7w thinks more in & terms of team success than of personal ag- grandizement. Lazzeri has the faculty of com- ing through in “the pinches.| When the hit- | and-run is on, | he probably is the most danger- ous man in the American League at the plate. Whether the pitch is down the middle or a pitch out, Lazzeri seldom misses it. Lazzeri has batted in 41 runs so far this season, and since the first of June has belted home 17 runs on 15 hits, T Tony Laszzeri. Strong on Defense, Too. ’I‘ONY’S worth doesn't end on the attack. His defense record, with the exception of one bad splurge, has been well-nigh perfect. At the be- ginning of the season he went for a long stretch without making a miscue. Every one began talking about him and Tony suddenly became over- consclous of it, choked up and made four errors in the course of a few days. Then he settled back again and hasn't made another error since. Heavy rains turned the ball parks into inland lakes yesterday and not a single game was played in either league. So the boys sat around the hotels and discussed the indignant outburst of Frankie Frisch, whose championship club is beginning to leak a little in the seams. Having in mind the way the Giants are rolling along, the boys were a little skeptical of those old, old words, “We're not licked yet . . . the season is still young . . . we're playing to win.” Dizzy Dishes Razzberries. TH! boys were of the opinion that these words, poured out after the Cards had taken a 14-3 defeat at the hands of the Terrymen, were the words of a man attempting to fight off an inevitable conviction. Dizzy Dean, it would seem, also is trying to give the impression he is confident the Cards will come through. Before the rout the other day he yelled to Allyn Stout, who was hitting fungoes in front of the Cards’ dugout: “Hey, Stout; pretty lucky gettin’ traded from a last-place club to a second-place outfit.” “Whadaya mean, second-place out- fit?” retorted Stout. “Don’t you read the papers?” “Sure,” said the irrepressible Dizzy, “but we're letting you guys get a little ahead so we can make it interesting in September when we pass you.” LEADS CORNELL CREW. ITHACA, N. Y., June 19—William G. Van Arsdale of Ostile, N. Y., has been chosen captain of the 1936 Cornell crew. LEAGUE LEADERS. By the Associated Press. American. Batting—Johnson, Athletics, .388; THE SPORTLIGHT Dean’s “Quitting,” Baer’s Failure to Be Serious, Prove Goofiness Helps Sports. BY GRANTLAND RICE. AS IT HAPPENS TO BE. We live a while, and then we die; We hike a while, and then go lame. We finish low, or finish high— But still we finish just the same. Though here and there a few may win, Most of us take it on the chin. We name our winners—and they flop. We pick our losers—and they win, Not knowing that the human crop Is just a bunch of tops that spin In dizzy circles, king Where some fall up, ard clown, and some fall down. The main rebuttal’s largely this— We stumble and we slog along, Where life is largely hit or miss, And half the guesses must be wrong, To figure out the human brain The prophet first must be insane. F THIS sporting game were all en- tirely normal it would appeal only to the mathematicians and the logicians. In certain respects, at least, it is the somewhat goofy or the off-side element that keeps it going. In the last few days, for example, two of our less serious playmates have not only incurred the displeasure of the public but have bumped into troubles of their own. & Just what are they like—their angles and their reactions? T have known both for some time at close range, and yet I haven't any part of an answer. In Pittsburgh during the open golf championship I ran into Dizzy Dean, and he was through with base ball. He was in the middle of a civil or uncivil war with Frank Frisch, the Cardinal team, base ball in general and the public at large. - He was going to quit base ball for golf and fishing. I sat in his room three hours trying to find out where he was going to get the money that golf and fishing, minus a salary, some- times needea. Dizzy had no particular inter- est in that problem. He was 100 per cent serious in what he believed at that moment, T ran across Dizzy & week later and he was happy and contented, keener than ever to win another penmant. Within the space of a week I had known two entirely different human beings wearing the same face and carrying the same name. Corncerning Max Baer. A FEW days before the Braddock fight I talked with Max Baer. He was deadly serious. “This is one fight I've got to win,” he said. “There’ll be no clowning or kidding this time. I'm going to pile in from the start. My hands are none too good, but I'll break both in a dozen places if I have to do this in order to win. I've got & half million or a million dollars waiting for me after this fight. You think I'm going to throw that away?” Knowing that he had little money left—little money saved—less than $50,000 by several bank notes, this After all, who would throw away the glamour of a title and $500,000 or more in less than an hour? Y Sports Program For D. C. Teams TODAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington at Cleveland (two games). TOMORROW. Base Ball. ‘Washington at Cleveland, 3. ‘Wrestling. Joe Savoldi vs. Jack Griffith Stadium, 8:30. ~ FRIDAY. Base Ball, ‘Washington gt Cleveland, 3. What happened is well known. Without any apparent reason, Baer suddenly decided he didn’t care about fighting that particular night. He fought just long enough to show what he could do if he had felt in the mood. I ran across him the night after the fight, expecting to find a dejected and | downcast athlete who had just real- ized what had happened. In place of that, I never have seen him in a more carefree, happy state of mind or being. He had gotten the worst panning any heavyweight cham- plon ever drew. He had lost his title and the fortune that goes with it. But he still was laughing—still on top of the world. At this point some stranger came up and said, “I just want to tell you I think ybu're a punk and a bum. That you always were and always will be.” Baer only laughed again. “Listen,” he said, “T've been panned toe much lately by ex- perts to bother about an amateur.” “As far as T can figure it,” I sald, “losing this title doesn't mean any- thing to you at all.” “That isn't the only thing in life,” Baer gaid.” “It certainly isn't going to break my heart.” “How can any young fellow, still in his prime, quit on the sort of show- ing you made?” “I'll be back,” Baer said, “and the next time I'll be ready with my hands right. I'm going to start light train- ing again with Buddy down in New ‘There are certain types that no one can figure in advance. They mean one thing one day, or even one hour, and something just the opposite an hour later. ‘They are far beyond the inathe- maticians and logicians. They in- furiate the writers and the public, but they make most of the copy the writers write and the public reads. (Copyright. 1935. by the North Newspaper Alliance, he.)mn ROSENBLCOM WINS FIGHT. LOS ANGELES, June 19.—Maxie Rosenbloom, weighing 184 outpointed Abe Feldman, 181, in a 10- round bout here last night, FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK STATE“?'H 15 ONE Ost‘ THE FINEST Minor Leagues International. Montreal, 5; Syracuse, 3. Albany, 8—1; Toronto, 7— (second | game 10 innings). Rochester, 12; Baltimcre, 5. Buffalo-Newark, rain. American Association. Milwaukee, 4; Kansas City, 3. St. Paul-Minneapolis, rain. Others not schedul>d. Southern. Nashville, 4; New Orleans, 3. Memphis, 2; Atlanta, C. Knoxville, Little Rock, 0. Birmingham-Chattanooga, rain, ‘Texas. Fort Worth, 3; San Antonio, 2. Beaumont, 5; Dallas, 3. Houston, 5; Oklahoma City, 2. Galveston, 6; Tulsa, 2. Missions, 9; Oakland, 5. San Prancisco, 7; Portland, 5. Seattle, 12; Los Angeles, 6. Others not scheduled. Middle Atiantic. 1W" outh, 5—11; Johnstown, 8; Beckley. 7. Akron, 4; Charleston, 2. Zanesville, 5; Dayton, § eleventh, rain). Huntington, wdown Set TRIBE T0 PROVIDE GAUGE ONBATTING {Harris Banks on Clouters at Last Challenged by Big League Hurlers. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. LEVELAND, June 19—With one big question haunting him, Bucky Harris today was to lead his Nationals onto one of the most uninviting battlegrounds in the American League—the band- box ball yard of Cleveland's Indians. The question is brief, but weighty. What will happen when we face big league pitching? More or less resigned to an inferior brand of Washington hurling for the present, Harris was banking heavily on the same lethal clouting that enabled the Griffs to escape from Chicago and St. Louis with a degree of success. But Cleveland and its great slab staff promised to show Washington's hit- goofy batsmen something that they have not seen in 10 days. That something is high-class pitch- ing. Not since the Red Sox, with their Wes Ferrell and Grove, departed from Washington nearly two weeks ago have the Griffs faced consistent big league curving. The Athletics had nothing to show the Capital crew on the mound. The White Sox hurlers were little better. The Browns' twirling corps was a joke. Indians Mean Actors at Home. | AGAINST this kind of pitching the | Nationals banged the ball hard and often, so well, in fact, that even | a minor league brand of slabbing by their own hurlers successfully was offset and a distinct gain on the fifth- place Red Sox shown. The Indians, with their great Mel Harder, Monte Pearson, Oral Hilde- | brand, Willis Hudlin and several lesser lights, loom as more formidable foe- men. Unless the Washington staff shows a sweeping reform, the Indians will get their base hits and it will be up to the Nationals to duplicate their slug- ging displays of the last two weeks if they mean to win. ‘The Griffs had yet to win a game this season in the Tribe’s back yard as they got here today. On their first visit they were checked by Harder, Hildebrand and Lioyd Brown in the only two tilts played. Off the Cleve- | land pitching trio the Nationals were able to get only eight hits all told. In Washington skirmishes with the Indians the Harrismen enjoyed more success, winning two of three games, but the lone defeat they suffered then will be one never forgotten. That (Continued on Page 15, Column 8.) TWENTY GRAND SEVENTH. ASCOT, England, June 19.—Twenty (ufled.icrund American horse, ran seventh in the Queen Anne Stakes yesterday. 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