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C—2 s Victory Qver —-“Corp Muffins= Started Braddock to Championshi “TRAINS” ONE DAY T0 DEFEAT GRIFFN Kayoes Scrapper Who Made | Carnera Look Bad as He & Prepped for Baer. (This is the last of four stories on the career of Jimmy Braddock, new world’s heavyweight cham- pion.) BY EDWARD J. NEIL, ., Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, June 20.—No story of the life of James J. Brad- dock is complete without the tale of Corn Grifin of Georgia, who came from nowhere, went right back there, and left the foundation of & new heavyweight dynasty in his wake. Braddock was working on the Jersey docks, his fighting career apparently behind him, when Griffin, a heavy- weight ‘purchased from Uncle Sam’s Army for $68, came North to help Primo Carnera train for his heavy- weight title defense agadmst Max.Bagr. Griffin beat Carnera so easily in work- outs that he became something of & sensation. Trains for One Day. TWO nights before the championship card just a year ago, Braddock's manager, Joe Gould, called. “I got you a fight with a guy named Corn Muffins,” he shouted. “Get your- self right in training.” Braddock quit his job, trained one ®ay. Grifin knocked him down with ® right hand in the second round. Jimmy got up and flattened Corn three times. “I never hit anybody so hard in all my life” Braddock said. Gould embraced him in the empty dressing room as Baer was tearing Carnera down, winning the title he was to lose & year later to this same Braddock. “Joe,-if T could do that on hash, | what do you think I could do with a | couple of steaks under my belt?” | “We'll see,” yelled Gould. They | cashed Jim's check for $250 and the | comeback was on. Finally Gets a Break. THIY sat together on the hard | 1+ penches outside Jimmy Johnston's | offices in Madison Square Garden for | weeks, waiting, hoping for another fight. It didn’t come until Fall, when Braddock got & 10-round match with | John Henry Lewis, crack colored light- heavyweight. Jimmy won a close one. From then on Gould never ctopped yelling for more fights. Finally they nheeded some one for Art Lasky, Jimmy got the chance. So last Winter, 1 to| 5 shot as usual, he methodically plas- tered Lasky all over the Garden ring. Jimmy paid back the $300 the Gov- ernment gave him on relief out of the $4,100 he got for the victory, The State Athletic Commission named him foremost challenger when, by another freak of luck, Max Schmeling knocked out the foremost challenger, Steve Hamas, and then decided not to cross the ocean for the title chance at Baer. §till Same Old Jimmy. STEVEDORE days had broadened, strengthened, steeied Braddock for | the great test. He went into the ring at 10 to 1 and licked the magnificent Baer by sheer doggedness more than anything else. He's stili the same Braddock, and he’d carry your golf sticks tomorrow and think nothing of it if he liked you. His debts paid, there's a trust fund started for the youngsters. Young Jay and Howa:d are going to Yale, Rose Marie to Vassar. As some wag brightly remarked, they should send Baer along with Rose Marie to hold the daisy chain. e HAS EYE PEELED FOR PILOT’S JOB (Continued From First Page.) what he likes for breakfast. He lights e cigar and spends a half hour with the papers. He reads the box scores closely, par- ticularly those of the Yankee games. He pays little or no attention to the doings of the Braves. ALMOST any afternoon finds the Bambino shooting in the low 80's on one of a half dozen Long Island courses. Then he motors back to West Eighty-eighth street, eats what he | pleases for dinner and spends the eve- ning at cards or the movies. There is no “hot spotting.” ‘The Babe isn’t completely happy and won't be until he is back in base ball in #me capacity. Yes, there are offers. Every day he gets wires and telephone calls from semi-pro and | touring outfits which want to cash in on his drawing power. All have been turned down with thanks. He may weaken, but with $20,000 & year coming in for life, he can’t bring himself to go about as a traveling circus. He's keeping his eyes open and if he doesn’t get back into the big show | 88 a manager, he may try to buy into & club. He's sure he'll be back in base ball sometime. ! 'SEEKS JULY 4 CONTEST. McLean A. C. desires action with an unlimited team on July 4. Write to PORTS. Mat Matches By the Associated Press, OOLUMBUS, Ohio.—Ivan Rasputin, | Russia, defeated George Dussette, | Prance, one fall. | LINCOLN, Nebr—Ernie “Dutch” HefIner, 228, Sherman, Tex., defeated Rudy Laditzi, 223, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (39:47); Whitey Grovo, 225, Spokane, | won straight falls, 16:59 and 0:38 over Parmer Tobin, 261, Bismark, N. Dak.; Mike Markoff, 208, Russia, drew with Jack Manuel, 210, San Jose, Calif, FANCY RASSLERS BATILE TONEHT Savoldi, “Drop-Kick™ Artist, Opposes Donovan,fidept With “Irish Whip.” BY JOHN B. KELLER. HERE'LL by “drop-kickl“—fl' Joe Savoldi can put ‘em across —and “Irish whips"—if Jack | Donovan can crack ‘em—to- | night at Grifith Stadium, when these transplanted sons of Italy and Ireland grapple in the inaugural gee-and-haw match of Washington's outdoor wres- | tling season. | It all depends on the weather. Ir: conditions are not favorable tonight | the show will be carried over until tomorrow, starting at 8:30 p.m. And most of the cost will be on the | masculine admirers of the hug-and- tug game. For the feminine fans of wrestling the show will cost nothing more than 25 cents and the Federal | tax. This Savoldi-Donovan mix-up will be something of & tryout for the out- door season at the ball yard, Promoter Joe Turner says. He regards these | mayhem guys as right evenly matched for & wrestling exhibition, and if the turnout tonight goes for them he will endeavor to polish future bi-weekly billings to the delectation of the coin contributors. Feature Well Supported. 'URNER insists he is supplementing his main tussle with a worthwhile card this evening. He believes the semi-final, which will bring on CHff Olsen and Little Beaver, will prove in- teresting and that his two 30-minute- limit preliminaries will be seat-wear- ing affairs. | Out of the old school of wrestling himself—and Turner was much more than a wrestling showman in his days | —Joe retains his faith in the business of grunting and groaning. The old middleweight champion still likes it despite those who scoff. Old man Shakespeare scribbled that | “all the world's a stage,” but he neg- lected to specify that wrestlers are | but | particular players. Maybe 5o, after all, who doesn't like to see those muscles bulge? Even though the top two bouts don't provide the thrills, perhaps those 30- minute preliminaries in which Mike Mazurki and Floyd Marshall will clasp and those behemoths, Walter Podolak and Ed Meske, will struggle along, ought to amuse. HONOR BRENT ATHLETES More Than Score Receive Awards at Leonardtown School. LEONARDTOWN, Md., June 20.— Base ball, soccer and track awards were received by more than a score of Margaret Brent High School ath- letes it has been announced by M. M. Hernick, director of athletics. ‘The honored athletes were Pranklin Adams, Elmer Bussler, Bryan Curry, Arthur Deckerman, Paul Ralph Kirby, Biscoe Knott, Lacey, Haverman Mattingly. Sol Rus- sell, Joe Warder, Allen Sydnes, Clem ‘Tennyson, Randolph Wathen, Francis Yowaiski, Henry Burroughs, Bernard Drury, Stephen Jones, Louis Wil- Hams and Harold Nelson. GRAYS NEED A RIVAL. Chevy Chase Grays want a Sunday game with an unlimited team. Call Cleveland 8770. 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HAMING youth may supplant flaming youth as the watch- S word at Griffith Stadium in at least two instances Monday night when Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn unveils an all-star boxing card featuring four eight-round bouts. Although some of the finest young boxers in the land will be among the participants, two grand old veterans are to step into the spotlight when battle-scarred Roger Bernard re- engages youthful Lou Fox and ancient Andy Martin belts it out with clever Patsy Severo. Good enough to have turned back a fleld including Barney Ross, Harry Dublinsky, Bat Battalino (twice), Battling Gizzy, Steve Smith and Tony Herrera several years ago, Bernard's splendid record against the youngsters of today indicates that he has lost none of the potency in his dynamite- laden fists. Retains Old Wallop. IN 18 BOUTS in 1934 this amazing veteran recorded seven knockouts, won four decisions, boxed one draw and lost four times to outstanding fisticuffers. No less surprising is the great come- back of Martin, Boston 126-pounder, Financial reasons have forced Martin to launch a comeback. Vying with the old timers for favor in eight-round spots Monday will be Phil Furr vs. Tony Rock and Joe Temes vs. Julie Katz. . International. Syracuse, 5-2; Montreal, 1-1, Baltimore, 10; Rochester, 3. Albany, 9; Toronto, 4. American Association. Columbus, 7; Kansas City, 5. Minneapolis, Indianapolis, 2-4 Louisville, 6-4; St. Paul, 4-1, Pacific Coast. Hollywood, 9-1; Sacramento, 2-2. Portland, 7; San Francisco, 5. Los Angeles, 6; Seattle, 5. Oakland, 10; Missions, 2. Copyright, A. AUBURN, N. Y, June 20.—Da Preem, former heavyweight king, snapped in a fast and vicious session with his sparring partner, Jack Redwin, at his conditioning quarters here. The huge Italian is said to P. Wirephoto. SPORTS. P BRADDOCK PLANS Heights 0 GATHER GRAVY Unlikely to Defend Title Until 1936—Lasky Bobs Up as Obstacle, By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, June 20.—Just when Jimmy Braddock will make the first defense of his heavy- weight crown is uncertain. Jimmy Johnston, head of boxing at Madison Square Garden, is going ahead with plans to bring Braddock and Max Schmeling, former title holder, together in September, but he is meeting opposition that may post- pone the bout. Joe Gould, Braddock’s manager, has indicated he probably would hold the garden to its contract—that Braddock make his first title defense in 1936. “We want a chance to cash in on the title,” said Gould. “We want to take an exhibition tour, maybe go to Europe and we might make a picture in Hollywood.” Commission May Act. THE second obstacle is the Btate Athletic Commission. Chairman | John J. Phelan sald he thought the | commission would not approve of a be & vastly improved boxer and he may need to be when he encounters the hard-punching colored lad in Yankee Stadfum, New York. BY BILL DISMER. HILE rain caused the post- ponement of the junir dou- tournament, it provided time for a | bit of speculation upon the future of | tennis in the District—that is, the | caliber of those who will be the head- liners in the years to come, and to peek over the present horizon was encouraging. Any time the city has boys like David Johnsen, Harry March, the Rit- zenberg brothers, the Hatch family and Bill Channing performing in its jun- for competitions it does not have to worry about the future-of its men's tournaments, for when these lads be- come old enough to compete in the senior classifications they will be ready to carry on in the tradition set by Mitchell, Welsh, Markey, Shore et al. all JOHNBEN. the youngest of them and the newly-crowned boys champion, is only 14 years old, but right now has a form and style that | would do credit to many an older player. The boy serves with unaccus- tomed speed for one so young, strokes creditably for a youngster and has a back-hand of which any one can be proud. That he plays most regularly is evinced by his all-tanned body, & berry brown from his socks up. The youngster has confidence in himself SWIMMING LESSONS LADIES 10:30 TO 11:00 A. AND GET IN bles and women's events | in the City of Washington | and is extremely well poised on the court. He should go far in the years to come. March, a big, strapping youngster. 16 years old, is one of the biggest players in the District and with his height lending advantages to his nat- ural ability, is destined to become one of the “big shots” of local tennis, say around 1940. { _The Ritgenbergs have been familiar | figures around the city's courts for some years and play as well together | a5 they do alone. How far they out- | classed the rest of the junior fleld is | seen by a glance at the final match | of that class’ tournament last Sunday, | when they met for the championship. { Both play hard, fast tennis and al- , ways are dangerous. They are out to | win every time they set foot upon the | court and their determination stands | them in good stead when pressed, | which is seldom. |~ Another pair of brothers, the Hatch | boys—John and Mac—have made | their mark in junior circles and were | the No. 1 doubles of the Western High | championship team in the scholastic season just closed. With a couple | more years of the teens awaiting them, they, too, should be ripe for the “big | time” in the early 40s. | ON‘LY two points stopped the March- | Channing doubles team from ad- vancing to the semi-finals yesterday | In the boys' tournament, when, with Inne set already in their favor, they DAILY EXCEPT SAT. SUNsHOLIDAY JUNE 24 TO AUGUST9 GENTLEMEN 11:00 TO0 11:30 AM. BE A GOOD SWIMMER 'CHILDREN 10:00 70 10:30 THE SWIM ’were leading, 5—4, with the score at deuce in the tenth game of the second set with Dorst and Johnsen. They were to resume play at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Immediately upon completion of that set the brothers Ritsenberg and | Hatch were to take the court for their semi-final match. | ‘The ladies also were to make an | effort to go ahead with their matches | this afternoon. | Clara Tabler faces | the feature at 5 o'clock, while two quarter-final umatches bring together Frances Carter and Betty Hubbell and IDorvue Miller and Mary Ryan. The winner of these matches will play against each other for the right | to meet the winner of the Tabler- | Moore semi-final affair. ‘GOODYEA Sara Moore in | | trict nine is sought by the Alexandria | ALLISS WINS IN SCOTLAND. 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