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A—10 The Toening Shat Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935. Miles Still on Trial as Nat : Louis, Levinsky May Re-Enact Dempsey-Firpo Go —_— Sat i | Dee’s Stick Pace Sloughs as Big Time Hurling Be- gins to Tell. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. NATIONAL for exactly one month today, Dee Miles finds himself still very much on trial as far as Capital fans are concerned. After first laying 'em | in the aisles with his amazing speed and a bunch of base hits, Miles has discovered there is a difference in major league pitching and the brend | served in the Southern Association. But while the newest of the Wash- ington outfielders is having his strug- gles at bat, Manager Bucky Harris and President Clark Griffith are stringing along with the 22-year-old Chattanooga Express. Individually, as well as collectively, they see in Miles “the makin's” of a really fine outflelder. Griffith thought well of the young speedster when he scouted him prior to his graduation to the Nationals. Nor has Griff changed his mind since | Dee's .400 batting average tailed off to & commonplace 284 clip. Harris, ever a shrewd judge of | young talent, thinks Miles “will be | ready for the big show by next year.” Fielding His Only Worry. "HIS only problem,” quoth Bucky, “seems to be afield, and there he has made the greatest progress since | we've had him. When he first joined | us Miles was a little ‘tight’ and slow in starting after fly balls. Lately he's | been getting away faster and looking better all arcund. “As for his hitting, I'm pretty sure . he’ll make the grade. With his speed . it’s hard to see how he can miss. Miles will get a lot of infleld.hits, and ‘when he begins to swing a little more loosely, he‘ll bang a few for distance, Of course, a month is a short time | for even a base ball manager to pass | judgment on a rookie ball player. Strictly speaking, Miles still is on trlal with Harrls, too, but in his size-up of the youngster so far Bucky seems well pleased. Unless his bat- | ting average continues to shrink for | the rest of the season, Dee undoubt- | edly will figure in next year's plans. Purposely he was brought up mid- way of the American League cam- paign in order for Harris and Griffith | to obtain a definite line on what | they can expect in 1936. Running Mate for Powell. © T IS no secret that Griffith is plan- ning & big Winter trading session in an effort to rebuild his pitching staff and to get capable hurlers dur- ing the current slab famine it will take more than cash. Players will have to be swapped and probably the only outfielder on the club certain to wear a Washington uniform next year is Jake Powell. Potentially, Miles is the type of | player fancied by both Griffith and | Harris and if he should blossom into a big-leaguer by next season he ~would prove a great running mate for Powell. While they are different | types, Miles and Powell possess sev- eral similar characteristics. Both, for instance, are strong throw- | ers and capable of cutting down many | #n overambitious base runner. They | are the two fastest gents on the ‘Washington club and Harris ever has “ %een a disciple of the dragged bunt | and stolen base. The fact that the Nationals have “frailed so often in games this season | probably has been responsible for the ‘comparatively small number of stolen bases, but improved pitching easily could open the way for more daring base running. Swings Too Freely. JOWELL is more on the type of Goose Goslin, both naturally and by preference. As a kid he pat- terned himself after Goose and, while he may never hit for the distance Goslin used to get, Jake is a longer swatter than Miles. The latter, if his development ful- fills expectations, some day may faintly revive memories of Sam Rice, who | may be remembered as a fair sort of | an outfielder while playing for the | oid Grifith A. C. At least Dee has & pair of legs on Rice’s type, fleet &nd potentially good for many ‘years | o©f service, If Miles does pan out this season, finding the correct place for him in the batting order will be the next step. As far as speed is concerned, Dee would make an ideal lead-off man, but he also is prone to swing too readily at doubtful strikes. Experi- ence might overcome this fault. -, Then, too, the kid has the happy faculty of getting most of his hits when runners are on base. In the | Bouthern Association he was the leader | in runs batted in and he has displayed much of that talent here. Official Score % e e cosccomams T ) N [pheea— |hoaworarto B 5l eravcorccr o i @ ] s | 10| omcococool elosccorermel 2 5| crnssismmonil < o 22 2| oorsoneong 1 2 s2 | % L E batted in—Johpson, Powell (3), . Kress (2). Boiton. Bluege. Foxx. Kress, Bluege. Thrée-base yer to Kuhel. l.lhl.ng- Dietrich. on_ bal Dietricl ‘Umpires— 7. Pirst T Quinn and Owen. Time 5. Strikeouts—By Messrs. McGowan, LE DROIT NINE TRAVELS. LeDroit Tigers will leave tomorrow night for a three-game series with the strong Tidewater Giants of New- T | ing under Rockne. Louis Stylist Also, THE SPORTLIGHT | i but It’s His Killer Qualities That Bring Out Fight Fans. ) HY should a Louis-Levinsky fight draw 50,000 specta- tors and approximately $200,000? You may recall the story of the mouse-trap maker—where a man in the woods or the wilderness making the best mouse-trap would soon have a beaten path running to his door. Chicago is neither woods nor wil- derness, but one of the great sporting centers of the world. And in place of making the best mouse-trap. it seems that Joe Louis js supposed to make the best left hooks, right crosses, left jabs and what it takes in general to pin an opponent’s ears flat against the human skull. On form, past and present, Kingfish Levinsky doesn’t rate more than a spectral chance against Detroit’s young bomber. But thousands are willing to pay important cash to see a fighter rated s “another Sam Langford"—a killer and a stylist combined — thrown against a fighter who at least is will- ing to fight. The public at large still is more than willing to buy the best mouse- trap or to pay to see talent and skill well above the mass—especially when such talent is equipped with destruc- tive force. It must be admitted that so far‘ Louis hasn’t been tested sufficiently | to prove his place along the top row | of the passing years. But he has shown that he is at least a high-class boxer with a coul kead who can hurt anybody with either hand—that he is much faster than the run of the heavyweight field —and that so far he has shown more than any young fighter in the his- tory of boxing. You can’t ask much | more than that. Unproved Qualities. IT is true enough, as Gene Tunney and others have suggested, that | no one can tell yet what a young fighter, with little more than a year’s professional experience, will do if he happens to be slugged or knocked down. | On the other side, it will be no | easy matter to reach the bomber with | a punch of this sort. He is lightning fast with both hands, on defense as well as offense. This recalls the story of Jack John- son's workout with Luis Firpo, the wild bull of the pampas. After-a-two or three round workout. theén being close to 50, some one asked Johnson how hard Firpo could hit. “I couldn’t say,” Johnson re- plied, “because I wasn’t going to let that white boy hit me. He looked too big and strong.” King Levinsky is big and strong, but landing one of his flying fists on Louis near a vulnerable spot won't be the simplest problem Levin- sky will tackle this season. There is always the chance that this will happen—but it is an out- side bet. It isn't often that a hard puncher comes along, who can also block, duck and protect himself as well as Louis can. | It will be a good show for the | crowd if Louis puts on his normal act, wherein power, skill and speed | are so well blended. | It will be an even better show if | he gets tagged or tied up. A Language Knockout. '‘HEY were telling stories around some of the quaint and baffling English that Levinsky uses. The Kingfish has a rare knack of tying grammar into amazing knots. But an old-time ball player tells one on a big league pal that goes well beyond the Levinsky range. “It happened some years ago” the oldtimer said, “when Marty Brill was a first-year man at Notre Dame, work- The ball player came in one day with this remark: “ 1 just been down to see those Noter Dameys play. That' Canute Rockne is the best coach 1 ever saw. “‘He's got the best foot ball player I ever saw. His name’s Brill. But this year Brill is illegible for the veloc- ity and besides he just got kicked in the groan and will be out a week.'” The Heavyweight Mixup. ADISON SQUARE GARDEN owns Jim Braddock, the heavyweight champion, and the Twentieth Century Sporting Club has Louis under con- tract. With Schmeling in Germany, held by double taxes and none foo keen to come across the water anyway—with Max Baer still uncertain—the ulti- mate show must be Braddock and Louis. This is a tangle that only some ruling commission can work out. Baer would have to turn in a good fight, entirely different from his last start, to draw any gate with Braddock, even | if they were matched. Louis is the only test—but even if Louis wins there will be the same barrier. Joe Gould and Braddock want the biggest gate they can draw at Jim's next appearance—and this can come only through meeting the winner of a Baer-Louis fight. ‘There also is the story ‘that even the Louis backers would rather have Baer -tackle Braddock first on the chance of his regaining the lost title. If this happened, a Baer-Louis clash ‘easily would pass the million-dollar mark for the biggest gate since Tunney and Dempsey met in Chicago eight years ago. Returning to Chicago to look at an- other fight, it doesn't seem possible that eight years have passed since Gene and Jack turned in their last charge together. In the new rush of speed the years are getting faster than the weeks used to be. You will hear more than a few comparisons involving Louis, Tunney and Dempsey after his Levinsky party—especially if Louis lives up to the pace he, started a year ago. ¥ The Big Train, ’I‘Blmc'hllnhunlnnflmmk at last. The Big Train rolled into Washington just 28 years ago from out West to become the most effective port News, Va. Tigers are requested to meet at Sixth and W streets at 9 pitcher base ball ever knew. But Cleveland owners decided a | ing efTectiveness. BY GRANTLAND RI Indian ball club, so Walter Johnson passes out from the list of big league managers. | Walter Johnson always has been | one of the shyest and most retiring of big league stars. He has been one of the finest characters in base ball’s ex- tended list. But he never was quite able to prove a managerial ability that compared to his great pitching, which still holds the record for shutouts and | strikeouts—the final answer to pitch- Joknson never was a lucky manager. Accidents and illness cut heavily into his playing strength. Early in the Spring Cleveland was rated on a par with the Tigers in playing strength, with a combination of strong pitching | and hard hitting. But the spark was missing, and rough luck did the rest. Steve O’'Neil will be given his chance the remainder of the season, but the talk of Babe Ruth for the job con- tinues. No one has yet proved that the Babe can’t run a ball club, and the Babe still thinks he can on mod- ern lines of speed and hustle. He may yet get his chance before 1936 opens up its Spring campaign. But the Big Train is headed for the yards—and he isn't the only leader who will be headed for the guillotine this season. Here at least was one arm that car- ried more speed than any other pitcher ever knew. | (Copyright, 1935. by the North American | Newspaper All:ance. Inc.) | Griffs’ Records BATTING. G. AB. R. H. 2b.3b.Hr.Rbi.Pct. Mver__. 9% 134 28 9 467 308 Stone Travis .- 11115 109 16 34 60 108 919 Strange 9 Whitehill 24 Redmona .9 Hadley_. 24 Coppola_ 16 Pettit___ 81 1 McLean__ 4 PITCHING. H BB. SO In.P GS.CG WL Pettit i T R0V G 1 B 5 2 74191% 2412 2 40% 3 H H n Burke won FROM THE Writer Prepares to in Past Tense After Fight With Louis. BY JOHN BY JOHN LARDNER. HIS may be the last chance we'll have to speak of King Levinsky in the present tense. I don't mean that the king is in any danger of passing from this great green footstool to his final re- ward. Not at all. It will be many years, I irust, before the House of Levy-Krakow-Levinsky is robbed of | its treasured offshoot and meal ticket. But Levinsky fights Joe Louis a very short while from now, and unless he keeps his classic chin out of reach he may become null and void as a prizefighter. It will then be necessary to speak of him in the past or future tense, viz and to wit—“King Levinsky was a great boy, too, when he had it,” or, “Doctors predict that King Le- vinsky will emerge from the hospital in time to cast several important votes for Presiaent Woopdang in the 1948 election.” So, while we have the chance, let’s speak of the Kingfish in the good, old-fashioned present tense. King is e nice fellow. He is every bit as comical as he is cracked up to be, which means that the stories you hear about his vocabulary, his fight style and his domestic life grere hewn from the living rock and not from the plumbless granite of a press agent’s brain. High Jinks on Maxwell Street. THE Kingfish does not dislike the bright lights. In fact, he is a nimble stepper. The last time I heard of him in this capacity was about a week before his fight with Art Lasky last Fall. Feeling the need of refined exercise, the king stepped out to shake a dog with the beauty and chivalry of Chicago’s Maxwell street. On the dance floor he encountered Lasky's brother and manager, Maurice, a part- time salesman of choice Turkish rugs. “Ah, there,” said the King to - Maurice’s lady guest. “Hahza- botta dance?” “Who is this person?” the lady asked Maurice, jerking a cold but graceful fin in the direction of Mr. Levinsky. S Mr. Lasky explained that Mr. Levinsky was the Mr. Levinsky she had probably heard of in connection with the approaching fight, or slaugh- ter. A “Oh,” said the Iady. “I didn’t recognize him standing up.” ‘This unkind remark rankled with the Kingfish, and when the fight with Lasky took he avenged himself by stopping all of Art’s best punches with his stomach. King is not a spite- ful man as a rule. In this case he simply took the first means of re- Twin Bill Today Is Called Off scheduled doublé-header to- | | B " FERRELL'S FEATS as League Leader. Dlzzv DEAN, having peeked erican League, whaled out cinnati. fractious twirler, running his total to with 18. Grove's six-game winning streak. The Red Sox. went to the mound in the seventh and With the score tied at 3-3 in the and Leo Durocher sacrificed. Dean T Zachary Beats Giants. but only one run. The final score was Chicago Cubs 2-1 victory over Pitts- mound for the Cubs, but it took a Bill Jurges got a single in the third The pitcher, apparently intending t> confused and threw wild to first. field boxes, and Jurges scored. pitching of Bob Smith.” For seven #nd Camili di the dream of ‘Washington beat the Athletics, 11-2. Homer Wins Game, Nets 18th Victory, to Match Wes BY ANDY CLARKE, Associated Press Sports Writer. over the fence to observe the ts of Wes Ferrell in the a tenth-inning home run yesterday to give the Cards a 6-3 victory over Cin- The mighty sock added another pitching victory to the record of the 18, highest in the National League. Ferrell leads the American League It was on July 21 that Ferrell rode the ball out of the field to save Lefty next day, against St. Louis, he again homered. in the ninth to win for the It is not unlikely that Dizzy was thinking of those feats yesterday. He held Cincinnati hitless for four in- nings. tenth, Bill Delancey got & lucky double, Charley Gelbert was passed stepped to the plate and the ball sailed into the left brandstand. 'HE Brooklyn Dodgers shaved a full game off the Giants’ lead as Tom Zachary coaxed another victory from his aged arm. The Giants got 11 hits 3-1. The victory, combined with the burgh, cut the Giants’ margin to three games. Roy Henshaw was on the brace of erors on & freak play to turn the trick. and then Henshaw, trying to bunt, popped one into the hands of Birkofer. trap Jurges and get both runners, in- tentionally dropped the ball, then got By the time Suhr got it, Jurges was nearing third. Suhr threw to the left ‘The Boston Braves defeated .he Phillies 4-0 behind the three-ait one-third inings the Braves did not a single 40 reach first. & perfect game with a clean single. In the only American League game, Speak of Levinsky LARDNER. taliation that came to hand and then | forgot about the whole matter. i If he met Mr. Maurice Lasky's girl friend again he would probably say,| “Ah, there, hahzabotta dance?” And she would make the same crack, and the King would wonder where he| heard it before. A Bit Lacking in Tact. 'HE King's worst vice is tactlessness. You recall that he was matched with Max Baer last Winter during| Max's so-called exhibition tour. The | fight was supposed to be an exhibi- tion, but the King didn’t know what of. He thought maybe it was an ex- hibition of strength and skill. So he promised “his constituents that he| would murder Baer shd bring the title back to Maxwell street on a sil- | ver herring-dish. Mr. Baer was notified of this au- dacious proposal and straightway stated his own case. “If Levinsky gets tough, I will take a punch at him,” said Max. “If he lands his punch, and I miss mine, he can have the title.” ‘Well, history tells you that Levinsky did get tough. He nudged the champ a bit too freely with his right, and Max responded by slapping the King- fish into the land of nod. Perhaps that was the last good punch that Max Baer will ever throw. He certainly lost the hang of the thing imme- diately after his bout with Levinsky. You know the rest of the Kingfish’s public and private woes. He is trou- bled with an appetite for fish and a sister who can lick him at catch- weights. In the matter of English speech, he suffers from a severe slice and an occasional hook. All this does not make the King a bad guy. It makes him an interesting and colorful character, in addition to his nicemess. It will be sad to have to speak of the King in the past tense—“The King was this,” and “The King was that.” But if he stops too many of Louis’ punches, he is apt to become extremely non-existent as a fighter. And I don't see how he is'going to duck them. (Copyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) B CHICAGO, August 7.—Joe Louis, Detroit’s “Brown Bomber” (left), says he’ll K. O. Kingfish Levinsky in the fifth heat of their 10-round scrap under the lights at Comiskey Park, while the less modest Jewish heavy- weight contends he will floor his foe in the third. MARSHALL LODKS FOR BANKERS' NOD Transfer of Braves Awaits Note Extension—Showed | Profit on July 1. \ BY BILL KING, Associated Press Sports Writer | OSTON, August 7.—As soon as the bankers approve, George | Preston Marshall, wealthy | Washington laundryman, | whose hobby apparently is collecting Indian-named sports enterprises, will head the corporation that will assume | management of the financially har- assed Boston Braves. Marshall now is the owner of the Boston Redskins, professional foot ball club, an organization he nursed from infancy to affluence in less than three years. Next Move Is Bankers'. E AND Charles F. Adams, who was forced to add the Braves to his multiple sports and business interests a few days ago when Emil Fuchs re-| tired from the club, have come to an agreement, about the Braves' future. The passing of the club, however, will | be delayed until authorization is voted by the bankers holding a note, | starter. As a matter of fact the best said to be for about $200,000, for Braves' loans made during Fuchs’| 10-year regime. In the event that the bank disap- proves the management corporation proposal, it probably will be com- pelled to take possession of the club and run it until it finds a purchaser. Both Adams and Marshall believe the bank will sanction their plans and extend the note. Ruth’s Retirement Hurt. MARSHALL'S proposal, which Adams regards as sound, calls for his group to assume control of the Braves and provide the club with new working capital. The holders of the 14,200 shares of Braves stock, 9,500 of which are controlled by Adams, either would sell them at a pegged price within five years or exchange them for the management corporation’s issues. An examination of the Braves’ books revealed the surprising information that the club showed a $20,000 profit on July 1, despite its failures afield. Most of the black ink entries, how- ever, were due to Babe Ruth's draw- ing powers. With the home-run slugger in the line-up the Braves attracted huge crowds. Attendance fell off to almost nothing, however, when the aged Babe withdrew after a dispute with Fuchs. A. A. U. SWIM DELAYED The District A. A. U. swimming championships, scheduled for tonight at the Takoma Pool, have been post- poned until Friday night. Entries will be accepted at the pool until 6 pm. tomorrow. WANT DIAMOND DATES. Junior, senior and unlimited foes are sought by the Indianhead Jun- jors. Call Manager Wilroy at Indian- head, Md., Branch 142. 'WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. gton. 11: Philadelphis, 2. New York-Boston, threatening weather. Chicago-Cleveland (2). rain. Other clubs not scheduled. 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[} SRR NN { EEMED ready for more heavy duty slab service following his recovery from a concus- sion of the brain, Ed Linke | 2gain is to take his regular turn as a starting pitcher for the Nationals, be- ginning this week. The roly-poly right-hander. who has pitched only one-third of an in- a line drive in New York nearly two weeks ago, is to be sent sgainst the Red Sox in Boston, probably on Sat- urday. | In announcing Linke as a starter, Manager Bucky Harris also declared that unless complications arise or too many double-headers force a change, Rookie Whitey Hayes will see most of his action in relief roles hereafter. ‘The demotion of Hayes Comes as no great surprise, in view of the youngster’s last two failures as a starter. Against the Red Sox recently he failed to finish the first inning, and against the Yanks he was no bet- ter, Harris pulling him from the box after he walked the first batter in the second frame. “Hayes probably needs more expe- | rience,” declares Bucky. “He is too | | erratic right now to be a regular performance he’s turned in (a victory | over the Yanks in New York), was as a relief pitcher. That was the day he picked up Linke's game after Ed was struck on the head by a line drive from Jess Hill's bat.” Dietrich Is Pounded. Pounding Bill Dietrich for 14 hits, the Griffs won an 11-to-2 victory yes- terday in a second successive conquest over the A’s and their third win in a row. The triumph cut the Macks’ lead to one and one-half games. Every regular in the Washington line-up except Dee Miles hit safely as the Griffs routed the A's, with Capt. Buddy Myer boosting his average to .338 as a result of four hits in five attempts. Bump Hadley did the Washington flinging, recording his ninth win of the campaign on the strength of seven-hit pitching on his part and | two five-run rallies in the first two innings by his mates. Comedies Errors. TAKING advantage of an off day in the American League schedule to- m w, local radio announcers, sports writers, members of the Washington ball club office force and a dozen donkeys will contrive to set a new low in base ball . . . tomorrow moring at Griffith Stadium a select (?) team of District sports scribes will tackle the ball park office force, which prac- tically insulted the scribes into a contest . . . headed by Clark Griffith, Ed Linke, Skull Again Intact, Returns to Reg Griffs Annihilate Macks, 11-2 D ning since he was hit on the hezd by ' - - - who will play first base, and Eddie EXCELLENTE 2 ular Slab Job; JUST SUCH SCRAP VISIONED BY FANS Liken Joe to Jack, King to Luis—40,000 Expected. Negro Is Choice. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, August 7.— Their imaginations stirred by the prospect of a duplicate of the immortal Jack Dempsey-Luis Firpo thriller, upward of 40,000 sc- tion-hungry fans will pack Comiskey Park tonight to watch Joe Louis, Brown Bomber from Detroit, throw his devastating bombs at the King- | fish, King Levinsky of Chicago. The pre-battle set-up was almost a carbon copy of the Dempsey-Firpo drama of flying fists and tumbling bodies, except that no heavyweight championship prize will be at stake tonight. Louis, cool and deliberate, was the better strategist and boxer, like the Manassa Mauler of old, but before him he had a man like Firpo, who didn't know what danger meant, a man who could smash his iron fist 1hr'oug};“(| 2-inch board, take a blow or two like it i e m:::tum and then come Louis as High as 3—1. ]_OUIS, winner of spectacular knoek- | outs in 19 out of 23 professional ‘flghls, ruled the favorite at varying | odds from 2 to 3 to 1, with plenty | of takers from the pro-Levinskys. Even | the pro-Levinskys had a suspicion | that Louis packed too many bombs for the pride of Chicago's Maxwell street, but they wanted to find out— and all the boxing world wanted to know—if Louis could take what Levin- sky has to hand out and still come back and give what he’s got. Both principals, great oratoricai contrasts, were sure of victory in to- night’s battle, which was billed for 10 rounds. Louis, stolid and uncom- municative, said he would knock out Levinsky within five rounds, but Le- Eyon, jr., who maintains that he still can outrun any scribe in town, the office force team, after first making the dare, threatened to pull out unless Bob Considine pitched for the writers. Despite the fact that it makes the office force an overwhelming favorite, Considine, who probably holds an all- time record for “control.” will pitch in three years of play between sperts writers, Considine has yet to walk a batter . . . because the bats- | men never can make themselves be- lieve another “balloon” like the first one will be thrown by Robert . . . so no matter where the pitch, it is swung at. Local Fans Boo Dietrich. TE! donkey game, to be played Thursday night between an- nouncers of the C. B. S. and N. B. c.| will feature Arch McDonald on a| jackass . . . it will be the first such | game to be played in Washington « . . every player except the pitcher, catcher and hitter are astride don- keys . . . and when a ball is hit, the| batter leaps aboard a waiting mule | and rounds the bases . . . if he is| lucky. So bad was Bill Dietrich of the A’s in the first two innings of yes- terday's game that the 2,000 fans heartily booed him . . . but Connie Mack left him in the box because the Athletic staff numbers only six other pitchers, including Rookies Bill Doyle and Wedo Martini . . . what &her manager in base ball could get away with maintaining a slab staff no larger than that? Joe Kuhel was quite a lead-off man yesterday . . . being the first to bat in four innings and opening three of them by getting on base . . . draw- ing two walks and hitting once . Clif Bolton has developed & bad hal of watching the runner and groping for the ball on balls hit in front of the plate ., . . he has been charged with an error on each of the last two days because of this fault. F.E.S. RYAN GOES TO YANKS. PHILADELPHIA, August 7 (®.— Blondy Ryan, former Giants short- stop, has gone back to New York, sold to the Yankees by the Phillies. Presi- dent Gerry Nugent of the local Na- tional Leaguers said the deal was 1 strictly on a cash basis. CHI0OZZA GETS GRMD JOB. MEMPHIS, Tenn., August 7 (#).— Louis Chiozza, infielder for the Phila- delphia Phillies, has been named head foot ball coach for the Catholic High School here. He will take over his duties at the close of the base ball season. Chiozza formerly starred as a halfback in Memphis Prep School foot ball circles. vinsky— “This guy Louis has been meeting pushovers,” snarled the Kingfish, “and tonight I'll prove it. He's never had a punch hit him like I've got. He's my cousin and they can hold the fu- neral any time. I'll hand him flow- €rs. He won't give me none.” Both in Fine Fettle, OTHING was wanted in the way of training, both fighters reach- ing condition through a rigorous schedule. There wasn't much of an advantage in the physique, either, Louis weighing 196 to 198 for Levin- sky, although the Negro had- the ad- vantage of reach by 2!: inches and was 21 years old, three younger than the Kingfish. Gross gate receipts for tonight's production, promoted by Joe Foley of Chicago and Mike Jacobs of New York, are expected to reach $200,000 or more, the biggest fight in attend- ance and receipts since the Dempeey- Tunney spectacle at Soldier Field eight years ago. Ideal weather was in prospect. The fight was scheduled to start at 10 p.m,, Central daylight - saving time. 1In | event of postponement, it will be held tomorrow night. KNIGHT WIN CANCELED Ring Commission Gives Everett | Draw in Disputed Bout. | MIAMI BEACH, Fla., August 7 (®). | —The booed decision Joe Knight was given over Buck Everett in a 10-round bout here Monday night has been taken away by the Boxing Commis~ | sion, which officially recorded the con- test a draw | Knight of Cairo, Ga., weighed 169'5; | while Everett of Gary, Ind., tipped the scale at 181, Tape and Scales Size Ring Rivals CHICAGO, August 7 (#).—The tale i of the tape on King Levinsky and Joe Louis: -61t.113 in, ---196 7615 inches 16 inches 164 inches 42 inches 44; inches .. 34 inches .. 24 inches . | 17 inches | 101 inches .. | 815 inches | 15 inches - 1215 inches .. {1312 inches - o7 7eeze who Sneoke /w- DOUBLE FOR LASTING FOR 15¢ PANETELA 2 FOR 15¢ Jecze SEALED FRESHNESS OVER 700,000,000 FORMERLY SOLD AT 10c EACH ‘CAPITAL CIGAR & TOBACCO COMPANY, Washington, D. C.. Distributors f