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HURT GRIFF ACES, * BEAT CLUB OFTEN Started Havoc by Shelving Newsom and Have Kept It Up Ever Since. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staft Corresponaent of The Star. LEVELAND, August 20.—If ever a ball club was glad to shake dust from its collec- tive tootsies that time was Bucky Harris’ today as they bid farewell to this In- dian village for 1935. The razzberry chorus which un- doubtedly will mark the Nationals' departure from Cleveland tonight will have had. as its source, plenty of reasons. If the Griffs wind up this campaign in even more dolorous fashion than in 1934—and there's a chance—much of the blame can be placed on the Indians. It was the Tribe which definitely blasted Washington's flag hopes back in May, when one of the warriors, Earl Averlll, thumped our Buck New- som so0 soundly on the knee-cap with his tomahawk that Bashful Buck be- came a hospital case and an idler for £ix weeks, That was the beginning of the end. Neither the Nationals nor Newsom have recovered yet from that fracture. | All Hopes Gone Now. NOR were the Indians through wreaking havoc with our ath- letes. As recently as last Saturday the Griffs held high hopes of climbing out of seventh place. The sixth notch was within spitting distance. Fifth place was not beyond reasonable hope. What a difference a few Indians and a few hours can make. Today the last vestige of hope, at least for fifth place, has been wiped away. Another blow from an Indian warclub #mashed Clif Bolton's finger, and if the Tribe wins the six-game series finale today it will be Cleveland's fifth victory. For several years now the Indians and their ball park have constituted 8 distressing jinx to Washington teams. Injuries have been frequent to Clark Griffith’s tossers, but never, probably, has a Cleveland team en- ioyed such supremacy in play. By winning yesterday, 11 to 5, the Tribe made it 12 triumphs in 16 games with the Griffs this season. S‘O IT is little wonder the Nationals * joyously are looking forward to moving out. Steve O'Neill has the leveland club hustling these days. Sand has been thrown on the chute and the Indians once again are eyeing not. anly the first division but a goal 8t high as second place. They are only a half game out of fourth place this morning and the basis for these possibilities is the club’s record of 11 victories as against 6 defeats and a tie since O'Neill succeeded Walter Johnson. The Nationals' next stop is Chicago and this furnishes reason to regard the outlook in a more pleasant light. The White Sox were the surprise of the American League for well over half the season, but now it looks as though they finally are going into that freely predicted tailspin. If the Box's recent record of losing 13 of 14 games and tying another isn't a defi- nite sign then Buddy Myer is a palooka and the Browns will win the pennant. O'Neill Injects Hustle. Play Chisox, Then Browns. 'ROM Chicago, where the Griffs will play a four-game series begin- ning tomorrow, the Washingtons will move on to St. Louis for a six-game * Indians Bad Medicine for Nationals : Baer, Hands O. disillusioned athletes | » '[ FROM THE Buddy Baer-Jack Doyle Battle Thursday Should Determine if Either Can Fight | BY JOHN BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, August 20.—The strangest mystery since the Hall-Mills case will be cleared | up Thursday night when Buddy Baer and Jack Doyle meet in battle, The promoters say it is going to be a straight fight, with real, honest-to-goodness boxing gloves and | everything. Diving suits are barred, and the fighters will go into the tank at their own peril. There ain't any water in it. This being so, we are bound to find | out whether Buddy, or Jack, or both, actually can fight. I doubt if they know themselves. On dark nights in | the past they have raided the hen- | house for palookas, stumblebums, and | set-ups. This time they will be out | in the open, under lights. They'll have to fight. Singing will not be | accepted as a substitute. | You've heard of Buddy and Jack. | Both are big, tall, bpnny boys with | voices as sweet as the new-mown | sirup. Both have been the victims of | |a bad case of build-up. You can't | fool the public any more on build-up. The Carnera tour and similar sub- marine expeditions have made us so suspicious that when we hear of a striog of one-round knockouts in our neighborhood we lock up the silver and call a cop. N Buddy's Shyer Than Ddyle. HAT'S unfortunate for Buddy and Jack because, for all we know, | they really may be pretty good. Both of them say they are, and they say it with straight faces. Here are their individual statements to your corre- | spondent on the subject, revised, ex- | purgated, and greatly condensed: Doyle—"I've never seen Baer or Carnera, but I know I can whip them both. My style of fighting would make it rather easv. I hit tremend- ously hard with both hands, and I'm faster than almost any body. The | only fight I ever lost was to Jack Petersen. They robbed me of that e on a foul, but T was killing him when they stopped it. I showed him | NEW BOXING BODY NEMBER DEBATED Dr. Elier or J. H. deSibour Held Most Likely to Succeed Vandoren. HILE the 1400 at the fight show in Griffith Stadium last night stood uncovered, | & Marine sounded taps from the ring in memory of Maj. | Lucian H. Vandoren, member of the District Boxing Commission. who died suddenly yesterday at his mother's home. Hardly had the strains of the sad- dest service call been sounded by | Sergt. Trumpeter J. E. Wydick of | Washington Barracks than specula- tion as to the successor to the late | , member of the commission was rife. | Commissioner of the District Mel- vin C. Hazen, who attended the | fights, would advance no information | | other than that the appointment | would not be made until after the | funeral of the late boxing board member. Commissioner Hazen with Commissioner George E. Allen and Col. Dan I. Sultan will choose the appointee. &eries that will end the Harrismen's | western wanderings for the vear. The White Sox. as they are going now, and the Browns are more in the Griffs’ class and the Nationals may be able to touch up their record for this swing and make it more pre- sentable by the time Washington fis | eighted at the end of this month. Speaking of the Nationals' record, incidentally. brings to mind the fact that unless the Griffs can play slight- | Iy better than .500 ball for the re: mainder of this campaign they are €oing to finish with the worst won and lost mark for a Washington team in 16 years. Last year the Griffs wound up & seventh place, to be sure, but they won 66 games and lost 86 for a percentage of .434. Today their record is 47 victories and 66 defeats for a percentage of .416. 'WWITH 41 games left to play, it then y will be necessary to win 21 in order to better last year's record by one triumph. The loss of yesterday's fifth game with the Indians was Washington's eighth defeat in 12 games during the current tour. For a while it looked as though the Griffs were “in,” and even as late as the eighth inning the score was tied, 5-5. Bump Hadley, who had been heavily hit throughout, then blew sky high in the Indian’s eighth, when the Tribe ran wild to score six runs and ice the affair, At that, a little better fielding by Joe Kuhel might have saved Bump. ‘With two away and Knickerbocker on third, Pitcher Thornton Lee rapped a high bounder to Kuhel, who drove for it instead of taking {t on the big bounce. The ball struck his arm, bounced /away, and Galatzer's triple, two walks l«" and Hal Trosky's homer with the bases full did the rest of the damage. Job to Make 1934 Record. Two Mary Janes- Race, Both Score SPRI'NGPI!LD, TIL, August 20 (P). ~—Spectators and sports writers at the Illinois State Fair grand circuit races ran into confusion when two bay fillies with the same name—Mary Jane—popped up in different races yesterday. Mary Jane, a 2-year-old pacing filly by Hollywood Bob, owned by O. C. Hamilton of Bloomington, I, won the first race. The other Mary Jane, & 3-year-old, also a pacer, by Bingen Silk, owned by Irving Clauer of Galena, INl, fin- 1sfpd second to Napoliana in the fireh race. Two Names Stand Out. ANY possibilities for the position | advanced. but concensus reduced the choice of Dr. Robert L. Eller, dental surgeon, or J. H. deSibour, architect, both at present certified boxing bout judges. Each is greatly interested in boxing and has been identified with the sport for years. The members of the District Boxing Commission serve without pay. Whoever is appointed will have ‘to assist the present commissioners, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police. and Fred Buchholz, in solving & difficult problem that will come before the body in the near future. The American Legion of the District, through George F. (Doc) Royal, pro- poses to resume the promotion of box- | ing shows and has announced it will demand an even break on Monday night dates now monopolized by the Turner-Ahearn combine. Royal has | declared the Legion will conduct shows throughout the year and that he will present its demand for a parity in | dates at the next meeting of the | boxing commission. | Face Knotty Problem. T IS unfortunate that the wrangle likely to ensue will not find Maj. Vandoren. at hand to bring about a fair and amicable settlement. The | 1ate boxing commissioner was an able |lawyer, an equitable referee in dis- | Putes brought before the board. It | was he who formulated the rules and | regulations for legalized boxing in | the District and his code was widely | copied by State boards in control of the fight game, _ Maj. Vandoren, born in Hyattsville in 1895, was graduated in law from | Georgetown University in June, 1917, | and became a lieutenant in the Ma- rine Corps the following month. His war record was brilliant. He served with the 2d Division in France in six major engagements and was dis- charged in September, 1919, as a cap- tain. It was after the war that he became a major in reserve. For conspicuous service in the Meuse-Argonne campaign, France awarded him the croix de guerre with gilt star and at Soissons he won the croix de guerre with silver star. In the latter engagement he was severely gassed, which resulted in the heart affection that was the cause of his sudden death. | - Texas. Dallas, 4; Galveston, 0. Houston, 5; Fort Worth, 2. Oklahoma City, 3;: Tulsa, 2. Beaumont, 6—4; San Antonio, 0—S3. Three-Eye. Frerre Haute, 5; Peoris, 4. Fort Wayne, 6; Decatur, 4. ot | the left ear) | punch right back at Mr. Doyle. | | game The Foening Star Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1935. * PRESS BOX LARDNER, no mercy. Would you like to hear! me sing? This is a little Irish ballad called ‘Down Where the Gonigle Flows No, it's no trouble at all 5 Baer—“I know that some of {he men I've fought were not so hot. You can’t always find good fighters around when you need a fight. But I've fought a few good ones, too, and I done all right. Natie Brown, for in- stance. There's a fellow that went the limit with Louis. And Ford Smith, the guy that stopped Art Lasky. My record is better than vou think.” It's obvious from these two cut-rate autoblographies that Buddy is a shver | person than Mr. Doyle. Buddy doesn't like to talk. Doyle does and will, be- tween choruses. He's a hard worker with both lungs. But in spits of his winning perzonality, lovely face, and | dulcet pipes, he gets into trouble now and then, as witness what happened a couple of weeks back. Mr. Doyle’s build-up tour took him, as you may know, through the fens | and meadows of New Jersey. In one | of the meadows he agreed to fight an | uncouth character named Leo Wil- liams. Leo was expected to wilt and fall on his left ear from the’ impact Mr. Doyle’s hammering auke. People who can fall on their left ear always are welcome on fight tours, parties, and picnics because of their | special talent. He Wouldn't Be Sociable. UT suddenly, just before the battle, there was an argument and the sound of many voices. Prominent among the latter was the velvet tenor of Mr. Doyle, conveying the messaze that he would not go through witn the fight. There were a great manv hoarse whispers, too, to the effect that Leo Williams had broken his sociable hablt of falling down (on and was planning to Whatever the truth may have been, the New Jersey Boxing Commission promptly suspended Mr. Dovle or | 14 counts. There was a movement | on foot just the other day to suspend | him in New York State as well. This would have dumped Mr. James J | Johnston’s Baer-Doyle fight into the soup, with a 50-50 chance of staying | there. But the matter has been straighten- ed out, and Mr. Doyle will fight Mr. Baer as advertized. One or the other should win by a knockout, thougn the distance, in consideration of Buddy's tender age, is only six rounds. Perhaps they will both win by a knockout, so strong is habit in the ' human breast. Anyway, the bout will prove some- thing. It won't be necessary to call in Mr. Sherlock Holmes to solve the | baffiing case of the two canaries who say they can fight. (Copyright. 1935 by the North American | Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) i | for the first seven innings. innings Joe Bowman pitched superb | sion. GROUND ON CARDS Yankees Turn on Tigers Be- fore 32,000 as Selkirk Stages Field Day. BY ANDY CLARKE, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE St. Louis Cardinals turned their backs yesterday, and the Giants and the Cubs sneaked one over on them, Fresh from their series conquest over the Giants, the gang of Frankie Frisch went to Lewiston, Me., to take an extra slam at the staggering Bos- ton Braves in an exhibition game while their two chief competitors stayed in schedule and made hay. The Giants increased their lead over the second-place St. Louis club to three full games by whipping the Cincinnati Reds, 4-3, in 10 innings, while the Cubs moved into a virtual tie with the dog-house boys by shad- ing the Phillies, 2-1. Dick Bartell struck the deciding blow for the Giants after they had tied the score in the eighth inning. With the bases loaded, Bartell beat out & hit to short while Ott dashed home with the ball game. Babe Herman led the Red attack with three singles and a homer. Things looked bad for the Cubs For six ball and in the seventh he allowed but two harmless hits. In the eighth an error by Mickey Haslin, a double by O'Dea and a walk to Augie Galan loaded the bases. Sylvester Johnson was called to the rescue. Bill Her. man caught one of his pitches for a single and the winning runs went over the plate. Yanks Turn on Tigers. 'HE Yankees turned the tables on the league-leading Detroit Tigers, 7-5. The defeat cut the Tigers’ mar- gin over the Yanks to seven games An overflow crowd of 32,000 saw | George Selkirk lick the Tigers vir-| tually single handed. He was instru- | mental in all of the Yankees' runs.| He connected for five hits, including | two ground-rule doubles. in as many | times at bat, drove in four runs and scored three himself. The crowd got a thrill in the ninth inning when., with two on base, Hank Greenberg went to the plate. A homer would mean the ball game but, like | the Casey of the famous tap room | ode, Greenberg struck out. The Athletics and the Chicago White Sox divided & double-heade: the White Sox taking the opener, 7-: and the Athletics the afterpiece, 8-4. The even split dropped the fourth- place Chicagoans to within one-half percentage point of the second divi- Bob Johnson hit his twenty-second homer and Foxx his twenty-third, Harris Grins as Protest Game Due to “Homer” That Was Merely Tiwo-Bagger By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | LEVELAND, August 20.—Billy Evans, one-time ace of Amer- ican League umpires, prob- ably has good cause to con- sider confining his efforts in the future to the multifarious duties of general manager of the Cleveland club. | And Steve O'Neill, newly-named manager of the Indians, probably is catching up on his reading. In the first inning of yesterday's between the Nationals and Indians a line drive by Bill Knicker- bocker was hit against the short right field screen. Sammy Hale, who was on second base, raced across the plate and Knickerbocker followed him when the ball stuck in the screen. Umpires Bill Dinneen and Harry Geisel plainly were puzzled. They held a conference in midfield while players of both teams crowded around. | “Two bases!” yelled the Griffs. while the Tribe vehemently maintained it was & home run. Manager Bucky Harris, after first kicking, hurried off the field and at- tempted to persuade his players from | arguing. It looked as though Bucky had given up the fight early. Finally Rule It Two-Baser. INALLY Dineen and Geisel ruled it a two-baser and sent Knicker- bocker back, while Evans is alleged to have grabbed O'Neill near the dug- out and ordered him to play under protest. The Indian manager imme- diately announced his formal protest and play was resumed. The Tribe won, anyway, but not until he was i the club house cid Harris know that the game was played under protest. When he was told, Bucky broke into a hearty laugh. “But how about your giving up so quickly and walking off the field?” he was asked. “Just this,” said Harris, handing over a little card which was the offi- cial batting order given out by the | Cleveland club, like the rest in the | league, to managers who, in turn, fill them out and hand them to ihe umpires before the game. “Read the back of it.” On the back, under “Cleveland Spe- cial Ground Rules,” was the following prominently displayed: “Batted or thrown balls sticking in or going through the screen: Two “Apparently,” dryly remarked Mr. Harris, “Evans and O'Neill don't do much Treading, even of their own rules. I was hoping it would be called & home run. Then that would be one game that would have to be re- played.” (] Catcher Starr Reports. WMHINGTON'S catching staff was increased to two yesterday when Bill Starr, rookie from Harrisburg of the New York-Pennsylvania League, reported to Harris. How much help Starr will prove is problematical in view of a batting average around .275 with Harrisburg. However, with both Cliff Bolton and Jack Redmond out for some time due to injuries, it won't hurt to have an- other receiver on the roster ij\the event of injury to Sam Holl % "shifted him to Harrisburg. | turned around and waved on Jake | which dropped to the ground a couple Tribe Bosses ‘The newcomer is 23 years old and | has been playing professional base ball for five years. He spent his first two geasons in the Nebraska State | League and then two more years in the Western League. Joe Cambria of Albany grabbed the youngster last Spring, kept him in the International League for two months, and then Starr is right-handed all the way. Vosmik Gets Dizzy Double. JOE VOSMIK got one of the dizzieat doubles seen this season in the first inning . . . With one down he sent a high pop flv to shortstop . . . Ossie Bluege took one look and Powell . , . The center fielder must | have ran nearly 100 yards toward the | infield, yelling to Bluege all the time. | At the last minute Ossie looked up | and almost had to jump aside to keep | from being hit by the descending ball, of feet away from him. Cecil Travis is driving opposing | pitchers screwy with smashes through | the box-, . . In his last 10 games the | young third baseman has walloped 11| drives directly at the pitchers, most of them coming like rifle bullets . . . In Detroit he hit Tommy Bridges on the knee so hard that Tommy hasn't pitched since . . . And Sunday in Cleveland he struck Mel Harder on the wrist with such force that Mei had to have medical treatment. F.E S SR R American Association. Indianapolis, 1—5; St. Paul, 0—0. Milwaukee, 4; Columbus, 2. Louisville, 8; Minneapolis, 2. Official Score ‘WASHINGTON. Kuhel, 1b. Manush. yer. 3| Schuite, Travie, 3 Powell, Bluege. Holbrook. Hadley, *Kress Totals __ *Batted for Hadle: CLEVELAND. Galatzer, If Averill, cf Vosmik, If Trosky, 1b. ot P Swtsmisimm— i somuns~us=O ShoasmsnsH> *Batted for tBatted for Washington - Clevelend rger in sixth. "ll’l in sixth. uhel (2), Pows latzer.” 'Averill (" ickerbocker (%), Let ), Hale, Knicke: in—] y. Ga Trosky (4). Hale. Kn! Two-base hits—Vosmik. bozker. Manush, Schulte —Galstzer (2). Home Sacrifice—Bluege. 5 Loty art, of Drnmes: ot Leerd 13 4 nin . 110 leher——Lee. . Umpire and Geisel. Time—2:11. SPECULATOR, N. Y., August 20.—In training for that affair with Joe Louis the Baer through some rather strenuous (for him) training stunts, as is shown hete—chopping wood to strengthen thuse hands, under the watchful eye of his manager, Ancil Hoffman, who is carrying that bat for use as a prod. K., Serious BIANTS, CUBS GAIN Mebbe Madcap Maxie Really Means Business man daily is going ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. THE SPORTLIGHT It's Field Again st Lawson Little as Vast Golf Scramble Is Started. BY GRANT! LAND RICE e THE MAIN ANSWER The road ahead knows shadows t The road is rough and rocky and hat are deeper than the night; there's only little light; The barriers are heavy and the storms are riding high, Where more than one must fall before he sees the clearing sky. We stumble on through broken dreams that mark a bitter fray, But man was born to fight it out with something in the way. . The mist is thicker than we knew The hills are steeper than of old, And more than one will miss the For life is still a sporting chance along the path ahead: that wait our coming tread. turn, to feel the final blow, Jor all who make the show. We stumble on through shaken faiths, with grim hope holding sway, But man was born to fight it out with something in the way. The Largest Scramble. PORT largely is a matter of scrambles. There are just a few outstanding stars—not many—and the rest of the field in the upper branches must take their allotment from fate and the break of | the game. Today one of the largest scrambles in the history of sport takes place. It is the ef- fort to qualify for the amateur golf championship that opens at Cleveland September 9. From more than 900 starters—and the list of entries runs from England to Honolulu—there will be 200 sur- vivors tonight who soon will march on Cleveland and Lawson Little for one of the most interesting amateur | championships golf ever has known. The Dr: ic Spot. 'OU can figure the impending drama for yourself. Here is Lawson Lit- tle, the California catapult, who has won three amateur championships in & IOwW, The slugging son of Stanford has hammered his way through 23- con- secutive matches in the last two years at Prestwick, Scotland; Brookline, Boston and St. Annes, England, against the pick of the field. Nineteen of these matches have been over the killing 18-hole route, where anything can happen, after the manner of the small white ball spin- ning around a roulette wheel. No other golfer ever has equaled this record on the amateur side. To- day there will be more than 25 con- centration camps—more than 25 mobilization points—from Oregon to Florida—from Texas to Maine—from Louisiana to Minnesota—from hell to breakfast and back again—with the top cream of our amateur field trying to qualify for a march on Cleveland and possibly a chance to halt the run- away march of the broad-chested, long-hitting Californian who has picked up where Bobby Jones left off. All past champions are eligible. | This means that such veterans as Chick Evans, Chandler Egan, Bob Gardner, Jess Sweetser, Francis Out- met, Jesse Guilford, George Dunlap, Max Marston, etc., can report to Clevelani for match play September 9 without having to take the heavy barrier that nearly a thousand golfers must face today. And most of them will be on hand. 2-d a few of them still can toss the poisoned harpoon in the general direction of impetuous youth. All-Nation. THIE is an All-Nation enterprise, 48 States being represented. The far-away Northwest—at least far away from the Atlantic and Miami— offers Scotty Campbell, Don Moe and others, The South doesn’t have Bobby Jones any longer—but the South still has Charley Yates, Western and for- mer intercollegiate champion, a fine golfer and a great competitor, plus young Haas from New Orleans. Don't overlook the fol : Tran- sue of Cleveland, s t Yale | golfer who knows the course; Maurice | McCarthy from Ohio, Bobby Grant | from New England, George Voigt, | from New York, Rodney Bliss from | Omaha, Zell Eaton from Oklahoma, | anybody from Dallas, Tex., a city that turned in two of the semi-finalists at Brookline last year in Smith and | | Goldman. | Johnny Goodman of Omaha. Here’s | a story on Goodman. He stopped | Bobby Jones at Pebble Beach in 1929; | he was runner-up to Sandy Somer- | ville, the Canadian, at Baltimore, later on; he won the United States open at Chicago the next year; he was beaten by Chandler Egan, the veteran from 1903, at Cincinnati with a 71 against Goodman's 72; last | vear he played 18 consecutive rounds | in 62 under par (figure that out—62 | | under par. with his highest round at 69), and Bobby Jacobsen beat him at Brookline with a 72, when Goodman three-putted two of the last four | greens. To be frank about it, Good- man outplayed Jacobsen and Ouimet outplayed young Bobby Jones of Detroit at Brookline, yet both were beaten. ‘This rarely happens over a 36-hole match. It can happen often in an 18-hole match. 3 The picture today covers the entire United States—every sector of Amer- ican golf—where the entries run from 16 to 55 years of age—and where the lone figure still is Lawson Little, | with more than 900 starters hoping | | to be the one that will throw a League Statistics TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Cleveland. 11: Washington, 5. New York, 7: Detroit. 5 Chicago. 24 pUvAID GAMES TOMORROW. | Wash_ at Chi 2 n Tk Boston at St. L. (2).Phila. at Cleve. Naticnal RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York. 4: Cincinnati, 3, Chicago. : Philadelphia. 1. Other clubs not sheduled for Loui PS e Hewing to Line in Training, Sure He’ll Beat Negro, Then Braddock, BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. PECULATOR, N. Y., August 20 S —If Joe Louis is in the house he might know the worst now Jjust as well at later, There is nothing wrong with Max Baer's hands and, if the truth of that | great pugilistic mystery is to be | known, there never was much wrong. i In an atmosphere so quiet that it is almost deafening, totally foreign to | his former surroundings, Baer has been training here a week for his bat- tle with the sensational Negro Sep- tember 24. «He won't start boxing until Frilay. | He isn't going to box a dozen rounds a day as he did before losing his world heavyweight championship to Jimmy | Braddock in a terrible exhibition in | June. | Hes going to box four rounds a day at the most, but he's going “all | out” every second he has big gloves on | The story of a “new Baer.” a new | “Joe Doakes.” & “new anybody” iz as old as fight ballyhoo itself, Baer Really Impressive. ERE in these same Adirondack Mountains, in the same cabin retreat where Baer is staying. in the same hills where Baer runs 5 miles every morning, on the same Lake Pleasant where Baer rows for an hour daily a “new Gene Tunney” was born some seven years ago, prior to Gentleman Gene's second great duel with Jack Dempsey in Chicago in 1927. Gene changed from a recluse to a happy warrior. Within another year he had retired from pugilism and all those pleasant contacts of the trans- formation period. He never has been back. Baer at the moment is the most impressive Baer of all the daffy years This curly-headed California giant has been rising to tremendous heights and plumbing the depths of medioc- rity, alternately and when least ex- pected. He seems to realize the seriousness of Louis and the closeness of oblivion. Sees Great Opportunity. IM NOT kidding myself,” he said to- day. “I'm not going to miss. Tl fool everybody again. but in a differ- ent way from the night I lost to Brad- dock. Il flatten the guy like I flattened Max Schmeling and Primo Carnera. “I'll be the biggest guy in the fight game then. I'1l have stopped the black menace. T'll get another shot a: Braddock and I'll knock him out too, the next time.” Baer weighs about 217 pounds. He has five weeks to get about 10 extra pounds from his waistline. He has been hitting the big bag with terrific power. Doctors in Baltimore told him what to do for the only real injury he suf- fered, & bruised knuckle on his left hand. He wears a special pad over it in training. | He says he feels no pain no matter | how hard he hits. He will go to New | York Friday to let the New York | state Athletic Commission doctors de- cide whether the fists are in shape. Underrated Braddock. “"[HROW out the Braddock fight," Baer insisted. “I simply made a fool of myself. I thought it was a soft touch and I kidded myself “The only thing I'm glad about is that a broken-down guy like Brad- dock, who needed the dough, got the title. Everything turns out for the 38101 | best. I'll flatten Louis, and then win 118 _ | the title back.” Baer's father, Jacob, who next {o the new Mrs. Max Baer, the former Mary Ellen Sullivan, influences the champion most, has arrived from California “He wrote me that if T came here he'd walk the chalk line.” zaid Father Baer grimly. “If he doesn't I'll lick him myself.” 6718 AMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW Cin. at New York. Cin. at New York Pitisburgh at Bkiyn. Pittsburgh at Bklyn. Chicago at Phila. ~ Chicago at Phila St_Louis at Boston. St,_Louis at Boston grenade into the middle of his fourth | wave charge. That fourth wave means something no amateur golfer ever has known not even Jerry Travers—not even Walter Travis—not even Bobby Jones, | the greatest entry at both match and | medal play in the history of golf. (He ran one-two in the United States | open for eight out of nine years— | and then cleaned up with the grand slam—that's the answer.) But in the meanwhile—which of | 2 % these 900 or more starters today is | prse Aty 20’ O going to beat Lawson Little—if any? Foxx, Athletics, 23. 1935 b the North American League totals—National, 532; Amer ight (COPT T o wpaper Alliance. The.) ican, 520. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Foxx, Ath- letics, 1; Johnson, Athletics, 1; Averill, Indians, 1; Trosky, Indians, 1; Hayes, Piet, White Sox, 1; Herman, Reds, 1. The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 31; Giants, 24; “l cool hot-headed motors’ 2ays...THE ENGINEER IN EvERY GALtoN - ees FOR HIGH-SPEED BUY TypolL ZVERY QALLON CONTAINS GASOLINE TOP-CYLINDER O/L