Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1935, Page 12

SPORTS. JOE WRONG TWIE, BOXERS BUT ONCE Dusky Fighter Proves Poor Picker—Only Heavies Fail to Please. * BY JOHN B. KELLER. S A boxing judge Joe Louis is a remarkable heavyweight fighter. The Detroit destroyer, seated at the ringside, saw some good battling last night at the ball yard before the boxers got up to his own weight class, but he could not pick a winner. Twice the youthful colored clouter who was having his last bit of fun before going into training for his clash with Max Baer in New York next month attempted to call the turn, but on each occasion Joe was outguessed by the referee and the two judges at the ringside. Then he settled in his chair to enjoy the evening. Joe appeared to get as much kick from the goings on in the ring as any other of the 8500 looking on at the Lincoln Athletic Club’s show, sponsored by the colored Elks in con- vention here. He even managed to crack a smile when he was haled to| the roped arena to be presented as “the forthcoming champion of the world.” But Joe would not talk. His speech was made for him by Bill Bojangles Robinson, the great tap dancer, who along with Jesse Owens, Ohio State's dusky sprint marvel, and a host of grand lodge officials of the colored Elks also were introduced from the ring. Bojangles cracked a breezy joke that Joe probably never heard, for the fighter was climbing through the ropes before the jester had made his point. Only Final Bout Disappoints. JDOUBTLESS many of the throng| contributed to the nearly $9,000 gate mainly to get a look at the big boy who recently wrecked Primo Car- nera and King Levinsky and right now is favored to topple Baer in the Yankee Stadium scrap. But there was much more entertainment for them. Even the somewhat salty final did not prevent the all-colored card being the best boxing offering of the Capital's outdoor season. Knockouts, one of the technical variety, ended the two early bouts and the two eight-rounders that went the limit were rousing affairs. Those | colored boys stepped into the ring | to fight and that they did from be- | ginning to end—until the final fling. | In the wind-up between heavies Willie Reddish of Philadelphia sccked Jack Rose of New York for the count in the eighth before the round was 20 seconds gone. It was a smashing right to the heart that sent Rose to | the canvas, but he really had been | beaten in the preceding heat when a right over the heart floored him. There | was a three-count over Jack then before the bell ended the round. The difference between the fighters was so obvious, however, that a much earlier ending of their contention would have seemed more in order. Reddish opened up with plenty and had Rose in trouble quickly. Then the Philadelphia heavy stubbornly re- fused to take advantage of the many openings offered by Rose. He looked to be giving the cash customers a run for their money. Rowan, Cross Stage Hot Scrap. IT ‘WAS the semi-final between Meyer Rowan, New Yorker scaling 133%; | pounds, and Tommy Cross, Philadel- phia flash weighing 128, that gave the crowd its greatest ring treat. Bounding from their corners at the first bell. | these boys began swinging fast and they maintained the dizzy pace smack to the finish. Rowan scored heavily in the early | going with a rapier right and his blows landed cleanly, too. Down through the fifth round the New Yorker looked the winner. boxer, recovered to give Meyer a lot of trouble the remainder of the way. Had Cross a sound wallop he would be & dangerous foe for any fighter in his | weight class. This was one of the two bouts in which Louis guessed poorly. picked Rowan as the winner from the outset and at the finish was sure the dark New York lightweight would get the call. But each of the three decid- ing officials voted a draw and a fair decision it seemed to be. Louis appeared to many in the throng and to a number of the news- paper clan at the ringside to be right in his choice of Phil McQuillan as victor in the first of the eight-round mills. Phil, who came out of Chicago to become one of the Detroit demon’s scrapping staff, looked far the better boxer and seemed to get over more telling blows than Billy Eley. But the officials could not see it that way. Eley Aggressive Boxer. ‘WO of them voted for Eley, while the other called it a tie. Per- haps it was Eley’s determination and general aggressiveness that swayed them. The rising young Washington welter did tear into McQuillan repeat- edly. He pounded Louis’ protege often, but took a lot of punishment as he did so. But Eley never backed away. A little more experience and this Eley might readily go places in the fighting business. The first of the knockouts came in the opener, in which Billy Green of Philadelphia met Knockout Clark of Miami. Knockout failed to live up Lo his name. Instead, he took it on the whiskers in the second round and went out cold. It was surprising that a But Cross, the betteri He | JESSE OWENS, Ohio State’s world champion track sensation, snapped as he bettered 24 feet in a broad jumping exhibi- | tion at Howard University Stadium meet yesterday. |SOFT-BALL PITCHING DUEL SEEN TONIGHT | Rosenfield of Aggies, City's Ace, Faces Ascending Bradford of Arlington Church. THE ranking soft-ball pitcher of the city faces a rapidly ascending star on the nfound this afternoon when Abe Rosenfleld hurls his famed | fast ball for Agriculture against the ‘recmfly uncovered deceptive pitches of Jack Bradford of the Arlington | Presbyterian Church. They will lead | their teams in one of the city series ‘champlon.sh!p games on diamond No. 10 at 5 o'clock. Pitching for the churchmen on Monday, Bradford let the Navy De- partment ten down with but two hits as his teammates pounded out & 16-3 victory behind him. It was Bradford’s best effort of the year. Opinion as to whether it entitles him to be men- tioned in the same breath with Rosen- field, however, will be reserved until after today’s clash. Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Standards Ceramists were winners yesterday in series games, the former overcoming a two-run deficit to nose |out the Census Bureau, 3-2, and the Ceramists shutting out the Johnson Playground tossers, 6-0. A double by Shortstop Fox of John- son was the only hit off of Ceramists’ pitcher, Schicktanz, who was provided with all of the winning runs in the first two innings. His opponent, Little Mickey Nocera, however, failed to re- peat the sterling performance he had given the day before in defeating the Georgetown Playground ten. featherweight could hit the deck with such a resounding thwack. Referee Hugh McLendon stopped the fight between Johnny Freeman of Philadelphia and Len Samuels of Washington in the fifth round when Freeman had S8amuels hanging on the ropes helpless. The Philly welter;had belted the Washington lad all around the ring from the start. ‘The show was well conducted by the Lincoln Athletic Club and fully de- served the generous patronage it got. The attendance was the second largest of the outdoor boxing season here. It went across well, too, up to that last bout when the heavies put on their act. SAVE ON TIRES De Luxe Ist Line Tires Fully Guaranteed --$4.10) 5.00x19. -.84.25| 5.25x18 5495 5.50x17 32x6—10-ply Trucl 30x5—8-ply Truck . ASK ABOUT OUR BUDGET NO MONEY DOWN PLAN POTOMAC TIRE CO. 28th and M Sts. N.W. 3619 Ga. Ave. N.W. 4810 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO & D. C, WEDNESDAY, Upper: Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing title aspirant, as he left White House following short visit with President Roosevelt, holding autographed photograph which he requested of the Chief Executive. Lower: Johnny Freeman, shown off balance after landing hard right to Lem Samuels’ head in the fourth round of a fistic card at Griff Stadium last night, in which Louls participated as a judge. This bout was stopped in the fifth heat when Freeman was awarded a technical knockout. Johnson —_(Continued From Tenth Page) _ me, is one of the hardest of jobs. I believe a little of most of the troubles a man comes to know enters into it, and the criticism of a minority can take away all the fun. I've found & vast difference between being just a ball player and serving as a manager. I loved to pitch. But I would rather run & farm than manage a ball club. Plenty of Free Advice. I HAD an experience at Cleveland I think would amuse most base ball men and base ball writers. A re- porter suggested, “Come down to the office and we'll get together on the situation.” “What situation?” I asked. “Well,” he replied, “two heads are better than one. We'll talk over the running of the team.” T 2, f//m/ ¢z / or I find it difficult to comment on| that. Dozens of friendly letters from Cleveland citizens make me think that ball players and club managers some- times don’t know how they stand with folks. With all the noise raised against me in Cleveland, one might think I was poisonous. Those letters are enlightening. Recently I met two of the strongest- lunged rooters in the country, Phila- delphians, who really could annoy ball players opposing the Athletics, and I was a favorite target for their darts when Washington and Philadelphia were scrapping for the pennant. All in the Game. "Tnmx's nothing personal in that sort of rooting,” said one of them, the other nbdding, “but if you ever thought so, here’s my hand to say I take everything back.” I used to think those fellows had tried to put me in the dog house, but I accepted /(1 ‘e —A. P. and Star Staff Photos. their hollering as part of professional base Dball. The Cleveland club's standing right now is not what I looked for, but ill- ness and injury may be responsible si*k or hurt, at one time or another, ward the top all the way, but even if I didn’t think so I'd have told the club we would. Most of the Indians are only kids. They needed the confidence that a little pat on the back can give. dring timber and replaced it with young stuff of tougher fiber. Today Trosky, Knickerbocker, Winegarner, Berger and other youngsters are first- class building material, and Steve O'Netll, their manager, knows what to do with it. (Tomorrow: The Big Train, the story of himself.) ht. 1035, by the North American kit r Alliance. Inc.) o7 172€72 - Dosure DUUBLE SERLED FOR LASTING FRESHNESS EXCELLENTE 2 FOR 15¢ PANETELA 2 FOR 15¢ OVER 700,000,000 FORMERLY SOLD AT 10c EACH CAPITAL CIGAR & TOBACCO CO., Washington, D, C, Distributors N AUGUST 28, 1935. TALIN SOLDER WING §2.500 SWIM Gambi, Victor at 5 Miles in Lake Ontario, to Join Force in Ethiopia. By the Associated Press. \ORONTO, Ontario, August 28.— A soldier of the Italian Army who intends to join his regi- ment in Ethiopia in October was $2,500 richer today because he won the world’s professional 5-mile swimming championship. Gianni Gambi ploughed through the waters of Lake Ontario in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 55 seconds to leave 91 other mermen in his wake yesterday. Frank Pritchard of Buffalo, N. Y., held the lead for the first two miles but the Italian passed him and con- tinued to widen his lead until he crossed the finish line. Pritchard was second with Bill Nolan of Chelsea, Mass., third; Sam Shields, Louisville, Ky., fourth; Clarence Ross, | Mamaroneck, N. Y., fifth; Wilson | Padgett, Marion, Ark., sixth, and Bill | Goll, New York, seventh. ‘The other finishers crossed the line in the following order: George Blag-, den, Memphis, Tenn.; Charles Powell, Glendale, Ohio; Alec Sorosan, Toronto; A. W. Smith, Erie, Pa.; Stanley Pritchard, Buffalo, N. Y.; Nicholas Ostapyk, Ottawa, and Fred Kirk, Port Stanley, Ontario. ‘The other swimmers, many of whom were a mile behind as Gamb! finished, were ordered from the water, MAT TOUGHIES MEET IN 30-MINUTE TILT Raines and Marshall Matched for | Tomorrow's Show, Headlined by Sonnenberg and Coleman. A COUPLE of burly toughies, Dick Raines and Floyd Marshall, paired for a 30-minute preliminary in the | Turner weekly wrestling offering at | Grifith Stadium tomorrow night, | threaten to steal the show from Gus Sonnenberg and Abie Coleman, fea- | ture foes. | SPORT THoRrs coopw | PURPOSE OF MEET Extent It Will Retard U. S. Participation Remains to Be Determined. (This is the last of a series of four stories explaining the back- ground of the dispute over the United States entry in the Olym- pic nezt year.) BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, August 28.—The primary purposes of the Olympic games, organized and conducted quadrennially with the aim of promoting interna- tional good will, as well as glorifying individual achievement in athletics, have been dealt a severe blow by the reaction in the United States to Nazi Germany's athletic policies. It is too far in advance of the games now to gauge the final effect, as well as impossible at this time to say to what extent Americans will participate in the Olympic cham- plonships. The German Olympic Com- | mittee has the entries of 48 countries and expects 5,000 men and women, a record number, to compete in 18 branches of sport during the first two | weeks of August, 1936. These figures are impressive. So are the German preparations. It may seem unfortunate to many leaders, including President Avery Brundage of the American Olympic Committee, that the main purposes should be sidetracked, if not over- shadowed, in this country by the ob- vious antagonism of non-athletic forces, as well as the actual threat of adverse action by the Amateur Athletc Union, the president of which, Jeremiah T. Mahoney of New York, | has come out flatly in opposition to sending American athletes to Berlin. Most Serlous Since "08. T IS nevertheless a fact that this | antagonism or agitation exists. If Brundage and his associates of the A. O. C, as now seems likely, insist upon going through with their Olym- pic program and in sending to Ger- | ]m-ny the best available American athletes, they might as well face the storm now. The indications are that Notorious because of their rouxh‘ they already are swinging into action tactics and ever mat crowd pleasers, \ in an attempt to turn or counteract Raines and Marshall promise to put | the tide of criticism. on a bout packed with thrills. t From an athletic standpoint, it is ‘The headliners, Sonnenberg and | the most serious situation since this Coleman, will be meeting for the first | country and Great Britain nearly time in the 10 years they have been | in the grapple and grunt game.| Chunky Gus and pudgy Abie are look- ing for bigger and better matches these days and Turner has promised the winner tomorrow night a more valuable billing here in the near future. | In a 45-minute semi-final, Mike severed relations during the 1908 Olympics. That was the year that Dorando, the game little Italian, stag- gered into the stadium and collapsed near the finish of the marathon, only to be lifted up and virtually carried over the line by sympathetic officials bystanders. Meanwhile, little for that. Ten of the players have been | since April, I thought we'd be up to- | The Indians have chucked some | Mazurki will take on Little Beaver,| Johnny Hayes of New York came Indian wrestler of note. In 30-min- \ romping along under his own power, ute-limit affairs, Bull Martin, the | right behind Dorando. American pro- Trenton Terror, will encounter Hotcha | tests split the air when officials first Vakturoff, and Silent Abbott, still a| gave the laurel wreath to the Italian. novice, but improving steadily, will| Hours afterward, the award was over- tackle a mat toughie yet to be picked.! ruled and Hayes declared the victor. ‘Western. 8t. Joseph, 9; Sioux City, 1. Keokuk, 11; Cedar Rapids, 6. Des Moines, 9; Council Bluffs, 1. All Hahn Prior to that incident, an Ameri- | can had been disqualified in the 400 meters for an alleged foul against the British ace, Halswelle. The race was ordered re-run, but the Americans re- Stores Open Saturday — FightsLast Night By the Associated Press. CHICAGO—Geno Salvatore, 136, Chicago, outpointed Willle Davis, 132, El Paso, Tex. (10); Sallor Born, 134, Atlanta, Ga., outpointed Phil Pernice, 139, Chicago (5); Patrick Henry, 148, Marion, Ind, knocked out Mickey Nolan, 145, Chicago (3). FORT DODGE, Iowa—Bob Tinsley, Chicago, outpointed Terry G.iffith, Sjoux City, Towa (6). Bobby O'Dowd, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, outpointed Jim- mie Salvadore, Fort Dodge (6). Fred Chynoweth, Chicago, outpointed Billy Porter, Indianapolis (6). LEIPERVILLE, Pa—Benny Bass, 135, outpointed Mike Marshall, 130, both Philadelphia (10). fused to enter. Halswelle scored a walk-over. That nearly led to the withdrawal of the entire American team. Britons Are “Standing By.” BRITIBH -AMERICAN athletic rela- tions were strained for years after- ward, but since the war they have been on a lofty level of sportsmanship. ‘The old country and the new see eye- to-eye now in a common feeling that Germany has jeopardized Olympic solidarity, for 1936. The difference is that while agitation stirs the United States, Britain seemingly has decided | to let matters take their course and ‘hope for the best, without heaping | fresh coals on the fire. | The Olympics can stir up trouble | enough without borrowing any in ad- | vance. Discordant incidents have been more than offset, no doubt, by | the preponderant weight of good sportsmanship or fine fellowship when athletic clans get together, yet no Olympiad has been entirely free from bickering in various forms. France and Britain were at athletic loggerheads over an incident during the 1924 Olympic boxing. The French team threatened to withdraw from the | Amsterdam games in 1928 over an al- leged insult. Little Finland almost | packed up and left Los Angeles in | 1932 because of the disbarment of the | renowned Paavo Nurmi. It seems that argument is the inevitable price of international good will, athletic or otherwise. HOLBROOK S:FAYS ON JOB Remains at St. John's as Grid and Basket Ball Coach. | Any doubt that Irving “Horse” Hol- | brook would return as athletic director ! at St. John's College has been dissi- ‘pnkd by the announcement that he | has signed a contract to return for an- other year as the school's sports head. Holbrook recently passed a civil serv- ice examination paving the way to- | ward a Government job, but was per- | suaded by St. John's officials from making the change at present. Producer of strong foot ball and basket ball teams last year, Holbrook again will coach in these sports. 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