Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1935, Page 37

" [ swenes ] @he e e R S S R R e e e WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1935. Louis Voted Year’s “Qulstand SportScorE BY W. R. McCALLUM BOXER WINS MAN HONOR FIRST TIME Help to Sport'as Well as| Ring Skill Earns Joe Top Recognition. (Note: This is the first of a series on the results of the fifth annual Associated Press poll on the year’s leading individuals, teams and hap- penings in sports.) BY ALAN GOULD, Assoclated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, December 16.—By a margin of votes as convincing as any conquest with his fists, Joe Louis stands acclaimed to- day by the Nations sports experts as the outstanding athlete of 1935, ama- (eur or professional. The 21-year-old Negro heavyweight, who brought the million-dollar “gate” back to pugilism with his knockout punch, tops the individual masculine performers in the fifth annual Asso- ciated Press poll. He is the first prizefighter in the poll's relatively brief history to take the main honors. Previous winners were Pepper Martin, Gene Sarazen, Carl Hubbell and Dizzy Dean. Unmentioned a year ago when the elder of the celebrated pitching Deans ran away with the balloting, Louis was voted a substantial margin of Victory over his chief rival, William | '] Lawson Little, jr., two-time king of the amateur golfers and runner-up in the poll for the second straight year, Little made a closer contest of it this year, however. The 1934 count was 268 points for Dizzy Dean and 113 for the golfing sce. Today's tally shows that Louls, while enjoying a 3-to-1 margin in first places, received 182 points to Little’s 120. Louis Rates as “Gate” Magnet. THAT Louis is not a champion and will not even get a crack at the heavyweight title of James J. Brad- dock until next September makes his rating as the “athlete of the year” ail the more remarkable. Most sport editors and wrjters con- tributing their views emphasized their high rating of Louis was due to his tremendous iufluence on boxing gate receipts as well as on his sensational knockout record. Several rated him as the “un- crowned king” of the heavyweights, while also recognizing Braddock’s vic- tory over Max Baer as one of the year’s greatest comebacks. Braddock tallied only four points, however. Third place went to another Negro athletic sensation, Jesse Owens of | BY W. R. McCALLUM. ONEY being s fairly useful commodity, it is a refreshing thing in sports to see the whole - hearted and modest way in which our better amateur sthletes shy from accepting sordid dollars for their skill as amateurs. 8o successful have the leading si- mon pures of at least two of our great sports—tennis and golf—been at bust- ing the bands of amateurism that to- day amateur tennis, as it was known 10 years ago, is a short on the market; amateur golf has been divested of many of its topliners and young Amer- ica is using amateurism as a stepping stone to professionalism and the dol- lars that come from skill in sports. The list of former amateur athletes who have fallen for the lure of gold after attaining considerable page 1 skill in tennis and golf is interesting and impressive. Ever since C. C. Pyle organized his tennis troupe to gather in the tank-town dollars tennis, as an amateur sport, has been shot to pieces. First, there were Bill Tilden and Vinnie Richards turning “square,” as Richards so quaint- ly put it in an amateur yarn. The only thing they lost were the invitations to a lot of swanky homes at Newport and Seabright and other spots where tennis stars are coddled and fawned upon. In return for this sycophantic pleasure they gained good hard dollars. 'HEN, in turn, came Ellsworth Vines, probably the finest tennis player in the world today; towering Stoefen, Bruce Barnes, George Lott and Ber- keley Bell. Vines might have spent 10 years in | amateur tennis and not made what he | s making in a single six-month tour today, even though the Tilden-Vines angle has been pretty well played out and “Ellie” is recognized as the su- perior of the 43-year-old Philadel- phian. Put these men back in the national tennis championship today and even a versatile fel- low like Fred Perry would be up against it to win. Imagine an amateur golf champion-. ship today with Bob Jones, George Von Elm, Tommy Armour, Densmore Conquer Maryland Club, 7 to 0. Fourth Game Will Decide South Atlantic Title. Ohio State, for his unprecedented | JQ ICHMOND, Va., December 16— achievement in breaking three world | Tecords and equaling a fourth in one § Rfternoon during the Big Ten track and fleld championships. Owens tallied 61 points and out- distanced the dusky rival who beat him in the national A. A. U. cham- plonships, Eulace Peacock of Temple. Peacock collected only five points. Berwanger's Worth Seen. JAY BERWANGER, Chicago all- America halfback, finished fourth with 42 points, confirming his rating as the year's outstanding college foot ball player. Notre Dame’s Andy Pil- ney was the only other gridiron star mentioned. He tallled 11 points, in- cluding two nominations as the year's outstanding performer. Base ball's individual stars for the first time failed to play a conspicuous part in the poll. Manager Mickey Cochrane of the world champion De- troit Tigers proved the most popular, He finished fifth with only 19 points. Tommy Bridges, Hank Greenberg, Goose Goslin and Marvin Owen re- ceived mention for their contributions to the Tiger cause. Dizzy Dean re- ceived three testimonial points. Twenty-four individuals in eight branches of competition were men- tioned in the poll, representing the ! views of expert eyewitnesses in all parts of the country. Besides those previously listed, individuals receiv- ing cne or more nominations for first place were Sir Malcolm Campbell, Britain’s land speed king, and Wil- mer Allison, conqueror of Fred Perry for the United States tennis cham- pionship. Vote in Detail, D!TAB..!D results of the poll on the year's outstanding performer in sports, showing total points (3 for @rst, 2 for second, 1 for third): 1. Joe Louis, Detroit heavy- weight boxer, 182. 2. W. Lawson Little, jr.. British and American amateur golf cham- pion, 129. 3. Jesse Owens, Ohio State, track and field recordholder, 61 4, John Jacob Berwanger, Chi- cago, all-Amerita halfback, 42. 5. Mickey Cochrane, manager Detroit Tigers, world base ball champions, 19, 6. Sir Malcolm Campbell, Eng- lfinfl, holder of auto speed record, 7. Andy Piiney, halfback, 11. 8. Eulace Peacock, Temple, na- tional A. A. U. broad jump and Notre Dame 9. Wilmer Allison, Texas, na- tional singles tennis champion, 5. 10. James J. Braddock, New Jersey, heavyweight boxing cham- pitching star. One point each for the following: Jack Lovelock, New Zecaland miler and conqueror of American stars; Wally Berger, Boston Braves' out- flelder; Joint claimants of the South At- lantic independent foot ball cham- plonship, the Richmond ‘Arrows and the Maryland A. C., of Wi ton, will square off here next Sunday to' decide the issue. The Arrows, tied and beaten by the previously undefeated Marylanders early in the season, pushed over & touchdown in the first quarter here yesterday and then held the power- ful visiting line throughout the game’ to win 7-0. Jimmy West's pass to Gene Wager, who took the 19-yard toss over the goal line, provided the winning margin. Musk Delotto and Perry Schulz had advanced the ball from midfield on a series of line plunges. The Maryland eleven threatened several times in the first half, but the Arrow forward wall braced at crucial moments to repel the touchdown bids. ‘With Dick Nelson and Frank Cumber- land tossing, the Marylanders took to the air in a futile effort to score, but the alert Arrow backs either inter- cepted or slapped down the attempts. CHUCKLE AT TAKOMA Silver Spring Merchants at Last Rout Fire Gridders. Silver Spring’s Merchants are not passing Hodges PField in Takoma to- day without a broad grin on their faces. It was on that mud-clogged fleld yesterday that their foot ball team plastered the one representing the Takoma Fire Department, 21-0, to end a bitter feud which has reigned throughout the gridiron season. Although unable to score in the first half, the Merchants found a punch in the third quarter when Dope Clark went over for a touch- down from the 2-yard line. Two more touchdowns in the last period. one by R. Clark and another by Curran, completed the rout. Brockdorf scored one of the extra points on a pass from Osbourne while Cwran ac- counted for the other conversions. EUWE CHESS CHAMPION Credit Due Golf, Net Aces for “Going Straight” in Turning Pro. Shute and Sam Parks poking the pill down the alley. - All of these and many more " former amateur golfers have gone pro. Between them, since. they turned in their amateur papers they have won two American and two British open championships and a host of lesser titles. Sam Parks, the burly Pittsburgh boy, played in the amateur championship three years ago. Today he is the na- tional open king, in the game for what he can make out of it. Tommy Ar- mour turned pro 10 years ago after an only fairly successful amateur career. Densmore Shute was a s0-so amateur before he went for gold, but he is among the big money makers of the golf game today. 80 is George Von Elm, who turned “square” in 1930, just before Bob Jones made his renouncement of further competition. As to Bob himself, he never has taken a money prize in competition nor doné anything else to make him what is commonly regarded as a golf pro- fessional. But he makes plenty of sugar out of his connections with one of the big-sports goods houses. MONG the lesser talent in golf which has gone professional are Roland MacKenzie, the young Con- gressional pro; Al Houghton, Chandler Harper, Fay Coleman of California and Zell Eaton, the former Western ama- teur champ, who became a pro only & few days ago. Amateur sport in such highly pub- licized flelds as golf and tennis has be- come a real stepping stone to fame and fortune in the professional end of the same sports, as the days when an amateur who made his living selling bonds and insurance oa the golf course or on the tennis courts recede into the distance. In the hectic days prior to 1929 any amateur in the selling game could sell anything. Bulky-pursed men of business would pay willingly and beg for the privilege of being seen on the course or the courts with a figure of sectional or national renown. But that has all been changed around. The boys have to go out and work for their dollars nowadays and many of them are turning pro to do it. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Basket Ball. Y. M. C. A. at Wilson Teachers, 8. George Washington Frosh at Eastern, 3:30. Georgetown Prep at Central, 3:30. Boxing. Phil Furr vs. Bob Wilson, 15 rounds, feature bout, Turner's -Arena, 8:30. TOMORROW, Basket Ball. * George Washington at Rich- mond U. Maryland State Normal at Amer- ican U, 8. Roosevelt at Washington-Lee, Ballston, 3:45. ‘George Washington High at ‘Western, 3:30. Central at George Washington Frosh, 4. Tech at Southern High, Balti- more. Bethesda-Chevy Chase at Gaith- ersburg, 3:30. Charlotte Hall at 8t. John's, 3:30. ‘WEDNESDAY. Basket Ball. . Duke at Catholic University, 8. Georgetown vs, Temple, Tech, 8. George Washington Frosh at Roosevelt, 3:30. Western at Catholic University 1. Georgetown Frosh vs. Eastern, Tech, 7. St. John's at Washington-Lee, Ballston, 3:30. Boxing. Billy Eley vs. Gene Buffalo, 10 rounds, feature bout all-colored card, Turner's Arena, 8:30, THURSDAY: Wilson Teachers at Bridgewater, Roosevelt at George Washington High, Alexandria, 8. Western at Bethesda - Chevy Chase,’ 3:30, , Gonzaga at Eastern (exhibi- tion), 3:30, . ‘Wrestling, Don George vs. Chief Chewaki, feature match, Turner's Arena, FRIDAY. Basket Ball. Forest Park at Roosevelt, 4. " George Washington High at ‘Téch, 3:30. ._:;'lmdl vs. Alumni at Friends, AMSTERDAM, December 16 (#).— Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam drew with Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris |* yesterday in the final match of their international - chess championship match, thereby winning the world champlonship. The score of the match after the final game was: Dr. Euwe, 9 Dr. Alekhine, 8; drawn, 13. Dr. Euwe won with a half-point advantage. X 8 _ George Washington vi. Amherst, Shoreham, 8. Wrestling. Gallaudet at Johns Hopkins. / DETROIT ELEVEN RULES PRO FIELD Takes Title From New York Giants, 26-7, in Snow- storm and Mud. By the Associated Press. ETROIT, December 16.—De- troit’s Lions today ruled as king of the professional foot ball jungles after grinding the New York Giants, defending titleholders, into the mud of the Uni- versity of Detroit Stadium yesterday, 26 to 7. A snowstorm and a sodden field were not enough to halt the march of the Lions as they unleashed & devastating ground attack. Within a few plays after the open- ing kick-off the Lions reeled off thefr first touchdown, as Ace Gutow- sky raced through a gaping hole in the Giants’ forward wall and scored without a hand being laid on him. Presnells toe added the extra point from placement. Dutch Clark made the second De- troit touchdown when with the ball on New York's 42-yard line he sliced through tackle and shook himself into the open. Once in the clear he reversed his fleld, and sprinted across ‘the goal line. Strong Makes Great Catch. ‘HE Giants scored in the third quarter when Danowski faded back from the Detroit 42-yard line and rifled s pass to Ken Strong, who made a spectacular one-handed catch near the sideline and outraced the Detroit tacklers. The Lions scored again in the fourth period after a Giant punt was blocked. A series of smashes took the ball to the 3-yard line and Ernle Cadel swept wide around the Giants’ right end to score. Clark added the extra point. With the clock ticking off the final seconds Buddy Parker intercepted a pass by Harry Newman on the New York 45-yard line and galloped to the 9-yard line. On the third play ! he crashed through center for the| final score. HIGH SCHOOL FIVES IN FOR SNAPPY DAY Central, Tech, Roosevelt, Western ‘Will Encounter Strong Op- ponents Tomorrow. WITH the exception of Eastern's polished passers, high school series quints will enjoy their busiest day of the week as Central, Tech, Western and Roosevelt square off | against seasoned tossers tomorrow. Central, which was to entertain Georgetown Prep today, will give a| comparative line on the strength of the Lincoln Park passers by facing the strong George Washington University freshmen at the G. W. gym. Eastern was to meet the Colonial Cubs today at Eastern. Rusty Thompson’s Tech quint will stack up against an unknown quan- tity in Southern High at Baltimore, but if the Southern five is typical of | Monumental City teams, Tech is in| for a strenuous session. Western's green but promising team | will play host to George Washington High at 3:30 o'clock, while Roosevelt's undefeated Rough Riders will travel to Ballston, Va., to face Washington- Lee High at 3:45 ¢'clock. In other games, St. John's will face Charlotte Hall at the Vermont avenue | gym at 3:30 o'clock, while Bethesda- | Chevy Chase will test Gaithersburg High tossers at Gaithersburg. GRIDDER AUTO VICTIM Scarfpin, Pitt Tackle, Scarred After Missing Trojan Game. LOS ANGELES, December 16 (#).— James Scarfpin, Pittsburgh tackle, failed to see action Saturday when his teammates defeated Southern California 12 to 7, but he will have some marks to show friends when he returns home. The big foot ball player from Mar- | tins Ferry, Ohio, was the team's only casualty yesterday when a bus in which the Pitt team was sight-seeing was struck by an automobile. Flying glass cut Scarfpin on the face. Coach Jock Sutherland and his squad were guests of Hollywood's studios today. ‘They will leave to- night for the Easf, with brief stops at the Grand Canyon and Albuquer- que, N. Mex. t P S MANGUM’S RUN DECIDES George Mangum’s 20-yard run to 2 touchd in the first few minutes of play ahd a subsequent conversion allowed the Maryland Preps to nose out the Virginia A. C., 7-6, yesterday in Bowers Stadium at Riverdale. A tie loomed in the last period when Paul Shu raced 70 yards to score for the visitors, but his plunge for the extra point was smeared by a wave of Maryland tacklers. vening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ing Athlete”: Wilson-Furr Go Likely to Comics and Classified 'Up Into the Stratosphere for an Aerial ‘This spectacular picture shows Bill Murphy s (48), U. C. L. A. back, 'way up in the air after steal a heave from right between two surprised St. Mary's players, Ferry (44) and Jorgensen (41), in the game at San Francisco Saturday. The Uclans won, 13-7. THE SPORTLIGHT Big-Time Basket Battles in New York Bringing New Era in Growing Pastime. BY GRANTLAND RICE. 0S ANGELES, December 16.—A seed, planted in Springfield, Mass., more than 40 years ago, finally turned into one of the big gardens of sport in Indiana. United States, Basket ball has be- come the main Winter game of the | Nation—East, West, North and South —with nothing else even close. Last Winter it blossomed in Madison Square Garden before crowds of 18.- 000, larger even than the crowds that pack themselves into the Big Ten games. Out in Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota they have had 10,000 fans at a time, game after | game, season after seoson, and some- times as many as 15,000 for the big games in the bigger field houses. Yet big-time basket ball in New York, to which several Middle Western teams came last year, seems the be- ginning of a new era in this fast, ex- citing Winter sport, most commonly | played by high schools and colleges of any sport in America. The season of 1935-6 is about ready to open and the first thing we see on the program is an intersectional game between two crack | teams whose home gymnasiums are { 3,000 miles apart. First East-West Game. PRICE, coach of the Univer- sity of California basketers, will bring the Bears into New York on De- cember 18 for the first East-West game ever played in such an arena as | Madison Square Garden. It is all a part of a holiday trip for the Bears, but it is pretty important to basket ball. It means, we are told, the de- velopment of a sort of national idea about basket ball on some- what the plane foot ball is re- garded now. Everybody in the East was glued to his radio the day Southern Methodist tackled Texas Christian University. Ten years ago it wouldn’t have made a great deal of difference to any foot ball fan but a Texan whether S. M. U. kept going unbeaten. Now it seems to make all the differense in the world. The Californians will be followed at Madison Square Garden by Purdue, Kentucky, North Carolina, Duquesne, Temple, Notre Dame and Rice. Each of these teams is an outstanding team in its section, or always has been and promises to be again. Notre Dame, North Carplina, Kentucky, Purdue and California play New York University, considered the greatest team in the East. Duquesne plays Long Island University, a small but first-class Louis’ Claim to Luck in Beating Basque Gets a Laugh Hadley a Great Punter in High School—Pro Foot Ball Too Rough for Buckeye Star. tion today. column will be conducted by mem~ bers of the stafl.) BY ANDY CLARKE, Associsted Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 16— Casey Stengel gave four for two— “If he'll only release Mungo now, the Dodgers will be set to start the season.” 4 . Ned Legrande, who played a Taging game at tackle for Willlam s LM 4 MRy afifigg;g g g i To- | day it has covered every section of the | Indiana, | | basket ball school. Temple meets Manhattan and Rice is scheduled as | L. 8. U.'s last big intersectional op- [ ponent, N. Y. U. Has Great Team. 1 CALXFORNXA did not fare so well in its Pacific Coast Conference | last season, but the 1936 Bears will | be good competition for N. Y. U., one of the crack hardwood five of all time. Out here on the coast, Southern Cali- fornia had the ball club of 1934-5. The Pacific Coast Conference is split into a Northern and Southern divi fon. In the Northern are Oregon State, Washington, Oregon, Washing- ton State and Idaho. Each team plays 16 league games. Oregon State | was division champ last Winter. The Southern section is composed of | Southern California, California, Stan- ford and U. C. L. A. These teams play 12 games. In the championship series South- ern California beat Oregon State two out of three, but Oregon State came within three points of outscoring U. S. C, and won the first game, 38 to 35. Other. sections of the country know how basket ball should be played, too, although the crowds aren’t as tre- mendous as in the Great Lakes re- gion, in New York or out here. Texas has turned out some high-class teams | year after year. Montana is ano her | basket ball haven. So is Pennsyl- | vania. In most of the great cities jthere are good teams, for there is | almost no other sport a city boy can play unless he is a specialist. Some- times through the’ coundless small basket ball games in gymnasium classes, in ¥. M. C. As, on recrea- tion building rooftops and in junior varsity competition a great basket ball player will develop who migit have become a first-class halfback or | shortstop, too, if he had had a place to play foot bell or base ball. ’I‘O GO back to the cities of the plain for a moment, Wisconsin, Purdue and Michigan have good bas- ket ball teams in the making. The Badgers and Boilermakers tied for the Western Conference title last year and Purdue came to Madison Square Garden to trim Fordham, 48 to 39. The Michigans have a power house, our scout reports. They average 6 feet 3 inches in height and 185 pounds. stands 6 feet §. Naturally, ne plays center. The Michigans have been off form for several years, especially last Winter. The foot ball team seemed to leave a sort of losing contagin about Ferry Field But the Wol- verines this Winter look to be the Wolverines of old, our scout reports, perhaps with some bias, and if that is true the Western Conference will make Madiscn Square Garden look to its laurels as to basket ball patronage. (Copyright. “1935, the North American Newspaper nce. Inc.) ELEY ANSWERS CRITIC Criticism of alleged “roughness’ during his last fight with Gene Buffalc has prompted Billy Eley to say that “if I hadn't forced the fighting all the way and done most of the punching it would have been a sorry fight.” Buffalo and Eley meet again Wednes- day night in the feature scrap of the all-colored card at Joe Turner’s arena. Claiming Buffalo was interested only in protecting himself, Eley said he was willing to meet his foe more than half wanted to fight Otherwise, The real glant is John Gee, who | —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MOSCRP THOUGHT 00T OF BOWL LT Stanford Star Undergoes Knee Operation—Cards to Changg Defense. By the Associated Press TANFORD UNIVERSITY, S Calif., December 16.—Stan- training grind for the Rose Bowl game today with the knowledge { that James (Monk) Moscrip may be jon the sidelines for the New Year | day encounter with Southern Meth- | odist University. " | The star end of the Indian eleven | was in a hospital recovering from an operation for a torn knee cartilege. It was reported he might try out his leg the latter part of the week, but doubt was expressed he would be of much value to the team even if al- lowed to play at Pasadena. i The rest of the players are in good | conaition. Thornhill Not Discouraged. HEAD COACH C. E. (Tiny) Thorn- hill returned to the campus armed with notes on plans to combat the Mustangs' aerial attack. After watching the Mustang's beat Texas A. and M., the Stanford mentor declared | his team faced a tremendous task, in | | the Rose Bowl, but at the same time | expressed opinion that the visiting eleven is not invincible. Thornhill, it was learned, plans a number of changes in Stanford's de- | fensive tactics. | jugling that Southern Methodist is | known to employ. | Workouts will be held twice a day | for the next two weeks. 'SUN RADIO SOCCERS " GLOSE IN ON CROWN ;About Clinch First-Half Title in Recreation League by Beating Littoria. ‘N JITH its perfect record still intact, Sun Radio generally is conceded Recreation Soccer Leagué today, un- beaten and untied after six games. Two goals by Jacobson and one by Kaplan in the first half enabled the Radio booters to repulse their last | serious rivals, Littoria, yesterday by | & 3-2 score, leaving the victors in a | dominating position. | Mitchell Bros., téam that received a forfeit from Sabaudia, is second in the league standings, but the runner- up hag lost two games and won one less than Sun Radio. Slilver Spring likewise benefited from a forfeit by Occoquan, but is too far down in the Jeague to merit any consideration, having lost six times this season. Even should Sun Radio lose to the fourth-place Occoquan eleven next Sunday, which is unlikely, and Lit- toria take the measure of Mitchell Bros., Littoria still would be a half game behind the leaders. Yesterday's defeat, incidentally, was Littoria’s first in league competition. Heurich Brewers, defeated by Beth- lenem BSteel, 3-1 yesterday in a Southeastern League game, are plan- ning to resume winning ways against the Canton eleven of Baltimore, whom they meet next Sunday in a national amateur cup contest. BOZEVITCH IS HAWKEYE Bozevitch led the Mayfair five to mnxp-nvwmrymmn-nnmco. tossers yesterday, scoring 8 points for the victors, ford’s gridmen took up their | The team has not had | | to stave off the lateral passes and ball | to be the first-half champion of the | =T Fill Arena PHIL IS UNDERDOG DEFENDING TITLE {Both Pack Knockout Sock. | Five Short Bouts Will Precede 15-Rounder, BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HIL FURR and Bobby Wilson, whose fistic prowess somehow seems to grip the fancy of Washington’s ring colony, re- sume their warfare tonight at Joe Turner's arena in a bout scheduled for 15 rounds. Although neither of the weltere weights has been anywhere in pare ticular in boxing and their futures are none too bright, the new palace of punch at Fourteenth and W streets is expected to hold a capacity crowd, The first meeting between this pair, perpetrated inore than a year ago, never fully convinced Wilson's supe porters that Furr, who took a close decision, was the better ringster. So widespread is this opinion now, in fact, that Wilson, who packs 90 per cent of his dynamite in a left hook, probably will reign a slight fae vorite over the Foggy Bottom welter, who will be defending that quaint District welterweight championship. Wilson never lived up to the promise he showed when he first migrated to the Capital from Florida last year, but Furr fell even farther short of fulfilling expectations than Bobby, Once Dodged Florida Slugger. THEIR first meeting was marked by one of the dizziest build-ups in local fistic history and consequently was responsible for filling the old Riding and Hunt Club. | At that time Furr was riding the crest of what looked to be & promising career. He had whipped Ray Bowzn and Staney Loayza when Wilson ape peared on the scene and immedia established himself as Furr's chief lnval, both in the ring and as a drawe |ing card. Bobby knocked several op= | ponents cold and a Furr-Wilson bout : appeared a “natural.” | Then Furr refused to fight Bobby, | although'he was alleged to have signed a contract for the bout. There fol- | lowed squabbles in which the District Boxing Commission became involved, but finally they met and Phil. pedaling | around Wilson's potent left fist, pecked ! out a decision. Both Boys Hit Hard. S!NCE their initial meeting Purr ap- pears to have slipped somewhat, |and, unless he can regain his stride {of & year ago, many observers are in- | clined to believe that Wilson will tag him before the 15 rounds go by. While Bobby’s punch has been ree sponsible for the longer list of knocke | outs, Furr is not exacuy a powdere | puft hitter. Two weeks ago he showed | that some of the potency still was in his right hand when he flattened Sid Silas in another “defense” of his two- bit title. And those wno saw Harry Dublinsky kayo Wilson last Summer believe that Furr can dc the same thing. Something of a rivalry, incidentally, will be in progress in the corners of | the two principals tonight. A year ago Furr was directed by Harry Groves, one of the leading local fight managers. Tonight Groves, Wwho since has parted company with Furr, will be seconding Wilson ir action, while Gabe Menendez, who pilotd Wilson in the first fight, will be in Furr's corner. | Lancaster Faces Landers. A PRELIMINARY card of five | scheduled four-rounders will open the show at 8:30 o'clock In probably the most attractive of these Billy Landers, the oid bantam- weight war horse from Norfolk, will | face Jimmy Lancaster, promising Wil- mington (Del) scrapper. Lancaster, if brought along carefully, figures to |step up from the prelims shortly. Landers, while once fairly formidable, should provide a perfect foil for Jimmy tonight. Mike Muskogee, Baltimore deaf mute, will meet Tony Livingston of the Quantico Marines in a return middleweight go. They met last week and Livingston, after flooring Mus- | kogee, was disqualified for infraction of the rules. In the other four-rounders Stane | ford Carrier will face Johnny Rose, | Doug Swetnam will meet Joe Doty | and Jack Huey and Johnny Miller, | colored welters, will battle. HAVE TOUGH RING JOB Georgetown Boys Meet Combined Talent of Two Other Clubs. Seven boxers of the Georgetown Boys’ Club will divide their opposition between the Washington and Merrick Boys' Club ringmen tomorrow night when those two organizations send representatives to the Georgetown ring. Two bouts in the 55 and 65 pound classes are scheduled, while competi- tion also will be held in the 65, 95 and 112 pound divisions. The card: 55 pounds—Weston (Georretown) Vs, L. Roberts (Merrick): J. Rodill (Georges town) vs. Pappafotis (Washington). 65 pounds—Thompscn (Georgetown) vs. Ragsdale (Merrick): B. Rodill (Georges town) vs. T. Roberts (Merrick) pounds—Pettit (Georgetown) | Yokum (Merrick). | ., 95 pounds—Noore (Georgetown) | Einstetn (Merrick) | =172 pounds— Alexander vs. DelLisi (Washington). v, Vs, (Georgetown) FLOOR OFFICIALS TO MEET. A meeting of the approved board of District basket ball officials will be held tonight at Gonzaga High School at 8 o'clock. By the Associated Press. National League. Boston, 2; Montreal Canadiens, 1. New York Americans, 3; Chicago, 0, Detroit, 4; New York Rangers, 2. International League. Syracuse, 7; Cleveland, 4. Canadian-American Leagule. Providence, 1; Philadelphia, 0. Springfield, 7; New Haven, 0, American Association. . St. Louis, 2; Wichita, 1. Oklahoma City, 1; 8t Paul, 1 (overtime). t