Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1936, Page 12

"A—12 s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FRIPDAY. JULY 24, 1936. SPORTS. Sharkey Tunes for Talking Jag : O’Neill’s Job, Tribe Spurt Linked _:_,,A, 5 BOMBER ALREADY BEATEN VERBALLY' Louis Won’t Get Away With & Any Bandaging Tricks, Is Opening Blast. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, July 24—Joseph Cuckoshav, a Boston amuse- ment enterprise incorporated under the name of Jack Shar- wmc ey and famous wherever English and | Gaswel Yithuanian are spcken for the sweet but consistent quality of his sobs and Jaughter, already has cleared his larynx of the first discharge in what | «Chase promises to be the liveliest ear-nose- and-throat campaign since the Demo- | cratic convention. Never very kind to those tonsils of his, Mr. Sharkey bids fair to milk them of a record number of words in preparation for the fight he will fight on August 18 with the part-time bomber from Detroit, Joe Louis. There is plenty to be said, and no one has ever accused Mr. Sharkey of short-changing the public con- ! versationally. As soon as the Louis-Sharkey fight was announced, the bashful sailor broke into that mournful baying sound which precedes all his perform- ances and frequently continues during | the performance itself. Through the Jips of his manager and unseverest | critic, stout Johnno Buckley, the re- ticent gob problaimed to all and sun- dry that he was not going to take any nonseme from the Louis person plus bandage for | Bui ne doges {or 24 Aggusacal, o-lqo INDZED,” said Mir. Buckiey in a clear tenor voice sur- charged with menace and foreboding, “Louis will not get away with any- thing in regards to bandages. There ic a hard, fast rule in regards to bandages, and Louis will not use any more bandages than is permitted un- der the law. This is final.” To be sure, Mr. Buckley and Mr. white'll 15 . Cohen_ 5 (yrlffs Records BATTING. AB. R. H. ‘h 3b. HR.RbI.Pct. Stone. 4 79 .:v.'s Hill Kuhel . 00! 291mon 2% ouz: oruo~sIERGRSa A= Travia o igm o] c:;:.—»—z:a:q-—-n-z:» wowD - er Botton- R'ynolds Py veaver 1 De€hing 20 MDD BIRIIID I D T ©323923wmM Pll‘culun. Q ) ©999HHOmaneSH T Weaver 18 Desh'z 20 Prid Ne'unm 27 204 ¥ 18 ug - ‘.‘.‘5 o SR B s - oy ©200u~OD NI RE L8538 oo 2550 OO DO DB S e OLICEN-TORS *Coppola #Bokina 13 [J 1 15 1 *Released. Slump (Continued From Eleventh Page.) Hornsby seems to be molding the St. Louis outfit into a more formidable club now and the competition figures to be stiffer than it has been so far. Yet for all this, Bucky Harris' outfit should fare more successfully here. The White Sox, now winners of 17 of 21 games, have been red hot during the last two weeks and consequently could do nothing wrong. The Griffs, who have dropped five out of six games to the Pale Hose during this period, found the Sox’s luck too good. Newsom's Drive Strikes Ump. TJOR the third straight time the s hopped cff to an early lead erdav, seiting & run off Xcnnedy wne f:st inning &na scorlng thrce Iruns in he secoud. ‘They Lib We White Sox hard in the early going but made only four singles in the last seven innings. Newsom, reached for 15 hits as against 10 made off Kennedy, had his first bad inning in the fifth. He was leading, 4 to 1, and two men were out when Rosenthal beat out an infield single, Kreevich doubled, Bonura Bharkey will be deeply disappointed | if it does turn out to be final, because | they would not have brought up the subject in the first place if they hadn't expected the other side to pick up the ball and keep end Mr. Suckle\ %0 long and steadily that it’s a rare day when they miss a bet or make the wrong play on a muffled sob. As usual, Mr. Sharkey croons confident tune about the outcome of the fight. = tentative strum or two—testing for sound—he cuts loose as follows: “I am sure I will win this fight. I was never in better shape. My weight is under 200 pounds and I have been working steady. I am glad this is a 10-rounder, with the first bell and give this boy all I've got, which is plenty, and not ' bother about saving myself for a long fight. “I could always whip Schmeling, and here is a young man that Schmel- | ing bounced around like a ball. If you compare scores, make me? It makes me a belter fighter than Louis, if nothing else. But I'm not going to stop with Louis. Im going to come on and win the | title back, because I can also lick Braddock and Schmeling, in addi- tion to Louis, over and above, as well.” These remarks, relayed to your cor- Tespondent in the promotional offices of Uncle Mike Jacobs, are but a frag- | ment of the original oration, Which s said to surpass, in bulk if not in quality, the most eloquent declama- | tions of Demosthenes and Cicero. Ii 13 evident that the good squire of | Chestnut Hill is in perfect voice once more, and Bugle Ann was a broken- down mute compared with the good | squire in perfect voice. | He Talks a Good Fight. UT the interesting part of Squire | Sharkey's delivery is not what he | #.ys before a fight. It's what he says | in the ring. Plato and Socrates in Their most brilliant flights of Q. and A.. never touched so fully and master- fully upon the topics of the day and the matters ethereal and ‘mundane as does the honest Mr. Sharkey in his | #cintillating dialogue with the referee or the judges or his opponent or the | guy in his corner. while the fight is in progress. Remember the Dempsey-Sharkey | contest? It was in the second round | of that epic tilt that the eloquent | seaman launched out upon one of the i most noble passages of speech in | forensic history. Playing upon his audience (the referee) like an organ, the speaker struck every note in the | range of human emotion. He men- | tioned the turpitude, the fundamental | baseness of Mr. Dempsey’s character. He cited the chicanery of Mr. Demp- sey’s assistants. He wrung sobs from the great assembly with the story of his own life from childhood up, the story of the hardships he had faced and the obstacles he had overcome. It was at the climax of this tre- | mendous flight of tragic eloquence that Mr. Dempsey, tired of listening, batted Mr. Sharkey on the chin and knocked him cold. Sharkey Not Accused. HAVE been accused of belittling and | and maligning Mr. Sharkey, but nothing could be further from the truth. Indignant citizens of Mr. Shar- key’s balliwick have written letters of~ fering to tar and feather me for a nominal fee because I spoke of his fight with Well-Known Winston, the human African submarine, in terms of & springboard dive. But the fact is that I did not call Mr. Sharkey a diver. I referred to Mr. Winston as such, and his best friends neither were shocked nor surprised. It is no secret, further- more that following the Sharkey fight the legislators of boxing promptly sus- pended Mr. Winston for conduct be- Aitting a human submarine. Since that unfortunate bargain-day doubleheader episode, which gave the customers two dives for the price of one, Mr. Sharkey appears to have been sharpening his instruments on worth- ier material. He split a couple of lively bouts with Tony Shucco, and he ham- strung the pride of the Pacific Coast, Deacon Philip Brubaker, after being floored by the deacon in the first round. That sounds like a pretty good comeback effort. But still I think Mr. Sharkey talks & more interesting fight than he fights. They have crooned | After giving his tonsils | because | it means that I can go out there | what does that | | it was announced today by Promoter dropped a fluke one-baser which the | wind carried away from Chapman, | and Appling end Hayes followed with | legitimate socks. The damage was three runs, tying the score. ! In the sizth the Griffs had a chance | « Reyneld: rt Uy Kreevich dropped a2 fly by | Kress then laid down 2 bunt and the | bases were loaded when Kennedy un- | successfully attempted to force Rey- nolds at third. | Newsom, next up, lined a drive off | Kennedy’s arm and it might have been good for two bases had the ball |not caromed off Umpire Johnston's | knee. According to the rules this is good for only a single, so Reynolds was ellowed to score while the bases remained filled. After that the Griffs |gave a great exhibition of turning deaf ears to opportunity’s knocking. | Chapman’s grounder forced Bolton at the plate, but Lewis walked to force across Kress. Neither Kuhel nor Stone, however, could help—Joe pop- ping up and Johnny striking out. The Sox then got a run in their | half of the sixth, cutting the score |to 6-5, and then staged, with the | collaboration of Bolton, their game- | winning uprising in the e)ghth DUSEKS FILLING CARD - Quartet to Appear in Mat Show{ Here Next Thursday. { Matdom's quarrelsome quartet, the | Dusek brothers, again will be featured here against outstanding opposition next Thursday at Griffith Stadium, | Joe Turner. In one of the feature matches, Emil will stack up against Jack Donovan. Another match will be co-featured, with three 30-minute preliminaries | rounding out the card. ADJOINING THIS PERFECTLY APPOINTED & OPERATED OUTDOOR AQUATIC CENTER THERE'S 12,000 $Q. FT. OF pecial eashore ALL TIME PRICES 40 wcimac v 15 AND USE OF SAND BEACH (Ccpyright 1936, by the Nurtis Americsn Newspaper Alllance, Inc.) \ OPEN DAILY IAM 221130 P M Polo, Horse Shows Providing Week End Sport for Capztal EGINNING today equestrian fans of the Washington area face a week end of unprece- B dented activity within the city and at nearby arenas of horse | sport. Five polo gamss and two horse shows will be offered between 4 o'clock this afternoon and sundown on Sun- day. On two days the problem of the sportsman who never ilkes to miss a thing will be complicated by the pres- ence of simultaneous attractions in widely separated locations. The parade of events begins with & semi-finals match of the Southeast- ern polo tournament today between the West Shore Country Club of Har- risburg, Pa., and the 6th Pleld Artil- lery team of Fort Hoyle, Md. The winners of this affair on Potomac Park field will go on to contest with the 3d Cavalry Yellow team the right to represent this territory in the na- tional interzone tournament at Cleve- land. Card Tomorrow Heavy. MORROW the schedule is four- ply. Two horse shows are slated in Virginia. One takes place at Bou- levard Farms, about 4 miles south of Alexandria, the other near Warren- ton. There also will be two polo matches, the first at the Phipps field near Middleburg, the second at Poto- mac Park. The Boulevard Farms horse show is a complete newcomer to the local scene. Its inauguration takes place on the estate of Edmund P. Mont- gomery, American consular officer in Mexico, and promises to attract the better Washington horses. The first class is to be called at 10:30 am, Each year the sporting crowd at ‘Warrenton holds some sort of field day for the benefit of the Warrenton Hospital. This season the task has been turned over to the younger gen- eration, which wjll sponsor the Leny Manor horse show for youngsters to- morrow at the John Buchanan estate. No exhibitors, judges or other officials of this meet may be more than 21 years old, the parents being allowed in '.hq ring only once, when they are in by their children in what is hhmul"m Klass.” A complete and well-balanced card of contests has been arranged by the junior managers. Attractive Polo Clerk. THI Phipps fleld polo will bring together a team from the Iroquois Polo Club of Lexington, Ky., and the top quartet representing the Lou- doun-Fauquier Club. The game starts at 3 o'clock, while the local matel is set for 4 on Potomac Park field. There two combinations in the consolation section of the Southeast- ern polo tournament will meet to pick a finalist for that end of the round robin. Sunday the biggest event of them all takes place, also at Potomac Park at 4 o'clock. That would be the in- trazone finals of the Southeastern division tournament, and whosoever leaves the field victorious that day will later have a chance to become the champion 12-goal polo team in the United States. On the same afternoon the Lexing- ton and Virginia teams also will be playing & repeat engagement in their private wars at Phipps fleld. Stare Yesterday By tho Associated Press. Joe Di Maggio and Monte Pear- son, Yankees—Former’s two homers and latter’s six-hit pitching and four hits defeated Browns, 15-3. Bob Smith, Bees—Shut out Reds with five hits. Joe Stripp, Dodgers—His ninth inning double drove in winning run egainst Cubs. Cy Blanton, Pirates—Held Phillies to six hits for 10-1 win. Jchnny Mize, Cardirals—Drove in threc runs with hcmer and doublc in 4-2 victory over Glants. Schoclboy Rowe, Tigers—His sixe hit pitching beat Athletics, 2-0. Vernon Kennedy, White Sox— ‘Won his own game against Senators with two-bagger in eighth, driving in winning run. Johnny Kroner, Red Sox—His double and single tatted in four runs in 9-8 win over Indians. VINTAGE TOBAGGO e Minor Leagues Intornational. , 7; Toronto, 4. Newark, 5; Montreal, 1. Rochester, 5—17; Albany, 4—5. American Association. Minneapolis, 9; Loulsville, 5. Indianapolis, 17; St. Paul, 4. Southern Association, Chattanooga, 5; Little Rock, 3. Nashville, 9; Memphis, 5. New Orleans, —3; Knoxville, 1. Atlanta, 4; Birmingham, 3 Pacific Coast. Miciions, 6; San Die; San Francisco, 4; Los Angele: Fortland, 6—4; Ozkland, 5—3. Sacramento, 12; Seattle, 7. Texas. Fort Worth, 5; Oklahoma City, 4. Dallas, 3; Tulsa, 2, San Antonio, 8; Galveston, 1. South Atlantic. Jacksonville, 5—4; Columbia, 4—2, ‘r | t:w ROD AND STREAM | BY GEORGE HUBER. OR week end angling this de- partment can think of no other place within easy driving dis- tance where real sport is to be had than Solomons Island. Of course, if you want to go down to Ridge and get some of those blues that currently are being caught so much the better. At Solomons though the pan rock are in by the hundreds. At the last ! meeting of the Izaak Walton League some one got up and stated that catch- ing those small rock is like pulling in an old shoe, but we wish to take issue with them. On fresh-water tackle those .rock can give you all that you want to handle, and we never saw an old shoe that hit as those rock do or that put up an argument when you try to bring it in. If you do go down there with rock in mind, don’t forget to take blood- worms with you. You can't get them for love of money once you leave ‘Washington, and those fish will take nothing else as often as they will a spinner and bloodworm. Solomons also offers a variety of fish, more so than any other nearby spot. Hardhead, trout, spot and fluke are making up regular parts of catches there, and a small blue or two has been taken within the last week or so. Dr. W. d’Arcy Magee, president of the lzzak Walton League, was down there vih Cant. Woodburn Wednezday md c2 small cnes which ved 50000 LE0 OF LAICE DOLAGI—" ,,ox' sie It's & bit early still to go there after blues, but you may run into a few of the smaller specimens. The next wezk or 5o should see an increase in both their size and number though, and come next week end and this de- partment will be down there with sev- erzl bushels of chum and a trolling outfit, FOR larger rock—10 to 14 pounds— a 65-mile drive down to Tall Tim- bers or Piney Point will put you right in the midst of them. The big ones are caught still fishing with a drift lige and live crab, while T around 3nlomons ere causht trolling, i2] boatc et Sclomons have a few of the big ones there, but p. still fishing attempt there would not be worth the trouble as hardhead and trout would take your expensive crab bait. Maryland law sllows rock to be czught only up to 15 pounds, so if you want to take a chance on catching the 25 or 30 pound fellows we recom- mend the Chickahominy River in Vir- 11 LEADING L ginia. You may catch one or two and | then again you may not. That Maryland law again enters the angling picture for those going down to the Middles after blues. They are starting to enforce that provision | which prohibits netting alewives—be- | cause they are food for fish—and you will have to take your chum with you. ON OTHER fishing grounds on t.he‘ bay the hardhead is fading out of * the picture in favor of trout. Trout fishing requires a little more skill than hardhead fishing as they like to nibble around a bit before taking the bait and they have a very soft mouth. Anglers are prone to give the rod or line a hefty jerk on the first nibble, and more trout are lost that way than are caught. Give them a chance to get a good grip on the hook before you start reeling in, and have a landing net ready when you get them near the boat. It's a heartbreaking sight to see & fish drop off the hook just as you start swinging it in. Hardhead and trout can be caught in the channel and Honga River across from Solomons, and at the Gooses leaving from Kenwood Beach, Dares Beach, Plum Point, Seaside or North Beach. Seaside and North Beach are only 35 miles from here, an hour’s drive or 50, and & mile or two out from those | points a fair number of hardhead can be caught in two or three hours, which makes it almost ideal for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon trip. N THE ocean side of the Eastern | Shore an even larger variety of | fishing is available. Within the past | week catches st Wachapreague have | inclucea trout, crozker, kings, sea bacs, <, fike and channsl basz, ‘4his | ¥ viell e esoub the last weex cranmel Dalz can be caugnt there iu any num- ber until late August and September and already the slack has started. In the past-six days but 27 have been landed. At Ocean City, Md., the fishing is about the same with the addition of blues and plenty of them. ———e. — Homer Standings the Assoclated Press. Yest:rdnv s horrers—DA Magglo, 2 el Ripple Giants, 1; Brubaker, Pirates, 1; Camilli, Phillics, 1. The leaders—Gehrig, Yankeer, 28; Foxx, Red Sox, 26; Trosky, In- dians, 25; Ott, Gianis, 19; Dickey, Yankees, 18; Klein, Phillies, 16; Averill, Indians, 16. League totals—American, National, 373, Total 833. 460; PILOT'S REHIRING - STIRS FLAG URGE Indians Slice Deeply Into | Yank Lead—Cubs Halted by Brocklyn. BY SID FETER. Associated Press Staff Writer. P THE surging Cleveland Indians catch the Yankees in the current American League pennant chase— and that seems a lot more likely today than it did two weeks ago—the League Statistics Amenca:“s. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 6. - pu'[ul[g‘ N “apana 1~ —omwuo| o nml91 ~TNI0X AN S - -puimeg | 61 51—\11 101841 ‘Hl lZlg StLI 71 3( 0‘ 1l 4] 2i—! 6i29159/.330128%4 Phll 3| 6i_ 4/ 4] 3] 11 8/—I201901.3281280 L._132140/41/41143144 69160/ —r— man who picked the moment for an- nouncing Steve O'Neill’s reappoint- ment as manager of the Tribe can take @ large share of the credit. That announcement, timed as it was to hit the Indians at their lowest ebb, will go down in the books as the smartest psychological move of the season—the spark that set off the Tribe'’s dynamite drive in the Ameri- can League. Always popular with the players, O'Neill's re-signing reacted as a bomb- shell to an apparently listless outfit, gave them something to fight for, and bounced the club right back into the picture. Lose Battle to Red Sox. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMOREOW. Wash. at Bt. L, 4. Wash. at St. L, 4. New York st Cnicago. New York at Chicago, Boston at Detroit. Boston at Detroit. Phila. at Cleveland. Phila. at Cleveland, National RESULTS YESTERDAY. : New York. 2. Chicago, 5. Cincinnati, 0 Pmsbu'lh‘ T0 Priladelphta, 1. “R10X MIN -~~~ uoisog “--puyaaq soweD| o "olnma' -neauurd) | P TO that time, the Indians were | playing a shade over .500 ball.‘ lacking the pep necessary to make a fight for the pennant in any league. Since then they've taken 11 of 14| = starts, have shown the hitting and pitching that made the experts pick them as potential pennant timber for the last two years, and have shot from | dfth n"ce to cocond place, cuiting the decision to the Boston Red Sox, but only after a powerful uphill climb that saw them come from behind a 9-2 handicap to 21l but tie. The Yankees, meantime, finally | solved the pitching of the lowly St. Louls Browns with an 18-hit attack and ended their longest losing streak of the year at three games, with a | 15-3 victory. Joe Di Maggio, who has snapped out of his hitting doldrums | since the start of the current Western | tour, belted two homers as Monte Pearson chalked up his thirieenth piiching victery. Cuhs’ Lead Chioped bcuoo:»ov ROWE turned ir r g perto to give the T)gers a 2-0 victory over the Athletics, and enable the world | champions to hold onto third place‘; despite the 7-6 triumph of the White | Sox over the Nationals. The Cubs’ National League lead was shortened to two games as the Brook- lyn Dodgers shoved over a run in the last of the ninth to clip the pennant | SCHUELING 1n 12 days y»..terui,. Gropping & §-8 | | GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. St. L. at New York. St. L. at New York Chicago at Brooklys. Chicaxo at Brookivil. Cinci. at Bost Cinel. at_Bos! Siftaburkn ot Phila, Bitisiygreh at Phlla. SSURED ‘Wul Get Wext Snot &t Coawp, He Learns From Garden Head. | BERLIN, July 24 (7). —Max Schmel- ing, German conqueror of Joe Louis, said here that John R. Kilpatrick, | president of Madison Square Garden, told him he would be named as the challenger for James J. Braddock's heavyweight boxing title not later than July 29. Schmeling received the assurance in a telephone conversation with Kil- vatrick, who is at Salzburg, Austria. | 4-2 decision to drop (he h Yorkers | back to fourth place. Regaining the third spot were the | Pirutes, who slugged behind Cy Blan- it pitching and trounced the pmmes 10-1. The Reds slipped into | the second division again, falling, 4-0, | before the Bees and the five-hit piteh- ing of old Bob Smith. WINS AT SPORT EVENTS T might be luck if it happened just once— but when any cigar scores 11 straight taste- test victories, it must taste better. ‘We went among the crowds at the 11 lead- ing sport events of the spring season. Smokers were chosen at random. .. given two unidenti- fied cigars—a Vintage White Owl and another, representing the leading nationally advertised brands. The cigars bore no names or familiar bands to prejudice them. Each man smoked both cigars—then indicated the one he liked best. In every case, Vintage White Owl won by a substantial margin. Tasting is believing—try a White Owl. It costs but 5¢ at your nearest cigar store.