Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1936, Page 18

SPORTS. FISTS 0 POP. POP PHIL APT TO FIND D. C. Welter Champion Must Battle Back Tonight or Suffer Severely. BY BURTON HAWKINS. OUNDLY trounced by Barney Ross and Jack Portney in his S last two arguments, Phil Furr, District welterweight champion, will make his umpteenth bid for na- tional recognition tonight when he climbs aboard the fistic treadmill to manipulate mittens with Jimmy Leto, fifth ranking 147-pounder of the world, in a 10-round scrap at Griffith Stadium. Furr’s right hand, one of the most deadly in his division, has been as inactive as a dying jellyfish in his re- cent encounters, but against Leto the volcanic-tempered Southwest socker must bring that right paw into action or stand a fair chance of being smoth- ered in onions and served for ham- burger. Leto, whose ring style strongly re- sembles that of the polished Ross, is somewhat like an itchy octopus when he starts ipping fists. The tire- less, rugged Bridgeport battler is an accurate puncher who carries the fight to his opponent by tossing gloves with the staccato rhythm of machine- gun fire. Phil Fights When Slapped. T'S strange, but Phil is at his best when stacked up against a fighter who will pepper his prominent beak rather frequently. He's inclined to ke too friendly with fighters who will stay their distance out of respect to his right hand and Phil is none too pleasing to witness when he stands off and tries to box. Phil is a dangerous larruper when mroused, but like Discovery, he some- times gets going too late. Leto should make Furr mad and when Phillip is angry there are few punchers more colorful or capable. When it clicks, his two-fisted attack to the body is one of fistiana’s finest spectacles. Furr, however, is slow to follow up once he has staggered his opponent, whereas Leto is ruthless and merci- less when his foe is groggy and reel- ing and a knockout punch almost is inevitable. Jimmy's record is evidence that Portney did local ringworms with a favor when he pulled out of a sched- uled 20-round bout with Furr. Leto is a better fighter and crowd pleaser than the light-hitting Portney. y L Leto Boasts Good Record. \JNCLUDED in Leto’s 36 victories in 39 fights are triumphs over Fritzie Zivic, Bill McMahon, Eddie Brink, Kid Cocoa, Lou Lombardi, Benny Bass, Izzy Janazzo, Joe Rossi, Harry Dublinsky and Cleto Locatelli. He has trimmed four noggin-knockers who have disposed of Portney. Four six-round preliminaries will support the main mauling match. Buddy Scott, local light-heavyweight, will trade blows with Rusty Baker, a rough, tough Baltimore lad, while Roddy Davis, local welterweight, will square off with Johnny Bellaus, a stablemate of Leto. In other supporting numbers, ‘Shorty Ahearn, recent knockout con- queror of Killer Lamar, local colored sensation, will meet Al Tinsley, dusky Baltimore heavyweight, and Victor Vallee, Puerto Rican lightweight fight- ing out of New York, will face Billy Bullock, fast local 135-pounder. Action will get under way at 8:30 o'clock. Y S — Colesville Cardinal tossers are plan- ning their annual post-season dinner and celebration to be held at Saubel's Inn, at Taneytown, Md. Georgetown A. C. collected 19 hits in defeating the Bethesda A. C., 16 to 5, on the Bethesda diamond. — Champion U. PORTLAND, Oreg.— Mar- vin K. Wedge, local fisherman, who cast a fly farther than any prior record, 151 feet, in a cast after he had won the national championship against competitors from all over the country. His three casts in the contest averaged 1421 feet.—Wide World Photo. POTOMACS RETAIN and Canoeists Again. Gude, Dollins Star. NY doubt as to the supremacy this season of the oarsmen and canoeists of the Potomac Boat Club over those of the 0ld Dominion Boat Club was forgot- ten today as the boys in the vicinity of Key Bridge were celebrating their second victory of the Summer over their Alexandria rivals. Just as they did in the waters off Alexandria, so did the Potomac mem- bers outclass the Old Dominion rep- resentatives yesterday, winning every one of the four rowing and three canoe events. Gude, Dollins Keep Busy. RANVILLE GUDE and John Dollins proved the most energetic boatmen of the day, each competing in four events and Gude stroking in the quadruple scull, although as stroke of the married men, he could not keep pace with the beat of the single men. He also was found in the eight- oared crew and in the single scull. Dollins was a mate with Gude in the eight-oared crew and quadruple scull, in addition to rowing in the four-oared gig. Moreover, he was on the winning crew of the single men. ‘The summaries: WING RESUL Four-oared siss—wWon b Pnlomnc (No. m_ Henderson: av No. 3 JoRn Dofling: stroke. brnm BUgY cox: swain, Charles Halg): segond. Old Dominjon (No. 1. 3. No. 2. M, Burrows: No. SN% Lalineny: siroke, 3. Whitstone: cox: swain, H. Scott) ‘Quadriple sculls—Won by Potomag_(No. 1, W. Stewart: No. 2. Ernie Millar: No. 3, ¥, Dollins: stroke. Granville Gude): ‘sect 90d; Old Dominion (No. 1. K. Whittor % B, Knight: No. 3, J. Whitestone, stroxe. “Single sculls—Won by Granville Gude otomac): second. Bob ~Duncan (Po- third, Jim Henderson (Potomac). Eighi-oared race—won by Fotomac (No L wmxm Stewart: No. 2. George Coiner: 3. Gegree Birehe Now & " Granviils Sode” NS B Sim Hepderson: No_ 6. Dave Ehox: No. % “oha Borl stroke.” Ernie Buff: ‘coxswain, C. : second. Old Do- n. Married ‘men va. single_men race—Won by single men (No. 1. William Stewart: No. 2. John Whitstone: No. '3 ‘Willy No. Henderson: No. Dolins: stroke. Gharles Haln): second, married men (No. Ernie Millar John Belt: No. 3, Bob Duncan: No. 4. Rllph wumn No. B George Birch: No 6. Dave Knox: SohnMarden: \stroke. " Granville Gude: coxswain, Jerry Law l:r . Jim Sh - Ernle Buft: “Bounce7e’ Tace = Won by James Burch (Potomac): second, James Burch. jr. (Po- tomac) Ladies’ race—Won by Bette Burch and Matiorie Bureh (Botomacy: second.” Mrs. Mary Birch snd Mrs. James Burch (Po- tom: d tandem—Won by James Burch n Bette ‘Busch (Potomac): ‘second. Mar- orle Burch and Audrey ‘Bosley ¢ (Potomac). Girls vs. boys race—Won by girls (Bettl and Marjorie Burch. Mrs, James Burch and Mrs. Mary Birch): second. and “Bill Sldu\ Jlmel Burch, Jr., Paul Whedon and FROM THE PRESS BOX Base Ball Is Likely to Begin New Era in Another Yankee-Giant World Series. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, September 14— Shufflin’ Phil Douglas is rais- ing shoats by the Sequatchie River in Tennessee and lead- ing the church choir . . . Artie Nehf is rambling around on the trail of new stars in the Southwest . . . Pancho Snyder claps his hands on the third-base coaching line for Bill ‘Terry . . . Waite Hoyt is dragging out his gorgeous career in Pittsburgh . . . Babe Ruth hauls his waxing waistline around the golf course twice a day - . . Herbie Pennock is master-minding with the Boston Red Sox . .. Frankie Frisch is growing plump and gray in the service of the Cardinals . . . Long George Kelly is Chuck Dressen’s first lieutenant in Cincinnati . . . Ross ‘Youngs is dead . . . and Miller Hug- gins . . . and John McGraw. You can go on for minutes and hours summing up the names and records of the men—Bullet Joe Bush, Roger Peckinpaugh, Casey Stengel, Jack Scott, Johnny Rawlings, Wallie Pipp, Irish Meusel, Aaron Ward, Deacon Scott, Hughie McQuillan, Carl Mays, Jesse Barnes—who made his- tory in that glittering sequence of world series that spanned the years 1921 to 1923 and glutted New York and the Nation with thrilling base ball. The fever never ran higher in & world series than it did throughout the course of those three Giant-Yankee classics. They plucked the game out of the wallow of scandal and started it off on a new era, an era of jack-rabbit balls, slugging carnivals, inflated salaries, box-office records, strange Taces. Final Glimpse of Old Heroes. AT THE same time they rounded off ‘an old era and gave the country a final glimpse of the old heroes and the old styles of play, the low-hit struggles in which each run ‘was fought for and defended as hotly and bitterly as the bridge across the ‘Tiber in Horatius’ time. They were the most important world series in base ball, I think, and certainly the most exciting. On top of everything else, they enjoyed the advantage of a red-hot family hatred between the Yanks and Giants. The Giants were the classic team from out of the past, the veteran idols of base ball, supporting & tradition that went back to Matty's first turn on the mound and McGraw’s first signal from the bench, at the start of the century. The Yankees were young in base ball fame and bristling with wealth and power, earmarked by destiny to set the pattern of the game for the next decade. This may sound a litlle grandiose, but it forms the background of the world series that is looming head of us now, granted that the Giants have enough reserve strength to stand off the finai bids of their com- petitors for the National League pennant. If the Giants and Yankees meet again, for the first time in 13 years, it will be anoiher series of contrasting styles and conflicting managerial theories. Perhaps, like its predeces- sors of 1921, 1922 and 1923, it will set new base ball fashions and sketch the dividing line between one and another of those loosely-defined eras into which base bell history seems to fall. Both Short of Greatness. Nm'l'HER club is a great one, but both are interesting specimens. The Giants come out of a dead-ball league, equipped with hitting power that is average and pitching that is better than average in its own circuit. The Giants play for a run at a time and rely strongly on their double- play combination and the throwing arms of their outfielders. They prac- tice Bill Terry’s close-to-the-vest policies. ‘The Yankees draw chiefly on their slugging power. Their runs must come in batches. One tally means so little in a Yankee ball game that you will find fielders playing their posi- tions and managers mapping their strategy in a manner entirely different from anything seen recently in the National League in a like case. Defensively, the Yanks depend on what is known as “pressure” pitching, rather than a steady, low-hit performance by the man on the hill. The pitcher must have enough ROWING MASTERY Down 0Old Dominion Sweeps | AT SEALE 1S T S. Fly Caster - FORINDOOR START Seats Also Better Placed for Offering Headed by Cox, Managoff. NEW low-price scale and new seating arrangements, but the same old faces, will mark the opening of Turner’s Arena for the indoor wrestling season Thursday night when Joe Cox, the bullish Kansas City twister, tangles with Ivan Managoff, Russian muscle-man, in the weekly grapple feature. Announcing his new prices, Promoter Joe Turner also feels that his pachy- derm patrons will be pleased with a seating arrangement whereby one's knees are not jammed into some one’s back. Prices have been scaled to $1.10 for general admission and $1.65 for ringside chairs, with women being admitted for 40 cents plus tax. In booking Cox and Managoff, Turner has pitted the principal of last Winter's build-up, Cox, against the more recent favorite of caulifiower customers, Man- agoff. Joe’s let-down, after a lengthy run, was Danno O'Mahony, while Managoff stumbled when he met Yvon Robert. MANAGOF‘F was the fair-haired lad of local fans until he launched a villainous attack on Robert. nearly creating a riot several weeks ago, while Cox, since turning into a snarling show man against O'Mahoney, has been their pet hate. Managoff was a “sissy” in his last bout, when he flipped Floyd Marshall, and is expected to maintain his good behavior while Cox continues his rampage. In a semi-fiinal slated for 45 min- utes, Hans Kampher will wrap his Greek arms about the pudgy person of Little Beaver, Cherokee Indian grappler. Thirty-minute bouts list Nick Camp- ofreda, former Western Maryland grid- iron star who made an impressive local debut last week in pinning Felix McQuade, against Jim Wallis; John Katan meeting Cliff Olson and Henry Piers testing twists with Scotty McDougall. Plains, Prairies Grow Navy Backs Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS Md.,, September 14—Nine of the 18 backs on Navy’s foot ball squad this year are from three States, Texas, Illinois and Indiana, each furnishing a trio. From Texas are Newell Thomas, Tom Edwards and Bolton (Rabbit) Rankin, all fleet youngsters who are likely to see plenty service. Illinois has sent Frank Case, a regular of last season; Cy Emrich, a good change back, and Art Franks, a 200-pound tackle of the Plebes last year, but being converted into a pounding back this year. From Indiana come Bob Antrim and Charley Antrim, both of whom loom as first choices in the back- fleld this season, and Bill Ingram, scion of the Navy’s most noted ath- letic family, who lost most of last season through injuries, but ap- pears ready to go places this time. IMPORTED BIRDS THRIVE. Native game birds in Minnesota are far less plentiful than imported spe- cies. Ruffed grouse and prairie chick- ens have decreased, while the Chinese pheasant and the “Hun” partridge are fairly abundant. pitchers to cut them as short as pos- sible. ‘Thus, Pat Malone, McCarthy's re- lief ace, fills & role which is with- out parallel in the National League. In game after game, he teams up with Gomes, or Pearson, or Hadley to necessary to eunt.ml the rival bats. Malone can work three or four in- nings at full speed while his team- mates compile the runs that are needed to win. In nine cases out of 10, those runs will come, sooner or later. Neither the Yanks nor the Ghnh compare with the teams which wore their uniforms in 1921, but the chances are that this nickel series (if it oc- curs) will match the meetings of 15 years ago for excitement and box-of- fice value. And in some cases the players will match the ok-timers, too. Hubbell s as great a pitcher as -1 of the 1921 crop. Gehrig, BERGMAN’S BOOK OUT “Fifty Scoring Plays.” “Pifty Scoring Plays,” compiled by Dutch Bergman, Catholic University foot ball coach, embodying the ‘pet plays of the Nation's outstanding grid- iron mentors, will go on sale tomorrow through A. S. Barnes & Co., 67 West Forty-fourth street, New York, at $1.50, Each of the 50 plays is charted and diagrammed so that every assignment is made clear. Accurate descriptions by Bergman suggest further variations of the plays, many of which stress laterals and tricky running formations. SARRON, CAMARATA IN NON-TITLE FIGHT Clash Tonight Heads Richmond Card Also Offering Overlin, Pirrone, Quarles. Srecial Dispatch to The Star. R]CHMOND, Va., September 14.— Probably the finest card in the three-year history of legalized boxing in Virginia will be presented here to- night when Petey Sarron, world featherweight champion, squares off with Nickie Camarata of New Orleans in a non-title fight, the feature of four 10-round bouts. In another match that ranks nearly on a par with the Sarron-Camarata scrap, Ken Overlin, world’s fourth ranking middleweight, will stack up against Paul Pirrone of Cleveland, another ranking 165-pounder and one of the few fighters who has beaten Overlin, Other encounters list Bob Turner, Virginia middleweight champion, fac- ing Ben Brown of Atlanta, Ga., and Norment Quarles, former Southern Conference lightweight champion, meeting Joey Greb. Nearly 10,000 are expected at the show, the proceeds of which will be turned over to the Rjchmond Police Benevolent Association's benefit fund. Furr Faces “Machine Gun’ in Leto : Louis Target of Sharpshooters srouses o () HOPEFOR O, SAY FOES' PILOTS Despite Boasts, There Does Not Seem to Be Single “Assassin” in Lot. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, September 14—A couple of months ago Mr. Lew ‘Tendler, the Philadelphia tav- ern keeper, was talking about what would happen to Joe Louis when and if he climbed into the ring with Mr. Tendler's heavyweight protege, Mr. Al Ettore, “Al will throw more punches at this guy than he ever saw before in Lis life,” Mr. Tendler. *“Al will mur- der him.” Last month, at the Goshen trotting track, your correspondent encountered Signor Luigi Soresi, who proceeded under very slight pressure to describe what would happen to Joe Louis when he climbed into the ring with Signor Soresi’s tropical heavyweight, Georges Brescia. “Brescia can hit three times as hard as Schmeling with either hand,” saii the good signor. “He will murder Louis.” Only a week ago your correspendent fell in with an admirer of*Max Baer’s, full of news of Max's regeneration on the Idaho tank front and eager to tell about what would happen te Joe Louis if he climbed into the ring again with the Livermore megaphone. “Max’s right-hand punch is as stiff as ever and twice as fast,” said this loyal disciple. “Give him another crack at Louis and he will murder the guy.” Another Potential Murderer, ATTERS reached a crisis (and this is the gospel truth) when your correspondent was buttonholed in broad daylight by Mr. Hymie Caplin, the manager and spiritual guardian of Mr. Abe Feldman, Yep, you guessed it. . Mr, Caplin was willing to discuss the fate of Joe Louis when he climbs into the ring—possibly in December— with Mr. Caplin’s fighter. “Abe is faster and smarter.than anything Louis has seen yet,” said Mr. Caplin shyly. “He will murder | him.” Since the whole world seems to be leagued in & plot to assassinate one | mild-mannered young Negro from De- troit and impale his scalp upon the highest spire in Christendom, it might be well to study the nominees, item by item, and weigh their chances for a successful job of homicide. After all, Louis’ fight with Ettore is not so far off, and after that he will be meeting up with these hooded killers at the rate of one a month, At long range, the most dangerous rascal on the list appears to be Mr. Lew Tendler’s charming young ward, Ettore. He gets his shot at the bomber on the twenty-second of this month, in his home town, Philadelphia. Mr. Ettore’s record as a killer is no great shucks, but there is another role for which his equipment and talents suit him eminently—the role of spoiler, made popular by Mr. John Risko, the Cleveland baker boy. Never a bride, Mr. Risko used to spoil wedding after wedding in his capacity of bridesmaid. He made a practice of cutting prospective cham- pions to ribbons and setting their ca- reers back at least two years from the date on which they met him. They all looked bad against Mr. Risko. It was a feature of his style. Career Destroyed by Ettore. TTORE has something of the same sweet gift. He is no champion himself, but he possesses a rugged constitution and will throw leather until they lock the place up for the night. Single-handed, he destroyed the career of one Leroy Haynes, @ sepia sweepswinger who was being groomed to fight somebody, prefer- ably Joe Louis, for the championship of the world. Haynes could do every- thing but lick Ettore. When he swung on the Eyetalian’s button for the third time, and missed, he was out. Ettore can make things equally dfl- PORTS Joseph behind a whirlwind of mit- tens and ties up the Bomber in close. Louis has been held at bay by a spoiler once before, a spoiler named Natie Brown. He couldn't stop Na- than. He may not stop Ettore. But I don’t see how he can fail to win his fight. This is no Schmeling that Mr., Lew Tendler is throwing across Joseph’s path. Signor Soresi's fighter, Brescia, who gets his inning early in October, should be a considerably easter job for Louis than the Philadelphia phan- tom. I anticipate an extremely bloody and brutal duel, with Senor Brescia doing most of the catching. He can hit, all right, but his defense is awk- ward and his movements are slow. I think Louis will cut him into three spools of South American ribbon, Feldman Held Too Small. PASSING on from Ettore and Bres- cia, we enter the realm of the great unknown. Louis probably will fight in the West in November, and he is committed to an engagement in Madison Square Garden on Decem=- ber 13 or thereabouts. Abe Feldman is the likeliest choice for the Garden bout. For November, the boys are mumbling in a vague way about Baer, the uncrowned king of the diving cir- cuit. Feldman is smart and nimble, but much too small to damage Mr. Louis. As for Baer—well, I do not wish to disturb your sleep with night- marees before it is strictly neces- sary, but if they bring Maxie back from the springboards of Idaho, where he has been flicking those hu- man submarines into the pool with a dainty fillip of his right glove, we will see some pretty gruesome sights. And that’s about the sum total of the plot. Murder Louis? There ain’t an as- sassin in a carload. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American | Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) e TEXAS, Fort Worth, 1: Okllhoml City. 0. 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Linthicum won the second race of the Washington Racing Pigeon Club’s young bird program from Amherst, Va., his winner averaging 950 yards per minute. E. D. Norris came second and Phil Krous third. KENTUCKY SEEKS END LEXINGTON, Ky., September 14 (#)—Coach Chet Wynne is looking for a pair of husky ends to go with a rugged line and as speedy a back- field as ever boasted by a University of Kentucky foot ball team. Happy indeed would Wynn be if a couple of fast-stepping 200-pound flankmen showed up. He needs them to carry out the style of play he learned under Knute Rockne at Notre Dame. Wynn went far enough out on a limb to concede his squad, one of the smallest in the Southeastern Confer- ence, would produce a “better foot ball team” than last year. He re- marked it would make up in quality for any numerical deficiencies. . BARELY MISSES TITLE. 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