Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1936, Page 14

A—14 Louis Heavy Choice Over Ettore : Whitehill Staging Strong Finish @he Foening Staf Sporils WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER SO000MAYDRAY | GITTY - LOW-DOWN ON INTERHIGH. Dog S OATPHLLY Backers Claim Al's Style! and Courage Will Upset Dusky Foeman. B the Associnted Press. HILADELPHIA. September 22.— Joe Louis’ climb up the come- back ladder hits an uncertain rung tonight. The Brown Bomber collides with Philadelphia's fistic pride and jov, Al Fttore, and even his strongest backers egree that it's as tough an assignment | as he has faced. Still, with the scheduled 15-round bout in Municipal Stadium only hours away, the boys in the street would cover a one-spot with two or three like it, that the inscrutable Louis gets past the test with ease. They said Ettore looked poorly in his final workout, against a Louis who | has regained the stride he measured | until Max Schmeling interrupted his dreams of the heavyweight crown last June. The EASTERN weatherman promised fair weather, and Co-promoter Herman Taylor said ‘“at least” 50,000 fans would assemble on the site where, in & deluge 10 years ago last night, Gene ‘Tunney dethroned Jack Dempsey. The crowd would be the largest here since the Dempsey-Tunney scrap, and Taylor's estimated gate of $200,- 000 the biggest “take” since the same event. Wild Scramble for Seats. ‘Warming up belatedly to the event, Philadelphians engaged in a wild scramble for tickets. Scalpers—two of them directly across the street from the promoters’ headquarters—did a rushing business with latecomers from outside the city clamoring for choice Ppasteboards. The crowd will be with Ettore, who pounded out a trio of decisions over the city's other hope, Larrupin’ Leioy Haynes, Negro, in his 64-fight profes- wional career. Taylor said it would be largely local, although thousands will be here from upstate Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Outside the city betting ran as high \ 8= five to one on Louis. \ Those who like Ettore. and they're | \ easy ‘to find, base their confidence | / mainly upon two things: 1= ) ‘ WA First. the utter absence of fear from ,9 His backers contend | N/ his make-up. % HORSE wWiTH FAMILIAR FEET.....s THINGS Look 7 WEEPING HAP® HARDELL 1S AS USUAL, BUT HIS CLUB PROMISES BETTER THAN LAST SEASON'S PLI that many of Louis’ opponents were A beaten before they climbed into the = &~ RTET Ar 'S EXPECTED To PO SOME CLEVER FOOTWORK IN THE MATINEE PIGSKIN PERFORMANCES f » = SO BAD THIS VEAR | PONT BLIEVE WE'LL BEAT CENTRAL MORE'N 21 POINTS | HOW ARE YUH oN 2 LATERALS' SINGIN' TH BLUESN ). U~ ace! QJ AGAINST SGUAD THIS YEAR... e HEY ! WHEN DID WE | TART PLAYIN NOTRE DAME CENTRAL'S FORWARD WALL IS FIRMLY BRACED BY A PAIR OF 200-LB. TACKLES. P | | | | | | | | ROOSEVELT 1S LP AN APPLE - GREE Second, his style of fighting—in ¢lose, hammering away with shorts from either side, making himself a small target while putting over puni- shing body punches. His style is not orthodox. s#warms all over his opponent, and. ONCENOTEDBOAER nimble on his feet, should make it difficult for Louis to unleash his pile drivers effectively. Ettore Is Confident. TTORE, with customary confi- dence, expects to take the Brown Bomber in seven heats “or less.” He has not been a whirlwind in Ppractice, but that, his close followers say, always has been the case. 15 GRITIGALLY ILL {Packey McFarland, Suffer- | ing From Baffling lliness, [ Has Lost 50 Pounds. Apparently theyre not worried By the Associated Press. about his ability to take it. Ettore, HICAGO, September 22.— | in his last scrap, with Haynes last Stricken with & bafing ill- | June, absorbed the full heft of the ness, Patrick (Packey) Mec- | Negro's haymakers time and again | Farland, one of the greatest | and come back to win. | lightweights in the history of the Louis came to Philadelphia today | ring and & member of the Tilinois | to weigh in at a radio station at| Athletic Commission, lay critically ill noon. He was reported in excellent | today in his home, at Joliet, Iil. condition. McFarland has suffered for two | In action last month, when he | months from high fevers which have pinned the knock-out tag on Jack | produced periodical attacks of com Bharkey in three rounds at Boston, Last night he lapsed into delirium, Louis had little to do to get himself | and specialists, indicating a strepto- | back in prime. | coccic infection had settled near his | He whaled his sparring partners day | heart, held out only slight hope for in and out at his camp at Pompton | his recovery. He has lost 50 pounds in Lakes. Those in his camp say it's | weight. pnly & question of what round. His wife and their children, Patrick, — T jr., 20; Margaret Mary, 18; Miriam PIN CHAMPS OFF WELL Alice, 16, and Sarah Ann, were at his | bedside almost constantly. | Hiram Wins Two of Three as 20 SreatiTiitle Warrier. cFARLAND, 25 years ago, carried | Masonic Teams Roll. M into the ring that same type of With 20 of its 32 teams seeing ac- | courage, plus a keen, quick mind tion, the Masonic Bowling SJeague | backed by busy fists that made him opened its season last night as Hiram, | one of the greatest little warriors of defending champion, picked up where |his day. A master strategist, he it left off last year by capturing two | would feint opponents wide open and out of three sets from Anacostia. drive them to the ropes with a flurry | Charley Phillips took high-game |of punches from either hand. honors with 145, followed by Simon A product of Chicago’s famous ln_d Stevens with 144. Hiram maple | “Back 'o the Yards district,” Me- #pillers annexed high set for the night | Farland was born November 1, 1888. with 1.649, while Anacostia took high- He never was a champion, but was game team honors with 612, recognized generally as “tops” among the 140-pounders of his day and the uncrowned lightweight title holder. JOe-Al Battle He never was defeated and only twice in his career was knocked down. . . On Air Tonight 'A BLOW-BY-BLOW description of the Joe Louis-Al Ettore 15- round bout tonight at Philadelphia may be heard locally over station WMAL at 8:30 o'clock, it was an- nounced today by the National Broadceasting Co.,, which has pur- chased broadcasting rights for the SCTap. Clem McCarthy, veteran sports eommentator, will handle the as- signment. Minor Leagues Play-offs: International. Baltimore, 8; Buffalo, 6. Southern Association. o New Orleans, 8; Atlanta, 2. Pacific Coast. Oskland, 7; 8an Diego, 6. Texas. Dallas, 2; Oklahoma City, 1. Tulss, 4; Houston, 1. | different type of opposition. THE SPORTLIGHT | Ettore a Gone Goose, Declare Experts, Unless He Can Keep Louis Unbalanced. BY GRANTLAND RICE. | HILADELPHIA, September 22.| —In the last Joe Louis test against Jack Sharkey, it finally was decided by the expert ma- | | jority that the Brown Bomber had! The others wore beaten nothing but a tired, fat old gentleman who was all through four years ago. There was plenty in the way of evidence to support this post- mortem verdict. Sharkey was willing to try, but he had nothing to work | with. Which is like playing a round of golf without any clubs or with- out a backswing. The official verdict today is that Al Ettore should be knocked out, ! but that he should be an entirely Al is| young, which Sharkey isn't. Al is | | 29 iy 1936. y JIM g BERRYMAN. VET, 3, LEAGUE'S NO. 2 LEFTHANDER In 14th Year Earl's 14 Wins | | Topped Only by Grove. | Bosox Here Today. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ARL WHITEHILL'S name keeps | popping up whenever specula- tion on off-season trades is rife, but the veteran southpaw | | has no reason to worry these days un- | | less he has a strong preference for | | what ball club he pitches. Back onj | August 1 Earl might have worried, | | for at the time he owned only seven victories and was charged with eight | defeats. Today, as the Nationals open their final week of play, he stands a chance of finishing with 15 wins, | which would be more than he has | grabbed since 1933. | At Earl's ripe old age for a ball player—he will be 37 next June—win- ning 14 games at this stage of the | season is quite a feat, but Whitey has done more than merely do his part. With Goofy Gomez floundering, Earl established himself as the second best | left-handed pitcher in the American | League, bowing only to Lefty Grove. Moreover he is staging a grand stretch | drive that has earned for Whitey the | distinction of being the only Wash- | ington hurler this season to win five | games in a row. This streak he will be given a chance to stretch, probably on Sat- urday, against the Yankees. Pete Appleton, Joe Cascarella and Jimmy De Shong are slated to pitch, in that | | order, against the Red Sox, who were to start a three-game series today. Whitehill's turn will come again in the opener of the Yank series. <. Starts Griffs’ Winning Streak. ’[‘0 WHITEHILL, too, must go credit | for starting the Griffs on their | winning splurge. On the morning of August 7 they were running a poor | | sixth and the chances for advance- | ment were not bright. That after- noon Earl whipped the Red Sox, 3 to 2, and from then on the Washington firm began to win consistently. It has held a .640 pace ever since. Whitehill was beaten by the Yanks in his next start, but he came back | | and took a 7-to-5 decision from the | | new champions. Then, after losing a | 7-6 duke to the A's, he started his | string. He whipped the Browns on Septem- | ber 1, 5 to 3, giving up six hits. Next he held the A’s to seven hits and one run. Cleveland was the next victim, | getting six hits and two runs. Last week, in St. Louis, Earl pitched the only bad game of the streak but he managed to win, 13 to 7. He gave up eight hits but was wild and Jimmy De Shong relieved him. PIRATES SNEAK TOWARD 20 PLACE May Overhaul Cards, Cubs as Giants Clinch Title in National League. BY SID FEDER. Associated Press Sports Writer. HILE the National League 7 took the pennant out of the moth balls and pre- pared to present it to the Giants, possibly before nightfall, the main interest in the dying campaign centered today on the second-place fight and the Pirates’ chances of nos- 6\“":“ D GRACE. —_— an idea. first pennant-winning Yankees with base ball tradition and won. Now he is pressing his Juck. | It's a Great Trick, Joe, If . . . OE McCARTHY is listed in every diary of ball player and newspaper man as the most conservative manager in the big leagues, barring not even Joe Cronin. When Marse Joes makes a happen first, which should give you And yet, for all of his safety- tactics, the boss man of the gambled this season the American McCarthy started League campaign with probably the | feeblest reserve strength in the circuit | ruled by Will Harridge. Particularly in o'ck; e the infield were his reserves weak. He sold his chief minor league first- base replacement, Buddy Hassett, and gambled on Gehrig to carry on. He knew that Tony Lazzeri had been having trouble dodging the wheelchair during July and August, that Frank Crosetti had a bum knee, and that Red Rolfe had trouble with his back now and then. But he carried only Jack Saltzgaver and Don Hefl- ner as utility infielders. Now, out of a clear sky, Heffner has been snatched away from him as far as world series use is concerned. Undergoing an appendectomy last week, Don is out of the series, except as a spectator. And at press time Mc- Carthy had no intentions of trying to grab another infielder and get permission from the Giants and Judge Landis to make him eligible. Giant Replacements Far Better. 'HUS the Yanks will enter the big series on September 30 with un- questionably the weakest replace- with Birmingham in 1920 and has been going steadily ever since, coming to Detroit in 1922 and again in 1924 to stay, after being “farmed out.” Most of the veteran's future may be behind him. but in light of his blazing finish it looks as if many a big-league ball club could do worse than have Whitey on hand and gamble on his winning 14 or 15 games. After 14 years of big-league pitching he comes up with a 14-10 record that may be boosted to 15-10. This would give him a better mark than he compiled in 1934 or 1935, indicating that he wears well. ing out the Cubs and Cardinals. | The Giants need but two victories | to nail the flag to their mast. Victory | in both ends of today's double-header | in Philadelphia will do the trick. So| will & split, if the Cards, .who regained | Louis hasn't tackled many of this | second place yesterday by beating the | breed—meaning willing to fight. Max | Cubs, 5-4, drop their start against Schmeling alone was the exception.| the Reds their collars cut| The situation, as of what may be low so as to be prepared for the| the final day of actual fighting for who apparently has been will- ing to fight. eran portsider gave probably his best | over the Yankees, 6-1, holding them | to seven hits. One of these was a | show. home run by Jake Powell. One record he will miss this season is the 200-victory goal. His win over the Yanks last Sunday was his 197th triumph since he came up to the big He has lost 162. Eventually; | however, Whitey is sure to attain his 200-game mark, regardless of where he plays. And right now it looks as Last Sunday in New York the vet- performance of the year when he won | 200 Wins Is His Goal. WHEN he winds up this season it | if he might be doing his pitching at will mark his sixteenth year of the same old stand at Seventh and worst. Once in a while, they made & few feeble, threatening gestures, but that was the limit of their ambi- tions. | It Be Interesting, Anyw: WHATEVm happens in Philadel- phia tonight, we have at least an interesting clinic. Louis was built up into superman proportions, and he looked the part as long as the | other fellow refused to fight back. | Here is an angle of sport that so fes base ball. the pennant, lines up this way: Peotessiona’ bese Games Games | L, behind. (oplay 6 L] w. R6 Club, Giants . Cardinals Cubs Pirates’ Climb Unnoticed. UT while the Giants have been staging their red-hot drive to the pennant, the Pirates’ revival has been lost in the scramble. The fact that they're only two games out of third | place and two and one-half away from rugged” and rough—which Sharkey | many miss. Any number of entries |Second hasn't received any more no- hasn’'t been for many years. | Ettore in a rough-and-tumble | mauler who can't hit much, but | Joe Louis’ Foe | dominated the choice of pace. AL ETTORE, Philadelphia heavyweight, who meets Detroit’s Brown Bomber in a 15-round scrap in the Municipal Stadium there to- night. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. might have been champions if they | had been allowed or permitted by their opponents to play their own | game or take charge of the methods needed to win. For example, in golf, Walter Hagen made you play the type of game he wanted to play—fast or slow. He Louls | dominated the main act until he met | Schmeling, who refused to be steered. It was Schmeling who made Louis | come into his bailiwick and fight as| Schmeling had planned the contest. | 1 recall the night before the Wil- | lard-Dempsey massacre in Toledo as one outstanding example of this dis- cussion. ‘Willard explained to both Bob Ed- gren and your correspondent what Dempsey was going to do. “Dempsey has had 20 or more first-round knock- outs,” Willard said. “That means he must come to you in & hurry. 'When he does, I'm going to wait back and knock his head off with a right-hand uppercut. I'm going to make him come to me.” This sounded reasonable enough. If Dempsey had come tearing in, he easily might have found his head quickly sep- arated from his sun-browned torso. But Demysey didn't. He weaved in and out for 46 seconds. He refused to lead. Finally Willard, as cham- pion, stuck out a left. Dempsey ducked under this left after the manner of a mongoose nailing a cobra. The second that Willard led was the fatal second of his career. If the 260- | | Giants and Pirates. tice than the news of the dog biting the man. With both the Cards and Cubs show- ing definite signs of falling apart completely, even before this final week of the season ends, the Bucs may yet step in to take the second-place cut of the world series melon. ‘The victory of the Gas House gang over the ex-champs from Chicago yes- | terday in their up-again, down-again | scramble profited neither of the con- | tending parties so much as it did the | £ For, when lhel Cards scored the winning run in the | ninth, it maintained the six-game lead of the Giants, who were idle, and| boosted the Bues, who also had a day | off, another half game toward third | place. League Statistics [ TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1934 ’ American No games scheduled yesterdar. - puwaAdD)| NYI—I14/14112116/16/141131981401.6671 Detl_81—I14/11/13] ] 0/17811681.54418 Chil 71 8I—I16I11110/11115/78169].531120 _ Wnl 8111 5l—I 8111/19/16178/7015271207%5 | THE EXTRA Clel 61 71 91141—I113114113176/721.514122% Bos|_713112] 8] _91—I12112/73761.490/26 StL|_8/101_81 31_6110/—I10/55/901.379142 _ Phil_5| 8] 71 _61 | 8/11/—|511961.347147 " (See SPORTLIGHT, Page A-16. Philly Seribe Picks Ettore, But Louis Is 3-1 Choice Braddock to See Fight—Mack Recalls Rookies, Writer “Recalls” Old-Time Stars. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. HILADELPHIA, September 22.—BIill Dooly, one of the sharpest of the Philly scribes, comes right out in the record and picks Al Ettore to- night . . . He'll be famous if there's an upset . . . Says Al's de trop style will not let Louis get set for his Sunday punches . . . Never- theless, the money is riding on the Brown Bomber ... Odds here, ‘where Ettore is a local hero, range from 2 to 3 to 1 on Louis . . . But the Broadway crowd reports you can get 4 or 5 to 1 over there without half trying. Jimmy Braddock has wired for uurvtunn...'l'odul’tmnm B boys weigh in at a radio station + « . Which gives you an idea of the interest . . . Ettore looked ter- rible in Sunday’s drill, but they say he was upset when the bleach- ers collapsed . . . Unbiased fight men think Louis can name the round , . . Col. D. Walker Wear of the New York State Athletic Commission is here . . . A poll of the experts (many of whom picked Louis over Schmeling) says the Bomber will win inside of five rounds. ‘Was Connie Mack chuckling over that double win over his alumni{ on the Red Sox? .. . Are you asking us? . .. This gem is turned out by Jmmnmngunm: “The other day Connie Mack re- called Pitchers Doyle, Turbeville and Benton, Catcher Conroy and Infielders Peters and Peerson . . . On the same day we recalled Pitch- ers Bender, Plank and Coombs, Catcher Shang and Infielders Col- Philly papers go strong for the “man on the street stuff.” . . . One of the them took a poll on the fite and found that out of 100 questioned 54 picked Louls, 23 liked Ettore, 4 called it a draw and 19 were “if-fers” . . . The same men on the street think Con- nie Mack has the makings and will be heard from next year . .. The Mhlhn.mnmy(flu will get ) another shot at managing the Phil- lies . . . Prexy Gerry Nugent is more than disappointed at the fail- ure of this year’s team to do bet- ter—even though it was the front office that sold Curt Davis and Ethan Allen to the Cubs. Odds and ends: Both of Ford- hams right halfbacks hurl the ball Jeft handed . . . The Cincinnati front office may miss Larry Mac- Phail, but his resignation is a break for little Charlie Dressen, who has been handicapped by too much in- terference . . . Add meal tickets: Carl Hubbell of the Jints . 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WEAR OF A SECOND PAIR 1S BUILT INTO Foosticine Sheces Florsheim leadership in the fine shoe field is the result of saving m-onvyo--bou---brmth—fim'mmlhms 75 careful craftsmanship, finer fit . . . in short the exira weer of a second pair. That's why Florsheims cost you less io wear. CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED ! ments owned by & pennant-winning | team in recent vears. It might be | well to take cognizance of this weak- | ness in comparing the Gotham world series foes. I Bill Terry hopes to play the entirs prediction he waits for the event to | series, but if anything should happen to him he can call on Sambo Leslie, a good first baseman 1n his own righ He has Mark Koenig as another in- fielder and Eddie Mayo, too. For extra outfielders he can summon a pair of good fiy- chasers and dangerous hitters in Hank Lieber, the blond gent from Arizona, and George | (Kiddo) Davis. Behind the bat he has Harry Danning and Koy Spencer. | ‘This sextet of reserves overshadows the Yankee contingent, which con- sists of Outfielders Roy Johnson and | Bob Seeds, Infielder Saltzgaver and Catchers Arndt Jorgens and Joe Glenn. Saltzgaver is the only bona fide infielder among the group and it may be necessary to use Seeds in there if misfortune should befall the Ruppert Rifles. Griff Strong For Reserves. N A world series, which can last no longer than seven games, barring a tie, the value of reserves is less than during a regular season. Still, a good set of utility players is a real asset and series history is replete with the feats of reserve players. The ease with which the Yanks won the pennant this season was re- markable in the face of what they lacked in reserve strength. Some shrewd base ball men, like Clark Griffith, regard good utility infielders, outfielders and catchers as important as regulars. It has been a long time since Griffith, for instance, has been without good replacements, with the exception of behind the plate. He had, this season, Red Kress and Ossie Bluege and Carl Reynolds and Jess Hill and other players who might well hold down regular jobs as well as the chosen men. Back in the Spring of this year Griffith, commenting on pennant chances, remarked: “If I opened a season with the kind of reserves that McCarthy has on the bench, I would be run out of town by newspapers and fans. Furthermore, I'd deserve to be run out of town. I'd like the Yanks to win the pennant if they had high- class players to replace Lazzeri and Crossetti if they folded up.” Tony, He Fooled All AZZERI and Crosetti, fortunately for the Yanks, did not fold. Crosetti started the campaign with a knee that threatened to fall apart from April 14 to now, and yet it held up and the Yanks did not have to depend on the light-hitting Heffner or the erratic Saltzgaver. Lazzeri fooled everybody, in- cluding New York crities who unanimously refused to pick the Yanks to win the pennant because they felt that Tony (See POPPING OFF, Page A-16.) and ‘10 HAHN MEN'’S SHOPS—14th & G © 7th & K e 3212 14tk 4