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Olympic Stars Fill Sugar Bowl : Friedman, Master Boxer Well as Just Another Guy Named Joe CREAT MILE FIELD | THREATENS MARK New Orleans Meet Features Race Among Cunningham, San Romani, Lash. BY the Associated Press. EW ORLEANS, December 26.— Olympic stars came here today | for the Sugar Bowl track meet | —curtain raiser of a week of | sports designed to rival the Mardi Gras. In holiday gayety New Orleans wel- ‘ comed Glenn Cunningham, the famous | miler; Helen Stephens, queen of wom- | an sprinters; Archie San Romani, an- | other star mile runner, and Joe Mc- Cluskey, the steeplechase king. . Don Lash, Tom Deckard, Harold Manning, Glenn Dawson, Marty Glickman, Billy Brown and Dudley Wilkins were other Olympians invited to compete in the Sugar Bowl track meet at Loyola Stadium tomorrow. i Mile Mark in Danger. THE world record for the mile was | '™ expected to be in danger when Cunningham, San Romani and Lash faced the starter's gun in the feature race of the program. - The Foening Stad Sporls Varied Sports College Foot Ball. Santa Barbard State, 25; Mexico A. & M, 14. Scholastic Foot Ball. St. Petersburg (Fla.), 19; Marble- head (Mass.), 12. Union Endicott (N. Y.), 7; Clear= water (Fla.), 0. Pro Soccer. St. Louis Shamrocks, 5; Pittse burgh Heldelbergs, 2. RAISES FOR UMPIRES New /IN AMERICAN LEAGUE Officials Rewarded for Going Along With Circuit After Salaries Were Cut. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 26—Holiday greetings from President William Harridge of the American League to his 12 umpires consisted of 1937 con- tracts calling for an undisclosed, but substantial salary hike. “I think each and every one of them will be satisfled,” Harridge said yesterday after mailing the contracts special delivery. “During the depression we had to WASHINGTON, Huskies Brush Up on Their By the Associated Press. Pittsburgh and Washington, ing schedule. polo field at Santa Barbara for com- and ball-carrying. routine. He didn't have to warn the the New Year day game as they Blocking, Pitt Looks to Running Game. ASADENA, Calif., December 26. | P Rival Rose Bowl squads, { bore down today in one of the { hardest practice sessions of the train- Coach Jimmy Phelan took his ‘Washington Huskies out to a private plete privacy, and held a lengthy drill. It included plenty of blocking Over at San Bernardino, Coach Jock Sutherland ordered a similar Panthers to put aside post-Christmas thoughts. His boys are as intent on | were when they left Pittsburgh earlier this month. | Reserves Please Phelan. | PHELAN was pleased with the work of his reserves in scrimmage in | which the red-shirted subs, using Pitt Lash forced Cunningham to run|retrench a little, and I asked our | Plays, banged away at the first-string the greatest mile ever raced in Dixie | in the first Sugar Bowl track meet | last year. Cunningham won that| thrilling duel in 4:16. San Romani | aaid today he felt he could run the four laps in 4:12 tomorrow, if need be. Meanwhile. Louisiana State Uni-major league clubs in Spring train- | versity’s undefeated, once-tied foot ball team worked off Christmas din- ners this afternoon in a final workout for its game with Santa Clara New Year day. | The Broncos were to entrain in California today for their long trip. Grid Game Sellout. AMMERS sounded at Tulane Sta- ! dium, where the game is to be played, as workmen squeezed in “just & few more” seats. Normally the sta- dium holds about 30,000, but knock- down seats are expected to add 10,000 more. All tickets are sold. | An intercity boxing tournament be- tween St. Louis and New Orleans, a tennis tournament—yes, and even a | yacht race—will polish off the sports week. i Kelley, Toast of West Coast, rb Gridder, Says Muller, | m ssows camoosn o Supe Once Cadlifornia All-America BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. ERKELEY, Calif,, December 26. | —The Eastern All Stars, who | play a similar team represent- | ing the trans-Mississipp! sec- | tor of the gridiron world for the umpires to go along with us. They did s0, cheerfully, and I am extremely happy to be able not only to restore their former salaries, but to boost them.” The arbiter again will accompany ing. Harridge said the last year's conditioning tour, the first made by the umpires, put them in good trim for the regular season. Topping the American League's staff from & service standpoint is William Dinneen, who has put in 26 years. Clarence (Brick) Owens started calling them in 1916, George Moriarty has 20 years’ experience and Emmett (Red) Ormsby 15. The others are William A. Mc- Gowan, Harry Geisel, Louis C. Kolls, William Summers, John Quinn, Charles Johnston, Stephen Basil and Cal Hubbard. D Pive years ago—California foot ball Bears defeated Georgia Tech, 18- eleven. Loss of Fullback Al Cruver by in- juries from the Husky second team may hurt the Washington cause con- siderably, particularly since the reg- | ular full, Ed Nowogroski, has an ailing leg that may go back on him, but over the Cruver mishap. Phelan has is grooming to understudy Nowo- groski, Merle Miller, was good enough at the first of the regular season to go into the Huskies' starting line-up against U. C. L. A. Pitt Polishes Attack. THE Huskies break camp tonight, sion tomorrow morning and driving main until the New Year day en- gagement, Coach Sutherland continued to pol- ish up the Pitt running attack, with Marshall Goldberg, chief ground- gainer of the outfit, packing the ball. Next week Sutherland will concen- trate on passes and pass defense. many observers refuse to be alarmed | a wealth of good backs. The man he | taking a deep-sea fishing excur- | on to Pasadena Sunday night to re- | WILL SHOOT FOR TITLE | the Washington Gun Club will be held Monday. One hundred targets—20 at 16 yards, 20 at 18, 20 at 20, 20 at 22 and 10 pairs of doubles—will be fired. taneous wit and epigrams have had e the natives in stitches. Introduced at a breakfast the Sac- | ramento Shrine gave the East team, | Kelley said: “T'll be glad to get back to Pennsylvania, where Winter is & D. C, ‘ Santa Is Dizzy as old role, although new for him, make-up, with the Christmas 1 SATURDAY, DECEMBER Here the great Jerome Herman Dean is shown in an old, of a beardless Kris Kringle, sans tree that graced the famous Cardinal pitcher's new home at Bradentown, Fla., yesterday. 26, 1936. And here Joe Di Maggio, no longer a rookie, but now a world series veteran of New York’s world champion Yankees, is depicted getting his biggest Yuletime thrill in seeing that his littie niece, Joan, had a good time. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. | | Al Ritzenberg of District Among Seeded Stars in Junior Tourney. 35 the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 26—The national junior and boys’ in- door Tennis Championships MOUNESTERS O°EN "POPPING P NS TILE P~ OF F "5 PITCHING HONORS 10 CARL HUBBELL I mporiter EUROPE BIG FIELD FOR RING FREAKS ‘Carnera Main “Discovery” by “Good-Time Charley,” Managerial Genius. (This is the sizth and last article of a series celebrating the Aght ‘manager, whose exploitation of “angles” sets the pace for the pugie listic industry. The adventures and strategems of some of the more celebrated and colorful American prize-fight managers are described by an experienced sports writer.) BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, December 26— Almost every time you see & foreign heavyweight menace | approaching our shores—be | he Turk, Kurd, Pole, Egyptian, Italian, Brazilian, Russian, French, or British (horizontal variety)—you can be rea- sonably sure that the sinister figure {of Mr. Walter “Good-time Charley™ | Friedman is lurking somewhere along- | side, hidMen in the shadow of his | vast new piece of beef on the hoof. Among Mr. Friedman's importa- | tions have been Primo Carnera, the | kind-hearted ogre of sequals; Knute | Hansen, the convertible Dane; Len Harvey, the limber limey; Jack Doyle, the Irish Thrush, and Prince Sala EI-Din of Egypt. Europe and Asia are Mr. Friedman's | playground. In the scouting season you are likely to find him anywhere | from Wales' rugged mountains to the | plains of Kurdistan, turning over flat | rocks and shaking trees in his cease~ less search for newer and funnier heavyweights. When he first began to scour the Old World for these -| neolithic fossils Europe did not quite | know what to make of Mr. Friedman. . A Paris newspaper announced: “Good-time Charley, the American racketeer, is making a visit here on business.” Fighters Only Business. ’I‘HIS was in prohibition times and the readers of Paris drew their own conclusions about Mr. Friedman's business. When he reached his hotel he found that every whisky and champagne salesman on the Continent was presen, with samples, ready to trust him for the first few cases. Mr. Priedman promptly brushed them off the premises and set out to look for a heavyweight. HE business should have been years. This is a big figure, even for ! Bronze Plaque Candidates. completed early in the week|a “National” phone number and when the base ball writers| 1937 D. C. auto license. I received the requests to supple- ment the Cooperstown Hall of Fame = with 10 nominees, but first there was | (JOLLINS may not be the most pop- | Christmas shopping, and then the | ular man in base ball today, | letter was lost among Yuletide cards, | What with that hackneyed nose-in-| Old Alex Has Points. ! get under way today in the big 7th Regiment Armory with a field which includes many of the Nation's | Now that it has ben salvaged you wonder if shopping wasn't easier than | other-people’s-business rumor still | making the rounds, but Eddie finished | a glorious career with a lifetime bat- | HaS LOW Earned'Run AVer-‘ He made history with q-rnen. At age and Highest Percent- | it frat il innuences. he age of Games Won. whole industry profoundly and occu= ples a unique chapter in the records. Br the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 26—In- | Primo was a strong man with a wandering- circus when Mr. Friedman dividual pitching honors in | found him, a freak strong man with the National League for 1936 | % Deart of the purest nougat. Mr. Friedman advertised him over hers |as an ogre who drank the blood of babies. He showed him a couple of went to southpaw Carl Hub- bell of the New York Giants and | Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, | Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children season and not a catastrophe.” Kelley in San Prancisco, Calif, January 1,/ is tremendously popular with the other were hard at work on the University East players and it will be surprising of California practice field. | if the captaincy of the team is not A tall, handsome fellow with huge added to the other honors the Yale hands sidled close and in a low voice | man has won this season. asked: “Which one is Kelley of The East will offer one of the great- Yale?" | est lines ever brought over the moun- You pointed out the irrepressible Eli | tains for the Shrine game, with Kelley eaptain, chasing down the field in pur- | and Wendt (Ohio State) on the ends; suit of a long pass thrown by Steve | Hamrick (Ohio State) and Widseth Toth of Northwestern. “He's a grand | (Minnesota), tackles; Reid (North- Jooking athlete,” commented the tall, | western) and Ritter (Princeton), handsome fellow wth huge hands. guards, and Svendsen (Minnesota), You looked with more intent at the | center. face of the tall, handsome fellow with | Hanley and Kerr are not so enthusi- huge hands, and saw it was Harold | astic over their backs, but have little Muller. Now, the name of Harold | fear the West will do much-damage to Muller may mean little to the present | the forward wall. generation of foot ball followers, but there was a day, 16 years ago, when FOR ACE TROTTER leading college and scholastic stars. Headed by Don McNeill of Okla- homa City and Morey Lewis of Texar- kana, Ark. the Kenyon College rac- quet swingers, who performed sensa- | tionally in Eastern clay court events |last Summer, the junior tournament has drawn 95 players while 56 have entered the boys’ division. The first round in both events is to be com- pleted today. Ritzenberg Is Seeded. trying to pick spiked gents for im- ting average of 333, was famed for while the laurel for group perform- Greyhound Will Crack Mark 14 Years 0ld, Declares Trainer Palin, By the Associated Press. NDIANAPOLIS, December 26.—Sep Palin, veteran reinsman lnd.l\Itb’ElLL and Lewis are seeded trainer of Grand Circuit harness first and second among the horses, predicted today that Grey- | juniors, followed by Melvin E. Lap- hound, the big gray gelding he has| man, Charles T. Mattman, Joseph developed, would break a 14-year-old Fishback and Marvin Kantrowitz, all trotting record next season. |of New York; Albert Ritzenberg, Greyhound was one of the best Washington; Isedore Bellis, Philadel- 2-year-olds of the 1934 season, and | phia; Henry H. Daniels, jr., and Harold Muller was the toast of the gridiron world. | Muller Now Surgeon. AB BRICK MULLER, end of the‘ California wonder team in 1919, ! he won fame as one of the Pacific Coast's greatest foot ball stars. As Brick Muller, his name became na- tionally famous on January 1, 1920, when he fired a pass—estimated at from 50 to 70 yards—to Brodie Stevens that started a fine Ohio State eleven on the road to ruin in the Rose Bowl. Today Brick Muller is one of the Ban Francisco Bay area’s finest young medical specialists. The same huge hands that once hurled a foot ball out of sight now are deft in the use of a lancet and scalpel. A busy surgeon, Muller still finds time to keep up on foot ball and the game is his main hobby. Intently he watched the Bastern stars at work, but most of ail he watched Larry Kelley, a master end watching the performance of another master. Dick Hanley, one of the East coaches, came by and stopped to talk with Muller. Suddenly Hanley paused and called Toth and Kelley to his side *“8how Brick some passing.” he ordered As Toth took the ball, Kelley raced down fleld—down field 60 vards— where he picked one of the North- ‘western star’s throws out of the air Several times the pair repeated the performance. “He's an all-around end.” commented Muller on Kelley's performance. | | Kelley Coast’s Idol. IN A few days Kelley has become the ! . idol of Ban Francisco foot ball fol- lowers. Genteel at all times, his spon~ | CALIFORNI.A CHOICE OVER GEORGIA TECH in 1935 took the Hambletonian and | seven other stakes, trotting to a record | gelding of his age. {of 2:00 flat, the world’s mark for & | By the Associated Press Fourteen years ago at Lexington, | Ky., Peter Manning established the | championship trotting record of 1:56% and since that time—at least until Greyhound came along—the mark has stood practically unchallenged. TLANTA. December 26.—Georgia Palin Is Confident. Tech and California plaved a be- | “\J/ITHOUT a doubt, Greyhound lated finale to their foot ball seasons | will break that record” said today in an intersectional duel which | Palin. “He'll top it if he's sound, and saw the Golden Bears from the West |there's every indication he will be. I strongly favored over the hapless Yel- lowjackets. ‘The Western team finished strongly after a poor start and seemed to carry too much weight and speed for the home lads, but the Engineers were ready to cut loose with all their fancy tricks in an effort to please an an- ticipated crowd of 1,500. ‘The game was the fourth in a series which began in 1929, when Tech nosed out the Bears, 8-7, in the Rose Bow! The teams have played twice since then, California winning, 19-6, in 1931 and, 26-7, in 1932. Probable line-ups: Weight, Speed Give Golden Bears Edge—Tornado to Resort to Tricky Game. He's a great game horse, He'll come | through.” Palin recalled he had held the reins over Peter Manning in two exhibi- tions, so he knows the horse whose record Greyhound is out to beat. Palin is leaving next week for Long- wood, Fla, where Greyhound is in Winter quarters. Runs Five Fast Miles. URING the year just ending, Palin recalls, Greyhound trotted the mile five times in two minutes or faster. In winning the Progressive Stake at the Goshen (N. Y.) Grand Circuit, Greyhound established a new world record for a three-heat race, | trotting the trio in 2:01, 2:00'; and 2:00, an average of a shade faster than 2:00'%. Then at Springfield, Il1, he trotted in 2:02 and 1:57%, the latter a new California - Wilcox Cushing Jordan ims Konemann -~ Collins | ~ Appleby i NIHOBIBOCTE WxTwm-0 Cotton - - Ofmcials 7 ) Umplre Head linesman— Field judge Kick-off - either trotter or pacer. Referee—Mr. Eberts (Catholic Mr Sholar (Presbyterian) n .\?;r Cum‘{nh (Vanderbil). | this year,” Mr_ Streit (Auburn) | . 3 p.m. (Eastern standard time), | Greyhound. said Palin, but watch He'll top them all” | fully expect him to set a new record. | world record for a harness horse, | Robert A. Low, New York boys rep- | resenting Choate School; Malcolm ‘Weinstein, Philadelphia, and George McCall, University of Virginia. | Since the junior events seldom fol- | low form, upsets may be expected | somewhere along the line among such | players as Peter Lauck of Prince- | ton University; Tom Slattery, Uni- | versity of Michigan; Walter Woronow- | ski and Gerald Schaflander of De- | | troit; Alfred I. Jaffe, University of | Chicago; Frank McElwee, Fort Smith, Ark.; Robert D. Kempner, University | of Virginia; Billy Gillespie of Atlanta | and Scarborough School, Alexander | Guerry, jr, Chattanooga, Tenn.; | Alter Milberg, New York, and Walter | | B. Meserole, Willlam | College. [ Ink Given Top Spot. THE boys’ tournament presents even more of a problem for the com- | mittee which seeds the players on | the basis of known performances. Only a few from outside the metro- politan district have shown their right to seeding. Arthur H. Ink, jr, of 8an Diego, Calif., was given the No. 1 position and Mary followed by Willlam Unstaedter, Mil- | burn, N. J: Melvin Schwartzman, Joseph Greenberg and Richard Bender, New York; John J. Jorgensen, Chi- cago; Bert McGuire, Montclair, N. J., and A. Allan McDonald, Wichita | Kans. . { mortality s sake, | Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter | Johnson, Christy Mathewson and Babe Ruth were picked a year ago, and bronze placques in their honor will | be hung in the little New York town’s Hall of Fame next week. For a man | to muscle into this select grour he must have done at least some of his playing after the turn of the century, even though active prior thereto, also, but he must have been out of service at least by the 1936 season. Ten players are to be named, but of this group, according to the rules, only four or five will be chosen because it will be necessary to receive 75 per cent of the total vote, his brainy play, both defensively and offensively, and for nine years he led the American League. Even when | you saw him last, in 1926, he wound | up with a .344 average. Of the rest, Alexander seems to stand as good a chance as any. Alex was the marvel of his age, lasting 20 years while mis- behaving and compiling a truly great pitching record. The misbehavior is not mentioned as an argument in his favor, of course, but merely as a sidelight. The fact that he pitched 696 games in those | 20 seasons, which were spent with the | Cards, Cubs and Phils, and won 373 of them does qualify him, however. | Such candidates as Rogers Hornsby | Half a dozen times he led the Na- | | and Lou Gehrig are ineligible, Gehrig | tional Lepgue in hurling complete | because he played in all 154 of the games; five times he topped in earned | Yankees’ games and Hornsby because | runs, and in 1901 he flipped four one- | he showed the poor taste to serve as | hit games. Added to these points, he | | a pinch-hitter last season for the | pitched 90 shutouts, including 16 in Browns. 1916, and in three years—1915, ’'16 | ance was captured by the Chicago Cubs’ mound staff. The release of the official figures today merely confirmed the knowledge of ball balldom that the annual twirl- ing prize for the lowest earned run | With | average went to “King Carl.” a record of only 241 earned runs per nine-inning game, Carl won this distinction for the third time in his career, Wins 16 in a Row. boxing tricks and put him on the tank circuit, knocking over scare- crows and springboard divers in every hamlet in the land. The significant thing is that Good= time Charley collected far more cash on that tour than Carnera every saw. He knew he had a good thing. As rule, Charley confines himself to the discovery and importation of these | menaces. When he gets them over here he sells their contracts to the highest bidder, sometimes retaining a modest percentage, and goes bounding Hls honors didn't stop there. He back across the ocean to look for more, scored 28 victories against 6 de- | 2 feats and thus became the seventh | Where’s That Chinaman? pitcher in 24 years to top the loopj hiR FRIEDMAN'S dream is to find in both earned run average and won a Mongol mammoth, a Chinese and lost percentage. Hubbell wound | white hope, who will be bigger, fun- up the season with an unfinished | nier and more profitable than any streak of 16 consecutive wins. menace he has yet imported. “Old Diz,” working in 51 games for a total of 315 innings, saw more duty than any other moundsman. The amazing part of it is he posted an How'd Cy Look Today? ”OUR correspondent was not around at the turn of the century, and some of the boys who qualify for | consideration had hung up their gloves and spiked shoes by the time this department was functioning. Cy Young, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Nap Lajoie, Joe Tinker, Iron Man Mc~ G:nnity, Ed Walsh, Home Run Baker and Johnny Kling are included in this personal list of “unremembered.” There are, however, plenty of long lines of agate records and hearsay from old-timers to use as a meas- uring gauge and apologetically you start hereby firing. Young pitched for 22 years, from 1890 through 1911, and un- doubtedly will poll one of the heaviest votes on the strength of a truly remarkable record. earned-run average of 3.171, not far behind Hubbell. He pitched 28 com- plete games to lead the league and and '17—he won 94 games. And Sisler, et al. ALSO on this department’s list will | g0 George Sisler, McGinnity, Cap Anson, Walsh and Tinker. * A 464-inning stint in 1908 was one of Walsh’s recommen- dations Sisler was great either as a pitcher or a first baseman . . . Anson, together with Cobb, was one of the only two men ever to hit over .300 for more than 18 years ... and Tinker had few equals and prob- ably only Wagner to surpass UCKY WALTER, the Phillies’ con- him as a shortstop. verted third baseman, was one of But Young, Collins, Lajoie, Speaker | seven who pitched four shutouts dur- and Alexander are the five who seem | ing the season, but he also suffered most likely to crash the gates of | more setbacks than any other twirler, Cooperstown's hall. The tiny agate 21 losses. The other shutout artists type opposite their names seems to | were four Cubs, Bill Lee, Larry French, pdck too many arguments in their Lon Warneke and Tex Carleton, Cy Dean’s 24 won and 13 lost was good for a percentage of only .649, as com- pared with Hubbell's .813. Van Lingle Mungo, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ temperamental right-hander, won strikeout honors with 238 batters going down, but he also issued the most walks, 118, and threw 10 wild pitches to finish one behind “Wild Bill” Hallahan of the Cincinnati Reds. Walter Leading Loser. shade Hubbell by three games. But | | Much more respectable than Mr. | Friedman, but dealing in somewhat | the same line of goods, is Bow-tis | Jimmy Bronson,’the neat and cheerful | little man who handled Gene Tunney | in his fights with Dempsey. Jimmy |is the American agent for a good many European managers and pro- moters who do business on an inter= | national scale. He frequently skips | over to England or France to help out with a fighter who needs handling or to escort a new one back to the | United States. He transacts the American affairs | of Mr. Jefferson Davis Dickson, the boy Tex Rickard of Europe, and shares ‘,al Herr Damski's extensive internae tional stable, which now includes the most promising heavyweight of the year, the forward Finn, Gunnar Bar- lund. | R | Other Keen Managers. | A SERIES of stories of this kind is too short to contain mention of all the luminaries of the managerial | with Paul Damski in the development He won 511 of the 874 ball games he hurled and for 14 consecutive sea- | V0" ' Overiook. sons he won 20 or more games, which | | ’:;m:r:l‘r:l ::n{nr‘:e:e.rnh:eb::nmelq.ug:;: | FLOCO'CLIFTON BOUT ; | STARTS ARENA SHOW since. { One season 1904, he worked 23 con- | secutive hitless innings, something else | that hasn't been done since. He! pitched a perfect game after 1900 no | batter reaching base, and his strikeout record reveals 2,836 victims. Four Other Preliminary Fights Support Gevinson-Temes Feature Monday. Speaker Had G‘r’ul Record. “There’ll be some fast miles tm'.tgdi Three years ago—Lou Meyer THE record books do not hurt La- VIC[‘ORIOUS by knockout in 23 Blanton of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Al Smith of the Giants. | racket, the make-'em-work-for-you Other honors went to p“hb.lmhv”b\umem ‘There should be room for Red Lucas for allowing the fewest [J0¢ Gould, & blend of loyalty and hits, 178, and the fewest passes, 36; hard-driving smartness, the man who Big Jim Weaver of the Pirates with |Stuck with James J. Braddock till he only cne hit batsmen and Lucas and | Feached the top and now does all of French for throwing only one wild | Jim's thinking for him; room for Billy pitch, | Gibson, who carefully buflt up Tune LR, 4 | ney’s claim %o a shot at Dempsey and | the world title; for the late Tom T0 Pch SKEET LEADERS | 0'Rourke, who perfected the manager= R | 'promoter system, working his own Election of new officers of the Na- | fighters at his own clubs; for dumb tional Capital Skeet Club will take | Dan Morgan, amiable and garrulous, & s SR named champion auto race driver for third time. Any Louis Conqueror in Mike Jacobs’ Clutch Promoter Insists on Agreement Before Fight—Harman Is Cuba’s Sports Aide. BY SCOTTY RESTON. EW YORK, December 26 (). Mike Jacobs, the fight pro- moter, does his level worst to satisfy all men . . . Be- fore letting Joe Louis fight, he de- mands one thing—that if Louis is beaten the man who beats him must fight for Uncle Mike and no- body else . . . Until Mike devises a better way to take care of himself, this one will have to do . . . Add comebacks: Frank Carideo, a fail- ure as head coach at Missouri, is 1n solid at Mississippi State . . . he did a great job down there with the backs . . . Two pleasant gents were arguing about the Reds and Cards . , . “They're in cahoots, | those two!™ roared one . . . “Yeah, %0 are Eleanor Holm Jarrett and Avery Brundage!” wisecracked the other . . . Eddie Shore of the Bos- ton Bruins is probably the best hated guy in the National Hockey League Leo Durocher and Ducky Medwick « . . The Cuban government’s ad- visor on their big sports week was Harvey Harman, Penn's foot ball coach . . . Harman's going down there to officate in the Villanova- Auburn game . . . Odds on the Rose Bowl Game are 9-10 and take your pick. . but the tougher the crowd is, the better he goes, and, boy, can he go! Story: Texas Christian’s great passer, Sammy Baugh, came back into the huddle and a pass-play was called . . . “All right,” said the guy Scoop: The New York Yacht Club’s doorman is named Sam . and a very nice gent he is, too . his last name’s Goddard . . . H. G. Salsinger points out that if the great Dean leaves the Cards, he will no who was to get it, “Let's see you longer be something out of Ring hit me in the eye with it Slinger!" Lardner, for most of his wisecracks . . . to which the Slinger replied, are prompted by Pepper Martin, “Which eye, podner, which eye?” « . . There's no figuring it . . . Pitt 1s generally recognized as foot ball champion of the East, but doesn’t hold the Pittsburgh City title, and Minnesota is the people’s choice as national champ, but is just next best in the Big Ten .. . Detroit has another promising heavyweight coming up . . . his name is Johnny Adamic, and he has scored 23 ko's in his last 25 fights . . . Harold Vanderbilt will toss $250,000 to lee- ward before his new America’s Cup yacht is built . . . And take it from a guy who once rode the Staten Island ferry, it's the upkeep on yachts and not the initial cost that costs. jole's stock. For 21 years the great Cleveland second baseman averaged handled 988 chances. McGinnity aver- aged 25 victories a season for 11 years, mark of 35 wins as against 8 lost. He once pitched and won three double- headers in a single month. You came along in plenty of time to see such other worthy gents as Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Grover Cleveland Alex- ander and a few more whose records, dug up and studied, compare favorably with any. Speaker was the greatest of all fly- | chasers, it seems pretty generally agreed, and far from & guy who was just another hitter. He batted over .300 for 18 seasons, set a record that still stands by getting 11 in three suc- cessive games in 1920. He also holds the major league record for doubles, 793 in 11 years and for eight seasons he made more doubles than anybody in the American League. If you want to carry it into the cal- culus stage Tris made 3,515 in 22 154 hits per season and still holds a | felding record set in 1908, when he | and once, 1904, he wound up with &, of 38 professional engagements, Frankie Floco, Baltimore bantam- weight, will stack up against Jimmy Clifton, Third Corps champion, of Fort Myer, Va. in the opening four- round preliminary to the Lou Gevin- son-Joe Temes feature eight-round scrap at Turner’s Arena Monday night. Two additional four-rounders and two six-round bouts round out the card. In the four-round arguments, Doug Swetnam, local featherweight, will face Jimmy Letto of Baltimore in a return encounter and Sammy Mead~ ows of New York will swap swats with ‘Young Raspi, Baltimore welterweight. Young Palmer, clever Camden wel- terweight, will meet Clarence Sloat of Baltimore and Sammy Williams, local colored middleweight, will launch punches at Mark Hough, former in- ternational amateur welterweight champoin, who has dropped only two bouts in two years, both to Williams, in sixes. ‘TodA¥™» year ago—Arky Vaughan of Pittsburgh Pirates led National League sluggers with .607 average on long hita, | place at the annual meeting on Jan- | uary 13. The site of the meeting will | be made known at a later date. | ‘A nominating committee of Skipper | Vance, Doc Currey and Tom Randall 1““" suggest names for the offices of | president, vice president, secretary and | treasurer, in addition to a new board | of directors, | The club will be open as usual this week end, with tomorrow and Sunday having been left open for the holding of any special matches that might be arranged. Fights Last Night PITTSBURGH.—AIl Gainer, 172, New Haven, Conn. knocked out Oscar Rankin, 167, Chicago (3). . PHILADELPHIA —Young Gene Buffalo, 148, Philadelphia, out- pointed Andre Jesserun, 147';, New York (10); Victor Vallee, 12813, New York, outpointed Gene Gol- lotto, 1301, Summerdale, N. J. (8). ATLANTIC CITY, N, J.—Arizona Kid, 161, Chester, Pa., defeated Joe Smaliwood, 156, Lancaster, Pa. (10). Nation-wide campaigner; for Sammy Goldman, the shrewd and thoughtful pilot of Tony Canzoneri; for William A. Brady, and Tom Jones, and Lou Brix, and Johnny Buckley, and Char- ley Harvey, of the walrus mustachios, | & pioneer in the construction of the | fight stable. You can’t mention them all, though. You can only note, as I noted earlier, that this grand old larcenous pastime of managing fighters is becoming streamlined and modernized. The out-of-town telegraph racket is dead. The foreign menace racket is not so good any more, because the news= papers are likely to laugh a new menace out of court before he gets a hearing. Must Be Talented. MANAGERS today must be ticket experts, legal experts (or well~ advised legally, at least), financiers anad banquet hounds, standing in as well as possible with the press and th promoters. It isn't the honky-tonk} carnival racket it used to be, though