Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1937, Page 14

@he Foening Stap Fporis WASHINGTON, D, C, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937. Louis Faces Easy Two-Year Reign : De Shong’s Win Heartens Nats i | Pastor Only Other Boxer Anywhere Near Fit to Meet Champion. BY SPARROW McGANN, EW YORK. July 2--Joe Louis T is a world champion devoid of opponents. The idea of Max Schmeling returning to this country to fight the Detroit Bomber in September without secure foun- dation. Mike Jacobs and his name- sake, Joe, who acts as sort of mes- senger-manager for the German, gladly would consent to the match. It is a natural that easily would drav\ 2 million dollars at the age, whether | it was held in this city or Chicago. Denial of first crack at the veteran | Jim Braddock aroused Schmeling's anger. He wanted to give vent to his disappointment in a radio speech, but was shut off before he could expiain why he thought it was his right to let the public know what he thought of the action of the local boxing com- mission in simply suspending Brad- | dock. Schmeling confidently had ex- pected the commission to award him | the title by forfeit. Returning home, | | Max had his say and vowed he would | not fight Louis again. He simply would claim the title, meet the Brit- | ish Empire heavyweight champion, | Tommy Farr, and become the world | champion by right of conquest. Bchmeling had an idea Louis would stop Braddock. So certain was he that Jersey Jim would succumb to a good right-hand puncher that he did everything in his power to beat Louis to the match. He did not get it and is downright sore. i Max Has Lost Interest. SCHMELING has no heart for fur- ther fighting. He has all the money he needs and what honor would be his lot as the first cham- pion to regain his title not as much his desire as that of the or- ders he receives to achieve distinction in the boxing field. Tha! is the sum and substance of Schmeling carrying on. when, as a matter of fact, he rather would enjoy the life of a country gentleman and add to his riches in the business world With the sole exception of his last | ¥isit to this country, Schmeling always | has brought over some new article | with the idea of attracting American | capital. First it was a trick punching bag. and on another occasion a non- | breakable target to replace the usual olay affairs one shatiers to bits when | stricken by & load of shot. ouis is promised to show in Lon- | don. Some arrangement was made by Mike Jacobs to permit the new champion to fight under Sid Hulls. If Farr is to fight Schmeling, it | means Louis is out because the Ger- | man almost is certain of stopping the light-hitting Farr. Ben Foord | would not draw enough money to pay the taxes on what Jacobs would de- mand in the form of a guarantee for Louis' appearance in London. is Pastor Joe's Only Opponent. | THE only opponent for Louis is Bob | Pastor. Those who saw their last farce would not pay two cents to see a repetition of their mad marathon. High-class track events can be wit- nessed for one, two and three dollar | tops and no one willingly would pay | as high as $25 to see Pastor outfoot Louis, even though the race would be scheduled as a heavyweight cham- | pionship boxing exhibition, Mike Jaccbs is certain to show Louis tn this city, if only to appease the wrath of the business and hotel people who lost out on the big gate at Chi- eago recently. How they can ex- | pect Mike to do the impossible is something else. A glance over the list of available heavies leaves a blank | after each name is scratched out Puffing up Pastor, even as Braddock | was, 1s a task few press agents v\ould dare to attempt. Sports writers leaned backward try- ing to give Braddock a chance against Louis. They were chary of Joe's abil- ity to take a punch and went out on 8 limb. When Jim scored the short- lived knockdown in the first round they roared in unison. To them, it means vindication of their belief that Louis would revert to the Schmeling fight and become as confused as a | child playing with building blocks in | tumbled array. When Louis came back to swap punches with Braddock | eand take over command of the situa- tion they began to doubt seriously | that Schmeling could repeat his 1936 | performance. With Schmeling out of contention, | Joe Louis has an easy road ahead. Good heavyweights are scarce. Those now in circulation will need at least s full year to bring them to a point where they would be accepted as little more than a breezy workout for the eharpshooting Detroiter. Louis has his faults, but they are not so sreat | in comparison with those of prospec- tive rivals. With this in mind, we can expect Joe Louis to reign com- placently for two or three more years. ‘That's how bad the heavyweight situa- tion really is. MILLERS OUST HENS Association Lead Gained in 12- Round Tilt by Minneapolis. ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, July 2 (#).—The Minneapolis Millers took over first place in the American Association race last night by winning a wild 12-inning game from Toledo. 9 to 8. Donnie Bush used a battery of five hurlers in checking the Hens, who tied the score in the ninth inning at %7-all, in the lengthly battle, played before a ladies’ night crowd of 6,037 fans, URCIOLO SEEK FOES. ‘The Urciola Romans are anxious to book base ball games with strong insect and midget nines &ny day except Sat- urday. Call Metropolitan 4941 from 9 am. to 5 pm. GIRL NAMED SHERIFF. 108 ANGELES (#)—Lillian Cope- land, former Olympic discus tosser, is s deputy sherif in Los Angeles County. - \ | of some property and to buy some. Foreign Drivers Overshadow Americans in Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race Rudolph Caracciola, one of speed test to be held at Roosevelt Raceway, enjoys a bit to m{ uz!h the missus after a session on the track. the favorites zn the motor Here's Caracciola again at the whee of which he yesterday set the fastest pace of all pilots in establishing their eli mbxhlv for the con{m[ JACK DOVLE HORNS CUBS, GIANISI]RIVEI INTO TITLE SCENE Everything Set for Him Io Meet Louis in London, Trills “Thrush.” B the Associated Pross. OS ANGELES. July 2-—Jack! Dovle, who doesn't like to be called the Irish Thrush any more, reached for a high note today when he announced in dulcet | tone: ' “I'm going to fight Joe Louis in| London the ast week of August or the | first in September. You can et on it.” Doyle climbed out of a transconti- | nental plane early this morning, posed for a cameraman with a straight- stemmed pipe in his hand and a ro- mantic gaze in his eyes and said he knew of no confusion in the world's heavyweight boxing scene. | Says Jacobs Will Promote It. | lTfi ALL SET, I tell you. I shall fight Joe Lewis.” Prodded for details, he said Mike Jacobs would promote affair. “It will be staged just before the Max Schmeling-Tommy Farr bout. | Say, will it cut in on that one! He | laughed easily, took another puff and continued: “Louis will get 431, per cent of the | gate. T'l! get 32. And take it from me, we will draw $1.500,000. Yes, | $1.500,000." | A year ago Doyle couldn't get a| fight in Los Angeles. The promoters | said he wouldn't draw a draft of air and, besides, he might get hurt Airport Holds Baggage. “HEN Doyle went to England and thrashed King Levinsky of Chi- cago—who, incidentally, couldn't get another fight here, either. The Levin- | sky triumph apparently “made” Doyle an attraction there. | Doyle said he came here to dispose His most immediate acquisition will be his own bageage, which was held at the | | airpori—canary-colored coats and an‘ —for excess baggage charges of around | $15. Dovle lefu it there, explaining | that all his pocket money was in Eng- | lish currency. ENGEL RAISING COIN tarts Campmxn for Purchase of Chattanooga Ball Club. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 2 (®). —Joe Engel, scout for the Washington | Senators and former president of the Chattanooga Lookouts, has announced he is starting a campaign to purchase the ball club here. “We can buy the club for about $150,000.” he said, addmg ‘and that is dirt cheap.” The Chattanooga Times said Engel and some prominent business man would own a bare controling interest and the rest would be sold to the local fans for sums ranging from | $1 up. | Engel said he had $50,000 himself | and thought he could get the money to swing the deal. Stars Yesterday BY the Associated Press. Rick Perrell. Senators—His _single drove in winming run for 3-2 triumph over Red Sox Jimmy Dykes. White Sox—Hit double and three singles, driving in three runs, in 15-8 win over Tigers Ripper Collins. Cubs—Hit homer with two on and drove in one other run in 6-3 win over Cardinals, Wally Berger. Giants—His ninth- inning pinch "homer with two aboard whipped Philies. &-6. ny Lanning ' Bees — Muffled Dodgers with three hits for 41 Win. Maogio. Yankees—Hit homer d single. driving In three runs, in 12-7 victory over Athletics. | an injury to his right shoulder that ATGARDS EXPENSE Pair Put on Sp:rlted Race | as St. Louis Skids—Yanks I I Rout Athletics. BY SID FEDER. Associated Press Sports Writer. HE Gas House Gangsters still | are rough, tough and nasty, but they're learning fast and | from experts that they'll need lots more than ability to dish it out in order to string along in the cur- rent National League dog fight. It was all very well for the Cardinals while they were monopolizing the chip-on-shoulder, knock-down-drag- out business, but since the Giants andI Cubs both nave picked up sizable | portions of the same stuff, the St.| Louis crew isn't looking so hot In fact, in their last two against the Giants and Cubs, haven't even been luke warm. As a result. today they're creaking along | in a third-place tie with the Pittsburgh | Pirates, while the Cubs and Giants are | racing 3'. and 3 games, respectively, in front of them. The Giants date their sudden slug- | ging tactics from the now historic “Battle of St. Louis.” The Cubs be- | gan their transition from the * Brnlh-: erly Love” idea when Manager “Jolly Cholly” Grimm laid down the law and made any Cub kidding around a | first degree offense Inr this season. series, they | Cards’ Hurlers Fold, TANGLING with these two troupes in their last six starts, the Cards have dropped five in & roW—two to the Giants and three straight to the Cubs. And losing those two series meant as much to them as their pay checks, | particularly at this time when the Jjockeying for Fourth of July positions | is going on full blast, Their “big three” pitching troop of | | Brookiyn &t Phila. | Dean, Bob Weiland and Lon Warneke folded up like a collapsible canoe in that six-game stretch. Although they've kept on hitting, their defenses have been as full cf holes as a bag of doughnuts. Yesterday Frankie Frisch sent Jlmv Winford to the wars, and the Cubs | pinned his ears back. 6-3, after Frisch | and Shortstop Lippy Leo Durocher were banned for rowing with the umpire. Ripper Collins’ homer with two aboard was the pay-off wallop. | The Cubs had to win to stay out | in front, for the Giants, as anxious s a mother hen in their drive to hit the top by the July 4 deadline, knocked over the Phillies, 8-6, on Wally Ber- ger's homer in the clutch, with two on base and two away in the ninth, to| remain a half game off the pace. | Yanks Wm. But Lose Selkirk. LTHOUGH they won a 12-7 bur- lesque from the Athletics, the | ‘Yankees were a sorry set. Twinkletoes | Selkirk, their slugging outfielder, fell in making a circus catch and suffered will keep him on the shelf several days. Brooklyn's Dodgers finally ended their scoreless streak at 36 consecu- tive innings, but one run was the total of their production, and the Boston Bees turned in a 4-1 victory behind Johnny Lanning’s three-hit fiinging for their sixth win in a row. The White Sox climbed all over Detroit pitching and came through with a 15-8 victory. The Nationals made it two in a row over the Boston Red Sox with a 3-2 decisicn. | The Pirates and Reds were not | scheduled. Wet grounds kept the | Browns and Indians out of action. STERN SHORE. Centreville. ST Easton. ‘K: Federalsburs.’ IN Y League Stalistics Bl 5 A“FR[CAV RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 3: Boston, = New York. 19 Philadeiphia, 7. Chicago 15: Detroit. X St Louis at Cleveland. rain, ING OF THE CLUBS. gl Bl 2l 2 -a30qua019d GAMES TODAY at Wash GAMES TOMORROW. 15.N. Y. at Wash . 300, Phila. at Bost. Fhia. at" Bosion \ATI()\AL RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York. a: Philadelphia. 6. Boston. 4: Brookivn. & Chicazo. #: St. Louts, 3. Only gemes scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLURS. yamasig ugxo0g Chi GAMES TODAY., Boston at N. Y Pitts. &t Chicago St. L. at Cincinnati MACON KEEN ON MOUND’ Columbus Pitcher Already HRSI Tied His ‘36 Win Total. | CHICAGO, July 2 (#).—Max Macon | of Columbus, one of the big reasons why the Red Birds are making their American Association rivals sit up and | take notice, had as many pitching | | victories to his credit for the current | season today as he had during all of the 1936 campaign. | Macon won his twelfth game last | night, and it was not only his best | :x‘ | performance of the vear, but one of | the most masterful jobs of association hurling in several seasons. He held the St. Paul Saints to one hit, en- | abling the Red Birds to win, 2 to 1, and sweep the four-game series, MAKES HOME TOWN CLUB | Koster, After Varied Service, at Last Joins Louisville. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. July z ).— Freddie Koster has achieved a long- time ambition—to be a member of his | home town ball club, the Louisville Colonels. Koster is an outfielder and has seen service witn the Philadelphia Na- tionals, Syracuse, Akron, Little Rock and St. Paul clubs. SCORES GRAND SLAM White of Colorado Makes All-Star Teams in Three Sports. BOULDER, Colo. (#).—Byron White, Colorado University's best athlete and a star scholar, finished the year with & clean sweep of all-star honors. White, a hard-hitting third base- man, was named to the utility post on the all-Rocky Mountain team. He was all-conference quarterback in foot ball last Fall and an all-con- ference basket ball guard. | Vanderbilt | incredible ease. | the Americans. | winner of the Indianapolis Memorial his Mercedes racer. in —Copyright A P Wnepholos FOREIN AUTOST BIG RACE THREATS : Nuvolari, 36 Winner; Ger- man Drivers Outstanding in Vanderbilt Cup Field. ET the Associated Press. ESTBURY, N. Y., July 2— | Thirty racing drivers, at- tracted from several coun- tries by a $70.000 purse, will seek to gain tomorrow the George Cup which Tazio Nuvo- lari, the Italian, won last year with The final qualifiers for the 300- | mile race on the improved Roosevelt raceway will not be known until late today. The 30 starters will be chosen on the fastest times made in the | qualifying tests Seeking to repeat last vears per- formance, Nouvolari, the “mad man of Modena.” is back again, defiant of the glittering regords of Bern Rose- | meyer and his German companions. Foreigners Star in Trials. 'I‘HE performances of the foreigners in the trials have overshadowed Wilbur Shaw, 1937 day race, and Rex Mays, Californian, stood out among the homebreds. Other Americans entered are Billy | Winn, Ted Horn, Babe Stapp, Kelly | Petillo and Joe Thorne, all crack drivers on the corn belt circuit. A $60,000 purse will be split amnmz[ | the first 10 finishers and an additional $10,000 will be divided among the lead- ing Americans, | The foreign entries have taken the | headlines almost to the exclusion of | the American drivers during the prac- | tice spins Rosemever, leader of Ger- many’s Auto Union team. and his fel- | low countryman, Rudolf Caracciola, have smashed record after record, Caracciola Tops Qualifiers. RDSEMEYER hit 161411 miles an hour on the straightaw: and Caracciola, who drives for Mercedes, | topped the qualifiers with 85.850 miles per hour for a 30-mile trial Dick Seaman of England, Err\(tI Delius, teammete of Rosemeyer, and | Nuvolari's teammate, Giusseppe Fa- | rina, also are entered. Eugen Bjorn- stad, a Grand Prix winner, represents Norway, | Wilbur Shaw will drive the Maserati that Enzo Fiermonte, ex-fighter and husband of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick, had entered. Fiermonte had & | slight crack-up at the Raceway yester= | day. He withdrew and Shaw is get- ting the Maserati in shape. Shaw probably has the best chance of any of | the home-grown entries. _Major Leaders BY the Associated Press. American Leagu A Batting—Genric Cebkees, 3763 Walker. Tiger: Runs—Greenberk, Tigers, 58; Rolfe, Yankees, 54 _Rune batted in—Greenbers, Tigers, Bonura. White Sox. 4. #3; Bell, ' Hits—Wwalker, Browns Doubles—Gehrig. Yankees: d Bonura. White Sox. 2 Averill. Tadians, and . Senators. Home rins—Selkirk, Greenberg. Tigers. 17 Solon Cbases s Chagman, Appling, White Sox, Hierst Yankees, and Red Sox, 15 and Walker, National Leagu Batting—Nedwick, - Cardimals, 4053 P R Garan. - Gubt, Medwick, Medwick, Cardinals, : Cm:mm\ls. P ardinals, 28; J. 10 58; 26 Pirates, ‘Home E;nwl—c);} Giants, ; Med- wick. Cardinals, 16, Stoten. bas alan, Cubs, 12; J. Martin, Cardinals. 9. Pitchine—Bryant. Cubs. f-1: Fette, Bees. and Warneke. Cardinals, §-3. Fans Resent' Being Barred as All-Star Pickers Squawks Indicate Base Ball Booted Another One—Rees “It” Guy of British Golf. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK. July 2 (P)— When and if Mike Jacobs puts on that fight card fea- turing four world cham- pions, some smart guy ought to rent a lot across the street from the Yankee Stadium and put on & show to take care of the overflow . . . Those Dodgers have managed to count once in the last 36 innings . Nice going, boys. Looks as if Herr Max Schmeling has done a swell job of sulking him- self out of a shot at the heavy- weight title . . . Dick Bartell hit his last two homers on the last day of May and the last day of June. You've heard those squawks about this player and that being left off the all-star teams . . . Now you 4 know why the poor guys who man- age those outfits think theirs is a hopeless job Commissioner Landis and Presidents Frick and Harridge would do well to put the naming of the players back in the hands of the fans—where it start- ed and where it belongs . . . Terry ignored Heinie Manush of the Dodgers and the American League managers forgot about Johnny Stone of Washingtos, among others . The fans would have had both of ’em in there . . . The game is slipping in popularity and there’s a durned good reason. Here’s & real “it” guy for you... American correspondents who cov- ered the Ryder Cup matches say Dave Rees, the smiling Britisher, has more of same than Clara Bow in her palmiest days . .. Which is plenty of “it,” if you ask us . .. Old Walter Hagen is taking a few bows for the fine job of field gen- eraling he did for the Americans . It must be a strange looking Haig without all those extra chins . Congrats to Harold Parrott, sports writer on the Brooklyn Eagle, who is a proud popper . . . Both father and child are doing all right. Bottom of the barrel: During his six years in the majors, Van Mungo has won only one game in Boston . . . Mebbe its the beans ... Good news: Hank Leiber of the Giants, bedned by Bob Feller last Spring, may be back in uniform by July 4 . ., The high speed hit by the cermlancen bas fans at the Roosevelt raceway pop-eyed . . . Wilbur Shaw, winner of the In- dianapolis classic and No. 1 man of American racing, says U. 8. cars haven't a chance in tomor- row'’s classic . . . Benny Leonard, the old lightweight champ, opens his new spot at Broadway and Seventy-second July 17 . . . Tony Canzoneri, by the way, has pulled out of the Broadway spot in which he was a partner. BASE BALIL Washington vs. New York AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK TODAY 3:15P.M. | T kAN S e o] This trio o/ muuters left to right, Ernest Delius and Bernd Rosemeyer of Germam/ and Dr. Guiseppe Farina of Italy, are rated among Europe’s best | anything better | pleading for help, Eemersow—dow York—35:00 P.M. Griffs’ Records H o b Hr Rbl Pt R. Ferrell Simmons Millies Cohen Ml D000 rm:m\«, G. H. Bb. S0 Prh | Jacobs HITLESS, NOT WONDERS | Jersey City, in Cellar, Pleads for Help From Giants. Hitless, but not wonders. That's Travis Jackson's Jersey City Giants. The Giants languish deep in the cellar of the International League and there's no immediate prospect of unless the team's batting average shows an enormous increase. While “Stoney” haunts the offices of the parent New York Giants the Jersey Club | totters along with a collective batting | average of .230. BETHESDAS BOOKING. The Bethesda Juniors have a dia- mond and are seeking a double-header for Monday. Call Wiseonsin 2455, CLARENDON BOYS READY Clarendon Boys' Club diamonders want action Sunday and Monday n-h crack insect clubs. Call Walnut 8509, fEAST FARES POORLY IN COLLEGE TENNIS Stephens of Yale Is Section's Only Representative Among Quar- ter-Finalists. P the Ascociated Press. [DONGAN HILLS. N. Y. July Pity the poor Easterners! Howard V. Stephens of Yale still is in the running for the Eastern inter- collegiate tennis championship, which | moves into the quarter-final round today. The other seven play from evegywhere but the East Stephens has no soft touch He meets Julius Heldman, one of two U. C. L. A. players in the quarter finals. Heldman trounced Dick Ben- nion of Utah yesterday, 6—0, 8—6 while Stephens was having a tough time trimming William S. Seward of Stanford, 9—7, 9—7. Heldman is the ‘naunnal junior champion, | Gardnar Mulloy of Miami, the de- fending champion, meets his toughest | test of the tournament in Don Mc 1 of Kenyon. McNeill eliminated Dou- #las Imhoff of California in a hectic { match yesterday, 10—8, 6—3. while Mulloy coasted to a 6—1, 4—6, 6—1 victory over Bill Winslow of Prince- ton. Gerin Cameron of Tulsa. seeded No 1, piays George Hall. Northwestern. Hall eliminated August Ganzenmuller, Columbia. yesterday, while Cameron | downed the talented Alfred Jarvis cf Williams. Lewis Wetherell of U. S. C. the national public parks titlist, meets U, | ©. L. A’s other quarter finalist, Owen | Anderson. Anderson ousted George Dunn of Pennsylvania vesterday iDanmnulh. | SOUTH ATLANTIC. 10: Macon. 3 . 10° Jacksonville. 4. \nn ATLANTIC, Johnstown I AGAIN SPEEDY T INBEATING BOSOX Gives Promise. of Helping Weaver, Ferrell Carry Pitching Burden. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ANCY visions of finally getting his pitching staff squared away danced in the head of Bucky Harris today as the Yankees | stormed into town to close Washing- ton's home stand with a three-game series. For too long has commanded what amounted to little more than a two-man staff— Wes Ferrell and Monte Weaver. To illustrate, until Jimmy De Shong whipped the Red Sox yesterday, Fer- rell and Weaver had been credited with seven of the Nats’ last nine victories, \\'r\ w a time now Bucky 1 fo Monte grabbed cts over this stretch. De '%hm" won a game and so did Carl That comes pretty close to ‘a two-man staff, doesn't it? De Shong’s return to his 1936 form vesterday gave Harris a hunch that mavbe the slim right-hander is ready now to fall Bucky has ired on waivers. was to get To him of fac acq the task Whips Red Sox, 3 to 2 DE SHONG was fast yes a 3-10-2 victory over the 5 was regarded as a ign. When he rang 1gton last year, fly on a good y hasn't he hasn’t been able 1936 record a pace ever since E But today he held his seven a L as many setbacks. See STAN, Page A-15) I | Looking Up ON. H Sraam 001 00x HAIIN- AIR-COOLED MEN'S SHOPS—14th & G o 7th & K e 3212 14th we De(SIal'e these values to be self-evident—for the man whose pursuit of happiness calls for shoes with maximum style and wearability at minimum cost 4.45 HAHN SPECIALS 3 -dJ TRI-WEARS