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SPORTDS. Argftro SEEN AS USURPER | Smooth, 2-Handed Punching Feather in One-Round Defeat of Cabello. BY BURTON HAWKINS. HE brief glimpse of fistic talent which Henry Armstrong un- veiled at Griffith Stadium last night in polishing off Johnny Cabello apparently is sufficient for most ringworms in this caulifiower patch to cultivate a sneaking suspicion that Petey Sarron is wearing the world featherweight crown simply because he hasn't bumped into the paralyeing Negro. Of course, Johnny's resistance leaned toward the feeble side, but even in that one round Armstrong seemed the smoothest smacker the | featherweight division has yielded in many months. He has less lost mo- | tion than an assembly line and the punch undeniably s there Those short, chopping rights, swing- | ing upward into Cabello’s midsection, | exacted a terrific toll which paved the way for those crushing rights to the | head, the medium through which | Henry deposited Johnny on the canvas | twice in the first round Cabello Sinks Rapidly. OVING forward continually, toss- ing torrid leather with both fists, but concentrating with that right to the stomach, Armstrong suddenly danced back half a step and connected with & numbing blow to Cabello’s jaw, which dropped Johnny for a count of nine hardly before the spectators had settled. Cabello arose groggily and hung on until Henry repeated the dose just as the bell sounded ending the first| round. Seconds hopped into the ring | and dragged Johnny's limp, uncons cious frame to the corner, but Arm- strong, it seems, plays for keeps. Smelling salts, cold water and the| usual silly slapping at the back of the | neck failed to restore Johnny to nor- | malcy for the second round, so Referee Pete Sawyer was forced to award & technical knockout victory to the cy- clonic Californian. Cabello still flopped about on the stool fully a min- | ute after the bout officially was termi- nated Sarron apparently will have a de- cided margin in one respect when he| collides with Armstrong at Madison | Square Garden October 29, however, for Henry appeared strong and well | conditioned last night at 1314 pounds | and may experience considerable diffi- | culty in trimming down to the 126- | pound limit without being weakened. Johnny’s Jabs Ineffective. F ARMSTRONG is a target for a | right hand, Cabello failed to prove | it. He lashed out once when stung, | but for the most part was content not | to expose his lean face to Henry's sizzling pokes. Johnny landed lightly only a half dozen times and on each occasion Armstrong made him wish he hadn't been so0 bold. By the grace of the judges, Buddy Bcott retains his undefeated status today, but most fans felt the way Referee Eddie La Fond voted was cor- rect. La Fond thought swarthy Frank Donofrio, Philadelphia light-heavy, the winner, but Judge Charley Dunn balloted for Scott and Dr. Bob Eller stayed on the fence, so it wound up & much-booed eight-round stalemate. | Wild Bill Howell, who was dubbed only too expertly, nearly stole the pre- liminary show with his antics, but fin- ished on the floor, with Spike Miller, an Oklahoma importation, providing the punch. The blow, a right to the chin, was delivered after 1 minute and 25 seconds of the third round Wild Willie, a welterweight, snug- | gled up to the canvas for a count of | nine in the first round, but retaliated | in the second by placing Miller there | for the same period, when one of his radioed rights finally connected. Spike | sadded the finishing touch only after Howell had captured the crowd with his effort to continue clouting after the bell in the second session. This was nullified by La Fond, however. Baby Beats Bobby. COURAGEOUS Bobby Dechter | elected to stand up and pitch | with Baby Manuel, Tampa feather- | weight, and was dragged out after 2 minutes and 5 seconds, while the acrap between Mike Morton, local lightweight fresh from amateur ranks, and Brooks Bowen of Richmond, had more ups and downs than an elevator. Both gushing from slits over their left eyes in the first round, Morton and Bowen flipped a continuous stream of leather when they weren’t picking themselves off the floor. Mike was dropped in the first and second | rounds, while Brooks hit the deck in the fourth. It we§ a draw and both lads seemed happy about it. Other bouts saw Johnny Jones, California featherweight, succumb to Kid Howie, local colored fighter, in 1 minute and 15 seconds of the sec- ond round and George Henry and Johnny Johnson, colored lightweights, | toil to a sluggish draw. More than 6200 spectators paid $6,876.67 to see the socking. HAS 64 AGAINST PAR 70. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, August 727—Paul Bennett, No. 1 man on the Opequon Club team here, today holds 8 néw course record of 64, set in a four-ball match played with friends. Bennett bagged six birdies and an eagle in the round to shatter his own previous course mark by two shots. Par for the layout is 70. He was playing with Judge C. Ward Nicklin, Stephen Ailes, Marshall Homer and Dr. T. A. Titus. Minor Leagues INTERNATIONAL. Montreal, 3—1: Newark, 1—8. Baltimore. 6—6: Buffalo, Jersey City. 7: Rochester. Byracuse, 3; Toronto, 1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. No games scheduled. PACIFIC COAST. No games scheduled. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Mo games scheduled. PIEDMONT. ‘Winston-8alem. 10: Richmond. 6. Norfoik. 0 g“ ¥ Mount, 5: Portsmouth, 3. harlotte, 8: Durham, ¢. COASTAL PLAINS. [ . 4: Willlamston, 3. ey Tl I : Myrtle Patton, Mrs. Betty hardt, viated excitement-inducing. ];udge‘d by their expressions, found that abbre- eadline bout at Griffith Stadium last night real THE EVENI Gracey and Virginia Lipp- of their one-sided fracas. NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, o Johnny Cabello here is shown down for the first time from the effect of a wallop by Henry Armstrong in the only round The second time he hit the canvas in that session he stayed hit. By UPE VELEZ has been tak- ing swimming lessons in Cleveland from the pro at the Canterbury Club . her husband, as you know, is Johnny Weissmuller, the human fish . . . and Johnny was irked ho end the day our informant saw Lupe absorbing instructions . . . George Sachs and Harry Gretz, former Maryland foot ball players, now are measuring kiddies in a survey for the Department of Agri- culture. Sam Rice's interest in fowl things is spreading . . . the for- mer Washington outfielder expects to enter his first pigeon race in the Fall series sponsored by the National Capital Racing Pigeon Club they'll share interest with his healthy crop of chickens Sam is endeavoring to lure Walter Johnson into the pigeon game so that they might race against each other Bing Crosby, who appears here because he owns some of the con- tract of Freddie Steele, world mid- dleweight champ, in addition to heading the Del Mar race track, and Wife Dixie will be blessed shortly . . . with twins . . . Hobo Williams, who was kayoed by Steele here last month, will re- turn from a Maine vacation this ‘week and resume training for bouts D. C, —Star Staff Photos. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1937. BPORTS. 54 Among the ringsiders were Mrs. Joe Turner, wife of the fistic impresario; Mrs. Goldie Ahearn, spouse of Joe's right-hand man and matchmaker, and little Beatrice Ahearn, who was viewing a sample of papa’s business activities for the first time. BURTON HAWKINS in Baltimore, Chicago and here. Harry Groves, one of the bet- ter managers of fighters in this sector, suggests a featherweight elimination tourney here, with Bobby Dechter, Frankie De Angelo, Billy Bullock, Ray Ingram, Doug Swetnam and others in the first round . the survivor of this would meet Baby Manuel, the win- ner to face Lou Gevinson for the privilege of colliding with Joey Archibald they would be fought as six-round preliminaries, eventually working into feature bouts . . . but Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn is against it. Johnny Jones, former all-high gridironer at Central and a can- didate for a blocking back berth at Maryland, is working on a parking lot . . . Donald Fitzwater foot ball center at Central and Lafavette, is peddling insurance in New York Gene Swift, former Central basket ball cap- tain, is recovering from a touch of blood poisoning Ray Arcel, who conditioned Steele here, writes from New York that the Joe Louis-Tommy Farr tiff ap- pears headed for a flopola at the gate . . . but he feels the monop- oly Mike Jacobs has created in Gotham will be boxing's biggest break in many moons . . . with every good fighter obtaining a real chance. BY BILL DISMER, Jr. TANDING littie higher than a vard-stick, a baby-faced kid with all the manliness of the United States Navy, by which his life is surrounded, was stealing the District tennis tournament for boys at the Army-Navy Club. He is 15-year-old Freddie McNair of Annapolis, who looks more like a ball boy than the boy champion of Mary- land he recently became by defeating Washington's two best players in his class. Yet he possesses enough power i in that embryo arm of his to rate the favorite to add the District champion- | ship to his home-State title. ! Son of Naval Officer. +REDDIE, son of a retired naval commander, has been the prep | school champion of Virginia for the past two years while at Fork Union Military Academy, where he has been | starting a preparatory career which | he hopes ultimately will land him in | the Naval Academy. But he even though he still is a few years away from entering his dream school, he already has tasted of a privilege usually reserved for midshipmen. For Freddie received his first tennis instruction from George Gaudet, thei Navy tennis coach, who 7 years ago | first started showing the youngster | how to use a racket. Since then Mc- Nair has been going to Daudet for in- struction and probably will become the academy’s only varsity tennis player to be coached more than four years by its tennis instructor. He is seeded No. 1 in the current | tournament over Tom Wadden, official | boy champion of the city, by virtue | of a straight-set defeat of Wlddgn in the finals of the Maryland State tournament last month. Wadden won The Star's City of Washington tourna- ment in a walk, but was slowed to a snail'’s pace by the crack little five- footer. At least, that's how tall Fred- die says he is, but those who've been around when he's been measured say he really only reaches to 4 feet 10. Previous to beating Wadden for the Maryland title, McNair knocked off Maurice Cowan, one of Washington’s best boy players. Picked to Defeat Titus. DAY McNair is a favortte to score over Harold (Snooks) Titus in the semi-final round and thereby gain the right to again meet either Wadden or Cowan. The latter two clash in todsy’s other semi-final. Yesterday McNair was forced to show his mettle in the second round against Jack Walsh, who led him, 5-3, in the first set. He did it—by winning the last four games and then running through the second set at 6-1, for a record of 10 winning games in 11. Previously, he iad knocked off Bill Hall in the first round, 6—0, 6—1. NINES BATTLE TONIGHT. Ballston's base ball diamond will be the acene of & game between the Clarendon. A. C. and Bolling Feld to- night, starting at 8 o'clock. b i} Freddie M’Nair, 15, and Little, ~ Stealing District Tennis Shouw| FREDDIE McNAIR. FANS 22 AT SOFT BALL. 8T. LOUIS, August 17 (#).—Don Axtell of Detroit, pitching for the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. soft ball team, fanned 22 batters and turned in & no-hit, no-run game here last night. The score was 8 to 0. Axtell formerly hurled for she Dixie Oflers, American Soft Ball Association champions in 1935. Hurls One-Hitter, Defeated, 2 to 0 By the Associated Press. HOUBTON. Tex., August 17.— Lady Luck laughed at John Grodzichi last night. The right-handed ace of the Houston, Texas League, pitching staff, hurled a one-hit game, but the Oklahoma City Indians con- verted that lone single into a 2-to-0 victory. Jim Moore, winning pitch- er, allowed six hits. In the first inning, the Indians sandwiched. two bases on balls and two infleld out to put runners on second and third. Then Stone- ham singled, scroing both runners. D. C. TYPOS SEEK SECOND TRIUNPH Tilts in Tourney. \/ Union Printers’ base ball ASHINGTON'S game with tournament today in which winners of Playing Detroit, Another of Three to Take Opening Detroit, on the North El- lipse, was one of two in the first-round encounters were to meet in second day's play. New York's lipse, was the other. Today also marked the debut of Cin- cinnati, idle through a bye yesterday, | | The quartet of Ellipse games was to be filled by the mond. | Although Boston and Pittsburgh | drew the lucky assignment to play | at Griffith Stadium, it was certain the | choice was not on the merits of yes- terday’s play, as both suffered the most humiliating defeats of the day. | i Wallop Boston, 14 to 4. | ASHINGTON's championship-as- piring aggregation walloped Bos- ton, 14-4, while Pittsburgh was buried beneath & 29-6 avalanche by Balti- more, stopped after six innings. George Mosedale led the locals both defen- sively and offensively, going the dis- tance on the mound and getting four | hits in five trips to the plate. Homan and Bedford each got three hits for Washington, while Bchneider hit a home run. The tops in hard luck went to the Chicago nine, which scored a 13-6 vic- tory over St. Louis and yet had its triumph thrown out because an in- eligible pitcher, Ed Mullins, did the flinging. Protested because he had not served the 2-year apprenticeship necessary under union rules to qualify as a journeyman printer, Mullins was removed immediately, but his short- lived performance cost his mates the victory. Other games yesterday found De- | troit nipping Indianapolis, 6-4, and | New York trimming Twin Cities, 9-6. j PLEBES APPEAR STRONG | | Hanfeldt Among Navy Gridders Starting Work Today. Special Dispaten to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, August 17.—Candi- dates for Navy's plebe foot ball team | will report to Lieut. Oscar Hagberg, head plebe coach, today. Hagberg will be assisted by Lieut. Hugh Murray and Ensign Fred Borries and Slade Cutler, former Navy players. The plebe squad appears to be well manned in big fellows. Most of these are candidates for line positions, the exception being Frank Hanfeldt, 200- pounder, who played in the backfield of the Bullis School eleven last Fall. Hanfeldt also is a basket ball player and weight tosser. Stan (Continued From Page A-12.) and this will not give Wes enough rest to bounce back on Sunday in Bos- ton and face Buck Newsom. The 8ox counting on staging the second of these box mellerdrammers between the rivals. “I'm not going to overwork Wes just to please that Boston bunch,” said Harris. “By gosh, I want him to win his games and he can't do it on two days’ rest. If Cronin wants to pitch that big blowhard (Newsom) on Sun- day let him go ahead. But Ferrell isn't going to pitch unless he’s rested.” Andrews Faces Nats Today. THE Nats pulled into Gotham last night and rejoiced at news that Ivy Paul Andrews, recently bought from Cleveland on walvers, was to face them in one of today's games. This usually is a bad sign. When bell clubs root for the opposition to pitch a hurler they are certain of beating, they very often are chagrined to take one on the nose. Joe Kuhel was one who knocked wood when he expressed his joy. “Those ‘nothin’ ball’ pitchers can get you down,” explained Joe. “The first time you face a fellow like An- drews you pop out, or something, and walk away from the plate saying to yourself: ‘Boy, I hope he lasts long enough for me to face him again. I'll knock that stuff right out of the park.” All the fellows feel the same way even after they go out tw- or three times. “And the first thing you know, lots of times, the ball game is over and you've taken a licking from the pitcher you hoped would last Jong enough for another whack at him.” | game with Baltimore, on the East El- | against St. Louis, on the West Ellipse. | Indianapolis-Chicago | | game, scheduled for the South dia- | at Newport—Mangan and Jones Are Upset. EWPORT, R. I, August 17— | N ‘The belated arrival of Don | hero, threatened today to steal | the Newport Casino’s tennis spotlight | Californian youngster, who dominated | the Eastern turf season in Budge's Riggs, winner of the last three grass classics, as well as last year's Casino | through this brilliant international field to a final match against Budge, petition since his successful Davis Cup play. terday against young Henry Daniels | of New York, but he requested a 24- | hour postponement of the second- | round match. the 11-man foreign delegation, Jacques | Brugnon and Yvon Petra, also were Expected to Be Finalists! Ev the Astoclated Press. Budge, America’s Davis Cup | from Bobby Riggs, the 19 year-old | absence abroad honors, probably will work his way | who has not engaged in singles com- Budge was due to get started yes- | Two French entries missing from expected today. Six Britons Defeated. DURINO the opening play, six of | the nine-strong British delega- tion and two of this country's first| ranking 10 players, Gregory Mangin of | Newark, N. J, and Art Hendrix of | Lakeland, Fla., were eliminated. l Only two of the remaining three | Englishmen were in action. Charles | E. Hare gained the third round by | overwhelming Casper Nannes, the Brooklyn veteran, without the loss ot a game, and . M. P. Knott Kept pace by defeating Larry Lutkins of Rye, N. Y, 6—2, 6—2 The most surprising of the six Brit- ish setbacks was the first-round 9—7, 6—2 triumph that William T.| Tilden, 3d, of Philadelphia, namesake- nephew of the famous Big Bill, regis: | tered over Clarence M. Jones, who was seeded fifth and last on the for- eign list. All of the domestic seeded players, except Budge and his Davis Cup team- mate, Bryan (Bitsy) Grant of Atlanta, have made their starts, and Mangin | was the only casualty on the eight- star list. That veteran, who has failed to display the form that won him a No. 5 national ranking last season, lost in the second round to Pumituri Nakano, the steady Japanese, 6—3, 3—6, 6—1. T | the finest J 2. TURE,, Pt ] ANBdARI( BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr, HREE anmouncements of su- preme interest to steeple- | chase fans in this sector have . drifted in during the past week. Last chronologically but first in significance for the thousands who knew the late Noel Laing by reputa- | tion or personally, is the word that the Noel Laing Steeplechase Handicap will be run on November 20 at the Montpelier, Vt., hunt race meeting. The race will carry $1.000 added, and, in addition, there will be estab- lished a perpetual cup, to be held by the owner of the winner for one year. The owner also will receive outright a replica of the trophy. The perpetual cup, honoring one of young sportsmen of this generation, will be purchased through the subscriptions of friends and ad- mirers. When it first was decided to establish the memorial event at Mont- pelier, several requests were received PRAR & Pe from individuals desirous of donating the trophy. “So many were the offers and so sincere the requests, the committee has decidec. that the trophy, as e gift from all who knew Noel, would best express the spirit of the race.” IN A foreword to the folio announc- ing the race Frank J. Bryan, secre- tary of the National Steeplechase | and Hunt Association, pays profound | tribute to the young Virginian, who had won virtually every important hunt race in America, as well as the hearts of racing crowds all over the country. “He was a sportsman in the truest sense of the word, without a single op- portunity ever to question intentions,” Mr. Bryan writes. “His integrity, his | ability and his strict adherence to all things that can be classed as attributes that go to make a man worth while, really were unique as an example of the fine qualities that in these days are so rare. “In the years that our mutual inter- ests meant personal contact, I seldom talked to him that my thoughts did not drift back to the famous words of Lord North to his grandchildren, which I am taking the liberty of quoting, thinking how well they apply. ' “Lord North wrote: ‘I want you to grow up good country gentlemen, doing your duty to your country and your neighbors, rich and poor alike and ful- tion, and versed in all those pursuits and occupations which make a country life so pleasant and happy. I want | you to grow up sportsmen—not, mind | ica | you, sporting men—for there is a vast | pumped himself into a great flight of | difference between a sportsman and a | eloquence and concluded on this im= sporting man.' " JIRST chronologically among the events forecast is the adjacent hunts meeting at the Blind Brook Tur{ and Polo Club, Rye, N. Y., on Labor day, September 6. Since many of our local gentry are either in that neighborhood for a La- bor day week end, or returning about that time from Summer vacations at other points, it may interest them to know that the Adjacent Hunts pro- gram this season includes the Ox Ridge4¥Pion Plate and the Connecticut Cup timber races, the Fairfield County Plate and the Adjacent Hunts Trophy, the latter brush tests. There also will be two flat races. Purses range .from $350 up to $800, the major prize, incidentally, being carried by the timber race, a stunt that might be duly noted by t..: man- | agers of local meets. AR closer to home, and rated as perhaps the most sttractive of all the Fall meetings where only brush and flat races are run, is the Fox- catcher Hounds program on Septem- ber 12 at William du Pont, jr.’s, beau- tiful Fair Hill course. The Foxcatcher National Cup Steeplechase, top number on this an- nual schedule, carries a purse of $3- 250 and a cup, placing it among the foremost steeplechases run in this country today. In the event 20 or more horses start, the purse will be doubled. Six thousand five hundred dollars is big money for jumpers in any man’s country. Du Pont always lists a secondary | brush race and two flat races also, and last year had no less than 50 horses starting in the four tests, much larger flelds than are seen at either the average hunt meetings or the Bel- mont, Saratoga and Pimlico races. The specially constructed course for the Foxcatcher Cup has some fences 6 feet 8 inches in height in it, yet there never has been a serious acci- dent in the several years that the feature has been run. Mark this day's racing on your calendar mow. It is a “must.” 19 of Last 27 Give Griffs .703 Mark HEN the Nats snapped their 10- game losing streak with a 7-3 victory over the White Sox at Chi- cago on July 21 they began a winning pace which saw them bsg 19 of their next 27 games for a remarkable aver- age of .703 for nearly a month’s play. Over that stretch of time they have won five out of seven series, climaxing their feat with a string of eight straight victories—which they carry into the opener of the Yankee series at New York today. The only two clubs to get an edge over Bucky Harris' boys since July 23 were St. Louis, which won two out of three in their last stand here, and Detroit, which took three out of four in the succeeding series. Wash- | ington, on the other hand, took series from the Browns in St. Louis and from Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Boston during their home stay— each of the last two dropping four games in a row to the Nats. TWO BOXERS PUNISHED Spiegal, Baxter Out S8ix Months for Cumberland Fiasco. BALTIMORE, August 17 (#)—8ix months’ suspension from boxing in Maryland began today for Tommy Spiegel of Uniontown, Pa., and Charles Baxter of Columbus, Ohio, whose bout August 9 in Cumberland the referee stopped on charges they were stalling. The State Athletic Commission, calling the fighters before it to hear the case yesterday, imposed the sus- pensions and ordered the purses for- feited. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me.—Count Otto von Zuppe, 187, Germany, defeat- ed Casey Finkelstein, 185, New York (two of three falls). CAMDEN, N. J.—Steve Casey, 325, Ireland, threw Rube Wright, 235, Texas (33:84). A \ HITS HOMER, TRIPLE IN WINNING INNING Harris, Buford, Ga., Outfielder Wrecks Asheboro. N. C., in Semi-Pro Tourney. By the Assoclated Press. WICHITA, Kans., August 17.—Right Felder Harris of Buford, Ga. got & home run and a triple in the eighth inning and led his teammates to an 11-to-7 victory over Asheboro, N. C., here early today. It was the mec- ond appearance in the national semi- pro base ball tournament for both clubs. Results of yesterday's play: Kansas City. Mo., 9; Casper, Wyo., 5. Hollywood, Calif., 10; Beirne, Ark., 4. Tacoma, Wash, 12; Waynesboro, Miss,, 5. Lisbon Falls, Me,, 6; Arkansas City, Kans., 2. Enid, Okla., 8; Lagrange, Ga. 6. In addition to the homer and triple, Harris got another three-bagger and a single. Buford went on an eighth-inning spree to score eight runs and ice the game. CHISOX SER'IES DRAWS CHICAGO, August 17 (#)—The Chicago White Sox, half a game be- hind the second-place Detroit Tigers, opened a four-game series with the Bengals today, and Sox officials pre- dicted the series would draw the larg- est week day crowds of the year to Comiskey Park. Manager Jimmy Dykes, who signed yesterday to continue as manager for the seasons of 1938 and 1939 at an undisclosed salary, said the club would be measurably strengthened for the 1938 race and that he would try and Bars Home Town For Hurt Bonura By the Associated Press. [CAGO, August 17.—Manager Jimmy Dykes knows his Zeke Bonura. When Bonura, husky Sox first baseman, pulled an abdominal mus- cle on the road last week, he asked Dykes to send him to a Chicago hospital. Instead Jimmy had him put in a Cleveland hospital for three days. “Dancing and other social activ- ities won't help Zeke recover,” dryly remarked Dykes as he sent Bonura into confinement. The first base- man will be out of action for an- other 10 days, Dykes said. GRID STARS DRILLING 685 on Squad That Is Prepping to Play Green Bay Pros. CHICAGO, August 17 (#)—8ixty- five former college grid stars went through two more long drills at Dyche Stadium today as coaches of the squad, which will meet the Green Bay Packers September 1, said they will protest the eligibility of George Sauer, star Packer fullback of 1936. Sauer has signed to coach the New Hampshire eleven this Fall and the all-star coaches contend he should not be permitted in the professional's line-up. AMBERS WHIPS SCOTT. HARTFORD, Conn., August 17 (#). —Lou Ambers, world lightweight champion, easily defeated Cowboy Howard Scott of Washington, D. C. last night in & 10-round non-title bout here. The champion weighed 134, Scott 138'2. Jack Dempsey refereed. obtain a new catcher, outfieldez and a third baseman. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. it T SR L L CHANCE FOR REVENGE. A return engagement between the Virginia White Sox and Happy Valley A. C. diamonders will be staged Wed- nesday st 5 p.m. on the Baileys Cross- roads fleld. Box won the last game, R A—13 ng Seen Sure Ring Champ : Britain Set for Farr Knockout That “Feature” Fight Didn’t Last Long, but It Evoked Plenty of Interest Assoclated Press Sports Writer ONDON, August 17.—There’s a Which is to say that, if Joe Louis | mangles him August 26, the common~ shillings looking at the pictures of the | Louis-Jim Braddock fight, and, though “Nice fellow. Tommy, courageous | and all that sort of thing. but he really “ Tom “Really Can’t Attack,” They Say—Think He Has - Talked Too Mugh. BY SCOTTY RESTON, suspicion in Britain that maybe it's just as well that the future of the empire doesn’t depend on Tommy Farr. wealth will be braced for the shock. If it isn't braced. it won't be the |fault of the British sports writers. They have spent much time and many | generally inclined to let their patriote | Ism get in the way of their judgment | in decisions of this kind, they are pick- ing Louis. can’t attack, can he?” they say. The | eritics don’t believe their boy is good enough to stay 15 rounds with Louis without getting hit too many times. Regret His Eloquence. 'HERE also is a tendency here to regret Tommy's recent eloquence. It's all very well for Farr to make a hit in America, but what Britain wants to knew is “is it dignified?” Tommy’s been quoted as saying he wants to win so he can have a family and his opinions on the old school tie have been printed. Ordinarily, one just doesn’t have public opinions an having a family or on the old school tie! One of the more constant contrib- utors to the London papers and also | one of the few who favor Farr is Ted | filling all the obligations of your sta- | Broadribb, Farr's manager. Broadribb is enthusiastic about | Farr's chances, and he's positively un- | British in Ris enthusiasm for Amer- In one of his recent epics he mortal note: Louis Not Rated Champ. “‘LONG live Long Branch Long Live Mike Jacob: of- ficially. there is a definite tendency to minimize the importance of the bout, but even the past record of Brit- | ish heavyweight conte:ders can't dis- | courage the average British boxing fan. | The British Board of Boxing Cone trol does not recognize Louis as cham= } 50 that Tommy would be just the American champion here were he | to beat Louis | There's no doubt, however. that he | would be the popular champion. Spe= | cial boats are carrying many British | fans to New York for the bout, and | even London's restaurants are carry- | ing cabled stories of Tommy's training | activities on the backs of their menus. OLD-TIME PLAYER DIES William Wright, Mate of Comis- key, Succumbs at 83. CHICAGO, August 17 (#).—William H. Wright, 83, well known base ball player in the days before 1880, is dead at his residence here. Wright, & member of the Old- Timers' Base Ball Association, once | played in Chicago with the late Charles Comiskey's team and in Bos- | ton Funeral services will be held | tomorrow, with burial at Wood- stock, Il 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR IARRY HARPER is the probable starter in today's game with the Detroit Tigers, which begins the Griffs’ final Western swing of the season. Approximately 10,000 Washing- tonians turned out to see Benny - Leonard, world lightweight eham- pion, in & boxing exhibition staged at the Monument Grounds. Maj. Leroy W. Herron and How- ard G. Nichols are among the mote prominent Washington golfers to heed the Nation's call to arms. N, J.t | GOULD KATHANODE BATTERIES Guaranteed as long as you own your car. L.S.JULLIEN.Iz. 1443 P St.N.W. 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