Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1942, Page 24

First-Round Kayo of Baer Proves Louis as Great a Fighter as Ring Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN Star Scaft Correspondent. The 1942 Bomber: Bigger and Better NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—The fight pruved one thing, It proved that the heavyweight division—or, for that matter, all of boxing— is divided into two classes. In one class is Joe Louis Barrow and in the other class is everybody else who fights in the prize ring. Even the graybeards in the press rows could think of only one heavy- weight battle in history that paralleled last night's 2-minute-and-56- second brawl in Madison Square Garden, when Louis put his world cham- plonship on the block for the Navy Relief Society and knocked out Buddy Baer. That parallel happened on June 22, 1938, when a vicious Louis with hatred in his heart almost killed Max Schmeling, the Nazi, in 2 minutes and 4 seconds. Last night it was the same story, Baer, 6 feet 615 inches tall and weighing 250 pounds, was belted to the floor three times by Louis in an exhibition which, if anything, was even greater in a primitive, cruel, cold- blooded way than the 1938 performance, which the experts and ring historians said was unprecedentel for sheer savagery and never would be matched. A distant observer listening to the radio or reading the early news- paper dispatches might well be tempted to bring into play the barber Jjest and charge much of it off to Baer's inexpertness. That would be a mistake, It-wouldn't have made any difference last night who Louls was fighting. Buddy Leaped With Bell, Meant Well If it had been Billy Conn, for instance, Louis might have killed him. There were times when the Brown Bomber hit Baer so hard that his head whirled as if it were on a swivel equipped with ball bearings, Only a physical giant like Baer could have taken that terrific punishment and walk from the ring unassisted. It is hard to visualize Lou Nova or any other challenger lasting any longer than Baer lasted. Buddy meant well. When the bell rang he leaped across the ring and rushed Joe. It was evident that he intended to carry the fight to the Negro, whospwas giving his entire share of the purse, 40 per cent, to the Navy Relief Society. And when 250 pounds of ‘well-conditioned fighter is rushing you it is, to say the least, an awesome sight. But almost as soon as they clashed in bodily contact it was apparent that it was only a question of minutes. Louis threw a right thai didn't travel more than eight inches and Baer went down as if he had been pole- axed. He got up at the count of nine, but Louis, stalking him relentieasly, hammered away again, Anti-Tank Caliber at Machine-Gun Speed Get this picture if vou can—Louis was throwing fists that carried the authority of big anti-tank cannon but he was throwing them with the speed of a new and fast machine gun. Baer went down again, this time striking his head so hard on the floor that it seemed as if the ring would give away. He got up a second time and ran into another storm of blows. For the third time he went down, again striking his head hard on the floor. There were a few seconds when the referee, Frank Fullam, | looked as if he had witnessed a murder. the knockdown timekeeper's count to herd Louis to a neutral corner. | And as Baer writhed on the canvas and tried to get up, Louis deliberately | looked at the clock. a deep frown on his face. Obviously he had intended to end this fight in the first round and there was just a bare chance | that Baer again would rise and carry the affair part of another round. Almost as soon as Fullam counted 10 over Baer reporters were | shooting questions at Louis and at Trainer Jack Blackburn and at one of his managers, Julian Black. It was inevitable that this fight would | be compared with the second Schmeling fight. Louis, who hated Schmeling but who likes both Max and Buddy Baer, was noncommital. The Bomber rarely has anything to say before ! or after a fight. But Blackburn and Black agreed that he was better than he had ever been. “He trained for a short fight,” said Black. “When he fought Baer in Washington he wasn't himself. Anybody can | see that now.” In Washington He Was Tired and Drawn Training for Baer in Washington, Louis was tired and drawn. Tt was late in May. the weather was hot and shufflin’ Joe, working out in an indoor arena with a tin roof and with anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 spec- tators jamming the place, was underweight and weary after having defended his crown four times in as many months. This time, weighing more than he had scaled in five years and razor sharp after a layoff since September, he was terrific. This wasn't the Louis that almost was beaten by Baer and Conn. This wasn't the shuffier who required 13 rounds to stop Abe Simon and who allowed Tony Musto to go nine rounds and Al McCoy to stick around until the sixth. This was the Louis who fought Schmeling in 1938, when with hate in his heart he hospitalized the German who was so patronizing and slurring. . We saw the Schmeling fight and, not that it means anything, we are in a characteristically bewildered state of mind. It is true that Schmeling lasted only 2:04. It is true that Schmeling once had beaten Louis. marking his only professional defeat, and it also is true that tne German, both feeling and sensing the overwhelming superiority of the Negro, ran as if pursved by the plague. Had it not been for the ropes he might have run out of the arena to the Atlantic and tried swimming home. All of which made it more difficult for Louis to catch him. Now Baer Knows of the Real Louis Baer lasted 52 seconds longer and he didn't run. making it easier for Louis to get shots at him, but we'd have to rate that performance last night over the 1938 massacre. Baer lasted a total of 176 seconds and 28 were spent on the floor. But Buddy was dead game. far more courageous than the panicky Schmeling. Moreover, he was a bigger man than the German. Baer broke down and wept in the ring after getting up a split-second too late the third time, but in his dressing room he had resigned himseif | to fate. “Louis.” he said, “hit just about twice as hard as he hit in Wash- | ington. My brother, Max, is rated a great hitter but he never hit as hard as Louis tonight.” WASH INGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, In fact, he took six seconds by | ¢ HERE'S FOW IT WAS DONE—These magic-eye camera pictures tell the story of Challexger Buddy Baer’'s second trip to the canvas in Round One of his heavyweicht title fight with Joe Louis at New York last night. Top left: Louis has just lunded a right smash to the jaw of Baer (back to camera). Top, center JANUARY 10, 1942. and right: Baer crumples under the blow. Lower: Baer lands on the canvas as Louis stands over him and Referee Frankie Fullam rushes up. The first knockdown was similar, and so was the third and final, except that on the latter occasion Baer was unable to rise before the count of 10.—A. P. Wirephoto. | B—5 Ever Saw Heavier, Faster, Champion Also Hits Harder - Joe Next Mgy Box in Army Benefit Before Donning a Uniform By GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Sports Writer, NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Any ten- dency to start recalling nostalgi- cally the young Joe Louis who “killed” his man with a punch can be spiked right now, for the mature Joe Louis who knocked out Buddv Baer in the first round at Madison Square Garden last night is sas great a fighter as the world has seen, At 206% pounds—much the heaviest he has ever weighed—the | negro champion looked as fast.as | ever in his career, and it is doubt- | ful he ever threw a harder punch than any one of three that dropped the 250-pound Baer to the canvas as though he had been shot. Baer, shaking his battered head cheerfully. said, *I know now what they meant when they said the man who beats Joe will have Father Time in his corner. Mavbe my next | child will be a son and I can raise | him up for the job.” Jolts With Each Punch. Pighting with his entire share of the receipts going to the Naval | Relief Society, the champion gave one of his most savage displays in the 20th defense of his title. | From tue time the lights dimmed and the bell clanged until two min- | utes, 56,seconds later, when Buddy's | shattered hulk was towed back to | his _eorner, Louis tried to tear his | man apart with every punch. | Baer had gameness, little more, to pit against the destroyer that bored into him. Twice, after viciqus, chopping rights had slammed him to the canvas, he managed to reach his ample feet at the count of nine, but the third time he still was floundering painfully when Referee Frank Fullam swept his arm down to_signify the end. The huge, distinguished crowd that paid a top price of $30 to wit- ness what might be Louis’ last fight before he is fitted for a uniform, didn't see the champion very long, but none of the 20,000 will forget it. | So mercifully sharp were the - blows that collapsed the younger of Is Main Golden Win by Bantam Helps St. Mary’s Team Nab ‘ Celinski’s Triumph Over Petro | Gloves Upset Laurzls; Vernon Noses Out Latsios A squad of 16 smiling youngsters, smiling through purple-| tinted mous's in some cases, stood at the head of the city’s little | colony of mtten manipulators today after battling their way to coveted championships in last ni Uline Arena ght's final round of slugging at And proyably entitled to a broader smile than all the rest is Pete Celinsk, St. Mary’s of Alexandria ace, who beat tough little Danny Petro for several years un-<— disputed king of the 118-pounders,, in the eveni:g's biggest upset. A cool, quick-wtted and game ring- | master, Celirski richly earned the crown after hree furious sessions of slugging 11 which Petro vainly tried to pat . m to sleep with heavy siege guns tiat had riddled and | dropped fighers supposed to be better than Celinski. Celinski caried off one of two in- | dividual tit's that enabled St.| jMnry's to carture the team laurels g | in the senior iivision. Novice squad ! honors went to Eastern Branch! Boys Club, naking its first tourna- ment appearunce in several years and its first uader Coach Lou Gevin- son's guidanc:. The title raand followed the well- defined form pattern outlined in preliminary -ounds although Nick Latsios’ defe:s by Reds Vernon was too close for comfort—especially the comfort :f his Alexandria sup- | porters, and Eddie Lloyd, another Buddy looked as if he were going to weep again, but Wendell Willkie | St. Mary’s sar, was the victim of and half a dozen naval officers broke into his room and thanked him for | what seemed to be a huge mistake his showing. That seemed to make him feel better. “The only way I'd have had an even chance tonight,” he said, grin- | ning. “was to go into the ring with a ball bat. Now, at least, I know what | the real Joe Louis is like.” . | Three Terps Make Ring Debuts Against Gamecocks Tonight 2 Maryland’s 1942 mitten team tees off tonight at College Park in a match with South Carolina that, paradoxically, will mark the beginning and close of the Gamecocks’ ring campaign. The bouts will follow a basket ball game between Maryland Frosh and Western High School slated to open the twin bill at 8 o'clock. |in his 126-prund joust with Essex Madron. Th: fans voiced their dis- approval in 10 uncertain terms. SENIOR DIVISION. 117-pound—Dick Mullen (National Training Schoc) outpointed Henry Rags- dale (Apollo A C.). 118-pound—"ete 'Celinski (St ry's Boys Club) outininted Danny Petro (ABollo 19 (Merrick Mary's) pound—.ew Hanbury utpointel Myril Coffey (St 135-pound—harlev Potro (Apollo Ath- letic Club) won By technical knockout over oto (Knights of Columbus), 2 minutes and 4. seconds. second round 7-vound—2ed Vernon (Knights of Co- Latsios (St Tony Di T¢ 14 lumbus) _outpunted Nick Mary's Boys Cib) 160-pound— "harley Maimone (Knights ' 9f Columbus) outpointed Lewis Pavone (8t. Mary’s Clu 175-pound——Reno Workman (St Mary's Bovs Club) won technical knock- out over Max Walter (S8t. Mary's Boys Sabin, Sequra Clash For Place in Dixie Net Title Tilt Mulloy, Kramer Opposed In Other Semi Battle of Torrid Tourney By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 10.—Two slam- bang tennis matches were in pros- | pect today as play in the 18th an- | nual Dixie tennis tournament moved into the semifinal round. Wayne Sabin, hard hitting stylist and top-seeded in this tournament, Victor Over Ter Maryland Gives Blue Deacons’ Early Lead Special Dispatch to The Star. WAKE FOREST, N. C,, Jan. 10—/ Frustrated last night in its attempt to wring a second basket ball victory | out of Wake Forest in = 39-35 game, | George Washington's dribblers moved on Durham today to try she mettle of Duke's defending champions in the feature attraction on a lengthy Southern Conference court card. | Duke, victor over Maryland in a Club). in 1 minute 33 seconds of third Was pitted against _Francisco Segura, tune-up for tonight's tussle, is ready Ecuadorean ace, in one semifinal. and waiting for the Colonials, who half when the visitors came from Tound. Heavyweight—Frank Cady (Red Shield A.C) outpointed Bill Barber (Apollo A.C.). Novice Division. 112 pounds—Daryl Smithson (Apolio A. C) outpointed Manny Silverman (Wash- ington Boys' Club) 11% pounds—Eugene Miller (National Training School) won technical knockout over John Corbin (Washington Boys' Club), second round. 126 pounds—Essex Madron (Washington Club) outpointed Eddie Lioyd (St. Mary's). 135 poundeTomms Larner (Washing- Bovs' Club) outpointed Vernon Todd (Mer- rick_Club) 180 pounds—Herschel Todd (Merrick | Boys' Club) outpointed Art Moriarity (St. | Mary's Club). 175 pounds—Jimmv Hughes (National Tramning School) outpointed Tom Brody (Police Boys' Club) Heavyweight—Clifton Malone (National Training School) ‘won on forfeit over Ed Steinbaurer (Apollo A. C.). 21 in ZMile Hun—tficap Over Battle Trail By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10.—Twen- ty-one runners lined up here today for the 36th annual Jackson Day race over the 6-mile course followed in 1815 by a band of brave Creoles rushing to the aid of Gen. Andrew Jackson in his fight against the British. Louis Delassus, Southern Cross country champion, will start from scratch, while others have been giv- en handicaps. The race annually commemorates the historic event. Sabin is from Portland, Oreg | In the other bracket, Gardnar | Mulloy, Miami star, and Jack | Kramer of Oakland, Calif., tangle. Sabin entered the semifinal with a straight 6—2, 6—3 victory over Steve Colson of Tampa yesterday. Segura | advanced with the loss of one set to | the former Irish champion and | Davis Cup star, George Lyttelton- | Rogers, 2—6, 6—0, 6—3. Mulloy beat, George Parks of Miami. 6—2, 6—2, and Kramer defeated Jerry Crow- ther of Miami, 6—1, 6—1. In the women's division, Pauling Betz of Rollins College, seeking her third straight title, met Mrs. Alice McDonald of Chicago in one semi- final and Doris Hart of Miami and Alice Anderson of Tampa faced a are heralded as the team to beat for the 1942 crown despite their new- ness in the circuit. In atoning for a severe 52-27 lac- ! ing suffered at Washington earlier in the season, Wake Forest helped itself to an early 9-2 advantage and was out in front by a 20-15 count| 'G. W., Nipped by Wake Forest | Duke particularly, had a new and the Baers that he bore slight evi- | dence of his ordeal. "There was only a lump, about the size of a bantam egg. on his left cheek bone as he wise-cracked about his experi« ence. Hit “Faster and Harder.” “All T can't understand is why he didn't put on some weight a long = time ago,” he said. He hit me a HU"S Colomals whole lot faster and harder tonight than he, did in Washington. In Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. fact. any one of those punches he DURHAM, N. C.. Jap. 10.—Mary- cqught me with tonight hurt more land’s Southern Conference rivals. than the whole bunch he hit me in six rounds down there.” ps, buke I}aces Devils Fine Scrap; | minutes of play. | wholesome respect for the sopho- moric Terrapins today as a result of their brilliant if losing stand against the Blue Devils in a basket ball game decided in the last few The count was 37-33. The results of Maryland's North-' ern trip during the Christmas holi- days were apparent in the second behind to seize a briefly held 33-32 advantage with four minutes to go. But Duke had a tight, close-gmard- ing defense and Sammy Rothbaum to ease it over the rough spots in the closing minutes and the combi- nation brought it victory. Rothbaum, whose side-court shot at the intermission. Matt Zunic,|clinched matters, paced the scoring G. W. leader and high gun of the battle with 12 points, kept his mates in the running in the initial period, | but the Deacons opened up with a rapid-fire attack at the start of the second that soon left the Colonials trailing, 26-15. | Late in the sesston. Zunic. Ralph Matera and Jimmy Myers aimed a heavy bombardment at the bucket quarter-final round with the winner that partially closed the gap be- | with 13 points and had good assist- ance from Cedric Loftis, who chalked up 9. Duke. off to a 22-17 lead in a nip- and-tuck first half, succeeded in partially halting Ernie Travis, Maryland’s high-scoring center, but completely overlooked big Hec] Horn, who came through with a barrage of field goals that made the Terps a threat until the end. Travis hit the target for five field Wendell Willkie, defeated Repub- lican presidential candidate in the last election, set the keynote before- hand when, in a speech from the ring, he told Buddy: “I took on a champ. too, not long ago. I didn't win, but T had a lot of fun trving.” When Willkie cglled on Baer in his dressing room &fter it was over, Buddy was able to laugh: “Well, we had a lot of fun trying.” Louis came out of the brief bout with a very slight cut on his under lip; so slight that Dr. William Wal- ker. the Athletic Commission’s phy- sician, didn’t see it at all. Baer was so busy trying to protect him- self that he landed only a few punches, none of them carrving anything like the authority of the left with which he knocked Joe out of the ring in their Washington scrap last May. Buddy, in fact, made his best ef- fort right at the start, when he rushed across the ring and wrestled Louis into the'ropes. He was trying to get in close and stay there, the plan of battle thought up by his manager, Ancil Hoffman. But it was no go. Louis easily pushed himself clear and began exploding rights and lefts on Buddy's promi- to take on Doris Kruse of Orlando tween the teams and brought the goals and two fouls while Horn nent jaw. in the other semifinal. {Spring Hill Quits Grid For Duration of War BY the Associated Press. | MOBILE, Ala, Jan. 10.—Follow- !ing the lead of two other Dixie Conference football schools, Spring Hill College has abandoned football for the duration of the emergency. The 10-member conference already has lost Mercer University of Ma- con, Ga., and Howard College of | Birmingham. Mercer canceled all intercollegiate sports, Spring Hill land Howard football only. | capacity crowd to its feet. But the visitors' garrison finish was doomed to failure when Veitch cashed a foul try and Jimmy Bonds hooped | the clinching field goal. | 6. W.(35). QPP W. P (¥ 5 213 Berger( ) Myers.f 3 Gustafson.c | Sokol.c | Jackson.c | Gilham.& Gallagher.g | Rausch.& Matera.s 0 4 Veitch.g 3 0 sent a half dozen 2-pointers through | the net. | The setback gave Maryland a .500 Every Wallop Hurt. Every one hurt. Perhaps a score landed and Buddy was looking dis- | James.g average for its two-game trip. Md. (33). GFpPts. Duke (37). GFPts Mont.{ 1 2 4 Spuhlerf 0 0 0 i 30 4 Sews o 0 0 Roth 13 00 4 213 1 013 Hubbell'c 0 0 1 1 McCahan.g 2 ¢ 0 0 0 CLoftisg . 3 & 9 0 0 0Starke 02 G. Loftis.g | tressed before the first of Joe's really murderous rights dumped him. When he got up Louis stalked him, throwing everything in his arsenal. At about two minutes another cruiser came, and this time it was harder for Buddy to get up. He was taking a terrible licking. Baitz.{ R Sch'erholz. baum.{ Fetters.{ Travis.c Horn.2 Steiner.g Cordy.g 5 o 0 1 0 = 5 i H " D) 20: 15 Porest. Totals .15 51 35 Totals Half-time _score—Wake George Washington, 15 e throws missed—Gustafson, Gilham. Bonds. Berger. Veitch, Koteski Officials—Knight (Durham Y.) and Ser- | mon (Springfield). Ringsiders Agrewe Baer Displayed Rare Brand of Courage Matt Beccio, rugged, wind-milling slugger with little polish plenty of persuasion in his dun- colored fists, will represent Mary- 1and in the 135-pound class, beating out Tom Jones for the position after & neck-and-neck race for the berth. ‘The slim but durable Baltimorean will be one of three youngsters mak- ing their ring debuts in the Gold High School alumnus, will open the show in the 120-pound battle with Bill Love, and the other is Jack Gil- more, hard-luck kid of the campus match because of the increasing lack | whose previous efforts to win a reg- ular berth were thwarted by in- Jjuries. Otherwise it will be a veteran team that Coach Bobby Goldstein to make 1942 a winning year in the | sends to the post in his first appear- ance as Terp coach. With Jud- son Lincoln, Hotsy Alperstein, Pat| probably will be in the exhibition | Quinn, Herb Gunther and Len Rod- man, Goldstein has a crew that ap- pears capable of holding its own in any collegiate company and one he figures has an excellent. chance of eopping the conference crown. Fach team will have one leaghe but PSRt R Sl champion in action tonight. Gun- | ther is king of the 175-pounders and South Carolina’s titleholder is Capt. Harry Lofton, 155-pounder, who goes against Quinn. | The Gamecocks announced sev-| and Black livery. John Cicala, Tech | eral days ago through Coach Frank | De Mars it will abandon the sport, temporarily at least, after tonight's of manpower and other .factors traceable to the war. With this in | mind the visitors can be expected | literally to give their all in an effort | record books. Two of the eight bouts scheduled class at Carolina’s request because of its men’s inexperience. Princi- pals are Bill Love, 120-pounder, and | Johnny Dixon, freshman 145-pound- | er. If this course is followed Mary- | 1and automatically will get two points without lifting a glove. 1 By HUGR FULLERTON, Jr, Wide Vorld Sports Writer. NEW Y(RK, Jan. 10—A de- | parting sp.ctator looked up at | the Madisc) Squarg Garden mar- quee last iight and remarked: “Huh, 15 1unds!” A lot of the | folks up in the $7 seats didn't get much for ‘aeir dough, but those close up ageed that Buddy Baer had courace to match his 250- pound bod'. When he went down the third tme his head bounced a couple >f inches and blood started to run from his note. He couldn”. get up, but he rolled | to the roies and was hauling | himself oixto his feet when Referee F-ank Fullam counted 10. The fist time Louis landed that one-two Buddy seemed to be counti:g more stars than there were on all the flags hung from the -cof—and there must have been a hundred of them. Joe was nunching s big red A [ apple when the sports writers reached his dressing room after the fight. He took the apple and Baer with about the same effort. ‘Today's guest star—Jim Ras- musen, Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe: “Joe Louis recently said he was worried about his golf and the war, but not about fight- ing. Last night he convinced Buddy Baer that he must be worried about the Japanese, too. He took it out on the first ‘chap’ he could get into the ring.” Ringside ramble—Mike Jacobs didn’t waste an inch of space in the Garden that could be sold (the aisles never were narrower) but he wouldn’t say the word “gsellout” as long as there was an unsold seat. Earliest arrivals were some British sailors, who wére on hand two hours before the prelim. Someone asked them it they’d rather watch Louis or 4 | fight a German submarine. They said “Louis—that will be a real fight.” Referee Fullam followed out the patriotic note in his instructions, saying, “We know you boys fight the American way, which is the clean way.” There wasn't much ermine in the ring- | side section but the Navy came " through with lots of gold braid. Except for such guys as Jim Farley and Joe DiMaggio there weren't many of the ‘“regulars” sitting down front. The gallery boys kept quiet when Wendell Willkie called the champ “Joe Looey” but they really howled when he said “Max Baer.” Heard on the beach—First sports scribe: “I hear Man Mountain Dean got back into the Army because a general who knew him when he was in before said he was a damn good" sol- dier.” Second ditto: “He ought to be A ' Buidy Tried to Haul Himself Erect With Ring Ropes After Third and Final Knockdown twice as good now—there’s twice as much of him.” One minute sports page— Jimmy Wasdell still is more than a little peeved at Leo Durocher’s story that he missed a bunt sign during the World Series. Recently he told Cleveland friends, “I thought it was funny at the time, but he told be to go up there and bust one. And he said ‘bust'—not ‘bunt’ Jimmy also says one reason for the coolness between the Dodgers and Camilli was that Dolf raised cain with Duroacher for blaming Wasdell. ‘Thumb zup—One of the com- plaints at the recent football coaches’ convention was the lack of new jokes, but Bob Zuppke managed to get & laugh from the boys when he remarked: “In football, the road to glory leads but to the gravy.” [ Gamely the big Californian tried to rally, but soon another fusillade caught him squarely, and this time he fell heavily on his back in the center of the ring. At “four” he tried to haul himself up, but only partly succeeded«and fell headlong into the ropes almost in Louis’ corner. | He grasped a strand and was trying | again to rise when the fatal count, | caught him. Even had he beaten 04 Totals _ 14 533 Totals 14 037 Score at halftime—Duke Mary- land. 17. Free throws missed—Mont (), Schuerholz, Travis (%), Seward. Rothbaum Allen () Gantt, Loftis, G. Loftis. ! Offcials—Messr (Lenoir Rhyne) and Jay (N 'Shepherdstown Affer | ;Rouling Towson 1 Special Dispatch to The Star. SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. Va, Jan. 10—Gallaudet's husky basket ball team now has sometning beside “A” | | for effort on its coffrt record. A string | of defeats was snapped last night | when the Kendall Greeners won their first game in’ four starts by topping Towson Teachers, 29-16, in Washington before heading here to | |face Shepherdstown Teachers to- | night. For half the game last night the | staring them in the face. Then Coach English Sullivan stdck in| rangy Earl Roberts from the show- me State of Missouri. Earl showed ‘Towson the art of basket tossing by & quartet of buckets and a couple of foul tosses to put the Blue | in front to stay as the final period | opened. | [ | might Blue trailed and another defeat was | — the count, Referee Fullam probably would not have let Louis hit Buddy again. Joe, frankly, doesn't know what he is going to do next. The Army call him almost any day, and he says he is ready to go. On the other hand, there has been some talk of his defending the titlg next for some Army charity, and he is willing to do that, too. “Whatever they tell me,” he,says simply. Five years ago—Bob Feller, rookie pitching sensation, signed contract with Cleveland Indians for reported $10,000 for first full Season. Wanted 1941 Cadillac Will Pay High Price Mr. Kirk, WO. 8401 4221 Connecticut