The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, Dillon Grahams Gives Close-Up View Of U.S. ‘Boxing Muddle ARGUMENTS OVER CHAMPIONSHIPS KEEPS *952 2999.9 SSS BOXING FOLLOWERS PUZZLED (EDITOR'S NOTE: This American boxing.) is the first of four stories on By DILLON GRAHAM, Sporis Editor, AP Feature Service mouse in the maze could confused than the ho tries to figure out tuation in America The be no more fistic fan v the screwy boxing. Baseball has its Judge Landis. Tennis and golf have associations with natio control. Other sports have sulatory boards. But boxing has no recognized jurisdic- doesn’t alway ranks. In the where there of independe with the N Ccmmission the run the show rest of the count boxing, a group te commissions York Athletic most important. and often thumb their noses at the other commis- § sions and the NBA There few nationally rec- ognized rules, champions, or sus- pensions, batch of loos “working agre¢ ’ which are oft are are only a easily ar There so-called world champions. There middleweight r and an un- ercwned champion who has de- cisions over both of them ing enthusiast, in Florida a New York di Ken Overlin ha r middleweig y outpoin A few da than threc atherweight 2 two world n the middle- mship by defeat- hakes his head the a sport he can SOFTBALL GAMES AT PARK TONIGHT of a Key West all Association at Bayview Opening I n of and the 3C NAVSTAS PLAY TONIGHT Plumber-Merchant contest for tonight has been called off. NavSta will tackle the Plumbers in the second game are anxious to v: ca 1 contest is ex} Pepper's P’ and eduled to do ba nighicap of the twir ry for the Peppers L tle for _first- nk the Merchants t place. e dropped three two by de by forfeit. Plumb- nd lost one. ALL-AMERICA By DILLON GRAHAM Sperts Editor, AP Feature Service down the All-America g with ivthical team rating away to a fast start. at one spectacular bring merica nomin ws who “hit the road autu foob who grabbed All-America ° y to the bali-carrier. lifornia with jown runs, scored 21 points against and gave the h his brilliance BILL DE CORREVONT. who bumped into trouble as a hig touted sophomore, has given Northwestern ething to cheer about. His play has tabbed him as one of the best JACK (RABBIT) Texas, one of las more sensations, m: his_ bid quickly with some rt play as CRAIN of ear’s sopho- Let’s consider the regulatory setups. Most sta€es have boxing comm ons and 22 of these are members of the National Boxing ociation. They are Alabama, ans Illinois, Texas, Kan- North Dakota, Minnesota, est Virginia, Wisconsin, Vir- a, Kentucky, North Carolina, w Jers Louisiana, Rhode ad, Indiana, Connecticut, Mis- ppi, Iowa, Colorado, Nebras- d Montana. he NBA also says it exercises diction over a number of ty commissions in states where there are no central commissions and that its decisions are sup- rt n several foreign land: s al states, including Wash- zon, Wyoming, Idaho and uth Dakota, are not members of the NBA but recognize its champions. There are no state commissions —and comparatively little box- in New Mexico, Arizona, rida, Oklahoma, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Oregon, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, New Hampshire and Tennessee. Several of the major boxing tates are not members of the NBA. These include California, Maryland, New York, Maine, Michigan, Delaware. Missouri and Pennsylvania. ese commissions give va- reasons why they won't join NBA. w York, for in- the state law requires at boxing be administered by the New York commission. And so these states go merrily en their way. ofttimes oblivious of their own “world” champions, doing their won suspending, and running boxing within their con- fines to suit themselves. Ww ka a BALL MANAGERS — MEET TOMORROW IMPORTANT MATTERS WILL BE DISCUSSED BY SOFT- BALL BOARD Board of Managers of the Key st Amateur Sofbtall Associa tion will gather in council cham- bers at City Hall tomorrow night, 7:30 o'clock. Important matters affecting this sport in Key West will be up The amendment to the by- t to the Board of Com- for approval after favor- discussion and decision. d anager vote, has been re- i to the team pilots for re- Action the with- of Sawyer’s Barbers from ng. on n League will be de- cide Game Friday night tween Merchants and Bombers, which both teams are alleged to have used ineligible players, be put beiore the managers. n of the schedule and what o do about the NavSta’s sched- uled contest of last Friday night 1 the Barbers are other mat- broached. S| ‘i be rs to be yn’s employes will be made by urer Joe Cleare. City Baseball League r the softball schedule. LEAGUE STANDINGS ISLAND CITY LEAGUE (Key West Baseball) Club— W. L. ey West Conchs ans Blue Sox *Pirates *C.G.C. Pandora U.S. Marines *Tie games. Pet 0 1.000 0 1.000 2 500 1.500 1 .000 3 .0v0 SERVICE LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— W. L. Pet VP53 3 0 1.000 2 2 500 1 2 .333 0 2 .000 CIVILIAN LEAGUE (Key West Softball) Club— NavSta Bombers Army U U.S. Marines ccc COAST GUARDSMEN 9 AND U. S. MARINES BATTLE TOMORROW C.G.C. Pandora baseball club will battle the U.S. Ma- tines tomorrow afternoon, 2 o'clock, on the new field at East ‘Martello Tower. The scheduling of the con- test was made known to The Citizen late this morning by W. E. Lowe. athleiic officer of the Pandora. Mr. Lowe stated the game will be a playoff of a previous post- poned affair. Laying cut of the Tower field was completed last week. Additional improve- ments will be made in the future. TIT DF FD DSS CLASSIFIED COLUMN Advertisements under this head will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of ene-cent (lc) a word for each insertiou, but the mini- mum for the first insertion in jevery aimstance is twenty-five cents (25c). Advertisers snould give their street address as well as their telephone number if they desire results. Payment tor classified adver- tisements is Invariably in ad- vance, but regular advertisers with ledger accounts may have their advertisements charged. LITTLE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE! (iy Associated Press) RICHMOND. Va., Oct. 21. —In the opening football game of the season, Head Coach Watt Fugate of Thom- as Jefferson high school, sub- stituted freely. After one wholesale sub- stitution. the quarterback called for a play over left tackle. It gained seven yards. Other members of the squad began looking for the tackle to congratulate him on opening a big hole. There wasn’t any left tackle. The play was run with only ten men in the Thomas Jeffer- son lineup. TI IIIS EE! SIS SPORTS CALENDAR SOFTBALL GAMES :(Bayview Park Field, 7:60 p.m.) TONIGHT First Game . Marines, vis- ing, vs. C home (Service League). Second Game—Merchants, vis- iting, vs. Pepper’s Plumbers, home (Civilian League). LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL - SOFTBALL PICTURE FRAMING Officials, managers and players | PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas; 4 antique fremes refinished. Sign painting. Paul DiNegro, 614 Francis street. vill meet in City evening, ion fir: of both sports Hall tomorrc o'clock. Softball FOR SALE TWO METAL ICE BOXES. Two smzll gas stoves. 1224 Semin- ary street. oct18-3i U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT’ Observation taken at 7:30 a. m.'PERSONAL CARDS, $1.25 per 75th Mer. Time (city office) 100. THE ARTMAN PRESS. Temperatures #un25-ts Highest last 24 hours Le st last night Mean Normal 79 65 SIGNS—“For Rent”, “Rooms For 72, Rent”, “Apartment Fer Rent”, 78 | “Private Property. passing”. THE PRESS. Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Oct. inches = Deficiency since October 1, inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Excess inches ee) Wind Direction and Velocity ENE—4 miles per hour Relative Humidity 90% Barometer et 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 30.02 (1016.6 millibar) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise - 6:29 a. Sunset 5:54 p. Moonrise 10:58 p. Moonset 11:39 a. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 12:20 7:47 FORECAST €Ti1.7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: to partly cloudy tonight Tuesday;-not much change ky temperature: gentle to moderate ' Ron APARTMENT, furnished variable winds. : Apply rear 602 Duval street or Florida: Fair to partly cloudy Army and Navy Store. tonight and Tuesday; slightly ‘oct17-tf warmer on east-central and southeast coast and cooler in pARKS APARTMENTS, corner {extreme northeast portion to- White and Newton Sts. All night. modern conveniences. 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