Show 1 jox 10 46 4 6 1 I 1 faa ta 3 lv a now tor poet service memory of mcgraw and earlier days crowds out present WHEN HEN memories stick with you while you should be doin doing 9 something else there is only one solution so you are stuck with them today the time when benny leonard who must have weighed pounds was obtaining publicity for his vaudeville tour by letting it be known that lie he might soon defend his lightweight title his very proper indignation when I 1 suggested that my customers might be easier to convince if he would stand on the scales and indicate which leg he was willing to have cut off so that he could reduce to the pound limit 0 0 0 there was the year when I 1 was a very young and wise apprentice reporter in baltimore then I 1 thought that all new york sports writers must be phonies that was because of a firm belief that such names as damon runyon dozeman bozeman bulger hype igoe could not possibly be real there was the time me when I 1 first met john mcgraw A ninth inning decision had cost the giants a ball game while they were battling for a pennant late in the season naturally Is I 1 I 1 expected to hear bear numerous I 1 inside n s I 1 d e I 1 f facts a c t s conc concerning arning baseball and umpires it instead lie he V took me in to dinner and devoted john mcgraw two hours to talking about the high cost of steam yachts and the pleasure that might be obtained by owning one not once during the eve i ning did he refer to the ball game or the decision that had meant its loss to the giants the time when after a very delightful li evening with jim thorpe I 1 shook hands with him at 5 A DI and solemnly promised that his football career would be crowned by an opportunity to play against bradley in the professional contest that afternoon the memory that jim although already somewhat old and rather fat played a swell game I 1 forget the rest the baseball club which was somewhat annoyed at the way a star was conducting his spring training the daily search that was made of his room while he was at the ball park and the private detective who trailed him until u antil he went to the room at nights the wondering as to why the star always appe appeared arvd so shaky the next morning the night I 1 looked out the window and saw the very obscure rookie who roo roomed med directly above the star dangling a quart bottle on the end of a rope that year in baltimore when I 1 inaugurated the city amateur boxing championship tour tournament namen t which has been copied so profitably elsewhere since then the bootlegger who withdrew his son from the finals because he be became angry at the army captain who was representing the A A U as master of ceremonies the police department team which went on a sympathetic strike along wit with h the gentleman who sold very good stuff at 30 cents a shot s that year when there was so much talk about the international league being a one man enterprise and judge landis official pronouncement no that such tales were all the bunk the great self re I 1 used in not revealing that a few days previously I 1 had been in the same room while jack dunn officially the baltimore owner had ha issued orders which fired an umpire two jersey city ball players and one from newark the fact that I 1 spent two hours in persuading dunnie who was a wee bit excitable at times that h he e should not also fire the president a a 0 that evening when wladek vladek Z zbyszko byszko threw renato gardini at me because somehow I 1 became so suspicious as to hint that all wrestling matches are not made in heaven the time when the very agreeable bradley agreed to box a four round exhibition for charity and discovered too late that the setup was kid williams who was just getting over being bantamweight champion of the world 11 1 I 1 NOT IN THE BOX SCORE T P HE weaker clubs will make a determined fight for a share the wealth plan when the major leagues meet next winter they claim that they provide hall half the show even when they visit yankee stadium so they argue visiting clubs should get a better break than the 20 cents on each paid admission arrangement which has been in effect since the he sam mcquade who now makes matches at the garden once was an altar boy uncle sams roving soloists ts have definitely decided not to enter a team in the olympics but the british seeking consolation for their westchester cup defeat will send the same 32 goal side to berlin pete gilhooly Scot lands celebrated all around athlete now trains the flushing juniors runners up in the empire state junior soccer league don petrin th the light heavy weight wants the world to know that he be now is the daddy of a nine pound boy also that because he needs more dough than can be had in his father in laws bakery he would like to receive some fight offers it costs a night to stage those midget auto races in the garden bowl international league writers and managers put on even better scraps than the ball clubs right now pilot vitt of newark is being panned because he is too hard boiled while guy sturdy of the orioles gets a blast for being too easy going A al lane star hill school fullback and brother of the former princeton football captain has just failed to receive the proper nod from the entrance committee at old nassau he still has a chance to make the grade in the fall 0 0 dr bier the pompton compton lakes health farmer claims a record at which all other fight camp proprietors can aim during the sixteen years he has been conducting the place no referee ever has counted ten over a main bout performer who trained there one of the more ore vigorous fight now concerns the braddock picture ri rights abts if the garden gets the show harry voiler probably will get the call I 1 it if it is under hearst A C auspices the break will go to the justly celebrated bill duffy possible successors to the late charley knapp as president of the international lea league ue are either secretary will allio it leiley beanley or umpire in chief B bill W carpenter ruppert has heaviest insurance on stadium colonel ruppert carries more insurance a bigger sum and more different varieties on yankee stadium than does any other big time club owner when charlotte epstein s skipped k 1 p p e d the olympic trials she set some kind of a record it was the first major swimming meet in these parts that the very colonel capable coach has missed in years ruppert in detroit they whisper that mickey cochrane and schoolboy rowe are so far apart temperamentally that for the good of all concerned the potentially great pitcher will be traded this winter jimmy calleran of the Bush wicks soon will dangle a little second sacker on his knee although he is not quite so brash when speaking for pub publication ca coach al cori confides fides to friends that olympic crew will crack the record set by the 1928 1923 california boat the biggest bettor at metropolitan tracks is a young man who once seemed to be headed toward golfing stardom ile he plops clops down as much as 50 Cs CIS on a race aside from the fact that the best cards farm outfielder is a joe medwick type of kid named lou Scoff lc the dodgers gave away a lot ot of weight when they traded the giant earnshaw eddie morgan who eventually will arrive at brooklyn as part of that deal is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs pounds it is because they are overstocked over stocked with one base slitting guys of that size that the dodgers are in the cellar now in addition to being a distinguished surgeon dr G randolph manning is one of the grand old men of soccer he was the first president of the U S F A 0 9 at dinner recently when a group of very well informed baseball men were discussing the merits of the two major leagues this proposition was set forth the cubs won the pennant last year w while h I 1 I 1 e the yankees finished second in their own loop suppose you owned the yankees and during the winter you were told that you could have the pick of the cubs to strengthen your club leave pitchers and di maggio out of it this is a deal deai where you would have to swap a regular for a regular the undril unanimous answer to that was that the difference between their ages might make a billy herman toiv ton lazzeri d deal e a I 1 verry attractive otherwise the american leaguers could not improve themselves vesA |