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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER fifteen-year-ol- New York Post. WNU Service. Let Bill Farnsworth Pass on Blackburns View, of Joe Louis Books Are the Best Professor Urges Return of Chores for Young People p IVE fillies and six colts have won the Hambletonian, the rich trotting stake decided at Goshen, N. Y., every year. Only one filly. Regret, has won the Kentucky Derby, the running race to which the Hambletonian most closely compares in the matter of general interest . . . Tommy Bilodeau, catcher ' and captain of the 1937 Harvard baseball team, may sign a Red Sox contract any day now . . . The St. Louis Cards have signed Max Surkout, d Pawtucket, R. I., pitcher. The cradle snatchers will send him to Rochester . . . For some reason or other the St. Nicholas Palace, probably the best known of smaller fight arenas, has changed its name to the Royal Windsor. Mike Jacobs, the man who drove Madison Square Gardens 600 millionaires out of the boxing business, is proud of the fact insurance companies rate him as a risk It continues difficult for the average citizen to understand the brainwork of racing - , NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: Present-da- y parents have been unable to find any adequate substitute for the now nonexistant chores done by young people a generation ago as a means of developing individual responsibility. Club work, summer camps and boy and girl scouts have tried to offset the lack, but have failed entirely to take the place of those menial tasks for teaching the adolescent to manage affairs on his own. This view of the maturing process of children was expressed by Dr. Kimball Young, professor of Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for social psychology at the Univer- nothing but to inspire. I had betsity of Wisconsin. ter never see a book than to be The disappearance of what warped by its attraction clean out were known 40 years ago as of my own orbit, and made a satchores for the young lad il- ellite instead of a system. Ralph lustrate what I mean, he said. Waldo Emerson. Even in village and small-tow-n life of 1900, in most families the boy had a cow to care for, chick- responsibilities for such tasks. ens to feed or a garden to weed. Dr. Young declared that parents The girls learned to cook, mend, are doing their children an insew and care for the household. justice by bringing them up withIn contrast, large percentages out the fundamental training of our young people grow up to- necessary for the freedom which day without such obligations, society believes essential to without even a chance to assume "'''I ... (Wilton Slim Farnstvorth, who devoted 30 years to journalism before deciding to turn to the crasser fields of endeavor, sits in as guest columnist for Hugh Bradley this week. He was a former New York sports editor and is notv general manager of the Twentieth Century Sporting club.) officials. It pays to referee prize fights. Chicagoans report that the cocktail bar of Tommy Thomas, the former featherweight, has improved 50 per cent since he handled the Louis - Braddock By BILL FARNSWORTH championship . . . Jack Dempsey is pre1 ASKED Jack Blackburn, a great changing fighter in his day and now box- dicting that the son of the late Billy ing instructor and trainer of Joe Miske may some day disprove that Louis, just how he figured the myth which says sons never follow s Brown Embalmer would have done in the footsteps of fightagainst former heavyweight cham- ing fathers. pions. His replies are mighty interesting. Here they are: Terry Denies Rumors AGAINST JOHN L. SULLIVAN I never saw John L., but I under- Hell Head Farm System stand he was a stand-sti- ll fighter Bill Terry still denies those ruwho relied on one punch to win. I am sure that Joes speed and punch- mors that he is to become general ing power would have been too manager of the Giants farm system much for Sullivan. next Coryear. When AGAINST JIM CORBETT he ends the pressed was would bett have foxy and Louis conversation by reto tag him. They fought battles in Corbetts day, and I think marking that his Joe would have finally connected in contract as managthe later rounds. If it went the limit er runs through 1938 . . . Those rumors then Joe would have lost. Pie Traynor is that AGAINST FITZSIMMONS Louat Pittsthrough is would be too strong for Fitz just are burgh becoming as Jeffries was and strength would . . . have decided this , one. Fitz wasnt stronger still isGlenn hit- jjjij jerry fast, but crafty, and Louis couldnt Wright runs home with have eased up for a second. But he ting full while managing the could stop an opponent cold with the bases Wenatchee club in the Western Ineither hand. ternational league. Also does some AGAINST JEFFRIES Jeff was relief pitching when regular hurl-er- s big but slow. He was a powerful In spite of frantic hot falter puncher, but Joe punches just as weather pleas of the players nearly hard and he would have speed on all American league managers ban his side. It would be a great fight swimming in the pool in that swank Washington hotel at which they stay. Gabby Hartnetts most valuable souvenir is the catchers mitt he used in his first major league game . . . Napoleon Lajoie, one of the e batters and secuntil one or the other landed. In greatest of this bout Louis speed would be his ond basemen, took such good care of his eyes that when he rode on ace in the hole. trains he refused to look out of the AGAINST TOMMY BURNS Burns was too small. He couldnt window. Said the telegraph poles punch a lick. I think Louis could flashing past the window were bad for his vision . name the round in this fight. AGAINST JOHNSON New York Racing commissioners Jack was a great defensive boxer. I have get sore when dog track operators boxed with both Johnson and Louis. charge they are being discriminated Joe throws much more leather and against. The officials say dog tracks hits much harder. Johnson might can operate with as much freedom stand him off for a while with his as the race courses if they employ great defensive skill but would wil-t- the same bookmaking systenl of betfinally under Louis terrific ting. The trouble is that it does not work out very well at the dog punching. AGAINST WILLARD tracks, which need the certificate This or form of wagering to would be just another Dempsey-Wil-lar- d affair. Barring size, Louis has rake in heavy dough from small customers . . . George Lamaze has everything to make him the winner. AGAINST DEMPSEY This added a new gag at his fancy Arwould be a FIGHT. How Id love to rowhead Inn by refusing to have see this one. Two men evenly menus printed. Hal Schumacher considers it unmatched in strength plenty of it speed and punching ability. If Joe lucky to sit on the left side of the Johnny Evers, the famous got the least bit careless it would bench Cubs infielder, always wore his stockings inside out when luck was needed to settle a tough series. A heavy woolen sweater, worn in all kinds of weather, seemed to satisfy Hans Wagner that he was wooing fortune properly. be all over. And the same would Elephants with trunks turned up go for Dempsey if he slipped up for a are the good luck charms of athsecond. Either could win by a kayo. letes as well as of celebrated finanPurely a matter of who landed first. ciers and eminent publishers. Auto If it went the limit I think Louis race drivers still tell of Hughie would get the nod on points. Iughes, who had dozens of Ivory and almost always wore AGAINST TUNNEY elephants Gene one of them suspended from his would be tough to tag and might stand off Louis until the final bell. neck by a chain. I dont think Tunney could flatten One day at Uniontown he was Joe as he did Dempsey. With the standing beside the track listening bout going the limit Joes harder io friends congratulating him on punching and boxing ability would winning a race where he had driven give him a slight edge. superbly and escaped death by AGAINST SCHMELING Joe inches at least a dozen times. has no alibi to offer for their fight Funny part about it, laughed last summer and I will let their Hughes, turning his back to the ' next bout give the answer. rack for a moment. I guess Ive een overplaying this luck thing all AGAINST SHARKEY, CARNERA, BAER AND BRADDOCK The rec- along. Fact is, I forgot my eleords speak foi themselves. phant this morning and havent had it on all day. 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