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Show NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: j AL LANG, trainer of Freddy Steele, refers ,o the world's middleweight champion as "Fishcake." "Fish-cake." . . Finn Carlstadt, goalie tor the Norwegian Tuners, Is one of the few soccer stars who wear spectacles spec-tacles while playing. And he always al-ways has somebody stand by with at spare pair just In case. University of Oklahoma wrestlers have a lingo all their own. A "Muscle "Mus-cle ' head" Js a wrestler and a "pinky" is a wrestler out of condition. con-dition. . . High-class trainers such as Hirsch Jacobs and Bert Mitchell give their riders few instructions. It's usually the phony trainer-touts who whisper sweet nothings in the jockeys' ears while paddock yokels ! gape. . . Johnny Kilbane, the for-! for-! mer featherweight champion who ; now manages Jimmy Vaughn, is ! a versatile gent Recently he sec-j sec-j onded Vaughn in a bout with Freddy : Miller at Louisville and then jumped In and refereed the semifinal semi-final between Freddie Eiler and Henry Firpo. The Yankees have an eye on L. b. Meyer, the T. C. U. end who scored all his team's points against Marquette on New Year's Day. Tex-ans Tex-ans say the youngster Is even better bet-ter at baseball than football. . . Like-' wise the Senators are anticipating the rush by a year or two while gazing longingly at Alex Campanas, N. Y. C. freshman. . , Joe McMan-as, McMan-as, who plays such a tidy inside left for the New York (soccer) Americans also manages the Brooklyn Brook-lyn (basketball) Visitations. . Burly j Ty Anderson Is the Ching Johnson of the Atlantlo City Sea Gulls. Like the Ranger veteran he plays left defense and also like the Ranger Rang-er veteran he brings down the house every time he goes down the Ice. ; Ed Wade, whose two points after aft-er touchdown won Utah State the Rocky Mountain conference football title, also is center on the basketball basket-ball team which met Manhattan at Madison Square Garden recently. recent-ly. He runs a turkey farm on the side. . . Kent Ryan, captain and forward for-ward of the same team, is reported the greatest athlete ever produced In the conference, while the only extra bid for fame that can be thought up for the other forward, Shelby West Is that he is married. mar-ried. . . Blessed Event, an E. R. Bradley horse that once held a Hia-leah Hia-leah Park track record, was left at the post and beaten 100 lengths in a $1,500 claiming race the other day. . . The Atlantic City Auditorium, Audito-rium, home of the Sea Gulls, is so large that 1,500 customers can be accommodated for wrestling matches in a separate arena built on the stage. Because some friends read too hastily Bill Barfield, the once great Tiger lineman, wants to go on record rec-ord as saying "I think the Princeton Prince-ton freshman football team of 1940 contained the best material that I have seen on a freshmen team at Princeton In many years." , . Bobby Kerr, former president of the Metropolitan (soccer) league, now i3 doing notable work as head of the Empire State junior league. Bing Crosby has an Argentine horse called Subvedo, who is sup- 'm, J ; Lrley Takes ' n a Journey Memory Lane iv tamei sports promoter, i SSw columnist to 'to th old day co-! co-! ndh in this column hi ,m0ry lane, too. JACK CCELEY Farmer Burns, who died iu rone in Dan McLeod 1 ;rname, inst Frank . mere lad at Humboldt m wrestled on a cinder k of the round house for hoars. The best the lter McLeod got out of It It took Gotch several jet rid of the ashen cln-x cln-x bis skin. remember when: Eddie )nthe world featherweight ship? He knocked out Ben England in sixteen rounds ? O'Bourke's club in New 4 . . And when Terry ' I knocked out Santry at r, in Chicago in five rf the world's greatest mmy Barry versus Caaper ramy Rya rus Tommy t folcolt versus Lid La-M La-M Attel versus wen Mo-ak Mo-ak Slavin versus Peter peter Maher versus Joe Pedlar Palmer versus Tcr-) Tcr-) ivern. Jack Dempsey ver- Fulton. Gene Tunney ver-J ver-J Dempsey. Jim Flynn ver-; ver-; Morris. All these fights : osslp for years, j r McAvoy, one of New ) iest ring referees, rode as a Jockey in Maspeth, L. I., years before he refereed at al- ,1 most the same spot j J Stanford White never missed a box- : ing or wrestling j ringside at the old ,f : Garden dowi in Ma-1 Ma-1 -i j dison Square Harry j Thaw came to all I"'; the wrestling shows . ikJI in the new Garden url up to the time he r ' settled in Virginia. I old timer missed at all the j s is Jim Villepeague. He al-aught al-aught two seats and occu-j occu-j He weighed 335 pounds. I ie first time in many years ling show was staged re-n re-n the Olympia Stadium In Several wrestlers familiar icao mat audiences partici-i partici-i the bill. Carl Pojcllo, one tea's persistent challengers . dom gets on a card, jour-I jour-I Ii the way to Liverpool, inly ' imed away and not allowed J Some previous income tax i the cause. J ie Neil, one timo bantam- j Aampion, came from South ; Slot in San Francisco, His f o managed him, wur some-I some-I a soapbox orator. He was I rack bookmaker and when J "as slow on the ponies, he'd f across the betting ring: . 'ants to take $1,000 against I Frankie?" I ook Frankie to England for ! i Wound fight with Jem Bow-; Bow-; course the slugging Ameri-i Ameri-i 'ter lost the decision. Dad, ' I ,s one f the early "We wuzz , barkers, yelled all the way ; -wiago heard his voice when P as in the middle of the Wu toe referee?" Dad iP i asked. "I don't know his ii, e was some bum bar- II Wiped back Mr. Neil Se- Kmrbtrtender haPDcncd :fneCori, millionaire stock lI"ember and f nc of Ene-f Ene-f feates aibite in n k i lory, B,0,le-s in all bo- fcedCpSeB0k0r a" th 'Cpa Nea- "anl en Stklh0the -f"-e. ck, u . ou shoot at a ;,rS8him. at counts for if Z AUe11 f ged 'as then the , d r ,n f81 ,,nd cleverest t At el,Amcrica- the t il-2Sce' wilh Bowker fresti,VS0Oeo,'ef aek-'t aek-'t e TU,.dercatcd Ah-lS' Ah-lS' i ntfCr,rib,e Tu,k' k hL.0ondh0n' 1600 f e6rsPuU f the arcna- i posed to be able to run a mile n 1:35. Even Bing doesn't believe that, though. . . . Harry Lenny, manager of Ray Im-pellitiere,. Im-pellitiere,. is an accomplished ac-complished pianist, preferring the classical clas-sical to the more popular swing music. mu-sic. . . Dan Parker, the sports evangel- 1st, also is a piano BjnK Crosby player of note (more than one note, in fact). Jack Bales, the former Princeton Prince-ton footballer, brings word from Columbus Co-lumbus that Charlie Beetham, the unlucky Ohio Stater who should have been an Olympic half-mile ace, is going better than ever. Beetham, who should be an important figure Li the big meets later this winter, now assists himself in getting into shape by running up the Ohio State stadium steps. Al Lattin, the promotorial genius behind the world's bowling championships, cham-pionships, totes 323 pounds on his six foot two-inch frame and is the heaviest man on the alleys. He throws a 16-pound ball for a 190 average but averaged 205 while winning win-ning the Elks individual title. . . Dave Shiman, one of the maple-crashing maple-crashing stars of thirty years ago, now is a successful business man. Joe Humphrey's favorite song, which he used to sing in his high falsetto voice, was "The Rose of Kildare." The night when the late and greatest of all sports announcers an-nouncers arrived in Detroit to announce an-nounce the Johnny Risko-Tom Heeney affair his baggage consisted of one clean collar and two packs of cigarettes. Incidentally when Joe Al Smith always called him "Jo-sephus" "Jo-sephus" was achieving fame, a great quartet of announcers were still in their heydey. Fred Burns and Johnny Dunn passed away years ago. Only Charley Harvey and. Pete Prunty remain. Most friends of Gene Sarasen rate his final round of 66 In the 1932 national na-tional open his greatest golfing feat, but Gent himself has a softer spot for the four birdies he got on the last four holes of the Agua Cal-iente Cal-iente open. . . The 66 brought him 51,000 In cash, but those four birdies earned him the largest golf prize ever won $10,090. |