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Show The King Is Dead T"HE dealh of Colonel Jacob Rup A pert, amiable little millionaire owner of the New York Y&nkees baseball club, was more than a shock to sportsmen everywhere. Hii death was an irreparable loss to the entire nation. The 71-year-old bachelor was baseball's best friend. Under his stewardship the Yanks wrote the brightest pages in baseball history. When he died he owned ball clubs In New York, Newark, Kansas City, Norfolk, Va., Binghampton, N. Y., and Akron, Ohio. Ruppert was surrounded by the names of baseball's greatest. On his generous payroll were Babe Speaking of Sports i J938 Crop of heavyweights lacks Power irt bJBy ROBERT McSIIANE AGONIZED glance at the crop of current heavyweight h .tenders leads the average fight i to believe that Ferdinand the 1 who never learned how to (lt, and who sat all day long un-the un-the cork tree, content merely to "ill has not received half the lit due him. I hiile many of those ring hope- II are a distinct odoriferous men-Tps men-Tps they are not satisfied, like L'y, with the birds, the bees and t'flowers. No, Indeed. They in- .thai all they need Is one (or V'more) crack at Joe Louis and 'ew heavyweight champion will trowned. is gratifying to note that Shuf-Joe Shuf-Joe is not cringing in terror, illy termed abject. In fact, the H spoken and oft ,- repeated ats of his contemporaries leave jCold, even frigid. . uher 'Killer' Sro Ton Tony Galento, beer guz-J guz-J brawler from Orange, N. J.. Ul threatened, of course, to mur-tt"dat mur-tt"dat bum" Louis. As a self-ttctltted self-ttctltted potential murderer Galen-is Galen-is no equal. He is the only fight-ml fight-ml the ring not designated as a life'. His rigid training on cigars -Ibeer have endeared him to the "fflfTn j,i,M)ig'',niiiniipiiiiiiij niiiinyniiiiii s .i j ' .? . v : ; hX'-fr ill i f V&' iff" fa WVAJ nj.ts of brewery owners and to-1. to-1. o growers. His fine, carefully : cooped paunch speaks well for : liability to consume huge quan-"Pl quan-"Pl of groceries, in the manner of ell-known athletes. In addition, easily as graceful as Donald Jx Baer, whose manner of ;nldng even the loosest training Is a thing of beauty and a Joy ,p.er, is outstanding in his lead-ch.-lp of that cult which thinks Max M is a dangerous threat to the wit , COLONEL JACOB RUPPERT Ruth, the late Miller Huggins. Joe McCarthy, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMag-gio DiMag-gio and many others. Best known of all the stars to play under the brewery owner's banner was Babe Ruth. Ruppert paid Boston the then unprecedented sum of $125,000 for him, and made him the greatest slugger of all time. The Colonel was always Insistent on winning and ever disconsolate when his team lost. Sportsmanlike on all points, Ruppert demanded a winning team. All told, the Yankees In R'jppert's regime won 10 American Ameri-can league pennants and seven world series. He bought only the best players, and they paid him well. Though baseball was his overwhelming over-whelming love, the Colonel had many interests. In addition to owning own-ing a highly profitable brewery, he at one time served four successive terms as national representative. Sport Shorts SUN BEAU, the leading money winner among thoroughbreds, won $376,744 during his racing career. ca-reer. He went to the post 74 times, won 33, was second 12, and third 10 times . . . 56,077 boys took part last year in games conducted by the Toronto (Canada) Public School Athletic association . . . Babe Ruth, who recently suffered a mild heart attack, denies that 4 ? Crj ' e t f there is anything the matter with his health. The Bambino Bambi-no states that he was in the hospital just to "see what it was all about" . . . James Farrell, veteran golf professional profes-sional and elder brother of Johnny Farrell, died recent- MB- 3 inr : j MAX BAER Isla v j to kfrig of the heavyweights. "e'hai been a good fighter, but fiances for ring supremacy are ft as rowboats in the Sahara. Ruination fights between Galen-the Galen-the Brothers Baer might do on to clear up the cloud whicb tips? the heavyweight field. pto. Incidentally, is rated No. 1 -Kode by the National Boxing Delation, a distinction not award- ' by the fans. 1 Nova can be taken more s m(y. A little more experience , )ee him a better fighter than he iy in New York . . . . ,,, t .u r.. ,. Babe Ruth Jonathan Stone will be too ill to resume his outfield position with the Washington Senators Sena-tors next season. 5 Western Newspaper Union. jj in' his past few encounters, jier f lad, Patrick Edward skey, who has reached the ""sge.of 18, will bear watching. Saterson (N. J.) youth stands Ift IV2 inches, and weighs 198 ms. He has fought only six pro-Jfnal pro-Jfnal fights, winning five of them 'V first round. He slipped sad-JJ5hia sad-JJ5hia sixth fight, failing to get ,ckout until the second stanza. Comeback Trail make bad news even worse j the announcement that Phil ex-heavyweight champ 0! i Britain, is planning a come-" come-" T0 American fans, who re-"jjer re-"jjer him as Fainting Phil, the 1 Jh horizontal champ, this news rf say the least, remarkable, as lljcannot remember his having any place at least in the up-JlJrcUjs up-JlJrcUjs of the U. S. boxing fra- 97. ; A, at 38, Is flabby fat, weighing spends. He works out daily in a n gym, determined to gel hat slim, lissom figure which decorate various canvases lraciively. i' , '3 Max Schmeling, who was knocked out by Louis in the first round of their heavyweight championship cham-pionship bout last summer, has announced an-nounced his comeback come-back with the statement state-ment that "I am not quitting with a knockout on my record." la' We have enough dueling trouble at home. ' t however, without sng: about the British or Ger-Heayyweight Ger-Heayyweight situation. And in , eaat ime, Louis merrily con-f con-f onhis way, deaf to the bab- of Ji.ipeful aspirants. All of thowi good sense. i |