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Show Galento Marches On PJEAVYWEIGHT Champion Jo Louis, one of the greatest nghtmg machines ever produced by Uie boxing game, will meet Two-T" Two-T" Tony Galento. roly-poly knight or the taverns, some time In June through the courtesy of Mike Ja-cobs, Ja-cobs, promoter extraordinary. Perhaps the most remarkable th'ng about this fight is that it possibly pos-sibly could occur. I Speaking of Sports . Two Managers Doing Fine Job: McLaughlin By ROBERT McSIIANE A MONO the year's minor miracles mira-cles of sport must be included the Chicago Blackhawks' long slide from the championship hockey team of 1938 to their present position of tail-enders. Winners of the Stanley cup last year, the Blackhawks have languished lan-guished near and in Louis, who has had no difficulty with the cream of contenders, contend-ers, was not misnamed mis-named when some sportswriter, in a brilliant burst Invented In-vented the title. "Brown Bomber." That's just what he is. His lethal wallop has the same effect the National Hockey league cellar all season. sea-son. Even a change of managers failed to bring new life to the club. When Major Ma-jor Frederic McLaughlin. Mc-Laughlin. Black-hawk Black-hawk boss, replaced Manager Bill Stew-art Stew-art with Paul Thompson, he un- as dynamite. Joe Louis Tony, on the other hand, Is easily as graceful as a beer wagon, and according to reports, ha,s somewhat the same capacity. He Is an accomplished scowlcr and his vocabulary is not bound by ordinary or-dinary restrictions. Nevertheless, fast thinking fight fans have pointed out that he can't win by making faces, and he really shouldn't devote de-vote more than one round to calling Louis a bum. Galento has all the color necessary neces-sary for publicity purposes. His frequent poses over a glass of beer, his black, murderous cigar, and his rougn and ready wit have brought him squarely in the limelight. His lack of fistic ability probably won't interfere with the gate: His knack of getting publicity, both good and bad, will cause the turnstiles to click much more rapidly than the fight will justify. It's hard to blame Promoter Jacobs Ja-cobs for the coming fiasco. He has a saleable commodity, and naturally natu-rally intends to capitalize on it. But it is a reflection on today's heavyweights. heavy-weights. Though little more than a rough and rugged clown, Galento has been designated as No. 1 contender. con-tender. That doesn't make the rest of the leather pushers look too good. This delightful little shambles will not make boxing's history more glorious. But the champ is running out of competition, and Galento will be well paid for his sacrifice. Sport Shorts CRANK CARIDEO, former Notre Dame star, has been appointed backfleld coach at the University of Iowa . . . Glenn Scobey (Pop) Warner, War-ner, recently resigned as Temple university football coach, has been named advisory coach at San Jose state college, California . . . Don Heap, former ail-American at Northwestern, is a fireman in Evanston, 111. . . . Baron Gottfried Gott-fried von Cramm, star of Germany's Ger-many's Davis Cup team in 1937, will return to international tennis competition but he will not play for Germany . . . Members of the British Ryder Cup team have been notified that their wives will not be allowed to make the trip to the United States this year . . . Tommy Tom-my Henrich has made almost $50,-000 $50,-000 in his two seasons with the ,.,. .. Yankees .... doubtedly expected anl the change to be re-Thompson re-Thompson fleets in the all. important wins and losses column. However, the Blackhawks continued to lose games as regularly as before. be-fore. Fans, demanding to know the reason rea-son for their club's failure to win games, have been answered by the major. "There's plenty wrong with the Blackhawks," he admitted, "but there won't be for long. There'll be plenty of trades at the end of the season. We know what we want. We know what we have to do to deserve the unflagging patronage of hockey fans, and we mean to deliver." de-liver." According to the owner, one of the principal reasons why his team hasn't delivered is the fact that Thompson took over a highly disorganized dis-organized team. He had directed preseason practice, bringing the Hawks into the regular season. They won four in a row, and then hit the toboggan. Stewart's illness kept him out of the preseason work. Thompson drilled the men and Stewart Stew-art took over when the league season sea-son started. Thompson was named manager January 3, when the team was sliding. McLaughlin dispelled any doubts that might exist concerning his managerial appointment. "I am thoroughly, completely and altogether satisfied with Thompson. Paul asked for Carl Voss as his coach, when we made the change. Carl played for 10 years not on his size, his skating, his shot but on his brains. Paul wants him. They work together beautifully and they are making progress." Two years ago the Blackhawks dropped regular gymnastic work for the players. Now it is McLaughlin's firm belief that gym work is absolutely abso-lutely essential for any athlete. It has already been reinstated. In regard to the Hawks' poor showing, he continued: "When a hockey team begins floundering, as ours has recently, there's little a coach can do about it from the bench. The wasted effort, ef-fort, lack of timing, poor passing, failure to check and seeming futility futil-ity of a team comes from pressing too much. Our boys are down at the bottom of the heap. They're trying desperately to flash their best form. They try too hard, so they blow everything. We're correcting those things." Next year, the big chief promises, 1 things are going to be different. Chicago Chi-cago is going to get the world's best hockey, and the Blackhawks are going to furnish it. The major is going to try every promising youngster that comes along; he's going go-ing to do a lot of trading and he's going to see to it that the boys put Ln their proper nttmber of gymnasium gymna-sium conditioning hours. McLaughlin is convincing. After listenine to him you really believe Luke Sewell of the Dodgers says Zeke Bonura will have to learn to hit curve ball pitching now that he's in the National Na-tional league . . . The Pirates will cover 8,245 miles during spring training . . . For the first time in 10 years no Zeke Bonura change was made in the American league's staff of umpires . . . Carelessness with glove laces is responsible for far more cases of eye injury in the ring than solid punches . . . The lower house of the Wisconsin legislature legis-lature recently adopted a measure congratulating Howie Weiss, Wisconsin Wis-consin football star. his definite statement that "we're going to build the greatest hockey team in America." Handicap History The Santa Anita $100,000 handicap, handi-cap, outstanding race of the Pacific coast, had its start back in 1917 under the guiding hand of Jim Cof-froth, Cof-froth, S?,n Francisco boxing promoter. promot-er. CorTroth ha4 purchased an estate near San Diego. He decided to go into the racing game at Tiajuana where there was already a good track and wooden stands. The 1917 purse was $4,000. In 1921. when the second race was held, it paid $14,775 to the winner, Be Frank. Other winners were Mulciber, Rebuke, Runstar. Atherstone, Carlaris and Sir Harry. It wasn't long before the Tiajuana track gave way to Agua Caliente, a $10 000,000 resort with a top-notch racing plant. In 1930 it was known is the Agua Caliente $100,000 handicap. handi-cap. Gambling finally went out and f'tliente was closed. It was a gloomy time for racing until California legalized betting. A track, promoted by Doc Charley Strub. was built on the "Lucky" Baldwin estate at Arcadia by several sev-eral wealthy turf enthusiasts. The first of the present Santa Anita hdicaps was held in 1935. with a $100,000 purse. It was the same race that had started back In 1917 in Tiajuana, under Coffroth, who long ago faded out of the picture. Cub Captains WHEN the Chicago Cubs, training, train-ing, at Avalon, Calif., called their first full squad roll recently, five former players who have served as captains of National league teams were present and accounted ac-counted for. The executive list includes Bill Herman, present captain of the Cubs; Cabby Hartnett, Woody English, Eng-lish, Gus Mancusco and Dick Bar-tell. Bar-tell. Woody English succeeded Charley Grimm as captain when Grimm was named manager in 1932. He held that position until he was traded to Brooklyn in 1936. Woody was purchased pur-chased recently by the Cubs from the Cincinnati Reds. Gus Mancusco was captain of the New York Giants at the lime he was obtained by the Cubs in the biggest, most widely known trade of the year. Dick Bartell. obtained in the same deal that brought Mancusco to the Cubs was captain of the Phillies before his sale to the Giants after the 1934 season. Though this array of executive talent may look formidable, Manager Man-ager Gabby Hartnett is not worried. Gabby is ready and anxious to have every man a captain as long as he is in charge. The ex-captains are all aggressive players, and that s right down his alley. He has no worries that Bill Herman won't be able to protect his position as incumbent in-cumbent chief. C Western Newspaper Unloa. |