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Show , Square Garden. The New Yorkl State Commission took the title away from Servo last fall when he refused to meet Ray Robinson. At the time, Servo reported a nose ailment ail-ment as his reason for not wanting want-ing to fight. Robinson became the recognized champ when he defeated de-feated Thomas Bell. Now that Ser-vo Ser-vo is showing flashes of his old form, he would like nothing better bet-ter than to tangle with Robinson in a title fight and prove to fans that he did not run out on Ray last Fall. If we think top prices to some of our major fights here are rather high, over in England, Promoter Jack Solomons has been selling ringside seats for $84 to see his big time shows. But it seems that Solomon's golden ear has finally come to an end. His two main attractions, at-tractions, Bruce Woodcock and Freddie Mills, have fallen by the wayside and no longer rate the $84 tariff. Baksi finished Woodcock, Wood-cock, at least for the time being, and Mills recently lost to Lloyd Marshall, a washed-up fighter. Solomons was highly disappointed in the Mills setback as he was counting on a Lesnevich-Mills title fight this September. JUST GAB Elmer Ray proved too much for the highly-touted Ezzard -Charles last week . . . which drops Charles out of the heavyweight pioture. The New York Giants have passed the million mil-lion mark in attendance . . . last year they drew a total of 1,219,873 customers. , Bob Elliott went 17 times at bat without getting a hit . . . but he came back with vengeance ven-geance ... his 18th time at bat, he hit a homerun with the bases loaded. Mickey Owen, suspended major leaguer, has hopes of returning re-turning to baseball when his 5-year 5-year suspension is lifted . . . right now he's taking up the art of auctioneering. auc-tioneering. Rocky Graziano defeated defeat-ed Tony Zale which makes him the better man. . . . yet, in the eyes of the N. Y. Athletic Commission, Zale is still champ, and the better man. Spur! foiiiiMiil ;! StfVt'HX . . 1 (.vr vi'U'mso week of July 2S, '47) HiU'ht now, the Now York Yanks li:iv ;i vory comfortable load and need only to const in to cop their first pennant since 1943. At loa-st tha'-'s what nearly everyone seems to think. But there's still two months of bull to be plnyed and anything' can happen. The New York Giants won 2G in a row back in 1916 and yet they finished no bettor than fourth place. While the Yanks are way out in front, interest in the American League centers on second place. Detroit and Boston are fighting it out with Philadelphia on the sidelines : ready to jump in. In the National League, it is a 5 much closer race. Brooklyn has a fair lead but with Boston, New York and St. Louis right at their heels. 'the Dodgers have plenty to worry about. In fact some are already al-ready tabbing the New York Y'anks and the Boston Braves for the World Series classic. But the Cards will be the team to watch. They're putting on the same sort of push that they did last year. At the rate Ewell Blackwell, the Cincinnati pitching flash, is winning win-ning those games, he stands an excellent ex-cellent chance of winning 30 games this season which is something I that hasn't been done in the Na-F Na-F tional League since' Jerome Dean i of St. Louis did the trick back in 5 1934. Last week, he came through S with his 18th win (16 in a row) and when you consider that he's S pitching for a second-division club, I his record is all the more remark-f remark-f able. Evidently, Blackwell found him-j him-j self this year as his past' record has been anything but impressive. It In 1942, when he was only a youngster of 20 years, he joined k the Cincinnati club. He pitched a i total of 3 innings in which he allowed al-lowed 3 hits and 3 walks. He was sent to Syracuse of the International Interna-tional League for the rest of the seson. The next three years he spent with Uncle Sam's army. In 1946, he came back to Cincinnati to notch 9 wins and 13 defeats. But in the 33 games that he worked work-ed he did register 100 strikeouts I which perhaps was a fair indication indica-tion of what he could do if he hit his stride. There's no doubt about that stride today. Blackwell certainly cer-tainly has earned the honor of being called the outstanding pitcher pitch-er of the year. II The Pittsburgh Pirates may be down around bottom but they have a couple of boys, Greenberg and Kiner, who are doing some mighty fine hitting in the homerun department. depart-ment. Greenberg, the Detroit cast-off, cast-off, has nearly 20 homers to his J credit while Kiner has blasted 25, terest in sports. For one thing, major events will have to be worth the admission price, or else fans will stay right at home and attend via television. If major league ball comes to Los Angeles, it will be played in the. Coliseum where the big football games are held. The Coliseum seats 104,000. Of course, a new seating arrangement more suited to baseball base-ball will cut that number by many thousands. Talk is that the St. Louis Browns may be moved to the southern metropolis. There's still plenty of dickering going on. One group is trying to buy a franchise fran-chise outright but club owners are reluctant to sell. They feel that if Los Angeles is a hot baseball base-ball town they should move there themselves and get in on the gravy Marty Servo, former welterweight welter-weight champ, is continuing on the comeback trail. Last week he scored a two-round knockout over Benny Singleton. On Aug. 22, he meets Ruby Kessler at Madison two more than his entire output in 1946. If the Pirates had better pitching, they'd be right up there in the first division. The recently announced $100,000 Maturity special at Santa Anita for the next season will be something some-thing new in big-time racing. New because for the first time the 4-year-olds will have a race exclusively exclus-ively for themselves. Up to now, the 2-year-olds and the 3-lear-olds have had their own classification. But when a 3-year-old matured as a 4-year-old, he was campaigning against competition of all ages. The Maturity will be run in 1948 which leaves the door wide open for a superspecial race of the The 1947 3-year-old turf title is shared by four fast steppers Faultless, Phalanx, Jet Pilot and On Trust. If it was possible to bring these four together (each has won a $100,000 event), turf fans would really have something to talk about. Will televised sporting events have any effect on attendance ? Some seem to think that it will. But it'll probably do more good than harm. It should create new fans and stimulate additional in- |