Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-05 | Page 14 | backseat Driving

ivin a Poor Gymnast 1 hij DIf i FRANK K BAKER BAKER- Fight critics are beginning to wonder if Max Baer Is Ls a R poor gymnasium gymnasium gymnasium gym gym- performer like Jack Dempsey used to be The Utah Mauler was was' notorious for lor his poor impressions In his work work- outs He would look bad in III training only to tear into his foes oes like a raging lion Hon when the thc real fighting began Undoubtedly this trait explains why so 50 many folks did not foresee j Dempsey's impending downfall when he was preparing for his Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia scrap with Gene Tunney Dempsey looked bad in training then but that was what folks expected Few indeed were the fans who figured he was truly worse than usual i Some sort of ot the same problem Is confronting the fight fraternity fraternity frater frater- nit now Bacr Baer punches and boxes like an overgrown grammar school chool boy in his public workouts say l ay the war correspondents from his training camp c Despite Ill his mediocre ring work the writers are impressed by magnificent physical He lie looks like liken a n million net when he starts his calisthenics rope jumping and heavy ba bap punching 1 the scribes report When Jack Thornley Utah's conference throwing javelin champion goes to Los Angeles June 22 and 23 to comp compete te in the national col- col he will run into what is p perhaps the array of Javelin throwers ever collected for an intercollegiate meet Thornley a a. foot l himself will be matched against at least five athletes boasting marks of better beUer than feet this year Horace Odell of Manhattan colle college go tops the thc list with a toss of feet teet 11 inches John Mottram l Stanford boasts a feet 10 8 7 inches heave while Bob Parke Oregon has done feet 7 4 3 Inches Other outstanding spear peRr arc are Ralston Legore North Carolina feet 8 8 7 inches Graham Batchelor Georgia bet leet 8 inches and Buddy Blair Louisiana State feet 10 inches Pacific Coast League Develops Murderers Murderers' Row of Its Own OwnA A new Murderers Row has arisen in ba baseball in the man four-man home run attack featured by the Los Angele club which has hns stepped out to lead the Pacific Coast circuit by a dozen doren games The old Yankee combination or of Ruth Gehrig has its powerful counterpart in the Angels' Angels lineup of oZ Oglesby Demaree J Campbell Among them they ha have already accounted for 50 home runs Demarce Demaree setting the pace with 23 Campbell is n a catcher an infielder and Oglesby the first baseman Demaree Is the outfielder sent back to the coast b by the Chicago Cubs because he couldn't hit George Moriarty American lea league ue umpire called a long drive e by Al Simmons Immons into the Hie stands foul when everyone else thought it fair recently at Comiskey park In hi a series against the Yankees Four Yankees It is said who were in a position to see sec the ball ban figured fig tired it was as fair After Arter the game Moriarty found his car with a a. flat tire Both Simmons Simmons' and Moriarty park parks their ca In the same lot Simmons left the park first Herman Goldstein who graduates from the University of Utah this spring ran the yard dash in 97 seconds but not fast enough lot him He hopes to land an appointment to the army air corps and nd d doa bit bItt of Cf 1 fl l make L that lt 97 7 look like crawling