Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-15 | Page 18 | Princeton Already Lays Claim to 1934 National Grid Laurels

Princeton Already Lays Claim To 1934 National Nation l Grid Laurels i. i Tigers rigers Will Return Intact However Fail to 10 Schedule 1 Games Gaines With Tough Fo Foes s' s Promoter Likes Rosy r 1 By HENRY McLEMORE 1 t United Press Sports Writer SEW NEW NEw YORK YORE YORK Dec ec l 15 Being 1 no nothing more ore tHan rix seven seven- or r eight I paragraphs p on n t this L that and the oth other Princeton thanks to a great coach and the happy coincidence that I herd sherd of ot prep school stars enrolled the same year he took charge stands to have one of the mightiest teams in Its history next year ear Already the men of old Nassau are arc claiming the 1934 national championship Yet et their claim will willbe be a hollow one one f for r not sin since e old tooth Carnera's Car Car- n n nera's ras ra's triumphal tour through the tall I timbers a while back has a schedule called for as m many ny round-heeled round push pushovers overs as Princeton's for next year The first half of the season will b be devoted to Amherst Williams Washington Wash Wash- ington Lee Cornell the second to Harvard Lehigh Yale and Dart mouth If It beating that bunch entitles you to a football championship then Baby Leroy Lerby in 15 rounds Is good for the heavyweight title 1 If asked for their opinion as to the greatest fighter in the ring tod today y 99 out of citizens would answer either Camera or Max Baer The dissenter would be James Joy Johnston of ot Madison Madison Mad Mad- ison hon Square Garden His choice would be Maxie the light heavyweight champion Maxie sc scales les less than pounds jut but Id I'd bet a years year's pay he could beat bea hell out of ol any heavyweight in the ring With his speed and brains and slapping and cuffing hed he'd have Carnera Carnera Car Car- nera craz crazy In five heats and Baer in seven They'd never hit him Mr John Johnston ton was asked why he didn't match Maxie with the big boys and he was good for tor two reasons One is that the heavyweights will wUl have nothing to do with Maxie And the second i is that the heavyweights are the real moneymakers money for a promoter and its it's a daffy promoter indeed who exposes them to the danger of ot getting them beaten by smaller men Johnston Johnston Johns Johns- ton admits that he he made a dire mistake mis take by letting Sharkey get in hi there therewith therewith therewith with Mickey Walker It cost Sharkey prestige an Garden money You might do worse with your spare spa money than buy baseball players Good ones ones I mean Bob Dunn of Bait Balti more picked up Lefty Grove for th the price of or ofa a a good meal and lived t to se see him go to Philadelphia for better than And Connie Mack just sold sole him for The Red Sox bought bough Ruth for less than and sold him for 40 times that The Yankees picked Lou Gehrig up for nothing and loo look what hed he'd bring today Maranville cos cost his original owners haircut money and so did Walter Johnson Jimmy Foxx risch and a host of or others Oh yes youre you're liable to pick a lemon The Giants paid for lor Len Ko Ko- l eecke and Wheres Where's he now j