Show Lone Contender A A to Gene Tenney theres there's only one fighter today who has the slightest chance of dethroning dc- dc Heavyweight Champion Joe JoeLouis JoeLouis Louis and that lone contender Is Bob Pastor known more familiarly as Six Day Pastor because of his round 0 bicycle race with the Brown Bomber in 1937 At a recent banquet In Detroit Mich the former champ stated Of all the fighters Ive I've seen lately latey late late- ly y Id I'd rate Pastor as having the best chance He is isI I the smartest fighter t we have today s knows all the mechanics me me- of the game thinks fast feints and moves around Ills His lone weakness weakness- and that would prove a his undoing undoing undoing-Is is he the fact that he lacks a punch Tunney Is admittedly admit Gene Tunney a good student of boxing He worked lard hard to become a great fighter and learned earned mor maize e about the finer points of the game than many a natural slugger lugger who came up by an easier route His Dis reason for Cor picking Pastor as asbe the be logical contender is simple In Tunney's own words Pastors the I Ionly only heavyweight ht around today who can an think Few people will argue with Gentleman Gen Gen- leman Gene on that score If any anyone anyone one nc of the present heavyweights whips Louis it will be the result of headwork The Bomber hasn't many flaws laws He is one of the hardest hitters hitters hit- hit ers the ring has ever seen punching punching punch- punch ing ng as hard with either hand as any heavyweight And hes he's tough But Buthe Buthe Butic he ic is by no means mem a lightning-fast lightning thinker linker However er Pastors Pastor's ability to think doesn't give ive him much of an edge In n his previous fight with Louis he was was vas too loo busy back pedalling to get gel geln in n his best mental licks At that he ic was considerably more fortunate than ban most of the title seekers who after a couple minutes of oC action did id most of oC their thinking via yia the dream ream route Resting comfortably on n their backs Quite a few fighters who have faced aced Louis during the past two years ears have found It much safer to todo todo too do o their thinking while m in a prone position Theres There's little chance that thata a stick of dynamite will explode in m n t the e vicinity of their jaw disrupting disrupting disrupt- disrupt ing ng their mental process and unnerving unnerving un- un nerving erving nerving them to such an nn extent they hey are arc no long longer r able to carry carryon on To some extent the National Boxing Boxing Box- Box ing ng association agrees with Mr Tunney Tuney Tun Tun- ney ey but with reservations In recent recent reent re- re cent ent ratings members of that group promoted Pastor to the rank of No 2 challenger outranked at the time ime by Galento Pastor replaced Lou Am Nova in second place It Is a dubious honor Even such has-beens has as Maxie 1 Baer and Tomm Tommy Tommy Tom Tom- m my Farr were given rankings in fourth and fifth places respectively Nova recent conqueror of Max Baer is another of the current crop who vho has no place in the ring with Louis lOuis according to Tunney Nova he ic says is in in no way equipped for fora a fight with the dusky king His legs are far from being good and they hey keep him off balance much of the he time He hasn't much of a punch and his defense leaves almost everything everything everything ev ev- to be desired Hes He's easy to o hit and that doesn't speak well wellor for or his chances with Louis After all it doesn't seem to make much difference By no measuring stick could any of the contenders be called great but they do furnish fodder odder for the champion Sport Shorts sorts H HARRY ARRY GONDER Michigan City Ind golf pro drove a golf ball 1817 times in a vain attempt to score an ace on a yard yard hole hale on his lis home course Odds against him were figured at to 1 Gen Abner Doubleday called the father of baseball was among other things a founder of the Theosophical cal society Ted Lyons Is pitching pitch pitch- ing ng his seventeenth season for the White Sox Canadian newspapers newspapers pers refer to softball as mush ball Connie Mack Macks t s says ys the the greatest player he has ever managed was Eddie Collins Al AI her Schacht whose top i salary as a player a. a 1 was ex expects cots t. t t h J to earn as a r 1 minor league clown this year Baron Baron Bar Bar- I son s- s on Gottfried cd von N Cramm once Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- best tennis many's Eddie Collins player who had to todo todo todo do a stretch In a concentration camp has become a Swedish subject subject subject sub sub- Paul Derringer Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincin Cincin- nati ace walked only six men in l his s first 60 innings this year Five American league players were born outside the United States Pitcher of Washington in hi Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela Vene Vene- zuela Outfielder Estalella of the same club in m Cuba Geoffrey Heath of Cleveland and George Selkirk of New York In Canada and Arndt Jorgens of the Yankees in Norway In one Inning this season the ninth the Dodgers used four pitchers pitch pitch- ers ers and and the to foes s scored only two runs The N National open championship championship championship cham cham- may net Byron Nelson around this year much of it depending on showmanship personality personality person person- etc Compressed air Is being used to clean clem off home borne plate at Wichita Kan by Western Newspaper Union |