Show I Speaking pf of Sports Sport Dempsey Picks Buddy Baer to Vanquish Louis Louisi i By ROBERT l WHILE the seemingly useless j search for a white hope goes goeson on in heavyweight ranks rank I former formers former's s 's ch champion Jack Dempsey amazed circles recently with the announcement announcement an t that Buddy Duddy Daer Baer Is just lust the lad to remove Joe Louis' Louis crown It 1 was unexpected because Buddy hasn't set the world on fire Ore III It II Iti I served erred as suite quite a boost for the younger of the Baer Bur tribe however j 1 and nd should get rei him a few Important fights And right now DOW he be needs them I Buddys Buddy's defeat by Gunnar Barlund Bar Bar- lund hurt him In more ways than one He lie lasted only seven leven rounds giving up the fight before being knocked out Since then his courage has been questioned It should be said to his credit that he be knocked out rough rough ready ready and Abe Simon aft aft- 4 I i I THE TilE BROTHERS BAER DAER BAERer er Abe gave him a merciless slugging slug ging Bing for two rounds Buddy was badly battered and when the third round came along Simon figured It ItI I time for a knockout Instead Baer Daer came out fighting defeating Simon J 7 in a whirlwind third-round third finish It would be hard to Imagine a better bet ter fighting build than Buddys Buddy's lie He weighs pounds pound and every pound is In fn the right place He lie has a tremendous tremendous tre wallop that spells curtains when it lands II All In aU all all he looks like a champion But so did another Baer Baer Maxie Granted that Buddy has size Ilze r punch and a 8 fighting heart lie He lacks one essential quick essential quick mental reaction Set up for Louis Buddy Baddy like almost an any fighter fichter can spot an opening But Bu before he decides what to do about It U the opening has disappeared That kind of a fighter would find the going all 11 too 00 tough against the Brown Bomb Bomb- er Louis Louts Is controlled lightning lie He thinks and hits bits fast fat and hard bard enough to blast any opponent regardless of x size aile Maybe Dempsey was right Buddy Duddy may be the logical throne occupant to succeed Louis At least its it's bard hard to point at al any other contender and say theres therel the man Look over j l the balance of the field and try to pick one Most fans have a pet fighter fight fight- er but they only hope In him and andIn andIn andin In their hearts know that the brown boy from down Alabama way Is Just too good for the object of their affections A few tew short months ago Max Baer Daer i was In the ring with Joe Louis The ending of the fight was to say lay the least inglorious Max was counted fJ out while resting on one knee jt ii That fact hurt Maxie Maxle a great deal more than the actual loss of the thet i t fight He lie has a long way to come comeback comeback j back to regain the confidence fans d once had in him Old Jack Roper was thrown into J the ring against Louis with no more morell ll aj chance than the last chop in a boarding house At least he gave eave West coast residents a chance to see the champ In action Disabled Vets It would be useless to recount the fights firMs Louis has baa had There There's been something the matter with ever every op opo I Jim Braddock was wa not no only washed up he was wa also a victim of or arthritis Tommy Tomm Farr reminiscent of or Scott stayed 15 IS rounds when the champ had bad an oft off night tIn Max was wa little littlemore u t more than a sheU shell John Henry LewIs Lew Is was half baU blind and wholly scared cared v i. i lie He k knew w he be couldn't stay tay ta a round j And c r. tf t I f Right now Max is attracting much more attention than is Buddy Duddy Louis Louisi i looks upon him as 81 the No 1 challenger challenger chal chal- lenger despite Tony Galento's om oft cial designation spot Max Maxis is training for his Ws June 1 I encounter encounter I Iter ter with Lou Nova one of the best bet of the present possibilities Lou is fa still on the green side aide and may be polished oil oft by the elder Baer Daer No matter how It ends it wont won't cause more than a ripple in the see sea of second sec j see see- ond and rate heavyweight hopefuls Joe Louis will wID be dethroned some someday someday day but age will have more to do with his Ills finish than the present crop of Gf leather pushers All AU champions champion soften in time even the mightiest Old Man Time Is II the best belt looking candidate In the field and he needs need a few more years yearl to remove the explosive ex plosive force from the Crown Dron Bomb er Revamped Par FRED CORCORAN tournament 1 manager of ot the Professional Golfers Golfers' Golfers Golfers' Golf Golf- ers ers' association believes that par as IS it Is la now computed Is la a completely completely com outmoded standard Logic duffers to the contrary It is Iton ison on his side aide During the winters winter's p P. P 0 G. G A A. A tour the winners were 8 t tand and 10 shots shot under par In almost every hole 72 tournament Golfing can do it every time when they're really playing In form Golf Coil with those men Is U a profession pro- pro and business The They work at atIt att It ii t all aU day da long practicing practicing- endlessly it II t has been een said that when Jug Jog Mc- Mc Spaden shot a phenomenal practice round of 59 In hi Texas he went Immediately Immediately Im Im- mediately to the tho practice tee and worked there for far two hours hour Tar Par cant can't hold down men like Uke that Corcoran has doped out a solution And he believes it will be accepted In n the near future Ills His plan lie He compares two holes boles one It l. SM yards the other On the present yardage basis par for each Is It four tour The rhe yard ard hole bole Is straightaway there are aro no traps to speak peak of and DO no out-of-bounds out bordering the fair fair- way The grew green Is U guarded b by a pond it II Is heavily trapped rapped and has ha out-of-bounds out to the left leU of the fairway and beyond the green reen According to Corcoran Corcoran's system the he yard hole bole would be given a avalue avalue value of or four With that hat as a basis the he second bole bolo would be rated at a atour four our and anti four four tenths Then by totting total lair lag ng figures for each hole bole par would be e set et The Idea certainly has merit It rt Its itis is s much more flexible than is the present method and its adoption would save lave Old Man Par from the severe beatings he has taken in recent recent re reo cent years Shining Road ONE NE of the reasons baseball Is Isa isa v- v a shining road to thousands of American youngsters Is shown Inthe In Inthe Inthe the national treasury's treasury annual salary salary sal sal- ary report The road should shine its it's its it's paved with gold Hank Bank Greenberg Greenberr of the Detroit Tigers Tigers Ti TI- gers er Is II the highest paid player in baseball today and with the hs lone lane exception r-i r I lion tion o of Babe nabe Ruth lh f the highest paid of all aU time In 1937 the Detroit Base Dase Ban Ball company paid Greenberg 38 38 Income tax returns returns re re- turns for 1938 1933 have not been checked as as' as yet but it is taken for granted that Hanks Hank's salary was hank not reduced last Greenberg Greenber year and that his last years year's record gave him an increase In in- crease Mickey Cochrane received that amount representing three salaries sal sal- aries one as 81 player one as manager manager man ager and the other as club vice president The New York Yanks paid Lou Loo Gehrig In 1937 advertising him as the highest paid ball player of today Internal revenue department depart ment figures established the fact that hat Greenberg topped lopped him b by 2500 Bill Dickey regarded Dickey regarded by many as baseballs baseball's best catcher received catcher received from the Yanks Gabby Hartnett playing manager of the Chicago Cubs received Billy BIIlY Herman Cubs second baseman Dick Bartell former shortstop with the New York Giants now with the Cubs received Mel Ott Giant lant outfielder Babe nabe Ruth Is II still siw the holder bolder of the high salary record in baseball The Yanks YaU paid him In each of three years years 1927 1927 1928 and 1929 In 1930 and 1931 he was paid and In 1932 At that Ruth Buth was the cheapest player In the major leagues Despite Despite De De- spite the stupendous pay he didn't cost the Yanks a nickel lie He packed the grandstands like no other player play er has done While Ruth was their star attraction the Yanks commanded com corn mended a guarantee of and anda anda a a percentage of every dollar over that amount for each exhibition game They played more than 30 of those games each spring bringing bring ing their receipts in excess of COO before the season leason opened Sport Shorts IN N HIS lIIS early baseball days Dill Bill Terry was once sold lold to the Knoxville Knox Knox- vile ville d club b for He lie thought that was too cheap so he be didn't report Dr John Bain Dain Jock Sutherland Sutherland erland former Pittsburgh university football coach recently accepted an appointment as chairman of the Pennsylvania state board of oral hy by giene glene lie He will organize and coordinate coordinate coordinate co co- ordinate dental clinics clinic Jim Braddock former r- r 1 heavyweight champlon cham cham- champion pion pion plon received 51 I from the tho Braddock Braddock Braddock Brad- Brad dock Gould enterprises enter enter- In 1937 k Marquette and University Uni h of Detroit will renew athletic relations next year after after a lapse of five live years There were 19 lp pitchers In Jim Braddock th the major leagues lel Il 11 to In the American and 8 In the National who won 15 games or more last lut season Paul Waner has hu won the National le league batting championship three times I IFred I IFred Fred Hutchinson Detroit's young young pitcher is still a mystery 1 man Ills His control has haa been lacking so far tar this season eason and he probably needs another year to t season searon C e Wesel a Newspaper Unto |