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Show 5 pectkt n g, of Sports ( Ke;:mptl Par Dempsey Picks Buddy Baer to Vanquish Louis By ROBERT McSIIAKE niILE the seemingly useless search for a white hope goes heavyweight ranks, former champion Jack Dempsey amazed fistic circles recently with the announcement that Buddy Baer is just the lad to remove Joe Louis crown. It was unexpected because Buddy hasnt set the world on fire. It served as quite a boost for the younger of the Baer tribe, however, and should get him a few important fights. And right now he needs them. Buddys defeat by Gunnar hurt him in more ways than one. He lasted only seven 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 knocked Abe Simon aft out V on in Bar-jun- d rough-and-read- y FRED eri OORCOKAN, tournament mm ager of the Pi ufe.s.vum.) t; r. ms t it ! it is now plcti h L"-:i- eon pule i, (uitrtii d . t, ,i, i ;s ; c .d 350-yar- d According to Corcorans system the 350 yard hole would be given a value of four. With that as a basis, the second hole would be rated at four and be set. Then, by total-in- - four-tenth- ures for each hole, par would ...c idea certainly has merit It is much more flexible than is the present method, and its adoption would save Old Man Par from the severe beatings he has taken in recent years. Shining Road of the reasons baseball is ")NE a third-roun- Set-u- p for Louis shining road to thousands of American youngsters is shown in the national treasurys annual salary report. The road should shine its paved with gold. Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers is the highest paid player in baseball today, and with the lone exception of Babe Ruth, the highest paid of all time. In 1937 the Detroit Base Ball company paid Greenberg Income tax returns for 1938 have not been checked as yet, but it is taken for that granted Hanks salary was last not reduced year, and that his last years record gave him an increase. Mickey Cochrane received $45,000, that amount representing three salaries, one as player, one as manager and the other as club vice president. The New York Yanks paid Lou Gehrig $36,000 in 1937, advertising him as the highest paid ball player of today. Internal revenue department figures established the fact that Greenberg topped him by $38,-50- Buddy, like almost any fighter, can spot an opening. But before he decides what to do about it the opening has disappeared. That kind of a fighter would find the going all too tough against the Brown Bomber. Louis is controlled lightning. He $2,500. Bill Dickey regarded by many as thinks and hits fast and hard enough to blast any opponent, regardless of baseballs best catcher received $18,000 from the Yanks. Gabby size. of the Maybe Dempsey was right. Buddy Hartnett, playing manager received $17,835. Billy Cubs, Chicago throne be the occupant may logical to succeed Louis. At least its hard Herman, Cubs second baseman, to point at any other contender and $17,000. Dick Bartell, former shortstop say theres the man. Look over the balance of the field and try to with the New York Giants, now with Mel Ott, pick one. Most fans have a pet fight- the Cubs, received $17,000. $17,500. Giant outfielder, er, but they only hope in him, and Babe Ruth is still the holder of in their hearts know that the brown the high salary record in baseball. is boy from down Alabama way him $70,000 in each just too good for the object of their The Yanks paid of three years 1927, 1928 and 1929. fistic affections. A few short months ago Max Baer In 1930 and 1931 he was paid $80,000, was in the ring with Joe Louis. The and in 1932, $75,000. At that Ruth was the cheapest ending of the fight was, to say the Deleast, inglorious. Max was counted player in the major leagues. out while resting on one knee. spite the stupendous pay he didnt That fact hurt Maxie a great deal cost the Yanks a nickel. He packed more than the actual loss of the the grandstands like no other playWhile Ruth was their fight. He has a long way to come er has done. back to regain the confidence fans star attraction, the Yanks commanded a guarantee of $3,500 and once had in him. Old Jack Roper was thrown into a percentage of every dollar over the ring against Louis with no more that amount for each exhibition 30 chance than the last chop in a game. They played more than each bringspring, boarding house. At least he gave of those games of West coast residents a chance to ing their receipts in excess season opened. the before see the champ in action. $100,-00- It would be useless to recount the fights Louis has had. Theres been something the matter with every op ponent. Jim Braddock was not only washed up, he was also a victim of arthritis. Tommy Farr, reminiscent of Phainting Phil Scott, staged 15 rounds when the champ had an off night. Max Schmeling was little more than a shell. John Henry Lewis was half blind and wholly scared He knew he couldnt stay a round. And didnt. Right now Max is attracting much more attention than is Buddy. Louis looks upon him as the No. 1 chai lenger, despite Tony Galentos offi cial designation to that spot. Max is training for his June 1 encounter with Lou Nova, one of the best of the present possibilities. Lou is still on the green side, and may be polished off by the elder Baer. No matter how it ends it wont cause more than a ripple in tbe sea of second rate heavyweight hopefuls. Joe Louis will be dethroned some lay, but age will haze more to do ith his finish than the present crop of leather pushers. 0 Shorts Disabled Vets All champions soften in time, even the mightiest Old Man Time is the best look, re candidate m the field, and he need-few more years to remove tbe ex Plosive force from the Brown Bomb r?: 1 - green. er Abe gave him a merciless slugging for two rounds. Buddy was badly battered, and when the third round came along Simon figured it time for a knockout. Instead Baer came out fighting, defeating Simon d finish. in a whirlwind to would hard be It imagine a better fighting build than Buddys. He weighs 240 pounds, and every pound is in the right place. He has a tremendous wallop that spells curtains when it lands. All in all, he looks like a champion. But so did another Baer Maxie. Granted that Buddy has size, He punch and a fighting heart. lacks one essential quick mental reaction. With Bigger Bundle of Thrills ' duffer in p II ..! ,s h.s s.de. Du.i o u : v i s ,ul;r t. e warns vvi ic f and 1(J shuts ut.uil ,i s; ewiy 72 o.e Uuiiiun.irt GG'i.g topnotel ers can do it en-uLcr they're i e.iliy plav.ng m f. fee in, Golf, with those men, is a profession and business. They work al it all day long, eedlexslv. practicing It lias been said that when Jug shot a phenomenal practice round of 59 in Texas, he went immediately to the practice tee and worked there for two hours. Iar cant hold down men like that. Cm ci iran has doped out a solut.on And he believes it will be aeeeiltd in the near futuie llsphii, He compares two holes, one is 350 yards, the other 415. On the present yardage basis par for each is four. I he hole is straightaway, there are no traps to speak of arid no bordering the fairway. The 415 yarders green is guarded by a pond, it is heavily to the trapped and has left of the fairway and beyond the Bill early baseball days, was once sold to the Knox-- i for $750. He thought that cheap, so he didnt report John Bain (Jock) Suth urmer Pittsburgh university oach, recently accepted an icnt as chairman of the ama state board of oral hy organize and co Jim dertal clinics former Biaddock, heavyweight cham-pion- , received 551.the Biad-133 from M lock Gould en'er-1937 prises m Marquette and Uni ;ie will - v ers.ty Dctro.t BIZARRE MURDER MYSTERY TALE OF Big Top Hits Trail Once More 7 ' 'v j d A and members of their family never saw them again. MINNEAPOLIS. Three rats ate I lephunts ure tiltrays During the intervening quarter play tng marbles on the University muni circus nllrut lions. century Tulare county peace of- of Minnesota campus all in the inMod or, an a e rob a tie ficers made sporadic but unsuccess- terest of a scientific experiment to ful efforts to determine what hap- determine if they can work together pachyderm, pulled this as a team. pened to the couple. The two daughhead st a nil from her ters of the Wests, Mrs. Elizabeth Dr. William T. Haron, head of tl e trunk of trieks at the Antony and Mrs. Mamie Higgins of animal psychology department, saul slum's u inter quarters Los Angeles, despaired of learning the object of the experiment was to in Sarasota, t la. the fate of their parents and became discover if rats can in a reconciled to a simple theory of given task as do human beings, and, because thought processes of, disappearance. rats are not unlike those of man, to1 Found Father Changed Name. Then in 1936 they heard that a shed further light on mans habits rancher named Jacob Clinton had in modem society. The rats are in tho died in a little mountain community south of San Francisco. They sus- research because if they dont play, marbles they dont eat. And hunpected and finally learned definitely that Jacob Clinton and their fa- ger, Dr. Haron explained, is the only ther Jacob Clinton West were the real motivating factor in their lives. same person. Tbe marble game is taking plenty From that one fact, officials un- of time. Already the rats have been wound one of the most bizaire at it four months. Here's how ths stones in the history of crime in game has developed so far: California. They learned that less Late last fall the marbles wets than a year after the disappearance. placed on a ledge in the cage, so West assumed the name of Jacob the rats could knock them off acciClinton and mairied his wifes sis- dentally. And as each niarbls ter, Mrs. Hattie Dovvnhour. rolled off, an electric hookup reThey learned that West constantly leased a pcll t of fixid in the rats reassured Mrs. Dovvnhour there was dish. In shoit order the rats learned no danger of bigamy because they would never again hear from Lu- that when they wanted to eat they cinda the first Mrs, West West had to knotk the marble off ths explained his assumed name hy say- ledge. Uut then the experimenters made the game more difficult, reing he was a fugitive from Los Angeles authorities who wanted him quiring that the mnrbles he rolled on a forgeiy charge. up a slight incline and through a small hole. auThen, Mrs. Downhour told the At present the rats are learning thorities, when West was dying two years ago he called her to lus bed- the hardest part of the game that of their woi king as a team. side. One 1 have must roll a marble about six inches, Hattie," lie told tier, something to tell you, something the second must lift one over a about Lucinda. I swear by my God small ledge, while the third pushes I paid $2,500 to a man to get rid of a maible up an incline. her." And when the rats learn their present task, they will he put in a Jealously Guarded Secret. Mrs. Downhour said that was her cage together. They will be refirst inkling she had that her sister quired to handle one marble eav'h Horses are also good attractions. Above, Tex b.lmlunilt, famous had met with foul play at the hands doing bis pat Uvular job. trainer of liberty horses , puts a quartet through their pares. Ile of the man who then was her husLamb Snatcher Leaves low, Achmed, the performing horse, performs for William llcycr. band. From that dying statement, lie leaps directly up into the air and lands in the same spat. This Mis. Downhour said, she understood Woolly Trail for the Law is probably the first time such a stunt has been accomplished or w'hy West refused to be given opOHIO. While evidently WAUSEN, iates when he suffered violent heart photographed. attacks because he feared that in mentally wool gathering, a lamb the resulting delirium he might utter thief didnt do very well at the real thing- - he left too many live clues words. With this evidence, officials have behind him for the benefit of deputy sheriffs on his trail. established that Mrs. West was The slienffs turned sleuths when either by her husband or oy a lured assassin. They now want Simon Rye liener of Pittisville ieport-ethe theft of 16 lambs. The deputo learn where the body was hidden. decided to trail the thief in a ties ' L. They aie faced with two possibiliway. systematic ties. First, the body of a woman First they visited the Rychener found in the Kings river near Visaand found a trailer gale lylia the year after the disappearance pasture in the road. Their second clue ing may have been Mrs. West. Second, was a license plate in the road. A', the murdered woman may have , down the road They been buried somewhere beside the and foundproceeded one of the victims of the lonely road between Visalia and Los which had escaped Angeles. Since there ore no records from the thief, bleating forlornly. to reveal the identity of the body The continued driving down found in the river, they are working the deputies at farms and colroad, stopping on the second theory. lecting the loot the thief had lost. By this time the deputies were finding its pietty stuffy crowded in Crippled Old Lady Takes a sedan with 32 lambs, but they perAerialists rehearse their Broomstick to Burglar severed and reached the end of their breath-takinfeats at win-te- r NEW YORK. A tiny Irish lady, trail at the Bowling Green (Ohio) quarters. turning 61, her arm and leg still home of Calvin Heinman stock stiff and weak from old injuries, buyer and owner of the lost license 4 s grabbed a broomstick and beat the plate and trailer gate. The i living daylights out of a husky obtained a confession Negro who climbed into her apart- from Heinman and the four remainment and demanded her money. ing stolen Iambs winch were in his The woman, Mrs Mary Quinn, barn. The lamb thief retraced his wooflailed the Negro until he screamed for help and fled. She banged him lgathering route but to the county on the brad until be dived through jail this time instead of to the the window and ran down the fire Rychener pastuie. escape and disappeared There was only one dollar in the Canary Bursts Into Song; house, Mrs Quinn said later to a Nearly Wins Court Case newspaper man, "but he was not ORE. A songless PORTLAND, going to get that canary threw the municipal court into a quandary when it burst forth Retired Blacksmith Takes nmr-dcie- d d MIXx -- - - f. lamb-napper- ...jj ac There ore 19 pitchers in the n ajor I! he Na'-- in the Ameii an - al. v : o w s 15 ! Jl a.-e Nat. r.al time three rpionsh.p n.r.son, Detro.t s yr v 2 3 dv - f ' ner, iS unit red has been lackrg r.teds ,n and he probably sore iu- -t 1 - 12 won t: e stj ar to fo.--. r, ," g n sheriff-deputie- 22-Mi- le wizard Right, Hubert Castle, uhnl knows per fee- of the wire, lion means, and here be is put- O , handlers of ferocious animals, horse trainers and the world s funniest clou ns complete the picturesque assortment. i; ,a ' '0 l . tfli fl f l'bl ' 3933 j'' i working as a blacksmith "I ran all the way to get my first Wr I1 Jaunt Every Day C W Kaighin, 76 CLEVELAND be leads all his believes old, years fellow citizens in this city when it comes to long distance walking Kaighin takes his dully exercise by walking from the downtown area to suburban Rocky river and back again, or from public square to suburban Eurlid and bulk Each trip is about 22 miles He spent most of bis hfe ur.H at his speting in some praitire , intrepid riders Reckless cialty. rc rew a'h.'etic relati ms next year alter veais CLEVELAND. ILs taste for turkey led to the arrest of Charles Calloway. Calloway couldnt resist eating turkey tidbits in merchandise, he left a greasy fingerprint on a cigarette machine. Captured while trying to enter another pluce, his prints were found to match the one on the vending machine. Shut down last mid- Dying Man Confesset Paying $2,500 to Get Rid of season by bad business. Unwanted Wife. i Kindling' greatest shoie on earth' experts its biggest run this year VISALIA, CALIF. Miles of desert thanks partly to Charles and mountain country between Visal.cMaire (left), noted de- lia and Los Angeles are being signer it ho planned searched by authorities who hope to find the body of Mrs. Lucinda Jane unique costuming , West and the complete solution of a anil big top murder mys- RATS PLAY MARBLES battling 25 year-olrestyled it with a blue tery. FOR THEIR DINNER eeiling, gold and silver It was in 1913 Mrs. West and her renter and quarter poles. husband, Jacob Clinton West, set out from Los Angeles for the lonely trip It All in the Interest of to their Tulare countv ranch 2o0 Scientific Experiment. miles to the north. Their friends will a lap e of five 1913 IS UNFOLDED A Taite for Turkey Helps Capture Thief 'f 7frf tiiiijn i ii!!h ' , w ' 'A job as an apprentice, be said "I guess Ive liked to walk and run ever since. No, I cant run those 22 miles every day. Walking is good enough exercise, anyway Always Getting Hit COLO WALSENBURG, - Five times now Ernest Tafoyu. 12 yer old newspaper boy of this place, has been knocked down by automobiles and each time fe has corne up smilNever got hardly a scra'fh ing out of all five accidents" said t1 I must be like a cat A hoy. ve accidents One occurred in . o year period. into song. Court was hearing the case of Jack Sitser, 40, charged with having sold worthless singng canaries that couldnt utter a peep for unreasonable prices As witness after witness testified against Sitser, the defense's exhibit A, a supposedly mute canary, began to carol wildly However, Judge Julius Cohn found Sitser guilty and levied a $3U tine and a j.nl term Girls Aged 7, 8 and 9 Explain Nether Region LONDON Thiee small girls were chief witr. esses in a case heard by Port Talbot mag'strates The clerk explaired to them t' e importance of the oath. He sa.d to them, ot e by one, "You kn w .vi.at haj'pens to little girls who tell l.es. dont you Here are their answers-Fn-- t girl (aged nine) Yes, t ey t! e burn.ng fire. go Second g rl (seed eignt) Yes, s.r. 'I lav go to tie burning fire. 'Iniid gal (agiu o en) They go m-e- r, to hell. |