| Show 1 I 6 4 0 now york post serri cs jack curley takes you on a journey down memory lane jack curley famed sports promoter Is hugh Br Brad adleys leyl guest columnist today flashbacks to the old days contained occasionally in this column he says have caused him to go wandering down to memory lane too loo by JACK CURLEY HEN farmer burns bums who died WHEN recently rung in dan mcleod under another name against frank gotch a lad from humboldt Ilum boldt iowa the two wrestled on a cinder dump back of the round house for nearly four hours the best the world beater mcleod got out of it was a draw it took gotch several months to get rid of the ashen cinders under his skin do you remember when eddie santry won the world featherweight championship he knocked out ben jordan of england in sixteen rounds at tom es club in N new ew york city and when terry mcgovern knocked out santry at Tatter in chicago in five rounds some of the worlds greatest fights jimmy barry versus casper leon tommy ryan verus tommy west joe wolcott versus kid lavigne abe attel versus owen moran frank slavin versus P peter e t e r jackson peter maher versus joe goddard pedlar palmer versus terry mcgovern jack dempsey v versus er fred fulton gene tunney versus jack dempsey jim flynn versus carl morris all these fights caused gossip for years johnny mcavoy one of new yorks best ring referees rode as a jockey in maspeth haspeth Ma L I 1 years before he refereed at almost the same spot stanford white never missed a boxing 0 r wrestling ringside at the old garden down in madison square harry thaw came to a all I 1 I 1 the wrestling shows in the new garden jack curley up to the time he settled in virginia another old timer missed at all the ringsides ringsiders ring sides is jim Ville he always bought two seats and occupied both he weighed pounds for the first time in many years a wrestling show was staged recently in the he olympia stadium in in london several wrestlers wrest lers cami familiar liar to american mat audiences participated on the bill carl one of americas persistent challengers who seldom gets on a card journeyed all the way to liverpool only to be turned away and not allowed to land some previous income tax trouble was the cause frankie neil one time bantamweight champion came from south of t the he slot in san francisco his dad who managed him was somewhat of a soapbox orator ile he was a racetrack bookmaker and when betting was slow on the ponies hed bellow across the betting ring i who wants to take 1000 a gains against t my boy frankle frankie dad took frankle frankie to england for a twenty round fight with jem bowker ker of course the slugging american fighter lost the decision D dad ad who was one of the early we cuzz robbed barkers yelled all the way home chicago heard his vo voice ice when the ship was in the middle of the ocean who was the referee dad neil was asked 1 I dont know his name but he was some bum bartender yelped back mr neil senior semor the bum bartender happened to be eugene cori millionaire stock exchange member and one of eng lands greatest arbiters in all boxing history my boy chased bowker all the way added papa neil and when I 1 remonstrated with the referee he be chirped back it if you shoot at a bird and miss him that counts for the bird finally a boxing scribe asked mr neil what chance abe atten ha had with bowker attell was then the acknowledged fastest and cleverest in america but the neils and astels were sworn enemies what roared mr neil abe artells At tells chances with bowker gee chizz attel hit him with a handful of shot that settled neil nells s claim of an unfair decision in england thirty two years ago george hack en schmidt wrestled and defeated ahmed maddali Mad rali the terrible turk at olympia stadium in london spectators crowded the arena on the first pull tor for a flying mare hold bold won in less than five minutes when he pulled mad ralls ralis arm out of socket NOT IN THE BOX SCORE A A L LANG trainer ot of freddy ra steele refers to the worlds middleweight champion as fish cake finn carlstadt goalie tor for the norwegian turners is one ot of the few soccer stars who wear spectacles while playing and he always has somebody stand by with a spare pair lust just in case university ot of oklahoma wrestlers wrest lers have a lingo all their own A muscle head is a wrestler and a pinky Is a wrestler out 0 of f condition d it I 1 on high class trainers such a as H hirsch i r s ch jacobs and bert mitchell give their riders few instructions its usually the phony trainer to touts ats who whisper sweet nothings in the jockeys jockeY 3 ears while paddock yokels gape johnny kilbane the former featherweight champion who now manages jimmy vaughn la is a versatile gent recently he se seconded C vaughn in a bout with fred freddy d Y miller at louisville and then jumped in m and refereed the semifinal between freddie eiler and henry firpo the yankees have an eye on L D meyer the T C V U end who scored all his teams points against marquette on new years day texans say the youngster is even better at baseball than football likewise the senators are anticipating the rush by a year or two while gazing longingly at alex campanas N Y U freshman joe mcmanus who plays such a tidy inside left for the new york soccer americans also manages the brooklyn basketball visitations burly ty anderson is the ching johnson of the atlantic city sea gulls like the ranger veteran he plays left defense and also like the ranger veteran he brings down the bouse house every time he goes down the le ice e ed wade whose two points after touchdown won utah state the rocky mountain conference football title also is center on the basketball team which met manhattan at madison square garden carden recently ile he runs a turkey far farm m on the side kent ryan calta captain in and forward of the same team is reported the greatest athlete ever produced in the conference while the only extra bid for fame that can be thought up for the other forward shelby west is that he is married blessed event an E R bradley horse that once held a hia leah park track record was left at the post and beaten lengths in a 1500 claiming race the other day the atlantic city auditorium home of the sea gulls is so large that 1500 customers can be accommodated for wrestling matches in a separate arena built on the stage because some friends read too hastily bill barfield the once great tiger lineman wants to go on record as saying 1 I think the princeton freshman football team of 1940 contained the best material that I 1 have seen on a freshman team at princeton in man many y years bobby kerr former president etite of the metropolitan soccer league now is doing notable work as head bead of the empire state junior league bing crosby has an argentine horse called Sub vedo who is supposed to be able to run a mile in even bing believe that though 4 harry lenny T m manager nager of ray im is an accomplished complis hed pianist preferring the classical f to the more popular swing music da dan parker 11 the sports evangel evangelist also is a piano bing crosby player of note more than one note in fact jack bales the former princeton footballer brings word from columbus that charlie beetham the unlucky ohio stater who should have been an olympic half mile ace is going better than ever beetham who should be an important figure in the big meets later this winter now assists himself in getting into shape by running up the ohio state stadium steps at al lattin the genius behind the worlds bowling championships pion plon ships totes pounds on his six foot two inch frame and is the heaviest man on the alleys ile he throws a 16 pound hall ball for a average but averaged while winning the elks individual tit title lee dave shiman one of the m maple crashing stars of thirty years ago now low is a successful business man joe humphreys favorite song which he used to sing in his high falsetto voice was the rose of kildare the night when the late and greatest of all sports announcers noun cers arrived in detroit to announce the johnny tom heeney affair his baggage consisted of one clean collar and tw two 0 packs of cigarettes incidentally when joe at al smith always called him josephus was achieving tame fame a great quartet of announcers were still in their headey fred burns and johnny dunn passed away years ago only charley harvey and pete prunty remain of that old bunch now most friends of gene rate his final round of 66 in the 1932 national open his greatest golfing coffing feat but gene himself has a softer spot tor for the four birdies he be got on the last four holes of the agua caliente open the 66 brought him 1000 in cash but those four birdies earned him the largest golf prize ever won |
