Show of oft 0 kal G EORGE A BARCLAY ex hea heavyweight champions now ten in number IF F THE alumni chapter of ex heavyweight champions of the world were assembled under one top ten members would answer here to the roll call one or two of them would be grizzly and doddering several would be well off financially and perhaps a couple might be called wealthy one would be down and out three of them would tell you they were still active in this fighting game and on one e would predict confidently that he will be the next heavyweight champion never before in history probably have there been so many living ex ei heavyweight champions six of these ten former kings of pugilism have won and lost their titles in the last ten years can you name these fighters well never mind here they are james J jeffries jack johnson jess willard jack dempsey gene tunney max jack sharkey primo camera max baer and jim braddock jeff lives in comfort jeffries who won the championship by beating the great bob fitzsimmons at coney island in 1899 lives 7 in modest circumstances 1 out on the pacific coast he made the mistake of trying to come back against jack johnson i in 1910 after officially retiring for want of competition in 1905 jack johnson regarded by many as jack one of the greatest dempsey fighters of the lot is just about getting by financil financially ally jess willard first of the crop to make size a championship qualification is like jeff living irk in comfortable for table circumstances on the west coast besides his size W willard ia lard had a good right hand to recommend him but it good enough the day he met young jack dempsey jack dempsey who inaugurated the golden days of million dollar purses abetted by the late tex rickard and his manager jack jack kearns is keeping 6 himself active and prosperous as the proprietor of a new york restaurant constantly patronized by sports celebrities and tourists he occasionally goes into the ring as a referee nis his conqueror gene tunney last of the he great heavyweights heavy weights and the only one who ever stayed retired after he had scaled the heights is wealthy second raters rule when tunney retired a crowd of second raters scrambled for the crown one of them jack sharkey Shark py was unpredictable at times he looked great at other times he looked awful but lie he collected enough of the worlds goods indis ring career to be financially independent he was beaten by max in a bout in 1930 which was generally considered to have resulted in the election of a successor to gene tunney and in turn licked in 1932 now at the age of thirty two considered wealthy in his native germany is tuning up for a return engagement ga with champion joe louis whom he knocked out in 1936 primo camera the clodhopper who was imported from italy and given a first class exploitation by experts P erts is the most pathetic case among FM all the ex heavyweight champions ti shattered in health he is back in his native land practically without funds carnera like willard went in for size in a big way but lie he had bad nothing at all but primo size and a fair camera amount of speed to 0 o recommend it i m carnera camera was awarded the championship pion ship in a fight with in 1933 max baer who has been described as the ex champion who could fight but has been active in the ring within the last year max always seemed to be able to get gat a laugh out of everything that is until the night in june 1935 when he saw hs his title slip away in a 15 round bout with jim braddock the last member to join the ex beary weight chani champions society was and Is the Waie quietest test of the lot hes jim braddock who came back from the ranks of dock gallopers to grab the championship lie he was almost forgotten when he be met baer lie he was almost forgotten durin during the time he be held the championship and had bad little opportunity to capitalize on ca it before he went down under joe louis punching in june 1937 connie mack Is 73 75 ONNIE MACK seems to go C CONNIE on forever in baseball he celebrated his venty seventy fifth birthday irth ay recently and announced that he is going to continue managing the philadelphia L athletics until he has passed his eightieth birthday mr black as his players have always called him Is known outside of 0 baseball as cornelius he is the oldest bis big league manager in point of years old enough to be the father of practically all the other managers in the american and national leagues tie he likewise holds the record for continuous service as a manager he connie mack alack became pilot of the athletics when the american league first organized clubs in the east in 1901 and hes been bossing it ever since looking ahead and not backward as men do at seventy five mack is anticipating a better year for his athletics and when he climbs aboard the train next spring for the training camp in louisiana hell be starting his fifty fifth year in in baseball it if by some necromancy the athletics should win the pennant it would be macks tenth flag in the american league his teams have won five worlds series his contribution to baseball is represented by something far more significant ant than years of service like old man alan stagg when he coached championship teams at Chi cagos midway Ali dway mack black has left his bis mark on the men who have worked under him he has been a gentleman and has insisted on that code from his bis players his career is a monument to the value of cleanness in sports the bare fisted days the recent death of jake kilrain at the age of seventy eight stirred almost forgotten memories among those who are ancient enough to have followed boxing in the bare fisted days during sixteen years in the ring kilrain his real name was joseph josep it killion faced battlers but his bout with john L sullivan under a blazing b july suzi sun at richburg miss aliss forty nine years ago was easily the peak moment of his life kilrain and sullivan fought seventy five rounds before the boston strong boy won the old boxer in an interview a year ago said 1 I have outlived all the others and feel as frisky now as I 1 ever did I 1 eat and smoke what I 1 please and I 1 sleep like a baby Med Aled wicks records joseph michael ducky medwick of the st louis cardinals who was recently installed as the most valuable player in the national league for the 1937 season is revealed as the holder of seven other distinguished records joe led the national league in hitting tin with an average of the highest in either major league he led the national league outfielders with defensive average of the highest major league out fielding mark of the year he led the league in scoring runs with in total hits with in total bases with in two base hits with 58 56 and shared the lead in n home runs with 31 master melvin ott of the new york giants tied king joe with 31 homers for the season but it must be noted that on june 6 at philadelphia medwick hit a home run that was tossed out of the records when the phillies conduct caused the game to be forfeited to the cardinals by way of ornamenting his collection of crowns with smaller knick knacks the new emperor added fd these minor domains to his holdings he played in the most games went to bat the most times hit four two base hits in one game to tie a league record that 11 other men share and he be hit bit five home runs in three consecutive games carries in august to tie still another league mark that leave much for the rest of the league to divide as batting honors for 1937 arky vaughan of pittsburgh led the circuit with 17 three base hits medwick hit only 10 paul warker waner with made the most singles medwick ck hit just augie galan of the cubs stole 23 bases for first place in thievery seven more than his teammate stan hack who finished second here and there clark jr son of tle ce tl C e university of chicago coach recently threw the javelin feet in practice at U C L A stub allison says perry schwartz california end Is ont one of the he greatest offensive players he be ever has coached memorial high school of evansville ind which concluded its season by whipping mckeesport McKee sport pa 21 to 0 has not been defeated since 1933 in that spin span the hoosiers Hoo hale haie piled up 1111 points to 46 john lucy recently rec ertly elected col gates 19 8 football captain is a nephew of frankie frisch phil edwards edvards fornier former canadian olympic middle distance runner is a physician on the island of barbadoes Barba docs lo in lie he west indies a 6 western newspaper neap aper union |