Show speaking of sports white bite hope era forecast with louis victory rold D 1 who saw joe louis OL U P polish 0 lish off max Sch meUng in 1 two minutes and fifteen seconds in their recent championship fight in new evv are predicting Pc ting that another open season for or white hopes i looms ahead a season reminiscent rt of the simos almost t forgotten days of 0 a veneration rene tene ration ago when carl morris jim flynn luther mccarthy frank goran and jess willard were crowding row dinS the their i r way up for or a chance it t the heavy heavyweight weight belt which dusk dusky y jick jack johnson had won from jim jeffries but its going to take a mighty good man to give joe any competition on the the basis asis D of his sensational knockout of the crafty from all appearances he is going to be the top man heavyweight for s number of years to come there was considerable doubt about that before the fight particularly in view of cf his knockout in 1936 by and his indifferent showing a while back against the mediocre tommy farr joe showed he was a great champion though and finally made good the predictions made about his ealus benius two years ago when he was knocking all opposition cold and before he met the first 7 time in louis flight this time it was a massacre from the start louis smothered the puzzled german with fists and had him on en the canvas almost as soon as the fight started he clubbed him down twice more before the fight was stopped the kidney punch which max said disabled him and which necessitated his havi having ng hospital treatment afterward for a broken vertebra was delivered after louis had rocked max with blows to the head a minute louis had the distinction of being the only champion in history to knock out an opponent before the first round was over he also set a new worlds record for earnings his share of the gate was Q JOE LOUIS making baking his time worth approximately per minute or per second promoters will probably look in vin vain tor for anyone in the present crop of 0 heavyweights heavy weights sufficiently handy with his fists to relieve joe of his bis town crown only three fighters of today would stand an outside chance till mi baer who rehabilitated his feliu reputation lation as a big time performer when be fought tommy farr recently tony galento who has been tilled called the human punching bag nd id gunnar barlund the doughty sw swede who stopped buddy baer just t when en that young man seemed headed toward a ring career max is scheduled to meet joe in september for a crack at the title how much of a fight max would be gibli le to make against the champion is extremely problematical the baer who knocked out mg ng carnera camera and others would make a good showing but the baer who lost to braddock and louis stand the ghost of a show max baers Cli chances ances for future success depend on oil his physical condition and on h his is cental state he can beat fighters he t thinks he can beat if he is in condition in or out of condition he 10 bould be a push pushover over for louis un less sa he conquered the jitters t that lift had na hirn him shaking just before his I 1 previous fight with louis light ight clubs out ot baer claims he is in condition 4 0 end 1 that he will train faithfully and 4 thill s seems to be borne out by the acts cb lie he has cut outtie out the night club stuff h b irth fk since his marriage and the 0 in of his ls son Ks his decisive vl vic c 0 tory ry over bmw tommy y farr of england 0 litiere 0 decisive 0 over ov than louls louis scored I 1 the iab fark y indicates castes cs tes he is telling truth aruth he is nine 0 only twenty J aars h hit it hard i 8 rd old y when hes heps right ea he can enough sh to 0 0 out dy knock anybody 4 it ally A odds cant stop louis and the to are that at he wont then galen add 00 thle B baklund are all that stand in t top aly y that nat Is until a modern of U white hop P es begins bebi to fight the ae way brown R up ID bomber IM for the chance to meet babe manager WHEN phail the canny tarry larry me ilc business mana manager gerof of the brooklyn dodgers signed babe ruth as coach recently he be not only added thousands of dollars a year to the pulling power of the dodgers at the turnstiles turn stiles but he aroused one speculation that intrigues sports tans fans everywhere will the babe be brooklynn Brook lyns next manager from all indications the popularity of manager burleigh grimes is 4 Z J 41 ay iy BABE RUTH waning rapidly not only with the fans but with the management while the announcement of ruths appointment as coach broke as sudden news those on the inside say negotiations have been under way for weeks and that it was ruth himself who sold the management on the idea of signing him there much chance ot of a switch until the season is over it if it does occur then the babe has been away from the game long enough to be just a bit rusty moreover he will have to acquaint himself with the strength and weaknesses of national league teams and players but by next year the insiders say he will be ready what kind of a manager would ruth make baseball men are unanimous ous on the subject of his ability they say he has baseball sense an asset you must be born with one authority declares there never was an outfielder in the majors who made fewer mistakes than the babe this instinct guides a manager as well as a player in making decisions ci the results of which will win or lose ball games fans everywhere have wondered why ruth been given a managers job up to now colonel ruppert P ert owner of the new york yank kees gave the babe serious consideration tor for the job but decided otherwise because he believed th the e home run king was too happy g go 0 lucky here and there TOE OE LOUIS is the fifteenth holder of the heavyweight championship under marquis of rules the only other colored fighter io to girt gain the title was jack johnson fred fulton who once had designs on the heavyweight championship is managing a summer resort at park rapids minn umpire bill dinneen of the american league staff nominates ty cobb and hal chase as the greatest players of all time fred perry who set his earnings while an amateur at a year made almost his first year as a professional the baltimore orioles who sent 6 foot 5 inch jim melton to the giants have signed a pitcher named jim higgins who stands 6 feet 7 inches duluth minn has offered the washington redskins Red skins facilities and a 1 1500 guarantee to train there for the allstar all star game with the college all americans scheduled for soldiers field chicago august 31 olympic troubles T THE HE growing cha chain in of olympic committee resignations was enlarged by the withdrawal of william J bingham director of athletics a at t harvard who declared he would have nothing further to do with the 1940 games in tokyo because he could not ask the american people to support a team which was going to a country standing for what japan stands today observers close to the olympic situation believe that ginghams Bing hams resignation will have the effect ot of increasing the aloofness Ss of american colleges toward the event an aloofness 1 resulting k 0 from the action of the international olympic committee in changing the dates for various competitions corn peti so as to make it almost william J impossible f for 0 r bingham american undergraduates to compete in the garnes games original 1940 1941 olympic dolympio dates were set for august 25 to september 21 permitting the collegiate ath athletes letes plenty of time to compete and return to america for their autumn school terms then a change requested by japan and si supported up ported by italy and germany was made moving movine the dates from september 21 to october 6 the united states and england protesting vigorously were overruled a western newspaper union |