Show speaking of sports fv varied sports show planned for exposition by ROBERT mcshane IN N THE distant future when the curtain rings down on san fran ciscoe cis cos golden gate exposition california i will have staged a sports program huge enough to exhaust the high powered adjectives of even the most fluent publicist of the golden state the western wor worlds ids fair sports show will be nothing short of colossal modest natives admit that no exposition ever thought sports so im ini por tant and noue ever lavished one third as much money and ef cf fort on an athletic program but this is california where here r sport is more important than any where else in the world shyly ad mits major art mcchrystal dire diorec tor of the program we wont wont have any world champion paize fights and no allstar all ail star baseball game as will the new york fair fai but 90 per cent of our events will lie be in the exposition grounds not off over town somewhere the so called minor sports will be staged in a swift succession ot of events and will include everything from yacht racing to the national open championship tor for horseshoe t pitchers and perhaps fair directors are smart in not running a championship prize fight unless contenders show remarkable im provement pro the horseshoe pitchers i would easily provide more excitement indoor polo will be housed in a coliseum seating people around a ring feet long and feet wide in this coliseum too will be seen box lacrosse the amateur rage of canada an old indian outdoor game brought inside and played by seven men As last it is claimed as hockey the N C A A basketball championship pion ship for west of the mississippi 1 i river will be held in the coliseum as will an indoor track championship the international championship six day bicycle races will be held 12 to 18 the national indoor championship in fencing will be held in june the national singles and doubles in handball may 1520 15 20 the lawn bowling championship september 1013 10 13 the volley ball championship may 1820 18 20 and the national skeet championship august 16 1 6 that gives you some idea of the programs magnitude there are other championships champions to b be e determined but they are too n numerous to mention the good major has gone to the trouble of inventing new sports so that additional charn championships pion can be awarded darned unselfish these californians codyer dodger t purchase A annexation of three yankee chain baseball players by the dodgers was announced recently by larry jarry mcphail general manager of the brooklyn club who stated that pitchers kemp wicker and jack la rocca and catcher diassisi fi aSSiSI chris hartje cost tes them thel the tidy little sum of with no discount wicker 30 years old is the only member of the recently purchased trio who possesses a big league record ile he was with the yankees for a while larry in 1937 winning mcphail seven and closne losne three games the same year he won seven and lost two tor for the newark bears member of the yankee string during the past year he be was with kansas city another yankee unit finishing with nine bine victories and an equal number of defeats hartje hartie and la rocca also are kansas city grads A lame arm hampered la rocca last season getting him off to a late start his final record was six wins and five defeats hartje batted for the blues A rumor that branch rickey general manager of the st louis cardinals would sever his present connections and hook up with mcphail in the purchase of the brooklyn club was effectively spiked when rickey termed the rumor d wild talk with no element of truth sport shorts shortstop murray franklin batted in the mountain state league north carolina to win the louisville slugger trophy H hunting licenses cumbe numbe numbering r ing and costing were issued in the united states slates and canada during 1937 the green bay packers will play a team ot of southern college all stars next fall if the pro circuit approves paul ot of muncie ind set a worlds record for class A outboard motor boats of miles per hour houf at lakeland fla earl policeman won the annual miami midwinter mid winter amateur golf championship pion plon ship for the second consecutive tive year gene tunney gives tony galento credit for being the best of the heavyweight challengers joe louis says he is a third rater and that four rounds would be his limit against me promoter king HEN C C cash and carry cylc most spectacular promoter of the final years of sports golden decade died at his los angeles home recently he left a heritage of fantastic ventures fully as exciting as the wildest dime novel pyles fertile imagination led him to see the possibilities of cashing in on harold red granges gridiron ability lie he first achieved nationwide attention alien hen he took the galloping ghost off the university of illinois campus and guided his career in professional football during the winter of 1925 with grange as the main attraction pyle and the chicago bears launched a highly successful tour grange galloped i up and down 1 football fields in all parts of the country when they returned to chicago in february 1220 pyle and grange ha had d harvested m more 0 re than his most unusual red pg promotion was the grange famous bunion derby of 1938 in which almost runners young and old started out on a transcontinental run from los angeles to new york with pyle riding comfortably alongside i hiis tiis J s firt first derby billed as a attraction with a purse going to the winner led to numerous law suits which reputedly cost pyle however friends of pyle maintain that of all his schemes the bunion derby was closest to his heart that he thoroughly enjoyed the antics of liis his runners A second race was held in 1929 and the derbies universally were voted the strangest events in sports history pyle was also the first to see the possibilities in professional tennis on october 9 1926 he presented the late suzanne lenglen mary K browne vincent richards and other stars in madison square garden as his initial effort in this field of activity the gate receipts were announced as grange estimated that during the three years 1925 2627 he was managed by pyle the two attracted at the gate half of which went to them they split the profits which would place granges earnings under pyle at in 1923 1928 grange and pyle formed the american professional football league it was formed after the national league had refused to grant the pair permission to sponsor an another other club in new york I 1 it t was a failure however as the league never really got underway both men lost considerable money on the venture I 1 pyle with the addition of a little business sense would have easily been the equal of tex rickard as a promoter they do come back dasaw TONT ONT take too seriously the old saw that champions never come back away from the turf for three years jockey don meade is now being sought by owners of the most pretentious racing stables in america he is the lad who made the most sensational comeback in turf history at hialeah park miami banned by the florida state racing commission for wagering on horses other than tha n the ones h he e rode meade was thought thought to be through most horsemen felt that the 25 year old jockey would never get into the limelight again now meade has become a hero why every i A body wants him lie ile has been offered don p Q meade large laree bonuses to t fly to california to ride in the added santa anita handicap which will be run off on the coast march 4 the same time as the widener race at hialeah Hi aleah the young rider has turned the bonus offers down and announced that he was going to ride in the widener for his contract employer george odom trainer meade has been a consistent winner race after race whenever trainer odom has a horse in a hialeah race don pilots it if not then don may ride any mans horse why there is a fight among horsemen to get second third fourth and even fifth call on the jockey golf statistics golf players have long been known as good spenders they have to be to maintain the courses throughout the united states almost 1000 square miles of the united states today are devoted t to goll golf the value ot of this property including the buildings has been estimated at approximately rounds of golf are played each year over the courses both private and public golfers belonging to private clubs total the total for daily fee courses is given at and municipal there are women golfers in the country to this must be added the estimated total of those who played less than 10 rounds a year new york is the greatest golf state in the country with clubs illinois is second with ohio third with michigan fourth with 0 western newspaper union |