Show speaking of sports jaco Jacobs bs plans banner sports S p orts shows for 39 by ROBERT mc mcshane SHANE koike IKE JACOBS sport sports spro promoter moteT evl who boasts the fastest click ing set of store teeth inthe in the united states Is not completely satisfied with ath his 1838 1938 income s with more than grossed from his various activities during the past year mikolas mike Mi kohas has d decided I 1 aided to promote a show wherever theres a chance to earn an honest dollar the number of lights and the size she of the gates fates been satisfactory to him and he hopes to remedy the situ situation atio I 1 1 during the coming year next nex t year declared mike im going ito ao put on some kind of a ports show wha wherever there Is a hance chance to make a i or ak dollar 1 I even hope to have two or three running at the same time for instance it if I 1 put on a heavy weight show atthe at the san francisco fair and I 1 undoubtedly y will di do that ver very y mite alike jacobs thing SI sl ma may have another fight going on in new yorktee york the same night admittedly mike has no aversion to making money hes shrewd and on an top has all the luck in the he world that combination has made hime himan outstanding success in n sports i promotion mike was accused of pulling a boner when he introduced the ancient chent basque game jai alai to Bro broadway without the ma have made the games so successful in havana and miami the wise boys figured it make inake the grade without the added attraction of gambling but bat mike called his shot the game has done se so well in newyork new york even without betting that he be intends to keep it running through until august angust he intimated that beaw be will put the ganie game in boston hollywood and chicago but bui only if wa he legislatures in massachusetts cal california and Illinois 1111 take action that th atwill insure installation of betting machines michin esat at the me jal jai alai gamis games he so enthusiastic about tennis andice skating he stated that he could have had don budge who recently turned professional ind and sonja henle but wants cants no part of them his present interests including practically a corni corner ar on boxing keep him plenty busy dirt dirk track czar SPEED kings like to gather round when john A sloan jr of chicago the judge landis of the dirt tracks talks aver over ol old dUrnes times in his own words im the second generation of sloans in the race business in 1905 my dad began presenting speed kings he brought out barney oldfield louis disbrow and big haugdahl now we stige stage dirt track races all but three months in the year its aa ia big pu business siness we played before two and a half million people this his past I 1 surn summer m er at fair grounds I 1 from montana to newyork new york and florida st paulas paul Is THE I 1 dirt track town a crowd of saw our races on labor day we had a fatal accident in six years while staging 2730 races 7 we dont sacrifice speed either emory collins the dirt tra track ck champion holds the record of 90 miles an hour on a m mile ne track they only average blittle a little better bette than that anthe on the big banked brick trick track at indianapolis we get top drivers because we we give em regular work some of em make as high as a season auto racing was newtie new the races smacked of wre wrestling sUing ring hippodrome po drome the drivers just saw to it the crowd got close races then local ga hagemen got building cars that beat the be imported cars now the hie best car and driver wins theres a little more security attached cached to dirt track racing they dont have to gamble for their money meney drivers are given Alier a tage ant anit the prize money they can win dont curb liberties suggestions that the liberties of baseball players in the off eff season be curbed received a iet setback recently from connie mack baseballs grand old gentleman scores of viewers with alarm have proposed all kinds of farfetched measures measures to protect baseball i players from acci dents and to io receive them of personal freedom most of the proposals came following the tragic accident of monty stratton chicago white sox pitcher leg was am amputated as the result of a hunt connie mack ing accident suppose we did tell ell the players player they go gunning flying or EO 0 over niagara falls ln in is a barrel barrels in the end cod the player would rise up and asu what am I 1 A slave bound ha hand nd and foot fool my life ro my own vy by any standard dard 0 we might put all kinds of clauses in their contracts he added but probably do what they want anyway basketball rules EVERAL important changes tn in IJ national basketball basket baU rules were made re recently dently by baskit basketball ball coaches and officials from western and midwestern mid western universities and colleges western conference teams will wili conc concur w inthe in the rules drawn up by the national Colli collegiate glate athletic as i cl flon more or completely than in any recent meetings principal deviation from the code for the big ten Is tho the decision to continue the practice of permitting two minutes for each time out the code allows only one minute the rules this year extend the number humber of time tune timeouts outs without pena penalty aty to five for each team in view of Us this increase crase the big ten will count a time me out when substitutions substitution sare are ma made d e if play Is not resumed within 30 seconds the coa coaches 0 iii 11 agreed also that that when I 1 a field goal has been made and a foul called immediately after the tha joal goal that substitution would be permitted be before fore the free throw Is attempted and that hat the substitution will not count as a time out or on held balls near the boundary lines the players will jump for possession at a point six fix feet from side or end lines the attacking quintet still hasten has ten seconds to advance the b ball all into the forward halt of thi the court but the center line m marking arking the divis division lori of territory is now considered hobein to beIn be in the back court the player with the ball if U he touches the line still Is considered to t be la luthe the bick back court and he may to pass back to a teammate without pen penalty ally the ten second count of course continues formerly when the he player under these circumstances s touched the line then hen stepped back or pissed passed back the interpretation was that the ball had bad been brought baik back from the front court ind and since it had bad not been touched byan by an opponent possession was forfeited to the defense I 1 olympics 01 y ampies again of the american 0 OFFICIALS olympic committee recently voted to accept Fin lands invitation to the gameson games of the twelfth 0 olympiad to be staged in july and august of 1940 and at the same time lent its indorsement endorsement indor to a bid by the city of detroit tor for the 19 1944 games much to the he delight of followers of that sport gliding will appear on the roster for the th first time three sports however which were contested in the 1936 1930 games at berlin basketball field hockey and field handball have been dropped for tb the e Helsing fors meeting sport ton THE HE highest scoring college game on record saw georgia tech brush crush cumberland tenn university a to 0 in 1917 in a game shortened to 45 minutes sweden will se send nd athletes by plane to finland for the 1940 olympics players on the knoxville iowa high school basketball jetam team struck because they were asked to pay regular student admittance o mit tance fees to 0 play burleigh Burl elgh grimes will manage the montreal royals of the international league for the next grimes two years at at college football games during 1038 1938 rosell rose 11 per cent over the 37 total italis sport vocabulary his has been beeh purged of all foreign words and expressions |