| Show speaking of sports sport 1938 crop 0 af f heavyweights Heavy weights la lacks eks po power by mcshane A N AGONIZED glance at the A 1 crop of current heavyweight contenders leads the average fight tan fan to believe that bull who never learned how bow to fight and who s sat a t all day long under the cork tree 1 content merely to smell has not received halt half the credit due him while many of those ring hopefuls are a distinct odoriferous menace aie they hey are not satisfied like ferdy with the birds the bees bee 9 and the flowers no indeed they the insist that all they need Is one or on one emore more crack at joe louis and a new heavyweight champion win will be crowned it t is lz gratifying to note that joo joe is not cringing in terror usually ally termed object abject in tact fact the loud spoken and oft I 1 repeated threats of his contemporaries leave him cold even frigid another killer two ton tony galento beer guzzling brawler from orange N J has threatened of course to murder dat bum louis As a self admitted potential murderer galento has no equal he is the only fighter in the ring not designated as a bum his rigid training on cigars and beer have endeared him to the hearts of brewery owners and tobacco growers his fine carefully developed paunch speaks well tor for his ability to consume huge quantities of groceries in the manner of all well known athletes in addition he is easily as graceful as donald duck max baer whose manner of breaking even the loosest training rules is a thing of beauty and a loy joy foi forever ever is outstanding in his leadership of that cult which thinks max baer is a dangerous threat to the I 1 I 1 W MAX BAER BAEB dusky king of the heavyweights heavy weights baergas Baer has been a good fighter but his chances for or ring supremacy are as few as rowboats in the sahara elimination fights between galento and the he brothers baer might do much to clear up the cloud which envelops the heavyweight field galento incidentally Is rated no I 1 co contender n tender by the national boxing association a distinction not awarded him by the be fans lounora lou nova can be taken more so 59 piously riou sly A little more experience will see him a better fighter than he was in past encounters another lad patrick edward comiskey who has reached the ripe age of 18 will bear watching the paterson N J youth stands 6 feets feet 3 inches and weighs pounds he has fought only six professional fess ional fights winning five ot of them in the first round he slipped sadly in his sixth fight tailing failing to get a knockout until the second stanza the comeback trail to make bad news even worse comes the announcement that phil phi scott ex heavyweight champ ot of great britain is planning a comeback ba ck to american tans fans who remember him as fainting phil the british horizontal champ this news Is to say the least remarkable as they cannot remember his having been anyplace st at least in the upper circles ot of the U S boxing fraternity tern ity phil at 38 Is flabby fat at weighing pounds he ha works out dally daily in a london gyra gym determined to get back that slim figure which used to decorate various canvases to go attractively max ng who was knocked out by louis in the first ro round nd of their heavy heavyweight wp championship pion plon ship bout last summer has on an X bounced his bis comeback with ith the statement that 1 I am not quitting with a knockout on my record max we e have ae enough sh trouble at hote home however without 71 thou crying about the british or german mati heavyweight situation andin and in the mea meantime kime louis merrily continues on his waydean way deaf eaf to the babbling hopeful of aspirants all of which shows good sense the king Is dead adgy death of coi colonel jacob hup THE pert amiable little owner of the new york yankees baseball club wag vose more mora than a shock to sportsmen everywhere ills his death was an irreparable loss to the the entire ria nation tion the ll 11 year old bachelor was baie baseballs baseball ball best beit friend under unde rhes his stewards stewardship hip the yanks wrote the brightest pages la in baseball history when he died he owned ball clubs in new york turk newark kansas city norfolk va val Bing bampton N Y ind and akron onto ohio ruppert buppert was surrounded surround edby by the names of 0 baseballs greatest on hibnes his generous payroll were babe nl COLONEL JACOB RUPPERT ruth the late miller hughins huggans joe joa mccarthy lou gehrig joe dimaggio and many others best known of all the stars to play under the brewery owners banner was babe ruth ruppert paid boston the then unprecedented sum 0 of f for or him and made him the greatest slugger of all time the colonel was always ini insistent stent on winning and ever disconsolate when his team lost sportsmanlike on all points ruppert demanded a winning team all told the yankees in Rup hupperts regime won 10 american league pennants and seven world series he bought only the best players and they paid him well though baseball was his overwhelming wh love the colonel had many interests in addition to owning a highly profitable brewery he at one time served tour successive terms as national representative sport shorts S SUN UN BEAU the leading money winner among thoroughbreds won during his racing career he went to the post 74 times won 33 was second 12 and third 10 times boys took part last year in games conducted by the toronto canada public school athletic association babe ruth who recently suffered a mild heart attack denies that there is anything the matter with his health the bambino states that he was in the hospital just to see what it was all about james farrell farrell wa veteran golf professional y and elder brother of J johnny farrell died bece recently in new york babe n ud ruth uth jonathan stone will be too ill to resume his outfield position with the washington senators next season 0 western newspaper union |
