Show speaking ol of sports heavies in in line for conn after lesnevich win by ROBERT mcshane me SHANE HE hurt me but I 1 ia had the feeling I 1 never hurt him 1 ither cither div its bit billy ly conn talking the shanty irish kid who had just finished purn pum melin meling 9 out a 15 round decision over gus lesnevich new jersey light heavyweight challenger the bout was conns second successful defense of his title in those few words conn present ed cd his past ring history and foretold his coming pugilistic career too speedy and clever to get hurt by boxers in his own class he lacks the wallop of a punishing fighter conn won the crown from mello bettina B e a in a clo close e madison square garden light fight A month later the hand handsome s ome likeable pittsburgh hopeful invaded the heavyweight ranks against gus dorazio at philadelphia A little more than two months ago he fie made his first title defense against bettina in pittsburgh billy won both fights he is exceptionally clever and shifty and is as game as any fighter in the ring today but lie he is conceded very little chance of stepping ANNE t CHAMPION BILLY CONN out of the light heavyweight ranks and winning the heavyweight title from joe louis the ultimate goal at which both conn and his manager johnny ray are aiming there are two very good reasons why conn expected to set the beavy heavyweight weight world on its ear to begin with billy heavy enough and probably never will be ao to fight louis and he never will be able to hit hard enough to stop louis tunney did it it is true that gene tunney outgrew the light heavyweight ranks to whip jack dempsey but the cases agrenot parallel tunney was a big man large boned his was a chassis which could carry pounds with ease conn built that way he is small boned and it Is doubtful that his best fighting weight weigh t will ever be more than pounds 11 theres eres no question but that he could give big slow moving heavy weights more than they could handle tommy loughran proved what a clever light heavyweight could do against more weighty opponents even though he was far from a heavy eavy hitter but joe louls louis Is just as fast just as clever just as game as any light heavyweight and is the deadliest puncher in the ring today it Is likely that billy will win his share of battles in the heavy heavyweight weigh t 41 division vision boxing history Is studded with the names of light heavies who could and did whip big slow moving bums with no trouble at all it is only natural he is fast enough to cut a cumbersome opponent to ribbons the fact that he cant deliver a lethal blow wont keep him from picking up decisions here and there talent mopped vp in his own weight class against lesnevich who was the new york state stale athletic commissions no ne I 1 leo contender tender conn take the n brakes off his darting left jab until the fourth round from then on he looked good in the eleventh and thirteenth rounds he had lesnevich groggy hanging clinching and lean can ing but bat he finish him he lacked a knockout punch by winning the decision from les ri evich C conn 0 nn just about mopped up all the 6 suitable liable u talent in his weight class why both he and manager ray want to crack the heavy ranks and eventually meet joe louis the fact that he be would be attacking a giant killer with a fly swatter elicits from his supporters support e rs the be remark that you cant have everything giving away 20 pounds to a heavyweight as fast and dangerous as louis Is tantamount to handing an opponent a small ax after the open in gibell gibell bounds Its still reasonably safe to remark rek that a good big rhan man can whip a good little man what conn Is isa good little man it may well be that all theaon cern anent conns proposed fight with joe louis is futile he earned the right to fight the champ yet some heavyweight bob pastor for instance ins tance may change the complexion of things before the hopes of conn and johnny ray are arc realized sport shorts ART RT SCHILLIG smashing now new A A york university end likes boa constrictors as pets he keeps two althe of the 20 foot snakes in ln his home in the bronx gordon ger former red wing and jack crawford were the only men to play 1 in all 64 boston bruin games games during their drive to the stanley cup last year lefty odoul manager of the san francisco seats seals is operating a tavern in the coast city when pitt beat duke 14 to it IS this season it was the first ona one point defeat for a team coached by wallace wade in his 21 years as a football coach lefty odoul started 17 times as a two year yea ro old before he won a race fritz crisler never has been the winning coach in a minnesota michigan game his minnesota teams were defeated in 1930 and 1931 7 to 0 and 6 to 0 his michigan teams have lost 7 to 6 and 20 to 7 in the past two seasons in six games five big ten and one one against southern california three university of illinois players played more than minutes they were fullback george tackle jim reeder and quarterback ralph ehni cornell basketball squads including varsity junior varsity and frosh will play 48 40 games this season ten seniors in the notre dame lineup played their final game in the irish southern california tilt tom henrich of the yankees beep keeps in condition during the winter by playing hockey with an amateur team in massillon ohio his home town paul martinovich or of the die detroit lions missed only one point after touchdown in three years at college of the pacific A L statistics interesting sidelights on the 1 1939 american league campaign were released recently by the leagues service bureau statistics show that not one of the chicago white sox pitchers succeeded in chalking up a win over each of the seven rival clubs in sharp contrast was the work of cleve lands IS bob 0 b feller who won a majority of his games against every rival club while chalking up his bis 24 victories feller in fashioning the leagues best record won six straight from detroit two from st louis three out of five from boston new york and washington five out of sever seven from chicago and two out of three from philadelphia ted lyons finished with the b best est sox percentage winning 14 and losing six he beat washington four on r times in five games losing the other one on his bis own error feller and dutch leonard of the senators were ou standing tor for effectiveness ti veness against first division teams each won 11 games and lost six kindest to opponents were washington pitchers ken chase and joe krakauskas chase lost five to cleveland and krakauskas the same number to detroit BOWLING made easy boea by NED DAY national Nallon nl match game champion I 1 this Is tie the fourth of a series ol of bawling lessons by ned day ol of milwaukee wis national match same game champion and lecog re c 0 g hed cited as an outstanding bowling sat authority horay YOUR OUR stance in bowling should find you from 12 to 15 feet back of the foul line depending on the length of your stride and whether the tour four or five step delivery has been selected body position when addressing the pins should be fairly erect with shoulders square at pins weight of the body should be distributed evenly on the feet which can be close together slightly apart or with the left toot foot slightly forward the weight of the ball should rest squarely in the left hand band and should be held somewhere between the belt live line and the shoulders the IVI V between the thumb and index finger should point at the head pin pia to put the ball in motion when be ginning the approach be careful not to lower tt it jerkily use a straight cushaway pu from the body followed by a natural easy back swing released Bele by western union |