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Show NOT IN It!!; KCOKU: . li'.iics ihkI six ( (ills Imvc won 1 the l!:iintietoni;,ii, (lt il,.), trot-UitR trot-UitR sliiko (locldid at (ioslu-n, ex cry year. Only one (illy, Ki-Riot', lms Him (ho Kentucky Derby, the runniuR rare to whlrli the ll:imlile-(onlaii ll:imlile-(onlaii most closely compares in the matler of Rcneral interest . . . Tommy Tom-my Hilodeaii, catcher nml captain of the !!:;7 Harvard baseball team, may siri a Ked Sox contract ntiy day now . . . The St. Louis Cards have sinned Max Surkout, (iftccn-year-old rawtucKet, It. I., pitcher. The cradle suatclu-rs will send him to Rochester . . . For some reason or other the St. Nicholas 1'alaec, probably the best known of smaller tight arenas, has changed ils name to the Uoyal Windsor. Mike Jacobs, the man who drove Madison Square Garden's COO millionaires mil-lionaires out of the boxing business, busi-ness, is proud of the fact insurance insur-ance companies rate him as a half-million-dollar risk ... It continues difficult for the average citizen to understand the brainwork of racing ofiicials. It pays to referee prize fights. Cliieagoans report that the cocktail bar of Tommy Thomas, the former for-mer featherweight, has improved 50 per cent since he handled the Louis - Braddock championship changing . . . Jack Dempsey is predicting pre-dicting that the son of the late Billy Miske may some day disprove that myth which says sons never follow in the footsteps of first-class fight- tBillFanisworlh ,011 Blackburn i: . of Joe I'Qiiis '' Fr"r'u' " ',,' i wrn to the craw f,Ms ltk;- C York tportsed'tor and t " "An -SportM etub.i rBILLFARSSWOBTn CFD Jack Blackburn, a great i, to day and now box-and box-and trainer of Joe H:"--. bow he figured the ralmer would have done mer heavyweight eham-ffis eham-ffis replies are mighty in-, in-, Here they are: ! '.',t inHN L. SULLIVAN- ing lathers. Terry Denies Rumors He'll Head Farm System Bill Terry still denies those rumors ru-mors that he is to become general aw John L., but I under- tIi -I'ims a stand-still fighter r, :;ed on one punch to win. I 5: re that Joe's speed and punch- ;7ould have been too u; ;,: (or Sullivan." : ilUXSlJMCORBETT-' Cor. rf P s foxy and Louis would have him. They fought 25-round Z ;Corbetfsday,andI tWnk brr;: ...Dldhave finally connected m :lilfr rounds. If went the limit mc eJoe would have lost the de-KV-- ;:" raits: igaKST FITZSIMMONS-"Lou-142- ."id be too strong for Fitz just ,1:.. ...oc-nnrl strength would manager of the Giants' Gi-ants' farm system next year. When pressed he ends the conversation by remarking re-marking that his contract as manager manag-er runs through 1938 . . . Those rumors that Pie Traynor is through at Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh are becoming stronger . . . Glenn Wright still is hit-tine hit-tine home runs w:ith Bill Terry !.:JHC3 - - edsu- : decided this one. Fitz wasn t lesaii. j' but crafty, and Louis couldn't r. e2;ed up for a second. But he n spe: j stop an opponent cold with sink- -er hand." 1 01 :;- AGAINST JEFFRIES "Jeff was ast- i bit slow. He was a powerful rfer, but Joe punches just as loK' ,:i and he would have speed on Edits hiie. It would be a great fight id hill c ; ablet:- f r 1, 1937 i one or the other landed. In bout Louis' speed would be his "- ! in the hole." IST TOMMY BURNS " too small. He couldn't . .:h a lick. I think Louis could .,.11,,- j : n,; flrtUt the bases full while managing the Wenatchee club in the Western International In-ternational league. Also does some relief pitching when regular hurl-ers hurl-ers falter ... In spite of frantic hot weather pleas of the players nearly all American league managers ban swimming in the pool in that swank Washington hotel at which they stay. The theory, also held by various va-rious football coaches, is that swimming swim-ming tires and softens athletes engaged en-gaged in other sports. Gabby Hartnett's most valuable souvenir is the catcher's mitt he used in his first major league game . . . Napoleon Lajoie, one of the greatest of all-time batters and second sec-ond basemen, took such good care of his eyes that when he rode on trains he refused to look out of the window. Said the telegraph poles flieliinsr nast the window were bad : 1C LUC 1UU11U 111 Ull uguu yST JOHNSON "Jack was 1 .-eat defensive boxer. I have , i ej mm both Johnson and Louis. : mows much more leather and s much harder. Johnson might J him off for a while with his :;- 1. defensive skill but would wil- ; taally under Louis' terrific . o- 't HsT WILLARD "This v He just another Dempsey-Wil- J ail.nr. Barring size, Louis has "-rjthmgr to make him the winner." INST DEMPSEY "This . JbeaFIGHT. How I'd love to ; , : : tin one. , Two men evenly ;Jied m strength plenty of it ars ot J. and punching ability. If Joe d a naie me least bit careless it would as trf for his vision. New York Racing commissioners get sore when dog track operators charge they are being discriminated against. The officials say dog tracks can operate with as much freedom as the race courses if they employ the same bookmaking system of betting. bet-ting. The trouble is that it does not work out very well at the dog tracks, which need the certificate or pari-mutuel form of wagering to rake in heavy dough from small customers . . . George Lamaze has added a new gag at his fancy Arrowhead Ar-rowhead Inn by refusing to have menus printed. Casual question from a gentleman who long has noted how well that nation builds and operates other ships . . . "Do the British really want to win those international yacht races or do they think the favorable and sympathetic advertising advertis-ing which goes to their perennial losers helps with the national propaganda?" prop-aganda?" Hal Schumacher considers it un- rom 1- - v?s2o'-v , 7 tion. r'M-- And the same would - P Dempsey if he slipped up for .... l-'nd, Either poiiM orin Kt o ir ' hiifi' ' 5amatter f who landed first. ?'entlhe limit 1 Los ;, V a" nod on points." JWI TUNNEY "G e n e 6, t0 taB and might Tinllt- , L(rais until the final bell. lUi hink Tunney could flatten ,;.ls e did Dempsey. With the - , f'ns the limit Joe's harder , H and boxing ability would ' "'m a slight edge." ST SCHMELING - "Joe 0 abi to offer for their fight . merand l win let the.r a gwe the answer." . : 'DBRADDOCK--Therec-"" "K"k (r themselves." . toot J the tray that lucky to sit on the ten siue oj. bench . . . Johnny Evers, the famous Cubs' infielder, always wore his stockings inside out when luck was needed to settle a tough series. A heavy woolen sweater, worn in all kinds of weather, seemed to satisfy Hans Wagner that he was wooing fortune properly. For years Walter Wal-ter Johnson used to stand on the same spot each day when he warmed up in the home park . . . Elephants with trunks turned up are the good luck charms of athletes ath-letes as well as of celebrated financiers finan-ciers and eminent publishers. Ali o race drivers still tell of Hugh.e Hughes, who had dozens of ivoiy elcnhants and almost always wore one of them suspended from Ins neck by a chain. One day at Uniontown he was Ending beside the track hsten.ng V ' 11 n,.su ' "uco even it he V 1 '" rnakl lrtwooutof tue h ke room for his dogs. ltthK?1S.,Proud boast 'at he Whdare.d tate as t tcp Coh IinC- t J j5 is just beginning to show X Dur ,readmg about baseball Vtolh'S days he said , .r. has the smallest s a, 2pm leagues ... He t.yb,tf Det j the other .. . t VU' 'tilersT tagUes run entirely fi yis?ta?chra,w' m to friends congratulating mm I I race where he had driven winning a race bv superbly and escaped death by inches at least a dozen times. "Funny part about it," laughed pSlhis morning and haven't had it on all day " A car with a dnver finish with some por srta" andb sed,aJm a hundred feeM.irough the air before he landed-dead. |