Show speaking Speak inK of sports sport V varied sports shorts show planned for exposition by ROBERT mcshane THE distant future when the IN curtain rings akings down on saw fran golden gate exposition california will have staged a sports program huge enough to exhaust the high powered adjectives of even ahe he most fluent publicist of the go golden id ensie fate the western World sports show will be nothing short of colossal v modest natives admit that no exposition ever thought sports so important por tant and none ever lavished one third as much money in oney and effort an on afi an athletic program but this is california california where sport is more important than any anre wold ll 11 shyly admits major art mcchrystal Chrystal Me director of the program we wont have any world champion prize fights and no allstar all star baseball game as will the new york fair but 90 per cent of our events will be in the exposition grounds ground so not off aver over town somewhere the so called minor sports will b be e staged in a swift succession of events and will include everything from yacht racing to the national open championship for horseshoe pitchers and berha perhaps ps fair directors are smart in not running a championship prize fight unless contenders show remarkable improvement prove pro pent the horseshoe pitchers would easily provide more excitement isidoor 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 the N C A A basketball championship pion ship tor for west of the mississippi river will be held in the coliseum aswill an indoor track championship the international championship six day bicycle races will be held march 12 to 18 the national indoor championship in fencing will be hield held tn June the national singles and doubles in handball may 1520 15 20 the lawn bowling championship september 1013 1043 10 13 and the volley bau baH championship may 1830 1820 18 30 20 there ara are other championships to be de determined ter mined but they are too numerous to mention the good god major has gone to the trouble of invent inventing in g new sports so that additional ch championships mp ion ships can be awarded darned unselfish these californians calif orn ians dodger purchase A annexation of three yankee tx chain baseball players by the dodgers was announced recent recently liby by larry mcphail general manager of the brooklyn club who stated that pitchers kemp wicker and jack la rocca and catcher chris hartje cost them the tidy little sum of eff with no discount Q wicker 30 years old is the only member of the recently purchased trio who possesses a big league record he was with the Yankees for a while larry in 1937 winning mcphail KIc Phail seven and losing three games the same year he be won seven and lost two for or the newark bears member bof of the yankee string during the past year he was with kansas city another yankee unit finishing with nine victories and an equal number of 0 defeats ati 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 hartie 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 M mcphail c in the purchase of the brooklyn club was effectively spiked when rickey termed the rumor wild talk i 4 with no element of trutie shortstop murray franklin bat eted ted in ahe 16 mountain state stat league north carolina to win th the louisville slugger trophy hunting licenses numbering and costing were issued in the united states and canada during 1937 thea greenbay packers will play a team of southern college all stars next fall it the pro po circuit approves paul ot of muncie ind set a ord for class A outboard motor boats of 0 miles per hour hou r at lakeland lake land fla promoter king U I 1 WHEN HEN C C cash and carry pyle 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 novel pyles fertile imagination ou casang I 1 him to see the possibilities of cashing in in on harold red lied granges grange s gridiron ability he first achie achieve veit ii nationwide attention when he took the galloping ghost off the U university niver sity 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 up and down football fields in all parts of the country when they returned to chicago in february 1926 pyle and grange had harvested m more 0 r e than his most unusual red bed promotion was the grange f famous a rn 0 u s 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 alfongs alongside ide this first derby billed is 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 bis sch schemes chemes emest the bunion derby was closest to his bis heart that he thoroughly enjoyed the antics of 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 he was the greatest promoter of all time grange said of the man who started him on his professional career the greatest promoter but not the great greatest business man he had more ideas than any man 1 I ever knew grange estimated that during the three years 1925 2627 he was managed by pyle the two attracted at the gate halt half of which went to them they split the profits which would place granges earnings under pyle at in 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 another club in new york it was a failure however as the league never really got underway both men lost considerable money ari on the venture pyle with the addition of a little sense would have easily been the equal of tex rickard as a promoter he was however the most colorful individual in an era of unusual men it anything appealed to his sense of humor he was willing to take a chance they do come back DONT aront take too seriously the old saw that champions never come back away from the turf for three years jockey don meade is 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 A the ones he rode meade was 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 everybody ad wants him he be don has been offered meade large bonuses to fly to california to ride in the added santa anita handicap which willbe will be run off on the coast march 4 the same time as the widener race at Hi hialeah Hial aleah cah the young rider has turned the bonus offers down and announced that he be 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 ra race deDon don pilo it not hen ride any mans horde horse Th tits why there is a fight among horsemen to get second third fourths and even 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