Mathis' Dash Boosts His fining J^pcfls* Olympic Hopes Washington, D. C., Monday, February 23, 1948—A—14 j Victory Local Sprinter's Win Classy Johnnies Enter Assault to Be Retired or Draw w in, Lose, In National AAU 60 Star Court Due to Ankle Growth By FRANCIS E. STANN Tourney What's So Good About Monday? Ties World Record With Great Record Injury in Widener The town’s two fight promoters are going to have a little fun will one of the By the Associated Pres* Beolmear St. John's carry have to the fiddler manana, but the By Austin tonight. Probably they’ll pay fanciest schoolboy records ever MIAMI, Fla.. Feb. 23.—Assault, Associated Press Sports Writer Turner-Menendez corporation and Goldie Aheam, who also has a the Texas thoroughbred that par- NEW YORK, Feb, 23.—America’s compiled here into the Metropolitan at the beltline, are off on a binge. corporation crowned Indoor track and Interscholastic Basket Ball Tourna- layed a club foot and a champion's be box- newly For the first time in years there'll two will be field champions still have to prove ment which starts a week from to- heart into a $626,620 fortune, cards—pro, that is—on the same night. Mrs. ing themselves in outdoor tests, but it's retired from effective Gabe Men- morrow night at Ritchie Coliseum. racing imme-^ Florence Turner and her matchmaker, a saft bet that several of them will The by the diately. ■, endez, will present what fight promoters are wont be on the United States Olympic tourney, sponsored and The chestnut handicap* to call a ‘‘Carnival of Headliners,” which is a glor- team when it sails for London in Interhigh Athletic Association great which was' voted the ified of announcing that eight club fighters midsummer. The Evening Star, has eight repre- speedster way “horse of the year” in 1946 after to in four'8-round bouts. The intensity of the competition entered are scheduled participate sentative high school teams winning the "triple crown" will be «T'v.<er ic Vtoaft.rnrtinn nt. Turner’s which can be expected between now and the Johnnies will rate as favor- to Robert J. King and the final Olympic tryouts in sent Kleberg's Arena. Ranch Farm outside of Lexington, July was demonstrated Saturday ites off their record of 21 wins and Over at Uline Arena, where the racial barriers Ky. night in the 60th annual National only one setback. recently were lowered. Ahearn returns to business IndoOr Championships of the Am- Thus ends the racing career of a S. John's Tells. and Goldie, unlike the Turner-Menendez combine, ateur Athletic Union. Rally horse whose story-book rise to fame over the of a foot is already la putting all of his eggs in one basket. He’s got The 13,607 fans who witnessed the They got big hump despite crippled their late-season schedule yesterday turf Hursey, No. 1 boy in the local limelight as season's most important indoor meet legend. Smuggy nose out in Madison Garden saw new by coming from behind to been a better end- I of last September, and George (Sonny) Home of Square .It would have crowned in 12 of the 15 Gonzaga, 38-33, at the Armory. won his last race what’s under- champions ing if Assault had Francis e. Mann. New York in a main event and two more to events. They have games play in a dramatic stretch drive. But ■ 0 neath, meaning the preliminaries, is strictly from hunger. Six Titlists Dethroned. before going after the Metropolitan ■_ j_ k Polumhio How the promoters blow their dough is of no concern to ring fans. They saw the defending team line-tt gall lot wwuwtuu tuiuuuun S. C., to compete against his arch, and St. Paul’s on Friday—and are As- the business if both want to run shows on Mondays in champion and six returning indi- rival. Calumet Farm's Armed, It’a promoters’ win both. rich. But vidual titlists dethroned. And they favored to sault ran fifth in the Widener clas- a town that has yet to make a fighter or a boxing promoter uun vnu n vwu ivvutuo Tourna- behind the to note how fare. St. John’s opens The Star sic, four lengths golden as a purely clinical study it might be interesting they equalled as the athletes matched or ment next Tuesday night by playing gelding. Armed ran fourth, with El surpassed last year's efforts In all Washington-Lee, after which the Mono, an outsider, finishing first. vs. Quantity Quality (?) except three events. District public high runnerup takes the decision to retire Kleberg said ^ The most of the new on Be thesda Chase, the was The Turner-Menendez outfit frankly Is offering quantity. Out impressive -Chevy Assault was made after it found board track champions were Dave Montgomery County champ. Next burst an osslet in the race.. 8-round bouts, involving fighters who have fought main he had of four from are least Bolen, quarter-miler Boulder, Wednesday’s first-round games An osslet is a growth on the ankle events Gabe Menendez is bound to come up with at one, here, Colo., and Billy Mathis, Negro, George Washington High. Northern some-- is no busher in which racing thoroughbreds two, three hair-raisers. Menendez from D. C. the Prince perhaps possibly sprinter Washington, Virginia leader, against times get as a result of the hard He may be strictly minor-league in the the matchmaking business. Bolen, former Colorado star and Georges County champ, and the on the turf. and pounding but he has a way of sizing up club fighters this country’s topmost quarter-miler, District winner against Gonzaga. national picture, When still a “baby” the son of won the 600-yard run in 1:11.8, just of the District and Prince matching styles. Identity Bold Venture's racing career waa two-tenths of a second off the meet Georges teams won't be decided Ahparn is another matchmaking journeyman along the fistic trail. almost put to an abrupt end when but record. He scored by a yard and a until later this week. stake has to match Joe Louis against Xavier Cugat, for example, i he stepped on a surveyor’s on He yet half over George Guida, Villanova’s AUack. which rated in Washington. George Sparks a Texas ranch in 1943. The injury- Goldie has put on some shows applause 1947 winner, as Herb McKenley, it was the stellar of crippled his right fore to "all-star” shows, such tfc Menendez's, but tonight world Again play permanently He’s not allergic Jamaica’s quarter-mile record it to fashion or bad. Jack George which spelled victory foot, making necessary he’s Hursey vs. Horne, and this could be very good very holder and Olympic 400-meter offering for the Johnnies yesterday. But a specially built-up shoe. our finished a beaten a middleweight developed in favorite, bably Last time out, Hursey, Negro the Eagles, attempting to avenge an The peak of his career was in the One Tommy Bell, fourth. town, didn’t look the part of a real good fighter. earlier set back by their Catholic spring of 1946 when he won the' if Dillard Equals Mark. national whipped him in Griffith Stadium as rivals, almost pulled the upset of the Preakness and who had a ranking, Mathis, former Illinois ace who Kentucky Derby, Indeed, Smug- the Gonzaga led, 33-30, at the Stakes—all he owned the tough, always-coming Hursey. the national outdoor 100- year. the Belmont $100,000 previously also owns but the John- as a fellow rated among the top end of three quarters, events—to capture what the appeared awed in such company meters title, equalled the world in- turf) gy nies threw up an air-tight defense world calls the “triple crown.” five middleweights. This was last September. door record of 6.1 seconds taking and the Eagles went scoreless in the between the dash over Defending A long-publicized duel Home, like Bell, hardly is likely to be world champion. But he's, 60-yard final period. Champion Ed Conwell and former Armed and Assault resulted in somerS a high ranking and he stands to lick Hursey. On the other hand, Jack Spicer and Mike Nolan, each got titleholders Tom Carey and Barney what of a fizzle last year at Belmont- still a chance that mixed up with the wrong guy of whom scored 11 points, were the there's Smuggy got Ewell. Park when the Calumet ace beat As- WINS—Here’s a of the action that was available all the way in yesterday’s for as when he Bell. There s still a chance that Hursey's style will ST. JOHN’S sample big guns Gonzaga, they sault six A or fought Only individual titleholders to (20) by lengths. splint, St. high school basket ball game at the Armory. Here Paul Fitzpatrick matched baskets with George and fore- beat Horne and that he will qualify to meet Middleweight Champion were Harri- John’s-Gonzaga bony growth, on Assault's left hang on to their crowns Others in the are Jack Vince of St. John's to of St. John’s is stealing the ball from Gonzaga’s Mike Nolan (11). play Durking keep was blamed for the bad Rocky Graziano here in April in a nontitle bout. son Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace, the leg showing of The Johnnies won, 33-30, to lock the game on an even keel for three world's No.