Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 13, 1929

rnmmmmtimiiifflmwm tMwwwiipiipwi!^^ 32 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929. Iowa Has Punished ows More Than Disciplining The Double-Fused Bomb—Which'li Explode It? By Ed Hughes Few Athletes Needed .0., Ere House Is Cleaned Despite Ruby's Punch -t • By GEORGE CVRRIE By ED HUGHES. io'.va( having cleaned house by simply taking a broom A double-fused knockout bomb, figuratively speaking, and sweeping her outstanding athletes out oi the locker will splutter and probably explode in the Garden ring tonight, room, cannot be accused of dodging the issue for which she Jimmy McLarnin, the Irish Thumper, and Ruby Goldstein, was suspended by the "Big Ten" when she insists upon much-thumped idol of the Ghetto, will meet* naming her own athletic director^ Not only has she dis- in a scheduled ten-rounder. The betting is TO$f__, Sbrl.and 7—5 on McLarnin, but the talk you year's basketball team apart, ail to prove the simon purity might jsay is almost at evens. McLarnin of her intentions. and Goldstein are two of the hardest hitting The Hawkeyes are thus in a position to demand rein welterweights that have appeared since the statement and, reinstated, to demand a follow up of the dangerous days of Joe Walcott, famed Bar- Carnegie Foundation report so lar<s>— badoes demon. as it concerns sister universities in) boys—ah, my friends, countrymen the "Big Ten" conference. Incidentally, destiny, with a sense of and New Yorkers, that is another the dramatic, decreed that the great col-, A fair indication of the drastic story! mopping up which Iowa has under One awaits the action of Iowa ored gladiator of other days should be a taken may t>e gathered from the with a hopeful but not expectant part of tonight's turnup. The gray and fact that among those suspended patience. Still, one recalls that wrinkled Walcott is now employed as a are Mike Farroh, star right half Penn State, but a year or two ago, back and co-captain of the 1930 made a public confession of schol "handy man" about the Garden. team; Oran Pape, who made the arships for athletes, announced that Walcott is still enacting his ancient role touchdown against Minnesota which after such and such a date the prac in ringdom. The "Giant Killer" was always Ed Hughes toppled the Gophers out of the tice would be discontinued, and running for the title; Irving Nelson gained, rather than lost, caste by its a "handy man" in fisticuffs. Joe was probably the greatest and Seward Leeka. Nelson, Farroh action. fighter of lfis inches the world ever knew. Certainly he was and Leeka were also basketball regulars. The colleges, when cleaning house, the greatest welterweight the ring ever produced. If anything, the Hawkeyes have owe something to the boys who have However, back to the heroes of the* , been cluttering up the locker room. fallen over backwards in the fever current moment, for 99 out of 100 ish endeavor to avoid the very ap They have a responsibility which thing Goldstein lacks, That is who jam into the Garden tonight fighting heart and the pearance of evil. Major Griffith, the faculty in solemn conclave ability to probably never heard of Walcott, let "take it." boss of the Conference, has finally cannot evade by the subterfuge of alone recognizing the old knockout spoken up, declaring that not more taking its horror and high moral On form that advantage is a big genius in a workman's uniform. than 20 or 30 out of the 300,000 dismay put on the boys without get one and it should return McLarnin Conference alumni, 100,000 stu ting back at their betrayers." By the victor. dents and 300 directors and assist betrayers I don't mean "snitchers"- PICKS M'LARNIN BY However, there is no disputing the' ant athletic directors would think but tempters. A KNOCKOUT ' { ••• fact that McLarnin is trifling with a mighty potent charge of dynamite of shooing promising prep school If fighting term on all Its counts athletes to college on the under A. A. U. MAKES STEP in his opponent's right fist. This counts for anything, McLarnin Goldstein has the fastest and most • standing that money would be pro IN EIGHT DIRECTION should win this fight by a knock vided to keep the body from starv devastating right-hand punch that Incidentally, speaking of ama out, probably inside of three rounds. I have ever seen from a little fellow.' ing and the soul from shrinking. teurs, the A. A. U. deserves a word He has everything possessed by the 7_A h^t, gt "all possible"' .worlds ~ is Goldstein, if he can maintain his pi~probattonary_praise—for -its, new dangerous Hebrew kid phis some- equilibrium for-even the first min-- about to dawn beyond"lhe~ATI ? plan of handling foreign athletes ghanies. ute of fighting, is as likely to score visiting the country tills coming a kno.ckout as McLarnin. winter during the indoor season. WHAT ABOUT THOSE Bidding got pretty brisk a year GOLDSTEIN A BORN WHO GAVE MONEY? ago, according to the whispering tPlan angers, on Beefsteak riggs' Aim to Make BOXER AND HITTER Still, there is Bulletin No. 23 of campaign, as one club fought with Ruby, as a matter of fact, is a the Carnegie Foundation to be another to woo this man or that to born ring artist, lacking only the answered. Iowa has walked the its meet as a topliner. The air 1 heart to "sell' himself possibly as- plank and we in this effete East got pretty hot with loudly uttered met, irive l^anadiens Father and SonEvent charges, refusals to back them up the best little man of his weight the think the Hawkeyes have done it ring ever knew. rather gallantly The Carnegie and all that sort of thing. The gumshoe boys did not let several track papas raised more noise last With Players Goldstein is a naturally brilliant -of Iowa's rivals off scot - free, but year than ever.before in the whole Biggest Hockey Upset Equal of Any Tourney boxer, fast afoot, a quick thinker nothing has been said about that, history of the sport. and a lightning deadly, hitter. I But as Dan Ferris of the A. A. U. think he hits a faster and more which prompts the theory that Present Optional Rules By RALPH TROST Iowa is being-made the sacrificial mails out his invitations to the as By HAROLD C. BURR accurate blow than McLarnin, who is an unusually gifted thumper goat. sociations abroad, word comes that Edmund H. Driggs Jr., otherwise "Eddie," was elected to Jack London once wrote a story about a fighter who lost Strenuous Enough, in his own right. However, that is for the Confer the A. A. U. intends to arrange the his big bout because he was too broke to buy himself a beef the presidency of the Long Island Golf Association yesterday- ence itself to settle. A more serious schedules of the visitors itself. If Say the Athletes Everything that Goldstein dees aspect has entered into the sus this is to be the real thing, instead steak before he entered the ring. The story of last night's evening; W. Neal Fulkerson. former Long Island junior within ropes comes natural, which of a gesture, and there seems no champion, became vice president; Perley Boone, secretary, explains also his fatal shortcom pension of the 22 athletes at Iowa hockey game at the Garden between the Rangers and Les By THOMAS HOLMES -©ifcy: reason to presiime It Isn't _the_reaj ing. It seems natural, somehow, for Ganadiens_has. the same plot, but done in reverse. It was In plain and fancy sidestepping and Ross Redmond, treasurer. All of this was expected. Their Those boys were brought to col thing, then Dan Ferris and his A. Goldstein to crumple from the first steak'that won the game for the Rangers by the strictly col major league magnates—all of them election was unanimous. But few expected these new officials lege. One may say that because the A. U. brothers are entitled to a severe broadside exploded by his foe. —could give the original Artful action of their university virtually doffing of hats among the critical. legiate score of 8—3. would immediately turn their attention toward the promo He is built that way. Dodder lessons. amounts to an admission of—well, And from this corner, consider it Goldstein's chin is one of nature's The fast youngsters and just as fast veterans who make The latest exhibitions of their skill tion of one of the most deserving of the season's tourna we won't say guilt, but of error. hereby cheerfully done. up Lester Patrick's Blue Shirt squad were evidently still ments—the Father and Son championship. most fragile outputs, and he has a The.se athletes were' charged with occurred at the joint major league fluttering, apprehensive heart. ree-evvins-money. from the now..no- hungry from the loss of their Thanksgiving dinner, for be it meeting held at the Hotel Biltmore After the election had taken place Driggs took the —o— f NOISY PROMOTERS yesterday The baseball bosses, col torious trust fund, ^ince money known hockey players in training .•>—— ; president's chair. After he had S> DANGEROUS MAN IN . OUT OF LUCK lectively and individually, know how doesn't grow on trees, even in the are not allowed turkey, cranberry FIRST FEW MINUTES All the bickering over Dr. Peltzer, Bouchers and the Bourgaults were oppesed Kenesaw M.\ Landis.

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