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Heavyweight Champion Claims His Fighting Days Are Endm The Monitor-Leader Grid Season Robinson Romps Seven Yards Joe Louis Announces End " MONDAY OCTOBER 12, 1542 PAGE 7 of Greof Fistic Coreer Is Jigsaw for FIGHTER, NOW ARMY SERGEANT, St. Mary’s Drops MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT IN OMAHA By SID FIDIR Nation’s Fans NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (AP) Unless Joe Lm* 19-0 Frethmon Hold First changes his mind or Uncle Sam changes it for him the Second Game Borths; Sorvico greatest fistic career of this era is ended. Ttom The quiet, simple colored boy who skyrocketed out of on But Reshuffled Mountaineer Squods Now Problom Alaboma cotton patch into such fistic fame that many «* perts rank him os greatest fighter of all time, paused BY BEALMEAR the In Stages Battle AUSTIN Omaha to soy Squad Great NEW YpRK, Oct. 12 (/P)— yesterday casually that his "fightin' days OfO holding first over." into hard-driving With Freshmen St. Mary's Mountaineers ran a tough, team and strangers hold- He said it in the typical Louis way, without frills or drum* a berths St. James' squad at Ferndale, Sunday, emerged with 19-0 ing coaching jobs, it’s little won- beating; the same way in which he dropped all the glory end defeat, but everybody from the waterboy to the coach came der that this unprecedented war- financial success that goes with the heavyweight chompkindtip jubilant. season, rapidly ap- to in army private January. out smiling and # time football enlist the United States as a lost * Playing nine seniors on its veteran squad, St. James proaching the halfway mark, has “By the time this war is over,’’> had a fight on its hands all the way through the game the fans holding their heads. :j|| he reckoned, "I’ll be in my persident eleven f old Greene, of the Nation* by bitter, bruising play. St. Mary's eleven puz- 30's, and that’s too for a al Boxing “but which was marked Chopped up like a jigsaw fighter. I'm it now. Association, men, and too old for fighting will thnmgli• was playing this tough outfit with eight first year zle, because of the presence of “Y’know, I really don’t never be conclusively care with Joe.’* their performance in yesterday's game proves service teams, the campaign al- much any more about going back the that the Second Division of ready has produced more sur- HteS into the ring.” CHAMPION EMERITUS Detroit Catholic League is going stock- I l Greene prises than a Christmas Os course, it would all change added that whan the to hear from them next year, far away. receives ing, but others aren’t if the war department decides to NBA official word of with a vengeance. appreciate action Joe’s it tab Those who let Joe—he’s a sergeant now—- retirement, will Be. Captain Kubie The foe scored their first lots have to wait “Champion Emeritus'* and wfll in carload will out toss his bombs again. But on a to name Bob marker in the first quarter no longer than the coming week- the Army already has turned Pastor and TUf Mauriello, hanvy* pass from quarterback Burgois end for more of the same. thumbs down on one fight for New York Scrimzer, who, in- weights, and Lee Savold to left half proved the Bomber—his eagerly-looked- of Dw Winner one If the season has noth- Moines to fight it out for rank* Golf cidentally, looms as of the ing else, it has shown that tne for return go with Corporal ing greatest backfield mep in the as “Championship Protend Majors' Trophy Navy can produce teams from Billy Conn. Catholic league this year. Scrim- er,” at least until the war It among its pre-flight trainees that DON ROBINSON, University of Michigan half-back, goes around his own right end on the ARMY IN CHARGE over. also Id Won First Timo zer is a great ball carrier, and a “With Conn the are better than the best colleg- way to a seven yard gain in the first quarter of the Michigan-lowa Seahawk game at Ann Arbor, “I’lldo anything the Army Army," Greene said, fine passer. The third quarter “them Captain S. Kubie yes- iate squads, but even this con- Mich. George Svendsen (99), Seahawk center, and Matt Bolger (81) finally brought him down. asks,’’ Joe said. “I’min the Army three are the top men in David saw the Ferndale aggregation action terday afternoon won the honor vincing demonstration may now and they're taking care of today.’* second on ~ Field chalking up its score snag before another my plans.” of being the first Selfridge play, with strike a Should Joe make his Bedded name inscrib- a beautiful reverse Naturally, Joe change golfer to have his the mail from week. could stick, he would be the third Austin August Scrimzer carrying Likes his mind. He wouldn’t be the heavyweight champion ed on the Major Mary’s 40 yard stripe over HAWKS FACE TEST He far tD Memorial Golf Trophy the St. Saturday’s first champion who couldn't get ring history give up the Straubel the goal line. Lieut. Col. Bernie Bierman’s Grid Stars to bmM-i when he defeated First Lieut. the “rosin out of his blood.” But man’s spot. And, as was the €••£, Scrimzer figured in the third lowa Seahawks, whose 2d-14 Them Big Bomb- Cecil G. Wheeler on the field’s By the Associated Press fumble for winning marker. as matters stand now, the when Jim Jeffries and Clean score in the fourth period with a victory over Michigan last week er, at 28, is giving up a reign Tunney did it, course. While most wrestlers of Agase, Illinois guard—- Bob Odell, Penn halfback—- his abdication net- nine-hole looping pass to left end Carter. added the Wolverines to a list Alex that already has netted purses only would and Lieut. type shy touchdowns in 20- passed to one touchdown, set up take a lot out of tfafc Captain Kubie The game produced an un- of victims that already included “Babe” Kacaboski’s at scored two of more than $2,000,000 and has fight game, op- Minnesota, snatch- two others with fine runs and but also leave fee*' Wheeler tied for first in the usually fierce brand of tackling, Northwestern and Minnesota, meeting the mat ruffians the 13 upset over broken all records for successful situation immediately ing Daley's hands led Quackcrs to 35-6 triumph afterward: ening of this first tournament and one result was a broken col- are due for another stern test young Polish lad is made of ball from Bill defenses of the fight game’s most in a confusing tangle. running 35 yards to one over Yale, coached by his broth- last Friday afternoon, and the for Ruelle, St. James’ Saturday against a Notre Dame Strerner stuf sand is to and prized bauble. He has turned larbone anxious recovering an end zone er, Howie. Os course, the logical aemam* - playoff was held yesterday. Wal- guard, in the second period. team that finally has found it- take on the “Bad Man” score and back 21 challenges won right Eddie Angelo Bertclli, Dame since he tion is that Joe would takeltwl ter Hagen made the presentation was jubilant self. roughs his foes plen- Notre the rough-and- back Coach Lee Hart Lewis, who quarterback—passed to four crown from old if the war should end M of the trophy which will remain all ready in the over the performance of his With accurate Angelo Ber- ty, in a long s*rap. Irish touchdowns and kicked Jim Braddock back next few months. Hlo Impli- in the Selfridge Field Officer s yesterday. 1937, and no champ ever came cation was that as long.ee squad telli passing to all four touch- This evening in the Arc'na Inferscholastic three extra points to lead way he Club. “The backfield began to within shouting distance of that was on the sunny side of 36, downs, the Irish whipped Stan- Gardens Eddie and the “Babe” to 27-0 shutout of Stanford, he The trophy was purchased by satisfactorily, and the mark. might take a crack at it agd*," function ford last Saturday, 27-0. meet a second time, a match completing 14 of 20 passes, nine William G. Colman, Com- work was extremely prom- Football Out Louis* statement, which he A return match with Com A* Col. line Illinois, fresh from its surpris- Kasaboski sought with the idea is in a row, for 233 yards. manding Officer at Selfridge ising,’’ he said. “I’ve got a bunch made to Associated Press Staff ures to make the cadi vegfadm ing 20-13 triumph over Minne- that he can beat Lewis in a DETROIT, Oct. 12 (/Ft Mike Micka, Colgate fullback jingle half Field who was a close personal of boys here who are turning competi- touchdowns in Reporter David Kaufman after for a million doOme sota, stakes its clean record long match. They clashed in a Intorscholastic athletic —scored two 27- Riley or more. And it la no secret friend of Major Straubel, form- into a fine football team. They’re over set- marching with the Fort that against lowa in another mid- short bout last week and Lewis tion between Detroit's public 19 victory Dartmouth, in Joe could use reedy cash glnm. erly stationed here, who was getting their experience, and ting up one of them with pass (Kansas) precision drill team western headliner and Wiscon- won on a flukey fall but the high schools will become a war fight much of his money i« tied m killed last May in action in the standing up to some mighty interception and 23-yard run.