DETROIT TIMES, FEBRUARY 4, 1941 PAGE 13 Wayne Plans; Why Johnson Layden Made Czar of Pros; Is Darkhorse’ To Include In Derby Crowley Likely Irish Choice Baseball' Irish Coach Signs Baseball may be on the sports for Five Years ftek^ts calendar at Wayne University this Tllu/ijylu) Spring. Dr. Everett Phelps, chair- 1 at $20,000 man of the Tartar athletic board The years rest lightly on “Dad” Butler, of control, announced today fol-; Michael H. the really By EDGAR HAVES grand old man of University of Detroit athletics, and, at 71 years, lowing an offer by students to foot Crowley, trainer, part of the cost of financing the Jim head coach of still active as track coach and boxing instructor at the University, is leading sport. Fordham the Titan stronghold. candidate to succeed Elmer Lay- It’s almost 50 years since he took a package of concentrated Student and faculty sentiment den at Notre Dame, it was learned T-N’-T called Kid Lavigne to Europe on an invasion that became for baseball has been high at [today. Layden yesterday resigned 1 coach a parade of fistic triumph. He’s handled Honey Melody, Gus Wayne for the last few years, but as head and athletic director at Notre Dame to com- t depleted ath- become Ruhlin and other memorable battlers of a vanished era. To him missioner of the National Pro- that you aren't letic budget League. names come across in musty record books names kept the game fessional Football I at all, but a troupe of gay and gallant from being add- Layden was signed to a five-year ghosts parading out of the past. ed to the Tartar contract at S2O 000 a year. Hi* He remembers the bare-knuckle program. contract at Notre Dame had ex- pired the first of this month. He fights when giants battled until one fell, - ’’’lßi With money f o r t h c oming was working on a one year term an, untidy pile of bleeding flesh. He from the bas- at SIO,OOO annually. remembers the legendary John L. Sul-j ketball budget Crowley has made a brilliant livan in his heyday, offering to lick any- this year be- record at Fordham. where he went cause of cur- from Michigan State. He was a body in the place. The fancy Dans, the teammate of Layden at Notre bruising battlers, little guys tailment of the the good cage schedule, Darm and with Don Miller and and the better big guys—“Dad” has George Houk, Harry Stuhldreher made football’s J||l known them president the most famous quartet ‘‘the four all. of three years, i n terfraternity horsemen.” For council, 1922-23-24. this quartet made told the history twarri football from one end of Lives in the Present athletic country other, including that his group the to the But you find the U. TRISKOHNKI vm- a to 10 victory oyer won't beloved would attempt 27 Stanford in the Rose Bowl in their final game. of D. patriarch mourning for the “good to raise the difference, between old days.” He is much too busy in the $350 and S4OO if this money were POPULAR WITH ALUMNI applied a Tartar present to grow nostalgic about the toward baseball The Fordham coach paid a visit past. He sees the whole crowded boxing team. The board voted unani- to Notre Dame recently. He is favor of the proposal. DAD BUTLER panorama in perspective. mously in extremely popular with the three If the student campaign to raise “There’s no largest groups of alumni—in Chi- way of pro\ing who Is the best fighter of all funds meets with success, Phelps cago. division," Detroit and New York. He time in any Dad says. “There were good battlers in said that Joe Truskowski. assist-j has a great personalitv and has a the as good as any we have today. The only difference ant football and basketball coach host of friends in every college is that today we have more of them.” at Wayne, would take over thei where he has coached. He has squad. The former Wolverine ath- And how does Joe Louis rate in Dad’s book’’ been at Fordham since 1933. lete coached the lowa State nil—. The first name usually men- “Joe is unquestionably one of the greatest fighters of all for several years before coming to tioned when a vacancy existed at time, and a real credit to the game.” the Titan sage observes. Wayne. Notre Dame has been Gus Dorais C«tyri«nt fey Detroit Tlmot. All rifhta r**«r>od. But there's no way of telling how he would fare against some Truskowski has been instructed of the University of Detroit. But by the athletic hoard to begin Skating followers are saying It loud that now Gus is 'veil on •I’of the la st heavyweights of the past. In my opinion, you could DO LG the three-mile. Durable VINCE BOZICH. state champion, embarked a carding a provisional schedule im- JOHNSON (right) is the dark horse in The Detroit Times is shown winning by only 2 feet from Johnson. That’s the political career which he would be take Louis. John L. Sullivan. Jack Dempsey. Jim Jeffries, Jim mediately. that he to give up. He indicated Derby rare for the Silver Skates figured ; very reluctant Corbett. Dob Fitzsimmons, (iene Tunney and several others, put would attempt to card Michigan in the two-mile final to- particular reason why the latter is to win by many. Clipper Smith of Villanova them against each other and take your pick. There wouldn't be Normal and Michigan State and. morrow at Belle Isle. Best raee of the day at Belle Isle Bozieh won skates in 1939. A boy or girl can win the might be the choice if Crowley day’s racing Clipper es- much to choose among them.” other slate and local teams. Saturday in the first in the Times Derby was Gold and Silver Skates only nnee. is not available. has tablished a splendid record and fulfills the most important re- quirement. He is a Notre Dame They Trained Hard in Old Days Debate Is Settled Spill Beals Bozieli graduate. Others mentioned are Brothers Star Charley Bachman of Michigan “There is one big differenee between the fighters of the State, Harry Stuhldreher of Wis- present and those of 10 years ago,” says Dad. “In those days, Holzbaughs, With Baudino Showing the Way, Beat Detroit Skater Falls on Next Last Lap in New York consin, Marchy Schwartz, assistant a man trained much harder. He had lights from at Stanford. Frank Thomas at to. went Race; Leighton of Minneapolis Wins Alabama and Bud Boeringer, as- *0 to 25 rounds, and the gloves were smaller, enabling a Toledoans and Advance to Second in M-O Puck In Win sistant Gus Dorais to at Detroit. scrapper to hand out a lot more punishment. George Wakefield, ANDERSON IS ANOTHER “hid lavigne furnished a good example of the more rigor- By and Alev NEW YORK. Feb. 4.—Racing from home had gone to LEWIS H. WALTER the fore Anderson, lowa, brother combination on the Mt. luck took its toll from Vince to hold the temporarily. Eddie now at ous training practices of former years. For three weeks before Clemens hockey team, scored five lead been There was a lot of whooping It will be almost impossible for Bozieh of Detroit last night in his However, in the final rush for has extremely successful and a fight he followed an intensive training routine that would kill Holzbaughs. of the Shamrocks 10 goals. George may be a candidate. and hollering, plenty of red-faced Babcocks to catch the quest for honors in the big Daily home he lost his balance fighters. two as their and went resignation some of our modern yelling over the hig mahogany The question of who takes sec- tallied three and Alex News Silver Skates inter-city two- down and out of the race. The of Layden came team beat 10-4, at surprise “Each morning he did between six and eight miles of road board of the directors' table at ond place in the three-club league Lincoln Park. mile championship. Johnny Roukema, who as a to Notre Dame fol- the governors of gover- Mack Park last night had lowers. His name had not been work. go X against Olympia as the was important because the In a race marked by close com- this event in and I.ater he would to 10 rounds the best In A games taken 1939 1940 a Michigan-Ontano Amateur Hockey nors were settling playoff dates Class O’Neil-Heffner petition. the next to and had been of the mentioned as candidate for the opposition we could get. Then he would punch the bag for defeated Waditans, 4-1. and Cardi- Bozieh fell on one heavy new post voted recently by Leagup tried to decide last night for Holzbaugh and Toledo, who last lap. as Charles Leighton of to repeat, the another 10 or 12 rounds. nals and Spitfires played to a 1-1 favorites also lost his pro league. His team lost two out whether Holzbaugh or Toledo wa« must fight it out to meet Windsor Minneapolis sped home the winner. balance on the same Jap with. “Ifyou suggested such a routine to a modern fighter, he’d in second place with ihe playoffs in the final. Tnc first game whll Me. Tony Kominfki scored for the of TO games last year but outside — Second- place was taken Bud Bozieh to pass in opening by and felt out of the Chicago the — Cardinals The period of appeared —he just three weeks away.