Little Money Bet on Heavyweight Title Fight by DAN PARKER BROWNS, REDS LOUIS 21-2 T01 CHICAGO, June It
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
All Quiet on Western Front Little Money Bet On Heavyweight Title Fight By DAN PARKER BROWNS, REDS LOUIS 21-2 T01 CHICAGO, June It. Today’s Sport MANY EXPLANATIONS HAVE BEEN offered for the complacency PAR-agraphs with which Joe Oould and Jim Braddock view the approaching Joe Louis MAKING UPWARD Parade OVER BRADDOCK bout. A possible explanation that everyone seems to have overlooked is By AKT KRENZ that, win, lose or draw, they’re going to get about a half million for their NEA Service Oolf Witter THS BS&NNK* One of the end and 500 grand spreads a heap of complacency. more fear- Smiley Rowland, Texas pro, regis- SHOULD MOVE IN MAJORS less of the New York columnists boldly stated in bis pillar that the ad- tered bis filth ace on his home lay- pwcfcA sm By HENRY McLEMORE AS BOUT NEARS vance sale Is only 9200,000. Promoter Michael Parnell Jacobs’ answer to out and didn’t much of recently get SHOTS this Is that four customers alone took more than $200,000 worth of tickets a thrill. SHORT (UnMeS Free* Stall Correspondent) what's more, have for them. They are Joe T tremebled like BHFOR* Cin- —and, paid Triner, George Says Rowland, Hubbell Humbled By Sale Tickets Gets, Julian Black and Joe Gould. Counting the radio gravy, the jackpot a leaf when I put my first dodo eo/Nt Mrtb of Uncertain; Is now $700,000, asserts M. Jacobs and who am I to challenge one of his In the cup at Olen Garden before SJe (cfMitrr cinnati; Cubs Win on Chicago, June 19—(UP)—The big I still ache from the Tight hands No assertions? I turned pro. The second one on OAAES... fellow with the bald head took a that Gene whacked under my Experts Confused; No. 15 at the Boas Golf Course, Galan on his bit the end heart.” Triple long pull beer, on GOULD SAYS HE ISN’T GOING to try to scare Joe Louis with also In Ft Worth, gave me a big oft a two-bit cigar, and said: Walter rates Louis as the finest Money Champ threats to have him bumped off If he beats Braddock, a brand of kick, too, and even the third on "If a pair of fists were all there workman with two fists that he he worked on Max Baer two No. 8. But the fourth on No. 15 at By GEORGE KIRKSEY was to this Louis ever laid on. he hits psychology quite successfully years ago. boxing—hell, eyes Says BY HENRY McLEMORE “1 used that stuff on Baer because he was around Boas failed to me much Press Stoll would belt Braddock out In three harder, hits faster, and blocks more only going saying’ surprise (United Correspondent) (United Press Staff Correspondent) that he killed two men In the ring already and was afraid he was and I was as cool as a cucumber heats. A of feints and then deftly than any man since Jim New York, June 19—(UP)—Eighth couple Chicago, June 19. — (UP) — With going to kill a third,” explained Joseph the psychologist, who wouldn’t when I rang up my fifth hole In a left hook, and church would be Figg. place In the two major leagus may the world’s heavyweight champion- kill a flea even if it were bitting him. “Besides,” he added as an after- one." out.” "But damn it,” Walter will tell ship fight only a few days away, thought, “I’d be wasting my time trying to sell that stuff to Louis. A good dies is for the beginner tiave new tenants by sundown. The The was Walter Mono- you, “there’s more to fighting than speaker the experts are frankly baffled. They He wouldn’t know what I was talking about." Little Joe was ‘t o start playing the chip shots be- present the St. Louis han, one of the greatest trainers throwing fists. And that's all Louis occupants, are borrowing the words of the late, almost heaved out of Colonel John Reed office on ear fore into the clubs. smoother swing than if he starts the art of fisticuffs has can do. the noggin— Kilpatrick’s his going longer Browns and the Cincinnati delightful Upstairs—in Tex “I control and and a Reds, great Rickard, muttering, once for addressing the Colonel as “Corpora!.” In this way the beginner will hence better ever produced. For forty years he he’s a blank. Pave served notice that mov- never seed nothing like it." And acquire a better sense of distance. i>ut playing the longer clubs. they’re has been shoving champions out In- “He can’t think. As long as the chances are they never did. ONE OF THE THINGS the fight mob is out here is the ing out of the cellar. to theb attle pit, and what he everything runs along smoothly, discussing Here we are on what might be old Yale blue’s threat to blow the whistle on crookedness in the The Reds were tied for doesn’t know about the manly art follows the pattern laid down by boxing virtually called the very eve of the meeting racket if the Garden lost the the has seventh In can be on the head of a his comer, he is as great a fighter injunction case, which, by byj, it place the National league engraved between Joe Louis and Jim Braddock but three times. What the EAST END TEAM In case' don’t know the as ever on a mitten. But let lost not once lads who make no bones MEDWICK a difference In the mat- you pulled puzzles GEHRIG, today, only pin and there hasn’t been a scan- to the single about their larceny is: "If Colonel Kilpatrick is a champion of righteous- ter of games played keeping them Lord’s prayer. something happen upset pat- or dal. Nobody has called anybody any ness and doesn’t he toot the or draw?” in last The He’s a fair hand In the ring, him- tern—a punch on the jaw, say, purity, why clarinet, win, lose place. Browns are only names. There have been no sin- an who won’t the As things now stand, the Colonel has left the Impression among his naif a game belo.w seventh place In self. He worked as a sparring part- opponent fight HITTERS '37 CHAMPIONS Tun- he’s lost.” ister rumors. There have been no circles that the LEADING ner with both and accustomed admirers in crookedness in to Dempsey way—and pugilistic boxing which he the American league. tales of kidnaping, shootings, rescues refers would be wrong only if the Garden lost out on its suit. ney before their first fight In Phil- Walter also finds Joe’s footwork A few days ago a rurfior buzzed in the lake, secret training tactics, adelphia, and was outspoken with a bit on the weak side. iround baseball circles that Rogers poisonings, gangster influence or over the Garden’s lawsuit his belief that James Joseph would "The colored boy is very slow. IS GOULD WORRIED against him? No Yankee “Iron Man” Gets Sts. Paul Outfit a Peter, Hornsby was on his way out as man- Powerful slow. I don’t know. what is sometimes called, in face- more so that Braddock is about his impending fight with Louis. “It takes win. Why, ager of the Browns. What little of is tious vein, of course, "the fix”. for a law suit to come to said “That hurt me a lot more He has a great pair legs, a couple of years trial,” Joe. “By that time, Lead on Shutout St. Thomas truth Tunney the Big Rivals; there is In the report may be "He didn't and as a But On Level Jim and 1 will be back on relief again solettheColonel sue us all he wants.” than Jack,” he explains. young, strong tiger. squelched with the Browns’ record In other words this is, to all out- the has learned that the Garden had hit as hard, but every punch he he moves around that ring as clum- Gould, by way, only 9,000 Bell Trail Nine 8*0 )f to be an Travis, late. They hav ewon eight out that as ever saw. Wil- ward appearances, going up- tickets printed lor its Phantom fight in the Garden Bowl. The face value landed was In a spot counted. sily anybody you )f their last 10 games. I because I trained and-up fight between Louis and tickets was and that’s the most the Garden can lard—and know, of the $115,000 sue him Braddock for the world’s heavy- the best baseball sea- St. Louis off Its him—was twice as fast. Even Brad- for, says Joe. Of course, he’ll point out in court that the Garden would New York, June 19— (UP)—Lou Winding up clipped third vic- son of their school tory Wash- dock, at the age of 32, and without weight championship. have had to pay Braddock about half that amount anyway and Schmel- Gehrig, New York Yankees’ “Iron sport history, yesterday by defeating a under his belt for two No one seems to find the situa- of it, so that its actual loss of wouldn’t have been Sts. Peter and Paul boys turned in ington, 6—0, behind Oral Hilde- fight ing one-eighth profits added 14 to his bat- TRIBES tion in the least disconcerting ex- man,” points a nifty 8-0 shutout to win the brand’s two-hit HEARTS, years, is much faster.” more than a few thousand bucks.