6 9 Glory Be 9 Says Uncle Mike—Louis Still Obeys Orders By CLAYTON HEPLER financial details of the fight. He. too, is under contract to It’s up to the public to decide whether or not this cut Mike Jacobs. in the gate la justifiable. It was on June 24 year that International News of this Neither Louis nor Conn will receive one penny for Perhaps Mike needs that money, although he Service interviewed Joe Louis and sent out a dispatch where- Jacobs fighting in a world's championship match, and Louis will has a considerable sum during the time Louis has by the heavyweight champion made it plain he did not have collected be risking the title which is considered the most valuable reigned as champion. to fight to pay hia income tax. —in the light of financial remuneration—in sports today. Perhaps John Roxborough needs money to adjust Said Louis: the The only ones to profit from this match, in addition to Joe’s affairs, although he, too, has collected a considerable “I may be short of cash now and then, hut I can ar- the Army Emergency Relief Fund, are Mike Jacobs, John sum during the Brown Bomber’s titular tenure. range to pay my Income tax.*' Roxborough and the , which will receive a But it comes time to point the finger, let’s keep to keep the record straight: fee. until Just $40,000 rental the record straight. Joe had nothing to do with the arranging of his Mike Jacobs, under his incorporated name, the Twen- Louis and Billy Conn will not receive a cent over fight with Billy Conn October 12 in City. He tieth Century Sporting Club, will receive $94,305.50. Of Joe Louis regular army pay for participating in this bout. received his orders from the United States Army. this $59,805.50 is a debt owed him by Louia and $34,500 their Joe Louis had nothing to do with the financial details an obligation owed by Conn. Mike Jacobs, John Roxborough and the Yankee Stadium the which was originally of his fight with Conn. He has always left that to Mike John Roxborough will receive $41,146.03 for debts owed are the only ones to cut in on gate 100 per for Army Emergency Jacobs, the promoter, and John Roxborough, his , him by Louis. announced as going cent who have him signed to contracts. That’s a total of $175,451.52 from a gate which, it is Relief. Despite his often-stated desire for a rematch with the hoped,-will reach a million dollars. With another SIOO,OOO It will be most unfortunate if Joe Louis gets the blame heavyweight champion, Billy Conn had nothing to do with lopped off for taxes and what ever incidental expenses added for some sort of “co-operative” financial setup between the the arranging of the fight. He, also, is under orders from to that, the Army Emergency Relief Fund would benefit to army and Mike Jacobs & Co. the United States Army. the tune of more than SBOO,OOO if the million dollar gate Joe simply obeys orders —whether in the army or in Neither did Billy Conn have anything to do with the is realized. the ring.

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.. . .•. Joe Louis , John J. Phelan , Billy Conn at official act SOPHS WHO EASE ’M’ ’S WORRIES OVER TACKLE POSTS DETROIT TIMES, SEPT. 24,1942 PAGE 25 Best Local Duck Edge Is Given Crop in Years To Navy 'lf on SPORTS For Ist Hunters Weight, Power By LEO MACDONELL By DON GILLIEA By EDO AS HATES Cards’ Johnnie Beazley * He May Be the Thousands of duck hunters from WmL**m Bk JM IMi ¦ ¦ m ANN ARBOR, Sept. 24.—Mich- Greatest Freshman Who’ll Stop the Yanks Detroit will find the best crop of igan will depend on its speed and • Is local ducks in years next Saturday condition to outrun the Great Since Alexander In 1942 morning, if telegraphic reports Lakes naval team here Saturday elevens open the from conservation officials are ac- when the two 1942 season. The game will start HIS 21 VICTORIES IS STANDOUT FEAT curate. at 3 o'clock instead of the 2 Everett Tucker. In charge of the o’clock time that has pre- local office of the conservation starting had but good vailed at Michigan for years. JOHN BEAZLEY, FRESHMAN”! department, nothing The Great Lakes team is fa- news. Remember the name —John Beazley! The kid may stop the vored. They are given a touch- In the marshes off Monroe, mal- edge over Wolverines. Cardinals the champions in the coming are plentiful, with some down the Yankees, If the meet lards pin- The Wolverines will be out- World Series. tail and quite a few teal. Hunters manned and outweighed in every Brandt, tub thumper for the , points will have to resort to boats this by the sailors. Bill to the in / % position Greet makes year, due high water, m/ jt i ' jfr--.. .jtWk Lakes also will have a wide edge out that the twenty-first victory of the regular season order to get on the outside of year pitcher into the National in experience and football knowl- Beazley the greatest first to step rushes where vegetation is 15 feet years 31 years ago. edge that comes with on the League picture since Grover Cleveland Alexander high. firing front. All of these sailors Grover the Great, starting out on a 19-year career in the RESTORE MARSHES have played three years of col- baseball’s alltime lege football in many cases his name large in v - and majors, destined to write Club’s - A The Monroe Rod and Gun t —*l Jr augmented it with several records, to achieve World Series heroics and the Coopers town four year fight to restore marshes have r\ u]&y\ w Ja **.c;- years of pro football. Hall of Fame, won 28 and lost 13 games in 1911 for the Phila- at Erie to public hunting has been ahd time Coach Fritz Crisler has planned delphia Phils, fresh out of the New Yofk State League and never accomplished for the first a few surprises for the visitors. in years hunters will have about in a major league game until that spring. “If we can get the ball,” he five miles of the best marsh in the always adds. state. There are two accesses—- - He has several backs who can None Can Compare With Johnnie the East Erie road off the old W 'MW I II IS^I to deception the Dixie highway and from Bay Point be shifted add to first-year hurlers attack. Michigan fans may be Since 1911, a select half-doien or so of by boat across Maumee Bay, by Flats, surprised to see passes thrown have reached or passed the 20-win mark, but when the records St. Clair duck hunters’ unfamiliar men. are cloeely reviewed, none of them is quite up to Beazley in paradise, has about the same crop of local ducks as last year, but ARRIVE TOMORROW every aspect of freshman performance. farther north, in St. Clair and team The Cardinals* 23-year-old sensation joined the Redbirds only The Great Lakes will ar- Sanilac .counties, a **fair rive tomorrow afternoon and season with New Orleans Pelicans and amount** are reported last fall after a 16-12 the of ducks in work out in the stadium before the of the cam- rivers and lakes. In Hufiron County, pitched one National League game at close 1941 Photo by Time* Raff Photocrapher going to Dearborn Inn to spend there are small flocks of blacks night. paign. The date waa September along LINE BILL (LEFT), (RIGHT) the and mallards the eastern COACH CLARENCE MUNN, U. M. COACH, PETRULA BILL BALDWIN The visiting sailors will present 28—a 3*l victory for the recruit shore. tackles.., .., Petmla's from Detroit, Baldwin'* from Lansing.. .show stuff to make grade at a number of men well-known to right-hander over the Chicago In Lapeer County, the duck Smith, ijSFI are the Michigan fans. Bruce Cuba. 'M'MmL ply is good. Prospects fair in the left half, has been a scourge Genesee County. Teal and mal- With that one con bag to Michigan for three straight juat teat, lards will make up most of the 3 Days—7 Winners years. 'under his belt as his total major limit. MacPhail Quits Cards Match In the line, three pro players, league experience, the tall Nash- PROSPECT* SWELL two from Detroit and one from ville youth stepped out as the That's Record of Powers' Stable at Detroit Track; Green Bay, have proved their Prospect* in south central coun- pro games. freshman mound marvel of the tie* are the best in football worth in Bill of Michigan Overdrawn's Victory Yesterday Is Latest Radovich, who enlisted In Detroit, year for this season's Cardinals. year*. Ducks are seen in every Dodgers' Helm Dodgers' Pace has done the hardest work to gain small marsh or wherever there is By LEWIS H. WALTER of the Cin- any Lake a berth. He had shed weight if water. The old Mud NEW YORK. Sept. 24. (INS).— NEW YORK. Sept. 24 (INS).— equaling a good-sized calf cinnati Reds was a two-way marsh in Jackson County seema to James D. Powers, one Detroit cording to reports, but Trainer from Leland S. (Larry) MacPhail, vit- automobile agency owner who Smith’s work with the gelding The backs, the hearts and the his frame to reach a playable 220 champion—won and lost plus abound in ducks. pounds. Cool and rainy weather Im- riolic president and general man- was smart enough to see what was soon began to show results. Over- hopes of the Brooklyn Dodgers ERA —of the senior circuit has proved the outlook on Saginaw ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. coming and set up a defense plant drawn. in four starts, finished and their fans have been battered HURT WHILE HERE • his first himself seventh moundsmen in 1941, Bay. Black mallards and teal ap- of his own. is also proving and fourth once and sec- many, many in 1941 National League baseball horse- and broken tifnes Bobby Nelson from Baylor and year as a Red regular. Riddle. pear plentiful in most area* and the most successful Detroit ond the next two times. champions, has resigned to enter man at the the past few weeks as the St. the Lions will be at center. In- spent the entire 1910 good shooting is In prospect. If the Fair Grounds fall In Rogers Handicap. Over- weather Sagi- the United States Army. meeting. drawn, with Manuel Gonzalez up. Louis Cardinals, surging from juries kept him on the sidelines with Bill McKechnie’s the continues cool, most year, Kowever.eason Bay good, MacPhail announced his inten- Powers’ strong Dearborn Stable, kept going to win by a head, with some 10 games in the rear, of last but what time naw will be especially he did play convinced Detroit although he figured - tion by the capable thin second, the crew and jyißjpfr ,?*•»» v while ducks inland will be found of quitting his phenomenally trained /nan. Big Meal almost two stampeded on into first place in in only 15 games year before ¦ to the successful baseball job for one C. Hyde Smith, has won seven lengths back for third money. fans he was top-notch material. scattered due number of the National League race. At end is Carl last, his status last year was not swamps and pot holes filled with with Uncle Sam several weeks ago. races in nine days. The seventh Mulleneaux but the board directors was the most important. It w’as It is doubtful, however, if the from Green Bay. Carl has had as strictly freshman as Beas- water. of of the .iS^yfc^^ /** Near Roscommon, officers re- Brooklyn Club did not accept his the triumph Overdrawn scored in Bums. National League cham- the misfortune of playing on the ley’s today. Riddle’s victories ¦• 'jfcjapWßWf l jy .Sip' opposite end to Don Hutson. With port good prospects for opening resignation until yesterday. the Roger Rogers Handicap yes- Detroiter pions last year, and what is left fell one short of the 20 mark, with He will enter the army on Sat- terday. an ordinary end opposite him he day. more than the usual of their • faithful fans, ever felt best in though his 19-4 percentage number #f birds on hand. At Boyne urday as a lieutenant colonel at- Powers bought Overdrawn, a would be fisted with the tached to Hugh lower than they do today as they the pro league. topped the chuckers for the jCity opening day will be fair. the service of supply. 4-year-old gelding by Jack, Soph The board said it had not dis- for 59.000 from George D. Wide- Star contemplate the events of the last At the other end is Fred Pres- year. cussed ton of Nebraska with Howard a successor to MacPhail. ner of New York near the close 24 hours and a two and one-half He said the club had made no com- of Hickey of the Cleveland Rams to Measuring the Cardinals' tall the summer meeting here, and game deficit in the league stand- ALEXANDER Major League mitments to Manager Leo Du- yesterday was Overdrawn's first At State back him up. Both are top Tennessean against the greats ing. flight flankmen, strong on defenat his 1942 per- rocher for the 1943 season. victory for his new owner, one of all the baseball ages accentuates the merit of The board asked MacPhail. and that brought SI,OOO. . 34-year-old vet- and good blockers on offense. formance on the peak. became the gold standard of Standings agreed, EAST LANSING. Sept. 24 —ls Gus Zamas and Jim Danieil of he to serve as temporary Overdrawn didn’t look like any eran. making his first appearance winning in three games director. bargain when he arrived, every player on the squad had the Ohio State are others in the for- first-year success in 1909 hy being pitcher horse ac- on the hill since August 30, came of the World Series in which the beat Detroit spirit of Edo Mencotti. a lot of ward wall who have appeared within one pitch of a perfect ball against Michigan before. had Coach Charley Bachman’s troubles for the world championship. Babe a great percentage dur- W L Pet. »GB Sweetheart* of Eee to Wed game in blanking the Phillies, 6-0. In reserve strength the Sailors ing the pennant race. 12 and 3. but did not approximate Beazley’s New' York 103 50 .673 w’ould be over for the season. for the Bums yesterday. This will have a big margin. Michigan victory total. Boston 92 59 .609 10 Mencotti is the cocky, wise- pulled them to within two games will be well organized despite the had a 20-17 season for his first in the St. Louis 82 69 .543 20 cracking sophomore fullback from of their hated St. Louis rivals and difficulties that have attended fall if the Cards blew last night’s advanced National League. 1901. had figured in games at Cleveland 73 76 .490 28 BONNIE DOYLE TO BE Detroit who is causing Bachman practice. Just how far Matty three DETROIT 73 79 .480 29 >4 game *to Cincinnati Brooklyn the Navy team is won’t be known the close of the 1900 season after reporting to the Giants from Chicago 63 82 .434 36 and his aides to open their eyes would have its teeth deep in the until they have played on the Norfolk. Washington 62 89 .410 40 JOE wide when he runs with the ball. Cards’ necks once more. field. Philadelphia 55 99 .357 484 MRS. M'DONALD The former Cooley High star is So what happens! Rookie Only a Handful Managed she Trick •Games behind leader. By GEORGE E. VAN well built, standing 5 feet 10 , a kid they never Hockey Loop Quits YESTERDAY”* Hr.SM.TS weighing pounds. heard of before the season opened, Bonnie Doyle and Joe MacDon- inches and 186 comes out under the lights at MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., SepL Since the budding days of Alexander only a handful of N»w York 4-7-0, Waanttifton l-ft-1 ice, P»>nham and Dl<*«ry; 'Scarborough. Ken- ald. those sweethearts of the He appears to be particularly Sportsmen’s Park. St. Louis and 24 (UP).—Members of the Ameri- have managed to pass the 20 mark in their freshman nedy <8» and Early. are going to be married at St. An- adept at picking his holes and has throws himself a two hitter- can Hockey Association have Melton, Fette, whom 'Loalna pitcher. drew's in Saginaw, years. Cliff and Lou all of Only g a me* acheduled. Church up Sat- been selling himself to the coaches beating and his voted to suspend play in the 1942- same TODAY’S GAMES urday noon. Reds, 4 to to the pennant Lyle Wright, acting reached exactly 20 their freshman year and exactly the both on this count and his vo- 2. leave 1943 series. were Cliff of Chicago at Cleveland (2). Two years ago (he winsome race just where it was before the! president of the association, said year, 1937, all older than Nashville John. The tall Only gamea scheduled. spirit. Bonnie and the angular Joe won ciferous It has been quite long day began! • today. the Giants was only 24. but the Boston pair stood quite a few The Detroit Times Gold and Silver some time since the "S” backfleld summers further along, Fette 30 and Turner 33. NATIONAL LEAGUE Skates in the annual ice derby on had a genuine sparkplug who was TheN|wme applies to Carmen Hill, who won 22 and lost 11 Belle Isle. capable of putting some life into W L Pet. *GB the game. for the Mtaburgh Pirates 10 years earlier. It was the be- St. Louis 102 48 .680 i All the skaters and officials Dorais Writes for knew about "Bonnie and Joe.” The Although he is the best per- Times spectacled Hill’s first complete season in the majors, but he had Brooklyn 100 50 .667 2 to sopho- New pair had played together as kid*, former date among the Tomorrow . . . and every Friday and Monday thereafter pitched for the Bucs as long before as a dozen years. 1915. fork 82 64 .562 18 more hacks, some and Bonnie was Joe's girl all he has distance . . . during the grid season. Charles E. iGos) Derail will Cincinnati 76 72 .514 25 to he Monte Weaver won 22 and lost 10 for Washington in 1932, Chicago 68 82 .453 35 through high school up in Saginaw. travel before can take over write of football activities and personalities, exclusively for without previous major league service, but he was 26 years old Pittsburgh 64 81 .441 They practiced their -kaiing to- the fullback post. The position The Detroit Times. 35’i stiM is fairly well guarded hy had four years of minor league pitching behind him. Vernon Boston 58 86 403 41 gether and screamed their cheers V Tomorrow the athletic director and head foot be) I coach whenever one or the other was Morgan Gingrass and Ed Rip- of the University of Detroit will take a prep at who won 21 and lost nine in 1931, his first complete years Philadelphia 40 105 .276 60 J the ouJeok Pomez. •Games behind leader. Thus it was fitting that master, a pair of veterans. for the season, which starts In these parts Saturday with the n the American League, had been with the Yanks in 1931 long "they should win the coveted sltatei BONNIE DOYLE Michigan-Great Lakes game at Ann Arbor. Monday. Doraia tind YESTERDAY’S REsM.TS enough to figure in 40 ball games. Similarly, George Earnshaw, St Loul* 4-9-1. Cincinnati 2-2-4. together to give the classic one Bennie end Joe Won The Detroit Ttmet will comment on the week-end results. whose first full major league year was 1929, in which he won Bentley and W. Cooper; Walter* and of its most dramatic pictures a* Gold and Stiver Skate* In 1940 The Race in N. L. Sunday's Detroit Times will bring you reports of games l.amannn, the two victors skated around the the country over, including and lost eight, had been with the A's since June of the Brooklyn S-13-0. Philadelphia fl-1-1. Bob Murphy's story on the battle 24 Trench Owen; (8). hand, is the son of Dr. and Mrs. at Ann Edgar Hayes' dreeing and ’Melton. Praraon ire. hand in as thousands Joe Sept 24 (UP).— Arbor and room and behind- previous year, after ptiching more than four years for the Balti- Beck 47* and Livingston, cheered in the winners’ match two Francis J. MacDonald. The doctor NEW YORK. the-scenes story. The football scene tLosing pitcher. The National League pennant race will be reported from more Orioles. Only gamee echeduled years ago. is a former Saginaw mayor. Bonnie other points by Times reporters and by International News daughter at a glance: A 1 Mamaux' freshman record with the Pirates in 1915 beats TODAY’S GAMES Joe is a cadet in the navy air is the of Mr. and Mrs. OaitiM To Service and United Press sports writers. Cincinnati at St. Louts. corps and is homo on leave. Bonnie Dale Doyle. Her father is a promi- W L Behind Play on The Detroit Times to give you the REAL Beazley's from the standpoint of youthfulncss, for A! hung up Bottnn Brooklyn. Depend at is in her second year as a student nent official in state and national St. Louis 103 48 ... 3 football story, the season through. every year of his age, Philadelphia at New York <2l. one victory for 21, against eight defeats. Only games echeduled. nurse in Harper Hospital here. skating. Brooklyn 100 50 2 4 4