T—~ I Sports News Features and Classified r— ' " .7 i" ¦ ¦!¦¦¦¦- 1111 |(foe JHaf WASHINGTON, 1). C., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929. PAGE 43 Nationals Start St Louis Set Today : Loughran Is 6-5 Choice Over Braddock ! - I GAMES IN FOUR DAYS Braddock and His Victims. —Feg Murray CONNENBERGWINS BOUT FIVE WITH POWERFUL RIVAL LIGHT-HEAVY BOUT TULSA, Okla.. July 18 UP).—Gus | I HOWLEYMEN Sonnenberg, world’s heavyweight wres- WITH LISTED tling champion, defeated Mastero Kire- llnko, Russian strong man and circus performer, in two straight falls here Are last night. FAILS TO ENTHUSE Manner's Authority Increased—Griffmen Like- Kirellnko, who has been in the United : States live months, held his own with ly to Duplay More Pepper —Myer to Be Trained the champion until he missed a try for Only About 25,000 Fans Are a flying mare and his head struck the in New Post—White Sox Beaten in Final. canvas. Dazed and blinded by blood from a gash over his eye, he was an Expected to See Title easy victim for Sonnenberg's flying BY JOHN B. KELLER. tackle. Contest Tonight. LOUIS, July 18.—Five games in four days here and the Na- tional's second invasion of the West this season will be ended. By the Associated Press. The double-header listed with the Browns in Sportsmen’s Park YORK. July 18 —The light- ST. heavy -weight championship the be cash RATES during series will played Saturday. The EXPERIENCE customers falls some 20 odd pounds per • are too few in the Mound City for the ball clubs to stage twin bills man and many thousand dol- NEW being as big as on other than w'eek ends if lars short of they can help it. the heavyweight title, but today it looks No matter how w'ell the Nationals do here, they would not make big enough to James J. Braddock of New TO CONQUERYOUTH; Jersey. a success of their three weeks on the road. Os 17 games played since r I ‘‘Jersey Jimmy” has risen in a brief leaving Washington the morning of July 1 Walter Johnson's charges boxing career to the post of challenger have won only five. No glow’ing achievement there. Expert “Strings Along” With for the 175 pound crown and tonight he pits the devastating wallop that has Looks as though Sir Walter will Loughran carried him to the top over the battered employ Garland Braxton, Fred as Champion forms of such scrappers as Tuffy Grif- Marberry. Mills, Thomas and Sam BURKE HOLDS THEM fith and Jimmy Slattery, against the Meets Braddock. boxing skill of the champion. Tommy .Tones surely in the set with the Loughran. WASHINGTON. AB. B. H. PO. A. E. Although being staged Browns. For extra Judge. the fight is in the- game, made lb 5 I 1 8 0 0 Stadium, biggest Rice. rs 4 0 3 5 ft 0 BY WALTER TRUMBULL. the Yankee of New necessary because of rain when Goslin. If 3 n l 3 o 0 York's open air arenas, and is sched- Myer, 2b.-3b 4 2 2 2 3 0 for full championship the Nationals were here in May, Tate, e 4 1 3 4 0 (1 YORK. July 18—For the uled the distance of 15 rounds, it is not expected to be may draw a name from Bluege, 3b. 3 1 2 1 0 0 seventh time in 19 months. Johnson Hsyes. 2b 1 0 0 11 0 Tommy very profitable to either the champion West, cf 4 0 « 3 0 0 Loughran will defend the hat. And any pitcher so Cronin, or the challenger. So far it has drawn ss 3 113 10 his title of light heavyweight despite picked perhaps good Burke, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 NEWchampion tonight. ! j little more than passing interest would be as of the world a frenzied ballyhoo, and only about any other on the Washington He will defend it in the ring at the as | Totals 33 6 11 27 8 0 25.000 fans are expected at the ring- staff, outside the four specifically Yankee Stadium in this city against ; 1 CHICAGO. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Jimmy Braddock, probably the side when the go starts at 10 p.m., | Metzler, If 5 0 0 1 0 0 young I ! mentioned. Cissell, Loughran j Eastern daylight time. hoped series here will as 4 0 1 4 4 2 most dangerous challenger It is the see j I Shires, lb 5 0 1 9 2 0 has so far met. The show is for the benefit of the improvement in Washington ! Reynolds, rs 2 0 some the I 4 1 1 0 Braddock is a natural light heavy- | hospital fund of the Home of the club's batting. Several of the boys, par- j | Kamm. 3b 3 0 0 3 3 0 Daughters of Jacob at prices ranging and Joe Judge, I Hoffman, cf 4 0 2 4 0 0 weight. He will have had no trouble tieularlv Goose Goslin Kerr, 2b 3 l) 0 5 4 O' making 175 pounds when the men weigh from $2 to sls. At these rates the to shoot at the stand located back Berg, c 4 0 0 11 0 pxpected like Lyons, p in at 2 today. Loughran gate is to be about SIOO,OOO. of the right field in Sportsmens 2 0 1 0 0 0 o'clock also short i ’¦Hunnefleld 1 0 1 0 0 0 will make the weight, but only after a As for the fight itself, the eternal Bluege has a fancy p 0 • Park. And Ossie i McKain. 0 U 0 0 0 struggle which can have done him little question of the fistic world—whether for the left-field stand, which is not so j iSigafoos 0 1 0 0 0 0 a boxer is better than a puncher, is plate. Fairly good I good. far from the home | Totals 35 2 8 27 14 2 In training. Braddock could box the question to be considered tonight. usually mean boxer, lofts * Loughran superlative in either direction •Bailed for Lyons in merely in trunks and shoes. Loughran ; is the but home seventh inning. 1 ability non existent runs. | 'Batted (01 McKain in ninth inning. , was forced to work in shirt and Jersey his hiting is almost heavy towels I while Braddock puts his trust in a Expect More Ginger. I Washington 030 11 01 0 o—B j and then rest wrapped in j Chicago 00000001 I—2 to open his pores and let added | death-dealing right hand and little Now' that the players understand in perspiration. ; else. Runs batted In—Tate, Bluege (2). poundage melt away ts much more than a man- Cronin. on All of Jimmy's fame has come from Johnson ex- ; Goslin. Rice. Hoffman, Cissell. Two-base Braddock’s handlers counted this ager in name only, they may be hits—Hoffman. Cronin. Tate. Myer. Rey- when the match was made, believing j that right. Itlifted him to the spothght peted to show more snap in their work. nolds. Rice Sacrifices—Goslin. Burke i2». longer out highly touted Struck out—By 1; Lyons. that Loughran could no come | when he knocked the they been loaf- Burke. by 1. Bases This doesn't mean have i on balls—Off Burke, 4: off McKain, 1. Hits in at the limit of the class and remain | TufTy Griffith in two rounds. It kept ing. but they certainly have not hustled j | —Off Lyons, 11 In 1 innings; off McKain. strong. They may have been right: j j him there with knockouts at the ex- at as ballplayers in the big none In 2 innings Double plays—Kamm to of came out of all times ; Shires to they may be wrong. Tonight w-ill I jpense Pete Latzo. who are to Cissell, CisseU to Kerr to Shires. fray young Jerseyman show supposed hustle. | Kerr to Cissell. Bhires to Cissell. Left on furnish the answer. I his with the bear- Though a sick man. President Clark ; bases- Washington. 4: Chicago. 10. Losing largely a matter of ; ing a broken jaw, and Jimmy Slattery. '" This bout will be j forceful talk to Ditcher—Lyons. Time of game— 1 hour and ~V Griffith made a most minutes. Umpires—Messrs. Owens, y condition. If Loughran is as strong as Loughran. however, has avoided many Tuesday, t.he j Geisel WEIGHT WHO Falls, I his club in Chicago and .| and Campbell. Party &VVPPC* he looked on Sunday at Hoosick damaging punches, though none so hard Manager Johnson slapped on Goose j IWOggP WAV A FOTUffE CHAMPION to at fine * HE WO>?LDS he will be plenty strong enough go Braddock's. He has taken others Goslin for failing to get a batting sign ! Metropolitmn Newtptp*r Servian through to the finish. and come back to tap out a victory as in the game played later showed the j Braddock ts in superb condition. : | the hard hitting Leo Lomski can tes- January fight York on athletes that, the prexy and the pilot RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN James J. Braddock was ranked successor to the heavyweight title. On 18 Jimmy Braddock \ I of their in New From his appearance, one would sa.v : tify. Leo had the champion on the to have heads-up base ball j March 11. a ring in floor tw-ice in the first round, but lost - shape mean 11 ¦¦¦ enough to a setback in the of a ever entered '' among the light-heavyweights Braddock isn’t heavy yet received that no youngster played.