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BILLY SANDS, VETERAN OF BASEBALL, WILL BE BACK ON JOB NEXT SCASON
| | | Siai of 1884 Has Signed Contract to Gt;ard Gale a+l"Pon;; de Econ During w’ 9/ 6 Campa:gn BRE o L
Sands Was a Member of First
Team That Ever Represented
Atlanta in Southern League.
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
ILLY BANINS s coming back o
B Aflanta’s hall park and to the
SBauthern Lsague
Pause geni'e reader before you be
gin heaping imprecations on the head
of Chariey Frank and accuse him of
hiring ever antediluvian sihiete for
his ball « rom P Anson down o
Mt Jordar Billy Sands s not g 0
ing to he located tin the pastiming
pasture
But he bßas signed & contract 1t
guArd the gate, even as d4id Horat'o
of old. who for ke service was given
all the farming land he could plow in
8 weelh, according to tradition
Billy Sands is an expert on this job
He has been barring the way of tick -
elinas persons he heave wanted to
soe theatrical performances, vaude
ville moving pictures, grand opera,
jegal executions and other popular
Atlanta movements for Lhe past 25
years and now hes going th take &
turn at the same trick out at the ball
park
Don't think. either, that Billy Sands
is any novice st this baseball game
Way back yonder when Ed Bruffey
was such & kid reporter that he car
ried & notebook. he used to write of
Bili Bands’ doings on the diamond
And right now Bruffey will tell you
that there have been few shortstops
80 wear an Atlanta uniform who had
anything on old Billy
Played Here in 1884,
Blily was a member of the first
team that ever represented Atlanta In
the Southern League. By the way,
this was the first league that ever
represented the South in the national
pastime
That was in 1884, and, according to
Billy and Bruffey and Cap Joyner, it
was some bHall team. The national
pastime had just started becoming
popular in the South Henry W,
Grady, quick to see the possibilities
of baseball, was the maving spirit be
hind the organization of the club and
the league. He was president of the
elub and Charles Colller, afterward
Mayor of Atlanta, was Its manager.
The league was a little four-club
affair—Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and
Columbus—and ball players were as
scarce as recall votes in those days.
Billy Sands had just moved to At
lanta. He was superintendent of the
Atlanta Newspaper Union, but he had
had lots of baseball experience In
Washington, where in 1879 and 1880
he played shortstop on the Govern
ment Printing Office team of the De
partmental League of the Capital
City.
Jim Lynch in Cutfield.
He was one of the first men signed
and he naturally was put at his old
place in the short field. Among the
other members of the same club was
Jim Lynch, now a prominent dealer
in amber suds at Broad and Walton
streets. Imagine the Jim of to-day
ecavorting around in the outfleld! But
Jim did, and he has never lost his
love for baseball. There is something
radically wrong when he misses a
game at Ponce Del.eon Park.
Mr. Sands doesn't remember the
names of all the other athletes, but
George Whitlock was on the club, as
was Jim Craig, now an engineer on
the Panama Canal work, and a fellow
named Wiley, who was living in Cali
fornia when last heard from. The
battery was composed of a German
named Heisman, pitecher, and BRBilly
Lighting, catcher. The league season
was 30 games. Activities began In
June and lasted until September.
But if the season Was short, the
playing was flerce enough. Mr. Sands
tells of breaking up an eleven-inning
‘game against Columbus that brought
Atlanta the championship. He did it
with a home-run clout. He declares
that there was more fighting done “I
old Peters Park that afternoon than
was done at the battle of Peachtree
Creek.
. The next season Mr. Sands forsook
‘the short fleld and took a job as a
j,;:‘wthern League umpire. While boI
was handling the indicator, Hank
;;3%’ was a *pitcher for the Savan
".ll club. He umpired for aevenll
_seasons and finally left baseball for
II{: theatrical business, but in 1892 he
to the game in a financial
- way as a director of the club, when it
Emmd at Brisbine Park.
© Mr. Sands still snows signs of his
_diamond activities. The fingers of
- both hands are as crooked as a ward.
politician or the dealer of a brace
: % box. “We didn’'t have gloves in
J&w is, no ong b’% the
- eate did. But we managed to
. the ball pretty well. 1 was
% to handle it,” sald Mr. Sands,
; a swelling of the chest, “weil
_enough to make an undssisted triple
Bolay out there at Peters Park. So
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Sands as He Looks To-day With Glove and Bat
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Love of Game Still Sticks to Old-Time Star
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holding & bat, while below, at the left, is just plain Billy Sands The insert photo was taken of the veteran in 1584, when he was
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‘those days.”
I When Mr. SBands was a director of
the Atlanta club he struck up an ac
quaintance with a big, rangy athlete
of the Mobile club, He was a catcher
‘and first baseman and his name was
Jake Wells, In after years Mr. Sands
worked with that same man in his
various Atlanta theatrical ventures.
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Sands
‘went to work with the DeGives and
he has been associated with theatrical
life in Atlanta ever since. He is in
timately acquainted with hundreds
and hundreds of theatrical peoplé
whose names are household words
throughout America. He has been on
the main door during every opera
season In Atlanta, and he knows all
the opera people. A few years ago he
was offered a post with the Metropol
itan force by Billy Guard, the general
representative of the great musical
organization, but New York couldn't
lure Mr. Sands away from Atlanta.
And so he's going to be on the gate
this season with gnarled fists and
wrinkled face and a heart young
enough to enjoy a ball game as thor
oughly as any 12-year-old kid in the
bleachers.
“How old am 17" said Mr. Sands, in
reply to a question. “Why, 1 was 59
so long ago that I've forgotten that
I've ever reached the half-centuly
mark. Just watch my speed out there
at the ball lot.” '
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Ban Johnson's Home
- Entered by Burglars
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I CHICAGO, Jan. 15—The home of
'Ban Johnson, president of the Amer
jcan League, was entered by ‘bur
glars last night and a Russian sable
cape and an evening gown belonging
to Mrs. Johnson and val*led at SBOO,
were stolen.
The burglary occurred while the
Johnsons were down town for dinner.
MEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 16 1916
New Ruling Made by
S . .
U. 8. Golf Association
For Amateur Players
CHICAQO, Jan. 15.—Amateur golf
ers of the country hereafter must be
careful to see that in earning a living
they do not violate a new ruling of
the executive committee of the United
States Golf Association adopted at its
meeting here to-day.
The rule is as follows: “An amateur
will be prohibited from accepting or
holding any position as agent or em
ployee that includes in part of its
duties the hancling of golf supplies,
or engaging in any business wherein
one's usefulness or profits arise be
cause of skili or prominence in the
game of golf.”
The following officers were elected:
President—Frank L. Woodward,
Denver.
First Vice President--Howard Per
rin, Merion Cricket Club.
Second Vice President—John Reid,
Jr., Bt. Andrews Golf Club.
Secretary—Howard F, Whitney,
Nassau Country Club,
Treasurer—Frederick S. Wheeler,
Apawamis Club, New York.
Directors—M. Lewis Crosby, Brae
Burn Country Club, Massachusetts;
Walter R. Smith, Onwentsia Club;
Dr. Waller §. Harban, Columbia
Country Club; John 8. Sweeney,
Country €lub, of Detroit. g
Delegates numbering more than 100
attended the annual pow-wow, Rou
tine business, awarding the cham
pionship events and election of offi
cers consumed most of the time of
the meeting. |
Cross Beats Mohr I
.
In Slashing Battle
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—-—L¢achl
Cross and Walter Mohr, of Brooklyn
fought ten slashing rounds at the
Clermont Athletic Club to-night. The
“fighting dentist” won on points. He
dropped Mohr in the seventh roundl
with a right hook to the jaw.
Roosevelt’s Son a_Boxer
Arc/zz'e‘C/zz'pO]fOla’Block’l
HICAGO, Jan, 15. — Archie
e Roosevelt wants to prove a chip
of the old block and hopes to
establish as good a record as a box
er, If not better, than did his father
when the Colonel was an undergrad
uate beyond the Charles.
Archie is enrolled as a lightweight
in Harvard's candidates for the box
ing team. His father fought in the
same class while in college, and also
trained William A. Gaston, president
of the Shawmut National Bank, for a
college wrestling tournament,
~ Dad Roosevelt stripped at 135
pounds when he entered the light
‘weight sparring contest, the only
event he ever took part in.
Donald Wilhelm, in his book “Theo
dore Roosevelt as an Undergraduate,”
says of the bout:
| There were only six contest
. ants, The Advocatersays. In the
first bout, Mr. Hanks won. The
~ second bout, between Mr. Cool
jdge and Mr. Roosevelt, was won
by the latter, who displayed more
~ skill and coolness than did his
~ opponent. Mr. Cushing easlly won
~ the last bout.
| “Mr. Hanks was then paired
with Mr. Rooseveit, and a spir
ited contest followed, in which
Mr. Hanks succeeded in getting
I the best of his opponent by his
~quickness and power of endur
ance.”
| “It was no fight at all,” says
~ one of the students who were
~ gathered around the toiling men.
- Hanks had logger reach and was
stronger, and Roosevelt was
handicapped by his eyesight.
| 1 can see the little fellow yet,
staggering about and banging in
to the air. His opponent could
not put him out, and he would not
give up. He showed his fighting
qualities, but he never entered
another bout. ‘
Mr. Gaston himself has told the
story of the wrestling match fur‘
which Roosevelt trained him. He
says:
The rules for wrestling matches
in those days were arbitrary—
different at each mesting, accord
ing to the views of the umpire.
1f vou theught a decision unfar,
all you could do was to appeal
to the committee in charge of
athletics.
There was going to be a light-
weight wrestling match. 1 hesi
tated about entering it. Roose
velt said: “Come on, Bill; I'll
train you.” He didn't know any
more about wrestling than I did.
The first day I threw two men
and had just got the first fall
from the third when the umpire
called off the sports for the day,
insisting that the last fall I had
got should not count. Of course,
that meant that I should have to
throw my opponent three times
and he throw me but twice to win
a victory. Roosevelt banged his
foot down on the~ floor. “Out
rageous! Bill, it's outrageous!
Come on, we'll go and appeal to
the committee.”
“Now, Bill, you're hot-tem
. pered,” he warned as we ap
proached them, “I don't want you
to say a word. I'll talk to them.
I'll explain this thing.” In ten
minutes Roosevelt had offered to
fight every one of them. I had
to pacify him and smooth things
over. We won our point, though.”
ity
Crystal Five First
In Bowling League
' The City Bowling Association
closed the first half of the season with
the games rolled last Friday night.
The teams are improving, and the
close race probably will continue to
‘the end of the season.
. Following is the standing:
I Won, Lost. pet.
Crystals ~...... 2§ 20 556
FAIONE i o R 22 511
Perfections ..... 2¢ 28 . 489
Podorsls . ...00. 23 23 489
Old Styles ..... 22 23 489
White Elephants. 21 24 467
The high series this week for team
matel! was that of the Alcos, with
2.637. The high individual series was
rolled by Jester, with 597. The high
gest team games were as follows: Old
Styles, 985; tUrystals, 833; White Ele
phants, 932,
Jimmy Pappas Meets
.
Burns Monday Night
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Jan. 15.-
Jimmy Pappas, of Atlanta. will meet
Bobby Burns, local boy, in a ten-round
bout here Monday night.
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Billy Lotz's Protege May Meet
Abel and Pe;' Here—Has
| Injured” Hand.
—
By Harry Lewis.
ANK O'BRIEN, conqueror of
| Eddie Hanlon, the local saver-
Ite, is going to stick right here
in Atlanta for the next few weeks at
ilmt. or until some lad around these
‘ufl- boba up who is good encugh to
hand the Jacksonville lad a lacing.
This much was made certain last
night by Bllly Lotz, Yank's hustiing
pllot, and the man whe brought
O'Brien here for the express purpose
of stopping Edward
O'Brien at the present l'.mo is car
rying his right hand In a'siing. The
injured weapon is twice its normal
size, due to a skin infection. which
means that the Lotz protege will not
be able 1o box for a week, al least
Bill Has a Right to Smile.
Lotz is wearing & broad smile these
days, and we can’t blame him, esither
Before Yank's bout with Eddie, Biily
appeared somew hat downhearted. He
really didn't think that Yank, with
one hand pragtically useless, rould
l\\h;p Eddie, and he hated 10 seo a
game boy go down to defeal under
such a handicap. He pleaded with
Yank to postpone the bout, but the
Jacksonville glove-wielder would not
have It that way He insisted that
his left hand was all he needed to
stop Eddle, and Yank was right,
which is the real reason of Billy's
happiness to-day
But Messer Lotz is not holding any
hard feeling toward Hanlon; in faet,
Biily wishes Eddie all the Tuck in thd
world, and really goes so far as to
state that the local boy should »tili
have many good fights left in him. It
must be remembered that it was Lotz
who frst brought out Hanlon nl.dl
later lifted him into prominence when
he secured Eddie a match with Perry,
which Hanlon won in a few rounds
Later, however, kKddle and Billy
came to a parting of the ways, which
terminated when Lotz took hold of
O'Brien and Eddle went to Whitney.
Eddie Must Start All Over.
Now, Billy has & money-maker in
O'Brien, while Eddie will have to
start all ever However, Eddle is
still young and should not feel dis
couraged over, the defeat. As for
Billy Lotz and O'Brien, well, we would
advise this pair to get their heads
together and take on Jake Abel and
Jimmy Perry as soon as these
matches can be arranged. Should
Yank prove capable of defeating these
boys, then a Whitney-O'Brien match
would not be out of the way.
Billy Lotz is a wise head at the
game. Just how good this O'Brien
party is the writer isn't in a position
to know, but we are aware of the fact
that Yank did step Eddie Hanlon on
two occasions and he also disposed of
the clever Roy Hirst in a few rounds,
and these victories are enough to give
him future engagements here.
Praise for Budd and Feldman.
Johnny Glynn and his scrapper,
Battling Budd, are around town re
ceiving congratulations for Budd's
victory over Young Feldman. The
“Battler” put up a great scrap the
other night against the Macon boy,
and by his victory he took another
step up the puglistic ladder.
On the other hand, Feldman made
a name for himself by the fight he
put up. Morris Smollen, who is hand
ling Feldman’'s business affairs here,
is out with a statement that he is
willing to bring the Macon scrapper
here for another crack at the local
boy at any time. This Feldman lad is
a pocket edition of Ad Wolgast, and
he should make a wonderful hit with
promoters around these parts. He
ign’'t much on the fancy stuff, but we
have still to see a youngster around
this section who is a more pleasing
fighter than this same Feldman party.
We want to see more of him, *
Virginia Gives Out
1916 Football List
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, Jan. 15.
Virginia's complete footbaM schedule
for 1916 has been announced by Man
ager V. K. Gunby. It is as follows:,
Maryland Agricultural College at
University "p’ndlng." September 30.
Yale at New Haven, October T.
Richmond College at University
October 14, \
’ Georgla at University, October 21,
| Vanderbilt at Nashville, October 28,
~ Harvard at Cambridge, November 4.
I South Carolina at University, No
vember 11. 4
I V. M. L. at University, November 18,
North Carolina at Richmond, No-
Ivember 30.
~ 0f Virginia Eleven
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, Jan. 15.
Peyton Randolph Evans, center of the
1914 Virginia football team, was elect
ed coach of the 1916 aggregation by
the General Athletic Association last
week.
Pat, as he is known, was one of the
best centers in the State.
His Adrst footbhall was played on
Virginia Polytechnic, where he was
for two years, 1911 and 1912,
WHITE'S SON IS CAPTAIN
NEW YORK.. Jan. 15.—Louls P.
White, son of Charley White, the hox
ihng referee, will eaptain the Fordham
Prep relay team tnis seaxon. White
p'aved tackle on the prep eleven last
season.
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Ye Caulifiower Ear.
BOUT elght out of every ten fist fighters you ses nowadays own the
A “eaulifiower,” or “tin” ear; an ear so battered and bunched by the
bludgeonings of fiveounce gloves that it fsn't really an ear any
more at all, but just a misshapen chunk of cartilege clinging to the side
of the head
Now the “tin™ ear has been the badge of the boxer for so long that
the memory of man runs not to the contrary, but of late years it s un
doubtedly getting much more common than it used to be
All classes of fighters carry ‘em these days, from the very cleverest
men we have in the ring to the kind who can't fight much at all. Se
familiar is the “tin” ear among the gladiators of (Mi»mom eara (as yom
might say, If you wanted to pun on a very delicate Subject) that one not
familiar with the situstion might get the impression that there is some
fistle law compelling the disfigurement.
The mashed-up ears of a Battling Nelson are not surprising in view
of his style of fighting, but one would scarcely expect to see a cloever
fighter marred in that manner. None the less, most of the so-called clever
men of today carry the “tin” listeners. They do not carry them with
‘any particular pride, it is true, for the “tin” ear, to a clever man, ix a
badge of disgrace—but they ear:y th:m. :
| Abe Attell Speaks.
‘IN the o}d days, not even the fighters of the mauling type always cob
lected the bad ears, as is almost invariably the case with that same
type to-day, while a “tin” ear on a really clever man was something of &
rarity. There is a reason for all this, of course, and In paging the local
fist Aghting settlement for the reason yesterday we encountered Abe Attell,
former featherweight ehampion, and as clever a man as ever slipped
between the ‘ppu
| “Why all the caulifiower ears, nowadays, Abraham?” we inquired.
“Why all the wrecked hearing apparatus®™
After feeling of his own ears to see if they were all there, and finding
them quite intact. Abe spoke as follows:
*Ask me something difficult. The reason you seek is as plain as the
‘nose® on my face. The bunged-up hearers are due to the change in the
‘style of fighting, or, rather, to the change in the style of not fighting. In
the old days the men stood more erect, and picked off punches with their
Ilnndl. or jumped away from them, or stepped inside of them. Now they
bore in, the head down, and carried sideways, and block punches with their
beans.
| “The ear being in between the head and the punch, naturally the ear
I.eu all the blows. It gets smeared up, and the blood coagulates, or some
'tlflng, and unless it is sttended to at once by some one who knows his
business the result is the tin ear.
I “When | was fighting I never took any punches I could possibly avold,
It a man swung at me, ! would hop away from the swing; if he set to
drive one. | would try to slip inside of it. Sometimes when I would appear
to be getting a terrible pasting around the face and head and my nut would
'be bobbing this way and that apparently from the force of the blows. I
I would fu reality be escaping injury entirely, because | would be letting my
I head drift with the punch, so that no lick could land solld.
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| Dixon Taught Him.
I“I STARTED in the fighting game as a knockerout: as strictly a fighter;
| but I changed my whole system overnight, and from a few minutes’
observation of George Dixon, the little colored boy. That was fourteen
years ago, in Denver, Colorado, when | was just a novice
| “I saw Dixon box Young Corbett, and it was a revelation to me. I sat
' with my mouth open, watching George blocking, and stepping away, and
getting inside, and ducking damage in a way that [ never dreamed existed,
1 thought he outpointed Corbett a mile that night, but they gave the de
ciston against Dixon. From that time on, however, I became a boxer. 1
had discovered that there was such a thing as preventing the other fellow
from hiting me while I could be slamming him.
| “I boxed Dixon right after he met Corbett, and I made such a showing
against him by employing his own methods that from that time on I was
lullod a clever fighter. Yet if you look up my record, you'll find I scored
‘something like sixteen knockouts in a row when I first started, and
;:)boul twenty-two knockouts out of my first twenty-six fights before I met
ixon.
I “If I'd continued my old style, I suppose I'd been as badly marked up
‘as some of the boys you see around now, although it seems to me that
everybody was boxing different from what they are now. Young Cor
‘bett was a slam-bang fellow, but be came out with his ears all right, and
so did any number of other fellows I can name who were always tearing
in. They didn’t block with their heads—or with their ears. They knew
‘more about fighting with their hands. I guess that's the answer.”
| And most ilkely Abraham is correct. At least hisesolution will have
I"° stand until a better one com:n nk.mg.
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| Mike Is Marked.
IM"(B GIBBONS, accounted an extremeiy ciever man, and one who has
4 a decided aversion to getting mauled, has a “tin” ear of which he 18
‘keenly conscious. True, Mike has the excuse that he got it in his very
first flfiht. but a “tin” ear acquired in a first fight sticks just as long as
one collected in a last fight, and in the old days the boys didn’t get them
first or last. 3
Freddy Welsh, the lightweight champion, and Ten (“Kid") Lewls,
both clever boxers, have “tin” ears. In fact, nearly every fighter of any
prominence in the ring to-day either has a decided “tinner,” or a strong
suggestion of one. Some of them got them in the gympasium, but they
didn’t develop in the gym any more than they did in the ring. And the
training methods of the old days were little, if any, different from what
they are now.
Most of the ,PM fighters would have disdained the use of the heavy
football headgear now worn as a protection in training by a majority of
the boxers. They not only have headgear nowadays, but they wear rub
ber teeth guards.
Oddly enough, the colored fighters, past and present, displayed few
“tin” ears, which is perhaps explained by the theory that the colored man
is instinctively a good defensive boxer. He has a natural dislike for get
‘tllng hurt, and so his very first development is apt to be along the line of
cleverness.
16,000 See Darcy Get
Verdivt Over Brown;
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‘Fans Hoot Decision
SYDNEY, N, 8. W,, Jan. 15.—Geo.
“Knockout” Brown, of Chicago, lost a
decision to Leslle Darcy, Australian
middleweight champion, in a twenty
round battle in the Rushcutters Bay
Stadium here to-night. When Referee
Scott gave the decision there was %
wild outburst of disapproval, as many
thought Brown was at least entitled
to a draw.
Though Darcy led all the way on
clean hits and on real boxing he was
staggered several times with the
flerce wallops that Brown shot at him
from the start to the finish. During
the seventeenth and elghteenth
rounds Darcy was so tired he could
scarcely move, but managed to out
general Brown and keep out of real
danger. Brown finished with great
strength and courage and won a host
of friends by the work.
A throng of 16.000 watched the
struggle. The men weighed in at 160
pounds at. 2 o’clock.
Charley White Signs
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To Fight in 'Nooga
CHATTANOOGA, TENN,, Jan. 15.
Joe Levy announced to-night that he
has signed Charlev White, of Chi
cago, to box Viec Morah, of New Or
leans, «ight rounds before his club
here Kebruary 2. The w*ht agreed
gpon is 133 pounds at 3 0 ock.
Johnny Evers Would
.
Accept Berth With
Chié)ago Cubs Again
sA
TROY, N. Y, Jan, 15—Johnny
Evers, of the Boston Nationals, ex
pects to play second base next year
for the Chicago Nationals, he told The
Troy Record last night. A message
from Joe Tinker at Chlcago stated
that Evers would be welcomed again
in that city and that Tinker will go
back to shortstop ag&ih if he can se
cure Fwvers, in an effort to revive the
ecombination that was so important a
cog in the old winning machine.
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Admits Armour Is -
.
Interested in Cubs
CHICAGO, Jan. 15—Charles H.
Weeghman, president of the coms=
bined Cub-Whale baseball clubs,
sprung a sensation at the dinner tene
dered Jimmy Callahan, new Pirate
manager, by the members of the
Majestie club at the Great Northerm
Hotel to-night. He mentioned in his
after-dinner speech that J. Ogdenm
Armour, multimillionaire packer, and
Willlam Wrigley, Jr, yachtsman and
chewing gum manufacturer, were ine
terested with he and his other assoe
ciates in taking over the Cub hold
ings. He also announced that &
prominent bank president also was
one of the new stockholders and thng
before the week closed he hoped ti
interest Julius Rosenwald, head of
Sears, Roebuck & Co.