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About Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-???? | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1936)
/ ...1 H wlliO '<& /V / ' X ~ vW/z J$ J gJ? "C Tv- Ty .. <: ' tit *"*■ \'&. C **W Otr* SADDLES HIS OWN CANOE—Joseph Angyal, Star sculler, pictured after a row on the Schuylkill at Philadelphia. Lamotte’s Managership Causes Attendance Loss PROVES MAXIM THAT “GOOD” PLAYERS ARE NOT ALWAYS GOOD MANAGERS; HAS FAILED TO PRODUCE WINNING CLUB Forty-one thousand and thirty seven (41,037) paid admis * .ions in Savannah for the first half of the Sally League schedule, tiring the first thirty days of baseball with a record first night ’s •ame of 3,163 cash customers should entitle the Savannah base all fans to a first division club. What are the causes of these defeats? Assuming that we A., now nothing about baseball, it is safe to gay that professional seball comes within the category of business when pay rolls •ust be met. and when a professional baseball club fails to make Recess, the causes of its failure rests upon the shoulders of management, and not upon those who are mere employes, as would not be such if their ability allowed them to assume nanagement of the business. t . .'The duties of a manager of a baseball club are to insure as . • ar as possible, a winning team and should the club fail in this *'<l ? <‘rformance a capable manager would remedy such causes, whatever they might be. Should the losing streak of the Savan nah Indians since the beginning of the season lie with the play . ,g?|, the manager should acquire talent that can win. If this is r' ? ? case, why has LaMotte continued to keep on the Savannah I? Jtgr a string of losers, and this writer is of the opinion that •/'nnah players are of first-rate caliber laboring under poor ’ V gement. Summing "up the above statements, the total will give the fans the reasons for Savannah’s losing club. It lies KRSgihvithin the province of the managership of the Savannah club; Bobby LaMotte. As the sports editor of the Sa- Morning News states: LaMotte has been in major league i> qseball. In this statement alone lies Savannah’s baseball diffi ' ! *lties. LaMotte is a “has-been” baseball player. Savannahians ' ' »,W n t a fighting team with a fighting manager which has not /■‘.jk-en prevalent in the present Savannah set-up. Baseball is a young man’s game and requires the vim and which goes with youth. Savannah’s baseball public, will fighters. Give Savannah that kind of management and V>sLe*will bC no trouble with gate receipts. Regretful, but true. 7 loss will be Savannah’s gain. — - * Today'a Horoscope • \u were born on this day, you .2. \ to be domestic, home loving . Kltive. You love gaiety, society but you forsake these de »■ £®hptand in the way of your will <-7oj i p tf'oon B66i> TH 15 I . OOL- FQ.IEO? ■ ' y~x\ i H & rv 6 '■-‘■"B lw*i f £s>>-\ It ; itaKLf 03 >" \ V— - I AW. T. O.C. «Bl’''A"4 rrow at 2:30 p.m .Tommy And hJ 3 world-famed band will broadcast, from ssw and proceed in grand ./ sponsored by Georgia * . --’Jra Corporation to Tybee ■ ■■ -L>- '? tn tomorrow. Attend to . JNMMow night at j TYBRISA ' Jcmb— acnas ■ y h t S ** °* *■* ’ * > i * dßlHflfi ■ ■■.:«»-. SO » » JERG <l, EAST ■ 11 11,1 "si * 6 GOLF I FACTS NOT THEORIES/ 2>Z ALEX. J. MORRISON —■ Central Vnrw Awcixtion- ■ ......J ra ojl W volta’s ATT»TUC?e PUTTING LINUSUAJ— ALEX MORRISON says: During the recent open champ ionship, Henry Picard said, "If I could putt like John Revolta I’d break 70 every round." The Hershey pro has always been a great admirer of Johnny’s short game. In fact he thinks his teammate is a super-putter. Com pared with most putters he is all of that. The day following the tourna ment Revolta came into my studio. I asked him about his mental attitude toward the shots played on the greens. He said that he figured that he could make, or stood a very good chance of making, every putt he went for. Considering the long putts he tries to make I told him that I thought luck played a big part in any putt over four feet. He agreed with me and admit ted that he felt rather lucky about most putts. He added that this feeling helped him to send the ball firmly on the line to the hole. His hitting of the ball on the green certainly shows his atti tude to be most helpful. DIZZY DEAN ANXIOUS TO GET STARTED TODAY ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 14 (TP) Pitcher “Dizzy'’ Dean surveyed the bump on his head In a mirror this morning, grinned, and said he would return to the baseball diamond today. “Dizzy" was knocked out la?t Sat urday when a batted ball him him on the head. Doctors told Dean hi could not play for a week. But Dizzy thinks everyth ng is now He rubbed the bump vigorous- I he felt swell and announc’d: { .- 4 'S»>.snng to pitrh t d jjjllj fell FULL COVERAGE LOCAL SPORTI CENTRAL PRESS RAIN BREAKS UP SAVANNAH-MACON OPENING GAME INDIANS IN 4-3 LEAD WHEN A DRIVING STORM HALTS SETTO In a game which was called off because of rain, the Savannah Indians last night, for a span of practically three innings, led the Macon Peaches 4-3. Seeing the Peaches score two runs in the first stanza with another tally added in the second frame, the Tribe, by Jake Hines parking a beaut ifully hit ball in the left field stands for a homer scoring Elliott and Dnwo er, and Eddie Moore the next man up duplicating the feat, put the game on ice as far as the evening was concerned. Both Hines and Moore hit long balls which came at opportune times to help put the Tribe in front for the time played. The first inning pro vided one of the few thrills in base ball which an average fan hasn’t seen: a triple play. The bases were loaded by the Peaches with McDaniel at bat. The Macon infielder caught one of Pickens’ fadeaways on the nose, which played into Eddie Moore’s hands. Whipping the ball to Williams who tagged the bag, forcing Prout. Throwing the ball to first, Williams caught McDaniel, and then the bail in turn was pegged home to catch D. Moore trying to make an extra base. Perhaps the most beautifully execut ed play on the local diamond this sea son, the Indians were given a big han dfor handing the fans a real treat. Moore the spark plug of tne infield, started the play in full swing by his toss to Williams for the first out. Renewing their series tonight, the Indians will again try and hang a loss on the Macon Peaces. Jake Levy is scheduled to take the mound for the Tribe, and the rotound hurler with the fast breaking inshoot is set for the fray. Having had hard luck in his last few games Levy hopes to again step into the winner’s class. Scheduled for 8:15 o'clock, the same lineup will be used in an effort to regain some of the lost ground. Baseball Results NEW YORK, July 14 (TP)—The Washington Senators are sitting in third place in the American League today. Their 9 to 3 victory over Roger Hornsby’s St. Louis Browns yesterday boosted them closer to the league leaders. The veteran Wash ington infielder, Ossie Bluege. drove in three runs with four hits in as many trips to the plate. Joe Cronin’s Boston Red Sox look ed bad losing to the Cleveland In dians, 11 to 3. The Chicago White Sox beat New York’s Yankees, 6 to 3, and the Detroit Tigers won over the Philadelphia Athletics, 5 to 2, in the remaining American League game. The National League lead went to the Chicago Cubs when they nosed out the New York Giants 1 to 0, on only two hits. The St. Louis Card inals were not scheduled and dropped to second place by a fraction. The Brooklyn Dodgers also did not play. The Pittsburgh Pirates dropped a 4 to 1 verdict to the surprising Bos ton Bees and the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Phillies, 6 to 4. Sally League The only game played in the Sally League found the Columbus Red Birds thorougly shellacking the Au gusta Tigers 14-0. The Birds racked up a total of 17 hits to take the meas ure of two Tiger hurlers. The other games in the circcit were rained out. Yesterday's scores: Pick up scores AMERICAN LEAGUE R H Chicago 6 13 New York 2 5 St. Louis 3 12 Washington 9 14 Detroit 10 Philadelphia 2 9 Cleveland 11 17 Boston 3 8 NATIONAL LEAGUE R H New York o 4 Chicago i 2 Philadelphia 4 9 Cincinnati 6 9 Boston 4 7 Pittsburgh 1 6 SALLY LEAGUE R H Augusta 0 7 Columbus 17 Maconßatn Savannah Peter Delanoy was the first elected I mayor of the City of New York He was chosen by the votes of "Protes- I tant freedom” in 1689. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936 INDIANS VS. PEACHES AT STADIUM TONIGHT BOSS RED By Jack Sords JAi .. t ; f Mis base - IKwUP : 6 AL - L s ' rAß ' r tmr£e- ■ 19// r&ds as A rA ' Rp 6AS£ ' ViMjt MAaJ FKoaA ST. PAUL OF I - Z AMBIZICAaI ASSCCIATiOAI /Al i9is ' I '’’(life.’ t I fat ball OUER. ) I L WRE before / v f / -tae sjukweß, / I yp f t IZ6MARKAOLB SUCCESS t J \ PeVELOO/MGr J HADI P\7w- / Za 7 ) 9oUAl&jMFiei.peßS lAKi-Ly / 7 L IPC * J fcemeßsos. VXX A^-7 —r= A W'/u6rtA-3!| r\u>v w l-b 5 1 f APPgARS -ft AT V/Uo IS GETT'iaJs- RESULTS _ / GncimaiaTi A AS MANAGER OF TAB ' 7 «>Ci Pitesi a»sm. SEA ISLANDERS TO SWIM LOCALS FRIDAY NIGHT LOCALS PREPARED FOR IN VASION OF BRUNS. WICK TEAM The Savannah swimmers are entering into their final practices for the invasion of the fast Sea Island team Friday night at the DeSeto Pool. With every swimmer in shape and ready for the starter’s gun, the team expects to duplicate their winning per formance from the Islanders two weeks ago in the fast Casino Pcol. Capt. Lindsey of the Brunswick ag gregation will make the trip with his team. Known throughout the country as the swimming coach of Louisa Roberts, the, noted backstroke star, Lindsey will be on hand to coach his latest find, Tom Powell. To compete in the 50 and 100 free style events together with the high diving contest. Powell is the high point favorite of the meet and Savannah fans are an xious to meet the aquatic efforts of the highly touted star. Holst and Atkinson will share the burden of being mainstays for the Savannahians. These two veterans have been practicing daily in their various events, and seek to be right in behind the rest of the team to make them coms out on top. Compet ing in the free style, diving and breast stroke races, both Atkinson and Holst are anxious to pit their wares against the seeded favorite, Powell. The loss cf Reese to the locals will strike a heavy blow to the plans of the team. Occasioned by abscesses of his ear. the diminuitive breast stroke star will not be able to take the water in sup port of his teammate, John McKenna. The whole burden of the breast stroke events will be placed on John, whose feats are legendary with the swim ming public of the Scuth. Not ex pecting any trouble from the Islanders in this event, McKenna is counted on to also take part in the free style events. Ellis, Bowyer Millikan and Durken will take care of the major roles in the free style events. This quartet of young stars whose performances in the home pool of the Islanders was the talk of the sports scribes, are in trim for their assaults on the barlous time records in this particular sphere of swimming. The events are slated to start at 8 15 with the proceeds going to the expenses of the Mid Atlantic team. With the exception of Connecticut, Ind.ana and Tennessee, all ctales have adopted an "official bird.’’ The choices were made in most cases by women’s clubs and Audubon sock Mes. The robin is the official bird of Michi gan end Wiscons n. In one year the Republic of Fin land exported more than 260.000 tons of newsprint paper valued at ap proximately $9,000,000. TALES IN TIDBITS (Central Press Sports Eidtor) It seems to me that most of the boxing writers, having gone to one extreme on Joe Louis, are now going just as far the opposite way. Joe was a superman. Joe is a bum. One point of view is as bad as the other. It is the opinion in this corner that Joe will come back to reach new heights as a battler. A good pasting, of course, such as the Bomber took Fhey Win Places on American Olympic Team Bound for Berlin JB®? afeav VX* yw J / ■ nK I CS J ’ uc - iTn ' - ■' II w <-wr ■ zU $ )K.WMI i A WMF ® "wM Ww Winners in track and field events at Providence, R. 1., these young ladies are chosen representatives of the United States in the Berlin Olympic games. Left to right, in the front row: Betty Robinson, Chicago; Evelyn Ferrara, Chicago; Harriet Bland, St. Louis; Tidye TRANS- RADIO LEASED WIRE from Schmeling, doesn’t do a fellow much good. But it was just what Louis ne:ded, and what he was bound to get sooner or later. Jo? was becom ing just a little bit fat headed (who wouldn’t), and he has learned that he can be knocked off, too. Joe was a little boy quite a bit stuck on himslef before he ran into that roaring right of Schmeling's. I’d say he was a man now. Certainly he took a man’s size beating. Schmeling didn’t have a glass-chin job in front of him. That hand bounced many times off Joe’s jaw. Joe could have picked out a nice clean spot on the canvas and parked his tired body there any time after the fourth round. Baer did it. A lot of others have folded in the same way. But Joe took it until they /Il fJwT JBL 1 * ' fo,yF'(-.ap« 4 IN NOVA SCOTIA —Babe, with his wife and daughter in Nova Scotia, is dividing his time between baseball and fishing. HOW THEY STAND AMERICAN LEAGUE Results Yesterday Detroit 5, Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 11, Boston 3. Chicago 6. New York 3. Washington 9, St. Louis 3. Team W. L. Pct. New York 53 27 .663’ Detroit 44 35 .557 1 Washington 43 37 .538 i Boston 43 38 .531 Cleveland 43 38 .531 1 Chicago 39 Z ' Philadelphia 27 50 .351 St. Louis 24 51 ’.320 Games Today Detroit at Philadelphia. Chicago at New York. Cleveland at Boston. St. Louis at Washington. turned out the lights. He’s a fighter all right. Those Other Champions Plenty of fighters before Joe Louis came along have taken beatings early in their careers. Many have been knocked out and have become cham pions eventually. One fine day in 1917, the record of Jack Dempsey himself was punctured by a sleeper punch from Fireman Jim Flynn. Joe Louis absorbed cozens ‘of stiffer punches than Jim Flynn ever could administer before he finally toppled. When Jim Corbett was 20 years old he was outpointed by a battler named Billy He came back later to knock Welch out and still later to win the heavyweight title. Bob Fitzsimmons was only starting on the paths to glory when he dropped the duke to a blighter named Jim Hall in Sydney. Mike Schreck gave Tommy Burns a generous past ing early in the Canadian ciouter’s career, but Tommy came on to take the title. Jim Jeffries is one of the excep tions. Jack Johnson, who is rated a greater fighter than Jeff, however, was outfought by Marvin Hart, and Johnson had been fighting for five years at the time and was rated pretty cute with his dukes. Jack Sharkey was iced by Romero Rojas several years before he got his chance at the championship. Max Schmeling was knocked out by Gypsy Daniels before he cam? to America the first time in quest of the crown he finally won. In all of the other classes con spicuous examples can be found to indicate that a lad needn’t go into the p:anut brittle business just be cause he has been outsmacekd once. George (Elbows) McFadden knocked Joe Gans for a loop in 23 rounds in 1899 after the oyster shucker had been beating good fighters for eight years. Terry McGovern knocked Gans out a year later. Frank Erne beat the Old Master, but Gans came along to become not only a champion but Pickett, Chicago; Betty Burch, Boston, and Olive Hasenfus, Boston. Back row, Anne O’Brien, Los Angeles; Annette Rogers, Chicago Dee Boeckmann, coach, St. Louis; Helen Stephens, Fulton, Mo.; Gertrude Wilhelmson, Seattle, and Louise Stokes, Boston., ' i NATIONAL LEAGUE Results Yesterday Boston 4, Pittsburgh 1. Chicago 1, New York 0. Cincinnati 6, Philidelphia 4. Brooklyn at St. Louis, played on 1 former date. Team W. L. Pct. Chicago 48 29 -.623 1 St. Louis 49 30 .620 Pittsburgh 42 36 .538 , Cincinnati , 40 37 . 519 New York 40 39 .506 Boston 39 41 .488 Philadelphia 29 49 .372 Brooklyn 27 53 .338 Games Today New York at Chicago. Brooklyn at St. Louis. Boston at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Results Yesterday Macon at Savannah (postponed— ram). Jacksonville at Columbia (postponed —rain). Columbus 14, Augusta 0, Team W. L. Pct. Columbus 13 5 .722 Jacksonville 11 6 .647 Macon 9 8 .529 Augusta 9 8 .529 SAVANNAH 5 12 .294 Columbia 5 13 .278 Games Today Macon at Savannah (8:15 p.m.) Augusta at Columbus. Jacksonville at Columbia. Queen Catherine of Rusia paid the highest medical fee ever recorded in history—sso,ooo and an annual pen sion of $2,500 for life —just for being vaccinated! to be called the greatest fighter that ever lived. Leonard Too It on Chin Benny Leonard was knocked out in four rounds in 1912, the first year he fought. That was a lesson for him, but he was knocked out in the follow ing year by Frankie Fleming. Four years later he won the world light weight title. Mickey Walker took generous beatings from Louis Bogash and Jack Malone early in his career and later became one of the greatest fighting machines the world has seen. Tony Canzoneri is one of the great modern champions, but he had an off night 10 years ago when Davey Abad dunced him around for 10 rounds, and two years later Harry Blitman and Andre Routis pinned back his ears. The Brown Bomber's beating ap pears right now to be a terrible back set for the boy. But Joe Louis still has his best years ahead. He’ll be right back!
