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UNES ABOUT OVERSIZED OAFS
REMEMBER THE HUMAN
FREIGHT CAR?
NOW Wl HAVE THE PONDEROUS
?. POLE!
'the ambling alp has been re
duced to «he status of a mouse. Be
fore trial the boy» razed the Tall
Tower of the Argentine. The Tail
Pine ot the Potta a/ttomle was cut
down ** Toledo Before him there
was the Human Freight Car, and he
was wrecked by the fists of Bob Fitz
simmons. Now we have Leon Ketchell,
the Ponderous Pole. Who wants him,
boys? The line forma to the right.
Few of the oversized oafs of the
prize ring have amounted to much,
and if this fellow Ketchell Is like the
others he too will go the way of all
flesh, even though he has some 280
pounds of It, spread over a gaunt
frame seven and a half feet tall. Leon
is now in New York, preparing for an
American ring career. His managers
-(Mike Jacobs is one of the interested)
says he has knocked out a dozen or so
fighters, probably most of them per
sons named Francois. ’Twas ever
thus.
Plunk Goes Plaacke!
When Kid McCoy was in his mid
dleweight prime, someone imported
a large lug from Holland called Herr
Plaacke. Kid McCoy met the big fel
low in his American debut, spotting
•him roughly 150 pocnds in weight.
When the giant stepped from his cor
ner, McCoy advanced, pointed to his
opponet’s feet and remarked, “Your
shoe lace is loose.” Her Plaacke look
ed down and as he did the King flung
his best punch to the Dutchman's
chin. After that it was easy. McCoy
mangled the' dazed giant with ease.
Ed Dunkhorst was another. They
called him the Human Freight Oar
Bob Fitzsimmons was only a light
heavyweight when he was pitted
against the monster. Bob feinted the
big boy into a lead and then cut loose
with a rain of swift .short punches.
Down came Dunkhorst.
It became evident; looking back at
him that Primo Carhera was not a
fighter but a freak. He did know how
to throw an uppercut in close. But that
was about all he had. He cut down
Jack Dempsey with it. but I still do
not believe it was a formidable punch.
Oddly, most of the big men depend
upon a right uppercut. Jess Willard
had such a punch. But like Camera,
Willard lacked a fighting heart. He
knew none of the fierce joys of fight
ing that marked destroyers of Demp
sey’s type.
Risko and Campolo
When Vittorio Campolo came to
the United States, Solid Man William
Muldoon seriously suggested that fel
lows so big should be classed as super
dreadnaughts, and mcst not fight
men”. The proposal became a
laughling matter when squat Johnny
Risko chased Campolo cockeyed in a
•Florida ring and repeated the per
formance in New York.
The greatest of the champions have
Mdt been oversized. John L. Sllllvan
.didn’t weight 200 pounds (when
Tn fighting shape) and he was 5 feet
I© 1-2 Inches tall. Os the larger heav
ies Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson
ranked highest. Tom Sharkey was
one of the toughest fighters ever seen,
.and he was only 5 feet 8 1-2 inches
tall, weighing around 185. Joe Croyn
skle, a great hitter, was a trifle short
Os six feet tall and weighted only
about 160. One who fought the best of
-fh'em. and beat most of his opponents,
-160-pounder. 5 feet MFGF GWKW
was Philadelphia Jack, O’Brien, a
160-pounder, 5 feet 10 1-2 inches tall.
.-Ketchell will bring people in at the
gate, but. I don’t think the crowd will
be there expecting to see the big Pole
-pulverize somebody. They will want
to see him whittled down by a
‘ shrimp.
MOTHER OF CRONIN
IS ILL ON COAST
BOSTON, July 13 (TP).—Joe Cro
nin, shortstop and manager of the
Boston Red Sox, left Boston by plane
today for the Pacific coast.
He is en wute to the side of his
mother, who is seriously ill in San
Francisco. How long Cronin will be
fr*n the faltering Boston club
deponds upon his mother’s condition.
The veteran Herb Pennock and Al
Schact will joinly direct the Red Sox
in Cronin’s absence. Johnny Kroner,
hard hitting rookie, has been inserted
in the Red Sox line-up to fill in for
, Cronin. Kroner will play third, while
Eric McNair will hold down second
' base.
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backstroke; Eleanor Holm Jarrett of New York, same event;
Katherine Rawls of Miami, Fla., relay and springboard diving;
Dorothy Poynton Hill of Los Angeles, springboard diving, and
Lenore Kight Wingard of Homestead, Pa., 400-meter free style.
RIDDLED BY INJURIES, CHISOX DAZE
FANS BY BEATING LEAGUE’S BEST TEAMS
By WILLIAM RITT
(Central Press Sports Writer)
Don’t look now—but isn’t that the
Chicago White. Sox ball club, coming
up from nowhere and burning a blaz
ing path through the American
league, right across the prostrate
bodies of that circuit’s most aristo
cratic members?
It is.
While their fellow Sox, the Golden
Hose of Boston, have been fading
from brightned to pale pink in the
blasts of a torrid mid-season cam
paign, the lowly Chicagolhs have
produced in the last two weeks the
most sensational of current spurts by
any major league team. And this
with almost a third of the team crip
pled.
Just before the present eastern in
vasion by the mid-western American
league teams began, the Chisox
played host to the Cleveland Indi
ans, who entertained pennant ambi
tions.
After five games, the hapless Red
skins reeled into their eastbound
Pullmans, battered and sore from be
ing flogged in four out of five'games
Dy' the up-and-coming Pale Hose.
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The Clevelands found the salty air
of the Atlantic coastline very healing
and refreshing. They revived quick
ly and proceeded to lick the top
place New York Yankees in two out
of three games, and the collapsing
Bostonians three straight.
Thjs, of course, brought them the
big headlines on the sport pages. But
what were the unnoticed White Sox
doing meanwhile? They were taking
two out of three each from Boston
and New York.
Now the Chicagoans are talking
first division. And they may make
it. They may even get into the pen
nant fight. If the Yankees lose their,
up to now, comfortable • lead the
American league race will become a
free-for all, so closely are five of the
other teams bunched. Arid among
that five we now must include. the
Sox.
The most remarkable phase of the
White Sox uprising is that the Windy
City club has put on its spurt in the
face of a series of disheartening bad
breaks. . The team recently been
riddled by injuries and illness.
Here’s what has been happening
to the Sox:
Shortly after he. was ..purchased
from the Yanks, Outfielder Dixie
Walker who was to bring much need
ed strength to the club, was operated
on for- his shoulder trouble. He may
not be back on the field before Sep
tember.
Minty Stratto.n rookie mound star,
went on the shelf with bad tonsils.
Larry Rosenthal, taken on to sub for
Walker, was injured in a collision.
Mike Kreevich, who replaced Larry,
slid into a base and injured an ankle.
Mule Haas', put in Mike’s spdt, is re
covering from a bean ball bounced
of his noggin by Cleveland’s Lefty
Lee.
Luke Appling still suffers from a
bad ankle which benched him for a
while. Second Baseman Tony Piet is
bothered with a back complaint.- In
fielder Joe Morrissey is reported not
yet fully recovered from a broken
jaw.
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And so, with his roster resembling
a World war casualty list, Manager
Jimmy Dykes and what few of his
White Sox can hobble about a hall
park decide to make a daSh for a
first division berth—and now look
at them.
In the face of their .bad breaks had
the White Sox only maintained a .500
average this would have been remark
able enough. But to produce the best
showing; by far of any club in the
league in the middle of the season
and against three of the pennant
contenders is a feat little short of
astonishing.
I Chicago is still predominantly a
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efforts during the last few years of
the Cubs—who, incidentally, are cur
rent National league champs. How
ever, that situation may change if
the crippled but far from crushed
White Sox ever regain t{ieir health!
A. E.F DIVISION
FINISHES WORK
CONCLUDES BUSY CONVEN
TION IN CAPITOL
CITY
WASHINGTON, July 18 (TP)—
Members of the second division of
the A. E. F. concluded a busy con
vention in Washington tonight.
Today they named a new president
—Brigadier General Hugh Matthews
of the marine corps. \hey dedicated a
new war memorial in the capital city.
And they chose Pittsburgh for their
1937 meeting place.
General Matthews, succeeds Major
Frank Mason as head of the veterans'
association which has had as its
guests at iW week-long convention
the famous war-time marine comman
der, Major General John Lejeuneand
Major General Preston Brown.
Other officers elected today were—
Captain John West of Cincinnati as
first vice president; Arthur Murphy
of Chicago as second vice president;
Major D. J- Coughlin of Washington
as secretary; Captain George Gordon
of Chicago as treasurer; Captain J.
L. Sykes of Pittsburgh as publicity
chairman and Thomas Mason, of
Washington s sergeant-at-arms.
A message of the convention from
President Roosevelt expresed his re
grets at not being able to attend.
G. 0. P. ‘LADY’ HEAD
ASSURES SUPPORT
CHICAGO, July 18 (TP)—The ex
ecutive director of the farm women’s
division of the Republican national
committee predicted this evening
that womne in the com belt will sup
port Governor Landon "almost unani
omusly” in the coming election.
The director, Miss Daisy Williams
said: “Farm women have pathetically
little money to maintain the barest
standards of living for their families.
They simply canot make ends meet
when they are saddled with the ap
palling taxes, the Roosevelt adminis
tration has inflicted on our people.”
Miss Williams said she has just fin
ished a tour of the midwest. “I have
talked to many farm women,” she
said, "they feel they have had all
they want of Roosevelt’s experiments.
They want good, sound government,
and they feel Governor Landon and
Colonel Knox will give it to them.”
LEMKE RETICENT
ON PENSION PLAN
CHICAGO, July 18 (TP)—The
presidential candidate of the Union
party, Congressman William Leme,
would not say tonight whether he
will endorse the Townsend plan.
Leme is going to Cleveland to ad
dress the Townsend delegates tomor
row, after their convention has ad
journed. He said his speech will be
extemporaneous, and that he has not
decided exactly what he will say.
Asked if he would support the
Townsend old age pension plan,
Lemke said: "I’ll talk about old age
security when I get to Cleveland.”
LATEST WRINKLE
NEW YORK July 18 (TP).—The
newest wrinkle in footwear is a shoe
that wrinkles right around all parts
of the foot—toes and all.
The shoe that fits like a glove was
exhibited by Dr. Philip Spence at
the convention of the foot society of
the American Aoesteopathic Associa
tion. Dr. Spence said the new shoe
stresses the importance of correctly
fitting footwear.
The doctor didn’t think that his
glove-like shoe would ever come into
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1936
le Rawls, Dorothy Poynton Hill and Lenore Kight Wingard
Bound for Berlin, where they’ll make a big splash for Olym
pic titles for the United States, five members of the U. S. wom
en’s swim team bid goodbye as they sail from New York. Shown
left to right, are Edith Martridge Segal of Los Angeles, 100-meter
■ Baseball Results
NEW YORK, July 18 (TP)—The
Chicago Cubs stretched their Nation
al League lead today by downing the
Phils 8 to 6.
The St. Louis Cards fell two games
behind the Cubs by losing 6 to 5 to
the Boston Bees in 11 innings. Dizzy
Dean went into the game as a relief
pitcher—and was charged with the
defeat.
The Brooklyn Dodgers walloped the
Pittsburgh pirates. 16 to 5. New
York’s Giants drubbed the Cincin
-10 to 2, behind Hal Schumacher’s
seven hit hurling.
In the American League, the New
York Yanks split two games with the
St. Louis Browns. St. Louis won the
opener 7 to 2. New York ran-'away
with the nightcap, 15 to 4.
The Detroit Tigers outscore dthe
Boston Red Sox 6 to 5.
Cleveland beat the Washington Sen
ators, 10 to 3, for its eighth consecu
tive triumph. The Chicago White Sox
drubbed the Philadelphia Athletics,
7 to 4 and 21 to 14.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H E.
Boston 6 9 0
St. Louis 5 14 1
(11 innings)
Philadelphia 6 9 I
Chicago 8 12 J
New York 10 19 0
Cincinnati 3 71
Brooklyn 16 17 3
Pittsburgh .5 71
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 6 11 1
Boston 5 10 2
St. Louis 4 8 3
New York 15 15 1
Cleveland 10 16 1
Washington 3 13 3
Chicago 31 20 0
Philadelphia ' 14 20 4
SOUTHERN
Birmingham 13 21 2
Nashville 7 14 0
Atlanta 7 11 0
New Orleans 8 8 5
Chattanooga 1 11 2
Knoxville 1 r 71
(Called 11th Darkness)
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Jacksonville 4 9 1
Augusta 0 3 1
(Night Game)
Jacksonville 11 14 1
Augusta q .-5 12 6
Savannah 10 14 4
Columbia 6 8 9
(10 Innings)
(Night Game)
Savannah 5 9 1
Columbia 2 13 1
Macon 3 10 1
Columbus 0 3 4
(First Game)
Macon 6 9 0
Columbus 1 3 4
TONY MANERO SIGNS
NEW GOLF CONTRACT
ELMSFORD, N. Y., July 18 (TP).
Tony Manero, 1936 National open
golf champion, signed a fat contract
today.
Manero put his name on the dot
ted line of a document which names
him head of the Miami-Biltmore
country club staff, at Miami, Fla.
His duties will start at the opening
of the annual winter season.
Manero succeeds Sam Parks, Jr.,
1935 open champ.
BILLOWS MOVES UP
SYRACUSE, N. Y„ July 18 (TP)—
Defending champion Ray Billows
moved into the semi-final round of
the New York state amateur golf
championship today.
The Poughkeepsie star defeated
Dudley Ward of Rochester, 3 and 1.
in a quarter-final match.
widespread use. The one he exhibit
ed ost SSO. "The cost looks a little
prohibitive,” he said.
LESLIE IN FINALS
OMAHA TOURNEY
OMAHA, Neb., July 18 (TP)—
Paul Leslie, of Jefferson City, Mo.,
shot his way into the finals of the
western amateur golf tournament to
day.
The Missouri collegian defeated last
year’s medalist, Johnny Lehman of
Chicago, 5 and 4.
Robert Fraser, of Omaha, defeated
Grabell Duvall of Kansas City, 2 and
1, and will meet Leslie in the finals
tomorrow.
The two finalist® were the long
shots of the tournament. In the golf
er’s pool, both the youngsters were
rated as having no chance.
Fraser’s father bought the tlcet on
his son in the pool for sls). He said
his son hadn’t even been able to win
his own club championship.
HUGE TOTAL OF BONDS
CASHED BY TREASURY
WASHINGTON, July 18 (TP)—
Treasury Department officials an
nounced today that a total of sl,-
056,327,600 in veterans bonus bonds
were cashed during the first month
the bonds were in the hands of the
ex-service men. #
The total was given when bonus
bonds records covering the month be
tween June ,15th—the day the bonds
were issued—and July 15th were
added up.
The first-month total represents
about one-half the total bonus bond
issue. The 30-day results backed up
administration predictions that there
would be no overwhelming rush to
cash in the bonds at once.
LAW AND RIGGS
TENNIS VICTORS
NEW YORK, July 18 (TP)—Two
California tennis stars stroked their
way today into the final round of
the eastern clay court tennis cham
pionships.
The former Stanford university
star, John Law of Pasadena. Cal., de
feated Wayne Sabin of Hollywood.
Cal., 7-5, 6-1, 8-6.
The top-seeded player, Robert Riggs
of Los Angeles, gained the final brack
et with a straight set triumph over
Don McNeill of Kenyon college, O
LAFOON AND ESPINOSA
TIED FOR GOLF LEAD
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 18 (TP)—
Two Chicago professionals tied for
the lead in the St. Paul Open Golf
Tournament today. Ky Lafoon and
Abe Espinosa each turned in scores
of 137 to lead the parade at the end
of 36 holes.
One stroke behind the leaders is
Dick Metz, the Lake Forest, 111., star,
with 138. Gunnard Johnson of Minn
eapolis and Johnny Bulla, -of Evans,
ton, 111., are next in line with 139’s.
Jimmy Thompson, of Shawnee-on-
Delaware, Pa. had 140.
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THE VACATION. HOLIDAY SPIRIT
Suggestions On The Choice Os A Resort Outfit
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The summer version of holiday spirit can hardly be confused with the feeling that
manifests itself during its winter counterpart, Christmas, although both puts us in fi
our most joyous moods. Summer offers an opportunity to break from the routine of.-
work, never more odious than when the temperature climbs, and turn this same heat,
to our advantage in a holiday amid surroundings of leisure and luxurious relaxation.
And since diversion is an important part of a holiday, the proper wearables for the
holiday maker are of major importace if the vacation is to be entirely successful.
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