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Japan Is Declared Practically Certain to Be Awarded Olympics for 1940
GAMES CHIEFTAIN
: TO APPRAISE BID
Held a Political Necessity
to Stage Meet in East
Once, Says Latoup.
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BY LATHROP MACK,
, Associated Press Staff Writer.
NEW YORK. February 28.—The
question of where to hold the
1940 Olympic games is a sim
ple one to Count Henri Bail
let Latour of Belgium, president of
the International Olympic Committee.
"It is politically necessary to go
once to the Far East." he said todgy
-as he tarried here en route to Tokio
to appraise Japan’s plans for seeking
the 1940 games and to inspect the
^facilities for holding them.
The recent assassinations and re
volt in Tokio and the antipathy of
some European countries toward send
ing their athletes so far from home
disturb Count Latour not at all, he
said.
"The Olympics are an international
thing. They never have been held
in the Orient. The Japanese bid is
the first ever received from that area.
4 European countries which do not wish
to compete in Japan can keep their
"teams at home. They do not have to
attend. But it is up to the nations
themselves. I am absolutely neutral.”
Mum on Military Uprising.
rPHE count arrived yesterday from
‘x Europe. He declined to comment
on the military uprising in Japan. He
announced he would sail from San
-Francisco March 5 as he had planned.
He must report to his committee in
• Berlin next Summer on Tokio's bid.
He also refrained from comment on
the rival bid from Helsingfors, Fin
land, or the so-far-informal sugges
-tion tjiat New York might hold the
games in connection with the world's
fair planned here in 1939.
His chief worry was about Tokio
weather. ~i ■ ■
“I haven't been in Japan since 1911,”
he said. "I hear it is very hot there in
September. The Olympics should have
two months of not-too-hot weather.
Then there'is the question of Japan's
vacation time and the duration of its
„ school year. But no doubt the Japa
nese would close their schools at any
time convenient to the Olympic Com
miuee.
Japanese Keen Students.
"'T'HE Japanese are so keen,” he hur
ried on.
"Once they ignored al’. sports. Only
eight years ago they took up Winter
sports. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen
last month they were everywhere,
photographing the competitors con
stantly. I believe they use slow-mo
tion cameras to copy good form ex
actly.
"The Japanese changed swimming
style with their motor-boat form—
head out of the water. We first saw
It at Los Angeles. Did you ever see
a motor boat with its nose in the sea?
No. and so the crawl is passe.”
Count Latour said there was "noth
ing to complain about" in the conduct
of the recent Winter games in Ger
many.
“There was not the slightest political
allusion,” he said. "Everything was
marvelous.”
Rod and Stream
ts
SPRING is just around the cor
ner and with its advent the
different species of fishes will
begin their annual trek North
ward. Confirming this we get from
A. H. G. Mears of Wachapreague, Va.:
"With two men I recently landed 72
croakers on the ocean water at 48
degrees. I would not suggest a date
for early experimental fishing, but
should you be passing this way I would
be glad to join you in* trying to get a
few rock, croakers and perhaps a sea
Hi VUt VI nn Vi W
Mears says he is looking forward to
better fishing this year. The 1935
season was good and fish, as a rule,
old and young, return to the same
good feeding ground, he explains. This
year Mears plans to have a pilot boat,
with bait, to entice fish from the ocean
jto the best inland fishing grounds in
his vicinity.
He announces th£ following prizes
for the 1936 fishing season:
Channel bass, largest and most
caught, $10; sea trout or weaks, largest
find most caught, $10; $5 for the
largest blue and $5 for most of this
species landed.
£pHE heavy ice in the Potomac River
began to break yesterday' and
perhaps for several days there will
fee plenty pf it piling up along the
Speedway. When the ice has gone,
leaving the river muddy, it will be
time to land the big Mississippi cat
fish. They are caught with all kinds
6f bait, but the best is shad'entrails.
"Cats” weighing from 5 to 15 pounds
and more are taken each year at this
time. Last year white perch, small
•* -ones, were landed off Fletcher’s boat
bouse March 23, and the first shad
reported taken in the Potomac by the
Bureau of Fisheries was on March 29.
Channel bass were first landed last
year at Oregon Inlet on March 23.
apd the blues made their appearance
at this popular place on April 7.
v The season on native brook and
Rainbow trout opens in Maryland on
April 1 and in Virginia. West Virginia
And Pennsylvania on April 15. Watch
this column for the first run of fishes
•t Oregon Inlet.
INDUSTRIAL LOOP ELECTS.
MARTINSBURG, W. Va., February
.28.—Representatives of the five orig
inal teams of the Bi-County Industrial
'league (North American, Millville,
Jlakerton, standard and Blairton),
have elected J. L. Fulk, president;
JJowney Hill, vice president; Paul.
Hoover, secretary, and William Craw
ford, treasurer.
IWf
W& 1 ... " ■ > ■ —i—— ..
£ TAKES SWIMMING MEET.
MONMOUTH, HI., February 28.—
Jjhinois College, with 45% points, won
♦- triangular swimming meet here.
Jfradley, 27%, and Monmouth, 15, were
|gie other contestants.
^EVANS IMPRESSES DYKES.
;t JPA8ADENA, Calif., February 28 OP).
—Bussell (Red) Evans, young right
hinder who won 24 games for Okla
homa City last season, has made a
.Jbig impression on Manager Jimmy
^B&kee as Chicago White Sox hurleri
Vrout another notchjr
:•
Young Catcher From Paducah
Wins Praise of Nats’ Leaders
| ...
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ORLANDO. Fla., February 28.—
There were two strikes and a
lot of laughs on Floyd Perry
man when he blew into this
Washington training camp.
In the first place, nobody, not even
Clark Griffith, knew his first name.
In the second place all the dope that
Griff had on the young man was that
he played for Paducah last year, and
Paducah always sounds like a gag.
But nobody is laughing at Floyd
Perryman now. It only took Man
ager Bucky Harris a few minutes to
spot the "action” of this kid catcher,
who really .did play for Paducah in
the Kitty League last season.
Waits Year for Chance.
pERRYMAN once waited a year for
a chance to play professional ball,
but it's' likely that his long waiting
days are over. He’s regarded as the
best-looking catching newcomer in
camp and Harris frankly expects him
to battle it out with Bill Star for the
third-s'tring receiving post.
Perryman's year-long wait was due
to the St. Louis Cardinals’ unmatch
able dragnet. He w!as playing in a
sandlot game in his home' town of
. Marion, Ky., when Frank Rickey of
I the Cards drove by on a scouting tour.
I Frank Rickey, brother of the better
! known Branch Rickey, was impressed
by Perryman and sought him out.
"You're a little too young right
1
now,” said Rickey, "but if you wait
a year I’ll come back and see that
you get a chance.”
Perryman, then only 15 years old,
twiddled his fingers and waited.
True to his word, Rickey returned in
a year and the Spring of 1932 found
j Perryman with Springfield, a “farm”
of the OMdinals.
I He still was too young for Spring
! field, so Floyd returned to Kentucky,
| got a job with Paducah, and last year
he won the Kitty League batting
championship with an average of .363.
Joe Cambria, Albany owner, immedi
ately signed him up and turned him
over to Washington for inspection.
Is of Medium Sjize.
j J-JE ISN'T very big as ball players
j go. standing only 5 feet 10’ i j
; inches and weighing 169 pounds, but j
he’s hard as nails and, to quote Grif
fith, ‘‘one of the fastest catchers I’ve
| seen in years.”
He was so fast, in fact, that Pa
ducah used him in the outfield most
of the time, but about this shift there
are conflicting stories.
“It was because I batted better in
the outfield,” grins Perryman, but
there is a rumor around camp that
he was removed from behind the bat
because his hot temper got him into
too many fights with the umpires. So
far he has confined his scrapping to
winning a big league job. and he
hasn't done so poorly. F. E. S.
■ ’ * i
In Majors’ Training Camps
naouiiatcu nebs.
LAKELAND. Fla. — Manager
Mickey Cochrane indicated he
may change his batting style
this season to take advantage
of the new Detroit grandstand in right
field. Mickey hit 23 hon.ers with the
Athletics one year by shooting at a
short wall, but lately has been trying
to place his hits.
NEW ORLEANS.—Steve O’Neil of
the Indians says he is pleased with the
condition of his men after less than a I
week in camp. Clint Brown, who is j
trying to prove he is a more useful ■
pitcher than A1 Milnar, Denny Gale
house and Walter Tauscher, has looked
especially good.
PASADENA, Calif.—Mike Kreevich,
who had a trial with the Cubs, appears
certain to stick with the Chicago White
Sox. He was obtained from Kansas
City as an outfielder, hut can play
third and probably will be kept as a
sub for Manager Jimmy Dykes.
gARASOTA, Fla.—Manager Joe Cro
nin. Red Sox bass, says this will
be the “testing’’ year for Big Bill Wer
ber, third baseman the Sox are trying
to push into the outfield
"Werber had a good year in 1934
and one not so good in 1935. A bad
foot and sinus trouble slowed him up.
We'll see what this season does,” was
the way Cronin put it.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla—President
Bob Quinn of the Boston Bees prefers
to hire ball players for less than he
could "buy a minor league club,” but
is confident Wally Berger, who brought
on the talk, will sign shortly.
‘He has asked for such a raise that
people wouldn’t believe it if I an
nounced his figure,” said Quinn today,
adding that Berger, who led the Na
tional League last year in runs batted
in, already has been offered more than
‘‘any other outfielder in the league.”
J>ENSACOLA, Fla.—The Giants are
beginning to hope Bill Terry
never decides to take to umpiring in
stead, of managing a ball club. Bill
has served as umpire in practice
games here and he steadfastly refuses
to call a fourth ball. The players
have to hit or go out; they can't even
get an intentional pass when the
situation calls for one.
CLEARWATER Fla.—The opening
of the Dodgers’ training camp today
finds a large squad already on hand.
Among those who arrived early were
Lonnie Frey, Danny Taylor, George
Earnshaw, Tom Baker, Fred Frank
house, Walter Millies and Babe
Phelps. Arriving yesterday Phelps
batted a couple over the right field
wall in an informal practice.
BRADENTON, Fla.—Johnny Mize,
Cardinal rookie, has had . plenty of
work in a few days in training’camp.
Manager Frankie Frisch has had the
former Rochester star taking a turn
in the outfield as well as subbing for
Jim Collins at first base. Frisch
says he is highly pleased with the
pep and smart fielding of his team.
A VALON, Calif.—Augie Galan of
the Cabs is not enthusiastic over
the proposal to shift him from left
to center field, but says, “I will do
my best wherever Charley Grimm
places me.” Grimm was the first
training casualty, getting two finger;
on his right hand damaged by S',
foul tip yesterday;
PITTSBURGH.—The first squad,
of Pirates, including Pitchers Johnny
Wasco and Mace Brown and Catcb
ersz A1 Todd, Tdji Paddea and*
i -
Spencer Woodill, leaves for San An
tonio tonight in charge of Prexy Bill
Benswanger. Manager Pie Traynor
is reported en route from the West
Coast.
SAN JUAN, P. R.—The Cincinnati
Reds begin the last stage of their j
training today after traveling to Ponce
to trim a local team, 8-2, yesterday. I
After games here tomorrow and Sun
day, the first squad will leave for
Miami by air Moilday.
KALIfflKOFFFAILS
TO IMPRESS HERE
Cox Disposes of Siberian
After 30 Minutes of Dull
Wrestling.
ERGEI KALMIKOFF today was
as far away as his native
Siberia in the thoughts of most
local cauliflower cullers, who
now are pondering the possibility of
Promoter Joe Turner throwing a
trained seal into the ring to wrestle
Joe Cox next week.
: In the most boring match of the
year, Cox pinned the bewiskered Kal
mikofif after 30 minutes of grappling
last night at Turner’s arena before an
indifferent capacity crowd.
With only a fine assortment of
growls, a few choice Russian phrases
and a moth-eaten beard to qualify
him as a wrestler, the former salt
miner, with enough fat on his frame
id fry a whale, proved little trouble
10 roway joe.
Cox, now as much of a fixture at
the anemic arena as the ticket booths,
allowed Sergei to run through his com
plete act before he closed in and fin
ished the drama.
Kalmikoff, however, did rouse the
spectators out of a deep slumber by
ripping Referee Benny Bortnick’s shirt
to shreds. Not completely satisfied
with this, the Siberian matman then
tried to tear BennyVs pants. Bortnick
evaded his fingers, but Cox then
caught the spirit.
Just prior to flattening Kalmikoff
with a leg lock, Joe flipped an elbow
toward Benny’s left eye. The chubby
referee forgot to duck and will gaze
but from one eye for a few days.
Emil Dusek paved the way for a
match which Cox, it is feared, by win
ning over' Mike Mazurki in a bruising
semi-final. Mazurki was counted out
as he lay prone on the mat after
having hi* left leg entangled in the
ropes.
In other preliminaries, Hal Rumberg
recorded a 30-minute draw with Scotty
McDougall, while Rusty Westcoatt
tossed Jack Hader in 21 minutes.
I
Hockey Results
By the Associated Press.
National League.
Boston, 2; Montreal Maroons, 1.
Detroit, 4; New York Rangers, 3.
International League.
Detroit, 2; “London, 1.
Canadian-American League.
Philadelphia, 1; Boston, 1 (tie).
American Association.
St. Paul, 7; Tulsa, 3.
Wichita, a; ODkhoma City, 0, /
SANDLOT TALENT
✓
Six Removed Front. Nats’
Squad—Estaiella Hits
Far in Practice.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ORLANDO, Fla., February 28.—
Life in a big league training
camp will end for half a
dozen Washington ball club
recruits today when Manager J3ucky
Harris will prune his squad for the first
time.
The dapper pilot of the Nationals
doesn’t have much of a real line on
the majority of the assorted rookies in
camp, but he has seen enough in the
first four days of training to wield the
ax to some extent.
Among those to go in the first group
of the discharged will be four District
boys who were picked from the sand
lots and sent to Orlando at the ex
pense‘of a Washington business man.
They are'Reggie Brown, Joe Sullivan
and Fotch Mathias, pitchers, and Bob
Mathias, a catcher.
The two Mathias boys were regarded
as too small in physique. Sullivan,
while ,a lad who figures to fill out
eventually, also is handicapped by his
lack of size.
Two other inflelders also will leave
the squad, possibly at the start of to
day’s workout. They are a second
baseman from Miami, named Cox, and
a fTt'cf hacaman frnm Uortfrir/l
Cubs Use Envious Methods in Training Camp
Mermaids on Santa Catalina Island join hands with the Chicago players In diamond calisthenics, but we
fear this really was done to provide an enticing picture.
The mermaids are Phyllis Willson, Billie Wallace and Kay Todo, and the ball players, torn between love and
duty, are Kenneth Weafer, Clauson Vines (rear) and Charlie Flowers. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
I
StarTeams Oppose Champs
in Conference Tourney.
Duke Is Favored.
By the Associated Press.
UNIVERSITY. Va., February 28.
—This thoroughly boxing
conscious university town was
keyed high for the opening
this afternoon of what loomed as one
of the hardest fought Southern Con
ference ring tournament in the con
ference’s 10 years’ existance.
Virginia, which has held the con
ference team trophy since 1931, will
begin the defense of its title without
the services of Maynard Womer, cap
tain and welterweight champion.
Duke is favored by many observers
as the team most likely to topple Vir
ginia from the throne. Maryland,
North Carolina and Clemson also have
strong lists of entries.
Heavier Classes Skimpy.
A FEATURE of the opening will be
the staging of tw'o semi-final
bouts tonight. This came about When
only four entries each appeared for the
light-heavy and heavyweight division.
These semifinals will bring in the
light-heavyweight class Ray Schmidt,
Virginia, against Ray Matulewicz,
Duke, and John Gormley. Maryland,
against Roy Haskell, South Carolina,
who has managed to keep his identity
a strict secret from all, including Pres
ident Clark .Griffith and Harris.
Perryman Weak at Bat. '
QATCHER FLOYD PERRYMAN, the
most impressive rookie' in camp
yesterday, is not so much the apple
of Bucky Harris’ eye after the first
batting drill of the year.
Unknown when he arrived here,
Perryman so impressed with his han
dling of the catcher's mitt and his
throwing that Harris was almost sold
on him. And the best was yet to
come, according to reports, for Perry
man’s forte was to have been his bat
ting. He led the Kitty League in hit
ting last season.
In the first drill, however, Floyd
failed to show worth. Ht hits in
shoked-up fashion and not at all as
Harris had visualized. But the sea
son’s young yet, and Floyd may come
around.
Estallella Smacks ’Em.
J AKE POWELL was another who
failed to cover himself with glory
in yesterday’s initial wand drill. Jake
managed to get by until Brown, the
Washington sandlotter, took his turn
on'the hill. Brown had Jake’s number.
Roberto Estallella just about stole
the batting show. Reporting on the
field for the first tipio. Bobby twice
rbpped drives against the wire fence
in distant left field. The natives re
garded the feat in amazement, inas
much as only two balls ever have been
hit over the low barrier, and both were
socked by Jimmy Foxx.
RECORDS ARE SMASHED
Swimimng Marks Broken at Chi
cago and Amsterdam.
CHICAGO. February 28 (A5).—Adolph
Kiefer, Chicago high school* swimmer,
swam the 75-yard backstroke in 42.3
seconds to better one of his own numer
ous records. His previous mark was
43.3 seconds.
AMSTERDAM, February 58 OP).—
Dutch woman swimmers bettered two
world records here. Willy Den Ouden
swam 100 meters free style in 1 minute
4 6 seconds and Rita Mastenbroek
swam 100 meters backstroke in 1:15.8.
FINISH TRAP TOURNEY
Wilson Sure of One Cup, Second
at Stake Tomorrow.
With Walter Wilson, treasurer of
the Washington Gun Club, already
assured of one of the two trophies do
nated by the Arlington County Dairy,
interest in tomorrow’s event will cen
ter around the fight for the other
cup.
The shoot will be the final of a tour
nament which has extended over sev
eral months.
Any ties which may exist will be
•hot of! by the members, who also are
competing for a couple of fine shooting
coats.
— ..m
PLEBES IN THIfEE MEETS.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 28 OP).
—Navy Plebe track team will meet
three opponents this Spring, as fol
lows: May 2, Baltimore City College;
9, Mercersburg Academy; 23, Massa
nutten Academy.
HARPER NOW POLITICIAN.
DODGE CITY, Kans., February 28
(A5).—Jess Harper, the man who
started the late Knute Rockne on the
way to fame as a foot ball coach, will
be a delegate to the Republican Na
tional Convention. Harper is a
rancher here.
Olympic Sensations of ’32
Determined to Repeat
at Berlin Games.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO.—Determined not to re
linquish their world swimming
title to the. United States in
the coming Berlin Olympics
without a terrific strueele. Jaoan's
aquatic stars have been going through
a term of intensive Midwinter train
ing to keep in condition for the com
petitions five months hence.
Japan's youthful swimming team
swept sensationally through the
aquatic section of the Los Angeles
Olympics in 1932, capturing five of
the six speed events..
The Winter training, carried on In
the indoor pool of one of the Toklo
universities, showed • that Japan's
champions have lost little of the speed
which enabled them to win a dual
meet from a selected American team
in Toklo last Summer. Among those
snowing the best form in this off sea
son were Relzo Koike, rated by the
Japanese the best breast-stroke swim
mer in the world; Masanori Yusa, a
great sprinter, and Shoji Klyokawa,
who won the 100-meter back-stroke
race at Los Angeles in 1932. All three
were point winners at Los Angeles.
Distance Mfen in Fettle.
QTHER Japanese stars who have
shown themselves ready for
championship performances at Berlin
next Summer are the great distance
trio, Hiroshi Negami, Shozo Makino
and Gen Ishiharada. The Japanese
are counting on them to take at least
two of the first three places in both
the 1,500-meter and 400-meter free
style races at Berlin. Last Summer
the only American who could success
fully challenge the speed and stamina
of this trio was Washington Univer
sity’s great star. Jack Medica. Medica
beat Negami by a touch at 400 meters;
Negami outpaced Medica by the same
margin, but at 1,500 meters all three
of the Japanese finished far'ahead
of the Americans, with Ishiharada
leading.
LIST SPORTS CARNIVAL
12th Street “Y” Will Be Hoet to
Baltimoreans Tomorrow.
Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. athletes
. will play host to the Druid Hill Avenue
Y. M. C. A. of Baltimore tomorrow in
an all-sports program, which will in
clude competition in pocket billiards,
table tennis, basket ball and volley
ball.
Action will get underway at 7 o’clock,
with the court game slated for 8:30 p.m.
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. — Frankie Carle,
156Vi. Philadelphia, outpointed Lou
Halper, 151%, Newark, N. J. (10).
FAIRMONT, W. Va.—U. S. Car
penter, 135, Clarksburg, outpointed
Midget Mike O'Dowd, 138, Columbus,
Ohio (10).
BOIS, Idaho.—Sammy Brown. 133,
Boise, knocked out Indian Billy Lee,
138, Portland, Ore. (8).
Night Came Boon to Readers
a
Scan Newspapers as Baltimore Loses——Fine
Tenor Picked Up by Dodgers.
By the Associated Press. I n___ __ _■_
NEW YORK, February 28.—A
few random reports on the
1936 major league rookie
crop:
Johnny Gill, Cubs’ outfielder, who
has done' considerable traveling
through various leagues, has a fa
vorite base ball yam concerning a
night game at Baltimore when the
home team was faring so poorly
most of the fans left the park early.
Walking toward the outfield with
Frank McGowan, GUI noticed some
non-paying spectators on nearby
rooftops and remarked:
“Our friends out there are stick
ing, though." .
A moment later a line drive sent
both running to the fence and as
GiU picked up the baU and threw
to the infield, McGowan exploded:
"They ain’t watching our ball
game. Those muggs are using pur
light to read their newspapers/
Les Scar sella, whose immediate
. task is to, win the Cincinnati first
basing joe from Jim Bottomlaytoad
M«v^uuui| UV M.I WWUOi
about Owner Pwel Crosley’s Idea
of transporting mis team by air
plane. Flying is 8car’s favorite
hobby and It probably gives him a
feeling of security after his Win
ter Job—transporting dynamite and
other explosives for a powder com
pany on the West Coast.
Wayne Mllnar, who might have
been a regular Cleveland pitcher
last season but for an appendicitis
attack which laid him low during
the training season, never has
strayed far from the home baili
wick. A Cleveland boy, he was
picked up by the Indians after fan
ning 24 rivals in a sandlot game
and has been with Cleveland
“farm” teams ever since, Zanesville
in 1933 and New Orleans the past
two seasons. •
Buddy Hassett, purchased by the
Dodgers from Newark to fill Sam .
Leslie’s shoes, is the best tenor
Brooklyn has had since AlMamaux
departed, His sinking brought
'down the house at the New. York
base bgjl witters’ dinner.
THE SPORTLIGHT
Venzke’s Comeback After Four Years
of Beatings Is Epic of Persistence.
W GEANTLAND BICE_
OS ANGELES, Calif., February
28.*—If you happen to be in
terested in passing the olive
sprig or the laurel blossom
around in sport, we have a nomina
tion. In the present case the name
isn’t Joe Louis, Top Row, Dizzy Dean,
Mickey Cochrane or Lawson Little.
It all goes back four years to a
tall, lean young Pennsylvanian who
scaled the heights in the East, flopped
out here in the Olympic tests and then
spent four years taking the dust of
winners before the tide finally turned.
His name is Gene Venzke of Penn
sylvania, who has turned in about
as game a job as I've seen in sport.
As I recall the foggy details, young
Venzke ran an indoor mile around
4:10 at Madison Square Garden four
years ago. He looked to be the great
est miler or the fastest 1,500-meter
runner of his time.
Refuses to Quit.
HE WAS only getting under way
only warming up—with a record
already set. He had shattered the
best indoor time of Paavo Nurmi and
Joie Ray.
Then something happened. A leg
ligament went astray before the Olym
pic trials and he was run into the
ground at Palo Alto.
That wasn't alt. He entered
the University of Pennsylvania
nnder Lawson Robertson, one of
the best of all the coaches and *
trainers, but he still couldn't
win.
Year after year it was Cunningham
and Bonthron—or Bonthron and Cun
ningham—or Lovelock, Cunningham
and Bonthrtm—with Gene Venzke a
bad third or fourth.
I talked to him several times, but
Gene never could explain just what
had happened to that early promise.
All he had to say was that some day
he would be back again. He wouldn’t
quit.
In all this time he never broke train
ing or gave up hope. As Zuppke
says—‘‘When hope goes—everything
goes”—but Venzke hung on to his
dream.
A Four-Year Beating.
PROM 1932 to 1936 the Pennsyl
* vania runner took it right in th
middle of the chin. He saw bi|
crowds cheering Cunningham o
Bonthron as he staggered in 10 or 1
yards behind their finish.
I was among many who hoped tha
Venzke would retire or try a longe
distance. He can run all day. Bu
.Venzke had different ideas on th
subject. After his collapse in 193:
he stuck to the steady job of takini
a bad beating through 1933. 193
and 1935. He had no alibis—no ex
cuses.
In the meanwhile another Olympi
festival approaches. Th& were mud
dling over the middle-distance run
ners and there was some argument o
doubt that Venzke would have evei
an outside chance for the team.
In some way he found that los
spurt. He always had plenty in th
way of heart and stamina. But the;
kept outrunning him down the stretch
There wasn't much doubt about wher
he belonged a few nights back who
he cracked the world indoor recon
for 1.500 meters, breaking 3:50.
It took Mike Sweeney’s young
product of 1932 just four years
of the hardest sort of work and
the toughest type of training to
move up to his promised place.
Not many in sport would have takei
this much beating. For there happen
to be a world of beating in a mil
race, run as it is today.
JT MIGHT be mentioned in thi
connection that America can us
a good 1,500-meter runner at the nex
Olympics.
It has been a long time since th
United States of America, has had an
one good enough to compete with th
Nurmis or Beccalis who have bee;
running away from our best milers.
Whatever happens, Venzke ha
moved into support. And you’ll sti
hear from Cunningham—and from
better all-around middle distance fiel
than we’ve had in some time.
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MARYLAND; DUKE
SWIFT ON TRACK
Threaten Ailing Tarheels’
Supremacy on Southern
Loop Games.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHAPEL HILL. N. C., February
* 28.—University of North Car
olina's .chances of successfully
defending its track and field
championships in the Southern Con
ference games starting here a week
from tomorrow appeared menaced to
day. Its own ailments, Maryland and
Duke formed the triple obstacle.
Sickness and injuries have taken
two of the Tarheel leaders, Gammon
and Connell, and the limited number
of veterans in the champions' squad
will be forced to double up by run
ning in several events.
But the Old Liners and the Blue
Devils will send outstanding perform
ers, the former’s contingent making
up in strength what it lacks in num
bers.
—
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.
rJX)DAY A YEAR AGO—Pete
Reynolds named new head
foot ball coach at Knox (Old
Slwash) College, which had lost 27
straight games.
Three years ago—James A.
Parley, new Postmaster General,
resigned chairmanship of New York
State Athletic Commission, suc
ceeded by Brig. Gen. John J.
Phelan.
Five years ago—Ignacio Ara.
Cuban welterweight, knocked out
Joe Dundee in first round at
Havana.
BITTER BASKET BALL.
I
In a bitterly fought game, St. Ste
phen’s tossers edged out the Y. M
C. A. Hawks, 18-16, yesterday on th
Y M. C. A. court.
SOLTERS MAKES TERMS.
ST. LOUIS, February 28 </P).—Via
President L. C. McEvoy of the St
Louis Browns has announced Juliu
Solters, slugging outfielder, has agreec
to terms.
ana in tne neavyweignt class Fred
Cramer, Virginia’s defending cham
pion, against Marvin Ray. North Caro
lina, and Capt. Cliff Henley, Clemson,
against Ed Fletcher, Maryland.
Winners in each of these bouts will
automatically receive three points
with- five points to go to the success
ful battlers in the finals.
Stage Eliminations.
RUMINATION bouts slated in six
classes this afternoon were as
• follows:
Bantamweight—Ed Shegogue, Maryland.
; vs. Lorenzo Taylor, South Carolina;
Charles Hull, V. P. I., vs. Teddy Boseili.
Clemson.
Featherweight—Fred Hall, V. P. I. vs.
> I Joe Bell. V M I Bob Murray. Clemson.
i vs. Capt. Ernie Eutsler. North Carolina
! Lightweight—Bobber Dawson. Clemson.
t vs. Walter W*bb Maryland
, Welterweight—Danny Farrar. Duke. Vi.
■ Bod Jones. Clemson
l , Junior middleweight—Maynard Harlow,
„ Virginia, vs. Wilson Mann. Duke.
Middleweight—-Max Novich. North Caro*
> lina, vs. Randolph Whittle, V. M. I.
:! -.
■ NICHY TO PRESENT
; KNOCKOUT WALLOP
i Mader Will Meet a Heavyweight
With Record of 21 Kayoes
in 34 Pro Fights.
r j
’ A RECORD of 21 knockouts in 34
■ * professional starts will send Billy
i; Nichy, heavyweight, into the ring at
l Turner’s Arena Monday night con
fident of adding Eddie Mader to
his long list of k. o. victims. The
bout has been scheduled for eight
rounds.
Proving himself every bit the punch
er he professed to be in his local
i debut last Monday, when he knocked
i | out promising Eddie Anderson in two
;, rounds, Nichy seeks to duplicate Art
j Sykes’ feat of stopping Mader.
j Nichy Has proved a big favorite
. around Pittsburgh, where he k. o.'d
, Red Bruce and won decisions over
' Billy Ketchell, Anson Green and A1
. Boros. He also was credited with a
draw there with Lew’ Scozza.
' Despite his unexpected fall before
[ Sykes, Mader remains one of the
' most promising of the heavies, being
1 ranked eighth among the big fellows
in the March issue of the Ring, box
* ing magazine. Conqueror of Ketchell
1 here recently, Mader also has defeated
I j Steve Dudas. Tony Galento. Ford
II Smith and Hank Hankinson, all rank
^; ing heavyweights.
TIMM OFFERED POST
Louisville Wants Ames Man as
Athletic Director.
LOUISVILLE. Ky„ February 28 UP).
—Leroy C. Timm, assistant athletic
director at Iowa State College, has
! been offered a three-year contract as
head of the department of athletics
at the University of Louisville.
Timm, varsity quarterback at Min
nesota for three years before his grad
uation in 1931, took the offer under
consideration.
TRACK ACES TO RACE.
NEW YORK, February 28 <A>).—
Eddie O’Brien and Chuck Hornbostel.
National A. A. \J. 600 and 1,000 meter
champions, respectively, will meet at
600 yards in the Knights of Columbus
indoor track and field meet in Madi
son Square Garden March 14.
SERVICE ON LIQUID
GASOLINE GAUGES
L.S. JULLIE N.l/ur.
[ 1443 PSt-N.W. NO.8076
Terps Have Sturdy Team.
VJ ARYLAND'S greatest power is to
be found in the middle dis
tances, in which Headley, Evans and
Archer are superb performers. And,
along with Crohin, these men combine
to give Maryland probably the best
relay team in the South. Among
others, Slye will represent Maryland
in the hurdles and Ryan in the sprints.
Duke will send the largest entry
list of any school in the conference.
Such stars as Shehan and Ritter in
th* dashes; Sizemore, Martin and
Steckel in the hurdles; George, Nau
dain and Pruitt In the middle dis
tances; Koop for the mile and Moore,
Myers. Leidy, Williams, Hanes and
Hackney in the field events stamp the
Durham institution as a heavy fa
vorite.
Navy Will Seek Laurels.
WITH the strongest field ever to en
ter as non-conference members,
the Southern Conference regulars will
be threatened with conceding the lime
light'In their own meet for the first
time. r
The United States Naval Academy
leads the field of South Atlantic teams,
hut strong competition is seen from
William and Mary, Georgetown, Cath
olic ul Richmond and Davidson.
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