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Turf World Focuses on Santa Anita : Baer Back in Talking Trim
GREAT FIELD RUNS
IN 550,000 DERBY
Taylor Entry of Sir Oracle,
Patty Cake Favored at
Odds of 4 to 1.
Br the A" - 'ited Press.
OS ANGELES, Calif., February
2.—Santa Anita Park, at the
base of the towering Sierra
» Madres, commanded national
attention today as a brilliant field of
thoroughbreds lined up for the Santa
Anita Derby and its added purse of
950,000.
Twenty-four leading 3-year-olds
were expected to contest for the rich
purse, topping the record 22 that
started In the Kentucky Derby in
1628.
Last year Mrs. Silas B. Mason’s He
Did ran through the mud to win over
Valiant Fox and Gold Seeker for first
prise added money of $26,500 In a field
of 11 starters.
Today such outstanding 3-year-olds
M Mrs. William H. Furst's Gerald,
Walter Taylor’s Sir Oracle. Alfred G.
Vanderbilt’s Tedious, Willis Kilmer’s
Beet Beau and the Foxcatcher Farm’s
Fairy HiU were groomed to try for a
purse double the 1936 offering In
weather that promised to be perfect.
Uses Old-Time Start.
D ACE experts foresaw plenty of
^ trouble for the so-called favor
ites. In a field so large that Starter
Eddie Thomas prepared to use the old
time ribbon instead of the customary
gate, anything could happen.
Slow starters were at a disadvantage.
Vanderbilt's Tedious, Sir Oracle and
Gerald came under that classification.
The 11/16-mile race called for good
riding. Gerald, winner of a Derby
trial last week, had Basil James, the
Nation's leading jockey, in the saddle.
Best Beau, saddled by Tommy Taylor,
the man who trained He Did last year,
had Harry Richards aboard. Richards
piloted Lloyd Pan in to win the $10,000
Santa Catalina Handicap two weeks
ago, and brought Rosemont under the
wire Saturday in the $7,500 San An
tonio. Yet Best Beau was an outside
choice in betting.
Sir Oracle had one of the best money
riders in the country in George Wolf,
who rode Azucar to victory in the
$100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in 1935,
and Bold Venture In the Preakness
last year.
Joint Favorite*. 4 to 1.
fT>HE Taylor entries of Sir Oracle and
Patty Caki, at 4 to 1 odds, Maj.
Austin C. Talyor’s Whichcee and
Jargo, at 6 to 1, and Gerald at the
same price, ruled the overnight betting
favorites.
More than a million dollars appeared
certain to be wagered on the eight-race
program. Last Saturday $1,008,818
went through the pari-mutuel win
dows. The race will be broadcast,
starting at 7 p.m. <E. S. T.) with sta
tions WMAL and WOL picking it up
here.
Here are the entries, jockeys and
post positions of the Derby candidates:
F.P. Entry. Jockey.
!. Olingendaal_De Camilla*
. aBagplpe _ Workman
. bMlnatrel Show _No rider
. Merry Maker_Longden
. Best Beau___ Richards
. Fairy Hill_ Peters
. bMUltary_ Robertson
S. Papenle _ Pollard
. Halt Time_Richardson
. Bon Hamburs_ Summers
1. cJarto _ Saunders
$. dEagle Pasa_ Gray
, 8. Brown Jade_N. Richardson
• 4. Gerald _James
, 6. dCalculator_ Dotter
?. eStand In _No rider
. fPatty Cake_Guymon
: 8. eTedious _No rider
.ft. aPtolemy_No rider
10. fSlr Oracle_-_ Woolt
: II. No Dice _ Luther
22. eSharpshooter_No rider
23. Francesco _ Gilbert
84. cWhlchcee_Young
•O. V. Whitney entry.
bMllky Way Farms entry.
cMaJ. Austin C. Taylor entry.
AValdlna Farm entry.
«A. G. Vanderbilt entry.
fW. W. Taylor entry.
INTERNATIONAL TONE
TO MEET IN CHICAGO
Olympic, IT. S. Champions to Seek
Indoor Track, Field Laurels
at March 6 Affair.
BT the Associated Press.
/"''HICAQO, February 22. — Indoor
track comes into its own in the
Middle West March 6, when the
Chicago Dally News stages the
Chicago relays, with a brilliant group
of Olympic and national champions,
at the International Amphitheater.
Such stars as Glenn Cunningham,
Archie San Romani, Chuck Fenske,
Gene Venzke, Don lAsh, the Rideout
twins, Sueo Ohe, Earle Meadows,
Eulaee Peacock, Cornelius Johnson,
Sam Allen, Glenn Morris and many
others are scheduled to compete.
Following the crack Eastern meets,
the Mllirose games, the Boston A. A.
games, the New York A. C. meet, and
the National A. A. U. championships,
(he Chicago relays climaxes the in
door season. It Is sanctioned by the
Amateur Athletic Union.
r
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Loyola of Chicago vs. George
Washington, Tech High gym. 3:30.
Washington-Lee High vs. George
Washington Frosh, Roosevelt High
gym, 7.
Landon vs. Montgomery-Blalr,
Takoma Park Fire House.
Howard vs. Lincoln, Orange,
N. J.
Boxing.
Ray Ingram vs. Christobal Jara
mello, eight rounds, feature bout,
Turner’s Arena, 8:30.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
St. John's vs. Maryland. Ritchie
Coliseum, College Park, Md., 8:15.
Roosevelt vs. Western, Tech
High gym (public high title
series), 3:30.
Tech vs. Wilson, Roosevelt
High gym (public high title
series), 3:30.
Georgetown Prep vs. Gonzaga,
Gonzaga gym, 3"”).
St. John’s vs. Woodrow Wilson,
Wilson High gym, 3:30.
WEDNESDAY.
Basket Ball.
North Carolina State vs. Mary
land, Ritchie Coliseum, College
Park, Md„ 8:15.
St. Thomas vs. Catholic Uni
versity, Brookland gym, 8:15.
Johns Hopkins vs. American
University, American Unive-sity
gym, 8:15.
Episc jpal vs. Alumni, Alexan
dria, Va„ 3:30.
Landon vs. St. Albans, St.
Albans gym, 3:30.
Morgan vs. Howard University,
Howard gym, 8.
Montgomery-Blair vs. Gaithers
burg, Takoma Park Fire House,
3:30
THURSDAY.
Basket Ball.
George Washington vs. Geneva,
Beaver Falls, Pa.
Catholic University vs. University
of Baltimore, at Baltimore.
Boxing.
Miami vs. Catholic University,
Brookland gym, 8:15.
Wrestling.
Cliff Olson vs. John Katan, fea
ture match. Turner’s Arena, 8:30.
i-—
U. S. TENNIS BOOST
Star of 1931, With Health
Regained, Is Regarded
Davis Cup Timber.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 22
Blond Sidney B. Wood, jr.,
one of America’s best tennis
players for a half dozen years,
gave the 1937 Davis Cup prospects of
the United States a boo6t today by
announcing his return to competition.
Ready to start West, where he plans
to begin a comeback campaign by
practicing with Don Budge, the coun
try’s No. 1 player, Wood said he had
fully recovered his health and had
strengthened his finances so he could
devote plenty time to tennis.
Now at Top Weight.
UE PLAYED in only a few touma
ments last year after undergoing
an appendicitis operation in January.
In addition, he had been bothered by
stomach trouble for e couple years, he
said. After his elimination by Henry
Culley in an early round of the na
tional singles championship last Fall
Wood went to California, where he
has been working in gold and sulphur
mines.
Although handicapped somewhat by
his slender build—he weights only 143
pounds now, and says that’s heavier
than he ever has been—Wood is con
sidered one of America’s greatest ten
nis stylists. His brilliant shotmaking
earned him a place an the Davis Cup
squad in 1931, when England beat the
United States in the interzone final.
He also won the Wimbledon title that
year through the default of Frank X.
Shields in the final.
Only 25 years old now, Wood un
doubtedly will be welcomed back to
Davis Cup competition.
Files Wimbledon Entry.
‘‘^ATURALLY, I would like to play
on the Davis Cup team if they
want me.” he said.
Regardless of whether he makes the
team, he plans to compete in all the
major early tournaments and already
has sent his entry for the all-England
championships at Wimbledon.
Wood’s return assures the United
States of another top-fiight candidate
for a single berth. Budg. is almost
certain to get one place In the singles
and pair with Gene Mako in doubles.
Frankies Parker and Bryan (Bitsy)
Grant, second and third ranking stars,
likely will be Wood’s leading rivals for
the second spot.
TRACK CAMPAIGN
A. A. U., Prep School Games
Will Round Up Nation’s
Finest This Week.
Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 22.—The
indoor track season reaches
its climax this week as the
stars who have been scatter
ing broken records right and left for
the last few weeks and the future
record smashers come together in a
pair of meets in Madison Square
Garden.
The National A. A. U. champion
ships Saturday night will bring out
nearly all the aces who have been
competing in the big invitation meets
here and at Boston, including Glenn
Cunningham, winner of four 1-mile
fixtures ; Don Lash, 2-mile record
smasher; Syracuse Eddie O’Brien, who
lowered the indoor 500-yard standard
to 57.6 seconds at the New York A. C.
meet last Saturday, and George
Varoff, new pole vault record holder,
and Earle Meadows, who missed
equaling the mark by a quarter of
an inch when he cleared 14 feet 4H
Inches Saturday.
Schoolboys Have Inning.
AS a curtain raiser, the national
high and prep school champion
ships will be held in the afternoon
along with trial heats for some events
of the big meet. St. John’s of Dan
vers, Mass., is slated to defend its
prep team title against such strong
rivals as Hill and Mercersburg of
Pennsylvania, Lawrenceville and Ped
dle (N. J.), Shatteuk of Faribault.
Minn., and Tome of Maryland.
Brunswick, Me.; Atlantic City, N.
J., and Mount Pleasant of Sche
nectady, N. Y., are the outstanding
challengers for the high school title
held by Evander Childs of Uew York.
Thirteen of last year’s sixteen cham
pions are slated to defend their
A. A. U. titles with international
competition in at least three events.
Gene Venzke, defending the 1,500
meter crown, is expected to face the
hardest opposition. In addition to the
durable Cunningham, Lugui Beccaii
of Italy, Miklos Szabo of Hungary
and Archie San Romani of Emporia,
Kans., all finalists in the Olympic 1,500
.last year, are entered.
Lash Shifts to Mile.
J LK.KWISE Lash, after being clocked
In 8:58 and 9:01.6, the two fastest
times ever recorded by an American,
in successive two-mile races, has
shifted to the shorter event. Tommy
Deckard, Lash’s Indiana teammate,
who ran him a good second last week,
will run against Champion Joe Mc
Cluskey in the 3,000-meter steeple
chase.
Other champions who are to defend
their 1936 laurels are Sam Allen, 65
meter high hurdles; O’Brien, 600
meters; Norman Bright, 5,000 meters; i
Charles Eschenbach, 1,500-meter 1
walk; Eddie Burke, high jump; Sammy j
Richardson of Toronto, broad jump;
Dimmy Zaitz, shotput; Irving Fol
wartshny, 35-pound weight throw;
Manhattan, College, 1,600 and 2,900
meter relays; New York University,
1,000-meter medley relay.
The sprint and 1,000-meter events
will be wide-open scrambles for un
defended titles, while Varoff, Mead
ows, apan’s Sueo Oye and Lloyd
Seibert of North Central College (111.)
are leading candidates for the vacant
pole vault crown.
PURDUE, MICHIGAN
AT BASKET CRISIS
Loaer in Tonight’s Contest Will
Drop Vital Ground in Big
Ten Title Struggle.
B7 the Associated Prese.
/CHICAGO. February 22.—Purdue’s
powerful Boilermakers or the
scrappy Michigan Wolverines will be
dropped practically out of the cham
pionship running tonight as the furi
ously contested Big Ten basket ball
title hits the homestretch.
The Michigan-Purdue battle, at Ann
Arbor, tops a four-game schedule In
volving all leading contenders. Michi
gan has won six games and lost two,
as has Minesota, which engages Iowa
at Minneapolis. Illinois, tied and at
seven wins and two defeats with Pur
due, takes on Wisconsin on the mini
home court before another of the nu
merous sell-out crowds that have
marked the Illinois cage season. The
other contest is between Ohio State
and Northwestern.
The standings:
W. V T.P. OP.
Purdue _2 g
Illinois _ 7 2 327 305
Minnesota_2 S sZ7 2?Z
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Indiana 8 ? 382
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LINDSTROM RELEASED
Dodgers’ New Bose Unable to Fit
Former Star Into Flans.
NEW YORK, February 22 OP).—
The Brooklyn Dodgers handed Freddie
Lindstrom his unconditional release
today, cutting off his hopes of a
comeback after retiring voluntarily
last season.
The 31-year-old outfielder, once a
star third sacker for the Giants, was
signed as a free agent last season
after he was cast loose by the Chicago
Cubs. He played only a few games
before a leg Injury forced him to the.
bench and he retired In May.
The Dodgers’ new manager. Bur
leigh Grimes, could not fit Lindy into
his plans.
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“Happiness Boys99 Are Question Marks.
<This it the fifth of a teriet speculating on American League
clubt at the tquadt prepare for Spring training.)
NOBODY ns looking for the White Box tQ create much of a dis
turbance last season, but, with a hlp-hip-hooray, the Happiness
Boys, as Jimmy Dykes likes to call them, closed with a rush and
grabbed show money.
Even if the Sox do not look the part of flrst-divisionites again, they
must be considered as such oft their 1936 showing. In Vernon Kennedy
the Chicagoans came up with one of the best pitchers in the league Luke
Appling, the 1936 batting champion, was the best shortstop. Zeke Bonura.
for whom everybody felt sorry as a fielder, fooled all by being the best
defensive first baseman, according to the loose Jaws of official averages. Ray
Radclifte did a great Job in left field.
For all of this the Sox and Dykes <
face their problems in Spring train
ing. which, incidentally, will be com
mitted at Pasadena. Calif.
They do not aeem to be a club
pointed upward, for the moat part.
After Kennedy the rest of tho
pitching staff runs to the medi
ocre side.
The catching department is run by
the aging Luke Sewell, and his as
sistants are nothing to rave over.
4 • •
Dykes is trying to find somebody who
can run him off third base, and in
the outfield most of the power seems
to be concentrated in Radcllff.
Rosenthal Is Great Fielder.
CTEVE MESNER, who batted .344
^ for Los Angeles last year, seems
to be Dykes’ chief rival for the third
base Job. That .844 Is a lot of bat
ting average, but it still was not com
piled against major league pitching.
Meaner, then, must be considered as
a question mark.
Bonura, whom the Sox have been
trying to trade for two years, seems
destined to hold down first base
again. Tony Piet and Jackie Hayes
probably will alternate at second base,
and Appling, of course, will be at
short. This will leave either Dyke*
or Meaner at third.
Of the outfielders, Radcllff
has the only clear claim to a
regular Job.
Mike Kreevich and Mule Haas are
the l—candidates for the right
field Job, and in Larry Rosenthal the
Sox have one of the best looking de
fensive outfielders in the league aa a
potential regular center fielder.
Two rookies, Henry Steinbaeher
from 8t. Paul of the American Asso
ciation and Tom McBride of Long
view of the Texas League, are the
Big Sports Job Awaits Farley If He Quits Politics
Madison Square Garden Beckons Jim—Harnett Shooting for Schalk’s Catching Record.
BY SCOTTY BESTON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, February 22.—
Jim Farley can come back
to the sports world when
he finishes his fabulous
political career . . . Walker Wear
of the New York State Athletic
Commission Is quoted as saying
Farley has been approached about
taking over the managing direc
torship of Madison Square Gar
den . . . When the directors of
Soldier Field asked 25 per cent of
the Braddock-Lewls gate for rent
ing the stadium. Manager Joe
Gould said calmly, "Maybe I’ve got
this wrong. Is Soldier Field fight
ing? Or Is it Louis and Brad
dock? . . . Gabby Hartnett wants
to break Ray Schalk's total game
mark before he quits . . . Schalk
•aught U66 games, and When
Gabby spreads behind the plate
opening day, he’ll be working his
1,588th game.
‘‘Smiling Mickey” Welsh, 79
years, hobbles around the Polo
Grounds these days mumbling
about modem holdouts . . . Him
self a pitcher with the old Giants,
he likes to tell about how John
Clarkson of the Cubs once won 53
and lost 13, and was sold right
after that for $10,000.
There’s a clause in the St. Louis
Browns’ contract with the Ball
estate saying they have to pay
$100 a game extra for Sports
mans Park for every world series
game they play there . . . This
should go down as the height of
caution.
Bill Harris of Buffalo, purchased
by the Boston Boss, pitched two
no-hit, no-nn gamse to (be j
International Leagues games last
year . . . The "Kids” and the
"Kubs” are St. Petersburg’s two
mast Interesting ball teams pend
ing the arrival of the Bees and
Yankees ... Hie average age of
the players on both the "Kids’
and "Kubs” is 82.
Correction: Sam Snead, the West
Virginia golfer, wants it known
that he isn’t pooling his Winter
winnings with Leo Walper as this
corner reported the other day.
They’re just traveling together . ..
“I have won $2,945 and it’s-all in
my bank account,” he says .. .
Ken Loeffler, Yale’s basket ball
coach, got all excited the other
afternoon discussing the sone de
fense ... He explained it at great
length, and when he finished
asked, "Are there any questions?”
, , , ctacked lira Kemp's hor
Larry, “Yeah, coach, how much
do you get for a lecture like that?”
Harry stuhldreher la the most
energetic coach In the big time...
the little Wisconsin mentor, whose
team didn’t win a major game
last year, has made more than 17B
speeches since the eloae of the foot
ball season, and to hew Wisconsin
men talk you’d think he won the
Rose Bowl game ...
We think we see H. O. Sal
singer’s hand in the move that
brought Hunk Anderson to Michi
gan ,. . somebody deserves a
handshake cm that one . . . “D»
Hunk” is easily one of the best
line ooaches in the business. ..
We like Paul Kearney’s crack
about bowling . .. says be: “X like
it because It’s civilised man's last
cbancs to make a heQuva racket
without scatafttDC to ft
other outfielders on the roster. I
Steinbaeher batted .356 for St. Paul
last season and McBride clouted at a
.312 pace for Longview.
Some Notre Dame Names.
'T'HE weak-hltting Mervyn Shea,
who has been Sewell’s chief un
derstudy for the last couple years,
this season will have to battle it out
with a trio of young catchers and a
veteran from the minors. George
Rensa from the Texas League Is the
veteran, while the rookies sound like
the tackles of a Notre Name foot ball
team.
They are Ken Sylvestri, Ed
Skoronski and Norman Schlue
ter. The Skoronski boy is fresh
off the campus of Purdue.
Sharing the starting slab roles with
Kennedy are likely to be Ted Lyons,
wno won 10 and lo6t 13 last year;
Johnny Whitehead, the Buck New
som of the staff, and Monty Stratton,
who was out mo6t of 1936 due to ill-*
ness.
Heading the second flight of hurl
erg will be Thornton Lee, procured
from Cleveland in the Whitehill-Sal
veson-Lee deal; BUI Dietrich, former
National pitcher; Italo Chelini and
Sugar Cain.
Outsiders are Duncan Rigney, a St.
Paul rookie; Vernon Wilshere, for
merly of the A’s, and Prank Rapish
and Gale Wolfe, fugitives from the
Omaha club.
On paper the Sox don’t appear to
be first-division contenders, but, for
that matter, neither did the Happi
ness Roys look that way last year.
The fact remains that they
got there and in the process
whipped the Nationals in 16 of
21 games.
Maybe then la something in be
ing happy.
REDS START SOUTH
WITH MINOR FLOCK
Six From Bisbee Farm, Four From
Eastern Loops to Report at
Tampa Camp.
B» tbs Associated Press.
/CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 22.—
The Cincinnati Red’s hegira to
training quarters got under way today,
although the main squad faced luggage
packing and a base ball dinner before
heading south to Tampa.
An initial roster of 46 players loomed
with word that two team scouts were
en route from the West Coast with six
fledglings from the Reds* Bisbee farm
and that four more Eastern minor
leaguers would follow.
Among the latter is Gene Handley,
brother of young Lee Handley, former
utility fielder for the Reds, whom
Commissioner Kehesaw M. Landis
ruled a free agent last December.
Another “comer,” Arnold Moeer, an
Infioider with the Durham, N. C.,
team, also is to report, officials said.
Dr. Richard J. Rohde, Reds’ phy
sician and trainer, beaded toward
Tampa today to take ears of praliml
NAVY TOSSERS TURN
TO SPRING ACTIVITY
—
Base Ball Will Claim Biggest
Portion of Basket Team.
Ingram After Record.
Special Dispatch to The Star
\ NNAPOLIS. Md„ February 22 —
Members of the Navy basket ball
team, which won from the Army here
Saturday, shortly will take up different
Spring branches of sport, at least
three teams receiving additions from
the squad.
The largest group will go to the base
ball squad. It includes Bob Ruge,
basket ball captain and forward, who
was kept out of both base ball and
basket ball last year through injury;
Bill Ingram, guard, and Allan Mc
Farland, forward.
Frank Lynch, the towering center,
will toss the shot„for the field and
track team, and Bob Laney, who played
guard all but a few seconds of the
game, will join the crew squad.
Frank Shamer and Gene Gillette, the
others classed as first string, have not
decided as yet to Join any Spring sport
squad.
Of those who played for the Navy
Saturday, the squad will lose by the
graduating of the next class Capt.
Bob Ruge, Frank Shadier and Charley
Putnam. The latter played guard
only 15 seconds yesterday.
Though Ingram and Putnam played
only 15 seconds, both will receive the
"N-star.” the mo6t coveted of Naval
Academy athletic insignia, given only
to those who take part in a victory
over the Army in some line.
It was Bill Ingram’s third "N-star,”
and he has four more chances to equal
or better the record number of five
held by Buzz Borries. Ingram in reg
ular course will play against the Army
in two more base ball games, and one
each of foot ball and basket ball.
OLD URGE HITS TINKER
Health Recovered, Joe Wants Job
as Base Ball Manager.
ORLANDO, Fla., February 22 (A").—
Joe Tinker, base ball immortal of an
other day, wants to get diamond dust
under his feet again.
For 20 years he’s been alternating
between the game and real estate. In
December a serious illness nearly took
him out. Doctors said he could not
get well.
But the hero of the Tinker-to
Evers-to-Chance combination is up
and about again and asking Maurice
L Bloch, president of the Southeast
ern League, to keep an eye open for
the manager’s post on “some small
club.”
Since leaving the hospital Joe has
been helping to manage a group of
ambitious sandiotters.
BASKET DEADLINE NEAR
Little more than two days remain
for the city’s amateur basket ball
teams to enter the annual A. A. U.
tournament, the deadline being mid
night Wednesday. The competition
begins a week from today, at the
Heurtch gymnasium.
Entries should be taken to tourna
ment officials at the Washington
Boys’ Club, at 230 C street. Blanks
for enrolling teams are available at
the dub, Heurlch's gymnasium. Com
munity Center gyms and the sports
department of the Washington Poet.
DISTRICT BOOTERS
IN NATIONAL EVENT!
Eight Capital Teams Expected to
Compete in Junior Cup Play
Next Month.
Washington is expected to have at
least eight entries in the national
junior soccer cup competition, con
ducted by the United States Foot Ball
Association, it was said today by Rich
ard S. Tennyson, assistant supervisor
of the Municipal Playground Depart
ment and secretary of the Southeast
ern Soccer Association, who will direct
local play. *
Entries for the local series must be
received by Tennyson by Friday at
5 p.m. at room 313. District Building, j
and all players must be registered
there by March 1. Boys who have
not reached their nineteenth birthday
by March 1 are eligible to compete.
Hie competition is open to private,
junior high and high schools, play
grounds and independent teams.
Teams considered sure to enter are
Park View, Rosedale, Sherwood, Vir
ginia Avenue, St. Albans and Landon.
Entries may be made by telephone.
Call National 6000, branch 192.
EARLY BREWER PACE
LICKS KINGSTON FIVE
Eleventh Sunday Win in Row Is
Scored by Heurich Tossers
in 43-33 Tussle.
\ FAST start sent the Heurich
Brewers on their way toward
their eleventh straight Sunday victory
at home when they outclassed Rusty
Saunders, Carl Husta & Co., known
as the Kingston Colonels of the Amer
ican League yesterday, 43-33.
Before the Colonels could score, the
Brewers had 9 points, and after the
visitors had pocketed a free toss, the
home crowd chalked up 5 more for
a 14-1 lead before the game was 10
minutes old. Such an advantage
proved helpful for the Colonels put
on their one sustained drive to narrow
the gap to 4 points at the half.
Husta looked more like the Palace
pro of old than did Saunders. While
the latter was being held to two field
goals, Husta sank five.
More competition was produced in
the wind-up game of the day in which
Sterling tied up its series with the
Rinaldi Tailors for the Heurich Cup
by winning, 34-33, on a last-second
shot by Jimmy Howell.
Heurich. GF.Pts Kingston. GFPts
Wilson.f_6 111 Koehler.f— 0 0 0
Leemans.f_3 17 Brown f-0 0 0
Wegner c 2 2 6 Macy.f -— 1 0 2
Bennle.g__- 7 014 Saunders.f-- 2 2 6
Zahn.g 2 1 6 Hearn.c-10 2
Husta.g_6 0 10
Rabin.g_6 3 13
Totals_18 6 43 Totals-14 6 33
Pro Hockey
By the Associated Press.
National League.
Boston, 2; Montreal Canadiens. 2.
New York Americans, 3; Toronto, 1.
Detroit, 6; Chicago, 0.
International• American League.
Syracuse, 7; Cleveland, 3.
Pittsburgh, 3; New Haven. 1.
Providence, 5; Philadelphia, 1.
American Association.
8t. Paul, 3; Kansas City, 1.
8t. Louis, 6; Wichita, 1.
PIPES BELL-CLEAR
Orator Johnston Is Paled by
Challenge of Max to
Talking Joust.
BY JOHN LARDNER.
NEW YORK, February 22.—You
can’t keep a good man down—
but you can't keep Max Baer
down, either.
Mr. Baer’s brass throat has been
fairly silent for the last year or so,
and his fighting lungs have floated
at half mast, but the moment Max
returned to fast company this week,
to prepare for his fight with Running
Bob Pastor, those famous tonsils began
to churn again with the old-time
speed and power.
They seem to be as good as ever,
those tonsils. Inactivity has not af
fected them. Indeed, there is evi
dence that Mr. Baer has been work
ing them out in secret, with the idea
of regaining his title as the fastest
and mo6t durable conversationalist in
the fight game.
“Look at those vocal organs,” said
Mr. Baer proudly, pointing down into
the depths of his celebrated maw.
“Not an ounce of fat on them, is
there? And the pipes are better than
ever. Each note is pear-shaped, and
clear as a bell. I believe I could talk
six hours without feeling it. That s
the kind of shape I'm in. Bring on
that Jimmy Johnston!”
Mr. Johnston, the matchmaker,
frankly quailed at this challenge. A
grand ear-bender in his own right—
perhaps the strongest talker in the
world, pound for pound—Mr. John
ston has never been able to keep pace 1
with Baer in a free-style encounter,^
under the Queensberry rules.
Admits Max’s Superiority.
TIES got too much weight on me,'*
confesses Jimmy ruefully. "Talk
ing against him is like boxing a stone
wall.”
During Baer's absence in the hinter
lands Mr. Johnston enjoyed himself
no end. He usurped Maxie's lands and
titles. He flaunted the diadem and
outshouted every rival, including such 1
game and gifted tonsil-waggers as
Blunt Bill Brown. Joe Gould, Harry
Lenny, Gen. Phelan, Hymie Caplin
and Yussell the Muscle Jacobs. He
chewed each ear off cleanly and nailed
his trophies to the wall.
But Mr. Johnston's collection of
ears, though it represents years of
field work, exploration and plain hard
labor, never will rival Mr. Baer's. Mr.
Baer does not talk in spurts like Mr.
Johnston. He works steadily, with
the effect of a phonograph needle
or a riveting machine. Then, too. his ,
lungs were built for power. He is
a throwback to the good old days of
ear chewing, when the boys went
60 and 70 rounds instead of the
paltry 15 allowed them under the mod
ern code.
Max Is One Topic Talker.
TF JOHNSTON lias an edge on the
Livermore megaphone anywhere, it
is in range of subject material. No
matter what topic you mention—from
aerodynamics to the care and feed
ing of thoroughbred weasels—James
promptly will take the ball away from
you and start down the field with it.
He has been known to talk 11 hours,
with time out for tea, on the relative
merits of Duse and Bernhardt, his
point being that while Bernhardt could
punch with both hands, Duse was a
more stylish worker and a better An
ther.
But even this gift fails to give him
the advantage over Mr. Max Baer,
because Mr. Baer pays no attention
whatever to the other guy's subject of
conversation. When the subject is
beyond Max's ken he changes it.
The boy from Livermore is something
of a one-topic talker, his topic being
Max Baer and the different phases of
Max Baer, with special references to
the better phases.
Sought for Political Conventions.
CTUDENTS of the Decibel racket
^ long have been anxious to obtain
Max's services for a political con
vention, in the belief that he could
cut short the oration of the toughest
politician in the world simply by
sitting in the audience and talking
against the speaker. He wouldn't
have to talk loud. There is a steady
droning quality about Max's conver
sation that sooner or later kills off
every rhal effort.
Mr. Baer holds most of the modern
records for emptying a hall. Hu
backers boast that once he cleared
an auditorium of 1,500 people by
talking five minutes about his home
life.
But Maxie does not like 10 lose his
audience, and his best work has been
accomplished in small rooms with
one door, where he can supervise the
exit personally and usher fresh suck
ers Into the presence while checking
the outward flow with his strong right
arm. Sometimes he will have his
involuntary listeners jamming Uia
room to the ceiling and hanging from
the rafters, while he blocks off the
line of retreat. Strong men swoon
under these circumstances. It is
something like the black hole of'
Calcutta, only more so.
Max Hypnotizes ’Em.
V|R. BAER does not employ the old
^ lapel gambit, or waistcoat clutch,
which consists of grabbing your victim
by the coat while you talk. Max con
siders this unsporting, like potting a
sitting bird. But he does, from tima
to time, use the snake-and-bird, oi
ancient mariner, method, holding tha
party of the second part with a fixed
glare and eventually hypnotizing him.
Mr. James J. Johnston has been
known to dabble in all these system^
though experts believe that he gives
his best performance from an uprighl
position behind a desk, with a ac
complice guarding the exit.
Still, as I have said before. Me
Johnston is not in Mr. Baer's class at
an ear-bender.
It is amazing how Max has kepi
those tonsils in shape during his ab.
sence from cauliflower alley, withoui
(he insists) so much as bathing then
in champagne, a method of trainini
highly recommended by the author
ities. I guess the boy from Liver
more is just a natural athlete, when
It comes to brandishing that larynx