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Farr Fight Seen Set-Up for Baer : Marathon Vets Laugh Off Ages
MAX DUE TO WIN
IF IN GOOD SHAPE
Loss in London Ring Would
Show He Is "Washed Up,’'
Dempsey Opines.
BY JACK DEMPSEY.
TOMMY FARR, new heavy
weight champion of Great
Britain and the empire, must
show a lot more fighting than
he did in winning the title from Ben
Foord when he faces Max Baer
Thursday in Harringay Stadium.
Farr didn’t threaten spectators
with heart failure from excitement
in the Foord
bout, and If Baer
Is in any kind of
shape to go out
and fight at top
speed for a few
rounds, he ought
to win.
If Max doesn't,
then, in my book,
he's all washed
up.
That doesn't
Bound very flat
tering to Farr,
but let’s not kid
ourselves. Tom is , , _
. Jack Dcmpycy.
not a great fight
er. even though he’s the best in
Great Britain. Still, off his recent
fights, it wouldn’t take a great fighter
to beat Baer.
Good Chance for Baer.
"V/fAX is very much in the same
1 A set-up as Willie Lewis was years
ago when he toured Europe. Willie
was about done here, but in England
he knocked over one heavy after an
other. Not because he was so all
fired good, but because they were so
all-fired—well, let’s say awful.
Similarly. Baer apparently has seen i
his best days, but in England the !
opposition still isn't terrific. Of
course, Farr might "find” himself and
improve, but I doubt it.
Max is staying at a swanky London |
hotel, with a famous night club at- i
tached, and unless he did his training }
in the hot spot, he ought to be able to j
hit a healthy swipe w'ith his right.
If he’ll only go in there and start j
throwing punches, I can’t see how
he can fail to cop Farr with one.
Farr No Great Puncher.
'J'OMMY showed in the Foord fight
that he isn’t a paralyzing punch- j
er: and if Baer finds Farr can’t hurt [
him—or even convinces himself of this !
—Max will fight more aggressively and
confidently.
The opposite angle was Max’s un- |
doing against. Joe Louis. Max went in
there filled with wild ideas of Joe’s {
great punches and didn’t fight. Baer i
wa» too much concerned over what
Joe might do to him—no way for a
food fighter to be.
I’m always a little leary of "fouls”
When an American meets a Briton.
Their idea of “foul” fighting differs
from ours. They frown on infighting
and prefer stand-up style to the toe
tio-toe slugging that is so popular with
our fans.
A wallop to the stomach is likely to
look "low” to the ref. Especially If the |
Englishman drops to the floor and
registers pain. I’m not casting re
flections on English fighters or refs.
Max Must Land Early.
gTILL "fouls” have been claimed
and granted in the past where
Americans have landed blows to the
pit of the stomach. Believe me, those
punches hurt!
Baer must get over a convincer early
to win. By a knockout, that is. If Max
does any clowning and fooling around
he may find he’s lost his steam when
he tries to put over a haymaker.
Well, this Is Max's chance—his last.
He'd better make the most of it. I
only hope It Isn’t one of those bum
fights. But maybe I’m too optimistic.
(Copyright, 1037. Reproduction prohibited.)
SAM RICE, former Washington
outfielder, was in the first
squad that landed under fire
at Vera Cruz . . . Sam then
was pitching for the U. S. S. Rhode
Island’s nine ... Two of that squad
were killed . . . Co-passenger with
the University of Maryland boxers
recently on their air trip to the
National Intercollegiates was John
Charles Thomas, opera warbler.
There have been three Young
Corbetts in fistic history .
Johnny Herget, San Francisco
middleweight; William Roth well,
Denver heavyweight, and the cur
rent edition from Fresno, Calif.
. . . Maynard Daniels, former
District amateur heavyweight
champion, who has spent many
months under the tutelage of Kid
Sullivan, soon will turn pro . . .
Many hours of his training have
been devoted to footwork and
stanoe alone.
Teddy Loder, the New York
welterweight who gave Match
maker Goldie Aheam one of his
many headaches 6y running out
on a match here recently with
Werther Arcelli, now is pleading
forgiveness ... prompted, no doubt,
by the fact he has many fights
lined up in States affiliated with
the National Boxing Association,
Which suspended him.
Fred Britten, Representative from
Illinois, was welterweight champion
of the Pacific Coast long before he
over saw Illinois. ... He was a
member of the Olympic Club at the
Mime time as James J. Corbett. ...
When Gene Tunney first applied
for enlistment in the Marine Corps
he was turned down for flat feet.
Ad Wolgast, former world light
weight champion, started boxing
when he was 14 years old . . . and
was washed up at 22. . . . He
fought Battling Nelson and won
the title at 18. . . . Wolgast entered
the ring at 127 pounds and after
the 40-round bout he weighed only
117 pounds.
Contrasting that, Johnny Buff
and Bob Fitzsimmons, both world
champions, laced on the gloves for
the first time when they were 29
years old. . . . Harry Greb, the
middleweight who gave Gene
Tunney a few fits, served in the
United States Navy with the Grand
Fleet in European waters during
the World War. . . . Joe Lynch and
Mike O'Dowd served in the
trenches.... All three were world
champions.
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO.—Jimmy Garrison. 139*^.
Kansas City. Mo.. stopped Nick Torres.
KhiV Mexico City (4 i.
NEW YORK.—Salvy Saban, 147.
New York, outpointed Frankie Oevanna,
144'2 New York (Hi.
PLAINFIELD. N. J.—Vince Dundee.
185. Newark. N. J.. knocked out Willie
Murphy. Ifin. Syracuse. N. Y. t.3).
LOUISVILLE—Freddie Miller. I78'<i.
Cincinnati, outpointed Dominic Man
cini. 135 Pittsburgh (10).
SPRINGFIELD. 111.—Armanda Sicilia.
Springfield, and Jackie Wilson. Pitts
burgh. drew (7). (Weights unavail
able!.
DALLAS.—Buddy Scott. 188. Ada.
Okla , defeated Billy Hood. 188V4. At
lanta Ga. (10).
_ ROIiYOKE. Mass.—Nat Bor. 149.
River, outpointed Bobby Allen.
14.1. Boston (10).
RICHMOND. Va—Chief Baby Mil
ler. 13/. Richmond, knocked out Pete
Leone. 138 Akron Ohio (3).
NEW BEDFORD Maas—John La
sinski. Meriden, conn, knocked out
Nick Masters. New York (1). light
heavyweights^
Lancaster. p*—joe Fiocco. 152,
Philadelphia, outpointed Steve Kahley.
153. Hazelton. Pa. (8).
64 Remain in Tournament
for National Amateur
Championships.
FT the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 13.-Sixty-four
youths, the survivors of 226
hopeful entrants, will swing
tonight into the quarter finals
of the National Amateur Boxing
Championships.
Physical examinations lopped the
original list to 190, but the biggest
swath came during 126 bouts that
continued, one after another, for 11
hours of punch swapping, ending
early today.
Forty-one knockouts were scored,
with the East dominating the fighting
by sending 27 gloved warriors into
the quarter finals. Seven of Detroit's
eight-man squad were among the 20
Midwesterners who survived the open
ing rounds.
Also remaining in the running were
11 Far Westerners, 3 Southerners and
3 Hawaiians.
Flint F.ntrfes Eliminated.
pLINT, Mich., entries fared badly,
all eight going out in the first
trial round, four of them by knock
outs in the first round. The Indians
from Oklahoma likewise found the
going rough.
Hawaiians. who scored impressively
in last week's national junior com
petition at St. Louis, lost five of their
eight campaigners.
Philadelphia made a stellar showing
for the East, with six of its eight
men winning through the two total
rounds.
The 32 survivors of tonight's quarter
finals will mix in 16 semi-finals to
morrow night, and winners then will
step back into the ring to fight for
titles in the eight classes, ranging
from flyweight to heavyweight.
All titles are open, last year's win
ners having come into the professional
ranks or retired.
•-•
TRIS STILL IN DANGER
Famous Player Expected to Re
cover From Skull Fracture.
CLEVELAND, April 13 (/TY—Tris
Speaker, base ball immortal and for
mer manager of the Cleveland In
dians. who suffered a fractured skull
in a fall Sunday, remained in a criti
cal condition today at Lakeside Hos
pital.
"He isn’t out of the woods yet,”
said Dr. E. B. Castle. "I feel that he
will recover, but complications may
develop. His condition still is critical.”
The 49-vear-old outfielder, who
batted .344 in 21 years of major league
competition, fell 16 feet to a stone
walk while putting up a flower box
at his home and surgeons took 100
stitches in a wound that extended
from his left eye to his neck.
OLSON TAKES ON BARBER
Will Grapple in Semi-Final at
Thursday's Show.
Cliff Olson, who held a faint claim
to the world grappling title through
a freakish victory over Yvon Robert
here when Robert fractured his leg,
will square off with Hank Barber,
popular Jewish twister, in the semi
final to the La verne Baxter-Wee
Willie Davis feature match at Turner’s
Arena Thursday night.
In other preliminaries, Ted Key will
face Stanley Pinto, Bill Sledge will
tangle with Jim Coffleld and Mike
Mazurki will squirm with Marshall
Blackstock.
J
Lands Fewer Punches Than
Arcelli, but They Pack
Much More Power.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
PHIL PURR today tucked his
trunks in a Gladstone and
hopped a rattler to the Pacific
Coast, where he hopes to gain
national recognition at the expense
of the world’s outstanding welter
weights, but each click of the wheels
probably has the slim local fighter
asking himself just how one can ac
complish that little feat.
In plain language. Furr was robbed
last night at Turner's Arena as Mr.
Bob Eller and Frank Schuyler, judges,
apparently seeing much that escaped
the optics of the vast majority, swung
the decision to Werther Arcelli, Bos
ton Italian. Even Referee Eddie
La Fond’s vote for a draw seemed out
of harmony with the action unveiled
during the hectic 10-round bout.
Granting Phil was woefully out
classed at infighting, he nevertheless
handily offset Arcelli's ineffective
inside blows with stiff left hooks and
authoritative rights which twice stag
gered the veteran invader. Furr’s
handlers, believing the only manner
in which their charge could lose would
be by a knockout, instructed Phil to
“coast” after the eighth round.
More Steam in Furr’s Blows.
JT SEEMS, however, that the judges
focused their glimmers strictly on
infighting, apparently neglecting to
notice that Phil's punches packed
considerably more sleep potions. True,
Arcelli landed more often, but it was
•22 caliber stuff against hand
grenades.
ine aiars scoresneet showed Purr
winning seven rounds. Arcelli captur
ing the third and fourth cantos and
one session even. We'll trot out to see
an optician immediately.
Several veteran ringworms rated
the decision the worst ever handed
dow-n here. At any rate, dubious
decisions for this season have a
worthy precedent which might well
set the style for any unpopularity
contests in the future.
Purr set the pace from the outset
to take the first two rounds, winning
the second session anyway when
Arcelli clipped him in foul territory.
Werther retaliated in the next two
rounds, however, and had Phil hang
ing on from left hooks to the head.
Arcelli completely outsmarted Furr
| in the fourth frame, making Phillip
look very foolish as he pecked awTay
without results at the Italian's bobbing
head.
Phil Wins Next Five Rounds.
pROM then on. however, the scrap
strictly was Furr's. Phil shifted
to long range in the fifth round, effec
\ tively battering Arcelli with stinging
blows to the head to eclipse the
emphasis that was placed on Werther’s
inside socks. He took the sixth, sev
enth, eighth and ninth in much the
same manner, annoying Arcelli par
ticularly in the seventh, when the
trim Italian resembled a rank novice
in comparison with Phil'a smooth
maneuvering.
Despite losing the first two rounds
on fouls, Max Roesch, youthful Texas
heavyweight, earned the right to be
regarded as a more promising prospect
than Frankie Tymosko. easily whip
ping the Richmond lad in a six-round
semi-final argument.
Other bouts saw Killer Lamar, local
colored heavyweight, flatten Johnny
Dropharder of North Carolina after
2 minutes and 29 seconds of the first
round; Frankie De Angela, local
featherweight, whip Harry (Kid)
Groves of Baltimore and Mike O'Leary,
Baltimore lightweight, trounce Bob
Anderson of Leonardtown.
O'Leary and Anderson worked over
time, both flailing away after the bell
had terminated the four-rounder,
with Mike dishing out more than he
received. When he was awarded the
decision, O'Leary walked over to shake
hands with Bob and absorbed a sock
for his trouble. Seconds pried them
apart on each occasion.
A crowd of 1,549 spectators shelled
out $1,864 to witness the debates.
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.
Today a year ago—Gil Dobie,
Boston College foot ball coach,
suffered broken collar bone in
Spring practice.
Three years ago—Washington
defeated California in 3-mile var
sity crew race at Seattle.
Five years ago—Helen Wills
Moody, Helen Jacobs, Anna Har
per and Sarah Palfrey named to
United States Wightman Cup team.
Wherein the Tattooed Man Was an Also-Ran
This right aimed, at the head of Werther Arcelli wasn’t all Phil Furr missed at Turner’s
Arena last night, for no one could “see” him at the end of 10 heats, Judges Eller and Schuyler
voting for the Bostonian, while Referee LaFond adjudged it a draw. —Star Staff Photo.
Finish of Double Steal That Gave Nats Win Over Crackers
ATLANTA, April 13.—Here is Buddy Lewis, Senators’ third
baseman, on the scoring end of a tram theft in Washington’s
5-to-3 win over Atlanta’s Southern Association outfit here yes
terday. Buddy slid home safely in round three as Kuhel swiped
second in the inning initiated by a single by Chapman. Lewis
forced him and went to third when Joey smacked a safety. This
set the stage for the larceny. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Tony Tries Another Step
Along Comeback Road in
“Subway” Go Tonight.
Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 13—'Tony
Canzoneri, who once achieved
considerable fame as a "man
who came back,” tries an
other step along the comeback trail
via New York's "subway" fight circuit,
tonight against rugged Frankie Wal
lace of Cleveland.
The 10-round bout at the Broadway
Arena in Brooklyn is the last scrap
he has scheduled before meeting Lou
Ambers next month in an effort to
regain the lightweight title he lost
twice and regained once.
A veteran of the squared circle and
former holder of the featherweight
crown, Canzoneri held the lightweight
title from 1930 until he was beaten by
Barney Ross in 1933. After Ross out
grew' the class. Canzoneri again won
recognition as champion by beating
Ambers, the man who took it away
from him the second time last Sep
tember. He recently started his come
back by stopping Georg ie Levy in
seven rounds at Newark, N. J.
Balsamo Tries It, Too.
^NOTHER comeback is on the card
at the Hippodrome tomorrow
night when New York's "belting
brakeman," Harry Balsamo, attempts
to get back into the limelight at the
expense of Fred Apostoli, sensational
San Francisco middleweight. Bal
samo piled up a great string of knock
outs hereabouts until his career was
halted last Winter by Babe Risko, the
former champion. He's been working
his way back since then.
Apostoli. who compiled an impres
sive record on the West Coast, lost a
disputed decision to Ken Overlin,
whipped Solly Krieger, who knocked
out Balsamo after the Risko bout, and
stopped Butch Lynch of Plainfield,
N. J., in nine rounds.
College Sports
Base Ball.
Princeton, 3; Penn State. 1.
Davidson, 7; North Carolina, 6.
Wake Forest, 7; N. C. State, 6.
Hampden-Sydney, 20; Lynch
burg, 4.
Michigan, 16; Roanoke, 4.
Virginia Tech, 10; William and
Mary, 0.
Presbyterian, 3; Furman, 1.
Loyola, 9; Johns Hopkins, 5.
Citadel, 10; Clemson. 7.
Alabama, 15; L. S. U., 2.
Western Teachers, 9; Mon
mouth, 7.
Chicago, 2; Armour Tech, 1.
Tennis.
Florida, 6; Clemson, I.
Track.
Richmond, 112; Randolph-Ma
con, 14.
Champions in Great Field
for A. A. U. Meet That
Starts Tomorrow.
Bs the Associated Press.
HICAGO, April 13.—The senior
women's National A. A. U.
swimming and diving cham
pionships will get under way |
at the Lake Shore Athletic Club to
morrow night with championship finals
in two of the most popular events of
the meet—the 100-yard free style and
the 300-yard individual medley.
Claudia Eckert of Chicago will de
fend her 100-yard free-style title
against a field which numbers such
stars as Katherine Rawls of Miami
Beach, Olive McKean Muscha of
Seattle, Halena Tomskl, the young De
troit spieedster, and Patricia Mc
Whorter of Newark. N. J.
Miss Rawls, who set a new American
record in winning the event last year,
will be favored to repeat in the medley,
in which each contestant swims 100
yards backstroke, 100 yards breast
stroke and 100 yards free style. She is
expected to be hard pressed, however,
by her teammate, Virginia Hopkins,
and other stars. Including Pattie Tay
lor of Columbus, Ohio, and Doris
Brennan of Providenoe, R.. X.
The meet, which has drawn 100 en
tries, will be concluded Saturday night.
RANGERS GRABBING
FOR HOCKEY TROPHY
Can Gain Stanley Cup by Scoring
Over Badly Battered Bed
Wings Tonight.
Ey the Associated Press.
J^ETROIT, April 13—The New
York Rangers reached out today
for the Stanley Cup, hockey’s supreme
trophy, now held by the battered De
troit Red Wings.
A victory tonight for the Rangers
in the fourth game of the series will
give them the cup. A Detroit victory
will push the series to five games, the
final to be played Thursday.
The latest Red Winw setback is a
knee injury suffered by Ebble Good
fellow, their No. 1 defense man. Good
fellow Twisted his left knee Sunday
when the Rangers won their second
game and Norm Smith, his star goalie,
has missed several play-off games be
cause of an elbow Injury.
Doug Young, captain and defense
star, has been out several months, and
Larry Aurie, high scoring forward,
missed the play-offs, both having suf
fered leg fractures. Orville Roulston,
another defense man, also is out with
a leg fracture.
Manager Lester Patrick of the
Rangers said his team was close to full
strength, although two of his men,
Ott Heller and Alex Shibicky, are
playing after suffering brain concus
sion.
Patrick said last Pall he picked his
team of unproven youngsters and
aging stars to finish last In the Amer
ican League.
"But here we are," he said, "perhaps
with the Stanley Cup In our laps.”
RINGER LEAGUE MEETS
Metro Pitchers Will Plan for Sea
son at Parley Tonight.
Members of the Metropolitan Horse
shoe Singles League will meet tonight
at 8 o’clock at The Star sports de
partment to arrange details of the
season.
The league will be split into Classes
A and B. All pitchers who expect
to compete must be on hand tonight.
The Maryland State Horseshoe As
sociation will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday
at the new Town Hall at Brentwood.
Managers of teams entering the Mary
land State League especially are asked
to attend.
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SEVEN RACES DAILT
Special Penna. R. R. train leaves
Union Station 13:30 P.M.. direct to
track. Eastern 8taadard Time.
FIRST RACE AT 3:30 P.M.
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ODADTC* La Fond Is ‘Big Leaguer’
a^acoPE -ay
BY JOHN B. KELLER. j
EN—and gals—of the ring
side—and of the ring: I
give you Eddie La Pond, i
referee of the highest grade |
around box-fighting stuff in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Perhaps some of the other third
men in the ring may rate higher in
the estimations of the boxing com
mission here, but you can't make the
dyed-in-the-wool boxing bunch in the
District—and that goes for the gang
that sits in at Turner s Arena, as well
as the boys that push leather in the
ring—believe so.
With all due respect to the
other fellows that dance around
and tell ’em to break when the
going is too close, La Fond is
the tops here.
And you don't have to take our
word for it. Every out-of-town fighter
and his manager that has been here j
since boxing has been legalized in the
District says La Fond has the goods. |
And his greatest supporter is none
other than Max Waxman. general
manager of Jack Dempsey, Inc.
He's a Big Leaguer.
^tAXMAN gave La Pond the A
grade when he. Max. was here
two Summers ago. when Jack Demp
sey hooked up with the Shrine to
referee the Tony Canzoneri-Frankie
Klick fight. That night at Mr. Grif
fith’s ball park Eddie La Fond was
the third man in the ring in the
semi-final. He handled it to perfec
tion and Max said it was the best
piece of refereeing he had seen out
side of New York. And Dempsey
backed up Max's statement.
To make it unanimous. Charley
Rose, who looks after Canzoneri's in
terests in many events and who knows
the fight game from A to Z, said
I the same thing.
Ana rurtnermore. none mm
that time that on any occasion
he brought a fighter to Wash
ington, La Fond would be the
third man in the ring for him.
According to those ring-wise birds.
La Fond knows his stuff and knows
how to dish It out.
Work Pleasure to Watch.
JT WAS indeed a pleasure to watch
La Fond work the semi-final and
final last night at Turner’s Arena. He
went about his job in a thoroughgoing
way, never handicapping the princi
pals and annoying the spectators with
undue efforts at technique.
La Fond's handling of the two fights
was superb in every way. He knew
what to do at crucial moments in
the bouts and did what should have
been done in a smooth manner.
The District Boxing Commis
sion is indeed fortunate in hav
ing on its roster of referees such
a suave handier of bouts as La
Fond.
La Fond knows his boxing business
from the ground up. It was he who
introduced boxing at Catholic Uni
versity as far back as 1924 when, as
a lightweight, he captained the Car
dinals’ fistic squad. Before he left
school he grew up to become one of
the crack all-time guards of C. U. in
foot ball at 155 pounds.
And since graduation he has been
one of the most successful boxing
coaches in the colleges.
The District Boxing Commission
should indeed be proud it has among
its referees such a learned man in the
business of fist-flingtng as Eddie La
Fond.
-•
FALLS CHURCH MEETS.
All members of the Falls Church
A. C. are requested to attend a meet
ing Thursday at 8 p m. at the Northern
Methodist Church. The club will
hold base ball practice Saturday and
Sunday.
SEEKS SEMI-PRO GAMES.
Washington semi-pro ball clubs de
siring games with the Eastport team
of Annapolis should write to W. L.
Fowler, 20 Chesapeake avenue, Annap
olis.
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De Mar, Nearly 50, Kennedy,
Pushing 60, Still Keep
Among First Twenty.
BY BILL KING,
As&ocl&tec PTess Bporta Writer.
BOSTON, April 13.—Every sport
has its own iron man—Lou
Gehrig in base ball, Bill Tllden
in tennis, Walter Hagen in.
gQlf, Tommy Loughran in boxing, Ed
Lewis in wrestling—but only the
marathoning ranks produce utterly
durable men, such as Clarence De Max
and Bill Kennedy.
Back in 1912, when Jim Thorpe
won the Stockholm Olympics for
Uncle Sam and Charlie Brickley beat
Yale with his toe. these durable plod
ders ruled the Nation’s distance run
ners. A quarter century has passed.
They’re still going strong.
In fact both, De Mar almost 50 and
Kennedy crowding 60. have entered
the forty-first annual Boston A. A.
marathon April 19. It will be De Mar's
nineteenth start in that cruel uphill
downdale grind from Hopkinton to
Boston and the gray-thatched Port
Chester <N. Y.) bricklayer's twentieth.
Despite that, it's dollars to beer
caps they finish well up in the pack,
although they admit, somewhat sadly,
that the second 25 years are the hard
est in marathoning.
Teammate of Thorps.
DE MAR, who was Thorpe s team
mate the first of three times he
wore the U. S. Olympic shield, has won
the Boston race seven times, a mara
thon record that probably never will
be challenged anywhere in the worid.
He won for the first time in 1911 and
for the last time in 1930. In recent
years he has been content to be among
the first 20 finishers.
The Keene, N. H , schoolmaster,
father of five, including infant twins,
was at his peak during the golden days
of sports, when Babe Ruth was set
ting up his home run records, Jack
Dempsey was drawing million-dollar
gates, Bob Jones was emperor of golf
and Notre Dame was scaling the foot
ball peaks under the late Knut#
Rockne.
Eleven years after his first blue
ribbon triumph. De Mar started put
ting together his triple in this punish
ing event. He scored a double In
1927-28 and led the pack for the sev
enth time seven years ago.
It may be that those victories have
been so nourishing to De Mar that he
can keep on going when all other con
temporaries are nearing the wheel
chair stage, but it is not so in Ken
nedy’s case. Triumphs have been few
and far between in Bill's long career.
“Century” Mark.
J-JIS next time out will be his 100th
marathon start and he has fin
ished all but two of the races Just
10 years after his 1917 success, he
a maned and thrilled his admirers, for
he is second only to De Mar in the
hearts of the event's half million spec
tators, by placing third behind Clar
ence and Smiling Jimmy Henlgan. an
other beloved veteran, but on* with
many fewer service stnpes