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Fta rr. New Idol of English Ring, in Line for Heavy Crown Shot
TITLE TILT IN D. S.
European Boxing Given New
Life When Tommy Shoved
Baer From Game.
BY JACK DEMPSEY.
DULL as it was. the Baer-Farr
f.ght proved one thing. Max
is all washed up, and the
best thing he can do is save
his money (he got *22,500 for his
waltz with the Welshman in England)
and turn to some other livelihood.
Pugilistically, he's as dead as a door
nail. He had his
last chance and
muffed it. In
previous columns
I pointed out
that while Baer
appeared in good
condition, only a
real fight would
prove w hether he
was actually
fighting fit. Now
it is apparent he
was not. Which
means either
Baer didn't train
Jack Dempsey.
as hard as he
might have or
else he just isn't there any more. But
either way, he's done.
Farr Due Chance in U. S.
MOW about Farr? Tommy will
A ’ come to America for a chance at
the title. What's more, he'll probably
fen it—in 1938.
By that time. I hope, the present
muddle will be cleared up. and Tommy
may be the best drawing card as a
challenger.
Farr seems somewhat like Owen
Moran, the great little English light
weight. Tommy isn't flashy, but 1s a
good plodder, game and strong enough
to fight through at an even pace.
His victory over Baer has been a
great stimulant to boxing in Europe,
.lust as a defeat would have been a
body blow to the sport in England.
I know Farr is eager to come here.
A few months ago my friend, Ted
Broadribb, Tommy's manager, wrote
asking me to try to arrange for Tom
to get in Braddock’s training camp
to act as sparring partner. Or, failing
that, to get in Louis’ camp.
Briton Is Ringwise.
*’T'M SURE,” Ted wrote, “Tommy
will give a good account of him
•elf and will help either man. I know
he can whip Ben Foord, the present
English champion.” This, of course,
was before Tommy beat Foord, thereby
bearing out Broadribb's boast.
I guess Broadribb remembered Jim
Jeffries was a sparring partner for
Jim Corbett when Jeff was trying to I
get up the fight ladder.
Although comparatively young—Farr |
Is only 23—he's had plenty experience. !
He's ringwise and is not dazed by 1
the ballyhooed exploits of any op- •
ponent. At least, he wasn't against
Baer.
I'm sure Broadribb will bring Farr
here to challenge the winner of the j
heavy title fight, if one is held in
September. Everything is “if” in
fighting now.
Tommy Rugged Fighter.
pNGLAND i* hailing Farr as a great
champion. It tends to magnify
his victory over Baer, a former world
champ.
Tommy deserved credit, at that.
He tried to make a real fight of it.
certainly he showed no fear of his
bigger foe and was more than willing
to lead. Farr also has a ruggedness
that has been lacking in most recent
English heavies.
At least it looked that way against
Max. I thought the broadcast was
poor. Our fight announcers do It
much better. Still, it may have been
no dull they couldn’t even make it
•ound good.
If Farr didn’t do anything else, he
pepped up pro boxing in Europe.
And he may also do a little pepping
up here in America. Darned if boxing
doesn't need a healthy shot in the
arm. I'm sick of the Baers and wolves
who infest the sport.
(Copyright. 183T.)
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Base Ball.
New York vs. Washington, Grif
fith Stadium. 3:15.
Maryland vs. Navy, Annapolis,
Md.. 4.
Georgetown Frosh vs. Maryland
Frosh, College Park. 4.
Devitt Prep vs. Washington-Lee
High. Ballston, 3:30.
Georgetown Prep vs. Eastern,
Eastern Stadium, 3:30.
Charlotte Hall vs. St. Albans, St.
Albans, 3:30.
Tennis.
Tech vs. Wilson, Rock Creek
courts (public high title series), 4.
Eastern vs. Western, Pierce Mill
Courts (public high title series), 4.
Ellsworth Vines-Fred Perry pro
fessional troupe, with George M.
Lott and Bruce Barnes, Ritchie
Coliseum, College Park, 8.
Friends vs. St. Albans, St. Albans
courts, 3.
Track.
Maryland vs. Virginia, Char
lottesville.
Maryland Frosh vs. Virginia
Frosh, Charlottesville.
THURSDAY.
Base Ball.
New York vs. Washington, Grif
fith Stadium, 3:15.
Tennis.
Georgetown vs. Guilford College,
Hilltop, 3.
Catawba College vs. American
■University, Nebraska and Massa
chusetts avenues, 3:15.
Wrestling, George Goverly v».
Laverne Baxter, feature match,
Turner's Arena, 8:30.
FRIDAY.
Base Ball.
New York vs. Washington, Grif
fith Stadium, 3:15.
George Washington vs. Western
Maryland, Westminster.
Wilson vs. Roosevelt, Roosevelt
Stadium (public high title series),
1:30.
Washington-Lee High vs. West
ern, Western Stadium, 3:30.
Tech vs. Georgetown Frosh, Hill
top, 3.30.
Mnntgomery-Biair High vs. Be
thesda-Chevy Chase, Garrett Park,
\ » 30' A
Woman Athlete to Change Sex
Sofia Smetkovna, aged 23, the woman javelin champion of
Poland, who recently announced she would undergo an opera
tion to change her sex. After the ordeal she expects to take a po
sition in a Warsaw bank. —Wide World Photo.
TANBARIt
3nd ’
^TURI=
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS. Jr.
IT PERHAPS is too late to get any
thing done about the situation
this season, but sooner or later
the new Washington Horse Show,
successor to the old National Capital
Association, should revise its apecifl
catlons for working hunter classes.
The introduction of working hunter
classes in big shows has brought lusty
cheers from this column in the past.
It unfortunately has not brought into
action quite as many real working
hunters as we had hoped, being tired
of watching the performances of |
horses that would faint dead away
at the thought of a good hard run
to hounds.
One reason the so-called working
hunter division has proved largely an
added divertissement for conforma
tion horses is that no barrier has
been raised to prevent the chesty
show pigeons from entering into
working classes also.
Ostensibly the purpose of the
special working hunter compe
titions is to encourage owner
riders to exhibit the homes they
actually use during hunting
season.
Not many owners, however, want
to bring their stout but battered
charges to a show, pay entry fees
and then run up against such horses
as the gilt-lined Whitney and Gug
genheim strings can present.
No judge in his right mind, no mat
ter how much he is cautioned to
overlook conformation and judge en
tries on suitability as a hunting horse,
way of going, etc., etc., can get away
from an inclination to prefer, let us
say, Red Tape or Grey Knight, to
some less beautiful animal that could
do twice the work and probably put
up twice as sweet a ride in the hunt
ing field when hounds were running.
Unless all the theorists are nuts,
conformation is directly and vastly
important to a hunter’s way of go
ing. A judge who believes that au
tomatically gives the conformation
horses an edge when they are entered
in working hunter classes.
'J'HE solution for that, as suggested
by some friends, is to keep the
conformation horses in their own di
vision. They have approximately a
score of classes in the present Wash
ington Horse Show prize list. Their
prize money runs over $1,030, while
the working hunter division, the only
place where an animal not especially
trained, fed, kept and designed for
show work can have a bit of fun, is
limited to five events. The actual
money offered is $225.
In addition there will be a
trophy preeented by The Eve
ning Star in the claae for ama
teur rider* and a sweepstakes
for all the horses.
Just why the Whitney horses, the
Guggenheim*, the Ellsworth Augustus
string and others of that expensive
ilk should have to interfere with the
normal and proper course of work
ing hunter classes, we do not see.
Working hunters should be confined
to their own division, conformation
horses to theirs. And just to go our
prompters one better, we would like
to urge the gentlemen of the Wash
ington Horse Show to specify that a
working hunter is one that has been
hunted at least six times by the owner
during the past season and to restrict
the riders to owners or to members of
a recognized hunt.
Then watch the entry lists
All up with real cross-country
horses.
The purpose of a show sponsored
and attended by the people of this
sector is not, after all, limited to the
spectacular demonstration of the
prowess of visiting show strings (no
matter how much pleasure they may,
and do, provide), but to encourage
local riding, to Interest new blood in
the show game and to let Washington
people see what their friends and
their horses can do.
OPEAKING of amateurs, you may
not believe it, but the Riding and
Hunt Club’s point-to-point race on
Sunday was a delightful affair, driving
rain, ankle-deep mud and all.
While the AeM was somewhat
reduced because of the b^
going, there was a real rare
between those that started and
a long, driving finish that had
the onlookers whooping with
excitement.
Harry Semmes, riding his own mare
Charm, cut out all the early pace, to
gether with Marshall Exnlcios on
Shiftless, but in the late stages of the
game that stout old horse Bolter,
owned and riden by Comdr. Justice
Lee, came on with a rush and chal
lenged Charm all the way down the
stretch run.
Shiftless, which was fairly well cooked
near the end, was passed by George T.
Walker, riding Dr. Fred Sanderson's
mare Royal Bettie. Fourth went to
Shiftless, and the other two starters
pulled up when their horses seemed to
__
Battered by Doyle to Give
England New Prestige in
Heavyweight Realm.
By the Associated Press.
ONDON, April 28—British
heavyweights, long the subject
of impolite laughter, are mov
ing back toward the traditions
of the British prize ring, much to the
delight of British fight fans and the
discomfiture of American enthusiasts.
Irish Jack Doyle's decisive victor*
over King Levinsky, the Chicago fish
monger, coming on top of Tommy
Farr's win over Max Baer, has given
British heavyweight boxing a prestige
not enjoyed since the halycon days
of the London prize ring rules.
The King, who met many American
heavyweights with more stuff than
he showed against Doyle, didn't have
a chance against the Irishman. Doyle,
a fair boxer, stayed away from Le
vinsky’s swings and cut up the King
fish at long range throughout 12
rounds.
Close to a Knockout.
J^OYLE, who was flattened by
Buddy Baer on an American tour,
claimed he would have knocked out
the American had he not broken a
knuckle in his right hand in the
second round. He had Levinsky close
to a knockout several times, but the
Chicago veteran always managed to
clinch and tie up his heavier opponent.
A crowd of 11,400, including an
other King, Farouk of Egypt, saw the
show.
Jock McAvoy won the British light
heavyweight championship by knock
ing out Eddie Phillips, the titleholder,
in the fourteenth round of the semi
final. and in a 10-round preliminary.
Small Montana, Filipino flyweight,
outpointed Pat Palmer.
have had enough of a battle with the
muddy footing.
At a party later in the Freres Farm
club house Mr. Semmes received pos
session for one year of the Dunboyne
Challenge Plate, presented by Mr.
Walker in honor of his good old hunter
Dunboyne, that fell dead while run
ning a grand race in the Redland
point to point on March 27. The sec
ond rider received a silver pitcher out
right and the third a hunting whip.
This year the Riding and Hunt Club
race was restricted entirely to mem
bers of the club, but we hope next
season to see it step forth into the
field with the other point to points,
expand perhaps into a couple of races
and become another landmark in the
revival of a great sport.
WEAK 111 TENNIS
TEAMDUETO WIN
Budge, Although Off Form,
Likely to Swing Match
With Japanese.
By the Associated Presi.
AN FRANCISCO, April 28.—The
United States Davis Cup team
should beat Japan in hone elimi
nations here this week end, but
probably is the weakest ever to rep
resent this country, George H. Hudson
said today.
He is the instructor at the Berkeley
Tennis Club, proving ground of such
past and present champions as Helen
Wills Moody, Anna Harper, Helen
Jacobs, J. Donald Budge and many
others.
After watching Davis Cuppers
Budge, Frankie Parker, Gene Mako
and Joe Hunt in practice, Hudson de
clared ‘‘there seems to be a weak spot
in every one of our representatives
this year.”
Hudson sees an American victory
through Budge winning his two singles
matches; Parker, probable No. 2 man,
taking his individual set-to and Budge
and Mako teaming up to take the dou
bles event for a 4-to-l wind-up of the
three-day competition.
Budge's Task Not Easy.
JJUT Budge “will be very fortunate to
win from Jiro Yamagishi, Japa
nese captain, as he is not up to his
1938 form,” Hudson said. “His fight
should carry him through, however.
Parker probably will lose to Yamagishi,
but should win handily from Pumlteru
Nakano, No. 2 on the Japanese team.
“Our chief worry, however, 1s not
so much in defeating Japan as our
chances of beating the winner of the
Australia-Mexico aone play. The
Australian team should come through
handily. It will be a tough hurdle
for any other nation in the world.”
Observers have noted a falling off
of Budge's game. The country's first
ranking player blames 14'2-ounce
rackets, an ounce lighter than those
to which he is accustomed. He has
been forced to use the lighter model
while awaiting a shipment of the
others, which are built to order.
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.
LONDON.—Jack Doyle. 218 (Ire
land). outpointed King Levinsky. 202
(Chicago): 12 rounds
NEW YORK.—Bernie (Schoolboy’
Pnedkin. 127 'Brooklyn!, outpointed
Henry Hook 123 (Indianapolis); 8.
NEW YORK.—Tony Rock 148*,
(Scranton. Pa.), won on technical
knockout over Eddie Carroll. 148
(Ottawa Canada). 3.
JERSEY CITY. N. J —Mike Belloise.
131 (New York), scored technical
knockout over Freddie Foran. 132
(Hartford. Conn.); 3.
WB*^TRBAM'
By Gcoroe e.ttUBCR
LREADY Oregon Inlet Is at
tracting its quota of Washing
ton anglers, Intent on getting
their first taste of real salt
water sport this season. The blues still
seem to be a bit alow about contribut
ing their share of the fun, but channel
bass catches are increasing daily.
Among the first to run down were
Fred Gosnell and Jack Jones of Ar
lington and I. O. Lord of Washington.
They were there for a week from the
middle of the month until last Thurs
day, but only went out the last three
days. They caught six bass altogether,
the best weighting 32 pounds. Others
up to 47 pounds have been caught.
Their guide, Sam Tiilett of
Wanchese, predicts that it will
be not later than May 3 that
blues shirt hitting in the right
fashion.
They had plenty of fun with the
bass. Gosnell tells us, and it was well
worth the trip. For lures they used
Record spoons No. 7 and feathers, best
luck being had with the spoons.
West Virginia Streams High.
J-JERE we were looking forward to
the West Virginia trout open
ing Saturday because such a late date
would give fly angler* a chance and
worms would not be so much in evi
dence, and then this big rain had to
come up It rained there just as hard
as it did here and as a consequence
some streams formerly 30 feet wide
now spread all over the place and are
muddy to boot.
The streams have gone down some,
but still are fairly high and somewhat
roily. Trout have been feeding these
past four or five days on worms
washed into the stream and they still
will be in the mood for that diet come
this week end.
The advantage a fly ha* over
a worm is that it ran be east
over anything within a SO or
60 foot radius.
A worm, on the other hand. 1s more
restricted. They will not stand a lot
of casting and have to be floated down
with the current. High water washes
them into streams and trout soon;
learn that rain and muddy water!
mean worms. We know an angler
who shovels a spadeful or so of dirt
Into the head of pools when out worm
ing Trout, thinking there has been
a storm upstream, get set for some
nice juicy garden hackles and he lets
them have it.
Tricks With Telescope Rod.
AT is only one of the many tricks
of the trade which you can pick
up a* you go along. There's always
something new to learn about trout
Ashing.* A Virginia angler who Ashes
all sorts of stream—wide and narrow,
open and those closed In by overhang
ing trees and bruah—now uses one of
those telescoping steel rods for every
thing. When there is plenty of room
for a long cast the rod Is open to its
full S feet. But when there isn't room
for a decent back cast he Just pushes
the rod down to 6 feet and Alclu it out
that way.
The roll east is another handy
Item to have in your reper
toire when trees surround you
and even a side east is out of
the question.
With a little practice you can add
3 or more feet to the length of your
line at each cast, and when you get
it down pat the Ay will Just flick over
and drop down gently with nary a
splash.
William Metcalf of Washington and
two guests landed 47 kingfeh and a
25-pound cobia while Ashing in the
Gulf of Mexico off Sarasota, Fla.,
recently. Numerous tarpon have be
gun to appear near there and Sara
sota is preparing for its eleventh an
nual international tarpon tournament
which will be staged there from May
15 to August 1.
The Falls Church Chapter of the
Izaak Walton League will meet to
morrow evening at 8 o'clock in the
Masonic Hall. Dr. Joseph Cox of the
Progress Planning Division of the
Agriculture Department and H. B.
Derr, Fairfax County agent for the
department, will be the speakers.
They will discuss co-operation be
tween farmers and sportsmen.
TERPS’ NINE AT NAVY
Maryland’s varsity and freshman
track engagements with Virginia at
Charlottesville today were postponed
until next Tuesday on account of trav
eling barriers and track conditions,
but the base ball game with Annap
olis will be staged at 4 o'clock, as
j scheduled.
Mat Matches
By the Associated Press.
WORCESTER Mass.—Tor Johnson.
385. Sweden, defeated George Sheldon.
240. Indianapolis, two straight falls
ALBANY N Y.—Gino Garibaldi.
221 St. Louis, defeated Joe Dusek.
Omaha. Nebr.. two out of three falls.
NEWARK. N. J—George Koverly.
217. California and Cliff Olsen. 215
Minnesota. drew (90-minute time
limit. >
SAN DIEGO. Calif—Vincent Lopez
220 Los Angeles drew with Hardy
Kruirkamp 215. Cleveland. <T.me limit
after one fall each *
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.—Everett Mar
shall. 222 La Junta Colo, defeated
Dorve Roche. 220. Decatur. 111. (One
fall Roche unable to continue *
MINNEAPOLIS. — Hans Kempfer.
Germany, defeated Abe Kashey. 205.
Si. Paul. 25:27
LINCOLN. Nebr.—John Pesek 10R.
threw Jack Donovan. 220. Boston,
two straight falls.
Asphalted Turns, Unlimited
Gas Supply Big Reasons,
Riokenbacker Avers.
By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 28—Eddie
Rtckenbacker, war ace and head
of the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way Cerp., predicted today the
500-mlle automobile race here May 31
would be the fastest In history.
He estimated 180,000 persons from
all parts of the Nation would view this
year's race, compared with last year's
record-breaking crowd of 168,000.
Lou Meyer, only three-time winner,
set a new' record of 109,069 miles an
hour in capturing last year’s grind.
Mental Hazards Removed.
J^ICKENBACKER said there were
three reasons why Meyer’s record
could be shattered.
"One of these is the elimination of
a mental hazard at the turns in the
way of resurfacing the track with
rock asphalt,” he pointed out. “The
drivers will be able to sweep through
these turns at lighting velocity and
know that their tires will take hold
without skidding before they hit tha
bricks at the straightaway.
"Another mental hazard which has
been cast into the discard is that of
fuel supply,” he continued. "In the
race this year there will be no limit on
the amount used, although economy is
to be encouraged in the way of a spe
cial prize among the winners.
"Souped” Fuel a Myth.
"'T'HE fact that commercial gasoline
will be used instead of the liquid
'dynamite’ is a great step in automo
bile racing. By experiment we have
found out that this ‘souped’ fuel was
really a myth. What it gained in one
direction it tore down in another and
was much harder on the engines of
the racing cars, In many cases causing
excess heat and a cracking up of the
parts as well.”
Rickenbacker said the drivers of
this generation are far superior to the
old-timers.
The driving of fast automobiles to
day is a real science and profession,”
he asserted. "The younger pilots have
had the benefit of teachings and
coaching of the old school. They have
profited by the mistakes of the past.1*
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