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Both Knees Hurt, Bob Smith, Star Center, Likely Is Lost to Terps for Keeps
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From the
Press Box
Fearless Forecaster
Looks Over Grid
By JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—(N.A.N.A.).
—What to expect of the Nation's
leading football teams in 1939; Lard
ner's fearless gridiron forecast, with
which are combined Lardner's bird's
eye view, Lardner looks ahead,
Godey's Ladies’ Book, how to play
the mandolin and the London
bugle;
Alabama—Should have a good
team.
Amherst—Should be right up
there.
Appalachian State Teacher s—
Must be reckoned with.
Auburn—Who can tell?
Baylor—Cannot be overlooked.
Boston College—In there punch
ing.
Brown—Coming along.
California—Great climate.
Carnegie Tech—Sound.
Centenary—Very sound.
Chicago—Convenient location.
Chillicothe School of Business—
Never beaten before the last whistle
blows.
Dartmouth to Wear Green
Barring Late Change
Colgate—Never beaten before the
first whistle blows.
Colorado—Coach confident.
Columbia—Coach gloomy.
Cornell—Coach non-commital.
Daniel Baker—Coach all smiles.
May be reached care of general de
livery, Brownwood, Tex.
Dartmouth—Barring last - minute
ihift, will wear those green jerseys.
Detroit—Must be watched.
•Lmse—f ormerly r rinny college.
Fordham—Overlooks nothing.
Georgetown — Overlooks Potomac
River.
Georgia Tech—Unscored on to
date.
Gonzaga—Original site of Bing
Crosby.
Harvard—Been there a long while.
Holy Cross—Looking ahead.
L. S. U. Gifted in Qualms
But Shy in Tackles
Illinois—God's country.
Indiana—Means business.
Iowa—Has no qualms.
Louisiana State—Has qualms, but
Bo tackles.
Marquette—Right in Milwaukee.
Michigan—Great material, new
coach, adjoining bath, wooded hills, !
fresh air, hot water, trout stream, |
five minutes from depot, two
minutes from Yost, beautiful view, i
modern refrigerator; owner going
south for health, will part with at
a sacrifice. Address Box 102-X.
Milligan—Has good chance.
Millsaps—Has good chance, but
may muff it.
Minnesota—Big place.
Mississippi—If you study spell
ing, it's Just like pumpkin pie,
M-i-s, s-i-s, s-i-p-p-i.
Missouri—Cannot recommend. j
Moravian—Can recommend, but
fron’t.
Muskingum—D-d if will recom
mend.
Nebraska—Might be a good foot
ball team.
New York University—May be
heard from.
North Carolina—Has been heard
from, but message mislaid.
Notre Dame—Twenty-four-hour
service.
Ohio State—Never lost a father.
Oklahoma—Good food.
Oregon—On its way.
Army and Navy Rated Even
In Pointing Rivalry
Pennsylvania—Has the stuff.
Pittsburgh—Has the stuff. Tell
’em Bill sent you.
Princeton—Mighty pretty coun
try.
Pwrdue—On its way.
Rice—May be heard from.
Rutgers—May be heard from.
St. Mary’s—On its way.
sania (jiara—ureai spiru,.
Southern California—Great bunch
Of boys.
■Southern Methodist—Located in
Dallas.
Syracuse—Lots of laughs.
Texas—Never a dull moment.
Army—Pointing for Navy.
Navy—Pointing for Army.
Villanova—Great breeding, never
points.
Washington—May be heard from.
Yale—Original site of Rudy Vallee.
Youngstown—On its way.
Middle Atlantic Pros
Out to Prove Selves
As Golf Showmen
Middle Atlantic P. G. A. officials
are not going to be satisfied with
the usual run-of-the-mine tourna
ment in their annual open affair,
coming up at Columbia next week.
Like the national open, and a few
other major tourneys, the pro open
affair will have its own program, to
be sold at a price which the boys
hope will bring them in a little
cash.
They’ve hung out a lot of bait
for the amateurs in the form of a
flack of very attractive prizes;
the pros, and they’ll wind up with a
the pros, an dthey’ll wind up with a
dinner in honor of Fred McLeod,
which may attract several hundred
people.
Hiffh snot of the affair n/ill he
an exhibition match on the after
noon of October 5, in which Byron
Nelson, national open champ, and
Henry Picard, national P. G. A. king,
will play. They will be paired with
Fred McLeod, the North Berwick
Scotsman who is to be honored dur
ing the tourney, with the fourth
member of the match to be the
leader in the opening round of the
tourney.
The tournament proper will be
ever the 72-hole route, with 36 holes
to be played on each day October
6 and 6. Nelson and Picard will
not play in the championship, but
will appear only in the exhibition
match. That will make little dif
ference, however, to the golf nuts.
They probably will troop out sev
eral thousand strong to see the two
national champions, for there will
be no gate fee. The Columbia Club
doesn’t want that.
Meanwhile, club officials are mak
ing extensive plans for the handling
at the galleries during the exhl
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bition match and the tournament
itself. The affair will open with an
amateur-pro contest on October 4,
all the amateur partners of the pros
to be drawn from Columbia.
In a sense the coming tournament
is a test as to whether the Middle
Atlantic pros can put on a big
show themselves. For the last two
years the tourney virtually has been
subsidized. Sid Banks of Old Point
Comfort, Va„ put up $800 in 1937 and
$1,000 in 1938 for the affairs of those
years. He did not renew his bid this
year in behalf of the Chamberlain
course at Old Point, for the pros
themselves set forth to see whether
they couldn’t raise enough money to
make their tourney worthwhile.
They hired A1 Houghton as the pro
moter and designated Bob Barnett
as chairman. Between them they’ve
done a good job.
Strang of Cardinals
Sheds Appendix;
Hoyas Backed
Special Ti-ain to Carry
Rooters to Hilltop's
Opener With Temple
By LEWIS ATCHISON.
That all-America pest and triple
threat nuisance, “Old Debbil In
jury,” slipped into a Maryland uni
form today and began bowling over
lanky Frank Dobson's carefully laid
plans by aiming a telling blow at
the key position in the Terps’ line.
The jinx that joined the squad
last season and apparently refuses
to be dislodged has laid a clammy
finger on wiry Bob Smith, regular
center, on whom Dodson counted so
heavily this year and who has been
on the sidelines since last wreek
nursing an injured knee. Today
Dobson faced the gloomy prospect
of wading through another gruell
ing campaign without his crack
pivot man, for word has been
spread that Smith is through with
football for good.
Smith’s Chances Slim.
There is a slim possibility that
the tall, rangy youngster who made
such a favorable impression last
season will be able to take his
place in the line-up, but it is an
outside chance at best. Dobson ad
mitted as much today when he said
Smith's return would be akin to
finding money on the street — a
wholly unexpected pleasure.
Dobson has had too much ex
perience w-ith injured knees to gam
ble a boy s future against a few
football games. “The most impor
tant game in the world isn’t worth
the risk of serious personal in
jury,” he has said before and proved
his seriousness in the case of his
own boy, Jack, who held down a
wing on Army’s eleven last season.
Jack’s trouble was a floating carti
lage that seriously hampered his
work. An operation probably would
have enabled him to get around bet
ter, but Frank vetoed the idea.
Football—as much as he loved it
and as much as Jack wanted to play
—wasn’t worth it.
Roth Knm Vnw lamp
Smith suffered an injury to his
left knee in the waning weeks of
the ’38 campaign and this time he
injured the right joint, so Dobson ;
has just cause to be wary of using
him. Smith is getting every rea
sonable chance to play. He hasn't
been permitted to work since being
forced out of action, and will not
see service this week against Hamp
den-Sydney. If the knee responds
favorably he will get his first chance
against Western Maryland next week
under the arc lights at Baltimore,
and until then his activities will be
confined to exercises designed to
keep him physically fit.
Misfortune also rapped on “Dutch”
Bergman's door at Catholic Univer
sity as Gerry Strang, crack Cardi
nal end, was rushed to Providence
Hospital for an emergency appen
dectomy. Perfromed yesterday morn
ing, the operation was a complete
success, and at the hospital it was
said Strang will be able to leave in
about 10 days. His football playing,
and possibly boxing, is over for the
time being at least.
Gamecocks Primed for C. U.
Fod Cotton, line coach who
scouted South Carolina last week,
returned with pads of information
on the Gamecocks, all of which in
dicates Rex Enright is laying for
the Cardinals. Catholic U„ how
ever, figures to win its debut, and
probably will have its full strength
excepting Strang, of course, avail
able for the fray. The team will
depart for Columbia tomorrow night.
Jack Hagerty put his Georgetown
pupils through their perspiring paces
until dusk enveloped the Hilltop
last night in an effort to smooth
the wrinkles in their offensive work.
Hagerty is satisfied the team will
be hard to score on when it opens
against Temple Friday night at
Philadelphia but may have trouble
reaching pay dirt itself.
Hagerty has about decided to
abandon his spread plays for this
game and will rely on straight
power thrusts and passes, as he
has yet to find a back who satis
factorily can handle the tailback
position. It is on this one forma
tion, incidentally, that Joe Mellen
deck is missed most of all, because
his speed and triple-threat qualities
made him a most dangerous per
former. Georgetown will use the
iivnvtvi, a a J. UUJJ1C OUbtCCUd
in stopping orthodox plays.
Hoya Rooters to Attend.
A special train has been char
tered to transport Hoya supporters
and students to Philadelphia and
will depart from Union Station at
4 p.m. Friday. The university’s 60
piece band, cheering section and
cheer leaders will accompany the
team, and a heavy demand for tick
ets from alumni indicates a large
attendance by this group.
With still another week to apply
the finishing touches before their
own team’s curtain-raiser, Bill
Reinhart, George Washington field
general, and “Botchy” Koch, his as
sistant, will make the Philadelphia
trip to scout Georgetown. Hagerty's
men are fourth on the Colonials’
schedule, but Reinhart is pointing
for the Hilltoppers and will see them
play at every opportunity.
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FURIOUS FINISH—Billy Conn here is shown driving Melio Bet
tina into the ropes in the 15th round of his successful defense
of his light-heavyweight crown at Pittsburgh last night. Conn
came fast near the end. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Straight Off the Tee
By WALTER McCALLUM.
The initial skirmish in The Star
sponsored round-robin tourney for
the Federal match play golf cham
pionship is over, and out of it comes
the dark horse in the flve-month
long tournament as probably the
legitimate contender for the title for
which Uncle Sam's boys have been
playing since last April.
Swarthy Joe Balestri, the Beaver
Dam Club champion, has gathered
himself quite a bunch of par-busters
at the Government Printing Office.
Victors in section 2 of the regular
tourney, they won their way to the
round-robin playoff, and today they
hold the first victory, achieved at
Indian Spring over a scrappy Fed
eral Housing Administration outfit,
which won in section 1.
The Housing Administration boys
go up against another man-eating
team Thursday at Indian Spring
when they clash in the second match
of the series writh Interior, the vic
tors in section 3. Government Print
ing Office, which yesterday won the
initial match by 4 to 2, next Mon
day will meet the victor in the Fed
eral Housing-Interior contest.
Playing crack team match golf
the printers won a well-merited vic
tory. Top scorers among the two
teams were Bill Lawrence of G. P.
O. and Beverly Mason of F. H. A.,
both winding up with 77s, after tak
ing 6 to the last hole. The printers
won z points m each loursome,
while losing a single point. Here
are the summaries of the opening
skirmish: Joe Balestri and Bob
Elian, G. P. O., 2 points; Don
O’Brien and Pat Martino, P. H. A.,
1 point.
Bill Lawrence and A1 Schneider,
G. P. O., 2 points; Beverly Mason
and Roger Peed, P. H. A., 1 point.
Interior, which dropped only 3V4
points in a schedule which included
10 matches and 54 points to be won
or lost, looms as possibly the most
rugged outfit of them all. Thurs
day’s match will point the way to
the final round scheduled for next
Monday at Indian Spring.
Pros Warned of Possible Split.
Washington professional golfers
had .before them today a warning
from Bob Barnett, spark plug of the
pros around town, that unless they
get more co-operation from their
brother pros in Baltimore, the long
talked-of split with the pros from
the neighboring town may come
about. This would mean that the
local pros would form their own
organization and withdraw from
the Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
Bob's statement, delivered with
characteristic candor, came at a
luncheon meeting at Kenwood at
which final plans for the coming
Middle Atlantic P. G. A. tourna
ment were discussed. Bob made no
bones about what he said was lack
of co-operation from Baltimore,
adding that whereas the local pros
and A1 Houghton, tournament pro
moter, have raised around a thou
sand dollars for the tourney at
Columbia October 4, 5 and 6, the
Baltimore boys have contributed
about $30. Bob also said he had
initiated a move to draw funds
from the association treasury for
the tourney.
“We hope *to have 500 people at
that testimonial dinner to Fred Mc
Leod the evening of October 6,” said
Barnett. "We want to make it the
biggest thing of its kind ever held
here.”
Secretary William C. Barr of the
District Golf Association will handle
the scoring for the tourney, and
Houghton said that 33 amateurs
already have entered, to play for
special amateur prizes. But I think
the biggest thing in connection with
the tourney will be the appearance
of Byron Nelson and Henry Picard
the afternoon of October 5.
After the luncheon meeting the
boys played in a pro-pro best ball
and pro sweepstakes tourney in
which A1 Houghton, playing over his
old course, grabbed all the marbles.
A1 shot himself a neat and form
fitting 66, which happens to be 4
under par, to win the pro sweeps,1
and with Tony Slvester won the
pro-pro affair. Cliff Spencer and
A1 Jamison had 70s to split secondi
money and Spencer and Allan !
Burton had 68s to tie in the pro-pro
with George Diffenbaugh and Gene
Larkin.
Columbia Championship On.
Columbia golfers moved into the
final medal play day of their tourney
today, without any low scores at
which to shoot over the first day.
Page Cornwell led the fust Light
qualifiers with 79, the only man
to break 80. Bob Davis topped the
second flighters with 80; Hugh Mac
Kenzie and Dolph Elmore led in
the third flight with 32s and Comdr.
B.*N. Logan led in the fourth with
85. Match play in the tourney
will start tomorrow, to end with
the final round Saturday after
noon.
Helen Dettweiler will make an
other appearance at Manor tomor
row, following her exhibition at
Congressional, where she finished a i
mediocre round 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, which,
happens to be 2 under men's par 1
for that stretch. The finish proved
the deciding punch in a natch
in which Helen and Mrs. Bishop
P. Hill. Chevy Chase champion,'
licked Mrs. Betty P. Meckley and
Mrs. Myron Davy, Indian Spring
and Congressional titleholders, 1
up. Following the match Helen gave I
a shot-making exhibition. Mrs.
Meckley was the low scorer of the
quartet with 81.
At" PnllimKio Hffee Vahma.
Frost won a playoff for the medai
in the women's club championship
with a 92 to 94 for Mrs. William E.
Hall. Mrs. J. F. Gross, the new
champion, who also tied, did not
enter the playoff
Over at Washington C. J. Mack,
well-known hotel man, knocked his
fifth shot over the 18th green. The !
ball started rolling down the hill,
gathered speed and finally ended in
the cup, to the discomfiture of Ar
thur J. Hartnett and W. L. Fishwell.
Woodmont Women Hosts.
Feminirte golfers at Woodmont
were hosts to the women of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
and the Army Navy Country Club
in a tourney in which 50 took part.
Mrs. M. E. Barroll of Army Navy
won the visiting player gross award
with 94. Mrs. L. H. Hedrick of Army
Navy won the net prize with 96—
14—82, while the second net award
went to Mrs. H. Hagenbuckle of
Washington, with 97—14—83. Mrs.
M. J. Torlinski of Army Navy had
the most 4s, Mrs. Bufkin of Wash
ington the most 5s and Mrs. Phelps
Adams of Washington the most 6s.
Mrs. Milton Harris won the mem
bers’ gross prize with 99, with Mrs.
Theodore Peyser winning the net
ward at 102—14—88.
An entry of nearly 100 National
Press Club members is expected for
the annual tourney at Indian Spring
Thursday, in which the main prize
will be the George R. Holmes Memo
rial Trophy.
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Victorious Conn Fails
To Show He's Man
To Handle Louis
Dynamite Missing as He
Whips Bettina to Stay
Light-Heavy King
By GAYLE TALBOT,
AuocUted Prcu Sport* Writer.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26— Billy
Conn of this town still is light
heavyweight champion of the world,
victor over Melio Bettina of Beacon,
N. Y., in a savage 15-rounder last
night at Forbes Field.
Billy, however, still does not look
ready to fool with the elders of the
tribe, the heavyweights. Though
the decision of the two judges and
referee last night was unanimous,
the Associated Press score gave him
the victory by the narrow margin
of eight rounds to seven. •
Game as a fighting cock, the
handsome young Pittsburgher came
back after losing five of the first
six chapters to whale the ex-cham
pion all over the ring in the latter
stages. In the closing round, which
probably decided the issue, Billy
gave his swarthy, dumpy opponent
a furious beating.
Shows No Heavy Punch.
But Billy didn’t display that
heavyweight punch he's been trying
to acquire by swigging a quart of
grade A milk at every meal. A
score of times he tagged Bettina
right on the whiskers with his right,
but Melio never seemed near to
going down.
So Conn’s next opponent will be
Gus Lesnevich, another light-heavy.
In November. Before last night
Promoter Mike Jacobs had enter
tained a faint notion of having Billy
rest up completely for about six
months on Mike’s New Jersey estate
and see if he couldn’t take on 10
or 15 pounds.
Bettina might as well forget all
about trying to win that title back,
because he probably came as close
to doing it last night as he ever
will. In his slightly awkward way
he carried the fight to Conn prac
tically every minute. He fought
courageously and as hard as he
knew how.
But when the payoff came in the
last two rounds he didn't have quite
a champion's class. Conn stepped
around him and beat his ears off,
completely disregarding the des
perate left-hand clouts that Bet
tina threw. At the finish Melio
sported cuts around both eyes while
Conn had a gash on one eyebrow.
Conn, anxious to impress with his
punching prowess, made a better
fight of it than in their first meet
ing in July. He didn't skip around
: so much and use his flicking left
but stepped in and slugged when
he had his openings.
After the first six rounds he ap
peared the fine fighter he Is. Up
to that time Bettina had given him
a beating in close, just as he did
in July. His lefts began to lose
their steam, and from there on
Conn won every round except the
11th and 13th. Bettina was terribly
| tired at the end.
The fight set a new record for
! Pittsburgh, 17,532 fans paying $67,
892.30 to see the city's first 175
pound title bout. The previous mark
i was just over $57,000, set by Vince
Dundee and Teddy Yarosz in 1934.
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Three years ago — Argentina
won Cup of the Americas for first
j time, defeating Greentree, United
States Open polo champions, 8-4,
for second straight victory.
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH—Billy Conn. 171%.
light-heavyweight champion, of Pitts
burgh, outpointed Mello Bettina. 174 Vs.
Beacon. N Y. (15).
CHICAGO — Milt Aron. 148. Chicago,
knocked out Brescia Oarcla. 146. Dal
las. Tex. (.1).
OALVE8TON. Tex.—Johnny Stevens,
139. Cincinnati, stopped Chato Gon
sales. 135. Corpus Chrlatl. Tex. (2).
NEW ORLEANS.—Ervin Berller. 136.
New Orleans, outpointed Bill Cooper,
140. Phoenix (5).
NEW YORK.—Joey Fontana. 135.
Brooklyn, outpointed Bobby* (Poison)
Ivy. 129%. Hartford. Conn. (8).
BALTIMORE—BIU Boyd. 186. Bal
timore. Blocked out Joe Wagner. 181,
Newark. N. J. (7)
NEW ORLEANS.—Jimmy Perrin.
128%, New Orleans, outpointed Frankie
(Kid) Covelll, 127Vs. Brooklyn (10):
AUGUSTA. Ga.—Ben Brown. 180.
Atlanta, knocked out Frankie Allen. 156.
New Orleans (4).
NEWARK. N. J —Maxle Fisher. 133%.
Newark, outpointed Lou Fortune. 133.
Philadelphia (10).
TRENTON. N. J.—Tommy Spiegel.
135. Uniontown. Pa . outpointed Billy
Mima 138. Philadelphia (8).
SCRANTON. Pa—Hughey Glynn.
188. Ireland, and Mickey McAvoy, 203.
New York, drew (8).
HAZLETON Pa.—Jack Munley. 184.
Old Forge. Pa., technically knocked
out Tony Cisco. 182. Norristown. Pa.
(10)
NEW BEDFORD. Mass.—Salvatore
Bartolo, 128. Boston, outpointed Ginger
Ptoran. 128. England (lOi.
HOLYOKE. Mass.—Billy Hagen. 158.
Haverhill, Mass, outpointed Danny
Buckley 158, Holyoke (8)
PROVIDENCE R I—Tony Costa.
1243,. o 'tpointed Jimmy Gilligan. 126,
Buffalo. N. Y. (10).
Archibald Benefited
By Enforced Loaf,
Training Reveals
Feather Champion Looks
Fit Prepping for Jeffra
Title Bout Thursday
A two-week postponement of his
featherweight title bout with Harry
Jeffra, coming up Thursday night at
Griffith Stadium, apparently had no
eveil effect on Champion Joey
Archibald, that worthy revealed to
day as he prepared to step into the
ring at Turner’s Arena for another
training session. If anything, it
helped the midget mauler.
Three weeks ago in the days im
mediately before he suffered a
gashed eye which necessitated the
postponement, Archibald resembled
anything but a champion. His box- |
ing was dull and uninspired. He
was a cockerel with wet, bedraggled ;
feathers, who failed to impress
qualified observers. He admitted t®- ;
day he might not have looked so ,
hot then, but now it’s different. j;
All that was changed yesterday j
as the half-pint pugilist pummeled :;
hapless Johnny Marlnello througn
out four hectic rounds with the big :
gloves. Joey was eager for the fray j
and had a zip to his punches and
aggressiveness so glaringly absent in
earlier workouts. Particularly ef- I,
fective was his left, with which he
jabbed and hooked with unerring
accuracy and paralyzing potency.
Best described as a combination
dive-tackle-punch, the left sent
Marinello to the deck in round two ;
and had him hanging on again in
the third.
It was the same old Archibald yes
terday, the same strutting cherubic
slasher who fought his way up from
a preliminary bout at the Arena to
the title. “Bring on that Jeffra,”
his chesty manner seemed to say.
“Bring him on, and I'll drop him
right in your lap.”
So impressive was the champion
he brought a smile to the mournful, :
moonlike pan of Matchmaker Goldie
Ahearn, a worried, perspiration
drenched gentleman, who hasn't
laughed since contracts for the fight
were signed.
“He looks great.’’ beamed Herr
Ahearn. “He looks a hunnert
tousan’ times better dan he did dah
hist time. I feel so good I could
ciss A1 Weill, even. No, mebbe not
hat good, but I feel happy—he
ooks so great.”
Archibald was well protected by
m extra-heavy patch of adhesive
jver the damaged peeper. The
vound is completely healed, but
rrainer Charley Goldman is risk*
ng no further damage with the
ight so near at hand. Goldman
las Archie at his peak, and is con*
ident the Weill colors will be
loisted in victory Thursday night.
After the customary bag-punch
ng and rope-skipping, Goldman
sent his charge through a 10-minute
itretch of shadow boxing.
“That's a guarantee he’ll be
ight,” Charley explained. "It's bet
er to be a little stale from over
raining than undertraining, so thia
ong stretch without a rest is to
make sure he's ready for Jeflra’s
jig guns. If he’s overtrained and
lellra puts on an unexpected
spurt, Joey'll get his second wind
rom this stunt here and be able U)
mtfight him. If he was under
rained, he might get hoited. And
n a long fight like this he'll get bet
ter as he goes along, and that's im
portant, because the man carrying
he fight In the closing rounds
lsually wins.” *~
Jeffra Trains at Baltimore.
JefTra, meanwhile, is working at
Baltimore and will not come to
Washington until Thursday after*
poon, when the pair will be weighed
n at the Boxing Commission of
ices. *
Encouraging reports on ticket
sales emanate from the Arena of
ice, and Promoter Joe Turner fig
ires the fight will lure approxi
mately $15,000 worth of customers
hrough the turnstiles. Joe has hi$
ingers crossed hoping for a warm,
moonlight night and a genuine
'hampionship scrap.
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington vs. Philadelphia,
Griffith Stadium, 3:15. ^
Midget Auto Racing.
Capitol Speedway, New York
and West Virginia avenues, 8:30.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Washington vs. Philadelphia,
Griffith Stadium, 3:15. u
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