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L 5. U. Football Won’t Be Curtailed, but Luxuries Are Out, Says New Governor
From the
Press Box
Rosenbloom Bloomer
As Radio Comedian
Bv JOHN LARDNER.
8pf< iul Correspondent oi The Star.
NEW YORK. July 25 iN.AN A.L—
It's a sad thing for himself and his
country when an unconscious clown
becomes a conscious comedian. Take
the rase of Maxie Rosenbloom. for
merly an amateur screwball of good
quality, now one of radio's most
gruesome features.
Lightning should have struck the
tempter dead the day when some
body showed Maxie a blank check
and said "Boy, you're a scream. You
should be getting paid for this."
Mr. Rosenbloom believed what he
heard and straightaway became a
total loss to the entertainment
world. There may be worse come
dians at, large than Slapsie Maxie.
but who's got the time to look under
all those flat stones for proof?
What saddens the boys around
the barber shop of the Hotel Peter
Stuyvesant, in New York City,
where Maxie used to train for his
fights in the mornings, after a hard
night on the road, is the fact that
Mr. Rosenbloom was a pretty enter
taining character before he found
out that he was.
Maxie Wasn't Acting When
He Shone at Night Clubs
Anybody can act the part of a
night club fighter, but Maxie wasn't
acting in those days. He was the
champion of the world, and all the
preparation he needed for a title
bout was a shave, a trim, a mani
cure and "plenty of powder on the
kisser."
Mr. Rosenbloom would lurch into
the barber shop shortly before noon
of the day of the fight, corner his
favorite chair, and hold open forum
on pugilism and affiliated topics.
"Where was ya last night, Maxie,”
one of the boys would ask.
"We found a new jernt,” Mr. Ros
enbloom would reply enthusiastic
ally. "Keep that brush outta my
mouth! Over on the East Side.
They gotta real band. Kep' me
dancin' till 6. Easy over that ear,
Sam. Some gal clipped me with a
highball glass."
"How ya gonna do it tonight,
Maxie?"
“Oh, I'll lick him,” Mr. Rosen
bloom used to say, studying his
hand mirror. "Gimme a little more
powder there. But. it ain’t woith
bettin’ on. The odds is lousy.”
"Will ya knock him out. Maxie?”
-Knock him out?” Mr. Rosen
bloom. feeling better by now, would
burst into hearty laughter. "Who
ever hoid of me knockin' anybody
out? Quitcha kiddin’, Dave.”
Thought Himself an Artist
When He Went Hollywood
Pretty soon Maxie got a little too
slow on his feet to duck all the
punches that were thrown at him.
He began to think of greener pas
tures. But he still was an unspoiled
child of nature the last time he
discussed his future with your cor
respondent. He was going to Holly
wood. but not as a comedian. That
was before he knew he was a
comedian. Mr. Rosenbloom thought
of himself as an artist. He bought
a beret.
"I wanna get hooked up with
some form of art out there.” he
explained. "I do' know if I can act
good enough, but anyways I can
sing. I'll get me a job as a sing-ger
out there, some night spot. That'll
pay my freight while I'm studyin'
to paint.”
"Paint?”
"Yeah, I'm gonna do some paintin’.
I seen a guy, frenna mine, got some
water-color paints. It's a cinch if ya
got the gtff. Ya mix the paint with
the water. Then ya give it this and
this. If ya ain't got it, it’s lousy.
If ya got it, it's art, and I got it.”
Mr. Rosenbloom reflected a
moment.
It Was a Black Moment When
Max Was Called Funny
"I do’ know,” he said. “Even if
ya got it, it’s lousy. I do’ get no
wallop outta that. But I’ll sing,
anyways. I sing a lot in the night
spots around here—free, for nothin’
—and a guy, owns a jernt. says to
me. ‘Maxie, ya got it. When ya
quit fightin’, all’s ya gotta do for
a new racket is let out with them
pipes. Yer a sing-ger.’ He says I
gotta have some verce trainin’.
Then I'm ready.”
With his head full of dreams of
art, and the tout ensemble covered
with a beret. Mr. Rosenbloom pro
ceeded to Hollywood, and it was
there, in a black moment, that
somebody told him that he was
funny. It never occurred to Maxie
in the old days that he was funny.
He hasn’t been funny since.
I grant you that the boys around
the barber shop tune in on Maxie
faithfuify each time he commits his
crimes on the radio. They claim
he is better than Lew Lehr, and I
guess they are right, at that. But
what kind of an epitaph is that for
a guy who used to amount to some
thing?—better than Lew Lehr.
Arnold, Ace Grid
Official, Quits
Ted Arnold of Jacksonville,
Fla., one of the Nation's out
standing football officials, has
decided to quit tooting the whistle
and blowing the horn after 25
years of grid arbitrating.
Arnold, who is in Washington
on business, started officiating
just after he finished his educa
tion and football playing at
Auburn when he was 22 years
old. His job now is business
manager for the Duval County
School Board, which includes
Jacksonville.
Endowed with a fine per
sonality, quick and firm in his
decisions and thoroughly con
versant with the rules, Arnold
always was oversubscribed with
games.
"I've had enough of hot-footing
it around the country after 25
years of it,” he said.
Arnold finished in big-league
style, as he worked in the Sugar
Bowl game at New Orleans last
New Year Day in what has
turned out to be his farewell.
Net Form Secondary,
Says Coach Seeing
Parker Victory
Shot's Main Thing, Avers
Beasley; Prusoff Beats
Grant at Sea Bright
By the Associated Press.
SEA BRIGHT. N. J.. July 25.—
Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley likes
a fellow to look Rood making a!
shot, but he's the first to tell you;
the shot's the thing, and form,
strictly is secondary.
That's one reason Beasley is will
ing to step out and predict his
protege. Frank Parker of Pasa
dena—whose forehand fashions have
been a matter of tennis gossip for
years—will win another leg on the
big bowl that is the prize for the
Sea Bright invitation tennis tour
ney.
"If Frank keeps on playing as he
has been in this tournament no
body here is going to beat him,”
said Beasley.
His Opposition Tough.
If Beasley is right, Parker will
have to survive a field which in
its quarter-final stage includes Na
tional Champion Bobby Riggs, Chi
cago; El wood T. Cooke, Portland,
Oreg., runner-up in the all-Eng
land championship at Wimbledon
last year; Frank Kovacs, Oakland,
Calif.; Gardnar Mulloy, Coral Ga
bles, Fla,; Sidney B. Wood, jr.,
New York; Gilbert A. Hunt, jr.!
Washington, D. C.. and Henry Pru
soff, Seattle, Wash.
Parker, pressed to defeat Jack
Kramer in a three-rounder, was due
today to engage Kovacs, who yielded
four games yesterday in polishing
off Wilmer L. Allison, Austin, Tex.
Prusoff Upsets Grant.
Prusoff, in his second year of a
comeback after suffering a crushed
back in a 1936 elevator accident, was
Riggs’ foe. The powerful Seattle
slugger, who says he thinks he re
covered simply because of his desire
to play again, upset Bryan M. Grant,
jr.. Atlanta. Ga„ yesterday.
Other quarter-finals ’ will pair
Wood and Hunt and Cooke and
Mulloy.
Play in the women's singles
division, which saw Defending
Champion Helen Bernhard of New
York ousted by Mary Hardwick of
England yesterday, will be resumed
tomorrow with semifinal matches.
Hunt Favored Over Wood.
As a result of his 6—4, 8—6 con
quest of young Ted Schroeder, jr„
yesterday, Hunt was favored over
Wood, former Davis Cup star.
While Hunt was beating Schroeder
in a keen volleying duel. Wood was
eliminating Izzy Beilis, the youth
ful Philadelphian, who sprang a
surprise early in the week by whip
ping S. Welbv Van Horn, Wood
won, 6—3, 6—4.
Hayes of Chisox Facing
Operation on Cataract
Bv the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 25.—Eye trouble
that has bothered Jackie Hayes,
Chicago White Sox second baseman,
since the spring training camp pe
riod, has been diagnosed as a cat
aract of his right eye.
A specialist told‘Hayes nothing
could be done until the cataract
“ripened,” when an operation prob
ably would be advisable.
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Gives Book Learning
Top Spot in School
Reform Program
Jones Puts Ban on Mass
Student Trips, Other
Huey Long Stunts
By HARRIS JACKSON,
Associated Frees Sports Writer.
BATON ROUGE, La., July 25.—
The circuslike spectacle the late
Kingflsh Huey Long made of
Louisiana State football is taking
a back seat to book learning.
Newly-elected Gov. Sam Houston
Jones has served notice that his
promised reforms must extend to
the university gridiron as well as
to State affairs. Football won’t be
curtailed, he hastened to add, but
it will be de-emphasized.
“The State university exists for
something other than putting out
winning football teams,” he told the
new Board of Supervisors.
The supervisors knew already that
L. S. U. athletics had gone in the
red nearly $100,000 last season—this
added to a $113,462.80 deficit for the
year before.
Luxuries Are Eliminated.
All of this means, the authorities
made clear, that there won't be any
more cross-country football excur
sions for the student body at the
university’s expense.
Neither will there be holidays
for every major football victory, nor
blocks of free tickets for big-shot
politicians, nor trips in university
owned airplanes for football scouts.
These were some of the things
that Huey, first as Governor and
then as United States Senator, made
the great American sport mean at
L. S. U. before he was shot to death
at the State capitol.
The Kingflsh loved football and
! the fanfare that went with it. He
,loved to swagger up and down the
I sidelines to order the coaches around
and to hear thousands of students
roaring his name.
L. S. U. Called Country Club. |
His lavish program got a lot of
publicity. The university won two
Conference championships in a row
and landed Gaynell Tinsley, star
end, on the All-America team.
There were unfavorable reactions,
too. Critics called the university a
country club. A motion picture
satirized L. S. U. and Huey.
Academic noses often were raised at j
the news from the school on the
banks of the Mississippi.
Things came to a sudden head
last summer, when Dr. James Mon- ;
roe Smith, whom Huey made presi
dent, resigned and fled the State, j
He left behind a public scandal that j
spread until it unseated most of
the Kingfish's followers and sent1
Reform Candidate Jones into office.
Nats
^_(Continued From Page C-1.) j
ment. Dutch Leonard was to face
the Tigers here today in the finale
of the three-game series with De
troit, while Rene Monteagudo is
slated to open against the Indians
tomorrow at Cleveland.
Ken Chase will toil for the Nats
Saturday, with Sid Hudson and
Walter Masterson nominated to
labor in the double-header at Cleve
land's vast Municipal Stadium on
Sunday. The starters are accept
able, but Bucky rightly is concerned
over his limited relief corps, con
sisting of Alejandro Carrasquel and
Joe Krakauskas.
Hudson simply lacked his reper
toire of stuff here yesterday as the
Nats absorbed a 7-5 defeat. Sid was
slammed for home runs by Hank
Greenberg and Pinky Higgins and
when he left the game at the end
of three innings, the Tigers held a
7-0 lead.
Freddie Hutchinson, who started
for the Tigers and earned his first
victory for Detroit this season,
checked the Nats with three hits
in the first five innings, but Wash
ington nicked him for two runs in
the sixth on a double by Lewis and
singles by Gerald Walker, Sammy
West and Jimmy Bloodworth.
The Nats succeeded in shelling
Hutchinson from the mound in a
three-run uprising in the seventh.
Successive singles by Jake Early,
Krakauskas and George Case, a
walk to Lewis and a brace of infield
outs whittled the score to 7-5, but
effective relief pitching by A1 Ben
ton chilled Washington's chances.
The defeat was No. 11 for Hudson
and something of a personal triumph
for Greenberg, who cdlected three
hits after going hitless in 18 conse- j
cutive trips to the plate against the i
Nats. B. H. i
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Major Statistics
THURSDAY, JULY *S, l»40.
AMERICAN
Results Yesterday.
Detroit. 7; Washlnston 5.
Cleveland, 7; Philadelphia H.
81 Louis, 14: New York. IS.
Chlcaio, 12: Boston. HI.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Detl^-IJHjBllOl jillillOl fil5:li.34l.(l()Hl
Clel HI—I hi _7I 71717111 531.35!. 11021_'/,
Bosl_7l 61—l_4l fll 8l 7l_7l47l4(ll.54()|_6
NYI_3l_7LBI—L6I_8I10I_8I44I41I.618I_8_
Chll 41 31 71 71—1 71 61 81421411.6001 9 _
Wal_5l 0I_4I 21 HI—I_71_81.381521.422110>/a
StLI 2I_4I_6I 51 51 81—I_SI.3HI52I.422II«‘/a
Phil _71 51_41 01 .31 .3f51—,33153 ,384119 Va
L.. 1341351401411411621621531—I—I |
GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Wash, at Det,, .3:15. Wash, at Cle.. 3:16.
N York at 81 Louts. Phils, at Detroit.
Phil, at Cleveland. N. Y. at Chi. innrht).
Boston at Chicago. Bos. at St. L. (night).
NATIONAL
Results Yesterday.
Cincinnati. H: Brooklyn. 3 (night).
Boston. 4: Chicago. 3.
St. Louls-PhlladeiDhla. rain.
Only games scheduled.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
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Chll 31 6i 81—I 61 61121 9I40I46I.6O5I10_
StLI 31 «l 41 8|—| 81 81101381431.409119
Pit I ll 51 41 01 71—I 71 61381451.444121
Bosl_4l_3 21 51 41 61—I 61291501.387127
Phil 41 114161 61 01 31—1281531.346129
Is". 1251.34130 45 4.3145150 531——I_I
GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Pitt, at New York. St. L. at Brooklyn.
Chicago at Boston. Cincin. at Phils
St. L. at Phi. (night) Chicago at New York.
Only games scheduled Pitts, at Boston.
Griffs' Records
Batting.
G. AB. R. H. 2b. 3b.HR.RBI. Pc.
Gelbert 18 49 7 20 7 1 0 7 .408
Evans 9 i;t 1 5 2 0 O 0 .084
Myer .07 109 19 07 8 1 0 18 .009
Travis 70 282 Ori 9.5 21 Ho OH .0.(7
Lewis 88 050 Ho 1 12 21 8 4 07 017
Walker 89 079 58 118 20 4 7 82 .008
Case 90 090 70 118 15 0 0 08 .295
Early 48 102 17 07 8 2 2 8 .280
Ferrell 59 187 17 50 11 1 o 22 287
B’w’th 85 250 27 84 9 4 8 42 250
Hudson 24 53- 0 10 2 o O 4 .245
West 08 50 5 10 0 O 111 ."45
i Welaj 80 152 24 07 9 o 2 18 .24.0
i Pofahl 85 220 20 52 10 2 I 111 .208
I M'ers n 18 27 5 8 1 o o 1 .222
Krak s 17 18 2 0 1 o o 1 .187
Le nard 20 6.9 4 11 0 0 0 4 .188
Chase 2o 49 4 7 1 1 0 0 .140
M'g'do 17 21 1 3 1 1 0 0 .142
Ca QUel 12 5 0 0 0 0 O 0 ouu
Pitching.
G. H BB. SO. IP. GS CG. W. L
Carol 12 20 11 10 214 0 o 4 2
j L'n rd 20 179 07 HH 187*, 20 15 lo 9
Ma'do 17 88 01 40 844 4 0 2 2
Hudson 24 158 58 59 148 18 10 8 11
i Chase 20 148 81 50 108 19 9 « 11
i Haynes 18 82 22 19 52 4 8 1 0 8
Mast'n IS 82 49 41 814 11 0 O 7 ,
Gelbert 2 5 0 1 4 o 0 O o
Krak'i 17 H6 38 33 5H 5 0 0 1
Net Favorite Advances
ASHEVILLE. N. C.. July 25 OF).—
Quarter-finals of the North Carolina
Open tennis tournament sent too
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Victory Over Overlin
Boosts Soose Into
Throne Picture
Former College Boxer
Wins Split Verdict in
Rain-Soaked Ring
By the Associated Press.
SCRANTON, Pa., July 25.—Lean
Billy Soose, who graduated from col
legiate ranks to the money division,
was a big step ahead today in his
quest for a middleweight champion
ship bout.
The former Penn State clouter
came through last night in a soaking
rain with a close 10-round decision
over Ken Overlin of Washington,
D. C„ recognized in some States as
the middleweight titleholder. It
was a non-title bout.
The 23-year-old son of a Farrell,
Pa., steel worker won the vote of
the two judges, but the Referee
thought Overlin deserved an edge.
Soose weighed 162%; Overlin, 163.
There were no knockdowns, al
though Overlin slipped to one knee
on the rain-soaked canvas.
Setting a whirlwind pace, Overlin
took a substantial lead in the first
two rounds. In the third he ran into
a bruising right to the bodv and
Soose gained command. The Far
rell boy came on with a rush in the
last two rounds as Overlin tired
noticeably.
Feller's Injury Painful,
But Is Not Serious
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLEVELAND, July 25.—No dire
after-effects were expected from
Bob Feller's accident yesterday,
when the Indians’ fireball pitcher
was struck on the head with a ball
thrown by a rookie infielder in pre
game practice.
Feller walked In front of a ball
thrown by Keith Monroe, a sand
lotter working out with the team.
The ball bounced off his chin with
out serious damage, and, after cold
applications, Feller worked out in
the bullpen.
See Big Grid Year Despite War Threat
S. M. U. Leaders Say Game Will Relieve Tension in United States
V the AiooritUd Pr»M.
DALLAS, July 25—Football,
threats of military conscription
and general world unrest not
withstanding, will thrive this fall
and prove to be the “break" need
ed for war-weary Americans, in
the minds of two men whose fing
ers touch the pulse of a great
fandom.
Coach Matty Bell and James
H. Stewart, business manager of
athletics of Southern Methodist
University, home of the famed
“aerial circus,” weighed 1940
football from every angle today
and concluded a big season was
ahead.
"I can't believe that college
students will be included in first
conscriptions under the proposed
Government plan,” said Bell. ‘ It
seems logical that those not gain
gully employed and those of oth
er groups will make up the bulk
of the first group.
“Too, not many college boys
have reached the age of 21 until
their senior years.
“Football should be that point
Jersey City Wallops
Montreal to Whirl
From Tailspin
Captures Double-Header
For 4-2 Series Edge;
Newark Makes Gain
By the Associated Press.
Jersey City fans, who have
watched with dismay as the Little
Giants plunged headlong from sec
ond to fifth place in the Interna
tional League, are of happier mind
today.
After watching the Little Giants
sweep a double-header from the
Montreal Royals yesterday, to take
the series 4 games to 2, they are
satisfied that the club has pulled
out of the tailspin, which dropped
it 13 games behind the league-lead
ing Rochester Red Wings.
Hy Vandenberg and Roy Henshaw
co-starred in the twin-killing, and
their performances certainly gave
Jersey City's followers good cause
for optimism.
The double victory kept the Little
Giants tied for fourth place with the
Baltimore Orioles, who took two
from Buffalo.
Second-place Newark gained a full
game on the pace-setting Red
Wings, beating Toronto, 7-0, while
, Rochester was losing, 5-6, to Syra
I cuse.
Stars Yesterday
A1 Benton. Tleere—One-hit relief
pitching for 2H innings saved victory
over Nationals.
Walter Judnlch. Browns—Made live
hits, one a two-run homer in ninth
Inning, to beat Yankees.
Carvel Rowell, Bees—Tripled win
ning run home against Cubs.
Roy Weatherly. Indians—His home
run with one on was decisive factor in
victory over Athletics.
Joe Kuhel, White Box—Hit home
run. double and two singles toward
triumph over Red Sox.
Bucky Walters. Reds—Held Dodgers
to seven hits in achieving 15th win
of season.
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The Texas Aggies, undefeated,
untied and winner of the Sugar
Bowl game with Tulane last fall,
all wear the khaki of Uncle Sam a
R. O. T. C. unit. Should three
year R. O. T. C. men be called
by the Army the great Aggie
team would be wrecked
No less than nine of them—in
cluding All-America Fullback
John Kimbrough, Jim Thomas
on, the great blocking back; Bill
Conatser, swirling tailback and
kicker—would be lost.
Only two schools in the South
west Conference—Texas A and M.
and Arkansas—have R. O. T. c,
units.
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