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Loughran Is To
Meet Walker In
Title Bout Soon
Tommy
Loughwah
TULSA. Old*.. Feb 19.—UP)—
Tommy Loujhran and Mickey
Walker, light heavyweight and mid
dleweight champions, respectively,
will battle for Loughran's title In
Chicago on March 13.
Announcement by Joe Smith, the
light heavyweights manager, that
the fight would be held, followed a
long distance conversation at mid
night with Paddy Harmon, Chica
go promoter and a statement in San
Francisco by Jack Kearns. Walker's
manager, that he had agreed to the
bout
Smith said he and Loughran
would go to Chicago after the cham
pion s fight here tomorrow mght
with Joe Lohman, to draw up a
contract with Harmon.
‘PA’ OBJECTS
TO REFEREES
‘Won’t Fight Boston
ian With Boston
Official’
By EDWARD J. VEIL
(Associated Press Sports Writer.)
MIAMI BEACH. Fla . Feb. 19 —
(£V-The ballyhoo or not the bally
hoo seemed to be the question today
as the rumblings of a war over ref
erees broke the calm of sockland
by the sea. where fighters and their
cohorts rub elbows with society.
Along the boulevards, opinion
was genera! that Johnny Brass ill,
forty-year-old veteran of New Eng
land rings, would referee the fracas
on February 27 between Jack Shar
key, the silent sailor, and Young
Strlbling, clean-cut Georgian. Ev
ery one scorns certain of this de
sire * Pa” Stribling’s outraged dec
laration that he didn't raise his boy
to fight Boston heavyweights with
a Boston referee in the ring.
All the shooting, whether real or
feigned, hinges on the interpreta
tion* of the contracts the two fight
ers hold directly with Madison
Square Garden corporation and in
directly with Jack Dempsey, the
former rhampion who Is learning
about fight promotion from two
contenders for his old crown. John
ny Buckley, plump little manager of
the Bostonian, savs the issue is net
tled bv the naming of Brassil and
Jack Sheehan, both Boston referees
to the disputed post by the Massa
chusetts State Athletic commission.
Pa Strtbling says the fight has just
begun.
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GASPIRO AND I
BURNS DRAW
AT MERCEDES
Shaw and Cruz Put Up
Brilliant Exhibitions
In Beating Macey
And Paiz
rSp«ei«l to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Feb 19 —Despite a
main event that did not measure
up to the names of the principals,
when fight fans jammed their way
to the street from Promoter A1 Rob
inson's cauliflower bowl here Mon
day night they generally agreed
they had witnessed "plenty” for
their money.
Chuck Burns, 168 pounds of San
Antonio, and Danny Gaspiro. 168
pounds of Fort Clark, put in more
time clinching during their ten
round main event than they did
fighting, and at the end of the bout
the arms of both brawlers were
raised in a draw.
Most of the attention in this bout
centered on Gaspiro's second who
sat just behind his batler. The
second lived every moment of the
bout in the ring. When Burns
swung at Gaspiro. the second duck
ed. When Burns hit Gaspiro. it
seemed to hurt the second more
than it did Gaspiro. His face was
an accurate barometer as to how
Gaspiro was fairing.
Gaspiro fell down in the fifth
and seventh rounds for no-count.
Reither showed decided advantage
at any time and neither appeared
to be hurt or winded at the end of
the bout.
Shaw Wins
Battling Shaw, i26 pounds oi La
redo. did everything to Kan Macey.
128 pounds of Harlingen, but knock
him out. Both opened up aggres
sively in the first round and sev
eral hard blows were sent home.
Macey’s old wildness cropped up
again as he lashed out into thin air
time after time. Shaw got down
to brass tacks in the second and
third rounds, pummcllng Macey
with body blcws. Macey's mouth
eras a splotch of blood in the third
round and he appeared slower as
Shaw circled him sharpshooting
when the chance offered itself.
Macey came back to some extent
in the fourth round and got a hand
from the crowd for his gameness.
Shaw put the Harlingen battler on
the canvass in the fifth stansa. Ken
could have gotten up at the count
of three but heeded the admonition
of the crowd to take the count of
nine. Macey continued to get
bursts of cheers for sticking.
Wades in. Guard Down
In the seventh and eighth rounds
Shaw waded in with his guard
down, disregarding Macey s blows.
Macey was moggy as the final gong
sounded, covering up in an effort
to stick the full eight rounds.
Johnny Crus. 115 pounds of San
Antonio, knocked out Blackie Payo.
116 pounds of Laredo, in the firth
round with a resounding straight
right on the button. Cruz put up
the cleverest boxing exhibition of
the afternoon and in Plazo he
found an opponent willing to mix
it all time time.
The bout opened fast with Cruz
getting in the best blows but- never
able to intimidate the Jap-apprar
lng lad from Laredo. Blackie
was more aggressive in the second
round and a portion of the crowd
swung to his side cheering him on
as he bloodied Cruz's nose. The
bRttlers slowed down slightly in
the third but made up for it in the
fourth with fast milling and heavy
blows Cruz was "pouring it on
him"' at the end of the round.
“Right on Button”
Early in the fifth round the Al
amo City battler cracked Payo on
the chin with a paralyzing right
Blackie slumped to the mat face
forward. He raised up on his hands
and knees at the count of nine but
fell hack to the mat unable to
arise.
Johnny Martinez 138 pounds of
San Benito, and Kid ftoenz, 134
Kunds of Mercedes, opened the
uts with a four-round draw. Mar
tinez was aggressive and Saenz
seemed content to let the fight
come to him.
Kid Pancho of San Antonio and
Battling Bowers of Iowa were in
troduced in the ring. Each issued
challenges to boxers of their wights
for Valley bouts.
Edinburg Broncs
Beat Javelinas
By 42-37 Score
(Special t® The Herald)
EDINBURG, Feb 19—Upholding
tradition of a south Texas athletic
feud between the Edinburg Junior
college and the South Texas State
Teachers college of Kingsville, the
Bronc quint managed to nose out
the Wild Hogs by a close count of
0-37 in a bitterly contested game
here Monday night.
The teams ran neck and neck In
the first half with the lead sway
ing from one quint to the other.
Miller sank a shot just before the
half whistle trilled, giving the Jav
elinas an 18-17 lead
Bates and Garrett, Bronc stars,
got going in the second half and
managed to keep their team in the
lead throughout by a narrow mar
gin.
Honors were about evenly divided
among the Javelinas. Shelton. El
more Crumpfton and Milligan each
netted eight or nine pointa.
Both teams played offensive games
and defense seemed neglected.
The boit:
Edinberg '« Eg. Ft Ft*.
McCauley. F..3 1 7
Bates, F.7 0 14
Garrett. C. ......7 0 14
I Jamerson. 0.1 1 3
Jayroe. Q .0 0 0
Hassell. O. .3 0 4
* . ' r? ____
Totals . JtO 3 42
KingsviUc (27) Fg. Ft. FIs.
Milligan. P .4 I 9
Elmore. F.3 1 8
Crumpton. C, ..4 1 8
Smith. O. ..I 1 3
Shelton. G.4 0 8
Allen. O. ___0 0
Ping, C. •, * .»• •, .0 0 8
Max Schmeling’s Own Story
MY FIRST REAL BOUT ; 1
Mai Schmeling, right, la greeted and congratulated at Washington
by German Ambassador von Prittwitz.
By MAX SCUMBLING
Contender for the World Heavy
weight Championship.
One evening one of my fellow j
workers asked me: ‘Max, what are'
you doing tonight?”
“Nothing,” I answered. "I have no j
money to spend foolishly on thea
ter!.”
“Come with me,” he said. “We
will go to the athletic club and see
the fights.”
We went. It was the most excit
ing thing I hsd ever seen. This was
the first time I had seen a boxing
match with gloves and inside a ring.
That was in 1924, when I was 19.
* I thought the fighters were won- j
derful. They were only amateurs,
and poor ones at that, bat I didn't i
know any better.
I began attending the fights every
[time they were held. One r.ight a
man sat down beside me. He said
he was a club official and wanted tc
know if I would like to try my lack
the next time fights were held. I
jumped at the chance.
So on a certain night in 1924 there
crawled through the ropes in the
Sports Club Colonia in Muelheim,
Germany, a boy who knew absolute
ly nothing abont boxing but wanted
to learn and was willing to psy with
blackened eyes and punched nose to
learn. His name was Max Schmoling.
My opponent was an experienced
fellow. He was city amateur cham
pion and started in to show me how
good he was. For the first few
rounds he punched me all over the
ring. Then he hit me a hard blow.
It hurt and I became angry. I hit
back ns hard as I could. The blow
I struck, friends later told me, was
a right cross. The other fellow fell
to the floor and did not rise again.
He was knocked out.
I didn’t fight again until I visited
the ancient college town of Bonn,
where the former kaiser once at
tended school. I won that fight, too.
My mother knew nothin* of thia.
She did not learn her Max was a
fighter until alter I had turned pro
fessional. Then a neighbor found
an account In a newspaper about a
fight I had won and showed it to her.
I’m glad I was away from home
at the time. She might have become
worried as she had about my going
to sea, and might have begged n\e
not to fight any more I am afraid
that might have ended my ring ca
reer.
When I won the fight at Bonn, a
French soldier came up to me and
gave me 10 francs. He had enjoyed
my victory, so 1 suppose he thought
it was worth it.
Of course, I accepted the gift.
German amateur rules are not nearly
so strict as your American rule*.
The 10 francs started me to think
ing. 1 suddenly realized that if an
amateur coula make 10 francs (which
he didn’t expect) in on# fight, a pro
fessional must, be able to make a
great deal more.
I decided to turn professional.
.NEXT—-Mu Scbmelin* meets
Jack Dempsey in the ring. Max
tells you all about Jack’s terrific
punch in the next story In The
Herald.
■ PORTS FORUM :
■ By Bishop Clements ■
A1 Robinson put on a good box- ;
ing card last night at Mercedes; it
was witnessed by a big crowd of
fans from all parts of the Valley.
• • •
Chuck Burns and Danny Gas
ps rro, 165-pound bruisers, headlin
ers. mauiea and hugged each other
arouna the img lor iu rounds, and
at tne conclusion of which, it was
declared a draw. Fans became a
little irritated at the holding-on
tactics employed by both fighters
during the contest, and they came
in for considerable razzing
• * •
The Valley fan wants action;
that's what be spends his money
for, and while this In-flfhttag of
Borns and Casparro may be all
right, it isn't the kind that fans
like and demand. But these fel
lows delivered some hefty wallops
on each other's bodies.
•'Give me the lighter boxers for
action,” was the general sentiment
of the fans as they left the arena,
praising Robinsons preliminary
boxers. Macey and Shaw put on
a nifty fight, with Shaw leading
practically throughout, with his
terrific punches, and aggressive
ness. While he outclassed Macey
throughout, he never outgamed the
popular little Harlingen Tighter, and
when the bout was over, which
went the scheduled 8 rounds. Kevi
was still on his feet. And incident
ally it was one of the cleanest
lights ever staged in the Valley.
• • •
Johnny Crus. 118 pounds of San
Antonio and Blackie Payo, same
weight, of Laredo, put on a neat
exhibition for 4 and a half rounds,
when Cruz met the rushing Payo
coining in, and hit him with a
straight right Jab on the chin, and
the Laredo boy took the count. Up
to that time it was a battle fans
like to witness. Cruz, the crafty,
hard-hitting boy. battling against
the less experienced, but none the
less game Payo. This boy from La
redo hit Johnny all over, but fell
a victim to his own aggressiveness
and inexperience.'
pttt lut WaIm
In his bouts at Ft.
put on a four
round Saenz of Mer
_ or teas a prac
tice affair,
■■■■ (inches. They
drew.
OLYMPIC STAR
IS BEATEN BY
U. S. SPRINTER
Notre Dame Halfback
Flashes Over Sixty
Yard Course Ahead
Of Percy Williams
r. ' "" •
NEW YORK. Feb. 19.—UP)—A
heavily muscled football idtar has
come out of the Middle Wert to
beat Percy Williams, Vancouver
sprinter, at. his own game.
Jack Elder, halfback on the last
Notre Dame football team, furnish
ed the track season with a sensa
tion last night when he conquered
Williams in a 80-yard dash at the
annual New York A. C. games In
Madison Square Garden.
It was the first defeat of Wil
liams’ career. The double Olympic
sprint champion, up to last night,
had met the greatest sprinters in
the world at varying distances and
always with the same suocess. The
time, six and two-filths seconds,
failed by one-fifth of a second to
equal the world's record.
The games developed two new
world's records and an a macing pole
vault of 14 feet by Fred Sturdy of
Yale.
Weems Baskin, competing for the
N. Y. A. O.. shaved a fifth of a sec
ond off the indoor mark for the 80
yard high hurdles, clearing the bar
riers in 7 2-5 seconds in one of the
trial heats.
A Newark prep school relay team
for the mile in 3:30 2-5, a second
faster than the former mark.
Sturdy came within an inch of
Sabin Carr s Indoor world’s record
of 14 feet, one inch.
Paavo Nurmi turned in the fast
est two miles of the season to beat
a mediocre handicap field. The
Finn's time was 9:15 2-5. far behind
his world's record of 8:58 1-5.
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‘GIANTS WILL
THERE’
McGraw Won’t Pre
dict Outcome Of
National Race
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—OPr—John
McGraw. about to start hi* twenty -
eighth year as manager ctf tne New
York Giants, has no prediction* to
make about winning his eleventh
pennant but he looks for a “tight
race with the Giant* In there."
The Giants were “in there” last
season, faltering only In the last
strides, and not a few critics pre
dict they will lead the chase this
season, even though the Chicago
Cubs are expected to start as fav
orites for the first time since the
davs of the Deerless leader, Frank
Chance. . _ „
The Cub* look good," McGraw
admits, calculating on the added
all-around strength furnished by
Rovers Hornsby. “But the Pirates
and Cardinals will have to be fig
ured cm and so will our club. I
don’t know much about Boston but
Cincinnati will be strong and both
Brooklyn and Philadelphia seem
improved."
Second bale and the outfield are
about the only problems McGraw
has to solve when he takes charge
of his men at San Antonio, prob
ably the early part of next week.
But he does not consider either as
a source of worry. At second base
it is a question of .choosing be
tween the hard-hitting Andy Reese
or the smooth-fielding Andy Co
hen. The outfield offers more Jug
gling possibilities and McGraw may
be obliged to employ a reversible
out defense, as he did last vt&X.
McGraw makes no secret that he
Is counting strongly uoon Carl
Hubhell. the young Oklahoma
southpaw who pitched sensationally
lest season after coming up from
the Texas league. He experts Hub
bell to wlrt around 18 or 20 games
and share the mate pitching bur
den with Tarry Benton, the red
headed right-hander.
Fans Behind
League Are to
Here This Eve
The baseball committee, appoint-1
ed at a Valley-wide gathering of
fans a couple of weeks ago at Har
lingen. to work out plane for a Val
ley circuit, will meet this afternoon
at 6:90 o'clock, at the Cl Jardin
hotel in this city.
Chairman Guy Trent, of Saa Be
nito, declared yesterday that he ex
pected every committeeman to be
present, and other fans, also,
Harlingen's committee Is compos
ed of Ben Epstein and Roy Hough;
San Benito, L. B. Winans and Burt
Epstein: Brownerille. Ben Proctor
and Bishop Clements.
The committee members of the
three towns have been delegated to
work out plans, if possible, for a
Valley Class D league; that Is, to
find out if Hidalgo county towns
are interested to the extent of
Joining Cameron county in the pro
posed league.
It is known that Corpus Christ i.
and other towns in that part of
the country, are desirous of enter
ing a league, combining with other
Valley towns; and It may be that
a league of this kind can be formed,
committee members and fans state.
Mr. Trent, however, is desirous of
forming a Valley league, composed
of six towns, under the $1500 per
month salary limit; believing, as
he does, that on such a basis the
circuit will be a going proposition
At the meeting tonight a mem
ber or members of the committee
and others will probably be delegat
ed to confer with Hidalgo county
towns, find out their final answer,
and with that as a working basis,
and if favorable, to get the organi
zation started, and If not. to look
to other towns to Join with those
of Cameron county.
Mr. Trent expected to have a
written copy of the by-laws of the
Nebraska State league, one of the
several $1500 per month circuits,
but had not received it up until
this morning.
“Baseball is far from being a
dead issue insofar as the committee
is concerned.'’ a member declared
Monday. “We are going to make an
effort to get the circuit organized,
and we have every reason to be
lieve it can be formed.**
It is expected by Chairman Trent
that a large gathering of fans will
be on hand for the committee
meeting this afternoon.
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES.—Chuck Burns. 8an
Antonio, and Danny Gsspiro. Port
Clark, drew (10): Battling Shaw.
Laredo, outpointed Ken Macey.
Harlingen (8): Johnny Cruz, San
Antonio, knocked out Blackie Pals,
Laredo (S>: Johnny Martinez, San
Benito, and Kid Saenz, Mercedes,
drew (4).
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAOO. — Tommy Preemsn.
Cleveland, outpointed Joe Simonich,
Butte, Mont., (10). Joe Gordon.
Minneapolis, outpointed Emmett
Curtiss. Fremont, Mich.. (8). Leo
Genet. Cincinnati, stopped Billy
Taylor. Corpunabee, Mich.. (8).
NEW YORK.—Rene DeVos, Bel
gium. knocked out Bobby Brown,
Lowell, Mass., (1). Stanislaus Lo
ayza. Chile, outpointed Augle Pisa
no. New York. (10). Marty Gold
man, New York, stopped Joae Gon
zales, Mexico, (4). Danny Phillips,
Pittsburgh, and Oscar Goldman,
New York. drew. (8). Hubert Green.
California, outpointed Mike Denton.
California. (6>.
PHILADELPHIA—Benny Bass.
Philadelphia, outpointed St e v e
Smith. Bridgeport. Conn., (10). Bil
ly Angelo. Letperville, Pa., out
pointed Vincent Dundee. Baltimore.
(10).
LONDON.—Sam Steward. Eng
land won on a foul from Benny Val
ger. New York. (8).
OKLAHOMA CITY.—Babe Hunt,
Ponca City, Okla.. won on a foul
from Big Boy Peterson. Minnea
polis, (8). _
KANSAS CITY. — Young Jack
Thompson. Chicago, outpointed Ham
Jenkins, Denver. (10). Walker Rich.
Kansas City, stopped Jack League,
8an Antanto, (1).
MINNEAPOLIS. — Harry Dillon,
Winnipeg, stopped Roleaux Saguero.
Chicago. (4). Mike Mandell. St
Paul, outpointed Wild Blllcox. Los
Angeles, <8>. Tim Derry. Seattle,
knocked out Bill Firpo, Valley City.
N. D.. (2).
DALLAS. Tex.—Clyde Hull, Sioux
Pills. 8. D , knocked out Jack Shel
by. Omaha, O).
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.—Jack Ash
ton. Chicago stopped Joe McDan
iel. Marshall. HI.. (70.
TORONTO —Midget Wolgast. New
York, outpointed Ruby Bradley,
Chicago, (10).
NEWCASTLE, Pa.—Henry Firpo,
Louisville, outpointed Dick Evans,
Youngstown. O., (18).
DECATUR, Neb.—Cowboy Art
:jaxwell. Chicago, won on foul from
Oeorge Lantson. WaJthiU, Nebr.,
(5). Freddie Penn, Omaha, knock
ed out He Goler. Kgnsas City, (5).
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Four former Texas amateur
DoiMra, low farmer
invitation tourney,
steur champions from !
and Oklahoma were
starters.
In addition there were
strong, former Pan-<
plan; Walter Crclfc
and John Dawson,
active of the amateur* in the
ter circuit, all from Chita*»
Greenwood of Houston. Texas .
lor champion; Carle
champion and a number
coUege plyers. ^
state. Jack Speer, faced four
who had held his title before
of Houston; Lewis Levinson of San
Antonio, and Tommy Cochran of
Wichita Palls. Edwin McClure, for- .
mer Louisiana champion and Keefe ,
Carter, Oklahoma tiUehoWwr, com*
pleted the list of luminfillas.
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