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EARL FRY CALLS VIC GHEZZI 'POOR SPORT' THE 0 nru in vn lupin-to TOWER By Art Cohn Sports Editor VOL CXXVin OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1938 13 NO. 41 QUESTION: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE RASSLERS? ANSWER: THEY'RE ALL RIOT! I- I I II I nam A I v- yp A (So i mi lili I I i iii -mi Hiiiini mmsmk Mill I persed by police, the CCC boys twisted the moaning and groaning in a general riot with both grapplers finishing In the aisles, as teen Gorilla around the ropes, as seen above. Meanwhile, at the Oakland above.

A split second after the picture was taken, an Irate fan at ring-Auditorium last Friday night, Ivan Rasputin (at right, his hairy back to side crowned Cox with a chair. Rasputin returns to the local Audi-the camera) won on a foul from Bulldog Ted Cox In a match that ended torium tomorrow night to meet Sandor Szabo, Pacific Coast champion. Be it in Pendleton, Ore. (left), or Oakland, Calif, (right), there ia never a dull moment at a rassling match. At Pendleton, one Joe Gorilla became too rough with Bobby Chick to suit the crowd, comprised chiefly of boys from the nearby CCC camp.

For ten minutes, until they were dis Under oath I will confess i lhat I did not see Washington cross the Delaware but I am convinced that he did it. While I'm letting my golden curls down, I'll admit that I never saw John L. Sullivan. but I recall that he was a pretty good fighter. Erratum! I must not use the word "recall" in that sense lor, according to Short Cummings, lamed San Francisco lexicographer, "recall" is a synonym of the Verb "see." Not for the world would I have my readers believe that I saw George Washington or John L.

Sul--livan in I shall not recall any of their deeds. I am indebted to Prof. Cummings. Illiterate dumtytopf that I am, I would have gone on indefinitely "recalling" people and events that I had never seen, had it not been for his kindly enlightenment. I am truly grateful.

My abysmal stupidity was exalted in pillar wherein I wrote: "While watching the Loyola-California hockey matches here last week, which weren't so hot, I recalled the hottest match ever played on the ice. It happened in New England, when Red Ward, goalie of the New Haven club, caught fire in the heat of a torrid scrimmage Not once in the narrative did I claim or hint that I had been an eye-witness of the New Haven match except in the verb, "recall." Noah Webster's definition of "recall" is "to remember." Noah better go back to his because's he's all wet. He should have known, even if I didn't, that no man can "remember" anything he did not see with his own eyes. Trof. Short Cummings proves it in a treatise: "That Oakland Oracle had a swell story in his column the other day about the hottest hockey game he ever SAW.

It happened in New Haven a few weeks ago and he saw it in a New York paper." Proving, of course, that I can read even though I cannot write. Which, judging from the garbled quotation from my colyum, still puts me one up on S. Cummings. Eye, Eye, Sir! One of the assorted "deans" of sports writers on the Coast, Uncle Tom Laird, makes a daily excursion "Down Memory Lane" with the Jim Corbetts, Bob Fitzsimmons' and Stanley Ketchells, recalling their heroics in minute detail. Yet, the fact that these gladiators were in their prime more than forty years ago proves that the only way Uncle Tom could "recall" them is through the eyes of a mewling in fant in arms.

Yes, Uncle Tom, them are the Hear dpaH rlava "bevond recall." Orators from "the rockbound coast of Maine to the 'sunny' shores of California" are now preparing their Lincoln Day addresses for Saturday. There is still time to save them, men! Thanks to Prof. Cummings, not one windbag will "recall" how Honest Abe pulled the. stuck pig out of the mire or, two weeks hence, how George Washington chopped down the cherry tree with his Boy Scout hatchet simply because none of 'em is an I-witness. Pardon me'wnile I go out and chop off my ears.

They are no longer of any use to me. No longer will I believe anything I hear I also see it. And remind me to order the Board of Education to burn all textbooks, especially history. First thing you know, the kids will be recalling battles, which will qualify them only for the Napoleon Ward in the local booby hatch. Oh yes, Miss Jones, remind me to have the radio and telephone thrown out of the house until the television attachments arrive.

After this, nothing is so unless I see it and let that be a lesson to you, too. You cannot even believe one word you are reading now because you didn't SEE me write it! Bartell Turns Skier Don't get me wrong, now, I didn't see it, but an operative swears in an affidavit that he saw Dick Bartell, the New York Giants' great shortstop, taking skiing lessons from Hannes Schroll, the pro, at Yosemite yesterday. This amuses me, if I may be am Crisler Coach At Michigan PNEUMONIA MARATHON IN SECOND WHIRL TODAY S. F. $5000 Tourney First Day Ruined By Fifty-Mile-an-Hour Gale, Blinding Rain CITRINO DOWNED 14 TIMES BY ARMSTRONG Featherweight Champ Outclasses S.

F. Boy in Fourth Before Sell-Out House By ALAN WARD 0 DUNBAR Bruins Upset Bear Coach Southern Five Plays ''Better on Berkeley Court, Claims Price TOBITT Caught Clarence "Nibs' Price, California basketball coach, smiling this' morning and deemed it an auspicious moment to inquire of the welfare of his Bears. "We'll knock over and with Hank Luisetti gone from Stanford we should get back on top in a walk, mebbe," he chortled. That's "fine optimism, Nibs, but a mite displaced. Luisetti doesn't leave Stanford until the end of this season.

Besides, it's U. C. L. A. your boys are playing at Berkeley tomorrow night, not Stanford.

Or hadn't you heard? "Aw, you spoiled it," he pouted. "Those Bruins worry me so much I can't eat. I can't sleep. They hex us. To save my sanity I must think of next year's prospects, which are considerably brighter than tomorrow's and Saturday's.

Then I take it you're worried. "Worried? I'm protrated." Came then a dissertation on what Continued Page 15, Col. 3 By LEE SAN FRANCISCO GOLF CLUB, Feb. 10. The pneumonia marathon began its second merry whirl today and if any of the sapheads out there in the mud and rain escape with their lives, it won't be their fault.

The brave young men are offering up their lives on the altar of golf, with a $5000 lure dangled before their eyes, but in the humble opinion of your correspondent if they weren't all a bit-screwey, they'd be at home before a nice comfortable fire. How anything can be classed as fun that is subject to the discomfort of this enghth annual San Francisco match play tournament is far beyond me. But if the boys must wander about in the middle of a hurricane, whacking a little ball around a rain and wind-swept pasture, there must be heroes like me, willing to brave the elements by sitting in a steam-heated clubhouse to report the proceedings. Today marks the second 18-hole qualifying round, after wliich the field will be chopped down to the low 32 scorers, who will begin a two-a-day match play battle tomorrow. Probably the chief item of interest to most of the customers is that a young fellow from Tacoma by Raimondi Trio Seeking Jobs Brothers on Three Coast Clubs, Bill Catcher for Oaks By "EDDIE MURPHY Brother vs.

brothers is a new act scheduled' for next season of the Pacific Coast League. Unless club managers and owners lose confidence in Pitcher Al Raimondi, who belongs to Hollywood and Ernie Raimondi, who reports to the San Francisco'Seals, the show is a cinch to be put on. Bill Raimondi, catcher for the Oaks, will be the third man in the show. From all reports Al is picked to be a regular member of the Hollywood pitching staff and Ernie is being counted on to stick with the Seals. As for Bill, there's no question about him being a regular with the Oaks.

BAN ON BROTHERLY LOVE The three West Oakland boys have a lot of fun kidding one another about what they are going to do in the Coast League this season. Al, who won 13 and lost as many for the Tucson Club in the Arizona- Texas League last season, has already delivered the ultimatum to Bill and Ernie that although he is their brother he will not be even a near cousin to them when the Coast League race gets under way. Al is just that type of an athlete. All three Raimondi boys arc former students of McClymond's High School of Oakland. Should all three make good this season it probably will be the first time in the history of the league that three brothers were in the league on different clubs at the same time.

PULL FOR ONE ANOTHER And let it be said that while they have declared there will be no brotherly love when they meet as opponents on the baseball diamond, they are now pulling for one another to make good. They have been reared in a good old-fashioned Italian family on Myrtle Street Below Seventh. Al Raimondi is one of the 11 pitchers slated to report to the Hollywood Club, formerly the San Francisco Missions. He is the only one of the 11 pitchers who won as many as 13 games last season. The nearest to Raimondi in wins' last year was Johnny Babich, Richmond boy, who won 12 games' and lost eight with the Missions and Boston Bees.

Wally Beck, Stew Bolen, Le Roy Hermann and Otho Nitcho-las, who all won 11 games with the are among the holdovers who-rt1lreport to Holly WoedLew- pfost," Wayne" Osborne and Rinaldo Ardtzoia, the latter just a rookie, are others who were with the Missions last year and are scheduled to report to Hollywood. Ed Mathews, who won seven and lost 10 for Tucson and Les Fleming who won 11 and lost six for Van-Continued Pace IS, Col. 1 Ex-Princeton Mentor Will Eventually Take Fielding Yost's Post AN ARBOR, Teb. 10. U.R Herbert Orin (Fritz) Crisler of Princeton today became head coach of the University of Michigan, with a contract which event ually will make him successor to Fielding H.

Yost, athletic director and "grand old man" of Wolverine football. Crisler also succeeds Harry G. Kipke, as head football coach, who was ousted from the coaching Job last December by the athletic board of control. No action has been taken toward selecting Cris-ler's successor. He becomes assistant athletic director with the understanding that he will assume Yost's Job within three years.

Yost, who came to Michigan al head coach in 1901, is near the retirement age. Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven, president of the university, said Crisler had the unanimous support of the board in control of athletics, the board of regents and himself. Terms of the contract were not announced.

A source close to the board indicated, however, that it was signed on a two-year basis with the understanding that it would be renewed providing Crisler turns in a satisfactory record. This source said the maximum salary the board could pay for-ttie combined Jobs was $10,000, but there was no definite indication that this was the sum in Crisler' contract. It was believed that most of the present coaching staff would remain under Crisler. The most important post yet 4o be filled was that st head line coach, vacated last month when Hartley (Hunk) Anderson resigned to take a similar position with the University of Cincinnati. Olympic Quintet Too Much for Dons The cagers of the Olympic Club) had a bit too much, experience for those of the University of San Francisco last night and the Dons went down to a 42 to 39 defeat at Xezar Stadium.

Hedman, Rockwell and Conroy were the heavy scorers for the Clubmen. Franusrth of the Dons was the high scorer- of the night With 13 points. Benny Lynch Wins GLASGOW, Feb. 10. (U.R Benny Lynch, freight champion of the world, scored a six-round technical knockout over Maurice Filhol of France last night.

The title was not at stake. ALFRED VANDERBILT LIKES SEABISCUIT OVER P0MP00N the name of Charles Congdon had a one-stroke edge on the field when play was resumed this morning. That I say, may be the chief item of interest to the customers, but to me there are two things that far transcend it in importance. 1. The fact that Lawson Little, the defending champion, is only one stroke behind Congdon, and that Neil Christian, the square faced chap from Yakima, who carried Lawson20 holes in last year's final, is only one'stroke behind the former British and American amateur champ, is even of more interest.

I remember the thrilling match they staged last yearat Ingleside. I re member Little coming in with the match in his sweater pocket, four up and four to go. And then the game Christian turned on the heat and was not downed until the 20th hole. The closeness of their scores yesterday, Little with a 76 and Christian a 77, brings back memories of last year's thriller, and the hope we will see something equally as interesting this year. 2.

The beautiful hate that Earl "Beefy" Fry, Alameda professional is nursing against Vic Ghezzi of Continued Page 14, Co4. 3 4.1-388.1 AH Sllln 41-4283 Carl Nagel 40- 43 83 Hod. Munda? 38-4583 Rudy Holm 41- 43 84 Art Clark 41- 4384 Tex Mann 44-4084 xE. A. Lowery 42- 42 84 Jack Grout 44-4488 48-4088 45-4388 44- 4488 45- 4388 47-4188 47-4289 47-471 43-4184 xAuiust Dreler 44-4589 47-4289 45.4489 44- 4589 46- 4389 45- 44 B9 47- 4289 47-4289 44-4589 Jr.

40-4484 Joe Monei 40-44 34 Joe Fustinl 43-42 85 Ashley Loafea 41-4485 xRobert Marsker 45-40 85 Bill Williamson 43-4285 Harry Bassler 43-42 85 Lloyd Simpson 43-42 85 John Battlni 43-4285 Bit he McHuch 45-4590 45-4590 48-4490 41-4990 44-4185 xWalt. ChrisMrsen 48-4490 4-3 fo xMarlon Hufntr 47-4491 43-42 en xJohn Palaclp 46-4591 44-4781 42-43 85 xTom Dwver 48-4591 45-4085 xGeorf Enmann 1 43-4992 44- 42 06 Harry Bryson 48-44 82 45- 4186 xb Bluechel 47-4893 44-4380 Harry Obita Jr. 49-4493 47-39 U-J. E. French Jr.

47-46 S3 46- 4086 xWalter Smith 48-4694 43-4386 Dr. H. W. MUa 47.47 4 42-4480 Jim Naulty 43-43 SB Basil Wood 48-4805 47- 39 86 Jim NlchOla 47-4805 48- 40 86 xRay Devaun 52-4496 42- 44 86 xAl Barbee 81-4583 44-4387 Bob Clark 47-4996 43- 4487 xTy Cobb 51-4798 47-40 87 xNoiman Williams 55-50-103 47-4087 xDr. A.

Rosburg 50-56-106 40-4787 xBobhv Rosburg 57-50-107 45- 4287 Earl Fry No return 46- 4187 xJoe Magnlh Nn return 44-4387 xTony Lazzerl So return tostart or return tarda. Some men. collect, old mustache cups, others Vnatch pads, but Henry Armstrong collects knockouts. Th.2 Negro tornado, featherweight champion of the world, today had gathered his 31st kayo in 32 starts -and if that collection isn't unique in the fight world nothing else is. Last night at the San Francisco Auditorium Armstrong added Al Citrino to his long and imposing list of knockouts, and while Al's demise was of the fourth round technical variety, it was.

conclusive enough. Smacked to the canvas 14 times in a lop-sided fight before a ca-pacaily attendance, which paid a gross of more than $10,000 to witness the show. Citrino greeted, with ill concealed pleasure, the intervention of Referee Joe Gorman. Citrino was down for the fourth time in that frame and the count had reached eight when Gorman, heeding the urgings of ringsjders and his own good judgment, awarded the bout to Armstrong. While I realize Citrino, a San VEN flck of newspaper men by Vander- blt disproves the story that Jockey ed Pollard and Seabiscuit were th loafing as they neared the ire in tne last sania Anna classic were nipped by Roscmont in the lasdozen strides.

POLtARD USED WHIP The movies show Polhwd wielding a lusty whip on the Howard horse almost all the way lown the stretch and right up to the time he shot over the finish line and they similarly show Rosemont coming with a tremendous rush in that last dozen strides and showing the speed punch necessary to win the race. Tom Smith, veteran trainer oj Seabiscuit, has finally come out of hiding in his worko4ts of the son of Hardtack. The result is the Howard horse has flashed a couple of training gallops so speedy that he is back in the front line as popular choice for the. hundred grander. Pompoon, however, is putting on just as" sensational ''workouts'--the Jerry Louchain horse will be on an almost even" keel with Seabiscuit to come home under the wire first.

There are some pretty high, class trainers here, however, who have voiced the belief that Pompoon is undergoing such a rigorous training siege that he may turn up a bit stale for the bif race i Francisco boy, was hopelessly outclassed all the I am confident he was not'lhe victim of appalling punishing last evening. TOOK LONG COUNTS I will go further. I will state without equivocation, Citrino dropped under some punches which ordinatily wouldn't have staggered him. Giving, the San Franciscan the benefit of the doubt, I will advance the theory he took long counts on several occasions merely to catch his breath. It was noticeable he fought the hardest immediately he had regained his feet.

If Citrino receipted for many punches, he also handed out a few. During his infrequent rallies he hurled short rights and lefts to Armstrong's head, but Citrino might as well have tried to halt a rampageous Mississippi River with a butterfly net. The harder Armstrong was tagged the more aggressively he bored into his opponent, his arms flying like pistons, his fists bouncing off chin or torso. LIKE AN ELEVATOR Citrino was dropped five times in the first round. Three times in the second he faded under the punches of Armstrong.

Twice in the third his ring trunks scraped resin. And four times inthe fourth he collapsed under a' combination of blows, and a killing pace. The opening frame was less than a minute old before a high right hand overturned Citrino, and he took a count of nine in a neutral corner. Another right returned Al to his horizontal position, and he took a long tally. A few seconds later a short right uppercut unseated him, and that one hurt most of all.

Slightly dazed, Citrino started crawling toward the ropes, but regained his feet at eight. Down under a left and right, Citrino scorned a count, and he electrified the audience by engaging in a wild Plugging spurt which momentarily halted Armstrong. His moment of glory was brief. A bitter right hand flattened Citrino, and he was on the floor when the bell rang. The tally had reached nine arid the San Franciscan feather certainly wouldn't have risen in thc.stipulated time.

BEST IN SECOND made his best starid the second. He opened the round jabbing and swinging both hands to the champion's head, but a volley to the button unsaddled him for a no-count. Lair a right to the jaw dropped Continued Pace 14, Cot, I HERE'S WHAT GOLFERS DID IN S. F. WIND, RAIN YESTERDAY Charles Congdon 38-37 75 I jrry TrickHt Lawton Little 42-34 7(i Henry Esolnn Jimmy Demaret 38-38 77 Art Doerinf John Revolt 41-36 77 Jimmy Hlne Nell Chrintian 39-38 77 Fred Wetmor Olin Dutra 42-36 78 Harold Beer Romle EsninOM 38-40 7S Harold Neimeyer Jnhnnv Pervlli Ed.

Brook m. amused Dy any evem ai not -aft I-witness, because the Bar- Harold McSpanden 40-38 78 Walter Wauhab Harry Cooper 40-30 79 Dewev Lmaworth' 42-4284 xBob Mori 41-38 79 Lloyd Manxrum 45-39 84 Harry Heaney 43-3879 Arthur Bell 41-4384 Joff. Whiting 41-3879 Walter Gilliam 40-39 7Ben Coltrln 41-3879 Dick Fry 41-39 80 Jack Morrli 4O-4O80 Joe Ezar 40-40 80 Joe Mortara 40-40 80 Charlea Donley 43-3780 Jimmy Thomson 40- 40 80 Harold Sampson 41- 39 80 Pat Mahoney 43-37 80 Marvin Stahl Leo Mallory Leonard Dodnon WIMe Hunter Mark Fry Johnny Bulla Ken Tucker Stan Leonard Vincent Eldred Sam Snead Paul Runyan Leonard Ott Tony Pennt CraiK Wood Stanley Kertei Willie Gogain Joe Ferrando Bud McVey John McHugh LEE ARCADIA, Feb. 10. An addendum to the trenchant comments of Young Alfred G.

Vanderbilt on Coli- ornia horse racing. He likes Seabiscuit to win the $100,000 Santa Anita -Handicap. And if the track is fast, he similarly likes Sir Raleigh, the pride of Tony Pelle-teri's Stable, to win the $50,000 Santa Anita' Derby. The horse that will offer the most seiious competition to Seabiscuit, Young Vanderbilt thinks is Pompoon but according to his viewpoint the Howard State star is one of the most remarkable horses developed in recent years of racing in fact has shown himself to be of the super-horse rank of Man O'War, Equipoise and others of turfdom's great. LIGAROTI IN FORM Today, possibly, says Young Alfred way offer bit of competition and Ligaroti, the Argentina horse that has been turning in some flashing workouts and is credited with winning a $100,000 mile sweepstakes in South.

America in the fast time of 1:55, may be up there somewhere. But the real battle he thinks will be between Seabiscuit and Pompoon with Seabiscuit coming under the wire first. Incidentally, some movies of last year's big cap race exhibited jo 40-4181 George Meer 81 Emory Zlmmerman44-41 85 Chuck 8prawklna AA-Al I. ten wno now wins neck or leg every time he stands on those frozen bed-slats is the same Bartell who will coddle himself all Winter for fear of getting an ingrown toe nail or some other serious ailment that might affect his game. Bartell has no fear of Sweet Wil liam Terry, his boss, because ne 5 knnws that Terrv will not believe one word of the report since he has not seen Dick skiing.

Contrary to common belief. Ty Cobb was not wearing pair of ikis yesterday when be shot his brilliant 98 in the San Francisco Open. Henry Armstrong's Kayo over Al Citrino last night, in which he Uoored the San Franciscan 14 times, jroved only one thing That boxing writers can count jbove 4en. Incidentally, I did not see: the Armstrong fight. I was making a Continued Page 15, Col.

6 39-42 81 John Foge 41-4081 Ky Laffoon 42-39 81 Wet. Miller 43-3881 Mrl Bablca 41-4081 Mike DeMassey Paul Jones Pat Markovltch Charlei Sheppard 41-40 81 xFred -Corvt -41-4081 Bill Narry Frank Toronto XmiL Alasbif Henry Plrard Vic. Ghezzi Ben Hogan Larry Brazil Byron Nelson Fred Wood 1. Harrleon Benny Colk Chandler Harper Ed. Wheadon Bud Williamson Adolnh Schultt 39- 4281 Ted Longworth -40-41-31 Gordon 40- 4181 Sam Puget 41- 41 82 George Scheniter 39- 43 82 Ted Robbins 43-39 82 Horton Smith 41- 41 82 xRlrhard Arlen 42- 40 82 Arthur Brooks 41- 4283 Al Zimmerman 42- 4183 Fred Schultz 42-4183 Iar McArthur 40- 4383 xTom Telfer 42-4183 Errie Ball 41- 4183 xFred Sherman Robert Root Jr.

All players not listed either tailed.