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ARMY EQUIP ENT DRIVE OPENS OD AY COHN-ING the police official and the inspector knows everyone. Particularly me Eagles of this Bay area. You see. Gene is president of the local Aerie. When Inspector Murphy volunteered to represent Eagles of Metrew By ALAN WARD Many generous, many vital offers of assistance, to the campaign to obtain athletie'equipment for Army camps of Northern California have VAUCD By Art Cohn IMitan OoHonH hntk in th rnllfYtinn nf Mlllinment and the StirOUUtQ -been made but none more appreciated nor timely than that of the 1 YY I-IV Sports.Iditor of members to a deeper cognizance of the campaign he made a stronjj contriDUBOn to a cause wmcn neeos aaaiuonaa workers And when Murphy gave assurance he would urge every Eagle of local aerie to bring with him to this week's meeting at least one piece The mail, such as it Is, is split about 50-50 these davs: fi new or used sports equipment he wasn't kidding.

half bills, half polls. And since my purse is as barren as my Sa a -1 1 uvul, a am preparcu 10 wise a iinancuu ana, or course, men' tal pauper's oath. I -v y- -t Then we -imagined we could give you additional help by acting as collection unit' Any householders on our regular routes who have such sports goods and want it delivered to you can turn it over to our representatives. "Naturally, we cannot answer individual calls, but we are in daily contact with a great many folks who certainly will want to give equipment to the soldier boys. I am sure we can prove of service by this doubling-up process." You certainly will perform a fine service not only to the drive sponsors but the boys in the.

Army camps. Dr. Flegal And thanks so much. A Suggestion to Public And so, Mr. and Mrs.

Metropolitan Oakland, if you have collected such equipment from forgotten corners of your home and want it to reach the proper point of distribution, hand it over to the Goodwill Industries trucks if you spot them. And if you don't well, you either can drop them around to the receiving depot at 1418 Franklin Street next to Sweet's Ballroom, or at one of the several other such depots in various parts of the city or fill out the coupon printed on one of these sports pages and mail it. Even while realizing the urgent need of Uncle Sam's nephews for The All-Oak Knoll: cues- a i -i Goodwill Industries. Had this drive originated prior to gas rationing the problem of collecting materials from residents of Oakland and surrounding communities would not have been paramount Today, marking official opening of the campaign, it -cannot be ignored. And because of that partial stalemate, the unsolicited offer from officials of Goodwill Industries to work hand-in-glove with sponsors of the campaign relieves a great tension.

The offer of the Goodwill Industries briefly is tbi Its trucks, making their regular rounds to collect wearing apparel and other materials for the needy, will accept donations of athletic equipment specified as being intended for-the Army boys, -and turn them over to the drive's downtown headquarters at 1416 Franklin Street The offer, whose value mar not appear quite as important to the casual observer as to those operating the sports equipment campaign, was made by Dr. Frank Porter Flegal, executive secretary of the Industries. uuuiiaues j. toss in we wasiepaper oasxei wiinout prejudice or hesitation. I am only one man.

(really); I'see only one game week; I am Hot qualified to pick the eleven best players from the 896,437 young men tunning loose on the Nation's -leave that to tne omniscient Grantland Rices of our profession. mea were is we Jusociatea, Press poll m-a -sports editor, am Inspector Murphy has a way of getting things done, whether it be ni police or fraternal duties, Norman Tauacher of the Crest-Pacific Company at 1212 Uth Avenue in East Oakland has offered the use of. his business establishment as a collection depot for the sports equipment Many East Oakland residents should find the location convenient All of the campaign's finances, and they are growing to a considerable figure, will be handled jointly by Manuel Duarte, one of the most indefatigable worker on the general committee, and Emmett Guisto of the Central Bank. Don't Former Main Depot And as a further reminder: That main down town receiving station at 1416 Fuanklin Street opened this morning to signalize the actual launching the drive. The office will be available to the public, with uniformed members of the A.

W.VJ5. in charge, each day this week between 8 ajn. and ep.m. Not only may athletic equipment and cash and checks be left with the attendants, but complete information on the campaign may be obtained there. obligated to fill and send to 50 Rockefeller Plan, New York City, before decern dot ia.

us iu lu xorget tfrmail It so I night as well answer uiv uoiiuwm questions jjere ana Who was the outstanding male athlete of the year! Answer: Enrol ITynn. 2. Who was the leading woman athlete? Purpose of Campaign Lauded It in the form of a telephone call. Dr. Flegal said: The campaign of yours is worthy and timely.

You know, we had sports equipment to wile away otherwise' lonesome hours, we stillYare well aware that not one gallon of gasoline, not one ounce of rubber Answerr That gimletyed Buesian gal sniper who knocked off 87 should be used unnecessarily. made arrangements to turn over to that campaign all athletic equipment which might have been donated to us rather than to your cause. Gene Murphy has entered the sports equipment drive in bis usual robust fashion. 'You see, a normal portion of the materials we gather for needy folks is of an athletic nature. Inspector Gene Murphy is his formal designation Everyone knows akiani tribune jwrte NO.

160 VOL CXXXVII- MONDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1942 26 Herman Will Second Romero in Bout Here wazu at a sitting. don't recall her name stil can remember today is Pearl Harbor. I. What was the outstanding team? Answer: General Eisenhower and Admiral Carton.

4. What was the outstanding comeback of the year? Answer The Westbay back who walked up to Stub Allison and solemnly asked him when ne Intended That was the greatest, comeback he came back nlive. s. What was the biggest sports surprise of the year? Answer: Failure of the Albany Race Track to reopen. 8.

Who or what was the biggest disappointment of the year? John I Sullivan against Errol Flynn. f-7. What was the oddest happening In sport? Answer: Gary Cooper's remarkable impersonation of Lou Gehrig. To make him left-handed hitter- (something Francis O'Doul failed to do), Hollywood technniciane reversed the. pictures.

To preserve, the illusion, everything was reversed In the sequences of Cooper at 'bat except hU hair, the part pf which kept jumping from-one side of' his head to the others Driven From Pillar ro Poll I "fro matter where you, go, someone slaw you dn, the face with AMERICAN LEAGUE HONORS PLAYERS questionnaire. Everyone attending the California-Pre-PUght. 'mismatch In Six-Round Go Wednesday Bandit Arrives for Smith Tilt; Sports Drive Will Benefit 7 By ALAN WARD The name of Romero is well ai jsericeiey Saturday was handed a document headed: "Questionnaire for College Football Spectators This questionnaire is submitted to you In an effort to get an honest appraisal of the place of college fpotball in wartime. Your opinion Is "olicited in an attempt to gather facts that will lend themselves to a reasonable settlement of the question. Will you fill out the questionnaire id mail it to Major John I Griffith, Intercollegiate Conference, Hotel -herman, Chicago?" Among the questions were: 1.

How old are you? -Now what the hell has that got to do with It? 2. How do you travel to games in thU sUdium train, auto, public 4 nveyance or, walk? Wouldn't the gas rationing board like to know? 3. Did you attend college? No, "but I just passed my Wasserman test And so we are driven from pillar to polL It seems 1 spend half time answering questionnaires of ote variety or, another. And. the half waiting In line at the bank.

Funny thing about that, it makes no difference which queue I pick, I am always the last to reach the cller'i window. There can be two people in one line end 87 in the next, can get right behind the two and No. 87 in the next line will make his deposit before I do. Every time. Back to those damn questionnaires, what discourages me is that no matter how well you answer questions, the rummy who asks them neve seems to become any smarter.

Praise the Lord and spare the Inquisition. represented on the Wednesday night Auditorium fight card. A Romero will appear in the main event and a Romero will take part in Wmn I i- "'''''J hVrrV -wjih: yVti? uilsf1fJIfi3ui I yv -i 1 I if lt U4f i 4 ii far It 1 "yA the curtain raiser. One is a veteran, the other is an up-and-coming kid. And both are Mexicans.

Pugilists from the land of the Rio Grande have proved their ability and courage so frequently in Oakland's and other rings that there is little need to dwell on the subject. The Romero fighting the main event is, of course, Johnny The i 7Mri I AiH'-f Hr" m' In W- aiwiwiiv-imT-iTi vitiHtial Bandit from San Diego, a socking southpaw who holds the light heavyweight champion of the State although in the Wednesday night bout with Bob Smith he will have stepped briefly into the heavy weight class. HAILS FROM LIVERMORE The Romero engaging in the cur tain raiser carries the given name of Ross. He currently resides in Livermore. -ResswiH fight Befmr ealiarOak- land lightweight, in the six-round opener, and the kid from Livermore Bandit Romero, Pug and Opera Nut I dropped in (I nearly said I dropped up until I remembered a devastating short story by Dorothy Parker on the subject-of dropping up) anyway, I dropped in at Duffy's Gym yesterday to check on my pugs who are appearing on the big fight show for" the benefit of the Service Men's Athletic Equipment Drive and the joint was crawling with stories, among other things.

It was good to tee Bandit Romero again. He hasn't fought around here since he was a middleweight Now he's the light-heavyweight champion of California, if that means anytjilng, and it Joesn't. He't templet, he has had more than 350 fights the las thirteen -years, he admits he was born in Old Mexico more than thirty years ago, but he's still one of the most wicked southpaws in the Romero was christened John but he's known as Bandit wherever leather Is thrown. how the name was hung on me he was saying. "I was just a punk kid.

My manager had a cousin nicknamed Bandit 'One day he went Fast and the gang around the gym said now that he's gone, we gotta have somebody to call Bandit. I was the only kid in sight to they said, hey you, from now on you're Bandit. And I was." Romero is the last of Joe Herman's fighters. Yeart ago, when Valley Joe was the most ambitious-and energetic manager in the business, he had thVwoHd WcWd" TOfl or another. Herman had to many pugs he couldn't remember their names." All are retired now all except Romero, the Perennial.

"I've been fighting 13 years," he admits, "and at long as there are as many bums around as now, I'll be going thirteen more. I've seen 'em all and the best of the lot was Tiger Flowers. Me, I never made much money but I had a lot of fun. One of the toughest fights ever had was in Tia Juana. I got five bucks Mexican money." Bandit confesses he has one weakness opera.

"Everybody in the racket laughs at me," he says, "but I don't give a damn. I know what I like. They think I'm tryln' to be high-hat but it ain't so, we can't help liking what we like. Gilbert and Sullivan is my favorite In the comic operas and in grand opera I like-Rossini. I buy all opera records." There is no pretense in Romero.

The love of music is universal. II Trovatore and Carmen are as beautiful in his cauliflower ears as to the polite society's most dignified patron of opera, probably more. "A guy can't help what he likes," Bandit repeats, apologetically. may have his hands full. is slightly on the pudgy side but he is tough as nails.

He punches and he can take a wallop. Benny scored a hit" with local fight fans when he gave Ernie Sanchez a trouncing to win on a fifth round T.K.O. the other night. Until that setback Sanchez had looked like one of Oakland's fair haired pugilistic boys. Ross Romero can do himself a great deal of good defeating Calla Wednesday evening.

WORKS AT GYM Bandit Romero, bearing many facial souvenirs of the numerous bouts in which he has engaged during the past several years, pulled Willlcnn Harridge, American League president attaches the name of Ted Lyons, Chicago While Sox hurler. to a plaque Installed to Honor players in military service. Ninety-two are on the defense service list with 88 on the plaque. A J. Wirephoto.

into town during the week-end and GAELS OUTPLAYED BY TITANS went to work yesterday at Harry Fine's Gymnasium. The Bandit sent word ahead that he wanted Joe Herman of this city, a widely known fistic figure, to second him for the Smith bout and supervise his preliminary training. Blevins Fights In S.F. Tonight McCorkindale, Wixson Also in Semi-Finals Of Transbay Tourney It isn't surprising to local follow Years ago Romero and Herman BUT WIN 2-0 IN KEZAR GAME Detroit Twice Misses Field Goals; Only 500 Spectators Witness Muddy Contest In the final analysis it's the score which counts, so the worked together. Each has complete confidence in the other's ability.

Roman Starr, who fights Tut Tabor of Oakland on a six-round bout under the Smith-Romero headliner, hails from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is half Indian. Revenge fact the Galloping Gaels were outplayed by the Titans of Detroit University yesterday at Kezar Stadium isn't especially CAN GAIN WISH ers of amateur boxing that the two Starr works at a local shipyard and is anxious to gain a spot in local significant. And the added fact the Gaels won by the narrow margin of 2-0 is made the more unimportant when it is realized the pugilism. He will if he defeats battlers attracting the most attention in the Golden Gloves tournament now under way in San Francisco would be Oaklanders. For several years simon pure boxers of this city have dominated the Tabor, a capable young middleweight whose name Is game not only was the last of the season for the Moragang, but was played to the season "fight." Starr's actual manager, if not his official pilot, is his wife.

His busi smallest crowd. ness is being nanmed Dy Norman their pair of digits and the ball game. The episode occurred early in the second quarter shortly after Johnny Smiley of San Francisco. The State Private Stanley Hasrato, who fights equally well in the Army and the ring, heads the prelim card of Wednesday's Athletic Equipment Drive fight show against Georgie' Evans. Podesto had kicked to the Detroit Transbay tourneys.

This year Robert Iee Blevins, heavyweight, and Jimmy McCorkindale are taking the play from the great majority of the other entrants. Blevins wears the acorn insignia of the Athens Athletic Club. McCorkindale is enrolled in the Golden Glover by Harry Fine, best known as a manager of professional fighters. Fine is stuck on his young middleweight However, he realizes it will be quite awhile before Jimmy does any professional fight Athletic Commission does not permit women to hold managers' licenses, although the boxing body cannot prevent the ladies from directing the activities of journeymen pugs from behind the scenes. 18-yard line.

PENALTY FOR HOLDING A holding penaJty put the Titans 300 Bond Among the accomplishments to date of Bandit Romero was his McSpaden Wins $1 on their own three. Jonn Lowtner, standing deep- in the end zone in Only a few more than 500 persons witnessed the contest, played on a field ankle deep in mud. Unfavorable weather conditions obviously was responsible for the sparse turn-out. The folks who stayed at home didn't miss much. A game played under such adverse conditions hardly could be spectacular.

MISS TWO CHANCES Twice the Titans had an opportunity to pick up three points, just enough to beat the Gaels, but they muffed those tries for field goals. As is indicated by the score, the Gael margin of victory was a safety, and that particular score was less the result of heady playing by the boys from St. Mary's than a bum punt formation, couldn't handle the low ball passed to him. Before he could get out into the clear Jim Powers and Tom Coll, respectively tackle and end for the Gaels had ing. Tpe young fellow goes into the armed service shortly.

Both Blevins and McCorkindale Hollywood knockout of Ray Actis. Ray will be remembered, and favorably, by ring fans of the Bay region. ACTIS COULD SOCK Actis called San Francisco his home. He was recognized 'as one of the hardest punchers the fight game has produced. He dropped Billy will see action In tonighrs semifinals at the San Francisco Audi broken through and tackled him Over in a corner, working on the heavy bag, is Bob Smith, a bullet-headed Negro, who fights Romero here Wednesday Gordon Croquet, one of the leading trainers and seconds in the village, tells you about his boy was.

working in New York a few years ago when this Smith boy came to me and asked me to manage him. He said he had quit his job at Reynolds Tobacco Factory down in North Carolina to be a fighter. I started him out in the amateur and he won the middleweight championship in the Golden Gloves. "He couldn't get much work so he became a sparring partner. He.

worked with Billy Conn, John Henry Lewis, Mello Bettina and those kind of fellows. Bob learned a lot. Then I came to Oakland and forgot all about Smith until last Fall" Harry Fine, who manages Mistah Smith, Duffy's Gym and sundry pugilistic items, interrupted That's right, Croques forgot all about Smith until he wanted to get even with Connie Norden. You see, Gordon handled Connie as an amateur. He started-him out trained him and coached him until he won all the heavyweight titles Including the National A.A.U.

championship in Boston, "Croques worked with Norden in all his early professional fights too. That is, until Connie started get into the money then he ditched Gordon. One day Gordon came to me and told me that he was tick over the deal he got from Norden. He also mentioned he was to mad he wanted to bring out a fighter, who knock off Norden. He said he knew just the fellow who could do it.

His name, he said, was Bob Smith So Fine end Croques Co. Imported the unknown Smith from New York, he promptly beat Norden's brains out and now' rules no worse than en even-money choice against the Stat light-heavyweight champ. It's a funny business. Wake Up and Sire. Well, It's launched- The Athletic Equipment Drive tor our boys In the service is under way, We want every piece of sports equipment you end you and you can give us.

That meant everything except the bats in your belfry. Bring your equipment to the headquarters at 1418 Franklin Street, next door to Sweet's Ballroom, or fill in the coupon printed on this page. Just let us know what equipment you have and we'll collect it A card or not Don't spare the equipment-lb boyt' ltf Ihe Army campi end Navy hospitals need it a helluva lot more than the mlce: who are. chewing IX la your cellar, attic or garage. And if you haven't any, 'you -'may CeoattMef t4e.S9,.CL I MIAMI, Dec.

7. (U.R) A $1000 war bond andu the Miami open golf championship belonged to Harold (Jug) McSpaden of Philadelphia today after he had compiled a total of 272 to win the first of the few major tournaments on the links program this Winter. The Titans tried for their field goals in the second and again in the fourth quarters, and perhaps the Detroiters logically can blame' the torium. Each is favored to win. Blevins' opponent will be Anthony Polack, a soldier stationed at Let-terman Hospital in San Francisco.

McCorkindale will take on Paul Eagleton of the Coast Guard. Continued Pare 27, Col. 1 field and ball conditions for their break for the Titans. inability- to eke out a victory. a oaa pass irom center, pro A third Oakland boxer of con- McSpaden carded a bi four under-par 66 on the final 18 holes yqsterday to make his tournament cards read 67-70-69-66272, just three strokes over Byron Nelson's winnirig score a year ago.

Nelson did not compete this year. second prize money in war bonds went to Johnny Revolta of Evanston, 111., who turned in a 68 yesterday and a total of 278 while Bob Hamilton, 26-year-old EVans-ville, pro, carded the second lowest score of the tourney, 67, to" move unexpectedly into third place, one stroke behind Revolta, Hamilton received $500 in bonds. Willie Turnesa, chief specialist at, the Naval Gunnery School, Hollywood. led the amateurs with 281. The former National amateur champion posted a final round card nf fifl to tie the tournament TmrA srobaly otThe aue to trie slippery qualities Continued Page 17, Got all being handled, gave the Gaels The initial attempt was from the Gael 17-yard line, after the Titans had advanced from their' own nine on a series of five first downs, one of which resulted from the umpire's TRIBUNE ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT DRIVE Oakland Tribune Sports Department I'm with you in your efforts to provide additional athletic equipment for U.S.

Army Camps in Northern California. Count on' me for'the following: Kind and Quantity of Equipment: SHORTAGE OF TOP GRID BACKS ruling of interference on a pass. KICK WAS TOO LOW Tackle John Hart's kick was right on the beam but too low. It passed between the uprights but under the So Scribe Selects All-Star Team Accordingly for simon pures established in 1938 by Earl Christiansen. Miami's coif bar.

Only minutes were left in the game when Detroit made it's second stab for three points. A pSss from Henry Piper to Donald Hughes was good for a 64-yard gain the most spectacular play of the afternoon, Cootinoed Page 17, Cot Name Address Cityi Phone CLIP, MAIL TO OAKLAND TRIBUNE, 13TH AND FRANKLIN STREETS. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA FORT WORTH. Doc. There weren't many good ball Of the Star Telegram said, so he picked his all-star team accordingly.

Hall's selection included two centers, four a tackle, two ends and two backs. ing detective. Turnesa received $87.50 as his share of the purse under a recent ruling which allowed amateurs to win up to $100 ia-waf bond prizes. j- carriers in the Southwest Conference this football season, Tlem Hall.