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v4 mm Wvlbmt COHN-ING thwfd By Art Cohn I TV tl Sports Editor vol exxxvn- NO. to 29 OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 25.

1942 ST. MARY'S HURLER FOR OPENING DAY Bears, Indians Luby Applies For Job With Police Force The big gray-haired man sighed a sigh of resignation. "You don't know how I felt," he said. "You couldn't understand unless you had a kid and he was determined to be a fighter. I tried to reason with him but it was useless.

Now he'll have to learn himself the hard way. "I know the business but he wouldn't believe me. I used to fight as an amateur, never as a professional, but I trained with Jim Corbett and fought enough to know that 999 out of a thousand get nothing but headaches and heartaches. "The kid made up his mind he was going to be a fighter and nothing I could say would change his mind. As a last resort I took him to Skid Row and pointed out the derelicts many of whom were once famous fighters.

I told him that's where he would wind up if he became a pug. But he wouldn't believe me. "And that's the way it is. He's not a natural fighter, he was never meant to light, but he is anyway. He's headstrong, nobody can de anything with him.

There was only one thing: his mother and I could do and we've done it "It's an awful thing to say. Art, but we're resigned to It. We are prepared to take care of him when he's walking on his heels and can't support himself. We might as well face the truth. And the truth is the more blows a man takes the punchier he gets.

The kid doesn't duck enough of 'em. Rule Favorites Cal Choice Over Gaels; Tribe Rated Over Washington State at Stanford; Effect of War on Crowds Is Awaited Oaks to Lose Star If Alameda Accepts 'Iron Man' as Officer Hugh Max Luby. 32, third base. By ALAN WARD man of the Oaks, today made ap Opening of the 1942 football campaign in these part plication to the Alameda Police De partment for a position as a patrol morrow should answer wnn a lair degree ol accuracy lartraur questions other than those involving directly the man. Should he pass tne civu serv asiunww of the Cauforma-bt.

Mary and btanlord and ice examinations next month and be accepted, it would mean his State games. ft Bruins' Meet. T.C.U. Today withdrawal from Pacific Coast The opening of the season tomorrow, with trie tfears 3 League baseball. tling the Galloping Gaels at Memorial Stadium and the In known to be mighty sweet pair.

As a patrolman, Luby would receive a monthly starting salary of $168, which would be increased to the maximum $199.50 at the end of dians swapping blocks and Sophomore backfield men atfjj "But for the sake of the kid, Art, don't write any of this unless you have to." That was many months ago. I never broke that confidence. But now I shall because now I must. Now it can do no harm but may do some good. And it cannot make the father and mother feel any worse than they already do Because the kid was knocked unconscious by a preliminary fighter here night before last.

Walter Tieberling was right. Hal had learned the hard way. H. Fieberling R.I.P. Six weeks ago he received $1322.28 for staying ten rounds with Connie Norden.

Wednesday night, in the same ring, he got $328.30 for being kayoed by Tim Heffernan halfway through the second round. So another illusion was destroyed. The first time I ever saw Fieberling I knew he couldn't fight a lick. I came back to the office and wrote that "Hal looks like Orson Welles and fights like him." It's a shameful confession to make but I let his manager, Ray Carton, pected to play dominant robBfJ three years. He is married and has two children, Danny, 6, and Joan, 4.

the traditional Sear-Gael tackles with the Cougars at Palo Alto, probably will give a logical reply to two queries which have puzzled the pigskin public for some little time. They live at 1031 Eagle Avenue, Alameda. He is a native of Idaho. California will place not siderable field duties on be Luby last Sunday was honored by 71S9 fans who turned out to neophyte fullback. Art In the order of their importance while the Gaels will place Inrersecrionol Idea Featured in L.A.

For Grid Openers watch him play in his 706th and 707th consecutive games in the Oaks responsibility on Gonzales the interrogations are: rieht halfback with a Ilarr for i 1 What effect, if any, will the vs. Seattle double-header. Hundreds of dollars worth of gifts and mer ing fullback when necessity lit THINKS WELL OPJHOJ war have pn attendance at football games? Coach Stub Allison of the chandise awards were presented him in tribute to his consistent play and his personal popularity. 2 Will Jim Jurkovich, problem while making no flat-footed child of the Bear squad, be able to He joined the Oaks in 1938, com diction that Honeggtr will By MAXWELL STILES LOS ANGELES, Sept 25. This is the twilight of the football gods.

The first twilight football game we can remember in Pacific Coast history starts at 4 p.m. when Babe Horrell's Bruins square off against Horned Frogs of Texas Christian. ing here as part payment for Dario sophomore back of the ye stand up under the particular punishment dished out on a football field? indicated the youngster has Lodigianl, second baseman, who was sold to the Philadelphia Ath thing it takes to fill the i Coach Phelan, who cha As the crowds go tomorrow at letics for $12,000 and several players. Starting with the 1939 season, cally says exactly what he Berkeley and Stanford, so may they go the balance of the playing season. is less conservative in hit Luby began his remarkable record We've had afternoon football and night football, and now we're hav of Morales, a San MAY HAVE TOPPED JINX of never missing a game, surpassing the previous mark established in ing a choice between twilight foot Phelan, speaking vividly and 1 ball and putting on the nosebag at And by the same token, if Jurko antly before 300 St Marra I rami 1913-17 by Walter Schaller of the San Francisco club of 678 consecu the usual dinner hour.

vlch comes through the opener en yesterday at the Palace A lots of folks will get off work lauded Morales to the ak tive contests. just in time to come rushing out to Billy Relnhard, left without a recurrence of the injury which midway of last season caused him to be benched, there will be reason to believe the straightaway definitely is out of tomorrei the Coliseum to see the second half. By that time the winner may have been decided, and the boys will test with a shoulder injury. 5 means Frank Porto will start 1 runner who plays left halfback may wish they had saved their rubber, halfback and Jurkovich wtO petsf have shaken loose the physical jinx TROY MEETS TULANE which hexed him. auxiliary role.

The intersectlonal complex of the LACKING IN KESEBVm opening week-end in Southern Call If wagering were an exact barometer of victory or loss, the Gaels tomorrow would be due for a drub Phelan's squad, while fornia will be completed tomorrow reserves, may be expected when the Trojans entertain Tulane. bing while the Cougars would have scrappy and tough an as T.C.U. is a two touchdown fav nothing to show for their trip from as its new pilot successor to Mattr1 the. Northwest but a ride on the (Red) Strader who In his tat3 orite over U.C.LA A majority believe that U.S.C should conquer Tulane by a train. over from Slip Madigan.

While Jimmy is looking The Indians have been established 2-1 favorite to defeat Coach Babe Texas Christian is the only team Compagno, converted front half to a fullback, to punch The Kid's Last Fight (We Hope) Hollingbery squad, but a more MMlnL. conservative football element in that last year was able to defeat mighty Texas, which later defeated the Bear line, and Morales talk me Into believing Hal could fight. The only excuse I can offer, feeble as it is, is that Carlen is a friend of mine and I'm a sucker for a sists the odds are based more on some plain and fancy rut Stimson Holds Parley With Army Head WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. IP) Secretary Stimson and Maj.

Gen. Alexander D. Surles conferred for more than an hour today over arrangements for the Joe Louis-Billy Conn fight, without announcing any change in plans. They summoned to a late-day conference John Kieran, New York sports writer, chairman of the sports writer committee of War Boxing, which is making arrangements for the October 12 heavyweight title fight at the Yankee Stadium. Surles is chief of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau, and Kieran said yesterday at New York any statement was "up to General Surles." Stimson said yesterday he was "shocked" over details of the arrangements and would investigate.

sheer sentiment than common sense. both Texas M. and Oregon (71 7). Even granting that the Long will lean heavily on the good con man. Carlen is a great con man.

And those 3 Vi-1 odds on the Bears' doJSf3 Johnny Podesto from Mo horns were looking out the window, Carlen is also a bum judge of fighters. He is not cold-blooded enough, he's too emotional. He falls in love with his fighters, that's bad. He make those prevailing odefc ridiculous. babies them, that's worse.

He doesn't want to know how good they are to humble Coach Jimmy Phelan's Galloping Gaels are considered in some parts not to be entirely substantial. BEAT INDIANS LAST YEAR Mr 1 1 Phelan, in his transby talk, 1 a challenge directly into the I he won't put them to the test That is why he is forever prowling the highways looking for stumblebums, has-beens, never-wases and sundry the Bears in general and StukJL son in particular, declaring hit humoty-dumptys to pad the records of his meal tickets. The Cougar bunch essentially is He feeds 'em mush tankers like Crash Clinton and that makes it the same which whipped Stanford feared no one, especially CaltiJSlL PERSONNEL IS THE tAMM The personnel situation rtSr 14-13 last year. all the tougher for his boy when ultimately he faces someone who True, Billy Sewell and Dale Gen dor not collapse by mental telepathy. Fieberling, like his predecessor, Lou Nova, has no fighting in try no loneer are in the lineu'B.

umi unchanged at Stanford, where but Halfback Jay Stoves and Full chie Schwartz will make his stinct. He is just an overgrown, good-natured kid who never had any back Bob Kennedy have regained love for the ring only a greed for the easy money It would bring him their eligibility and Hollingbery is Continued Page II, or more probably at Life Magazine, still it was quite a feat. It was accomplished in the last minute of the game when, with the score tied at 7-7, "Littleman" Dean Bagley scooted all over and across the field and back again in the year's most amazing run. When Bagley was through, so was Texas. Bagley plays here tonight He's 153 pounds of poison, and one of the reasons why a lot of folks will want to come out.

Bagley doesn't break loose very often, but when he does he's a one-man flea circus. George Phillips, passing, kicking and ball carrying ace of the Bruin backfield, is said to be out of the game with a knee injury. That hurts. With both Phillips and Bob Water-field, the Bruins had a chance. Without Phillips, it's hard to see where they can stand up against the Frogs.

TULANE LOST TALENT Tulane brings West some of the He has a bovine temperament, a chin you couldn't miss and two left feet He must never be allowed inside a ring again. Hal was lucky he was only knocked unconscious the other night. He mi'iht have been killed. JIM BRADDOCK TtcvcaBrca Johnny Podesto, St Mary's back, will be ont of the keyinen in the grid opener with California at Berkeley tomorrow. Podesto Is Phelan's past ace.

Tribune photo. Another Sports Skofi prttiHUtHm I Told Ya So Dept. 'i here is no room fop sentiment in the fight racket. I should know that by now but I don't. As long as I was mesmerized by Carlen I couldn't see Fieberling for what he really was.

And I wasn't alone. Ha went into the ring a 2 to 1 favorite over Heffernan. Luckily, I came out of the coma a week ago and reported in last best backs in the business. The AND MANAGER ARMY OFFICERS NEW YORK. Sept.

25. fP) The fight game's oldest and most enduring friendship, between ex-Heavyweight Champion Jim Brad-dock and Manager Joe Gould, has been going on for 15 years and now it's going right into Uncle Sam's Army, intact. The "Cinderella man" and the little fellow who managed him and 'ballyhoo is that the present Tulane How to have that easy-going Western look -and feel just backfield is better than the one that played U.S.C. in the Rose Bowl BROOKLYN ON SPOT TODAY AS ST. LOUIS MARKS TIME Cooper Shuts Out Cincinnati to Cinch At Least Tie for Pennant for Cards By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Presa Staff Correspondent a decade ago.

I don't believe it. Maybe Lou Thomas is as good as Don Zimmerman, but if there's any body in the Coliseum this week-end who can carry the ball like "Wop" as comfortable still pels around with him have been commissioned 8s first lieu Glover of that Rose Bowl thriller, his name is Dean Bagley. And Dean Bagley doesn't happen to be playing for Tulane. NEW YORK, Sept. 25.

(U.R The tenants in the longshoremen's battalion of the Army Transport There's no particular reason for They're to report for action Oc favoring the Trojans, other than that Tulane is supposed to have lost so many good men by graduation that tober 2, and, just like Jim all through his fistic career, they asked for assignment to a combat zone. the problem of building a new team seems to be greater at Tulane than at U.S.C. The Trojans were In-and- There a typical Braddock touch The Dodgers have chosen Veteran Curt Davis, who hasn't pitched since September 13, when he lost to the Reds, to keep their flag hopes alive today. He will be opposed by the Braves' Al Javery, who has won 12 while losing 15. Davis has hurled 15 wins.

St. Louis registered a set of sparkling statistics with their triumph over the Reds. For Cooper, who allowed only two hits, fanned six. walked none and faced only 29 batters, it was the 22nd victory of the year, the 10th shutoutr-both big Brooklyn Dodgers stood squarely "on the spot" today as the zero hour in the National League flag race drew nearer. It was entirely up to the runner-up Dodgers who play the Boston Braves at Ebbetti Field while the Cards are idle whether the senior circuit flag goes to St.

Louis for the first time in eight years or whether the clinching goes over until tomorrow when the Red Birds return to action. St. Louis clinched at least a tie out last year, playing like chumps to the work he'll do in the Army. He was offered a physical instructor's befth. one week and nearly beating -a great Notre Came team the next.

'What do I want that he said, refusing. It is that team of the Notre Dame game, and most of it is back in harness, that folks think of as meeting Then he was asked if he'd like to hook up with the longshoremen's; and beating Tulane. battalion. league records his second straight "Longshoremen? That's the docks. Yeah, that's for me." Phils Buy Sluggtr PHILADELPHIA.

Sept. li-iP)- Sunday Cohn-ing Tower: "I have no confidence Fieberling can lick anyone, least of all a tough, two-fisted slugger like Heffernan." The odds remained 2 to 1, everyone thought Cohn was hitting the pipe again. "Let Carlen laugh all he wants," I repeated In Monday's column, Tim picking Heffernan to win." The odds continued at 2-1. I was right and the odds were wrong, Fieberling was no match for Heffernan. "I've been waiting for that boy since Dempsey." Tommy Simpson, the dean of fight promoters, said that as he watched Tim polish off Feeb.

"There hasn't been a good Irish heavy since Dempsey," Simpson grunted, "and he wasn't Irish." Simpson followed that enigmatic remark with this: high time someone came along and gave us Irishmen a good name. I'm sick of paying nobody but Mexicans and Negroes for our main events. It's bad enough the Irish are accused of not wanting to fight in the war, let alone not being able to fight anywhere else. Maybe Heffernan is our man." He was Wednesday night but I'm not going overboard on him yet After all. it doesn't mean anything any more when a Carlen heavyweight is knocked out A Real Scrap Heap On Page 1 our Mr.

J. Noble Is imploring you to toss in old corsets, iron lungs and your mother-in-law's brass for Donald Nelson's scrap metil drive Now Mr Noble is a bright young man even if I couldn't make a sports writer out of him and I've been trying my damndesf to help him out by shaming the Oaks Into contributing the lead in their pants and. of course, Hugh Luby their Iron Man. Mr. Noble asks for old sinks and license plates, Pegler is yapping fur yimr automobile bumpers but I have some scrap metal lined up that will make them look like bushers.

All right, Mr. Nelson, how would you like 80 TONS of structural steel. Plus 150 TONS of reinforcing steel. Plus 100.000 square feet of roofing steel. Plus 35,000 square feet of ferro-enamel tteel.

There's more but that will de for a starter. And It's yours, Mr. Nelson. give you the Albany Race Track. It is serving no useful purpose as it stands.

Not that It ever did. The hosses ran there five days and moved out. The Army took it over for a while but lost little time in moving out Even the seagulls and termites have served notice of their intention to move. Slip Madigan bought the joint for $1000 plus debts but hasn't been able to get a nickel out of it If be can't nobody can. There may never be another race at Albany so why not put those thousands of tons of steel into bombs, bombs and more bombs? Levc-1 all the race tracks if you must, Mr.

Nelson, if it will shorten this war a single hour. Come to think of it we've had the wrong idea in California Pre-Flight Teams The Phils announced yesterday the purchase of Roberto Ortiz. Chatta Cancel Grid Game nooga outfielder who led the South shutout, seventh victory in a row and third in the last four games. BE8T SINCE 1909 For the Cardinals, it was the 104th win of the year, best total of any National League club since the Pittsburgh Pirates of 1909, their fourth in a row, their 41st decision in the last 49 games and their 15th victory over the Reds. St.

Louis slammed Ray Starr and Joe Beggs for 10 hits and was helped by three Cincinnati errors. Stan IOWA CITY, Sept. 25 --'P ern Association batting this season with an average of .357. for the pennant yesterday by blanking the Cincinnati Reds, 6-0. while the Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves.

5-3. The victory drew the Red Birds, who have two more games with the Chicago Cubs, to within one victory or one Dodger defeat of the flag. THREE TO GO The Dodgers have three games remaining, one with the Braves and two at Philadelphia, but even if they wore to win all three and the Cards were to drop two, the final standing would give both clubs 104 victories against 50 defeats. The Iowa Seahawk-St. Mary's pre-flight school footgame same, scheduled for Iowa City.

October 24. has been canceled because of transpor MAJOR STANDINGS tation difficulties. Lieut. Col. Bernie Birrman's Sea-hawks will play Nebraska November, 21 In their only home game.

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Louis 82 69 .543 20 Cleveland 73 78 .43 29 Detroit 73 79 .40 29V4 Chicago (15 82 .442 39 Washington 82 89 .411 40 Philadelphia 55 99 .357 48 YESTERDAYS RESULTS Chicago 3-4, Cleveland 1-2. ITS called the "Lanac" and it's designed after California tanchweat with hand-whipped edges and podteu. NOT EVEN FIGHT COMMITTEEMEN KNOW WHY Kieran, Cuddy in Dark Over Stimson's Probe ITS made ot very fine rayon gabardine that's. and thai lecl even imoother than tt ITS an In-nd outci ((an be fotn Only games scheduled. By JACK CUDDY NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK, Sept.

25. (U.B statement by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson who suddenly announced that ha would personally Club wV L. Pet. 5S The widely advertised Louis-Conn IT th son ot thin am iooiu well tb St Louis "WW heavyweight title fight October 12 nuke youi week cads and eveainjs aJcet can assure him that plenty of our citizens were surprised to put it mildly because of the fact that one full wet St was required from the time of the pay-off announcement to the date when Secretary Stimson got the full details.

investigate the "shocking" detain 101 so 2Vi has been wafted into such gov Mi of the scheduled tight between Sft. Joe Louis and Corp. Billy Conn. IS 68 19 ernmental detour that even John Brooklyn New York Cincinnati Chicago 7 74 .907 27 Kieran of the New York Times- We are virtually In the same 68 84 .447 38 Instead of putting the Japs in the race tracks, we should put the radio quiz program expert can't And there is the suspicion that pep up with the answer. race tracks in the Japs.

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