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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935 a rn 44 Gehrig, Greenherg Belt The WiUl Stviwzg -By PAUL GALLICOi Homers Before 65,000 By ROGER BIRTWELL. The Yanks have what it takes after all! Poohpoohed and ridiculed for recent complacent surrenders to St. Louis, the Bronx Bombers with their league lead at stake came surging back before a sweltering mob of 65,000, at the Stadium yesterday, overcame the handicap of first-inning homers by Cochrane and Greenberg and quelled the Tigers 7 to 5, for one of their few triumphs over Schoolboy Rowe. A homer by Gehrig offset the Bengals' early There will be so much baseball in the papers today, what with one thing or another, that I am going to permit myself the luxury of speculating on the forthcoming educational exhibit and free lecture in Chicago a few weeks hence, when Joe Louis, colored, from Detroit, and King Levinsky collaborate in a public demonstration of the manly art of self-defense. There will be a small fee charged to' witness the exhibition, but the running lecture that will accompany it and which will be delivered by Leaping Lena Levinsky will be free.

It is expected that students and scientists from all over the world will attend this demonstration because, as every one knows, Prof. Levinsky, over a period of years of study, laboratory work and experiment, has reduced boxing to an exact science. He has developed the wild swing, for instance, to a degree never before attained by any dabbler in the art of fisticuffs. It is with the wild swing that he hopes to annihilate his coworker in the exhibition. lead and the I anks momentarily forged to the fore.

The Tigers tied it at 4-all in the seventh, but McCarthy's magicians restored their advantage, with a 3-run rally in their half, with Chapman and Crosetti blasting in the scores. The Tigers won the second Mich Powders iVo. rime, 3 to 1. The Yanks maintained a league leai of half a game. With two down and a man on base, in the last of the ninth.

tort 4 RATTENT I -V Jit JL yS-hX YViTrtV "SMITH. "SMITH 3fc -a O-i George Selkirk saved the frame by leaping high against the right field fence to pull down Jo-Jo White's Bear-homer. Things looked bad for the Bronx-men as the first game began. Cochrane spilled one of Johnny Allen's hip-high pitches into the right field bleachers and Greenberg soared another into the stands, snappy two-run lead before oar boys could even gra" their bats. With Rowe New York's personal poison for the last two years mound, these homers looked like the ball game, until Green berg let a throw from Gehringer, on Rolf e's grounder, trickle from his hands.

With Red nfirst. Lou Gehrig tied the score with a 360 foot blow into a sea of shirts in rights center. It was Lou's sixteenth homer. Green-tserg's was No. 27.

For the next four innings Allen was invincible, mowing down the Bengals in order, ant Sammy four. The Yanks, meanwhile, picked up a run in the third and another in the sixth. Comb's single over (Continned on page 17) rr rf' A mutual friend told me that after Levinsky was knocked out by Baer, the great King complained bitterly that what had caused his downfall was that he had his wild swing nnder controL "The punch ain't no good to me if I know where it's going to land when I let it go," said Levinsky, and then made a really profound statement on the deeper mean, ing of the true element of surprise. He said: "It don't do no good if only the other guy is surprised. I gotta be surprised, too.

I gotta very frank'n open face. I gotta look the other guy in the eye all the time when I fight. I coulda landed my wild swing on a dime the night I box Baer, and I ain't no good when I'm that way." -It will be recalled that Jack Sharkey went to Chicago for a soft touch with the obese and uncouth Levinsky and was floored three times with rights to the jaw in the first round. The first time Levinsky was aiming at a guy in the back row. The second time he tried to knock Lena's hat off, and on the third one he closed both eyes.

All three landed flush on the point of Sharkey's chin and no one could convince Sharkey after the fight that there hadn't been some one behind him with a baseball bat. The pity of it is that Levinsky might have been a world's champion had he discovered his famous punch earlier in life. Lena, the Wonder Woman, had an inkling of it way back in the days when Levinsky was taking a licking from Max Baer in Madison Square Garden, and she screamed "Fight him from the distance. King; Fight him from the distance." Obviously the Wild Swing is of no use at close range. The King should preferably be about half the width of the ring away from his opponent, and it is even more effective if he can get a little run, like a javelin hurler, before he throws it.

"Manager Cochrane sloughed the first hone run of the day in the first inning and spiked the plate while Gehringer (No. 2) shouted congratulations AHTS.6- If 1 st A3 DAFF FAN SI fell Vttto.rWME. By JACK 31 1 LEY. St. Louis.

July 25. Your jittery Giants flopped out of first place today with a crash that echoed from the Polo Grounds to Timbuetoo. The Cardinals beat them, 6 1, in the opener of a double-header to usurp the National League lead by a half game. History repeated itself in the opener when Daffy Dean, who pitched St. Louis into 3K7 And Stay There: a pennant against Cincinnati last Sept.

29, hurled a four-hitter to put his team, for the first time this Summer, into the No. 1 niche the New Yorkers have occupied since April 27. In the second game the Giants were leading, I at the end of Lena is a foxy woman, and the new punch she is advertising1 for her brother, for the Louis fight, the right-upper-cross with a full twist in pike position, is nothing but a scientific name evolved to mask the same fatal weapon, the Wild Swing, and it is with the Wild Swing that Levinsky hopes to conquer Louis. And incidentally, Levinsky's sparring drills for the development of this punch are fascinating. He works with two sparring partners, let us say Smith and Jones in the ring at the same time.

He aims the wild swing at Smith. If he hits him it is a touchback, and counts a point for Smith, and Lena chides her brother gently, calling him a low, dirty, ah. we'll skip it, but if he hits Jones then it is a success. He then aims the next punch at Jones and flattens Smith. It is the same as the cross ruff in Bridge and in fact Levinsky once confided in me that that is where he got the idea.

He said "You know, if I was only lucky enough to be cross-eyed I could do it much better. If I lick Louis, I am gonna have a opera performed on me, to have my eyes crossed, so I can become champeen of the world." I realize that all this is very here and there and not entirely specific, but I have great faith in the Wild Swing if Levinsky can really get it out of control by the time he meets Louis. There is talk of a Delayed Wild Swing, in which the punch is started in the first round and doesn't land until the third, but you may set that down as press agent stuff and not to be believed. The plain Wild Swing, delivered either from the crouch or the prone position, is what will win for Levinsky if he is to win. Louis is certainly not to be hit with any right hand punch that he can see coming.

The Wild Swing is never seen at all except, as Lena would say, from a distance. It looks harmless and merely as though the King were fanning himself, or maybe winding up to throw home. Inasmuch as he is on the other side of the ring when he starts it, there is nothing to worry about. When you wake up, they tell jou what happened. the second inning.

A crowd of the biggest baseball crowd St. Louis has seen this year watched young Dean vanquish Tarzan Parmelee and his pals. During this debacle Daffy truck out a dozen Giants. Ducky Sled wick maced Parmeiee for two homers, one of these with a man on in the first. The Red Birds sloughed our slinger for seven sockaroos.

including a brace of doubles, and our fellows contributed four errors to the Cardinal cause. Bill Walker and AI Smith were the starting pitchers in the second arne. Pan I Blazing. In the opener Darfy doled feeble flies to Joe Moore ar.d Hughie Critx and struck out Terry in the first. Then the Cards grabbed a two-run lead on Whitehead's single and Medwick'a homer into the left field bleachers.

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