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iAUfcJ EIGHT EVENING HERALD, SHENANDOAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1945. CAMPFlip? Mexico to Have Athletic Arena; 'Coney Island9 for All Sports SCHOLASTIC BASKETBALL CPORTC JPUTTERINGJ By WALTER L. JOHNS Central Press Sports Editor Rams Meet Ashland High Friday Night Mahanoy Twp. at Gilberton Girardville at Frackville; St. Clair Visits Butler Summit Hill Faces Shens Here Tonight Mauch Chunk at Mahanoy City Tomorrow; Tamaqua at Nesquehoning; Blythe Away IWIMIMnilllBMIlKlfl I ll I I TT There should be only two unbeaten quintets In the North Schuylkill League following tomorrow night's four-game Card, and it appears as if it will be Mahanoy Township and Frackville.

The Purple Larks face the tougher opposition when they run up against Gilberton ,011 the latter's court. Both clubs emerged victorious in their two loop scraps to date. The Larks, however, will rule as ihe favorites. FRACKS MEET ACES Frackville, winner of two league tilts, will play host to Girardville, which has been beaten twice in league competition. The Fracks should gain the verdict in this one.

Ashland will visit West Mahanoy Township. The Black Diamonds have yet to cop a league game, while the Rams split in their, two battles. This one looks like a victory for the townshippers." The other skirmilh will feature St. Clair at Butler Township. The Saints are still looking for their first triumph in the circuit, while the townshippers boast a record of one and one.

stadium 'round and 'round it goet mer 'national senator and congress' LEAGUE STANDINGS The standings to date: 1 W. L. Pet. Frackville 2 0 1.000 Mahanoy Twp. 2 0 1.000 Gilberton 2 I 1.000 West Mah.

Twp. 1 1 .500 Butler Twp. 1 1 .000 St. Clair .............0 2 .000 Girardville 0 2 .000 Ashland 0 2 Even more novel to Mexicans, who now have to climb Popacatepetl to find, ice outside of a glass, will be the introduction of ice-skating as an amateur sport, with of course, professional instructors. Fronton cciurts for Mexico's popular game of jai lai will have seats for 7,000 vspectatorsv OTHER THINGS, TOO The City of Sports will also have a bicycle racing track, 50 bowling alleys, a motion picture theater with 3,000 seats and a restaurant.

AH these attractions will be open to the public in general. An underground parking space of several floors will provide room for 5,000 cars. Probably the only club In the world to provide for its members a "Coney Island" type of amusement park with a variety of side shows and concessions, will occupy a fair share of the "City" area. Unique also will be a sand beach and ocean waves, just like Coney Island, for the enjoyment of members. waves won't be natural ones a machine does the trick but the effect is there.

The club roster is expected to achieve 25,000 members, of whom will be able to dine 'and dance at one time in the clubhouse. Others club features will include an outdoor Olympic swimming pool, tennis, handball, basketball and jai lai courts. CONEY GAVE HIM IDEA Moving spirit and director of the huge enterprise is a Mexican, part Syrian, lawyer Neguib Simon, for LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS Reading Catholic 29, Girardlvlle Catholic. 23. TONIGHT Mountain League St Ann's (Freeland) at Ringtown.

NuretmVrg at Weatherly. Rock Glen at East Chunk. South Schuylkill League Reilly Twp. at Orwigsburg. Minersville at Schuylkill Haven.

Pine Grove at Cass Twp. Branch Twp at Tremont. TOMORROW NIGHT North Schuylkill League at West Mahanoy. Twp. Girardville at Frackville.

Mahanoy Twp. at Gilberton. St. Clair at Butler Twp. Black Diamond League Mauch Chunk at Mahanoy City.

Tamaqua at Nesquehoning. Blythe Twp. at Lansford. East Penn League Easton at Allentown, -Pottsville at Bethlehem. South Schuylkill League Port Carbon at Hegins Twp.

Keystone League Coal Tvp. at Mt. Carmel Twp. Conyngham Twp at Mt. Carmel.

Kulpmont 'at St. Joseph's Girardville Yields, 29-23, 'After Stubborn Battle Girardville Catholic High waged a stubborn battle against a favored Reading Catholic High quintet last night at Girardville, but was finally forced to yield by a 29-23 count. Both teams walked off the floor at half-time with the score knotted at five apiece. However, the visitors moved ahead' in the third period when they registered 11 counters to five for St. Joseph's.

Each club racked up 13 markers in the final frame. The box score: GIRARDVILLE CATHOLIC V.F.G. Fls. F.T.Fts. .........1 4 7 6 Snyder, f.

1 0 2 Carduff, f. 11 3 3 J. Purcell, f. 0 0 0 0 A. Purcell, c.

1 0 0 2 Colihan, g. 1 2 3 4 Daley, g. 2 2 5 6 Totals 7 9 18 23 READING CATHOLIC F.G. Fls. F.T.Pts.

Alexander, f. 0 3 .4 3 O'Neill, f. 0 0 0 0 Tarnoski, f. 4 1 2 9 Lawlor, c. 4 0 2 8 Sroka, c.

2 3 9 7 Milaner, 0 2 3 2 Saupee, g. l. 0 0 1 0 Kase, g. 0 0 0 0 Totals .......10 9 21 29 Score by periods: Girardville 2 3 5 1323 Reading 3 2 11 1329 Referee Griffiths. Umpire Carey.

Army Cagers Drub Swarthmore, 70-36 w'est Point, N. Jan. 11. (O.R) The Army basketball Cadets took up the victory string of their predecessors today, running it to 17 straight oer three seasons with an opening victory over Swathmore College, 70 to 36, yesterday. The initial triumph, added to the 15-game perfect record season of a year ago and a single victory at the end of 1943, established one Of the longest winning streaks in West Point history.

1 Doug Kenna, a backfield star on Army's unbeaten football team, converted his talents to the basketball floor and led the scoring with 28 points, making 13 field goals and two free throws. Momentous Meeting Is Held by N.C.A.A. Columbus, Jan. 11. (U.R) The National Collegiate Athletic Association, faced With the responsibility of perpetuating at least a token sports program for the duration and with: making long range" plans for the return of American Doughboys, went, into the most momentous annual meeting in its history today.

More than 1,000 faculty representatives, football coaches and other collegiate sports personalities were scheduled to attend the three-day sessions. The American Coaches Association and the College Physical Education Association held their annual meetings in connection with the N.C.A.A. sessions. If CORN The Silent Places If you're one of those outdoors men who get their biggest thrill out of lolling about in a rowboat of a warm summer day or toting a gun through the stubble on a fall hunt for upland birds, but don't care much for winter outings, you're missing something. I'm not referring to the he-man sort of project that involves show-shoeing for mjles into the hinterland, weighed down with a heavy pack, or keping vigil on an array of tip-ups during a spell of sub-zero weather in hopes of hauling a few crap-pies through the ice.

Those and similar diversions have their point and are worth the time and energy expended upon them. But there's another sort of winter sport that appeals alike to the tired business man, the lazy philosopher and the war plant or other worker who's held his nose tight against the grindstone for a long time and yearns for a little peace and quiet. JUST LOAF It's a simple procedure. All you do is arrange for the use of a cabin, as deep in the wilderness as you can find one accessible to bus, rail or, if you have the cdupons, auto travel. Maybe you'll be lucky enough td lease the shack where you spent a week or so laet summer, It has to be fairly well insulated against the cold, contain a fat-bellied stove that gets raspberry red when you pile wood into it, and be equipped with a few simple cooking uten- mattresses.

You can pack in your grub and a couple of blankets or a sleeping bag and, if you like to read, two or three books or magazines. SNOW CASTLE Then you just loaf around, stoke-the fire, eat, read, go on some hikes through the woods and sleep. The summer camper who's never trekked to the woods during the cold season will find nature in a mood very different from that to which he's accustomed. Your summer cabin, will be metamorphosed into a snow castle before which stretches a windy waste of snow and ice the lake you portabled about last July. You can peer deep into the forest how, and follow game trails through cedar swamp and upland hardwoods without fear of getting lost.

With a strange panorama unfolding before you, and untrammeled by the responsibility of having to catch the limit or a lunker before vou en home, you'll learn more about the outdoors in a few short hours than you've acquired during weeks of summer vacationing. Your world will be shroUded in white silence for an interval, broken perhaps by the hoot of a horned owl or some Other eery call in the winter night Cavalcade of Talent In 1945 Ice-Capades Hershey, Jan. 11. Headlining a cavalcade of talented variety stars old favorites and new faces and with a wonderland of hundreds of gorgeous new costumes, unique scenic effects and haunting music, the lavish Ice-Capades of 1945 will make its fifth annual pilgrimage to the Hershey Sports Arena, open-: ing'on Friday, February 2. There will be 10 performances in all, with two matinees on February 3 and 10, the ice revue closing on Saturday, February 10, with no Sunday performances.

The night performances will be 'at 8:30 p. m. and the matinees, at 2:15. Among the popular ice favorites who have thrilled audiences here before are dynamic red -headed Don- na Atwood; the mellow and exhilarating pair Markkus and Thomas; the queen of jugglers, Trixie; the rhythmic Jimmy Lawrence, and the painted wizard of the ice. Red McCarthy.

Robinson Cools Off Furrone in Two Heats Washington, Jan. 11. Ray (Sugar) Robinson of New York, the uncrowned king of the welterweights, put his 46th victory in 47 starts into the books today, with Billy Furrone of Philadelphia his latest victim in two rounds of their scheduled 10-rgund bout here last night. Robinson, a 5 to I favorite, con nected with the knockout punch after two minutes and 28 seconds of the second round, The Harlem Negro kept Furrone back-pedalling from the start Furrone, also a Negro, never landed a solid punch. Robinson weighed 146 pounds, Furrone 148.

London Boxes Mills Feb. 19 London, Jan. 11. (U.R) Jack Lon don, -British heavyweight champion, and Freddie, Mills, the dethroned titleholder, agreed to meet in a ten-round non-title bout at Royal Albert Hall on February 19. The title will not be at stake because London is expected to outweigh Mills, who still holds the British cruiserweight title, by more than 30 pounds.

Both men are R.A.F. sergeants. Russell to Coach at S.M.U. Dallas, Jan. 11.

H. N. (Rusty) Russell, of Dallas, who has coached high school football for more than 20 years, signed a contract to coach Southern Methodist University un til the return of Matty Bell. Bell is in the Navy. BWed-4H SmootltHtU Rcfrathinf WhohiMn Buy War Bond FUHRMANN ft SCHMIBT BREWING COMPANY Ihiwnhtn, Pa.

BEER I (1 i nur.fi I Sports Parade Tale of Cinderella-Kid NEWS NIFTY Lawrence Peters of N. recently shot at a deer with' his 30-30 rifle. Imagine his surprise when he found he had killed two deer with the one shot. Dear, dear, double or nothing! GO SLOW, NO DOE 1 Perhaps this fuy ought to change his name to Ray PetersI SOCCER American Soccer League says that soccer; probably will be hit least by the new War Manpower Commission orders. For the' most part, the game has been drained of its 18 to 26 players.

On the anniversary of Pearl in 1944, the American Soccer League had 172 players in. service. BASEBALL 1 Garbark brothers, Mike of the Tanks and Bob of the A's, fin- ished the 1944 campaign with an identical batting average, 61. Not Mike and Ike, but they bat alike! FOOTBALL Bernie Bierman, who has been tin active duty with the U. Marine Corps since 1941, takes over as Minnesota football coach again on January 17.

Bierman has handled Gopher football for ten years. In that time he produced six Big 10 champions. BASKETBALL Youngest player on the Michigan State basketball squad is the heaviest. He's Charles -Frankel, 17, who weighs 205 pounds. Great Lakes has a real ball hawk.

He Is. Herbert Ball, formerly of Western Kentucky. Orient Martella, former gridder and boxer at Penn State, is coaching the Wac cage team at Camp Lee, Va. HOCKEY Earl Siebert, star defenseman of the Chicago Black Hawk hockey team recently sold to the Detroit Red Wings, has been playing hockey for 15 years. He has been selected on every all-star team since the 1933 season.

HORSE RACING Calumet Farm (Warren Wright) once again led the stables as No. 1 money-winner on' the turf in 1944. Calumet Farm purses won totaled $601,660, with Twilight Tear and Pensive drawing in the big A dough. Stud fee for Whirlaway is $1,500,, with bookings beiitg taken for 1947. Baron Jack, second highest priced yearling' of '43 was bought for $33,000 and earned a meager $4,440.

Contrast that with-Free for All, the John Marsch Derby hope, which cost $11,000 and won $109,575. Do you bet on the favorites? You should have been at Wheeling Downs last June 1, for the favorite won every race on the cafd that day. So reveals the Racing Form. QUIZ Is a batted ballthat touches first or second base and then bounds foul a fair hit? Answer: Yes. WHAT'S COMING National- Collegiate Athletic Association meeting in Columbus, January 12-13.

Pro Grid Moguls Delay 1945 Plans Chicago, Jan. 11. (UMS-I-The National Football League marked time along with other professional sports today to wait until the government definitely decides the future of wartime professional athletics. Despite the vigorous protests of Owner George P. Marshall of the Washington Redskins, the rest of the league's ten club owners and officials voted yesterday to sit tight and hot discuss 1945 plans until the White House or- Congress clarifies its wishes regarding the continuance of spirts, The pro football leaders abruptly adjourned their annual' meeting yesterday after less than three hours, the owners explaining "there is little sense in, laying plans for a football season nine months away when he don't even know what will happen from day to Action" on the player draft, 1945 schedule, franchise applications, rule suggestions and other hnsinpss nse deferred until April, when the league owners will gather in New West, Orioles' Ace, in Navy Baltimore, Jan.

ll. Manager Tommy Thomas of the International League Baltimore Orioles announced that pitcher Stan. West, who won 19 games for the baseball club last season, has been indurtaH Intn thn Navy. West now is stationed at the ureal Laxes in aval Training station. ODDS SAY HE'LL WORK A New York, Jan.

1L (U.PJ In the week since racing was banned, the War Manpower Commission may have ushered several bookmakers into war jobs without knowing It Yesterday, the commission knew it. "I'm a bookie," said the applicant, "and I want war Job." He filled out the proper form and left hi a hurry. The odds in favor of his going to work are toy heavy. Idle since last week, Shenandoah High will resume its Black Diamond League schedule tonight when it tangles with Summit Hill' in the Roosevelt gymnasium. The preliminary starts at 7 and the main event one hour later.

v. The Blue Devils, who have yet to win a game after dropping four exhibition and three loop encounters, will face a tough opponent In the Hillers, who are tied for second place with three triumphs out of four tilts. THREE TILTS FRIDAY Three engagements are listed for tomorrow night. The league-leading Mahanoy City High dribblers will entertain Mauch Chunk, Maroons have been successful in all three league contests, while the Chunkers clicked in two out of three frays. The in-and-out Tamaqua High quintet wil lvisit Nesquehoning.

The Blue Raiders, who are hot one night and cold the next, have broke even in 'four league skirmishes, while the Nesquers were dusted off by Mahanoy Cty after annexing two league victories. BLYTHE AT LANSFORD In the other fracas, Blythe Township, beaten four times, invades Lansford, which sports a record of on victory and three setbacks. The league standings to date: W. Pet. Mahanoy City i 3 0- 1.000 Coaldale 3 1 .750 Summit Hill 3 1 .750 Nesquehoning 2 '1 .667 Mauch Chunk 2 1 .667 Tamaqua 2 2 .500 Lansford 1 3 .250 0 3 .000 Blythe 0 4 .000 Muhlenberg Upset By Temple, 58-47 Jan.

11. (U.R) Temple University's powerful basketball team tumbled Muhlenberg College from the ranks of the unbeaten here last night with a stirring 58-47 triumph. The Temple victory snapped Muhlenberg's win streak at 11 and gave the Philadelphians their straight, and eighth decision in hine starts for the season. Playmaker Jerry Rullo, with 13 points, and lanky Bill Budd and Dave Fox, with 12 points each, led a late first-half Temple drive to gain a 27-21 edge. The same trio, aided by Jimmy Joyce and mite Bill Nelson, peppered the basket with consistency in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a rout.

Oscar (Red) Baldwin and Jim Doran, with 12 points each, spearheaded Muhlenberg's attack. Racing Dope Sheet', Suspends Publication Chicago, Jan. 11. (U.R) The Racing Form, long-established liorse racing dope sheet, announced today suspension of its Wednesday paper for an indefinite period, indicating that the present ban on racing in the United States may force it to shut down entirely for the duration. The Form, which publishes six days a week, missed its first day more than 40 years yesterday when it failed to publish "because there were no results or past per formances to print." This year marks the 50th anni versary of the paper, but one spokesman said, "I don't know what we'll do now, it all depends on the next few months." College Basketball Scores Temple 58.

Muhlenberg 47. Penn 65, Ursinus 52. Villanova 39, Franklin Mar shall 37. Albright 57, Lehigh 47. Bucknell 37, Olmsted Field 28.

St. Joseph's (Philadelphia) 58. New Castle Air Base 37. Haverford 37, Dickinson 25. Navy 70, Maryland 33.

Army 70, Swarthmore 36. Virginia 43, Virginia Military In stitute 24. Penn State 50, University of Mexico 29. Great Lakes Naval 81. Glenview Air Base 59.

City College of New York 48, Syr acuse 42. North Carolina State 58, William Mary 37. Manhattan Beach Coast Guard 45. Brooklyn College 43. Columbia 44, Princeton 43.

U. S. Merchant Marine Academy 60, Union Junior College, Cranford, N. J. 26.

Sampson Naval 29, St. Law rence 31. i Illinois Tech 55, North Central 36. West Virginia 65, Long Island Uni versity 56. Bates 76, Dow Field 54.

Mississippi College 30, Mississippi State 19. Pittsburgh 59, Carnegie Tech 45. Newberry 44, Furman 29. Worcester Poly 52, Harvard 45. Hobart 51, Clarkson 41.

Georgia. Tech 41, Georgia Pre- Flight 35. Akron 56, Case 26. Yale 53, Trinity 41. Notre Dame 49, Iowa Pre-Flight 44.

North Carolina Pre-Flight 49, Duke 45. Fort Bragg, N. C. 50, Wake For est 33. Brown 72, M.I.T.

57. Harvard 48, Boston Univer sity 43. Western Kentucky 44, Louisville University 41. Southern California 75, Los Ala- mitos Naval Air Station 49. Morrison Gets Snavely Post Montgomery, Jan.

11. Coach Ray Morrison, of Temple, replaced Carl Snavely, of Cornell, on the northern coaching staff for the Blue-Gray football series. Snavely has signed a contract at North Carolina to start next fall, and thus will become a southern coach. Morrison, quarterback at Vanderbilt under the late Dan McGugin. coached at Southern Methodist after his graduation and later returned to Vanderbilt as head mentor.

Hershey Ties Cleveland, 44 Barons Pick Up Point on Leading Indianapolis Caps By United Press The Cleveland Barons were the only team to emerge with a net gain today after a pair of tie games in the American League hockey race last night. Cleveland picked up a point on the leading Indianapolis Caps in the Western Division race by tying the Hershey Bears, 4 to 4. Buffalo, the Eastern, leader, had a 3 to 3 tie with Providence, the tail-end club in that sector. LOU TRUDEL GLEAMS Lou Trudel scored three out of four of the Barons' goals, two of them in the second period. Hershey took a 3 to 1 lead in the first period, but Cleveland tied it up in the second; making three goals while Hershey made one.

Neither scored in the third period. Providence took an early lead in its game at Buffalo with three goals in the first period while the' Bisons picked up one in each period, tying the score shortly before the end of the game. Shuffleboard Loop Leaders to Collide A match between the two top teams will feature the Shuffleboard League bill tonieht in Uritis" Hntel This contest, scheduled for 10 o'ciock, will bring together Przy-blick's Gasers and Skumin's Barflies. The Gasers. With 12 triiimrhs and three losses, are perched, atop tne standings, while the Barflies are in second place with 10 victories and four defeats.

The opening game, at 8:30 o'clock, will highlight Malloy's Grade A'ers, entrenched in last place, and the third-Dlace Nabo's Bnllrinss. The second tilt, at 9:15 o'clock, will tne Herald inkers and Mirockes Truckers, while the final match, at 10:45. will brine together Cnnnia's Aths and Shustack's Hams. The standings to date: T. Pts Pnt Przyblick's Gasers .12 3 290 .800.

Barflies .10 4 200 .714 Nabo's Bulldogs ...10 5 275 .667 Shustack's Hams 9 6 285 .600 Miroeke's Truckers 7 7 IfiR Herald Inkers 7 8 Z56 .460 Concie's Aths 7 8 252 .460 Malloy's Grade A'ers 1 12 18 D69 Bobcat to Fight Feb. 13 Los Angeles, 11. (U.R) Bob Montgomery, New York's version of the world's lightweight champion, is slated to show his wares locally on February. 13 against either Bobby Yeager or Nick Moran at the Olympic Matchmaker Babe McCoy said today. mm 48 The Mexico City, Jan.

11. That care' free Capitalaman habit of hopping in the family car or an overcrowd ed bus for a two-hour Sunday, jaunt to Cuernavaca, Cuatla or other playtime centers may disappear into the limbo, for Mexico City is going to have a sports center so vast and visionary that it promises to revo-lutionaize the week-end habits of mother, father and the young folks, Ground already has been broken for "La Ciudad de Deportes" (City of Sports) which will cover more than two square, miles in the suburbs of the city. The which will be open to the public in 15 months, will combine all the features of Soldiers Field, Madison Square Gar den and Coney Islandenough to occupy Mr. and Mrs. Mexico from dawn to midnight.

It will 1 RUGBY STADIUM A Rugby football stadium for 60,000 persons, in which after the war it is expected that British as vell as Latin American teams will compete with Mexico's best. A bull ring 'in which 45,000 per sons will witness the performance of famous toreros of Mexico. South America and Spain. An arena seating 25,000 spectators. for prize fights, wrestling and bas ketball which Americans and Mexicans will Ice hockey, with international teams, will be introduced for the first time in Mexico, the games to be held in the arena.

Here also Mexico will be initiated to the spectacle of the professional ice ballet. Long Island Upset 65-56 West Virginia Mountaineers Surprise Blackbirds New York, Jan. 11. (U.R) West Virginia's "Fire-Hoss" basketeers went back to the mountains today with the assurance that they will be welcome guests whenever they return to Madison Square Garden, because of the colorful manner in which they scored a 65 to 56 major upset victory over the Long Island University Blackbirds. The Mountaineers, six to eight-point underdogs, put on a whirl- wind finish after trailing, 34 to 29, at half time.

Led by Center Leland Byrd, who made 20 points, they cut Long Island's usually tight zone defense to ribbons. Bob Carroll was runner-up scorer for West Virginia, with 17 points. Carl Meinhold, Ha-zleton, led Long Island with 16 points. DECLINE FREE THROW New York, Jan. 11.

(U.R) Coach Nat Holman of the. City College basketball team revealed today that he had deliberately instructed one of his players, Bill Levine, to decline a free throw in order to prevent bookmakers from making a clean sweep on bets in the C.C.N. Y.Syracuse game -at Madison Square Garden last night. City College was a six to eight- point which meant that bookmakers had given Syracuse bettors six points, but had taken eight points on bets by City College supporters. At the time of the foul on LeVine, late in tne game, city led by six points.

Had Levine been nermitted to shoot and make the free throw, the game probably would have ended with City College seven points ahead, giving the bookmakers winning bets on both sides. City College won, 48-42. "When it gets to the point where bookmakers instead of the coaches try to run the game, college bas ketball will be in baa Hol man said. "This time I Just happened. to know the betting odds and I didn't want to give them any satisfaction." Penn Relays Hinge On Ruling by O.D.T.

Philadelphia, Jan. II. (U.R) The question of whether the 51st annual University of Pennsylvania Relay Carnival will be held April 27-28, as-planned, hinged today on final interpretation of the Omce or De fense Transportation ban on con ventions and large gatherings. Athletic Director H. Jamison Swarts said the O.D.T.

was expected to elaborate on its week and that continued preparation for the relays awaited government action. Swarts said that last year the carnival remained within the' bounds of metropolitan Philadelphia almost exclusively. At least 95 per cent of the 15,000 fans came from Phila delphia, Swarts said, while 90 per cent of the competing colleges came from within a 100-mile radius of the city. man and at one time secretary of his home state, Yucatan. His four brothers, Eduardo, Antonio, Alberto and Amado, are associated with him.

Neguib Simon had been toying for many years with the idea of creating a giant sports center of a kind Mexico City had never ha4 i He had always beep interested in sports, and when he was younger was adept at baseball, wrestling and ai 1 my frequent trips to New he said, "I used to visit Coney Island. 1 saw how people could spend the whole day ther amusing themselves. That's why I decided to plan a projett big enough to include all kinds of amusements as well as sports." BUYS WASTE LAND In Mexico City on his way to the office he used to pass by a great area of waste land within the city limits. It seemed' the ideal location for his dream of a sports city. So six years ago he began to buy up land.

The Star Manufacturing Company of Mexico, headed by an American, Harry Lyons, loaned money for the construction which they are doing, and which will cost between 20 and 25 million pesos. Excavation was started in May by Morrison and Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and the City of Sports is expected to open within 15 months. After that date, perhaps Mexico City's week-end nomads may decide to seek their fun in the Capital. was born. Widow Eagan and her five boys moved to Longmont, a cattle and beet-sugar town.

Struggling to live and learn, Eddie became interested in boxing in high school. During his one year at Denver he won the western amateur middleweight title. WON MANY LAUEELS Then came the first World War, and Lieutenant Eagan's post-Armistice triumph at Paris, winning the middleweight championship of the A.E.F. Gene Tunney won the light heavy laurels. in the U.S.A., at Yale, he won the national amateur heavyweight title at Boston in 1920, followed quickly by the Olympic light heavy crown at Antwerp, Belgium.

Then came a-year at Harvard Law School, and a Rhodes scholarship that sent him to Oxford in England, where he, won the British amateur heavyweight title. Leaving Oxford In 1925, he went on a world exhibition tour with several British gentlemen- boxers, including the Marquis of Clydesdale now the Duke of Hamilton, on whose Scotland -estate. Rudolph Hess landed. In '26, he 'helped friend Tunney groom for his second Dempsey fight at Chicago. Then law and real estate in New York, and his marriage to Miss Colgate in '27, They now have a son of 15 and a daughter of 13.

In '32, he was a member of the four-man bobsled team that won the Olympic title at Lake Placid. N. 'giving him the unprecedented distinction of being an Olympic champion in two different sports. AIR FORCE He served five years as assistant U. S.

district attorney for Southern New York; then returned to private practice, which he gave up to enter the Air Force for his second war. During almost three years as chief of Special Service for Air Transport Commands he visited nearly every part of the world there are U. S. air bases. The Cinderella kid from Colorado certainly went places; but, brother, he's entering a new world (of "skullduggery) now.

Name Army Gridmen National Champions Los Angeles, Jan. 11. (U.P The Army football team was selected by the Helms Athletic Foundation as 1944 national champions, and Army Halfback Glenn Davis of La Verne, Calif, was named play er of the year. "The '4l Army eleven would: rank with the greatest collegiate teams of all time," the Foundation said, pointing out it was the first college team to soar over the 500-point mark in the last 20 years. Shines as Basketeer Johq Pucetas, of Millerstown, formerly of Mahanoy Plane, is a star guard on the Millerstown quintet.

In a recent game his team walloped New Bloomfleld, 65-21, and John accounted for eight counters. By JACK CUDDY New York, Jan, 11. (U.R) Eddie Eagan, a poor Colorado boy who rode amateur boxing gloves to wealth and social prominence, will be named chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission today by Governor Dewey. Eagan of the Yale-Harvard-Oxford broad succeeds John J. Phclan, an ex-General who held the important pugilistic post for 13 years.

Democrat Phelan's last term expired January 1. Doubtless the $7,500 annual salary is np objective for six-foot Eddie, the former Olympic and A.E.F. boxing champion who became a New York attorney and husband of Margaret Colgate of the soap millions. Eagan, 46, and recently retired as an air-force Lieutenant Colonel, probably hopes to use the cauliflower job as a political springboard, as did Jim Farley, who was chairman before Phelan. BULLY BOYS SURPRISED The bully boys of Jacobs' Beach are pleasantly surprised that Dewey has chosen a boxing boss who is conversant with the technique of leather-tossing.

General Phelan was respected for his honest efforts to keep the sport clean; but the former brassier manufacturer was a complete bust in clarifying rules or violations. Although Edward Patrick Francis Eagan never belted for bucks, he should understand the art of mit-mayhem because he stands out as the most performer in amateur ring his- i tory. Moreover, Be sparred. gratis with such notables as Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Tommy Oibbons and Tom Heeney. He even wrote a book: "Fighting for Fun.

This 193-pounder, with the graying brown hair, who lives in a handsome "mansion at Rye, N. admits frankly that his proficiency with the gloves provided the basis of his Tunnel-like rise in life. The Cinderella-man's story began in Denver, where his father a railroad man died shortly after Eddie Billy Fox in Army; Philly Bout Cancelled Philadelphia, Jan. 11. (U.R) The bout -between Billy Fox, Philadelphia, and Vic Dellicurti, New York, scheduled for' Monday, January 22, has been cancelled following the induction of Fox into the S.

Army, Promoter Herman Taylor announced. A ten-round match between Maxie Berger, Montreal, welterweight champion of Canada, and Ike Williams, Trenton lightweight, will take the place of the canceled Fox-Delliciu-ti bout A Weight stipulation of 145 pounds will be maintained for the match, Taylor disclosed. The bill will include a ten.round contest between Archie Wilmer, Wilmington, and Irish Billy ililler, Pittsburgh. '-v 1 HERO AND HERO-WORSHIP Harvard Hodgkins, the 17-year-old Maine boy who gave the FBI the first clue which led to the capture of two German saboteurs, meets his big hero, Babe Ruth, while in New York. The former baseball star autographs a baseball for the youth above.

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