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CCCC TUESDAY, JANUARY 26,1 943 17 Got 6 a I rner unces Kid Earl Wins I 'J 1 1 I The Low Shaughnessy Choynski Succumbs Accepts Handily Both Battlers Suffer Cut Eyes Famed Boxer Dies Bv PRESCOTT SULLIVAN Pitt Post i i urn ii ii Quits Maryland For $12,500 Job I fl Probably the most anonymous job in sport is that of. In East at 74 CINCINNATI Jan. 25. (INS) Joe Choynski, 74, veteran 168 pound heavyweight fighter, whose fistic By Eddie Muller Making one of his best fights, Earl Turner, Rich PITTSBURGH, Jan. career dated back to the bare (AP) The board of trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, by unanimous vote to mond's young colored welterweight, battered out a ten knuckle days of 1884, died today In Cincinnati after a year's illness.

night, authorized the appoint nr oirll ment of Clark D. Shaughnessy as head football coach at Pitt round decision over Louis "Kid" Cocoa, veteran of 200 ring bouts In a savage battle staged last night in Civic Auditorium. Fast, aggressive and sharp. Turner chalked up a point total of 60 to the Kid's 50 and there wasn't a dissenting voice in the with the rank of "full professor." Shaughnessy, earlier in the the pin setter. His name might be Fred or Harvey or Mortimer and he might be 60 years old but bowlers know him only as "Boy." Unseen in the darkness of the pit in which he works he makes five or six bucks for an eight hour shift, sometimes when he feels like hustling extra hard, hauls down as much as twelve.

His is no easy chore. During the course of the average working day he will lift some thirty tons of wood and plastic material out of which the bowling ball is fashioned. The constant stooping and lifting is a strain on the back. A man unused to the work might cork out after a dozen games. But the pin setter, hardened to the business, often sets up 100 games in a single shift.

His services are in great demand. He can go anywhere where bowling is played, hang up his hat and start to work. There is a shortage of his kind everywhere, Ralph Paski, who is pin captain at the Downtown Bowl, hires 85 to 90 pin setters daily. That, he says, isn't quite enough, but it's the best he can do and, by encouraging the "boys" to work overtime, he manages to get by. One of Paski's "boys" set up 132 games the other night.

For He is survived by his widow; three brothers, Morris, Herbert and Edward, the latter of Sar. Francisco, and one sister. Funeral arrangements are pending. day, had announced his resigna tion as coach at the University of Maryland to accept the post Choynski was rated the great-! here. II I I -v II I house when Referee Frankie Brown raised the Richmond lad's A veteran of twenty-nine years of college coaching at Tulane, New Orleans Loyola, Chicago, blood soaked hand.

est of all Jewish heavyweights and fought the roughest and biggest men of his era, although he was only a light heavyweight, according to modern class stand Turner weighed Cocoa Kid. 148. Stanford and Maryland, he has been credited with first introduc It was a bitter, gruelling af ing in college ranks at Stanford the famous backfield for fair. Both warriors left the ring with cuts about the eyes. ards.

Born November 8, 1868, at San Francisco, where his father was a Government official, he became mation. the first eight hours he was paid D'j cents a game, after that he Shaugnessy becomes the tenth head coach of the Panthers, since they started the gridiron sport in an outstanding amateur in his teens and started as a profession al In 1888. He became Jim Cor- bett's chief rival in a bitter feud GENE oARAZEN Slated For S. F. 1904.

He is the first nongraduate to hold the position since Glenn S. (Pop) Warner, who coached that lasted for years in their native California. here from 1915 through 1923. Dr. John Bain (Jock) Sutherland took Off the Fairway SKINTIGHT GLOVES.

Turner received a slight gash on his left eye near the end of the second and was again cut over the right optic in the ninth. The was badly banged up when Earl ripped open a deep gash on his right eye in the sixth round. KID TAKES LACING. It was in this chapter that Tut-ner, fighting like a tiger, administered a bad beating to the invader. Ripping and tearing, he charged into his rival and plastered him with a volley of head blows.

One left hook Kpnt th Kirl sninnino- The rivalry reached its height over after Warner and carried in June, 1889, when they engaged in their historic battle on a barge on until 1938. SUCCEEDS BOWSER, got 12 cents a game. That fellow did all right. Paski, himself a former pin boy, tells us that the pin setters can be grouped into three broad classes. There are those to whom pin setting is a career.

Mostly, they are old timers who speak knowingly of the places they've worked and the things they've seen Tops among pin setters, they are caller "pin-eroos." Then there are the transients, who turn to pin setting in order to get eating money enough to see them to another job. A third group is composed of winos. To them a day's work is the price they must pay for a stinking sherry "heat." Paski is pleased to report that this type is growing scarcer. Dependable men, many of them with families to support, are crowding them out of the business. The new coach succeeds Char at Benicia, and Choynski was knocked out in the twenty-seventh NotedAces Play Here round.

BOTH GONE of that famed barge fight off Benicia, Joe Choynski and James J. Corbett are shown above, left to right, as the San Francisco old timers knew them. Choynski passed away yesterday in Cincinnati at 71. Corbett died ten years ago. ley Bowser, who followed Suth-therland as director of the Panthers.

Bowser's contract expires That fight was waged with March 15 and he expects to be skintight gloves, as were some of Choynski's other encounters with the best heavyweights of his By Harry M. Hay Ward, Into the ropes. Never letting up in the Navy by then. Jimmy Hagan, athletic director San Francisco golfing fans may time Bob Fitzsimmons. Gus in his furious attack Earl sent both fists into the Kid's features Recently, Paski's help problem has been eased somewhat by at Pitt, disclosed that he had suggested hiring Shaughnessy Ruhlin, Kid McCoy, Tom Sharkey, Shadow IKuxing soon see a two time muonai and when the gash bled profusely, after the athletic board of con Open champion and the world's reter Maher, Jim Jeffries, Jack Johnson and Dan Creedon.

volunteers from our armed forces. Sailors, soldiers and occasionally marines pick up extra dough in their off hours by setting pins in the Downtown Bowl. Paski is grateful for their help, wishes more of them would trol some time ago expressed a greatest trick shot artist in ac Referee Brown stopped the bout and called into the ring the commissioner doctor to examine the Long before Johnson had at desire to get "the best coach Corbett-Choynski Go tion here for the benefit of the tracted attention as the future heavyweight champion, Choynski report to work. Although pin setters are unionized, their local wound. He instructed the arbiter possible" to succeed Bowser.

Hagan reiterated that the hir American Red Cross. to let it continue. Plans call for an early spring knocked out the big Negro at Gal isn't hard to deal with. Dues are 8 cents per working day, payable right now. ing of such a big name coach Seconds in the Cocoa Kid's cor appearance by the 1922 and 1932 veston, and both landed in jail for breaking the law prohibit does not Pitt intends to modify its "Simon pure" amateur Pin setters have their likes and dislikes.

Even though it means picking up more pins, they prefer working with good ner worked feverishly during the rest period and managed to close American Open champ, Gene Sarazen, and the guy who can On Barge Recalled By Eddie Mullcr ing prize fights. bowlers to working for novices. literally hit a golf ball backwards TOURED WITH JOHN L. practices in football, which are by agreement, under the supervision of the high commissioner The good bowler maXes more strikes, completes the game in over his shoulder Joe Kirkwood Choynski toured with John L. fewer rolls.

Thus, the pin setter can get in more games, make News of the forthcoming event Sullivan, boxing three round exhi of the Western (Big Ten) Football more dough. Memorable ring events, recorded before the turn of the was the most interesting out bitions, continued meeting all Injuries are frequent in the business, although few. of them Conference. PROGRAM. SEVERE.

growth of yesterday's general comers and finally went into re century, an era which historians refer to as the "Golden Age of Boxing in California," produced colorful characters whose tirement in 1904. meeting of the Northern Califor are serious. A pin setter may be conked by a flying pin or hit by a rolling ball. Most of their wounds are dismissed with an oath. Sutherland resigned as coach nia Pro Golf Association held at Unlike many of the bruisers of the gash temporarily.

When they started the seventh, Turner started aiming for the in jury and again it spurted blood. However, the Kid using a stiff jab outboxed Earl in the seventh and did likewise in the eighth and ninth which were close. FAST FINISH. But Turner, as we said before, was in rare form last night and he really poured it on to the last canto. He didn't give the tiring Cocoa four years ago, saying he fel deeds will live long.

tmmmmmmmmmmmmm'mTmm'Tmm As a rule, the pin setter keeps right on working. the Bellevue Hotel. Pin setting is one field which the ladies have not invaded to One of the most prominent of, fmtm t4i Appearance or the famed pair any noticeable extent not in San Francisco, at any rate. here will be but one of a series of Paski's hiring list at the Downtown Bowl contains the name the era when two ounce and skin tight gloves were used and fights were held in virtual secrecy to elude the police, Choynski was highly intelligent and well read in the classics, and often in his them was Joe Choynski. He died yesterday in Cincinnati exhibitions to be given by them of one lady pin setter, but he hasn't let the lady work at the trade.

throughout the Nation under at the age of 74. i. XI Li lUn( auspices of the National Pro Golf Association and local subsidiaries.1 correspondence referred to some Instead, he has found another job for her around the jernt. He explains: "I'm not squeamish, but the bowling pit is no place for a lady. "The 'boys don't use nice language." a moment rest as he worked in Just who will join Sarazen and quotation to make a point.

rust, utuugia mat. tun mind is the ofttold story of the famous fight on the barge near Benicia, June 5, 1889. ivirKwood tneir local appear He came to Cincinnati eight Filter St. Mary's St. Mary's College yesterday enrolled two of San Francisco's outstanding prep athletes of the past year.

One was Jimmy Baker from Poly High who joins his all-city basketball mates, Ernie rilihertl and Al Conti, at Mo-raga. AH three were first string all-city cagers in '42 and were the chief factors In Poly's ance, or at which course it will be years ago. the clinches with a two fisted attack. He had the fight in hand but he wanted to make it more convincing, so he didn't stop punching for the full three min Pitt's de-emphasizing program was so severe he did not believe adequate material would be available to give its teams an even chance against scheduled opponents. Shanghnessy, who Is expected to get between $10,000 and $12,500 a year, said in a visit here over the weekend he expected no change in Pitt's athletic policy.

"I think Pitt has a fine setup and that it has the proper Ideals," he said. think its fine to have good athletic teams but I like to see the athletes come from the sudent body in a natural manner. "I believe in selling the school to the athletes, not In hiring athletes." Our campus correspondent brings word that dear old San Fran Joe Choynski and Jim Corbett cisco State is at the point of naming a Miss Barbara Sumski sports made, remain matters of conjecture. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that movie men Bing Crosby and Bobe Hope utes. editor of the school paper.

As such, she would be the first member Bobo Bounces Brown Around fought twenty-seven rounds with skin tight gloves. Corbett was 21. Choynski 19. They wrote his of the weaker sex to hold that office at the local institution. will be on the supporting cast.

Asked to what she attributed her success, Miss Sumski said There is also a chance that briefly. "To the draft." THRILLING BOUT. The contest was much more thrilling than the Booker-Chase and Lunny-Costantino fights. There was sharp punching on both sides. Turner, of course, in National Open Champion Craig tory into the crowded pages of ring annals.

It's a story that's been told innumerable times. In a colorful, descriptive manner, Tim McGrath, BALTIMORE, Jan. 25. (AP) Wood will be a member of the entourage this depending upon If the University of Pittsburgh wants to continue its football de-emphasis program it couldn't have picked a better man for the Harry Bobo, recognized by the Columbus (O.) Boxing Commission as duration heavvweieht Job than Clark Dan'l Shaughnessy. drive to a tie for the champion-ship in 1941 and outright possession last season.

Baker was the leading scorer last year. Filll)ertl and Conti are playing with the Gael basketball varsity and Baker will be eligible to join them immediately. Also from Poly came Gordon Gray, stellar second string all-city end. Baker and Gray are enrolled In the Navy's V-l program. famed trainer of.

that time, has rated the "barge fight" as one of the classics of ail time. flicted the most damage with his vaunted left hook. He stood up well under some solid smashes to the jaw and wrist deep blows which the Kid champion won all the late rounds to take a fifteen round decison to Good old "Soup" got such excellent results at Loyola and Chicago that both those schools not only de-emphasized football whether or not a hack injury responds to treatments. He had a "crick" in that back for sonic time. WANT TO RETURN.

Both Hope and Crosby had previously expressed their willingness to return here for just such Red Cross or other war benefit night from Alf (Big By) Brown, but gave it up, entirely. Jose Basora Hands Walker Trouncing 1'OLICE AUHIVE. dug into his midsection. Chased out of Fairfax, where the Maryland Boxing Commission's successor to Joe Louis' vacated title. Ring experience probably saved PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

the Kid from hitting the deck in law enforcement otneers naitea their fight after four rounds, (AP) Jose Basora, Puerto Rican In the early going, Brown, De promoters conceived the idea ot that thrilling sixth canto. He was hurt and the blood which streamed down his face obstruct from New York, won an easy ten round decision from Johnny exhibitions. rescheduling the match on the O'Gara Will Lead Camp Roberts Five troit Negro, had an even break. He had the Pittsburgh Negro on the floor for a seven count in the barge. Corbett was declared tne Walker, Philadelphia Negro, in tricks.

He knew how to hit cor rectly. ed his view. Yet he managed to Other war benefit exhibitions are tentatively planned by the local pros as their part of the winner in the twenty-seventh fifth round with a flurry of rights During his twenty years in the and lefts to the head. round. Oldtimers tell you Choynsli National P.

G. A. program, al ring he never wore a bandage and, strange as it may seem, thought most of them are in the was one of the freaks of the game. He never weighed more "dream" stage as yet. never injured his hands.

Cage Scores evade a lethal wallop. THREE IN ROW. Indian Doug Wilson of Carson City, Nev made it three in a row over Frankie Marino, San Francisco middleweight in the semifinal of six rounds. Eddie Hudson ran second best in another six rounder with Al His brother, Edwin Coe, who than 168 pounds yet he was sunn kst Hopefully being "dreamed" of, for instance, is an exhibition resides told us yesterday powerful puncher. He was one the windup of a boxing show that drew 8,000 fans tonight.

Basora weighed 156, Walker 156U. Johnny Hutchinson, 132, Philadelphia, knocked out Mike Bel-loise, 130, New York, in a minute and forty-six seconds of the second round, and Gus Dorazio, 194, lost a split decision to Herbert Marshall, 185. Georgie Larover, 137 li, won the decision from Joey Genovese, 129, in six rounds. It was Larover's twenty-fourth straight victory. which would involve the appear of the most remarkable boxers how Joe, who was ten years his senior, started on a professional ance of Bobby Jones and Walter and fighters of his time.

Purdue 68. Ohio Siaie 3R. Minnesota 4 7, Nurthweatem 4ti. Loyola (Chicago) 45, Ht. Loui Univ.

35. Grpat Lakes (i4. Univ. of Chicago 35-Xotre Dame 45. Butter 34.

Indiana 64, Iowa 43. Oklahoma 59, Eighteenth Field Artillery (Fort Sill) 55. Creighton 60, Olatha Naval Air Base ii. Ha gen. career.

As a youth, he worked as a Professional Harold Sampson. candy puller, and while working It was about a year aftcV he had performed in amateur at his trade, he developed a of the California Golf Club proposed such an exhibition at the Penn 3s, Upper Iowa 3o. Spencer, New Orleans Negro. Spencer gave his rival a fairly good going over in the clinches. Eddie wasn't strong enough to matches that Choynski was train marvelous pair of arms and A 4 I KOITH Virginia Poly 44.

Xavy Pre-Flight 40. shoulders. (Continued on Page 19, Col. 1) ing a local heavyweight for what was called a "coast championship CAMP ROBERTS, Jan. 25 Corporal Les O'Gara, former all-American ace, will lead Camp Roberts infantrymen into San Francisco's Civic Auditorium Wednesday night to clash with Harlem Globe Trotters in the final game of a triple header.

1 O'Gara, who will start at center, was named on the second ail-American quintet when he played with the national championship 20th Century-Fox team in 1941. He was all-state player at Pasadena Junior College before joining the Hollywood squad. Lieut Alfred P. Strozdas, coach of the infantry replacement training center team, announced the following starting lineup: Corporal Earl Johnson, former St Mary's star and ex-Boston Red Oldies tell you he was a student of boxing. He mastered all the University of Arizona 65.

Arlaona State at Flagstaff 23. cope with his more experienced opponent in this style of fighting. After a shaky first round in which he receipted for a body thumping Jackie Reed, Los Angeles lightweight, came back in Italic Until Doubts Major Leagues Will Finish Season IIACKENSACK (X. Jan. closing rounds to outbox.

match." Gamboleers of the day saw Joe's charge take a boxing lesson from Choynski nearly every day in training. They didn't want to lose the money placed as a purse. So they had the fighter claim he had injured a hand when he showed up on fight night. Angered because the fight was off, the oppponent, who was from Noted Bear Gridder of 1890's Dies at Vallejo Lawrence C. Kaarsberg, one ot During his last season at Call Sox pitching ace, and Sergt Bob the University of California's fornia.

where he was an honor most famous gridiron fgures, died student, Kaarsberg played on a yesterday at Vallejo. He was 66, team which was unscored upon Los Angeles, challenged "Anyone in the house." Choynski's backers urged him to accept. They thought he could George Ybarra of Oakland in gaining a four round decision. AngottAgrees To Box Jack PATERSON (N. Jan.

25. (INS) Sammy Angott, undefeated retired world lightweight champion, will be ready for a comeback in about four weeks under terms sot forth by the National Boxing Association, Ab Greene, N. B. A. president, art- and death came at the Vallejo until defeated by Carlisle, 2-0, in General Hospital following a the last game.

win with ease. Joe, reluctant at Curry, Indiana player forwards: O'Gara, center; Corporal Lloyd Holmes and Sergt. Evart Henry, Ohio professional, guards. The Infantrynien are undefeated in three starts after whipping California Poly, 41 to 35, and 48 to 32, and Salinas Jaysee, 55 to 27. heart attack a week ago.

Following graduation he served Kaarsberg played fullback in as assistant coach, later went to the late '90's and was nicknamed Mare Island Navy Yard where he 23. (AP) Babe Ruth, who pitched for the Boston Red Sox during the last World War, doubts that baseball will finish its regular season this year. In an Interview at the Hack-ensack Elks Club yesterday following bond selling drive at a theater here, Ruth was asked if he thought baseball would be able to continue uninterrupted this season. "I doubt It," the former home run king said. Of northern training, the Babe declared it would "develop more sore' arms and sore legs than you can count." "There won't be pitcher," the Bambino forecast, "who will be able to go more than six innings for great many weeks after the season starts.

It may ruin a great many players." first, because he was an amateur, accepted. He scored a four round knockout. MOTHER SURPRISED. "Kangaroo Pete" because of hiS was employed for forty-two years habit of leaping over opposition as" supervising electrical drafts- I "That night," recalled Coe, "Joe came home nnd laid $1,250 on the linemen, jman. He was twenty-fourth in One of his favorite stunts was seniority at Island and was jnounced today.

Charley Jones, Angott's mana to rush into the line where two one of the original charter mem- euards would Dick him ud and bers of. the old Vallejo Yacht table. Surprised, my mother excitedly asked, "Wbere did you get that, Joe? Stanford Frosh BeatMenlo Five PALO ALTO, Jan. 25. (AP) Stanford's freshman basketball team scored its fourth straight hurl him over the enemy's for-Club.

"The fellow I was training won, Ma, and I'm taking care of his ger, advised Greene from Louis-Iville that the former titleholder Iwill meet Beau Jack, New York commission champion, in his first start as requested, but would pre-jfer a warmup bout, then a crack lat Beau Jack for the undisputed -itle. ward walL He leaves a widow, Ehzabeth, Until the time of his death and a brother, Hans K. Kaars- Kaarsberg was the only living; berg of Fresno. No funeral ar- Bear athlete to have his name'rangements have been made. money." It wasn't until the next day, BABE RUTH Ho't Pottimittic oeroetuated on a.

campus memo- Burial will be from Chisholm- i CORP. LES O'GARA flay I H'rt Tomorrow 18 Col. 8) Junior College, 31-23, at the Menlol Court, I (Continued on Tige rial bench, tfllttex Parlors in A.