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U. Hughes: SPORT PAIL" rEAm MISS GERMAINE RANKED THIRD Miss Helen Germalne, who hu figured prominently on local public parks tennis courts for the past five years, has been ranked third In the nation, It has been announced by the National Public Parks Tennis Association. Miss Elizabeth Peike of Pasadena, Cal, is listed as the No, 1 player and Miss Marjorie Lauderbach Is No. 2. COLUMI 28 NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1936 Dodgers' Search for Youth Unearths Manush, Aged 36 By Ed Hughes Torrance and Other Ring Giants Giant in Cauliflower Patch JACK TORRANCE, America's weight-putting behemoth, la the latest collegiate athletic star to try his hand at fighting.

The gigantic Louisiana shotman knocked out his first professional opponent the other night, a nondescript proposition named Owen. Torrance turned the trick if you can call It that in a round. Jack was described as "ferocious and lightning fast," which is certainly an eye-opener to me. The last time I saw Torrance was shortly before the Olympic games in Germany. A regular mountain of a kid, he answered you with a sleepy drawl and gave the impression he liked his ease.

The gigantic fellow weighed about 300 at the time, and the Olympic big-wigs were wondering whether he'd ever get in condition to do himself Justice ln Berlin. It developed he didn't. Torrance was loaded down with so much blubber that he was a complete flop in Germany. I asked one of his Intimates whether he'd ever make a fighter. "He's big enough, surely," came the answer, "but he's too good natured.

I don't think he'd ever make a fighter on that account." According to reports big Jack must be taking his fisticuffs seriously. He was described as "skinning down" to a modest 260 the other night. That was Jess Wll- Signing of Veteran Seen As Admission Of Outfield Weakness By TOMMY HOLMES Such is the strange and wondrous way of our Brooklyn Dodgers that their quest for youth and a right-handed hitting outfielder led them to sign Heinle Manush, who bats left-handed and who will be 36 years old next July. Manush can't hurt the Dodgers much because he didn't cost them anything. He has been a free agent since he was released by the Red Sox in September and no other big league club wants him.

That the Dodgers signed him is a pretty good tip-ofT on what Ebbets Field and Manager Burleigh Grimes think of the youncer Brooklyn outfielders John lard's fighting weight when he was er more than 6 feet high and hammered around by 182-pound Dempsey at Toledo. Torrance may go a long way in weighing ln excess of 185 was carrying "excess baggage." It has been Cauliflower. Still, past perform demonstrated, as a general rule, that tall men have less endurance than creatures of average suture. Big men with relatively short ances of his gigantic Kina are against it. There is such a thing as being too big and ponderous for effective nose bashing.

Few giants have ever won titles. William Muldoon, who knew his physical culture, once claimed that a flght- legs make a better go of It ln fighting than towering fellows with lengthy pegs. That is because. Thomas Winscu. Eddie Morgan, Jeffra Confirms through the use of short levers, they can rapidly change DosiMnn in small spaces and ln a variety of di Victory Over rections, uene Tunney was a striking sample of that.

Rare Specimen Bantam Champ WHILE physically these masto-" dontic fellows are awe-lnsnir. ing, actually they are not usually iut out ior cnampionsmp lighting. Fat often makes up a considerable share of what ringslders assume is Defeats Sixto Escobar for Second Time in Over-the-Weiiiht Bout muscle. And fat is alwavs an n- Eddie Wilson, Nick Tremark, el et al. American Leaguers admit that Man'i-h was never much of a fly catcher, that he never could throw, that he didn't drive in many runs in proportion to his imposing batting averages.

But they think he will help the Dodzers. Which is a tip-off on what they think of the Dodgers. GORMAN AMONG LAST TO KNOW Business Manager John Gorman didn't know about Brooklyn signing Manush early yesterday afternoon, although the whole American League seemed to know it and most of the National League. Look for Brooklyn to announce the purcha.se of Gil Brack, who Is young, an outfielder who does bat, right-handed and at present a member of the Louisville club. If anybody tells you that Brack has been purchased by the Dodgers, believe him.

He mav be a Louisville cumbrance ln Cauliflower. The good big man" so ly heralded In fighting Is really a rare specimen. Usually, as ln the case of Camera, he ls better as a dime museum freak than as a fighter, he certainly isn't well-developed athlete. Patm Oct. if the 7 By CHARLES HECKELMANN They're real pals! Harry Jeffra and his mother! While Papa Jeffra sits home by the family hearth and reads the newspapers.

Mrs. Jeffra goes to all the fights with her son. It doesn't matter if the scraps are In New York, Toronto or Baltimore, the Often these human mammals are afflicted with some constitutional defect that renders them pugilLsti-cally Incapable. Where you can find one sound and well-DroDortioned Mi Cm4 amo V15 Said gallant little lady is always there Landis Gives Indians Legal Right to Feller Cleveland Club Must with her winning smile. Perhaps it was the big city, but dark-haired Harry Jeffra looked a bit befuddled in the Hippodrome ring last night when his hand was elevated as a token of his second over-the-weight victory over Sixto Escobar, the world's bantamweight champion.

The photographers wanted him to say a few words over the "mike and there was his mother bat boy and may know something. So much for our dashing Dodgers. Except for the fact that National League attendance figures show that Brooklyn, in Its home games, outdrew every city except New York and Chicago. Possibly Ebbets Field doesn't know that either. At any rate, National League records show that the Dodgers drew mow than 600.000 paid, while the "official" attendance figures, announced daily at the Brooklyn park added up to giant you can collect a hundred of little more than average proportions better equipped for the grim give-and-take of the ring.

Jack Dempsey Is an excellent Illustration of that. That super-glante cannot or will not stand the gaff ls a matter of record. As a rule they are rather easily tipped over. It ls a task to keep the essential balance what with so much bone, muscle and suet to haul around. Wlllard, for example, was stunned and practically beaten by Dempsey's first wallop a whizzing hook that found Impact high on the giant's cheekbone.

The big fellow was bowled over seven times ln the first round from the terrific smites of the smaller man. Camera was knocked down about a dozen times by Baer a finely proportioned giant. Prlmo practically hit the canvas every time Max decided to unleash a robust sock on the jaw. Jumping up and down in his corner, Reimburse Des Moines for Contract Bob Feller, 18-year-old Van Meter, Iowa, pitching sensation, today, ac crying joyously: "Good boy. Harry." Packs K.

O. Wallop The photographers got a few snaps, but the broadcasters were out of luck because Harry wasted no time in Jumping through the ropes to Join his mother. But he's a tough man, nevertheless, in the ring. Last night's win over Escobar, a dUDlicate of a iob he did some a trifle more than 500.000. It seems Ironical that the Dodgers should have finished third in league attendance, ahead of the St.

Louis Cardinals who finished fifth. Especially since the Cardinals have been trying their darndest to sell Dizzy Dean at the baseball meetings on the theory that Diz is the great, est drawing card in baseball. He cording to the Associated Press, was declared the property of the Cleveland Indians by Commissioner Ken-esaw M. Landis. At the same time Landis ordered the Indians to pay the DesMolnes is.

at that, on the road. In their time ae0 ln Baltimore, was his Satisfied Yankees Sit in Comfort games away from Sportsman's Park, tn 33 starw. And, incidentally, of the We-Stern League, from whom Cleveland obtained Feller, tne carair.ais ouiarew evervouuy. Iad wno an aceompiixhel golfer But it begins to look as though and is accustomed to doing 18 holes Diz has grown too big to be traded I a cool 69 nas chalked up 24 At the moment, nobody is willing to knockouts in his ring career. As Rivals Pound Dogs in Vain meet the fat.

Louis price wnicn earn younR Jeffra st h. Breadon and Branch Rickey insist is reasonable enough. Rickev. Croesus of Ivory, stood -4 to win the crowd to his side against an Escobar who did not look at all like a champion. Jeffra stepped Charles Freeman, the first American Giant, flourished 76 years ago.

He is said to have sprouted 6 feet 10' a Inches and scaled about 300. Yet Freeman was a very poor specimen of a fighting man. Victorio Campolo of South America was a giant among modern rlngmen 6 feet 8 inches. Campolo was a physical misfit, though. He had a smallish chin and thlnnlsh legs.

Although he could wallop, Campolo proved that he didn't like rough going when he quit to the giant with the powder-puff punch, Bell, Vollmers In Semi-Finals At Casino Nets Advance in Doubles by 7-5, 6-4 Victory Over Voorbees Bros. Joint Meeting Today still long enough at last to permit away fast and grabbed the first two $7,500 for the twirlers contacrt. Feller broke Into the limelight on Sept. 13, when, pitching for the Indians, he fanned 17 Philadelphia Athletics to set a new American strikeout record and equalled the major league mark. The commissioner's decision, revealed in three closely typewritten pages, was regarded as a great triumph for the major leagues, who are in the midst of a campaign to open the ba.seball market even down to the sandlots for major league scouts.

It also precluded the possibility of several more "Feller cases" within the big leagues, because it was New York Team's Board of Strategy Has Nothing to Say in the Matter of Trade Talk Writes Finis to Annual I'owwow of Major League Moguls uarnera. Mickey to give up Buck Newsom. but wanted Elden Auker. Jake Wade and Pete Fox. Old Griff's generosity Ls famous.

Cochrane has tried to obtain John Whitehead from the White Sox and Wes Ferrell from the Red Sox. At a late hour Black Mike was still without his pitchers. The Indians have been strengthened by the addition of Earl White-hill, the surly left-hander from Washington. Earl will make a great companion for Johnny Allen, Upsetting the handicaper's dope By FRANK REIL After three days of camping under the potted palms, the ivory traders were ready to pull up their a dozen or so baseball writers tn rounds he drQve bng Wt hQ0k4 pounce upon him. Here are some ,0 Escobar-s npad and tnen cr0SRed of the things he said: 1 nim up with 5eVeral looping rights "When I arrived at Montreal.

I that made lne champl0n 5. thought that Dean wnu.d be traded fobar fought completely on the de-Now I don't think he will be. But fpnsive gnd his alfMnpts to counter the door is still wide open for anv W(re brushed aslde bv the that wants to deal. Baltimore lad with his "What would Df an be worth to In rh a club New York? BUI Terrv reaCfh- knows his business and can judge I Champion la Dazed his value to the team. On attend- Jeffra brought the crowd to Its anre.

I can only guess. I'd say that I feet in the second round when he if he were advertised to pitch ten I caught Escobar with a looping right Sunday Earr.es. 'hat the Oiant.s on the choppers that spun the cham would draw 15.000 people more in pion half through the ropes. Esco-earh of the games than they would bar was really hurt by the blow and Breadon thinks that it took a few more hard wallops be- for the first time in the tourna' openly charged that at least a score of players in the line ups today ment, Haughton Bell and H. Edward Vollmers played a courageous and tents and disappear when the sun went down today.

didn't exactly come into baseball without some minor or major league agreement violations. and that's where O'Neill begins to back down. Old Trader Horn Hornsby is still trying to peddle big, stuttering Ed Coleman to the Dodgers, but as yet hasn't had much succe-ss with Burleigh Grimes who Just won't fall for the Rajah's sales talk. It goes something like this: "Coleman is the bent pinch hitter in the American League. The averages prove that.

But he's also a good hitter who can pull that ball to right field. I know he's The joint meeting under the cold another fellow whose best friends are not the umpires. But Steve eye of Czar Landis will end the ulton Defects FRED FULTON, who was cashiered by Dempsey ln lees than a minute was really a dangerous gladiator of the mastodon class. Still he possessed glaring physical defects. Fulton had a sallow phiz, a tapering chin, a not too thick neck and a waspy weak waistline.

Although the Rochester plasterer could box and hit like sin he couldn't "take it." Some thought he didn't like to try. Fulton explained that to me once. "I get blamed for quitting," he groaned, "but the fact ls my Jaw and neck are against me. I have a sensitive, long chin and my neck O'Neill ls still looking for a "third baseman. It is fairly definite that major league baseball bazar today at the Roosevelt Hotel, and unless Odell Hale will be shifted over to fnre the round was over.

Escobar aggressive game of tennis in the men's handicap doubles tournament at the Heights Casino to defeat the Voorhees brothers. Peter and Tracy, and take their place last night as the first seml-finalists to reach that bracket. The winners received a handicap of 15 points ln the even numbered games. The Voorhees started with a ven second and if Higglns came along Coehran Has Chance To Force Playoff Chicago, Dec. 10 (U.Pl Four of the original ten entrants hoped today to win the world's three-cushion billiards championship.

RniiTiH-fnhi nm mit il inr, the Indians would have the hardest hitting Infield ln the league. Landis utters his long-awaited decision on the Feller case, American Leaguers, their feet aching and their ears bleeding, will remember began using a combination left Jab and hook In the third and took that round. He lost the fourth through poor punching and the fifth on low blows. Perhaps, the blows weak- would be 20.000 more. "So far as the are concerned, took Dear, ar.d kept Hubbell and eave us wha' we a I think they'd do a.l I know that if thev -tad-d Hubbell wrn-out hv have most of our Dhll club.

But that's off The Card.r.ai gar.u alwavs doe all Tt'pv alavs have a development of tl.e.r ihain to much better than most of the humpty-dumpties they have over in Brooklyn now. I could sell him to Toledo right now, but I'm not interested In rash. I want players for our farm system." The Indians have been trying to get Marvin Owen from the Tigers and Cochrane could well afford to let him go as he has a raft of new infielders coming up. But Cochrane wants a starting pitcher for Owen ei.ed Jeffra because he hung back tomorrow nl ht wnen Pach nave this meeting as the most barren one from the standpoint of trades. isn't thick enough to absorb the shock of blows.

When I get tapped Unless the boys decide to make a came on with a good left-handed slew of deals on "get-away" day, geance and ran off the first three games of the opening set, and again took the lead at 54. It was In vain, however, for with the count knotted at 5 5 after Bell had taken played nine games, but pairings In-j dicated possibility of a title playoff, Johnny Layton, needing one vlc-I tory to tie with Matsuyama for first I place, played the unseated cham the gathering of the David Harums attack. But Jeffra rallied in the ninth and tenth and again systematically nailed the retreating Es- on the chin It shakes me twice as hard as it does a fellow with a wide jaw and a heavy neck." This was nrobablv so and it hnva nnt lha has produced only two trades and neither of them ls of earth-shak his service, the victors broke blow 1' Arno for At present, he cobar with hard hooks to the face. Owen, the 19-vear-nld in the eight-round semi-final ing consequence. through the service of Peter or Sportpourri N.

Y. Follows Boston Maranville's French lluss Morgan Winter Sports Fan hees for the only time during the match, and Vollmers capitalized the break by running through a love pion, Willie Hoppe. today. Welker Cochrane, defeated by Hoppe last night, 50 to 43, had a bare chance to cause a four-way payoff by defeating Layton and Matsuyama ln his two remaining games. Tony Marino outpointed Cristobal Jaramillo and in another eight Al Reld topped Joey Wach.

Pete Scal-zo gave another fine performance in beating Jimmy Lancaster in a sixer, while Jimmy English took a very close nod over Joey Fontana. Continued on Page 30 ratcher thev "purchased" from Co. the otiier day. Breadon says that Owen Is the ever. Rickey Owen ii the catcher wlio ever lived Brearinn likes his whlfh he says is Just like that, of Pepper Martin.

Rickey says that the was cauglit off second base in 01. contention that a finely proportioned giant ls really a rare proposition. The 'Human Freight Car1 MILDNESS seems to be Invariably associated with enormous fellows and mildness is a distinct handicap ln Cauliflower, needless to say. This seems to be an outstanding arenic fault of Ray Impelllt- While managers of other clubs stalk the lobbies and wear themselves out trying to make a trade, the Yankee board of strategy sits In a suite of rooms and makes things comfortable for themselves. The Yankees are the only club In their league which does not have to make a trade.

After all when you win the pennant by 19 games, there is reason to feel satisfied. And the lack of trades on the part of other cluhs only makes the Yankees feel At Bat and in Hole Boxing Commission notes: Sam Boston's Garden had the Winter Sports Show before N. Y. game last Summer and broke, into Plan, manager of Barney Ross, ap tears on the way to the bench. 1 peared with his lawyer, Lou Scad And now they're putting two nights of indoor midget auto racing on clay In the Beantown house Will B'way Czji or Empty Title? Commistioiier I.uihIU' Standing ReMs on Feller Derision get this, too? Clair Bee's basketball "clinic" at the Hipp this Saturday ls attracting a lot of attention The L.

I. U. coach will use his own squad in the Some of you J-a Don Gut: endue ron. to inform the commissioners make a show of the Dodger.s when that they are still dickering for he made hl.s debut as a Cardinal terms in regard to complying with third baseman at. Ebbe's Field in their agreement to meet Ceferlno September.

Tell Breadon that Out- Garcia within 60 days for the welter tenriue is eond and he'll sav "Yeah" title. General Phelan reminded and keep right on talking aoouijtnem that they must meet Garcia Owen. hi New York before thev can meet. Thus far no American League pennant contender ha.s strengthened Illustrations, and the show will go us that in the rainy first round of the Garden City G. C.

tourney that This is the day that Commissioner Landis Ls to announce whether Bob Feller is a member of the Cleveland Indians or How would you like to we that any one else here, though they don't tierre, tne young Peekskill giant. Imp Ls a pleasant, soft-spoken Goliath and he ls a good boxer. But he seems to be a fragile giant, easily exhausted. He "blew up" physically and permitted Camera to outrough him and punch him out before the limit. Imp has been doing pretty well on the Coast lately and probably after awhile you'll sue him ln the ring with the gigantic Torrance.

And old-timers will never let you forget Ed Dunkhorst, the "Human Freight Car." Dunk weighed an even 300 pounds. Fltzslmmons nearly killed this mountain of tallow in two rounds. And It ls said that Terry McGovern, when featherweight champion, actually knocked are where the fight is ultimately I an unattached Boy Scout and the day when the commissioner tanf tr'oniyn, a perhaps will ask the major leagues whether he Is indeed the that provides third place attendance with a hopeless seventh place club? I.c'k! long as the agreement Is lived up to. Steve Halaiko was czar of baseball or merely a piece of window dressing year, a mongrel scurried off with one player's ball, after fielding it on the run, near the first green Montreal tossed a banquet for Rabbit Maranville, Its new manager, the other night, and the Rab replied to all the speeches, which were delivered ln French, with a hodgepodge of French words and phrases "Pardon, Monsieur le Rabbit," asked one of the directors, "I do not follow your speech, quite. Do you use the old French or the Canadian But a we won know what hap Today in Sports Griffin were in the lineup.

Lclivelt managed the club and batted third suspended for runninij out nf a fmht in Syracu.se and Bohby Pacho, his opponent, who was originally mipll-cated. was exonerated. Pacho intimated lie would fight Halaiko whenever the latter ready. Halaiko is now in Puerto Rico to box Pedro Montantz. Herman hit fourth, Manush was in imnl.

BASKFTBAI.L t'l'ivf rsi'y N'istrand A the fifth slot and Griffin swung on after the schoolboy double-header Doc Carlson, inventive Pitt coach, did the same thlnj ln Pittsburgh, and with good results, when the college court game was in its swadllng clothes Roy Riegels, whose famous backwards run for Cal. against Ga. Tech ln the 1929 Rose Bowl game made football miss-tery, ls in Y. to tell again of his monumental blunder, over NBC Sunday afternoon at 5 Jack Dempsey, the restauran-teur, came to Bk'lyn for lunch yesterday but even then he didn't pay, for he was Dave Soden's guest Frenchy Bordagaray, the Wild ex-Dodger, has put ln a bona-flde bid out on the Coast for the Tarzan movie role they were going to hand Lou Gehrig When that urchin ran off with Vic Ghezzi's ball as the big Deal pro approached the 18th hole Sunday In the $10,000 Miami Btltmore tourney, 'twas the first BOXINO sixth. At one of the season, Her man was leading the club with i in.

Air. A fl II' itself very much by the trades already completed. The Red Sox have acquired Frank Higglns from the A's, who got Billy Werber, but the real trouble in Boston has yet to be corrected. Joe Cronin needs pitchers more than he does an ln-fielder. ViU Keep Higgins Some of the boys seem to think that the Red Sox are not going to keep Higglns, but will pass him on to Cleveland, who will Joe Vosmik for this hard-hitting and good fielding third baseman, a gent whom the Indians really need.

But Cronin maintained today that "he had nothing in the wind" and that Higglns would play second base on his team. "He broke ln as a second baseman," recalled Crtmin, who intends to play third base this year. Mickey Cochrane Ls searching for pitchers to help Tommy Bridges and Schoolboy Rowe, but when he tries to make a trade, the other fellow always wants one of his pitchers. Clark Griffith, offered rnn- the "Human Freight Car" stiff ln a gym turnup. I wish Mr.

Torrance and the other giants well but the odds are agin 'em. 19 Wen S' batting average of about .430, Manush and Griffin were clubbing pens on those points until the joint meetings of the major leagues end today, we might just well fan some more about Heinle Manush, the new Dodger. He was born in Tuscumbia, Ala on July 20, 1901. Somehow or other, he began his career in organized ball 20 years later with the Edmonton club, in the province of Alberta. Our old friend, Babe Herman, broke in with Edmonton at the same time.

The following season they were together again at Omaha in the Western League. around .400 and LeUvelt was down to a mere .385. French?" "Me?" said Rabbit, "Why I use the Maranville French!" Lefty Lelfeld, the old pitcher, got a parcel of buckshot ln his leg by mistake, while hunting outside St. Louis recently They took him to the doctor and It turned out to be Hub Pruett, the Brownie pitcher, who gained fame by fanning Babe Ruth so often So there was no charge! Russ Morgan, the band Griffin called Herman aside be BOITS LAST NIGHT Chicago Eddie Unknown) Winston, Holyoke. knocked out Maurice Strickland.

180. New Zealand, (4); Buddy Baer, 238 V. Llvermore, knocked out Patrick Michael Barry. 236, Dublin (l. San Francisco Sonny Walker, 203.

Phoenix, Ariz, outpointed Tommy Lnughran. 190, Philadelphia, (10). Flint. Mich. oif Bernard.

fore one ball game and said, "Listen RyV.ASH RACQQUETS r'i nvi'H'mn tonrnHmen1 At 12(1 E. 32d Man-lift1: an. m. SiJtJQASH TENNIS Pull MTH'ch tournament. CH? A Sri s.

nd 6th Man- Iihi and tournmnt, Co- Hun, 4 W. 43d Bt Manhnt- Un, r. WlNTfR SPORTS SHOW NnrHi Amivran Show. Madison fviu-r r.j-,!-, R-M am. nd 50th Mar! 3 30 nd 6 30 Babe, you're a young kid just start.

CELTICS TO PLAY AT HIPP Negotiations were completed today for the appearance of Kate Smith's Original Celtics in the New York Hippodrome for a series of professional basketball games. The Celtics will play their first game in the big sportR arena Dec. 20. Their opponent have not yet been decidiVl upon. ing out.

You re tne best hitter on the club the avernfies prove It time In links tournament history the leader, has bounht a block of tick and you ought to be batting third Omaha had a hard hitting ball even if LeUvelt is the manager. I'm crime was ever committed But eU for every night of the Winter Col. Bill Hicks, who was writing sports show run, gol tot The Eafile back ln 1912, tells HAROLD PARROTT. 131' Flint, outpointed Wesley club. In addition to Manush and I Martin, 135, Afcron, Ohio, O0.

I Herman, Jack LeUvelt and Pun I Continued on Page 30 4.