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WlSPt SPORTS-RADIO f-i WOMANS CLASSIFIED -'I i -1 4 4 A BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932 As You Like It i Phils Mound Staff Ranks High SOME SURPRISE WINNERS ByTedCarroll By Murray Robinson TASTE OF PHILS' "QiaK Ha Al AjO S.CXX&0 MAlJV AMAZ.ilAa AAHoOs JJg-iOdt Mia WHO Ja cK iZ.ISzfr, of ORU16 ajAAfr! n'. What Next, By George! YIT'HATS this? "Camera to Take Mound for Duffy Democratic Nine. Is this a hoax or a headline?" No, gosh there it is in the story. The big gent is going to pitch baseball for Mr. Will Duffys team which is going to play Mr.

Johnny Hogans Downtown Democratic Club at the Messrs. Sullivan and McGuires Beach Casino at Lakewood tomorrow afternoon. Boy, its getting a little beyond this department. Poreda clips Schaaf. Risko nips Walker, Camera plays baseball.

What next, by George What can come And these bewildered eyes read that none other than the good Signor Humberto Fugazy is going to catch Cameras curves. The good Doc Bagley will be at first. It should be good. I bemoan the circumstances that insist at my presence on the first tee at the Meadowlawn Golf Club about the time Camera will be winding up for his first toss. I must defend my Times Union golf championship.

I hope you heard defend, I said. If it were not for that I would load the old wagon-lit with supplies and chug off post haste for the Messrs. Sullivan and McGuires Beach Casino to view Camera trying to find that baseball between his fingers for the first pitch. After that I would retire to the shade of a spreading tree on the cool bank of Greenwood Lake, summon the Messrs. Sullivan and McGuire and defy them to make me say, No, pass me up this time.

Its very cool on the brink of Greenwood Lake as the moon comes over the mountain and the ripples wash over the rocks. Its especially cool in and around the Messrs. Sullivan and McGuires verdant retreat. A guy has room to think. He feels like thinking.

I always feel like thinking in such spots. (Ed. note--What with?) For example, if I were browsing on the breeze-kissed shore of Greenwood Lake right now I might be thinking that victory of Poreda over Schaaf and the triumph of Risko over Walker seems to put Camera right back in the running. Well, anyway, it appears to put Schaaf and Walker out of business for the time being. And that leaves what in the way of a heavyweight attraction? Why, Primo, of course.

What about Larry Gains? Hm, I thought you would bring that up. Well, lets not argue over that. Lets not argue over anything. Lets have it my way. True, Lawrence holds a decision over Camera, but when the ringside tidings of the tussle reached here it was apparent that the jolly old English chroniclers of fistic doings were as divided in opinion over the verdict as were the gentlemen of the press here in the matter of the Sharkey-Schmeling bout.

Tjie first reports gave everything to Gains. Later communiques took much of it from him, while a palpitating public asked as one, "Whos Gains? Primo Still a Card SPITE of the Gains thing, I still insist that Camera is a card here and not a bad bet as a heavyweight, either. I dont know what Camera is like today in the way of physical condition and boxing equipment. But if hes as good as when he had Sharkey puzzled at Ebbets Field last season, hes good enough to worry almost any heavyweight you can name. I may be wrong but it seems to me that the tiring Sharkey of the Schmeling suffle would have had all he could handle to hold off the big boy.

A year ago the Shark was strong enough for the assignment, I (joubt if he is now. I think Schmeling would beat the Camera who lost to Sharkey. The German is a hard puncher and a better boxer than generally recognized. If he reverted to his bobbing and weaving, a Schmcling-Carnera bout might develop into a second edition of the Dempsey-Willard scrap with perhaps more time needed for the final curtain. But aside from Schmeling I believe Camera would be equal to any heavyweight now In the contendership class, so called.

In fact, I believe he might prove more than eqnal. What about Larry Gainsfi Ah, there1 you go Well, I think Camera would look better against Gains over here than he did over there. In the first place I believe Camera would be in better shape fdr any bout here than for one on the other side. And in the second place I think our promotormen are overlooking a good bet in not attempting to induce Lawrence to meet Camera in an American encore. I think it would get money.

Or am 1 wrong again as usual ell, They're Honest About It! DO THOUSANDS of sport fans," probably the most im-- portant bit of news in many months was the announce-nent made yesterday that big Eastern football games will lot be broadcast next season. Radio reporting of gridiron ontests are usually head and shoulders above air-wave ecounting of baseball and boxing events, and the Saturday ifternoon gathering about the loud speaker has become an utumn custom in the best of cireles. The decision of the Eastern Intercollegiate Association to ban ootball broadcasting was reached after it had been established to the tisfaction of the organization that the practise had decidedly harmful ffect on grid gate receipts. In other words, many former bond sales-len have discovered that one need not don the raccoon and brave the old winds to cheer for alma mater. Its more comfortable and cheaper 0 "see the big games via radio around fireside.

It is entirely likely that college groups throughout the country will follow the example of the Eastern Intercollegiate Association and ban broadcasting from their stadia during important football games, so that grid bugs will either have to dig up the cash for ducats next season or read about the contests in their favorite papers after the battle. While the theory that broadcasting hurts the attendance at major spcrts events is open to attack, it is significant that the Eastern Intercollegiate Association is very frank in explaining the motive for its ban on radio. The association admits to a keen interest in gate receipts, and is fighting to protect them I Thats quite a change from the touchy attitude of the colleges towards mention of football finances in the past. I The E. I.

A. might have advanced other reasons for its vote against ubadcasting. For instance, the famous Husing-Harvard case, when referred to Barry Woods play with a single harsh word of two scabies. Or, it have dug up the hardy old perennial, But the association came out openly and unashamedly on a 1 ate receipt platform, which shows that either the virtue of candor is ow universally recognized or that the football panic is on for fair. ts a Toss-Up.

pHE football folks will hnve to find out for themselves whether or 1 not banning broadcasts will help their gate receipts. The con-roversy on this point has been raging sinfe the first sport report iver the air waves was mired in a bog of static. Baseball, for instance, is split into two factions on the sub-i ject one arguing that putting the games on the air encourages would-be fans to stay at home; the other, equally insistent that broadcasting arouses interest among persons who otherwise wouldnt even know the game existed. Out in Chicago, broadcasting ball gamc3 from Wrigley Field hasnt hurt Cub attendance in the least. Around New York, there is a firm conviction among diamond moguls that radio hurts the gate beyond the shadow of a doubt.

1 Boxing, toe, is divided in its opinions, but it is significant that the iichmeling-Sharkey title bout, which was put on the air, attracted close jo 70,000 payees to an arena in an out-of-the-way spot! And other not broadcast, were financial flops! Football has chosen to cast its lot with the anti-broadcasters for he nonce. But theres no telling how long it will stay on its anti-air liet. Perhaps in 1933, alumni who prefer their ears not frostbitten give it the old boola-boola around refreshment parlor loud speakers nee again! 'ts Up to the Youngsters. PHIS National League pennant lace, the hottest in 24 years, will hinge on the manner in which a number of youngsters stand the aff of the drive down the stretch. Seldom before has so much been of rookies.

Take the league-leading Pirates, for example. They have a great pitching staff, but their keystone combination of Vaughan and Piet has played a tremendously important part in the rise of the Smoketowners to the top of the heap. Vaughan is playing his first year of big league ball; Piet, his second. Leaguers say the Bucs cant win out because both, or either, of these kid wonders will crack. Will they? The Chicago Cubs, too, are dependent to a great extent on rookies.

Young Billy Merman and Lon Warneke, for instance. If Herman should crack at second, the Bruins would be out of the pennant running. And the Dodgers, who still think they stand a chance to cop the flag, are banking heavily on Van Mungo to win more consistently and frequently for them than their more experienced moundsmen. This is the big hurlers first season as a Brooklyn regular. With the Customers.

tAT Run doesnt count, because batter who failed to touch first technically never reached the bag. This made the third out, retir-ng the side. J. T. Lee Yes.

A. Johnson Again let me repeat, why did anyone have to see the pictures to make up his mind on the Sharkey-Schmeling fight? If you were as close to the ring as you say you were, you should have left the arena with a pretty fair idea of who won. I presume by "giving you news as is you mean viewing the decision the way you saw it. Sorry, but I can't do that. Come again.

L. F. 0. You wouldn't kid me, would you, stranger? There are sides to every story, of course, but you shouldnt try to make them oth yours. Kapeesh? I ere and There.

EISENBERG today at Aqueduct. This two-year-old, owned by a rather smart gentleman, Is ready to pop down in front. -A They do say that everything isnt hotsy-totsyln the ranks of the Cardinals these days. Some National Leaguers hint that the Redbirds arent pulling one hundred per cent, for Gabby Street, the Ol.Sarge, which would explain the sometimes lackadaisical play of the world champions. Things are so desperate on tl.v lawn that its suicide to ask the lyers the price on any one horse.

They immediately knock a couple of oints right off, just in case you know something! Cautious players die up to the bookies quite casually and ask for the run-down. Its iter that way. I Thurston and Clark Due for Pitching Assignments at Baker Bowl. By WILLIAM (Brooklyn McCullough Staff Corre Times Union spondent) Philadelphia, June 29. Since 1915 the most faithful fans in captivity those supporting the Phillies have been clamoring for a pennant.

That was the last time the leagues blue ribbon was unfurled atop the flagpole at Baker Bowl on Broad Street. Shades of poor Grover Cleveland Alexander, the greatest pitcher of em all; Gabby Cravath, called "Wooden Shoes, who could hit a ball a mile, and Davy Bancroft, the nimble shortflelder! They were the big guns behind the Phils victorious drive the year after the World War began. Now there is a new era at Broad and Huntington. Mr. L.

C. Ruch of dear old Brooklyn, is head of the organization. Burt Shotton has taken over the duties ohee in the hands of the beloved Pat Moran who led the Daisies to their only penant. Chuck Klein, a slugger of renown. Is carrying on lor Cravath.

Dick Bartell for Banny and through honest and untiring efforts, Shotton appears to have organized a pitching staff. For the past five years, under the Shotton regime, the Phillies always presented powerful hitting teams and a fair defensive outfit. Burt's troubles centered about a pitching staff, his efforts toward Improvement concentrated upon the building up of a staff of pitchers who could win. HlS sharpshooters of today, consisting of Flint Rhem, Ray Benge, Eddie Holley, Phil Collins and Jim Elliott comprise the best corps among the clubs of the National League; That is why local fans are all "bet up over the chances of their favorites winning that coveted flag. They know that Klein, Whitney, Hurst and Spud Davis can hammer across plenty of runs, not to mention Hal Lee and George Davis, who are going great guns those days.

The Phillies infield is hard to beat what with Hurst, Delker, Bartell and Whitney playing like whirlwinds. Phtlly fandom Is confident that Shotton has a well balanced ball club. Shotton Must Develop Er.i Building up a winning team in Philadelphia Is a difficult and tedious process. The club owners and Shotton cannot work as other club owners and managers do. The business must be conducted with a small overhead If any profit is to be shown.

The Phillies operate in the smallest of all big league parks Baker Bowl seats less than 20,000. Philadelphia has no Sunday baseball. There are two strikes on the Phils. If Joe McCarthy wants a star, Rupperts bankroll will get him. Ditto in Brooklyn and at the Polo Grounds.

Those thirty and occasional fifty thousand gates Arable the owners to do so. In this burg, Shotton Is told to develop them. He took Klein, now one of the most valuable players in the game from the Three 1 League. Whitney, a great third baseman bobbed up from the Texas loop. So did Mal-lon.

Collins and Benge were de voloped 'from the minors. Bartell cams in a trade as did Davis and Lee. In other words, Shottons shrewd Judgment has made the Phillies a contender, not the al mighty dollar. The Phlis have not finished in the first division since Shotton aepepted the managerial worries. 'If I can get some winning pitchers, first division aspirations won't be on my mind.

I'll make a fight for the pennant. Shotton often said since he came here. Well, the whole town Is talking. And not about Lefty Grove, Al Simmons. Mickey Cochrane or Jimmy Fozx.

But of that fight which Shotton is making In the vfly hectic National League race. Dodger-Giant Games Notes Manager Carey brought his players here for single games today and tomorrow. is an off-day and then back to Ebbets Field for a pair with the Phils on Saturday and 8unday, Thurston and Lefty Clark are down for tire pltohing assignments at Baker Bowl. Yesterdays double blit with the Gianta brought out a record weekday crowd of 26,872 customers who saw the teams break The Giants won the first by 1 to 8 and the Dodgers the nightcap. 8 to 8 Is ahesd in the Inter-borough warfare by nine games to four.

The terrific heat played havoc with the players of both teams, Dazsy Vanes being the only pitcher of the seven who worked nine Daxs was in rare form to win his eighth triumph of tha season In the nightcap and he engineered a double play in the ninth to climax a noble effort. Johnny Frederick returned to the wart and banged out two homers, his seoond in the eighth inning of the final beating--Walker. Dolf Luque opposed Dazs end ho pitched brilliantly until the heat floored him in the Walker wae charged with the loss Helmach started the opener and was replaced for a pinch hitter In the eighth Inning. making his Initial start in a relief role, went to pieces In the ninth and the Gianta scored four runs Frederick erred with, basoa filled but -at Manga was a failure. (lAffMfo J) QdCvji IS db-ca A U-ADtrf of HMuY Bermuda Yacht Racers Expect Broken Record IIAMILTON, BERMUDA.

June Announcement of a new record for the Montauk Polnt-Bermuda yacht race was expected today, with four of the 27 starters already across the finish line and several others expected today. Frank Paines tall Class A sloop, Highland Light the scratch boat, arrived first yesterday. crossing the finish at 3:66 P. M. Here elapsed time for the 628-mlle run was 71 hours 36 minutes and 43 seconds, and being the scratch boat, ner corrected time was the same.

Next across the line came George E. Roosevelt's Class A schooner, Mistress, with an elapsed time of 76 hours 10 minutes and 61 seconds, corrected to 72:10.24. R. 1. Gale'S Class A schooner, Malabar finished third, with an elapsed time of 75:42:29, corrected to 69:48.48.

George W. Mixter's Class A schooner, Tema-dram, came fourth with elapsed time of 66:13.24, corrected to 71:13.24. Because of Its handicap of 6 hours 63 minutes and 41 seconds, the corrected time of Malabar X. was the shortest of the first four boats, and gave the craft a temporary lead In the class A division. The Temadram rated second and Highland Light third.

Dempsey Most Overweight Leonard Isnt Doing So Badly Ensors Story Dramatic. By HENRY UCLEUORE (Unit. 4 Pnu ItafhCormyondtnt) CHICAGO, June 29. Ths year 'of 1982 is likely to go down In the books as the one with the ten thousand and two comebacks. Here it is only June and the veterans, headed by that greatest III ol comebacker of them all.

Jack Dempsey, have been popping out of obscurity with commendable regularity. By Decern' ber, all the old timers may be in motion, beards waving, crutches swinging. As this is being written (2 A. If my watch isn't wrong) the has-beens rating dispatches In ths papers include Dempsey, Earl 8ande, Jack Johnson, Charley Paddock, and Jerome Travers, Paul Berlenbach. Joe lecher, Benny Leonard, Rene Lacoste, Jack Delaney, Rube Marquard and Lee Barnes.

Let us get back to the other comeback era. Dempsey has been tha most successful. How the sugar rolled in. Some half a million or more. And any man who can cash In on an illustrious nama, a shakey pair of legs and a breathing apparatus that goes wheezy after four rounds to the tune of half a million, is an unqualified success.

Buddy Ensor's comeback is the OfMGR dHAU- 4ortuuY'T isKojr kJHo Senators Need Some Players Who Can Hit By BUD KELSON WALTER JOHNSON is confident that with the return to the East his Senators will be able to raise their position and become more of a threat to the league leading Yankees. But from what his club showed at the Stadium yesterday, while the McCarthymen were winning a 5 to 2 verdict on four hits, the Washington pilot is going to need a great deal more than confidence. Nobody doubts the pitching strength of the Senators, although there are some, Including McCarthy, who have a suspicion that the hot weather Is apt to cause his staff to crack, but a ball team needs more than pitching to win a pennant, or become a contender. In this day and age, a club must have a punch to win games. The Yanks, making five runs on three hits, are a perfect example of hat we mean.

Al Thmas. the Grit flthmens pitcher, became rather free with his passes, and the batters that followed saved their safeties until such time as runners were on the bags. Combs had walked, Sewell hit his first homer of the Beason, punch into right that Just cleared the fence. Thomas walked three In a row in the fourth, and Combs singled to bring in another brace of runs. Laxzerl sent one over the right field fence for the fifth run.

That ie what's called making hits count in whatever league you play. The Senators haven't that punch at bat. They have received super latlve pitching right along, but after the moundsmen on the other clubs hits their true stride, the batters, like Reynolds, West, Judgo, Cronin, and Mayer found they were hitting the ball high into the air Instead of on a line. Their averages dropped, and consequently, games previously won by a run or two are being lost In, the same manner. Johnson says his stick-men will regain their eyes when they take their home stand.

Perhaps they will, to some extent, but not enough to worry the Yanks. On the defense, the Senators have as good a club as any In tho league Bub a good defense doesn't push runs over the plate. Should Cronin and Reynolds, third, fourth and -fifth in the batting order, swell their averages to around .240, the Senators would soon pick up. Until then, they will have to fight to stay in the first division. There has been much Joking and chuckling about the high standing of the Tigers.

As you know, they are In second place. During the spring, when they were being knocked around even, by minor league clubs, last place was none too high a position for them according to some prognaaticatora The truth they have a very good chance of finishing right where they are at present, in second place. Bucky Harris has been working hard and faithfully with young players. The Tigers are a good club, and a fighting one. The dynasty of the Eastern teams In tha American League must break sometime, and Detroit's rookie nine may be the team that is leading the way.

Harris Isn't thinking of a pennant by any means, but he is ready to forget bis prediction that- the Tigers would finish. In fourth place. HEIZUIff Marriner on Floor Twice Before Referee Stops Fight in 2:21 of First Round. Chicago, June 29. Charley Retz-laff, Leonard, N.

heavyweight, scored a technical knockout over Ires Marriner, former U. of Illinois football player, after two minutes and 21 seconds of fighting in the first round of a scheduled 10-round bout at White City last night. Retz laff weighed 194, Marriner, 189 Marriner, making his second start since his return to the ring after a long layoff with a broken hand, was on the floor twice before referee Joe McNamara Btopped the bout. A right to the chin dropped Mar rlner for a count of nine, and when he regained his feet Retzlaff chased him across the ring and again dropped him with a right to the chin. ft Terre Haute.

June 29. Sammy Slaughter, 160H Terre Haute, won the decision over Willie Oster, 165ft, here last night Andy Delett, 179, Terre Haute, scored technical knockout over Billy Rhodes. 190, South Port; George Vency, 146. South Bend, knocked out Joe Grlskell, 146, Georgetown, and Leroy Gibson, 128, Indianapo Ms, knocked out Freddie Grabelle, 128, Kankakee, 111. BOOGMAN BIDS FOR PACER HONORS Belgian Starter Tonight in 40-Mile Grind.

Another rider has been added to the motor-paced championship field. At the Coney Island Velodrome tonight. Rene Boogman, Belgian ace, will start In a 40-mile grind against five other stellar pace-followers. Giovanni Manors, Italian motorpaced champion, is leading for the American crown with 16 points, five more than the diminutive Frenchman, Alfred Le-tourneur, has scored. National Champion Charley Jaeger with eight points is In fourth place, having one point dess than Jimmy Walthour.

Predent De Lille, Belgian, will be the other starter. A motorpaced race at 10 miles will havs as starters Jackie Sheehan, Alfred Ferruolo, John Brus-kle. Mike De Filippo and Louis Maltese. These youngsters are fighting it out for a place in the championship field and are an evenly matched lot. There will be 61 professional sprinters In a two-mile handicap and an unknown distance event while an army of amateur talent will rldo in a one-half handicap and a mlss-and-out race.

TRINITY BOXING FRIDAY The Trinity Club wltr run off 14 contests at its weekly amateur tournament at tha Golden City Arena. Canarsls, on Friday night Leading boxers of the metropolitan district have been invited to compete. Successful of 1932 Comebacks pitched Atlanta to victory over Little Rock. Paddock won out over the A. A.

but thats about the only thing he'll beat. 4 Lewis Tries Headlock On Benny Ginsberg Ed. Strangler Lewis, master of the headlock, will meet Benny Sam Stein, Hebrew tltloholder, will oppose Bill Mlddlekauf jn the twin feature of flhlsh matches at the Island Park Stadium, long Beach oh Saturday night. Two newcomers in Jack Gurleys herd of pachyderms will appear in a limit bout Bruno Gorrasinl of Italy and Jack McArthur of Canada, who will be opponents. most dramatic, offering as it does the story of the boy who dropped from caviar to hand-outA-and then came back against tremendous odds for a second helping of caviar.

Benny Leonard isnt doing bad at all. With everything to gain and nothing to lose but 40 or 60 pounds of fat, Behnah has earned himself a tidy sum -by popping earnest but unknown young men on the profile. Johnson and Delaney, the old Bapler of the North, havent got to first base. Lacoste ahowed lots of early foot, but faltered in the stretch. Lee Barnes Just pole-vaulted 12 feet 10 a few days ago.

Joe Stecher, to hear his inspired press agent tell it, "Is once again knocking on the throne room door. Rube Marquard Just MAJOR LEAGUE RECORDS AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING OF THE TEAMS Teamo. W. L. NKW YORK 46 19 Detroit 37 t7 .576 Philadelphia .45 35 .571 Ytaahliwtan 37 36 Cicreland 36 SI .537 Ht.

Lauta S3 tt .556 tillage S3 41 .346 Boat on It 54 .163 O. R. Garoea behind leader. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS NEW YORK, 1 1 Wanhhiftaa, A Philadelphia, If Jtaataa, A. Only fame acednied.

GAMES TOMORROW NEW YORK at Rotten, hicafre at Hi. Loula Detroit at CHrvelaad. Only gamea tehedaleA Pe. G.B la it is Vi NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING Or THB TEAMS Tnmm. IftUburfh es.ee.

Chkr Bosto miUdHphL Ht. BROOKLYN NK.W YORK Cincinnati W. L. IV. ZW fcl oM 91 JUT 36 St! .507 ft St .506 4, 3 A .453 tft DS .466 SI 43 .41 G.B.

G. B.6inta MIM leader. 'I i TEHTKRDAIS RESULTS KRW YORK. 7) BROOKLYN. 3.

BROOKLYN. I NMV YORK, S. Beat an. Ptillsdrlphli, St. Lauls, St Cincinnati, A GABIES TOMORROW BROOKLYN Philadelphia.

Baataa at NEW YORK. 4 inrhmatl at (Jihax. 8L LaaU at PUUbarvh. tbto 18; W. Maluteky and H.

Shapiro defeated 8. Myerson and M. Oold, 11 to 28; J. Damsky and H. Handler defeated B.

Dtmm and 8. Klotx, II to J. 'Grossman and V. Kltay defeated 8. Klrsch and L.

Hhulmsn, 21 to It; H. Smllowlts and L. Wllensky defeated A. Elsenla and L. Brelner, It to 20; 8.

Anten-berg and 8. Price defeated J. Fischer and 8. Biau, It to J. Bchults and L.

Zwldol defeated George and iurf A. A. Handtall Second Round Over Following are the results of the rcond-round play In the novice andball tournament of the Surf A. at Washington Baths, Coney Isold. and Krelger defeated I.

Heler and M. Levy. 81 to 10; Wortman and M. Bummls de- 'sated J. Naussbaum and IX Belgel, Mortimer Kerehnar, 21 fo 18,.

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