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SPORTS mm FINANCE 106th Year. No. 250 Saturday, January 9, 1937 Free Press Want Ads Bring Best Results Hockey League in Battle Over Use of Canadian Referees Cunningham Faces Venzke in K. of C. Games 800-Meter Feature Hawks' Owner Says He'll Ask Kilpatrick Brothers, Born to Fight, Prepare for Golden Gloves Olympic Foes Match Strides Again Tonight Lash and McCluskey to Race in 3,000 Meter Event Wolverines to Tackle Unbeaten Purdue Five Michigan's Chances for Big Ten Crown at Stake in Opener Tonight CHICAGO, Jan.

8 (A. The "Stop Purdue'' campaign will open tomorrow night when Michigan gets its first chance to halt the Boilermakers' drive toward another Big Ten basketball title. Purdue, on its pie-season showing, ranked as a red hot favorite to be in at the finish of the championship stretch. After winning its Conference opener against Wisconsin, to o0, the Boilmakers are more than ever considered the team to beat. The Wolverines, ranked as a first stiff test, particularly on defense.

With Jewell Young, Johnny Sines, Gene Anderson and Pat Malaska playing great ball, the Boilmakers have popped in baskets j-N, I By I National Ho so fast that opponents have yet to TII'S FROM V.l.Ul r.KOTIIMl AI.KV II) (I.LlTl T.XKDS TRAIMMi IIKVKI.MC tiVM 1 Operation Utilized by Alex Nazi Boycott Imperils Fight Schmeling Is Again Attacked by League NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (U. A serious obstacle to the Jim Braddock-Max Schmeling heavyweight championship fight, scheduled for June 3, developed today when decision to boycott the contest was announced by the non-sectarian Anti-Nazi League. Announcement was made by Mortimer B. Zerwick, publicity director of the organization of which Samuel Untermyer, noted corporation attorney, is president.

Joe Gould, manager of Champion Braddock, said that if the boycott goes into full force he will not allow his charge to meet Schmeling, the German who once held the title. Zerwick dear i his organization as of nationwide proport ions with backing of millions of people including organizations such as the A. F. of L. The Masons Mike Jacobs aml Catholic and Protestant organizations.

Mike Jacobs, who, with the Madison Square Garden is a co-promoter of the fight, said that he would withhold action until his attorney, Saul Strauss, has conferred with League officials. Jacobs said that he was particularly interested in the matter because of an advance of he has made to Schmeling, who now is in Germany. Jacobs said that the "chain-letter" boycott which preceded the Schmel-ing-Joe Louis fight, affected the gate by at least $100,000. Zerwick sxplained reasons for Ihe boycott as follows: 1 The league strives to maintain a commercial boycott against Germany and to keep American money out of Germany. 2 It would be unfortunate If the championship went to Germany and Schmeling because it might be subject to exploitation by Fuehrer Hitler for Nazi purposes.

3 The league does not recognize any Nazi in business or in sportsmanship, "Contract or no contract I won't allow Jim to fight Schmeling if this boycott goes into effect," Gould said. "Don't ask me how I'll get out of the contract. I'll just get out. And I won't consider moving the fight to another city." 1 as Means to Battler Overcomes Handicap of Braced Foot to Enter Golden Gloves Wars U. S.

to Step In President Calder Out to Head Off Effort to Bar Them Doc Hoist I i ir.k f'Mr, i key I.e i-iir key Cel i ar.d ioi i CI i hi. ago kh i to hav Mates ei h. refeice can ities. The. a' li soft.

pe offlCMilV by I'l well as managers and pirmlH-i: led the hoard of jmriiimi, as a i-i mil ted by Arthur the hour of governor National Hotkey League, and o- of the largest sto khokir-t ie Iveston P.ruiris as we'i as of the club and its managing directi.r. "Now that the story is in tha papers, 1 must admit that I did! know that the Major had threat-i ened to call in the United States Government to bar Canadian ref- erees." Itoss said in his suite in the Detroit-Leland Hotel. lltither Mr. elt Mr. Ross gave an embarrassed grin and added: "You don't bl.tnie me.

do you, for not wanting such a silly thing to get in the paper? Personally I believe a referee from Alabama is as competent as a leferec ftom Manitoba. "Also I ran believe that th Maior, with nil his top-hat dignity, could be so sei lolls as to ail III the United States Government to pick out our referees It. nluavi has been my impiession thitt th United States and other countries have other problems before them, such as Peace, Prosperity, Business and other mailers. mink that piesident Fi.tnK i Calder. the hoaid of governoin and the ne-', soa rn.

Uu valih our games, hat1 etioucji jiidnieni tl solve this problem of referrem without liotherirg Mr. rotseet. Works Against Major "Anyway the League right no-v has five good referees from ths United States. There's Bill Stewart of Boston; Babe Dye, of Chicago; Bill Shaver of San Francisco; Micky Ion of Seattle, and Ag Smith of Boston." Letoy Atkinson, v. ell-im'oi hockey writer of the Boston Traveler, in a wire story to his paper epioted Rossi as saying that his recent praise of National Hockey League refereemg was to offset the Majors blast in cast it ever escaped from the secret meetings of the board of governors.

"I never dreamed that such a silly mutter could become a major said Ross. Atkinson, while not (rioting 'ove i i Hole to I plot, Rr laid flatty noes ouid IV ill a sp-e that Int 1, l.ll-.i We 1- el uv: .1 1. a in r. uss Major id rt gainst denied flativ that VolfC inghlin I ej eree the spe cial nieeting would be held to discuss the Major complaints. Hawks Let It Out "The Major wouldn't come to the meeting, anyway," said lios.i.

"We don't wear plug hats at our board meetings. Sometimes, I even take off my tie." Ross ami MacLaughhn are hitter 'l' ie Turn to 'u- 16 'vi in 4 E. J. Fry in Line for Racing Plum Mead and Donnelly Also Mentioned Jan I Kd-vart J. Fry, eh.t, I )eir in a ate 1 miUec, would he commissioner Lansing Kinhiy.

Murphv was not in ik til t-iu. to comim nt on the i sources rt-kakl' Fly a scheduicd Commissioner Joseph Sagin-i a at an eai Tile announcement to been noide, it vas i.t p.er given in Fremont f. -t Fry and his brother, SUte Treas'iier Theodore I. Fry, Friday night. Strike conferences kept Murphy from attending the dinner, however.

Half a dozen candidates have been mentioned for the racing commissionership, hich is regarded as an administration Among those reported to have been considered were Harry H. Mead of Detroit. Murphy's cam- lllltlidfl rt.l'.i l-'- r.i,-,,-, tlltji, Ul 't LI HIV, t-nail i cratic legislator who is not a I member of the present House. Inter-City Skate Meet Postponed Second Time Unseasonably warm weather the last few has cause, second postponment of tire jp, C.ltv i-e skaT'it peel betv. Vti Ce si bed: of 'en Vd Sunlav at Instead, a held on Squ.t: if the ke is meet ne.ir Lak thick Pontuc, enough titer.

NEW YORK. Jan. 8 (A.P.I Featuring the renewal of the Glenn Cunningham-Gene Venzke rivalry, the Columbus Council of the Knights of Columbus will open the indoor track ami field season tomorrow night with its eleventh annual games at the 106th Infantry Armory. Cunningham and Venzke, who, have waged their battles over a mile or 1.500-meters for five years, will clash in the 800-nieter run. I won by the burly Kansan the last! 4...

Vomln hton i tVil event last year when Cunningham was clocked in 1:55.2, originally sent in his entry for the 3,000 meters but shifted to the shorter uistance in order to get another chance at his rival, now a New York University postgraduate student. Fost-Olj nipic Feature The race will be Cunningham's f.ist start over the distance since I lowered the outdoor mark to 7 in a post-Olympic meet at Stockholm. It also will be the first drt. between the pair since the Olympics, when Glenn ran second to a Lovelock in the 1,500 meters and Venzke finished far back. Opposing the two stars will be Burn, Manhattan's intercollegiate 800 champion; Bill Hay.

former Manhattan track captain; Finest Fedcroff. one-time Temple stiii now running for the Millrose A. and Larry Quinlan, of Columbia. Tin re other Olympic athletes ni will be seen ill action. In diana's Don Lash, America's foremost, two miler, and Joe McClus-Kev.

national indoor steeplechase champion, will meet at 3,000 ineters. while Marty Glicknian, of Syracuse, matches his speed against a large field of local dash-men in the sprint series of 60, 80 and 100 meters. Seven in 500 Meter A strong seven-man field also has been gathered for the 500-iiieler run, including Milton Sand-1-r, former New York middle-distance star and winner in 1:08 lust year. Toeing the line with him will he George Arnold, Ohio State's national jpunior 400-meter titlist; Kdgar Borch, Manhattan; Gayle McGuigan, New York A. Jim Herbert, of the Curb Exchange; Arthur Kneen, of Fordham, and Jim Mel'oland, of Georgetown.

A I Threadgill, Temple's great high jumper, tops the field in the event which he won with a leap of seven feet, seven inches in Handicap events and lelay Mees, bringing together some 500 o'ker athletes, complete the pru-g'atii. French May Send Two Boats to City Craft Being Built for Gold Cup Races When Horace Dodge sends his eet of speedboats out on the Deis nit River-next September to le-fivl the Gold Cup, there is a pos- rhillty that there will be one and. probably two French boats in the S'arting line-up. I This was revealed at a meeting ef the Detroit Gold Cup Committee Knday afternoon when J. Lee Bar-; reit.

delegate to the International Motor Yacht Racing Union meeting held recently in Brussells. announced that two French boats now are in the process of construe-; tion. Lieut. Coin. Maurice Vasseur informed me that he was building two hoats," Barrett told the committee, "each equipped with 12-liter Hispano Suiza and Farman motor.

He will drive one of these himself and the other will be piloted hy his friend. Kmip Piquerez." Commodore Barrett also revealed the possibility of a match race between a French 12-kilogram boat and some American craft. I The French boat compares in i many respects with the American Gold Cup standards. It weighs 2.400 pounds, but boasts a motor i of 1.100 cubic inch piston displacement compared to the 750 cubic inch restriction on the American craft. Denby Is Awarded 17 rn JCc ICM UU I Denbv TlirrVl Unnl'l teln Friday nieht was presenteti I give oach Ward Lamoerl team any real workout in defense play.

iee May Cause Trouble Michigan won six games and lost one in the tune-up series, two of the victories being overtime affairs with the University of Washington on a West Coast trip. John Gee, six-foot, nine-inch center, is liable to cause trouble for the Boilermakers, as will the smart, fine passing John Townsend, Herman Fish man and Bill Barclay. Of the Boilermakers, Young appears set for a great year. Sixth in the Conference scoring race last season when Bob Kesslcr, of the Boilermakers, won out, Y'oung scored 27 points last Monday against the Badgers. Iowa aces Wildcats The Iowa invasion of Norlhwest-ern's bailiwick promises a thriller.

Northwestern started with a classy victory over Illinois, wh'le Iowa gave Indiana a great fight all the way before the Hoosiers won, 28-2 i. Chicago, although it has shown flashes of strength, doesn't rate to worry Indiana, but the Illinois-Wisconsin game at Madison should produce plenty of excitement. Minnesota will be idle, while Ohio State plays New York University at New York. Smick and Gee Are Ready as U. of M.

Leaves for Purdue ANN ARBOR. Jan. S-Danny Smick took his first road trip of the Michigan basketball season today despite the fact that he is the ranking substitute on the Michigan five. A knee injury has kept him out of play since the opening of the season, unable to make any trips until Coach Franklin Cappon named him with nine others today for the Wolverines' Conference opener at Purdue tomorrow night. With Conference hopes resting on Michigan's showing tomorrow against the co-champions.

Coach Cappon announced his team was restored to full strength. He will start Capt. John Gee at center for the first time in five games, with Smick finally on hand to substitute if needed. Gee received broken nose against the Univer-! sity of Washington in the team's third game. The other starters tomorrow will be Matt Patanelli and Hcr-' man Fishman at the.

guards and Bill Barclay and John Townsend at forwards. Others making the trip are Ed Thomas, Ferris Jennings, Leo Beebe and Dick Long. Browns Will Play 23 Spring Games ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8 (A.

A spring exhibition schedule of 23 games, including the usual two with their city rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, was announced today by the St. Louis Browns. Guess never fails to provide a thrill. The beauty of it comes in the battle of the runner's speed with the out- fielder's throwing arm and the col lision that usually takes place at i the plate.

I I can look on at great plays. marvelous siops, spectacular catches and the other things that Latu of baseball tne same it is. find a way of out-maneuvering the By Charles P. Ward Smne people just naturally like to fight. They can't explain just why they are willing to take a hard punch on the nose for the privilege of tossing one at the nose of somebody else.

All they know is that they like it. A person of this sort is Alexander Kilpatrick. a member of the Chrysler boxing team. Alexander is a red-haired Irishman from River Rouge. He has been having the time of his life the past three or four years baiting people around in Golden Gloves competition.

Al has been batted around a bit himself on occasion but. nobody has been able to bat him hard enough to take away the grim, satisfied smile that lights up his face when a battle is on. Kilpatrick enjoys his fights and has paid a big price for his pleasure. Kilpatrick prohably is the only warrior in Detroit who ever underwent a serious operation in order to enjoy the pleasure of engaging in fights. The operation and, indirectly, the boxing probably saved one of his sturdy legs, but that was incidental.

AI submitted to the operation simply because he wanted to enjoy the pleasure of fighting Broke Bono in Foot The story begins when Kilpat rick was a mere schoolboy. Jumping off a wagon one day. he injured his foot. But boylike, he' decided that he had just "hurt it a little" and that it would heal in time. And apparently it did.

Some years later Kilpatrick entered the Golden Gloves touroa- ment and began working out a.i I the Holy Redeemer gymnasium. After several weeks of boxing. he began to take note of a persistent pain in his right in-, i step. It handicapped him in his, training lor it marie it difficult i for him to set. himself to deliver one of the punches he so dearly I loves to deliver, After some time he complained I to his trainer, who suggested that I Unsung Golfer Leads on Coast Cooper Shares a 69 at Los Angeles LO.S ANGfclLES.

Jan. 1 A Braving frost-laden winds. crack golfers of the Nation started down the SS.000 money trad of the annual Los Angeles Open today. At the end of IS holes, and with a gallery shivering like the gay I banners strung around Griffith! Park's municipal course. Harry Cooper, of Chicago, and Al Baker.

unheralded Los Angeles driving range pro. stood at the top with lilts, luo under par. One stroke were the other entries able break par tm a rmiisr supposedly easy an-1 none too seil (Lipped. The 70s were Jimmy Mines, of Ganl.ri City. L.

1 .6 winner of the Los Angeles Open; Ralph Guldalil. of I St. Loins: Al Knieger, of Bloit. Willie Goggin, of San Bruno. Gray Madison, of Phoenix, Ariz and Al Zimmerman, of Portland, Ore.

Posting even par 71 were Hor-I ton Smith, of Chicago, biggest pro money winner last year; Henry I'icard. of ilershey, young Geojge Si.hr.eit.er. of Ogden. Utah; AI Gruher. of nearby Pak3 Verdes.

I and Sam Snead, of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. I Thirteen players turned in I scores one stroke over par, with long driving Jimmy Thomson, of I Shawnee. Pa Paul Runyan. of White Plains.

N. S.trn Parks. former National Open king, and Johnny Revolt a. of Kvanston, 111 the most dangerous threats. Interest entered on the e-Los Angeles open hampions.

Coooei. 1S26 winner, topped the list with his en. Mac-Donald Smith, the old Carnoustie master, four times win-j tier, gut out of a sick bed to shoot a 76. Denny Shute, P. G.

A champ and 19 10 winner, shot 71. Craig Wood, of New Yolk. posted 76: Vic C.hezzi. Deal. N.

lfc.o hampion. shot 74 arai limes I completed the group with la? 70 I The second round is sUte fur tomorrow, IS hole.s Sunday and the finals Mondav. i place to hit the ball with safety and that is behind the runner and into right fieid You must remember that the runner is off with the crack of the bat. He doesn't have much chance to survey conditions Me just runs. So, the ball must be hit to right field to protect the base runner.

Its got to be out of the first baseman reach and its got to be hard enough to give the second baseman little chance to move over to make the stop. "But when it's well executed. I say that the hit and run with a runner on first is just about the prettiest play in baseball." You 11 find many to avjee with Geoi se. And it will be to find many fns v. ho won and I don't mean when it comes a close decision, either, I Perry Again Swamps Vines Cleveland Test Shows Illness of Ace CLEVELAND, Jan.

8-(A. Fred Perry, of England, defeated the ailing Ellsworth Vines, top professional tennis star, tonight, 13-11, 6-3, in their second match of a tour for which the British former champion of the amateurs turned pro. Vines obviously had comparatively little of his vaunted strength and tired out in the first set which developed into a. terrific deuce battle. Members of the tennis troupe said that Vines still was suffering from influenza which affected his play when Perry defeated him in their first match in New York's Madison Square Garden Wednesday night.

The match was reduced to two sets out of three instead of the usual three out of five. Vines appeared in good spirits as he took the courts before 3.000 spectators in Cleveland Public Auditorium. The American served and won the first game. He held the lead to a score of 5-3. Then he let down and Perry evened it up in dashing style.

With deuce at 6-6, the world's two top tennis stars really went to work. The rallies were long and furious. The ensuing games were base line duels, driving hard for the corners. A net cord ball helped Perry to break through Vinos' service at 12-11. Then he swept into the net to sew up the set as Vines dubbed his return.

Vines went completely down on the second set. The Briton ran his lead to 5-3. The final game was on Vines' service and he ran it to advantage only to have Perry rally to the net and put the match away. In a preliminary match. Bruce Barnes, the Texas protege of William T.

Tilden, scored an easy victory over George Lott. Amer-icanDavis Cup star, 6-1, 6-4. catcher. All of these things, to me at least, combine to make a dramatic moment in any game. And to me it always will be the 1 1 iest play in baseball.

et, there are few who will place the play at the top of the list. 1 risked George Moriarty, the ve'eran American League umpire, for i opinion ami his answer was sur 4 mising. Moriartv I'll grant vou, said George, "that the play you mention is The By W. Ring Career he let a doctor look at the f.iot. Examination disclosed that a bone in the instep hud been broken and had failed to mend properly.

Eventually a dangerous complication set in, causing the pain in the foot. Kilpatrick was urged to have an operation performed immediately, lie demurred and his father promptly issued a "No operation, no fighting'' declaration. Al changed his mind and went to the University Hospital at Ann Arbor to let the SUILCns cut him up. Kilpatrick was in the hospital quite awhile. And hen he as discharged lie wore a sturdy steel 7''(sf; mh to I'iinr 17 tfliutn 4 Hockey NATIONAL LEAGUE HMI.RK (N DIVISION I.

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hithim I I I Miltkrrolt 'U' F'xir at tlk in ll'illbUf li I'ontiSi' (antra I Kill I I'niitmr UI Kli I. M. Hufllmm nn. "Well, I would exactly call it i that," he confided. "If it is just real beauty in action that you're looking for.

there's one play for me that outranks the others. "You'll find nothing prettier on a ball field," the veteran umpire pointed out, "than the hit and run play, when the batter pokes the ball into right field behind the runner. "A fellow has to be on his toes to execute that one. The hit and run often is worked in other ways. Getting the shortstop out of position is the most common.

But the one I like best comes with a runner on first. A hi and run in that instance requires plenty of skill. "If the b.i'd is hit to thft left of tlif pitchers mound, the play Usually fails. There Is only one Briggs Gives M.S.iV. Sports Plant YPSILANTI.

Jan. 8 An athletic field, including a field house and baseball and football grandstands, was presented here tonight to Michigan Normal College by Walter O. Briggs, Detroit industrialist and owner of the Detroit Tigers. The Tiger owner was born in Ypsilanti approximately 60 years ago. The presentation was made by Walter O.

(Spike) Briggs, son of the donor, at a banquet in McKinney Hall. The new plant, the younger Briggs said in his presentation address, will be erected this year on the present site of the normal college athletic field. "I delight in being able to present in behalf of my Dad," Briggs stated in part, "an athletic field house dedicated to the physical development of youth, and at the same time an institution designed to promote intellectual grow th. "It is surely with extreme joy that this city's son. through his son.

now giants and assigns the Walter Briggs Field to the people of his The Second Prettiest Play in Baseball? There Are Many Answers W. Edgar thing of beauty when properly ex- ecuted. But I wouldn't place it at the head of the list. "To me there's beauty in a steal of home. And all the drama you want.

Possibly, I am biased on this particular play, because it was a favorite of mine when I was playing with the Tigers. "If ycu lock tack over the re-ords you'll find that one year I stole home something like 14 times in 19 attempts. A steal of home is a dramatic thing. You're waff-j ing a battle against a pitcher's arm instead of an outfielder antl you've got to time every move. it takes a lot of daring to come streaking into that plate," i George confided.

"Then, you would class the steal aibasebail?" George was asked. WHAT is the prettiest play in baseball? This Question came up the other evening during a session of the Hot Stove League and it was sur- prising to learn the numerous plays that appeal to the fans A r.1 that possesses all the Liii onri t.nh. ff.i and an element ct chanc i that VitH IllUUe lot uitc yrrtfn la aunicu i. un me Free Press football trophy I by anotrier And few of them can I but none of them carries the ap-r vinning the East Side cham- on anv one pIay that stands peal of a runner trying to score Pionship of the City League during out anove 'n others. from thii-d on an outfield fly.

J. campaign. The presenta-j Kol. jn all the years The runner must judge the right matle at the Denby have bern sauntering out moment to start. The fielder has nquct in the school lunch the ball yard to tany for an to be on the alert and get his afternoon, there is no play that; throw away.

And it dare not be FitT i i a i lari ies more appeal for me than a just an ordinary throw. It has to r' Wnesthoff. athletic director. 'man trying to score from third be accurate. It has to be right in ''d Coach Irving Wolf were the on a long to the outfield.

the catiher's mitt in order to give J. 31 speakers. More than 100' It is a fairly simple plav. yet I him a chance to tag the runner, -uflents, football nlavers. teachers it romhine-i skill.

darinE-. technique I More than that, the runner must Parents were present..