THE HIGH STARS

 

Two Places Each to Northeast
\ and East on Interscholastic
First Team.

OTHER POST TO CENTRAL

Bud French, the Leading Scorer
of League, Is Given a For=
ward Position,

 

 

 

Ramsey Is Paired With Blue
Eagle Star—Bounds, Viking
Ace, Gets Call at Center.

 

SECOND FIVE CHOSEN

Little Dick Soper of Champions
Is a Forward on Team—Two
Berths to Manual.

 

Five boys averaging
slightly over 6 feet who
excel on defense com-
pose the 1942 Interscho-
lastic league basketball
all-stars announced today
following seven weeks of
court activity that ended

with the undefeated
Northeast Vikings suc-
ceeding Westport as
champions.

Northeast and East, the
second place winner, each

 
 
 
 

placed two on the cape: with
Bud French of Central, the
league’s \individyal scoring
star, repeating iy a forward
position. he/ team, with
French showhyg the way, has
sufficient pointsnaking power
and would be ‘double tough
when the foe moves in with
the ball.

Running with French at forward
js East’s Herbie Ramsey while the
6-foot 3-inch Ken Bcunds, North-
east’s 195-pounder, gets. the call at
center. The guards, Bill Whaley of
East and Ken Bass of Northeast, are
considered two of the best defense-
men to appear in league play in sev-
eral seasons. All are seniors except
Whaley.

Two Manual Boys on Second 'feam

Manual ended the campaign in a
third-place tie with Central ancy
.placed Rus Dethlefsen at forward
and Lewis DeLuna at guard on\ tne
second five. With Dethlefse! : at
forward is the boy many hail as the
most valuable on the Northeast
squad, little Dick Soper. Central’s
Buck Cramer roams at the pivot
position and Bill Huggins, South-
west’s fiery. guard, teams with
DeLuna. : :

French tallied sixty- fouy points in
the 7-game schedule nee 14 aver-

 

age to take mcay Aug hovors. While
earning a first \team betth for the
second consecutive season, French
played brilliantly mates who
appeared reluctant £0 SS the ball
in a manner befitting a geod team.
When Central clicked it was \potent
but the tendency to shoot from any
angle was prevalent.

Ramsey was the East center and
his presence on the first five likely
will be viewed with alarm.by those
who hold that a forward must be
a terrific scorer in order to be a
good one. Ramsey, like the other
Rast starters, is a performer who
stays cool under the stiffest pres-
sure, and with Whaley and Jimmy
Nelson, carried the Bears to victory
in every league game except the
clash that Dick Soper’s free thyow
won for Northeast, 18-17. Ramsey
averaged six points in each of the
seven games.

Bounds Develops Tuto Star.

Northeast’s surprising act of going
through undefeated can be traced to
the extraordinary development of
Bounds this season. Last year be-
cause of his awkardness, the husky
pivot showed little promise of be-
coming the superb rebounder and
dangerous scorer that played a great
part in the Vikings) march through
their schedule, \Bounds finished in
a sixth place tie With Jimmy Nelson
of East in the segring list, each aver-
aging 7.57 points per’ game. Although
Soper’s free throw pravided the ie
point difference in the
was the crashing reboun

   
 
 
   
 

kept Northeast in the gam
made possible Soper’s act.

Whaley and Bass received the
signments of stopping the opposis
tion’s high scorer week after week
and passed each test with flying
colors. Whaley held Northeast’s
John Taibi to a pair of field goals
and dropped in three himself. In
return Whaley handcuffed Nelson to
hold the hustling forward scoreless.
Such performances marked the play
of both youngsters in the torrid bat-
tle for championship honors during | -
the campaign.

Dethlefsen Hits 8 Points a Game.

Dethlefsen and DeLuna carried the
burden. for Manual’s Crimson, the
former averaging 8 points per game
to end behind French and Clint
Webber of Westport on the individ-
ual scoring list. DeLuna had the
habit of fouling out before the games
were over and finished only two
contests during the season. Despite
this weakness, the senior clinched a
second team by his rebounding and
aggressiveness. Without him Manual
likely wouldn’t have crashed the
victory column,

Dethlefsen, a second team choice
Jast season, is one of the best ball
handlers in the league and had he
been with Northeast or East, Deth-
lefsen may have topped French’s
scoring average by several points.

Soper is a smart, deceptive per-
former, who played the hero’s role in
three of Northeast’s victories. His
free throwing beat Southwest and

 

‘Racing Is Ready. to Do Its Part.

(By the Associated Press.)
Lovisvitte, Ky., Feb, 21—Col.
* Matt J. Winn, confident the sixty-
eighth running of the Kentucky
Derby would be among the best
in the history of the racing clas-
sic, said the sport was ready to
go “all out” in helping the United
States win the war.

The Churchill Downs head man,
leaving today for Chicago and a
Swing through the East before
returning to complete plans for the
Derby, May 2, said in an inter-
view:

“England has proved that con-
tinued racing can contribute to
morale, but in the end only one
thing counts—victory.”

A veteran of the last World war,
the colonel pointed out that rac-
ing contributed without stint then
—some $300,000 being raised in
Kentucky alone—and stands ready
to do it again.

MANGRUM ON TOP

A 36-Hole Total of 138 Sets the
Pace in the $5,000 New
Orleans Golf Open.

 

 

 

 

TWO ROUNDS TO PLAY

 

Deadlocked for Second Place, One
Shot Back, Are Lawson Lit-~
tle and Sam Snead.

 

HARBERT’S PUTTER BALKS

 

But the Sensation of Winter
Swing Still Is in Contention
With 141 Aggregate.

 

(By the Associated Press.)®

New Orleans, Feb. 21.—Lloyd
Mangrum of Oak Park, IIl., led
the field today at the halfway
point of the $5,000 New Or-
leans open golf tournament,
|but Lawson Little of San Fran-
cisco, former open champion,
shot the best round of the meet
thus far, a 5-under-par 33-34
—67, to move up a stroke be-
hind him in a second place tie
with Sam Snead.

Mangrum had a 36-hole total of
138 to Little’s 139, after adding a
35-34—69 to yesterday’s 69 that tied
Chick Harbert of Battle Creek,
Mich., for the first round lead,

Fails to Control Putter,

Harbert, the sensation of the win-
ter swing, had trouble putting and
slipped to a par 37-35—72 but still
was in the running at 141.

Snead, who was followed as usual
by the largest gallery of the day,
tad a 38-33—68 on lop of yesterday's
71. He would have been ‘in a tie
for first except for the stroke he
docked himself yesterday when his
ball moved as he addressed it, al-
though no one else saw it,

Little’s putter was red hot and
his chipping was exceptional, too,
but he 3-putted the fourteenth hole,
a par 4 which he termed “the easiest
on the course.” His putts included
one successful 35-footer, and on the
eighteenth he chipped from the edge
of the green to the cup, only to
have the ball bounce out and roll
a few inches away.

Mangrum sank a 15-footer for a
birdie on the fourth and a 40-footer
on the sixth. His best shot was a
long approach right down the fair-
way to within a few feet of the cup
on the seventeenth.

Mangrum’s Card in Early.

Lioyd, sixth ranking money win-
ner of last season, was one of the
first to finish.

He had virtually no gallery as the
spectators, most of them arriving
long after he had started, followed
other players who: strove vainly to
catch him.

Henry Picard of Oklahoma City,
defending champion, close upon the
leaders yesterday with a 10, fell
back with a 38-34—72 for a total of
142. Clayton Heafner of Linville.
N. C., who also had a 170, 3-putted
one hole, 4-putted another and gen-
erally blew up for a card of 41-34—
75 and a total of 145.

Ben Hogan of Hershey, Pa., pre-
tournament favorite who had a bad
round yesterday, still couldn’t make
par and turned in a 36-37—73 for
a half-time score of 148.

Jimmy Demaret of Detroit, Mich.,
1940 winner of. the tourney here,
dropped out because of indigestion.
The leading scorers:
Boe Mangrum, Oak Park,

34—138
34—1329
33—139
34—140
35—141

34—142
34—143

.69—35

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aan erecdl Hot Svrings. Va. ase
Jack Grout, Pittston, Pa. ..70—34
Chick eas beny Datitle Creek. a

 

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E, J. Harrison, Oak Park, Ill. 73-36
Al Rese Farmingdale

 

 

 

 

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Fees Keiser, Akron. O...75—35 34—144
Chandler Harper, Ports-
month, Va. ..:.....00e. 74—25 25144
Joe Brown, Des Be ALESE -73—38 34—145
evten Heafner, Linville.
2 nC a ceeeeeeee/ T0—41 34—145
orn d ane, ‘ir.. New Or-
re bot nN oDcreube no HOSE 72—36 37—145
Een Perron, White
Plains. NooYiow cs 2-20 72—36 37—145

Jimmy nes Great Neck,

38—146

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35—147
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37—147
34—147

 

Byron Nelson. Toledo

Rnek White. Memnhis, Tenn.74—28

Willie Goggin, Miami, Fla. .74—26

Otev Crisman, Selma, Ala..76—37
* Amateur.

PAYS $7,500 FOR A COLT.

Coldstream Stable Buys Tragic
Ending in Hialeah Auction.

(By the Associated Press.)

HIALEAH Park, Fua. Feb, 21.—
Fourteen horses in training were
sold at auction in the Hialeah pad-
dock today for a total of $24,185, an
average of $1,727.50 per head.

The highest price realized was
$7,500, paid by the Coldstream stable
for the 4-year-old chestnut colt.
Tragic Ending, by Misstep-Madfinis,
consigned by William J. Hirsch. The
same buyer paid $7,200 for Horn, a
3-year-old filly, by Annapolis-Flute,
offered by Preston M. Burch.

Third in favor with the bidders
was the Greentree stable’s veteran,
Armor Bearer, a 17-year-old bay
gelding, by St. Brideaux-Gallant

 

L (Continued on Page 2B.)

Lass. John B, Partridge eo him
away for $2,000.

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KANSAS CITY, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1942.

 

 

ASUONER VICTORY

First Place Again Is Taken Over
by Oklahoma in Defeat of
Nebraska, 46-41.

TIE BROKEN NEAR END

Three Minutes Remain When
Tucker Pops in Basket to Put
the Visitors Ahead.

HUSKERS WIPE OUT A LEAD

Trailing 19 to 28 at Half, Lincoln
Basketeers Come Back to
Knot Count Twice,

 

 

 

THE BIG SIX STANDINGS.
W. L. Pet.|
Oklahoma 7 1 .875\Nebraska .3
Kansas ..6 1 Missouri .2
la. State .4 4 .500|/K-State 2

 

(By the Associated Press.)

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 21.—Ok-
lahoma took over first place
in the Big Six conference bas-
ketball race by a half game
tonight, beating Nebraska, 46
to 41, after Gerald Tucker
broke a 41 to 41 tie on a pivot
shot with three minutes to

play.

A minute later’ Paul Heap put
Oklahoma three points out in front
with a free throw. Then, secongs
later, Heap sewed up the game when
he took a pass from Tucker, who
had dribbled down the floor after
getting a rebound, and sank a set-up.

Nebraska, trailing 19 to 28, at the
half, first tied up the game mid-
way in the second period. Short
baskets by Ken Elson and Sid Held,
and the latter’s long shot wiped out
a 6-point Oklahoma margin and
deadlocked the teams at 39-all.

Dick Reich broke that tie with a
set-up, then Elson tied’ it up again
with a shot from the side and paved
the way for Oklahoma’s game win-
ning drive.

Tucker was the big star of the
game, getting seventeen points and
taking a majority of rebounds under
the Husker basket. Held, playing his
last game, sparked Nebraska with
thirteen points, six of them on long

    

 

shots, Elson, a sophomore, got ten
for third high man.

" OKLAHOMA—46,_{- NEBRASKA—41,

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at half—Oklahoma 28, Ne-

re
Ea ska 19.
Free throws missed:

Oklahoma—Rob-
McCurdy, Reich 2,
Neviaseacemiymeston’

erts, Heap, Tucker,
RIOUsEYS Jones.

* Oiictals—Tet O'Sullivan, Missouri, and
“Pops” Harrison, Iowa.

BOB HUNT SETS RECORD.

K-Wesleyan Center Scores 36
Points—Defeat Ottawa, 57-49.

(By The Star’s Own Service.)
Ortawa, Kas., Feb. 21—Bob Hunt

of Kansas Wesleyan scored 36 points |

against Ottawa university here to-
night to set a new Kansas confer-
ence scoring record and guide his
team to a 57 to 49 victory over the
Braves. Hunt scored fifteen field
goals and six free throws.

The tall center’s points were
needed as a fighting outfit of Ot-
tawans, either led or closely tagged
the Coyotes right down to the end
of the game. Pete Reed, early led
an Ottawa scoring thrust which put
the Braves into a half time lead
19, i

THE 1942 INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE ALL-

STARS.
First Team. Second Team.
Player School Ht. Pos. Ht. Player School
-Bud French, Central, 6......Forward..5-7%4, Rus Dethlefsen, Manual
Herb Ramsey, East, 6-3...... Forward..... 5-7, Dick Soper, Northeast
+Ken Bounds, Northeast, 6-3...Center......6-2, Buck Cramer, Central

   

Bill Whaley, East, 5-11..,....Guard.
Ken Bass, Northeast, 5-11.....Guard....

Honorable Mention.

Forwards—Clint Webber, Westport; Jimmy Nelson; East; Bobby
Saizow, Southwest; John Taibi, Northeast; Dick Andres, Southwest;
Charles Butts, Paseo: John 2 East; Charles Shields, Northeast.

Centers—Clark Churchill outhwest; John Batley, Southeast;
Ray Clifton, Paseo.

Guards—Dick Pfeiffer, Southwest; Geldard Woerner, Central;
‘Omer Hart, East; Claude Rymer, Northeast.

-6-1, Lewis DeLuna, Manual
. 6, Bill Huggins, Southwest

 

 

 

 

 

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The Big Six Conference of Universities and Colleges Comes to
Town This Week End With One of Its Annual Athletic
Events....The Indoor Meet in the Auditorium Saturday
Night. ...The Football Rules Makers Don’t Like Last Second
Substitutions....Why Shouldn’t Army Boxers Be as Well«
Conditioned as Non=Army: Fighters?

Y in the auditorium sometime?

Almost surely the answer is in the affirmative. Possibly
you never will, but times and conditions are changing and in the final
analysis, who knows? =

But one thing is certain. If you’d like to offer testimony in sup-
port of the argument that this city would give paying support to Big Six

athletic contests played in Kansas City, all you have to do is to be among
those present at the Big Six indoor track and field meet in the Mu-

LET'S SSHow' EM] EM nicipal Auditorium Saturday night of this week.
AT KK.Ce
ReoRECIATES
so THEIR
f

 

 

(By The Star’s Sports Editor.)
OU’D like to see a Big Six conference football game in Kansas
City sometime? You'd like to see a Big Six basketball game

 
    

If you happen to be a devotee of track and
field you will be there, of course. Otherwise you
may need some selling. Our main selling point
would be to help Kansas City convince these

~ Big Six people that we appreciate their athletic
events enough to patronize them when they are
brought into our front yard,

All you alumni of the universities of Mis-
souri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and the
Kansas State and Iowa, State colleges should lead
the way. If you don’t support the local activi-
ties of your own schools, have you any license
to expect others to do so?

The Big Six meet is really a wonderfully attractive indoor enter-
tainment, something quite different from the ordinary run of indoor
events, but highly spectacular. The expensive equipment, when set up,
makes the auditorium probably the finest place in the country for an
entertainment of the Big Six track and field type. New York’s Madi-
son Square Garden long has had this honor.

If you know nothing of track and field as a sport, but have an
eye to good athletic competition, you'll be surprised at the entertain-
ment you can find in the auditorium Saturday night. The events are
highly competitive and you sense it in the atmosphere, It’s really a
splendid entertainment.

So wake up, all you Big Six alumni, and spread the word.

 

 

“You Can’t Do That’—Any More.

LTHOUGH the free-for-all and any time substitution rule in
football did not noticeably slow up the game last fall, as many
believed it would, nevertheless there were times when the rule was

annoying, both to players and to customers.
Usually that was when the defensive team
was lined up ready for the attack and the of-
fensive team would be emerging from its hud-
dle. In would dash a substitute, delaying the
play. ‘There is a penalty for delaying the game,
of course, and we saw a dozen cases of this last-
second substitution racket when we believed a
penalty should have been assessed but none was,
The coaches who make the rules now have
taken care of this. At their December meeting
in Jack Stewart’s Camelback Inn at Phoenix,
the football legislators adopted a rule that will
stop this last ditch substituting. Under the 1942

code no substitution may be made after the
referee has “positioned the ball.” The master official “positions the

 

(Continued on Page 2B.)

 

AIGE MAKES IT 4]

Winning Streak of 2-Mile Star
Continues, but Dodds Gives
Him a Battle.

 

ONLY 3-YARD VICTORY

 

The Time of 8:53.2, New Yprk
Games Mark, Third Fastest
Run Indoors.

 

BORICAN TIES A RECORD

 

World Standard of 1:51.4 Is
Equaled—MacMitchell Wins
Baxter Mile,

 

(By the Associated Press.)

New York, Feb. 21.—_J. Greg-
ory Rice, the little man with
the iron legs, won his forty-
second race in a row tonight
by defeating Gilbert Dodds of
Boston by a scant three yards
in the Toussaint 2-mile at the
annual New York A. C. games.

The former Notre Dame harrier
jumped into the lead two and a half
laps from home and fought off the
bespectacled divinity student all the
way home to reach the tape in 8:53.2,
a meet record and the third fastest
2-mile event run indoors.

Lloyd Hahn’s Mark Tied.

John Borican, the young Negro
portrait painter from Asbury Park,
N. J., equalled the world indoor rec-
ord for the half mile.

Borican, already the holder of the
600 and 1,000-yard world indoor rec-
ords, snapped the tape at 1:51.4,
matching the mark Lloyd Hahn es-
tablished on an 8-lap New York
armory track in 1928.

Tonight Borican, running on an
1l-lap affair, took the lead at the
very first stride and finished six feet
ahead of Charles Beetham, the for-
mer Ohio starter from Columbus.

Breaks Own Meet Record. @

Borican’s effort snipped one and
two-tenths seconds from the meet
record he set a year ago. It was the
fastest 880. yards ever run in Madi-
son Square Garden.

Earle Meadows of the Southern
California A. A., won the pole vault
at fourteen feet and Al Blozis,
Georgetown’s man of muscle, tri-
umphed in the shot putt with a
heave of 53 feet 6% inches.

Leslie MacMitchell, who equalled
the world indoor competitive record
of 4:07.4 in winning the Baxter mile
@ year ago, triumphed in the same
event, but with a time of 4:09.8.

It was the nineteenth consecutive
victory for the New York senior,
whose hopes for a new indoor stand-
ard went glimmering in a slow
first half mile that was clocked in
2:05.5.

FINALLY GET. GRID AWARDS.

Rockhurst Football Players Re-
ceive Letters for 1941.

pes

Football players of Rockhurst col-
lege have received their long awaited
letters for 1941 from the Rev. Paul
O. Smith, S. J., athletic director of
the college. The eighteen men re-
ceiving the rewards were Henry
Broyles, Tom Callahan, Ed Carr,
John Crevelt, Bill Dunn, Joe Fagan,
Wilbur Fry, Stu Kelly, Dave Leon-
ard, John Mitchell, Bill Neath, John
Scanlon, John Steck, Jim Swift, Bov
Wood, John McAdams and John
Sylvester and Charley Donegan, stu-

br KANSAS CITY STAR.

SECIION B

Under Screwball Management.

New Yor«k, Feb. 21.—Ole Olsen
and Chic Johnson, screwball
comics of stage and screen, tonight
announced they have “acquired”
a fighter—23-year-old Cleo Shans,
Los Angeles Negro featherweight.

Among other victories, Shans
decisioned Richie Lemos, Los An-
geles Mexican, while the latter was
N. B. A. featherweight champion.
The Olsen and Johnson announce-
meni that they had placed Shans
under contract said Mike Jacobs
would be approached for a possible
New York fight for the Cali-
fornian.

TO MARKET WISE

Burst of Speed in Stretch Sweeps
Tufano Horse to McLennan
Handicap Victory.

 

 

 

 

GRAMPS IN FOR PLACE

 

Get Off Is Third in 114-Mile Hia~
leah Race Run Over Good
Track in 1:50 4.5,

 

WINS AT MORE THAN 4 TO 1

 

Incoming Outruns Requested in
Secondary Feature Before
18,114 Persons.

 

(By the Associated Press.)
Miami, Fla., Feb. 21—Louis
Tufano’s Market Wise shook
off the effect of two Hialeah
park beatings today and
streaked to victory in the $10,-
000 McLennan handicap—the
third ranking horse race of
the winter.

Returning to the form which made
him 1941’s late summer 3-year-old
sensation, the “Cinderella horse,” ac-
quired by Tufano for only $500,
stormed down the stretch to take
first place from fourteen others in
the classiest field of the season and
before the meeting’s biggest crowd,
18,114 fans,

John Hay Whitney’s Gramps hung
on to take second place by a half
length over Edward S. Moore’s Get
Off:

War Relic Left Behind.

Left in the ruck were such cam-
paigners as War Relic, Our Boots,
Dit, Ponty, Royal Man and Red
Dock,

Not only did Maiket Wise collect
$11,625 for his owner, but he sped
Squarely into the picture as a good
bet for the $50,000 Widener handi-
cap March 7,

The McLernan winners of 1940
and 194i-Mifny Stings/and Big Peb-
gle—went of to even glory by bie |
umphing in the Wid

Jockey Wendell ‘Eads, whose
rough-riding suspension -was lifted
for one event so he could fulfill his
engagement to ride for Tufano, said
Market Wise ran his next-to-best
race. Only in winning the Pimlico
special last year did the horse per-
form better, the rider declared.

Our Boots Is Fourth,

The crowd, which installed War
Relic as its choice at 3 to 1, liked
Market Wise third best—and the
mutual return was $10.90, $5.10 and
$4.60 across the board. Gramps paid
$8.30 and $5.90, while Get Off’s show
price was $8.

Our Boots, the second choice, was
in fourth place, a half-length behind
Get Off,

Market Wise’s time was 1:50 4-5,
two and three-fifths seconds off the
track record for the mile and one-
eighth, but satisfactory in view of
the slow going.

Victor Far Back Early.

The crowd was smaller than last
year’s McLennan attendance of
20,829, but exceeded even this year’s
Opening day count of 16,533.

Carrying 124 pounds, Market Wise
was next to last at the start,
twelfth at the quarter post, tenth at
the half, seventh at the three-quar-
ter and third coming into the stretch.

The triumph brought Market
Wise’s tctal winnings to $110,990.

Mrs. S. S. Zell’s lightly-regarded
Incoming whipped five other eligibles
for the $25,000 Flamingo stakes in
the secondary $2,000 Stagehand
purse.

Busy Day in Mutuels,

Incoming won by a length and a
half and returned $12.10, $4.70 and
$2.60. Ben F. Whitaker's Requested,
runner-up to Alsab for 1941 juvenile
honors, took the place by three
lengths from, Mrs, A. F, Sherman’s
favored American Wolf, Requested
paid $5.20 and $2.80 and Ameri-
can Wolf $2.40.

Today’s mutuel play of $759,789
was thebest of the meeting, but fell
short of the $867,369 wagered a year
ago,

FINAL MAT TESTS FOR AMES.
K-State and Sooner Ags Will Be
Rivals This Week.

(By The Star’s Own Service.)

Ames, Ia., Feb. 21—Iowa State
college winds. up its Mid-West wres-
tling campaign next week against
Kansas State at Manhattan, and the
national champions from Oklahoma
A. and M, at Stillwater.

Both contests are of prime im-
portance to Hugo Otopalik and his
Big Six champions. A victory over
Kansas State will give the Cyclones
the 1942-loop title decided under the
dual meet percentage system.

PASTOR AND FRANKLIN SET

Heavyweights Will Meet in 10-
Rounder Tuesday Night.

(By the Associated Press.) \
. CLEVELAND, Feb. 21—Tricky Bob
Pastor and Slugging Lem Franklin
tapered off today for a 10-round
scrap which may clarify the race
for Joe Louis’s crown.

Given a break in the weather, Pro-
moter Bob Brickman estimated 13,-
000 customers would pay $56,000 to
see Franklin, onetime Cleveland
hotel porter, mix it up Tuesday
night with the fancy boxer who
dodged Louis a, total of twenty-one

 

dent managers,

rounds in. their two meetings, =. .

_ SPORTS
WANT ADS

ON TO Ble SHOW

Kansas_ City’s Golden _ Gloves,
Champions Leave for National
Classic in Chicago.

INTO THE RING TOMORROW?

Fighters in Lighter Weights Will,
Inaugurate Annual Tourna-
ment in Stadium,

 

 

 

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Workouts Scheduled in Windy,
City Today, Since Some
Are Over Weight. |

 

JEFFRIES A CHIEF. HOPE:

 

Lanky Light Heavyweight Is Exes,
pected to Go Far on Boxing
Skill and Experience,

 

Kansas City’s Golden
Gloves champions, hoping.
to create something of a
stir in the Chicago Sta-
dium tomorrow, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, left last
night for the Nationals
with the matter of weight
their only worry.

About half of the eight
members were over the weight
limit and this means some
hard work at the C. Y. O,
gymnasium in Chicago today-
Jimmy South, the Argentine
parish lightweight who. has
replaced Vert Gibson, was
four pounds over the light-
weight limit; Charley Jack-.
son of the Gateway A. C, has
about three pounds to remove,
and so have Levi Southall,
featherweight, and Vic Bailey,
flyweight.

No Worry for Amayo.

Leroy Jeffries, the light heavy-
weight whose experience and boxing
skill are expected to carry him a
long way, is one of the few who isn’t
bothered about weight. Jeffries is
about six pounds under the 175-
pound limit and so can eat what he-
pleases, Phil Moreland, the heayy-
weight, of course, is not concerned,
nor is Lou Amayo, the welterweight.
Amayo was right on the 147-pound
dot last night and probably wili be”

a) pou nd oe the figure, when ,he .
goes on the spales: tomorrow. ; 4

The first four weights appear in
first and second round bouts to;
morrow night. On the Tuesday
night card entries in the heavier
weights meet and survivors in all
eight classes return for the quarter-
finals Wednesday night.

Kansas City will be one of fifty-
five teams entered in this tourna-
ment conducted by the Chicago
Tribune. For the first two rounds
the teams are separated into two
divisions. The first includes what
are regarded as the stronger teams
such as Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago
and Kansas City. In the other di-
vision are teams from the smaller
cities near Chicago,

Only One Group Then.

After the first two rounds all sur-
vivors are thrown together and so it
usually happens the toughest fights
for Kansas City boxers are in the
first and second rounds. Once they~
escape these they sometimes have
easier sailing on Wednesday night.

Jeffries, Jackson and Amayo will
be making their second trips to the
Nationals. Jeffries was a middle-
weight last year but Jackson and.
Amayo are in the same weights.

Casey Williams, the _ battling
youngster from the Joplin team,
and Vic Bailey of Coffeyville re-
ported in fine shape. They worked
out with the others at the. Municipal

A. C. gymnasium last night before
boarding the special car.

VANCE PAGE TO BREWERS.
In Exchange, Los Angeles’ Ree.
ceives Al Todd, Catcher.

(By the Associated Press.)

Los ANGELES, Feb. 21—The Los
Angeles Baseball club announced
today Pitcher Vance. Page had been
traded for Hefty Al Todd, Milwaukee
catcher and veteran of many major
league campaigns,

Both players were shipped by the
Chicago Cubs to Milwaukee after the
1941 season got under way, but Page
was slated to have hurled for Los
Angeles this season.

HOPE IN VETERAN ARMS:

The Indians Golsouth Go South With a Big
Hurling Problem,

(By the Associated Press.) :
CLEVELAND, Feb. 21——Three pitch<
ers—trying to hit the comeback trail
to make up for Bob Feller’s absence
—hboarded a train here this afternoon
to start the Cleveland Indians’ trek
to the Clearwater, Fla., spring train-
ing camp.

Veterans. Mel Harder and Clint ~
Brown hoped to get one more season
from their ancient arms, and South-
paw Al Milnar, who was able to win
only twelve games last year while
losing nineteen, hoped to recep Lue
his 18-victory style of 1940. .

It was the first time: since 1936
that the Indians went south with-
out rapid Robert, who has changed
to a navy uniform. The batterymén
start their workouts Monday, with -
the infielders and outfielders follow-
ing two days later.

BAN ON A JOCKEY.
MiaMI, Fia., Feb, 21—(A, P.)—
Hialeah Park stewards suspended
Jockey Leon Haskell today for the:
remainder of the season for grab-
bing the bridle of Tower Guest dur-
ing the second race yesterday. Has~
kell’s mount, Anna-A-Vish, finished

 

eleventh, Tower Guest fifth,