MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Louis Enjoys Promotor's Life Because Of Food
New York—(U.R.)—Joe Louis still has the best left hand in the fight racket—only now he's using it to spear such opponents as golden fried shrimp, midget hot dogs and nut brown hamburgers.
Louis admitted to 225 carefree pounds despite an exhibition tour in which he has cleaned up some $300,000 in four months. And he guessed that he'd keep on giving exhibitions for a "couple of years" if money stayed this easy to pick up
Being heavyweight champion of the world, a diet-inducing honor which he relinquished a week ago. Joe always be plagued by the necessity of counting his calories.
So it was a happy day as he received the press for his first major interview as a promoter. Joe headed right for the cold cuts and his two-handed attack did a better job than the night he made hamburger out of Tony Galento.
"I don't think I'll get tired of this smoking," Joe chomped. "Besides, you don't get hit when you're a promoter."
But that doesn't mean, he asserted,
reaching for the dwindling tray of
hot dogs, that he would fight again.
"If some young fighter came up rapidly and you were offered a million to fight him, wouldn't you do it?" he was asked.
"I can't dream that much." Joe gurgled over another hamburger. "But I can tell you, I wouldn't fight even for a million."
Surveying the wreckage of the snack bar, Joe turned regrettfully to his coming promotion of a fight between Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcoot for the world's heavyweight title. He disclosed that he was considering Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. Louis also asserted that he had Less Savold and Gus Lesvenchy for challengers. "That isn't so," said Bill Daly, Savold's manager. "Joe offered us a fight with Charles for the title first. But we are under contract to Mike Jacobs until Wednesday, November 2, after which we'll be free. Besides, we have to fight the winner of the Freddie Mills-Bruce Wood-cock fight."
"Well, anybody's got a right to claim it. We're not trying to say who should be champ. We're just trying to line up the contenders."
Before leaving, Louis recalled that when he was younger he thought he should lose the title the same way he won it—in the ring.
That fight, too, is billed for the heavyweight championship of the world. Which provoked Louis to reply:
"But when you get older," he explained, "you get different ideas. I could have fought again, but I'd rather have it this way."
Lakeland, Fla., March 14 (U.P.) Pitcher Art Houtteman of the Detroit Tigers, who never gave up on the baseball diamond despite a steady string of hard luck, battled gamely for his life today against a fractured skull suffered in an automobile accident.
You got what he meant when he headed for the cold cuts again!
The 21 year-old right-hander was placed on the critical list by doctors at Lakeland hospital after the car he was driving collided with a truck at a downtown intersection, March 10. Three Florida college students in Houtteman's car were not seriously injured.
A midnight bulletin from the hospital reported Houtteman still in "poor" condition, although doctors had noted a slight improvement in his condition earlier in the day and said there was definite hope for his recovery.
Tiger Hurler Put On Critical List
Rats destroy or damage 200,000,000 canals of grain annually.
Kansas State's Track Coach To Referee Kansas Relays
Ward Haylett, veteran Kansas State track coach, was named refere of the 24th Kansas Relays today by the relays director Bill Easton.
Haylett, now in his 31st year of tutoring track and field, will be the third Big Seven conference coach in as many years to headline the event, annually one of the nation's major outdoor track shows. Frank Potts of Colorado held the post last year. $ \textcircled{4} $ John Jacobs of Oklahoma in 1947
The Wildcat mentor thus joins an illustrious line of referees which includes A. A. Stagg, then football coach at Chicago; Knute Rockne, Notre Dame; Avery Brundage, former president of the National A.A.U.; the late Henry Schulte, Nebraska; the late Billy Hayes, Indiana; Tom Jones, Wisconsin, and Clyde Littlefield, Texas. In the past Haylett also has served as referee of the Texas, Colorado and Michigan State games.
Last summer Haylett was coach of the United States Olympic decathlon team, two members of which, Bob Mathias and Ralph Simmons, placed first and third in the London Games. He was chairman of the National A.U.A. track and field committee in 1944 and 1945. In 1938 he coached a hand-picked group of American track and field stars who toured southern Europe. In 1937 he guided a United States team to a triumph in the Pan-American Games at Dallas.
Haylett, who has been coachim track at Kansas State since 1928 has had particular success in developing shot-putters and distance runners. Elmer Hackney, the famous One-Man Gang of the thirties, until last year held the American and Kansas Relays records with the big iron ball at 55 feet 10 3-8 inches and 52 feet $ \frac{1}{2} $ inches, respectively.
Rollin Prather, his current champion, owns both the Big Seven indoor and outdoor records as well as the standard for the Big Seven-Southwest conference dual.
Haylett's 1935 two-mile relay team held the Kansas Relay mark for 7:45.35 as last year when he won the Don Gecko men's enchancing lowered box figure to 7:44.7.
Iron Curtain Curbs Soviet Writers
A graduate of Doane college, he opened his coaching career at Clay Center High school. He remained there five years before returning to Doane as track and football coach. He moved to K-State in 1928. In addition to his track duties he served as head football coach for the Wildcats in 1942, 1943, and 1944. He frequently doubles as a gridiron scout today.
The Soviet leader, he said, is known to have telephoned writers in the middle of the night to criticize them on a new book.
Yellow Springs, Ohio—(U.P.) = A Russian-born radio correspondent who was thrown out of the Soviet Union as an alleged spy for America believes Soviet art never can be great until there is freedom from fear of reprisal for ideas expressed.
Robert Magidoff, formerly National Broadcasting company correspondent whose Russian secretary denounced him as an American spy last April, wrote in the current issue of Antioch Review, a quarterly published here, that Joseph Stalin himself keeps a personal eye on literature.
"Soviet artists must not create non-political works, show appreciation of anything foreign, criticize the party line or the leaders in the remotest way," Magidoff said. "They must be purely lyrical or pessimistic."
The cold war, Magidoff said, has intensified the Kremlin demand that all Soviet literature must be written in the light of the current party line.
The Russians respect the power of writing and art and insist that all artistic production be propagandistic, he added.
Tampa, Fla., March 14- (U-PD)—Dr. Reed Shank, the Cincinnati Reds' club physician, put Ewell Blackwell on a hearty eating schedule today in an effort to put some weight on the elongated pitcher who is recovering from a serious kidney operation.
Blackwell Told To Eat
Twin Bills A Success
New York, March 14—(U.P.)-Entertainment-hungry fans who have made sports a lucrative business during the past few years are getting choosy how they spend their money, but Ned Irish said today that basketball "can look forward to good times even in hard times."
Irish, the Madison Square Garden promotor who parlayed the lowly peach basket spot into high finance through his bargain basement double-headers, rates this dwindling season as "one of the best."
"This game is like anything else. Give the customers a good show and they'll fill every seat; if you don't, you won't."
"People are more careful how they spend their money," he added. "But still basketball continues to grow. It grew up in hard times and there's no reason to believe that it won't continue to grow.
The hue and cry to move the game back to the campus, away from the public halls where gambling and bribery are said to be more probable, hasn't affected the plans of the promotors whose trail Irish blazed.
Eight cities—New York, San Francisco, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Boston, Kansas City and Cleveland—operated the twin bill basketball snows this year. At least one more, Cincinnati, is expected to join the double bounce parade next year.
Irish's path was smoothed in that when he started he had major colleges with large alumni groups on which to draw and he invited the nation's court powers to provide lodge offices so they also cooperates and coordinates his dates with Buffalo and Philadelphia to cut expenses.
The idea eventually is to form an eastern wheel, thus reducing expenses even more, to entertain the western teams. Eventually, a western circuit probably will be worked out too along these lines
It certainly would appear that, barring a shortage of basketballs, the twin bill is here to stay.
All-America Grid Teams Will Play 12 Home Games
Chicago—(U.P.)—Spokesman for the All-America football conference said team representatives were busy arranging a 12-game home and home schedule for 1949.
Executive board chairman Benjamin F. Lindheimer said the league would use a "Shaughnessy playoff," calling for the first place team to play the fourth and the second place team to play the third, with the winners meeting for the conference championship.
Commissioner Oliver O. "Scrappy" Kessing presided at the sessions which opened March 11. Dates available for each team to play were submitted to the meeting.
Scientist Predicts Jet-Tube Subways
Buffalo, N. Y., (U.P) - S u b w a y trains in New York and other cities would be slow as a caterpillar in comparison with jet jobs envisioned by a local authority on supersonics and superstratospheres.
Dr. Joseph F. Fon, a scientist associated with the Cornell aeronautical laboratory here, forsees a tubetype cross-country subway train which would move at speeds of better than 2,000 miles per hour.
In a speech, Dr. Foa expressed doubt that air transportation will exceed the speed of sound in the near future. He predicted, however, the use of jet propulsion in long-distance subway trains "traveling at fantastic speeds with aero-dynamics or magnetic suspension inside tubes connecting the major cities of the United States."
The scientist also predicted that jet propulsion, through the development of the gas turbine, will revolutionize the automobile engine industry.
"I am convinced that the gas turbine will eventually replace the reciprocating engine, even in the automobile," he declared.
He explained that such turbines have no cooling system and no distributor and would therefore start easily in cold weather. He added that a gas turbine, with a gear shift, would have no engine vibrations.
In the State of Washington it is against the law to stand while drinking beer in a public place or to move beer from one table to another. The waitress can move it but the customer can't.
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