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SWEETWATER REPORTER, SWEETWATER, TEXAS
MONDAY MARCH 25, 1910
Kaffias Beats Southern CaL 43-32
To Annex NCA Basketball Crown
m
The University of Southern California, rated slightly over the
Kansas university ".layhawkers," went down to a 4:t to 42
defeat at their hands in the \,('..V..V finals in the Kansas City,
Mo.'s Municipal auditorium. In the picture, left to right, are:
Bob Allen, Kansas; .lack Ijlppert, C.S.C.; Don Killing, Kansas;
Jack Morrison. C.S.t .; looking on in the background is Dale
Sears, U.S.C. renter. (NBA Telephtoto).
Manager Doc Prothro Knows
Phillies Not (Joing Anywhere in 1040
BY GEORKE KIRKSEY
MIAMI BEACH. Fla. —(UP)
—The ,Pj]\lfies aren't going any
place. Everybody knows it from
President Gerry Nugent and
Manager Doc Prothro to the
bat boy. but those disgraceful
days when the club used to de-
velop stars to sell to the highest
bidder are over.
The most, hearsick manager in
Florida is Prothro. the drawling
Memphis dentist. Doc is doing
the best he can with what he
has. but his heart bleeds when
he h.,.s to stick some ball players
out there who would have trou-
ble making good in the class A A
leagues. But you can bank on
one thing with the Phils -there
won't be a ball player on thej
club who'll slay in the'lineup ;
very long if he doesn't hustle.
The Phils have several major
league players coveted by other!
: clubs - Pitchers Kirby Higbe •
and Hugh Muleahy. Third Base-:
man Merrill May and Outfielder
Morrie Arnovich. But money
can't buy them.
The last player sold by the1
Phils was Bucky Walters to the I
Reds. Any club that wants a
Philly ball player from now on
must give players in return. !
The Giants would like to have!
Third Baseman May. and they
can have him if they'll give
some of their good ball players
in return. But they do not want
to give talent.
The Phils need help badl.v.
and are claiming every player
the other clubs are asking waiv-
ers on. J)nhn Ogden. assistant
to Nugent, is touring Florida,
trying to pick up some help for
the vvoe-begone Phils who sank;
to a percentage of .298 last sea-1
son. lowest since 1028.
"What we need most is some j
power," Prothro said. "Out pit-!
i hing is gWl and we have a fair
infield but we have to have
somebody who can smack the
ball. Where to get 'em, I don't j
know. But. I'll guarantee we'll
give 'em a run for their money j
as long as I manage this club.:
You won't see any ball player*
quitting on me whether they arc j
major league stars or minor |
leaguers."
SINGIN' SAM
Lew Jenkins
Makes Flying
Visit Home
Lew Jenkins, 'the Sweet
Swatter from Sweetwater'
and signed to meet Lou Am-
bers May 10 for the world's
lightweight crown, made a
flying viist home Sunday
to see his ailing molncv,
Mrs. M. L. Jenkins.
Lew took a plane to Dallas
where he was picked up by Ben-
ny Woodall, his first manager
after the 'swatter' entered pro-
fessional fighting circles, who
brought him t,o Sweetwater.
They returned late Sunday for
Dallas where Lew was to catch
a plane Monday morning for
New York City.
Jenkins said lie had signed to
light .lack Sharkey, Jr.. April
9 in the Broadway arena in
Brooklyn. The bout is for eignt
See LEW JENKINS Page I
DEMPSEY SAYS
PAYCHEK CANT
PUNCH A LICK
KY JACK CCDDY
NEW YORK — (UP) —Jack
Dempse.v vs. Mike Jacobs. That's
I one of the conflict angles when
I Heavyweight Champion Joe
i Louis defends his title against
Johnny Paychek Friday night at
Madison Square Garden.
Dempsey probably is the most
respected man ever to be an ac-
tive participant in prize fight-
ing. Mike Jacobs unquestionably
is the greatest promoter since
the hey-dey of the late Tex
Riekard.
Dempsey says, "They didn't
tell me that this fight at Madi-
son Square Garden Friday night
was for the benefit of the Fin-
nish relief fund. Otherwise 1
wouldn't have said what 1 said
at Minneapolis. 1 said then that
Louis should knock out Pay-
chek in the first round. But I
said it. And it was printed, so
what «an I do now."
In Minneapolis, Jack Dempsey
made a lot of remarks about
Promoter Jacobs' conduct of the
fight game. Dempsey insinuatec"
that Jacobs had a monopoly ol
maul because of his contracts
with the carious champions.
But Jacobs says, "Perhaps
Dempsey has forgotten that he
and Madison Square Garden
started the business of tying up
champions. Dempsey was always
under contract to Tex while Tex
was alive."
Meanwhile Dempsey says,
"This Paychek is a mediocre
mid-western fighter who is a
fair boxer who can't punch a
lick. He is a straight up-and-
down fighter made to order for
Louis."
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| Sports Favorites
•In Texas League
BY UNITED PRESS
In the opinion of President J.
i Alvin Gardner the Texas league
| this year should have the best
| balanced race in history, but
j today the plain fact is that the
S Shreveport Sports are threaten-
" I ing to sew up the exhibition-
I game championship.
Five straight the Sports have
: reeled off in practice competi-
j tion—two victories over Fort
| Worth and three straight over
Joe Louis-Payehek Fight To Be Hop-S
By HARRY GRAYSON
N HA Sports Kditor
Mike Jacobs matched John-
ny Paychek with Joe Louis
at Madison Square Garden,
March 29, which is just so
much additional proof that
anybody will do as an oppon-
ent for the world champion.
The show is being staged
for the benefit of Finland
and Promoter Jacobs, and
following the recent string
of cancellations, due to sick-
ness— bucks office and oth-
erwise — and plain, every
day runouts, the old Broad-
way ticket scalper himself
practically is in need of a
benefit.
Paychek. built up very
carefully in Des Moines,
hasn't too much in the way
of recommendations, and
the fact that he is a stand-
up boxer is something in the
way of, evidence that he
won't be around too long in
the same inclosure with
Louis.
"You'd better not sneeze,"
is the advice offered pros-
pective customers by school-
ed observers who have seen
Paychek.
There is no doubt about
Louis packing the ammuni-
tion. and the Brown Bomb-
er is a master at the pop-
ping blokes who stand up
straight, where he can get
a shot at them.
Crouchers and weavers—
Max Schmeling in the first
- •„ v
Joe Louis
edition, No-Hit Farr and Ar-
turo Godov—are the kind
who annoy Louis.
Leonard Brought In %
Maurice Strickland, the
New Zealandet*. is the best
name in the record of the
25-year-old Paychek. whose
baldish head makes him api
pear several years older.
The rest are the usual al-
lotment of Charley Belang-
ers, King Levinskv, Johnny
Milers. Salvatore Ruggirel-
los' and A1 Ettot'es.
Paychek, a native of Chi-
cago', split newspaper deci-
sions with Strickland in
highly satisfactory fights
.... won the return engage-
ment.
Paychek prepared in Chi-
cago and at Pompton T.akes
urtder the care of Benny
Leonard, the one - time
lightweight leader, who got
the job for what he could
add to the ballyhoo as much
as anything else.
Although Leonard tells
him he believes Paychek is
sure to win, Harold Stein-
man, the manager, isn't quite
as optimistic. He does assert
that he thinks his m\tn will
prevail if he fights as he did
against Strickland the sec-
ond time.
"Johnny says he will fight
better than that and is
very confident," explains
Steinman, who was associat-
ed with King Levinsky.
"Let's hope Johnny gets
lucky and becomes champ-
Johnny Paychek
ion. After all, I*>uis is only
human and bound for a I
Dallas.
I The Louisana club beat Dal-
| las Saturday at its own game—
I slugging 12 to 9. and Sunday
' won a pitchers' duel, 2 to 1.
The chill weather did not stop
j the two teams at Dallas but
j it. did cause cancellation of the
| Fort Worth-Oklahoma City game
'at Fort Worth.
Yankee Clinic About Ready to
Effect Cure on Ailing Grissom
BY HENRY Mel. EM ORE I Chief Diagnostician Joe McCar-
SEBR1NG, Fla. — (UP) —| thy had his first look at him.
The New York Yankee founda-! he was a picture of health and
tion for the rehabilitation of j high spirits, and needed only a
fallen pitchers is about ready to j leopard skin to double for Lionel
effect another remarkable cure, i Strongfort. When I was in St.
In a month or so, I feel quite : Petersburg a few days ago I
safe in announcing patient No. j stood back of the batting cage
111, one Lee Grissom, will be while Grissom worked on the
completely healed. Proof that 1 hitters. His fast ball had an omi-
the renowned Yankee cure was j nous hum. a hum that told of
progressing in Grissom's case i blistering speed, and his curves
was furnished on Saturday by! performed after the manner >f
Grissom himself, when he pitch-1 acrobatic swallows. There was a
ed five scoreless innings against
the St. I^ouis Cardinals.
When the Cincinnati Reds let
him go last winter Grissom seem-
ed to be a pitcher who had gone
to the well once too often. Ho
had won but 11 games in two
full seasons with the Reds and
his pitches had just about as
much on them as a strip teas-
er. He was filled with miseries
and a deep melancholy, and it
was a good bet that 1940 would
find him settled down to a ca-
reer of operating a filling sta-
tion or managing a pub or one
of the other kindred endeavors
which seem to have such a
strong fascination for finished
ball players.
Then the New York Yankee
Houston evened things up
with New Orleans of the South-1 foundation took an interest in
Jem Association in the last of a him. Almost immediately the
two-game series at New Orleans. I sparkle returned to his left arm
! winning 11 to 5 after dropping j and both his right and left eyes.
One bv one his miseries flew
the Saturday opener. 3 to 0.
Beaumont, another Texas lea- j from him. as doves from a
gue team which has been clean-1 cote, and his blanket of melanch-
ing up in exhibition games—but j oly lifted as though it were
not against league competition | a fog, touched by the sun.
—beat Henderson of the East j By the time Patient Grissom
Texas circuit at Henderson. 9 j reached the foundation's winder
to I. ' clinic in St. Petersburg,
and
| laugh on his lips and he joked
j and bantered with his fellows.
Medwick Still
Refuses to Sign
ST. PETERSBURG — (UP) —
Outfielder Joe Medwick of the
St. Louis Cardinals, remained
firm in his refusal of President
Sam Breadon's 818,000 offer Mon-
day as the club prepared to
break camp and leave for Mi-
ami.
The Cards go to Havana for
four games starting Thursday,
| return to Florida next Monday
j and then start their homeward
; trek. Medwick has been report-
i edly demanding from $20,000
to $22,000.
Blizzard Halts
Greensboro Open
GREENSBORO. N. C. — (UP)
—Stymied temporarily by an un-
expected blizzard, the second
round of the qualifying 30 holes
in the 72-hole §5,000 Greensboro
ft pen golf tournament was ex-
pect ec
Old Man Mose
Aims to Join
Magic Circle
IIY HARRY FERGUSON
SARASOTA, Fla. — (UP) —
For Robert Moses Grove life
truly begins at 10.
On the sixth day of this
month old man Mose celebrated
his 40th birthday. He has been
20 years in baseball, the silver
shines thick in his temples and
his speed ball doesn't burn
across as it did in the great days
when he was the star of Connie
Mack's 1930-31 Athletics.
But if you wanted a man to go
in there and pitch you out of n
hole, where in this wide, green
world would you find a better
one than old man Mose? Forty
years old or not. he is going ti
be in there slinging 'em again
for the Boston Red Sox.
He's taking his time rounding
into shape down, here in the
sunshine. He knows the quirks
and eccentricities of his left arm
j better than anyone else and he
| may not look so good against
younger, stronger pitchers who
can buzz the ball through during
spring training and then can't
find the plate in mid-summer.
But come the dog days of Aug-
ust, the bet is that .Id man
Mose will be taking his turn ev-
ery six days or so and being
mighty stingy with base hits.
This is a special sort of year
for Grove. He has won 280 ball
games in the big leagues since
he broke in with Philadelphia
in 1925. He needs 14 more this
season to join the magic circle
of modern pitchers who have
won 300 games. Right now it is
a select circle in which there are
only four persons—Walter John-
son, Grover Cleveland Alexand-
er. Christy Mathevvson and Ed-
die Pyank.
In case you doubt that old
man Mose belongs in such exalt-
ed company, take a look at the
record. He came out of Martins-
fall. Why shouldn't Paychek
be the guy "
Originally the name was
Pacec. Paeec, althougn scar-
cely a light - heavyweight,
had won major amateur
heavyweight championships
in Chicago and New York
and had had nine profession-
al fights in California when
he bobbed up as Johnny
Paychek, the Fighting Bell-
hop. in Des Moines in April,
.1938.
Quit for Two Years
He hatl laid off for'almost
two years . , . quit in dis-
gust after being cut around
an eye and stopped in six
rounds by Art Lasky in
.Tune, 1930.
Pinkie George, the old fea-
therweight who promotes in
Des Moines, planted him in
a hotel there, so the hoy
might eat and sleep in com-
fort while attempting a
comeback. The hostelry fed
and slept him well, for the
i lad picked up 20 pounds in
10 months. Frequent trips to
the Wisconsin woods helped.
He now epmes in at a solid
192.
Legal entanglements in
connection with Paychek's
contract had to be straighten-
ed out before the Louis fight
could take place. ,
Paychek may not go very
far with Louis, but he at
least obtained a champion-
ship match.
burg in the Blue Ridge league in
1*920 and became a star imme-
diate y with Baltimore of the
International league. Since then
he has never had what you could
call a bad season. Philadelphia
paid $105,000 for him and in 1934
Connie Mack turned him over to
Boston ir, a deal involving five
other players and $125,000.
Softball Season
To Open April 16
TRENT — The Softball lea-
gue schedule is to open here
April 1(3 and end Aug. 16. The
league is to be composed of
teams from here, Merkel, Noodle
and one or two other nearby
communities. Plans also are be-
ing made for a girls league to
be composed of four teams. The
softball season is to be officially
opened April 13 when the Tas-
tee Bread team of Abilene comes
here for a night game with a
picked team of Trent all-stars.
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d to start Monday.
REDS RETURN TO MAINLAND; GIANTS TO CLAS H WITH CARDS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla-
((UP) — The Cincinnati Reds
were scheduled to meet the Ro-
chester Red Wings of the Inter-
national league Monday. The
Reds closed their series in Ha-
vana Sunday with a 4-4, 10-inn-
ing tie with the Cuban All-
Stars. The game was called to
allow the Reds to catch a boat.
GIANTS LOSE 7 GAMES
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. —
(UPI—Winners of only four in
11 exhibition starts, the New
York Giants play the St. Louis
Cardinals here Monday. The
Boston Red Sox came from be-
hind yesterday to shade the
Giants, 4-3. snaring one run in
the third and three more in the
sixth to win.
their last week in camp Monday,
playing the Detroit Tiger?. The
Dodgers sent Shortstop Lou
Berger and Pitcher Bill Crouch
to Montreal Sunday and option-
ed Sam Nahem, Brooklyn. N. Y.,
lawyer, to Nashville.
HIGRE TO PITCH
MIAMI BEACH. Fla. — (UP)
| —The Philadelphia Phillies at-
| tempi Monday to avenge last
I week's defeat at the hands of
j the Cleveland Indians. Kirby
I Higbe was expected to start on
I the hill for the Phils. Walter
| Best and Syl Johnson hurled
| shutout ball at Flamingo Park
i Sunday giving up only three
j hits in a 0-0 victory over the
| Syracuse Chiefs. Brogan got
j two as the Phillies collected 12
1 base blows.
Hank Green berg and Birdie
Tebbetts and pitching of Dick
Conger and Freddy Hutchinson,
who yielded three and four
hits, respectively, let the Tigers
hand the Washington Senators
a 12-0 drubbing yesterday.
Vi
YANKS TO PLAY BLUES
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —
(UPi—The New' York Yankees
close the St. Petersburg chapter
of their spring training grind
Monday when they meet the
Kansas City Blues of the Am-
erican association. The Yanks
break camp Tuesday and after
playing the Giants in Winter Ha-
ven take up lodging in Sebring.
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DODGERS I'M itM OCT PAIR
CLEARWATER. Fla. — (UP)
—The Brooklyn Dodgers liegin
A'S CLASH WITH liCCS
SAN FRANCISCO — (UP) —
Connie Mack's Philadelphia Ath-
letics seek an edge on the Pitts-
burgh Pirates in the third of
their five-game spring series
here Monday. The Bues won the
first game but the A's came back
with ar 3-4 decision Sunday a,s|
each i iur> laced out 12 hits. A
second game carded for Oakland
Sunday was rained out.
TRIBE LOSES, 8-4
MIAMI BEACH. Fla. — (UP)
—The Cleveland Indians meet
the Philadelphia Phillies Mon-
day. The tribe trounced the
Phillies a week ago. The Indians
finally mustered a batting attack
Sunday with nine hits off In-
dianapolis pitchers, but lost 8-4
when their pitching and defense
fell apart. The nine hits were
their second largest hit total of
the spring season.
used Clause I'assea it and Larry
French to defeat the Sox. Pete
Appleton was the losing pitcher.
BROWNS AT LAREDO
SAN ANTONIO — (CP) —
Twenty-five members of the St.
Louis Browns club went to La-
redo Monday for a two-game se-
ries with the San Antonio Mis-
sions of the Texas league. The
Browns took their fourth
straight from Toledo of the Am-
erican association Sunday, win-
ning 4,to 3 in a game featured
by Emi'l Hildilli's effective pitch-
ing.
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TIGERS DRUB SENS, 12-0
| LAKELAND, Fla. — (UP)—
The Detroit Tigers see action
on two fronts Monday, one
squad going trt Clearwater to
engage the Brooklyn Dodgers
again while another meets Buf-1
falo of the International league
here.
Homers and singles apiece by
( I BS ONE IIP ON SOX
LOS ANGELES — (UP) —
The Chicago White Sox took a
holiday Monday while the Chi-
cago Cubs met the Los Angeles
Angels after going one up in |
the city series with a 8 to 5
victory.
The victory was the seventh
in succession for the Cubs. They j
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