Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1952 Page: 3 of 8
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| Sweetwater Reporter. Texas. Wednesday. February 20, i352
DOC TIRED_Keith Bryar and his wife sit amid the dog team that he mushed through the rugged
20-tnile course to win the International Sled Dog Derby at Lake Placid N Y The Center Sandwich,
N.H., driver completed the distance in three hours, nine minutes, and seven seconds. (NBA)
Fight Game !s Dying Sport, Says Bratton Fights
Former Heavyweight Champ Sharkey ^or Nothing
By OSCAR FRALEY which new prospects are rustled
NEW YOI1K. Feb. 20 IP1—Boxing 'long, were blamed by Sharkey for
»•'*« >r\ ttj-.H"*
weight champion Jack Sharkey as-
“At the rate it's going, the fight
MWVTjsir uks vorv much
who would have been a sparring i lo”-‘ ' lnslst«l pricey, now ap-
partner in my time." * as a flycastev at the New
Labeling veteran Jersey Joe
Walcott, the current ring ruler.
York Sportsmen's Sho\v. "Five
fights and a man gets a shot at
and all the
as the unbeatable best of a bad j,lK‘ ,i,lp nowadays
lot. the burly Bostonian who won ~ ° * £
ihe crown from Max Sehmeling in
1932 said disgustedly:
"It looks to me like they're run-
they've been digging up these stiffs
masquerading as heavyweights."
Refusal of youngsters to train
assiduously and the manner in
in are the bright lights. They
won’t train hard."
Sharkey, who referees from 50
nlng out. of graveyards from w hich , •» .«'» wrestlin« nwM.r;= .; year
Ih,,v-v„ Wn die,line ,.n these stiffs'pointed to Rocky Marciano as a
case in point.
"That fight with Lee Savokt
showed what an inept boxer he
was, even with Savold not hitting
hack." Sharkey growled. "Even
the women who saw it on tele-
! vision have their ideas about that
one
Fight Way Up
In my day if you lost a light,
ei looked real had ill one." he
added, "you went to the bottom of
the list. There were a thousand
other guys waiting and you had
l lo lick'em ail to get back up
there.'
Sharkey gives Walcott the edge
j over any of the current heavy-
weights. despite Jersey Jik x age,
‘because lie is smart and ale. i.vs
stays in shape."
Rasping his pair of -'.nailed
lighter's hands together, die funn-
ier champion explained:
•‘Walcott knocked out Ezzard
Charles once and I figure now
lie’ll have the Indian sign on
• Charles As for Marciano, that
light with Savold proved that Wal-
loon would be just too smart and
cute lor Rocky. He feint hint
right out of the ring."
| Walcott, he shrugged, would
I have been a sparring partner back
in the days of Dempsey, Timmy ,
I Sehmeling Sharkey, et at. And,
i like the rest of the men of that
| era, the old Boston gob wishes he
was fighting today.
"That." Sharkey sighed nostal-
gically. "would really he some-
thing."
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i DALLAS, Feb 20 UP Tex Maule.
former assistant publicity man for
| the Los Angeles Rams, Tuesday
was named publicity man for the
Dallas Texans of the National
Football League
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CHICAGO, Feb. 20 IP Johnny
: Bratton fights for notning Wednes-
day night, but the Negro battler
figured a shol at Kid Gavilan s
world welterweight championship
might warrant a free show
Bratton, twice married, once di-
vorced, his jaw broken three times
| and his hands broken twice, meets
i Vie Cardell. Hartford, Conn at
j the Chicago Stadium.
But legal problems, an item per-
(manently on his list of ..ornes
| since 1949. will hold up his proli-
j able pavoff estimated at around
54,000. His first wife filed suit for
non-support in a Chicago court
Tuesday, alleging he owed her
: S552. while a government assess-
! ment of S32.000 for back taxes for
194!) also was still effective.
International Boxing Club seeiv
j tary Truman Gibson said that
Bratton would get nothing for the
scrap, blit that neither would the
government
“We’re going to hold the money
he said, "until these eases are set-
tled "
Current Kentucky
Five May Be Best
LEXINGTON. K\ . F-b. 20 it
‘Tin* top basketball club in the
country is rolling along at a belter
i pace than the team generally re-
garded as one of the best college-
lives in all iinn* did
1 The Kentucky Wildcats, rated
No 1 in the country by the United
Press board ol coaches, defending
NCAA champi nd winner ol
thei.- I; sI 15 gam . are showing
more offensive punch than the fab-
ulous five of the Alex Groza-Raluh
; Beard-Wallace <\Vah Wall' .tones
era
With only one senior on the start-
ing five, the latest Rupp Ramblers
are rushing toward a national
, scoring average They have scored
2,0(18 points in winning 22 of 24
games for a neat average of 85
points
Aging Strong Man
Comes To Rescue
HOUSTON. Feb. 20—itPl- An ug-1
; ing Negro strongman probably vav -1
ed a man's life by succeeding'
where three trucks and an automo-
bile wrecker failed.
And like the good Samaritan of
the Bible, he remained anonymous i
todav
With nothing more than the
strength of his shoulders and back,
he freed a trapped and suffocating ’
i truck driver from the wreckage of
his truck
A truck driven by Roy Gaby Jr..
126, of Houston, crashed into a col
tonwood tree yesterday when Gaby
out led out of a side road onto the
highway.
The impact jammed the engine
against the floorboards. The top
of Ihe cab and the steering wheel !
( column pinned Gabby in the seat.
’ I
VKRO BE U. H. Fla . Feb 20 tr
I The Brooklyn Dodgers ended then
i sorrow ful wail for next yeai
Wednesday and opened their 19,‘>2
: spring training camp
Manager Charley Dressen’s tii -t
step In a program to make up mr
the Dodger's pennant failure ol 1951
vva, to ordci sluggers Gil
Hod ies and Carl Furlllo to learn
to hit lo right field. Both men
slumped badly In the stretch drive
as the Giants came on to win.
In neighboring St. Petersburg.
! Manager Eddie Stank.v appointed
i Red Schoendienst as co-captain ol
; ihe SI. Louis Cardinals and said
j Schoendienst had assured him lie
I would play any position Stanky
' asked him to. Stanky and Schoen-
iliensl are both second-basemen
Del Ennis Signs
In Philadelphia, the Phillies an .
I nounced the signing of outfielder:
Del Ennis al an estimated 1125,0(10
and the Athletics reported the sign-
ings of outfielders Dave Phille
and Keith Thomas
At Mesa. Ari/ . Manager Phil
| Cavarretta ol the Chicago Cubs
look first-base candidate Dee Fon-
dy under his personal wing us h,
I sent his 23-man squad through an
j other workout Cavarretta hopes
| Fondy, once a bright Dodger pro-
| peel, will make him a bench man-
ager
At Sarasota. Fla., the Boston Red
Sox announced that shortstop Vein
Stephens, infielder Fred Hatfield
and pitcher Jim Atkins had come
to terms.
U. S. Skiers Won't
Enter 30-Mile Race
OSLO. Norway. Feb. 20 "I’ Unit-
ed States skiers withdrew from
the 50-kilomcter cross-country race
in ihe Olympic winter games
Wednesday because of an unfavor-
i able snow condition and i lack of
; experience for the gruelling 30-
| mile marathon
Hjalmar Hvam of Portland, Ore..
j manager of Ihe l S, long distance
ski sound, explained that expect-
ed fog ami nulling mow would
handicap inexperienced Vmcrituns.
Meanwhile. Mr Uirliv.-i Mead
Lawrence of Rutland. V' . was ex-
pected to end the I b -coring
famine by winning the women’s
slalom race for her second gold
medal.
1 The l S. ha., not sen: ed a single
point in the last three davs, fall-
ing in that time from first to
third place in Hie unofficial team
competition.
The l . s also figured to store
heavily in the figure skating. Com-
petition in that event concludes
with free skatin':.
Gonzalez Transfers
Franchise To Paris
FORT WORTH. Fob lit 'H1;-
' Members ot ilu* Wiu. Lea-
, vine met here Tuesday and voted
unanimously to transfer llu* base-
ball franchise of Green Ue to
i Paris. Tex., President Howard
Green announced.
Green said it was mutually
: agreed among the Greenville
?roup and \ C. Gouzaies, Del
Rio, owner of ihe franchi.se. that
the transfer would be “for the best
| interest of all concerned.”
: The franchise had been hilled
| to Greenville only last iJtv. 1H
| from Shorman-Denison.
I The vote Tuesday .jives Paris
; its first professional baseball
team in two years.
SiCK WOMAN
COLUMBUS O P—A psychiat-
rist said here that a former cam-
pus leader accused of killing her
baby and attempting suicide in Sun
Antonio, Texas, was "a sick girl.”
The psychiatrist revealed that he
COMMUTING IN COMFORT — Uommutini; bet ween
tht* front lines and Seoul. Korea is now a reality with
the addition of a "eominuter” train lo and from the
front line - KonntTly, the method of reaching the front
was aboard cold at a! uncomfortable jeeps until this
unique system was t i.iblished Troops of lln* -loth l.)i
vision, taking advtmlage of the "eominuter" returning
from the front line g etileh up on their hull sessions and
loss of sleep. iXT’A Telephoto, i
Draft MacArthur
Talk Is Gaining
WASHINGTON, Feb Li V' -
Some highly-placed Republicans
i are beginning to pay serious at-
i< ntion to tin- persistent effo s to had tetmted Mr- Liane Lilly, a pret-
Gen Douglas MaeAtthuri, gT-yeat-old bt unette, whom po-
lor the party - presidential nomt- j 1!ct. apparently strangled her
nation. lO-month-old baby before attempt-
Ardent MacArthur supporters in }ntE suicide
Wisconsin. Pennsylvania, Oregon.
New Hampshire, Minnesota ai".l ■ _ ~
. other sta'es are continuing their
tight to win convention telesales
mr the general, despite his repeat-
ed declaration that he does not
want his name entered in ney pri-
mary contest
Sen. George 1). Aiken H A t
believes the Mat Arthur boom may
I reach major proportions it Gen.
Dwight U. Elsenhower .houhl he
counted out of the race before the
July convention His argument is
that some Republicans now are
: supporting Sen. Robert \ Taft
oiely because they don’t '.ant Lis-
enhovver. and they might switch
their allegiance to MacArthur if
given a chance.
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Opposition Hits
Ar Jack Porter
SAN ANTONIO IP —A suit to
| throw out ihe periy loy alty pledge
mats to elect him national com-
mitteeman." Nolle said. He said
a state supreme court ruling in
Ihe Wall '■ Curry ease of 1948
gave parties latitude to make their
own rules
Nolle said Porter was using Ei-
senhovver’s candidacy simply lo
approved by the Texas Republican j |K,i*Pr himself
Executive committee last Saturday •--------------
i touched off another battle between
Taft and Eisenhower partisans in
the GOP.
Charles M. Dickson, San Antonio
: attorney and candidate for oon-
| gressmail at large on the Republi-
can ticket, filed suit in 37t.h dis-
11 ic-t court I1-" a w rit of mandamus
at 1 njum nun against the Bexai
county GOP chairman. Harry
tlolehkins. to nullify the pledge res-
olution.
St ate treasurer Eugene 1 Mike1
Nolle -Luted the fracas by railing!
1 Dickson "Porter’s dupe." Jack
Porter, official heart oi the Texas
i tael ion favoring Gen. Dwight D.
I Eisenhower tor president, opposed
| pa- >;,» o’ r’-e resolution at Satur-
■ day , m. etin • in Fort Worth.
•Wants That Post Bart"
"Lie suit dearly shows that
Poi' i intends to bring in Demo-
: WAR R EN IN RACE
1 SACRAMENTO. Calif. -U* Repub-
lican Gov. Earl Warren ol Calit'or-
! nia announced he will enter the
'April 1 Wisconsin presidential pri-
: maty.
i It will be Warren's first out-of-
state test and will pit him against
; Sec. Robert A. Taft find Harold
Stassen for Wiseontin’s 30 votes at
the Republican National Conven-
tion,
CHARLfV FUSARI WINS
NEW ARK. N. J . Feb. 20 41 -
Charley Fusari ol Irvington. N J.
I scored u dose and admittedly un-
impressive decision over Jimmy
t it a in p. tne of Philavlelphia Tues-
day night in the featured eight-
round bout at Laurel Gardens 1 e-
,ore a crowd ot about irJO.
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Coger Hits 50 Points
SAYBROOK. Ill , Feb. 20
I,oxter “Babe" Hawlho.no :«' M(l
50 points for S-tvbrook Hi .i» hooi
last niuhl in its basketball ;;i’v
against Hayworth Hi oh.
Hawthorne, a !p (‘ foot-nine-ini h
senior scorofl 22 field goals and (i
free throws to bring Ins 20 game
total to (MO.
Say brook, an 84-studont school,
won tho ganu*. 81 to 39.
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