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Blind Dick Griffin Returns As
Fight Promoter With Title Bout in
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Jnn DiMagqioi,
Bui Not THE Joe
Orliz-Cordoza
Box For Bantam
Honors, April 28
FORT WORTH, April 6- i/l>)
An eve injury knocked little
Dickie Griffin out of a shot it
a world's boxing championship
Subsequent blindness cut short
his career as a promoter.
Rut now blindnes i- to non
sible for his return to the game
he loves—as matchmaker for the
Manuel Ortiz-Lupe Cordoza 15-
round bantamweight title tight
here April 28
Twenty-two years ago Tex
Rickard arranged for Griffin to
fight Pete Herman for the ban
tamweight crown. Rut in a
warm-up bout, Dickie was hit in
the eye and suffered a detached
retina.
After a long siege in the hospi-
tal, he returned to the ring but
never was a topflighter again
and later became a promoter.
He had little success in Texas,
which has long been tough on the
fight game. The only world’s
championship bout ever staged in
this state — the Pctcy Sarron-
Baby Manuel featherweight
match Griffin put on in Dallas in
1936—drew- a gate of less than
«4 snn
Griffin struggled to make
fighting go but blindness eventu
ally forced him from the game.
Now he uses a seeing eye dog to
guide him He lives with his
brother here.
The other day the Fort Worth
Lions club and similar clubs in
surrounding cities decided to pro-
mote a world’s championship
fight with proceeds going to the
Lighthouse, an organization for
the blind. Griffin was asked to
serve as matchmaker and shortly
after accepting had lined up Cor-
doza to meet Champion Ortiz.
Griffin is doing this without
pay and indications are there will
bo a gate of $20,000 when Cor-
donza climbs into the ring.
Montgomery Ready
For Next Fight
PHILADELPHIA, April 6—(/P)
—Bob Montgomery is ready for
his lightweight title bout in New
York next month with Beau Jack.
The Philadelphia negro, long
regarded as a leading lightweight
contender, demonstrated his is fit
with an impressive four round
knockout over Roman Alvarez, of
New York, last night at the arena.
World population has increased
from an estimated 1,009,000,000
in 1845 to about 1,900,000,000.
CONSERVE!
Wing Over Munda
Looking down across the wing-
tip of an American dive bomber
you can see the runway of the
much-bombed Jap airfield on
Munda Point, New Georgia, in
the Solomons.
Schoolboys Hold
National Marks
AUSTIN. April 6—i/?V-Trxa-
schoolboys hold two National
back and held records and a tie
(»■ a third
The approved list of the reo-
'■ committee of the National
‘'('•■ration of State High School
Vhlch Associations list Ross
1 Sunset < Dallas1 as record-
1 c i • the 880-vurd run and
ill Hnmman ot Sunset as co-
<Tlei < t the 200-yard low hur-
dles mark
i . i ■ eek end Texa contribut-
ed still another record when De-
witt Coulter of Masonic Home
swashed the shot put mark with
a heave of 59 feet l'y inches.
Coulter's mark, which bettered
the record set in 1930 hv Elwvn
Dees of Loraine, Kansas, by three
and one-half inches, was made
at the Texas relays and will be
official.
Rush's half-mile record, set at
Chicago in 1933, is 1:54.4. Ham-
man tied the hurdles record of
22.1 at the 1941 Texas Interscho-
latsir League meet. Don Pollom
of Topeka, Kansas, set the rec-
ord in 1938.
Other National records listed
by the Federation include: javel-
in throw Robert Peoples Okie
homa City, 219 feet.
Pitcher Feels At Home
With Philadelphia As
At bat with mop is Joseph Frank DiMaggio of Pittsburg, Calif.,
and catching GI soap in bucket is his cousin, Joseph Frank Di-
Maggio ot San Francisco, both second cousins of Joe DiMaggio of
baseball fame They caused quite a furor upon their arrival at
Camp White, Ore., where soldier Ians thought they had the Yankee
Clipper in their midst.
SPORTS
Borger, Texas
Tuesday, April 6, 1943
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
He's Orphal
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Watch Buckeyes
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War Losses
Page 4
By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.
NEW YORK, April 3—|/P)—
Week’s worst gag: The Birming-
ham Barons are trying out a
pitcher named John Orphal and
Henry t Age-Herald* Vance re-
lates that a fan saw him warm-
ing up the other day and asked
the boy’s name “He's Orphal,”
replied Manager Johnny Riddle.
. . . “That’s what you think,” said
the fan, ‘but he looks mighty good
to me.”
College Track Star
Accepted For Army
HAMILTON, N. Y„ April 6—
(IP)—A childhood accident cost
Colgate’s A1 Diebolt an eye and
67 operations but he became an
outstanding sprinter and holds
the world indoor mark of 57.1 for
the 500-vard run.
Now he has won another vic-
tory. He has been accepted by
I the army medical corps and has
I been sent to a post at Charles-
i ton, S. C.
War Bond Rally Sel
For Golf Tournament
Daniel Lambert, who died in
1809, weighed 739 pounds and is
said to have been the heaviest
man that ever lived
DALLAS, April 6—(TP)—Profes-
sional and amateur golfers will
gather at the Dallas Country club
on April 16 to stage, in conjunc-
tion with the Texas Victory Open
tournament, one of the greatest
war bond rallies in the sport’s
Texas history.
Ben Hogan, now a private in
the army; Ed Dudley, president
of the National Professional Golf-
ers Association; Byron Nelson
and Don Budge, world’s amateur
tennis king, now at Sheppard
Field in Wichita Falls, will be
asked to attend and serve as auc-
tioneer: at the t.i.ii-i roily
TRAINING
CAMP BRIEFS
One-Minute Sports Page
The tip is out to watch Ohio
State in football next fall. Our |
informant points out that Paul i
Baron has all the schoolboy tal-
ent in the state wrapped up for
fall delivery, and even though he
has to use 17-year-old kids, they’ll I
be playing against other 17-year-
olds. . . Recommended reading:
“Frank Graham's “The New York
Yankees.”. . . The club's history
from the time Joseph W. Gordon
was president to the time Joseph
L. Gordon was <and is* second
baseman and W. L. White’s story
in Reader’s Digest about Lieut.
Rube, The Erratic, Was One-Man
Cast Of Characters, And Good Too
By HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor
While his phenomenal pitching
record is in the books for all to
see. George Edward Waddell is
best remembered as a legendary
eccentric.
That’s a pity, for while Rube
Waddell, left-handed all the way,
was as erratic as Bugs Raymond,
he also was as able as Christy
Mathewson.
“When Waddell was right,”
says Connie Mack, the only man-
ager who handled the Rube with
WM i
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. ..
Col. Frank Kurtz, former Olym- I an>' degree of success, “we’ve
add mileage to your
su
Florsheims wear longer —
naturally; they’re made that
way. You can increase the
wear by giving them extra
care. Shine them —tree
them—keep them dry; alter-
nate pairs from day to day.
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last longer!
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pic diving champion.
Service Dept.
The Fort Sheridan, 111., WAAC
basketball team had to call off a
game the other night because the
team’s center, Aux. Velma Berry,
was married that night to Pfc,
Earle Smith. The girls all want-
ed to attend the wedding. . .
Lieut. Roy “One Play" Neary,
former Xavier U. football and
basketball player, has been killed
in action in India. He earned
the nickname hv sprinting 65
yards to score on Ohio Wesleyan
the first time he was given the
ball in a varsity game, and
Coach Clem Crowe probably will
bet you that Roy scored against
the Japs before he died. . . Short-
ly before he was sworn in as an
aviation cadet, Artie Dorrell,
crack Tyler, Texas, welterweight,
attended the funeral of Lieut.
Elby Pettaway, who died in a
plane crash. Artie, who had
louglit Pettaway three times as
an amateur said "1 hope I get a
dozen planes for Elby.”
Cleaning The Cuff
Stretch Murphy, former Purdue
center recently named by
coaches for the nation’s all-time
basketball team, gave up basket-
ball when he became director of
the Bristol, Conn., boy’s club six
years ago, but he still ranks as
a top-flight volleyball player. . .
Another war casualty is the Peter
Dawson Ringer golf tourney. The
tournament committee decided
that golf activity will be loo cur-
tailed to justify a national com-
petition this year.
GLOBE TROTTERS WIN
MEXICO CITY, April 6—(TP)—
The Harlem Globe Trotters, Ne-
gro basketball team from Chicago,
defeated a Mexico City All-Star
five last night, 30 to 26. It was
the first game of a round-robin
series among four teams.
Borger Boy Scouts have con-
tributed over 200.000 pounds of
scrap metal to our war effort.
Give to the Boy Scout fund.
never had another who could
touch him.”
Waddell liked to fish, drink,
tend bar, run to fires and pitch,
but no baseball assignment was
important enough to keep him
from his first four passions.
Waddell, the baseball dramatist
and acrobat — he turned cart-
wheels from the mound to the
bench following particularly bril-
liant performances—had a cork-
ing straight man in his favorite
catcher with the Athletics, Ossie
Schreckrngost
Mack describes Schreck as the
lizz powder in the Dinwheel that
was Waddell, adds that the back-
stop was the wilder of the two
in many respects.
Two players had to sleep in one
bed to save expenses in those
days. When he could find Wad-
dell. Schreck was the Rube’s in-
separable roommate and compan-
ion, so one spring insisted that a
clause in his pal’s contract pro-
hibit eating animal crackers in
bed.
Schreck could do more with his
gloved hand than any other
catcher who has come along.
Waddell Called In Mates
Waddell calling in his fielders
and pitching all by himself long
ago became national folklore He
did this frequently in exhibition
games.
“Waddell pitched in every game
of a six-game series in Detroit
in 1902,“ recalls Mack. “I had to
hang onto his uniform to stop
him In the sixth game he called
in the outlield. League rules kept
the outfielders from leaving the j
field, so they squatted behind the
infielders and watched the great !
man do his stuff.”
At Steelton, Pa , against a good
industrial team. Waddell called
the other players in and made
them sit out the ninth. Schreck
sat down and caught without once
getting on his feet as the Rube
struck out the throe who faced
him
Waddell was a tall, deep-chest-
ed, long-armed country hoy with
the strength of a bulf and un un-
tiring arm
His hand wrapped itself around
a baseball as though it were a
By The Associated Press
WALLINGFORD, Conn., April
6—(TP)—Lofty Gomez, for many
years the clown prince of the
New York Yankees but now with
the Boston Braves, is happy.
Gomez filled the bases in the
camp game yesterday but Man-
ager Stengel kept him on the
mound and the southpaw flinger
worked his way out of the situ-
ation without permitting a score.
"For years,’’ chirped Gomez,
"that happened to me with the
Yankees but they never allowed
me to discover if I could get out
of it. They always sent for Mur-
phy."
John Murphy of the Yankees,
was Gomez* personal relief hurl-
(’)• the past two seasons.
BROOKLYN — The blood
bank account of the Brooklyn
Dodgers was 23 pints richer to-
day and Manager Leo Durocher
excused his athletes from train-
ing. The Dodgers marched to
the Red Cross station in a body
for the donations.
Today the players will make
a tour of Long Island war
plants as an aid to the bond
buying campaign.
FRENCH LICK, Ind. — Mule
Haas. Chicago White Sox coach,
and one-time outfielder, who re-
tired from active play in 1939, is
getting in condition to play this
summer if necessary. Manager
Jimmy Dykes sent the club
through an extremely long calis-
thenics drill yesterday when he
pea. He was as swift as Walter noticed Umpire Art Passarella
Johnson and no pitcher had such L*rl donned a uniform to partici-
varied assortment of curves, pate in the exercises,
drops and shoots. His control
was the finest ever known to a
southpaw.
As crazy as he was. he could
think quickly and clearly in a . , ,,
baseball uniform. I «“_ Onemnati
In 11)02, in 10 games, ho fanned . ^ «*»
106, an average of more than 10. : "
In 1903 he fanned 130 in 12 j
games, for the same average. In
1904 he struck out 343 in 377 in- j
nings, which still stands as the
modern major record. Over sev-
en seasons—1902-08—he whiffed
1801, which is an American
League mark.
Hero Role Causes Death
Waddell won 27 games in 1905,
was kept out of the World Series
meetings with Mathewson of the
1 Giants by a shoulder injury in- j
Buff Freshman
Quintet Stopped
Former West Texas
Stars Aid Winners
CANYON. April 6--(Ah—The
West Texas State freshman bas-
ketball team, rated a National
championship possibility should
the sport be continued at the
school, finally has lost a game
But it was a former West Tex
as State great and an erstwhile
member of the freshman team
who turned the trick.
Price Brookfield, an All-Ameri-
can when at West Texas State,
pitched in 25 points as the Cac-
tus Ordnance team won over the
freshmen 59-51 at Dumas.
Ray Ellefson, who was with
the West Texas freshmen until
recently, helped Brookfield with
18 points
Gilmore's Gams
Houston Hurler Asks
To Be Retired After
20 Years Of Service
HOUSTON. April 6—(Ah—
Pitcher John Berly, whose trick
curves hoisted mm from sandlot
baseball in 1923, has decided to
quit the game after 2(1 years in
eight leagues.
Property of the Milwaukee
club, of the American Associa-
tion, Berlv has asked to be placed
on the voluntary retired list or
to be given his outright release.
He pitched for the St. Louis
Caridnals in 1924 and 1928, the
New York Giants in 1931 and the
Philadelphia Nationals in 1932
and 1933. Only three seasons ago
he set an International league
record by pitching 63 games for
Toronto and Rochester.
Postpcnment Of
Player Draft Seen
As Pro Loop Meets
CHICAGO, April 6—(Ah—Item
No. 1 on the National Football
League convention's business pro-
gram today was the once-post-
i poned draft of college players,
but it was expected to meet the
ame fate this time and be drop-
j pod to Thursday’s closing session.
As owners and coaches opened
their three-day parley with Com-
missioner Elmer Layden the
theme was one of confidence re-
garding the 1943 season. However
| the magnates were just skeptical
enough that they wanted to delay
; the draft of lost year’s college
I seniors until it was proved to
them the league would have suf-
ficent personnel to operate this f
year.
LSmaSfe
Dancer Dorothy Gilmore’s film
studio maintains she has the
prettiest legs in Hollywood and
who are we to argue?
NATS HAVE RARE PAIR
COLLEGE PARK, Md.. April 6.
—With Ted Williams and J«>e Di-
Maggio gone, Washington has the
two outfielders remaining in the
American League who hit better
than .300 last year. They are
Stan Spence 323 and George Case
.318.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bob
Matlny and Vernon Stone, a pair
I of mound rookies who hurled for
l Birmingham last season, will |
Reds j
MUNCIE, Ind. — Before leav-
ing for Indianapolis today for the
clash with the Cleveland Indians,
Manager Frankie Frisch of the
Pittsburgh Pirates announced he
intended to send Rip Sewell and
Lloyd Deitz to the mound.
Cork Is principally cultivated
in Spain and Portugal.
Yankees Behind In
Training Schedule
By NEA Service
ASBURY PARK. N. J., April
6.—Because of wind sweeping the
lakeside field here, only a few
blocks from (ho Atlantic, the New
York Yankees are behind rivals
in conditioning.
Other outfits had several con-
tests and some got in exhibitions
before the New Yorks played even
an intra-squad game.
it was feared that Ernie Bon-
ham had the flu. Marvin Bruer’s
arm is atm. Pitchers who bad
early practic eat St. Petersburg
said they were worse off than
when they arrived.
Blame The War:
Getting Handball
Is Numbers Game
By NEA Service
BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. April
(i.—Blame it on the wartime
scarcity of handballs. Someone
says to Bn McMillin, Indiana
football strategist:
“What’s your locker number.
Coach? I’d lik eto borrow your
handball."
“Off tackle, around end, up
the middle," replies McMillin.
“I cen’t decipher that one said
the man seeking the handball.
“You can’t use my handball,
either," counters McMillin.
That’s the way the Hoosier
head man remembers his locker
number, and the man who can’t
put it in numbers can’t borrow
Bo McMillin’s handball.
L ( brother,
what grand,
MILO. VET
RICH’TASTI#
BOUrYOVR-OWNS
prince albert
GIVES! ROLLS UKE
magic, too-
cnPF WITH
Mackmen Slated
For 2nd Division
By SID FEDER
WII MINC'D)N. Del April »>--
, .p p ,s Roberto F.stallclla s
loudest moan that in eight years
m P i -eball, he always has been
With clubs deep m the second di-
vision And Connie Mack has
, remised him that this record
will he maintained, now that he
has moved in with the Philadel-
phia Athletics.
The venerable Mr McGilhend-
<(v pointed this out to Round Ho-
beiK n day or so ago. when he
accidently heard Estalella give
voice to his beef “Don’t worry,
sonny," said Mr. Mack "we’ll
nrobably make you feel right at
home."
In addition to introducing Ro-
herto, one of the Cubans who
managed to escape from the
Washington Senators and now is
the As regular left-fielder, it
also vi vos to indicate just where
the Athletics tit into the Ameri-
can league landscape
They’ve been training here for
two weeks now and except that
they’re not eating quite so many
filet mignnns you’d recognize
them in a minute as the same
old outfit. That is, they’re the
same from the viewpoint of how
t( win friends and wind up in
last place. Actually, it’s a brand
new team
The one big loss to the armed
forces was that of Phil Morchil-
don, the fancy (linger who won
17 games last year.
Connie’s pitching staff this sum-
mer will be reorganized around
two holdover knuckle bailers,
Roger Wolff and Luman Harris,
who won 23 between ’em Another
returning elbower. Russ Chris-
topher. showed s me promise last
year although winning only four.
Eddie Mayo once of the New
York Giants and Boston Braves
who lias been reclaimed from
Los Angeles definitely will be on
third base, and Jojo White, who
used to patrol the Detroit Tiger
liter garden will handle the
eentoi field chores He will tic
: lanke.I In E talelia in left and
Eirnt ■ <th< Rock1 Vain, a fearful
251 llailer last year, in right
Dick Siebert is hack on first;
Pete Slider l slated for second,
while the sir<rtfield will he roam-
ed by lrv Hall, from Williams-
port.
LAST FIGHT TO FINISH
RENO, April 6—Henry Arm-
■ ti oni'. triple-crown winner now
doing a comeback, participated in
the last scheduled fight-to-a-fin-
ish igainst Alton Black here,
April 17, 1936. Armstrong
knocked out Black in the eighth
round.
Pilot; of American warplanes
flying at aci altitude of 40,000 feet
frequently encounter temperature
as low a 102 degrees below zero
:n aa so thin that without oxygen
a men v. hi 1< < consciousness m
one minute and die in five.
For Victory
IT TAKES BOTH
1. Taxes
S. War Bends
PLUS MORI WAR BONDS
#ts
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Prince Albert
THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE
curred falling over a pile of lug- !
gage in a Pullman car while try- j
ing to break Andy Coakley’s j
straw hat. I
Mack and Waddell’s teammates
tired of his antics, so the St. Louis
Browns had the immortal south-
paw in 1908.
In St. Louis, on July 29 of that
year, he struck out 16 Athletics
to create a league mark that
stood until Bob Feller struck out
17 members of the same club in
Cleveland, Sept. 13. 1936.
Waddell contracted a severe
cold early in the spring of 1912.
when the river overflowed at
Hickman, Ky . and he stood in
icy water up to his armpits put-
ting sacks of sand in place as a
volunteer builder of safeguards
for the town.
The physical strain and severe
cold left him a prey for tuber-
culosis, from which he died two
years later broke, slill in har-
ness and kidding to the last.
Rube Waddell was 37 when he
died, but he Had never grown up.
He had control of everything
except himself.
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