Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-25
BUTTS HAS GAME ARM.
BUT JARS THEM WITH OTHER
Lightweight Puglist From Chicago Has Science of AID
mlnstering Left-Handed Lickngs Down
Fine Point, Winning by Skill in Ring.
By Briggs

his discredit. True. he is no cham
pion. but he is one OF those unusual
athletes. game through and through.
VINO make good withous "a chance.
When sammy fought his first light
In New York, before one OF the small
clubs where they seldom see Il mem
Der or the commission. who should
turn up on that night of all nights
went on and fought his bout. and
when II was over tho commissioner
wanted to know why the club physi-
clan had passed him IS physically lit.
Had Answered Question.
lies fit. ain't he" Sammy's man
aSer. Johnny Cox. argued, who never
read. Johnny has never read much
blackstone. hut likes n debate. I'VE
won our fight. didden wc?''
There was no answer TO that so
Sammy retains his ticket as a fighter.
The commissioners are touchy gentle
men. but they like 'cm when they're
game.
SAMMY fights with his left hand
stab. stab. stab. This being his only
serviccablc fist, he has perfected the
jab and with that blow manages to
Keep the lads away. lie can swing
with it, too, but mostly he jabs. on
the other hand he has a glove. that's
Az. HIS right is just torpedo net.
He uses il To slip punches, fend them
off, stop them somehow.
Not Halted by Handicap.
sammy Is one of school of athletes
who don't let physical handicaps stop
them.
Lee Meadows isn't the only spec
tacled pitcher in baseball now, hut
he was when he broke in with the
Cardinals. baseball had never heard
Meadows came up. and 1t took nerve
in the four-eycd finger to face the
crowd his first few times out.
Everett Scott. the shortstop whom
the ianks obtained from the Red Sox.
owner of the worlds record for con-
sccutive games played. is said to
have been 4 weakly kid when he was
tirst starting out. one scout at least
looking for big league material. is
said TO have passed him up because
he heard that Scot, was too fraii to
last very long.
iianhiess, IL Playing billiards.
Here IN New York this week George
sutton IL playing exhibition billiards.
sutton has no hands. He holds the
cue between the stumps Of his wrists
Ana he Is good enough TO give ex-
hibitionS. He recently played before
the disabled men at Walter Reed Hos
pital. Washington, to encourage them
in their misfortune.
There have been several nnc-armcd
golfers and out in Chicago there was
one-armcd football man on the Lake
View High School team some years
ago. lad named Epstein. who asked
So - ~ ii'ii' hi'' pppOSItc
when playing in the line.
Down in baltimore, Clarence NJ
Charcst. who has no right arm, has
earned second place in the Middle At
lantic ranking Of the United States
Lawn Tennis Associations
Mentioning handicaps. there's Bat
Levinsky. Bats right name Is some
thing else again. But when he was
getting his start az a priZcnghtcr
Eat abandoned his name OF barney
Williams and assumed that mOnickcr
battling I.cvinsky. IL was the best
laugh In New York for Il few days.
Another fellow would have called
himsGlf something like Socko Sullivan
--eomcthing with II tough sound. But
nobody ever heard Of ID Fighter by the
name Of LcvjnHky until Bat came
along. and people have been hearing
the name, ever since.