Evening star., 1932-06-17

l Y been technically known as
an economic detonation or
a financial avalanche operating g
on a soapy chute, have you ever
stopped to observe that this is
sports greatest year as far as
heavily travelled pathways are
concerned?
Which is to say that never before
in the history Of sport have 50 many
athletes from 50 MANY different coun-
tries, representing so many different
games, hit the bread highway for in
tercatlOnal comp5t!iCn.
It is an amazing occurrence when
you look it OIer-
l. SchmelIng comes over from Ber-
lin to defend the heavyweight title.
,. Leading American tennis stars,
including Ellsworth Vines and Mrs.
Moody, spend more than tWO months
of competition III France and Eng
land. The total liSt for Wimbledon,
team matches and the Davis Cup,
runs beyond a dozen.
3. Gene SaraZen. Tommy Armour
and Mac Smith invade Great Britain
al golf.
4 Jose JuradO comes up from the
Argentine and Miyamoto comes from
japan to play in the United States
open.
5. Ireland sends over a foot ball
delegation.
s. Henri Cochet IS coming over to
play III the United States tennis
championship.
T. After a dozen American women
invade British golf. Enid Wilson,
British cOnONlliDn COMING over
here to return the compliment.
8. Eight British gOit stars are
coming l0r the Walker Cup matches
a. BTCokl!ne and the United States
amateur championship at Baltimore.
8. FIfty-One nations are sending
over 20O0 athletes to Los Angeles.
THE international trails of sport have
i never known so much Wayfaring
as 1882 is now presenting.
In fact the international pageant
jubilee or hurly-purIy this Summer will
so beyond any past record.
WlmbleuCn viii have one of its
greatest Years. with Cna of its strongest
FIELDS. Wimbledon will be especially
interesting in presenting young Vines,
our 20-year-old tennis champion, in
his first foreign competition.
Thirty thousand people paid to see
Stranger Lewis and Shikat and William
F. Carey says so 600 will pay S400 900
or more to see SChmeling and Sharkey.
Most of the ball cubs have done better
than they expected to do. There have
been sour spots here and there but
10000 recently saw a fight in Lcndon
and 10000 saw middleweight battle
IN France. Sport, at least, is keeping
its share # the money circulating back
and forth.
Young James FoXX of the Athletics
1 has more than 90 ball games left
and he is almost halfway up to
Babe Ruth'S big year-the same being
60 hOmerS. Foxy can fall off badly
and still beat this old mark. At the
pace he has been setting since April. he
would finish the season with more than
70 long distance blows, bit no one can
expect him to keep moving at this
speed.
FoXX is one of the great natural hit
ters Of all time. He has both timing
and power to bank on. And he seems
to be more dangerous in q pinch than
at any other time This is typical of
Connie Mack'S three star hitters. Sim
mons, Cochrann and FoxX. TAev have
the krack of stepping into the middle
:
blow is needed to break up a game.
THE yark2e-Ath,o-ic rivalry carries
i three PRONG They should be the
two ball Gibbs leading the dash
down the September stretch Their
two c"aCk pitchers, Gomez and Grove,
will SCRAP it out for the pitching Lead
ership Of the league. And the home
run ensemble IS almost sure to rest
with FoXy or Ruth.
THE O1vr1pic trT-outs from Boston to
L tha Wet cast e',ou'd sat 2 new
s+orGa~d f0r r,:Tdlp-dietarcn r1ln-
ning-fron 400 to so motnrs T,e~c
wont be an old record left by the time
the OLYMPIC games start
outside of Eastman. who will be un-
beatable at 400 meters and close to un-
beatabe at the 8OO-meter distance,
there will be the keenest sort of COM
petition with Ven7ke. Cunningham.
HarGman. Brocksmith, FalloWell. Ros-
ner and others who have been moving
like the wind
Much has been written about the
brilliant cron Of srrinters but United
States strength from 40n to 500 meters
will be far and aWav the greatest any
single cOuntrv has ever known. Even
track coaches ard trainers would never
have believed so manv athletes could
run in such time if any one had sug
gested the possibility a year or so ago.
It will be interesting to see whether or
not some of shese leave part Of their
speed and stamina on the trial tracks.
This can happen in the rugged schedule
laid out-especially to those in the COL
loGiate sector who have been hard at
work since early Nav end who have
their two biggest dates still ahead,
TT L-Walter Hagen won his last
i /. United St2tcs open at Braeburn
in 1919. Il has been 13 years
since he finished on top in this event.
Ills main chance at Fresh Meadow next
week depends upon his putting touch.
as he is hitting the bail in every other
way as well as he ever did.
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