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Evening star., 1932-03-09
FACES
DYNAMITE IN RAN
PetroIIe's Sub Packs Big
WaIIop in Right Mitt.
Clash Friday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, March Billy
M Petrolle has a stiff neck and
v won't be able to fight this Fri
day night, but Christopher
(BaD Battalino is doing no cheering
because Of that.
When Petrolle told Madison Square
Garden officials he wouldn't be able to
go through with his 12-round match
with the former featherweight cham
pion, Promoter Jimmy Johnston got
busy and dug up Billy Ran of Poland
as a substitute.
There's no saying Ran is as danger
GUS an opponent as Petrolle, but the
Polish youngster can knock them kick
ing with that right hand of his and
Battalino would do we'll to be extreme
ly cautious. Rams last two fights have
ended in knockouts. He put away Billy
Townsend Of Vancouver in two rounds
at the Garden a couple of weeks ago
and put Marty Goldman on the floor
for the full count in As seconds of fight
ing at the ST. Nicholas Club Monday
night.
Battalino has jumped two divisions
since he abandoned the featherweight
championship because of increasing
weight. Among the lightweights he
knocked out Al Singer and Billy Shaw.
His bout with Ran is the first essay
among the welterweights.
Although Ran scales the class limit
of lat pounds, he will have very little
edge on Battalino. The Hartford slug
ger scaled l42 pounds the other day
and may come in pound or two heav-
ier than that now that he knows he
must meet Ran instead of the lighter
Petrolle.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Biloxi Bunts

R1LOXI, Miss, March s.-Rags Rag
~ land, the pride of Mississippi, and
the Washington base ball clubs
sWeet-appearing hurting rookie, will
swing into few rounds of action
against the Baltimore club here Sunday
to strut his stuff before the folk here
about and to give Walter johnson and
Ciark Griffith a better squint at the
1ormer Chattanooga star
Rags Is a favorite down here, and
tre Ragman'5 neighbors and friends
VIII come trekking in from plenty
points on the peninsula.
Buddy Myer was a little sore in the
underplnning this morning as the result
OF the strenuous workout. Buddy has
not spared any steam in digging down
lor them and aching pins are the result.
Fred Marberry took a turn out at
second base this morning, but still
tninKS pitching the hardest job on the
Dali feld. However. Buddy Myer re-
minded him when he came into
the club house that second-base job
cure does down you"
Marberry. West. Myer, Weaver and
Boyle TOOK spin over to Gulfport yes
terday to take peep at the Baltimore
international League club unkink its
arms and legs. When West walked on
the fleld all of the boys who know Sam
mace mDQons with their left arms. Sam
nodded a smiling yes. 1t meant that ne
was saying that his arm again was oxen.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Flag Talk Already ON Tap
Nationals Credited With Possessing Machine.Like
Efficiency That Counts in Pennant Race.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
~ ILOXI, Miss, Marrh "a
- group of Baltimore and
Washington newspaper men,
IL a pair of club officials and
few players, seated in the
lobby of the Markham hotel at
Gulfport last night, agreed that the
Washington clubs chances of TAX
ing the flag In 1882 were as good
as cream in coffee.
1t was argued by the opponents
of the viewpoint that Washington
was too drab, to colorless and
lacked a fighting punch to win in
the race against what the Yanks
were going to offer this year and
what the Athletics already packed.
It was suggested by the pro
ponents that those drab ball clubs
have been the ones which have
Evening star., 1932-03-09
MIKE GIBBONS BOY
ON METTLE IN RING
Six-Foot 157-Pounder Entered in
Tourney-Pro Career Banned Un-
til School Is Finished.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS. March 9-onIv
time will tell whether the old saw like
father, like son." was right.
But boxing fans will get a rough
idea of its worth when young Jack Glib
bons climbs through the ropes at a
golden gloves tournament here.
No one knows, except his father,
just how good the 19-year-old Detroit
University student is. but his perform
ance during the tournament was ex-
pected by friends of Mike to give them
a line on the boys latent ability.
His father was reluctant to permit
the youngster (he's feet tall and
weighs 157 poundS) to enter the tourna- =
ment In game at which he had won
fame and fortune But he acceded to
Jacks pleadings and this week a batch
OF amateur middleweights will test
young Gibbons prowess as a fighter.
Jack boxes fairly we'll" said Mike.
But he's green and inexperienced.
If he shows we'll, his father may
grant a further concession and let him
become a professional if he wills. But
not until the youths university work
Is completed
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Criffs May Loan
Maple to Birds

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PILOX1, Miss, March "a grape
- vine route story today is that
Rookie Catcher Howard Maple,
getting into top shape here. will be
loaned to Baltimore to help them get
their pitchers and batters into shape.
Another Is that Outfielder Ralph
Boyle will go back to the Baltimore
outfit for further seasoning.
Neither matter would be discussed
by Clark Griffith or Walter Johnson
johnson and President Dawson of
Baltimore were in discussion here
yesterday and Dawson and Griff
talked the matter over the phone
the other evening.
Baltimore has three seasoned
catchers. but only one has shown up
at Gulfport.
Evening star., 1932-03-09

been taking pennants. There was
a silent punch to the old Athletics
in their pennant winning days.
There was no color to the Mack
machine Of the last few years and
the White Sox as champions were
not bubbling over with sparkle. And
then the Baltimore Orioles as In
ternational league pennant win
ners seven straight times were not
a fighting, colorful outfit.
The feeling Is that the silent,
businesslike Nationals are going to
play a machine game this season
and gradually work its way into a
powerful position before the rest of
the loop realizes that the quiet
Griffs have gotten q foothold
Anyhow, Grif1's nine certainly u
adding to Its boosters.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Fistic Battles

NEW YORK.-Vincent Hambrieht
Cincinnati, knocked out Tommy 1TWinI
Rizzo. New Jersey (2).
DENVER.-Mickey Walker, Rumson
N. j., knocked out Jackie Williams
Chicago CD Jackie Fields, world well
terweight champion, knocked out Patsy
Pollock, Chicago co, non-title
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-Ray
Tramlie, Rockford, ILL.,, knocked out
Clyde Chastain, Dallas. Tex go:
Frankie Gierke. indianapolis. and Red
Hooks. West Palm Beach, drew 90.
Indianapolis-Yale Okun, New York.
outpointed Chuck Virgins, Indianapo-
LIS Q0).
LOS ANGELES Santiago
Cuba. drew with Bobby Pacho. Los
Angeles Q0); Speedy Dago. Los Angeles,
stopped Rudolfo Teglia, Argentina Cd
Evening star., 1932-03-09
SOusa Handy With Gun.

THE late John Philip Sousa,
rites for whom will be
4 held tomorrow, was famed
throughout the world as
bandmaster and composer, but
he also had decided talents in
at least one branch of sports.
E. L. Priest, a reformed news
paper man, now connected
with the Commerce Depart
ment, contacts to observe that
for many years Sousa actively
INDUCED in the fascinating
pastime of trapshooting-and
was good at it, too.
According to our informant,
he competed with SouSa in
Vermont State championship
match upward of a score of
years ago, and local old timers,
such as DR.. A. B. Stine, assert
the March ing" earned a fair
share of honors through his
skill as a marksman as a mem
Der of the now defunct Analos-
tan Gun Club.
Evening star., 1932-03-09

DuOXI, Miss, March g.
X There was a feeling in
- Washington among the fans
that when Clark Griffith
obtained Carl Reynolds he landed
that right-hand hitter he has
been seeking, but that he also had
a young man who was not so very
fast on the hassocks, and very,
very poor player going into bases
on steal.
Down here where the sun sizzles one
day and your feet get cold the next,
Carl is promising to dispel that reputa-
tion.
During the last few days the former
Chisox has been tearing around the
bags at a snappy gait, pulling in with
his chin up and his breath holding its
own.
While conditions haze not been
right for sliding, Carl UdntS it knotDn
that When they are he also trill
shoto that he is not so bad in that
department OF the game, either.
Those leg injuries received last year
while sliding, which, by the way. gave
the impression that the big Texan was
a poor stealer, were due, says Carl, to
accidental thrusts at the bags which
could have been made by the greatest
pilferer.
Playing on a club that rarely got
ahead in ball game, Carl never was
permitted to do much sliding. And
this helped in getting him a reputa-
tion as poor base runner.
Not only does the big fellow like to
run the bags, but he was a star track
man with Southwestern University dur
ing his college days and, when he went
to Palestine Of the Lone Star League
was noted for his speed on the bags.
Carl uas tour-letter man at
Southwestern.
In practice skirmishes here Reynolds
appears to be the man the doctor
ordered for Griff. Reynolds Is anxious
to prove that he can tear around the
sacks and that he can clout them long
and hard.
Carl Is an athletically built 6-footer
with plenter of shoulder punch. He
Is 1.-the in his actions on the field
and a high-class type Of ball player.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
n ILOXI, Miss, March 9-Monte
X Weaver, the silent collegian, is
II as sure of being a regular on
Grif's Nationals hurting staff
as-Well, as surely as there are frecxles
on Mike Martins forehead
There are some nice things being
whispered about the tall boy by both
Walter Johnson and Clark Griffith.
And there are some nicer things being
said Of him by the Baltimore Orioles,
in camp just around the corner, in
Gulfport
Those who know the North Carolina
young man say that with a four to
hve day rest between games will make
Weaver dead-certain winning hurler.
They argue that Monte is not as robust
as his looks might indicate and that
Evening star., 1932-03-09
BARRY IS DEFEATED
BUT SHARES GLORY
Goodwin Forced to Limit to
Vanquish 17-Year-0Id
in Torrid Bout.
BY r. d. THOMAS.


~ EDS BARRY, 17-year- old heavy
- weight of the Mohawk Ath-
,letic Club. had another defeat
on his record, but many more
friends to his credit today following
an 8-round battle with Bob Goodwin of
Daytona Beach, Fla, at Portner's Arena
in Alexandria last night.
With a 26-pound dEantage-Barry
weighed 100 and Goodwin 164-the
youngster whaled away from start to
finish and his willingness, combined
with Godwin's experience that offset
the weight disparity, made it an ex-
citing affair.
Goodwin won by just enough margin
to eliminate doubt, but gave all he had
and. against an opponent who recently
held the world light heavyweight
champion to a draw, there was glory
and prestige for the youthful Barry in
defeat.
CODWINS edge was gained mostly
" with close-in body punches. He
wasted few blows. Barry was
more effective at long range and sew
eral times with fierce rallies drove God
win to the ropes. In these instances,
the youngster lost opportunities by
swinging wildly and with open gloves.
In the fourth round. Barry caught
his man with a powerful blow on the
chest and Goodwin sat down. He was
up, however, before Referee Heinie
Miller could start count. Some spec
tators held that Goodwin was off bal
ance when the wallop landed.
This reporter gave Barry the first,
fourth and eighth rounds and Goodwin
the second, third, fifth and seventh,
with the sixth even.
A NEWCOMER to Portner's, Bob
n Turner, middleweight, put himself
in line for another engagement by
knocking out Henry Irving in the first
round. 1t was an unusual finish. The
sleep producer was a left swung while
Irving's back was turned, the blow
landing on the side of Henry's jaw.
Young Vans one-round knockout OF
Fighting Dick featured the preliminaries.
1t was the third straight kayo victory
for the young Washington heavy, who
improves with each bout.
Pete Powell Norfolk bantam, con-
ceded about 10 pounds to Tommy Horn
and won close decision in spite OF a
knockdown scored against him.
In the curtain raiser, Soldier Portna
finished Billy Reed in round one.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Training Tits

By the Associated Press.
Yesterdays scores:
At San Francisco-Detroit (A), 12
San Francisco (P. C. L., 7.
Todays schedule:
At New Orleans-Cleveland CAD VS.
New Orleans IS. A..
At San Francisco-Detroit (A) VS.
San Francisco (P. C. L.).
At Bradenton. Fla-St. Louis (N)
VS.. Cincinnati (N).
Evening star., 1932-03-09
REYNOLDS Has Athletic ''It''
Newly Acquired RghtHan Batting Punch of Nationals Is
Something of Sprnter, Too.

AS conclusive proof of his speed is the
result of a sprint with Ben Chapman,
base balls speed king with the Yanks.
Carl finished second to the infielder,
but close enough to make it a race
And the Chicox player ran with both
legs bandaged from an injury.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
TURNER MAY REFEREE
Official for Lewis-Roebuck Mat
Bout Will Be Named Today.

Selection of the referee for tomorrow
big wrestling match at the Washington
Auditorium between Stranger Lewis,
claimant of the world heavyweight title,
and Tiny Roebuck was expected to be
made some time this afternoon by Pro-
moter Joe Turner.
cyclone Burns. No. ranking National
Boxing Association, is said to be
definitely out" this week because of the
objections made by Roebuck, who pre-
viously was defeated here by Lewis On
. questionable fall.
There is a possibility that Turner
himself might handle the match in the
event q suitable official is not found.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
LEAGUE CUT IN HALF.

CUMBERLAND. Md March 9.-Indi-
cations are that neither Wheeling nor
Youngstown will be in the Middle At
lantic League this season. which would
mean that the circuit would drop to six
teams, half the number that functioned
last year.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
WALKER SCORES KAYO

Finishes Williams in Two Rounds.
Fields Lands Haymaker.
DENVER, March 9 (P).-Mickey
Walker, heavyweight title contender,
knocked out Jackie Williams Of Chicago,
in the second round of a scheduled 10
round fight here last night.
In another headline bout Jackie
Fields. welterweight champion, knocked
out Patsy Pollock, in the second round
of a fight set to go 10 rounds. The
bout was a non-title affair.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
BOWLING TOURNEY LISTED.

CUMBERLAND. Md, March s.-The
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Eastern
Lines bowling tournament will be held
here on Saturday. Women and men will
compete
Evening star., 1932-03-09
PYNE IN OLYMPIC TESTS

S"IHOIIC o. bOXtr TO COmpete at
Penn State Next Month.
Danny Pyne, Catholic University S
clever llght-heavyweight, will compete
IN the Olympic tryouts at Penn State
College next month His entry was
made yesterday, the Brookland school
officials announced.
Payne now is working with Frank
Fullmer, former middleweight star at
Catholic u. and will be on the amateur
program to be staged at Ritchie Coli
scum. at College Park, Saturday night.
He will fight Ray Jefferies, Philadel-
phia, l75-pound champion.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
BY RUSSELL J. NEwLAND.

BY RUSSELL J. NEwLAND.
CAN FRANCISCO, March g.
The big 'if" in the base ball
- plans of the Detroit Tigers
this season concerns Char
ley Gehringer and his. return to
form. The brilliant second sacker,
whom Manager Stanley Harris
describes as "the best in the
league, when right" injured his
throwing arm in the first game Of
1881. Illness also handicapped
him, but he played 101 games to
hit .311.
Thus far in training, Gehringer has
given every indication he will be ready
for the base ball wars. II he Is, Skipper
Harris says the Tigers may be sur
prise team" And If he isn't ready the
Detroit pilot says We're sunkl'
We need Gehringer's punch at the
plate and his steadiness at second.
The same goes for Dale Alexander.
around first base, but he doesn't need
any lessons in standing up to home
plate. Alexander wasn't sound last
year.
HARRIS believes American League
i pennant possibilities are too re-
mote to discuss, but II the team
clicks he expects to make a better
showing than the seventh place Of last
year.
pitching staff fortified with vet
Grams and boasting several young pros
poets Is the high spot Of the club. Tom
Bridges, with the team last season, is
i'll with the "flu," but Manager Harris
looks to him for help later.
Luke Hamlin and Isidore Goldstein,
rookie right-handers from the Texas
League. have shown promise. Whit
Wyatt, who divided his time between
Detroit and Beaumont last year, will
be given every chance. Sorrell, Uhl,
Whitehill, Hogsett and Herring will
handle the heavy work.
One experiment may furnish the
squad a new moundsnan, Mark Koenig,
who already has served as an infielder.
Harris says Koenig has everything o
pitcher needs, including fast ball, and
that 1t now Is only a matter OF control.
1T DON'T think it will be a hard Job
to change him into pitcher"
- Harris said. He had experience
as a semi-pro."
Catching duties will be cared for by
Harold Muddy" Ruel and Ray Hay
worth. with Gene Desautels, who joined
the club from Columbus last season,
probably holding down the third-string
berth
Bill Rogell, acquired from Toronto
last year, appears to have clinched the
shortstop position. Nolen Richardson,
up from Toronto last season, has tlrst
call at present at third base, with Sill
Rhiel, up from Portland Of the Co st
League and Henry Soluble, from Beat
mont. furnishing opposition.
The fight for outfield positions Is a
free for all. according to Harris. who
says nobody on this club needs feel
secure"
Roy johnson and Johnny Stone are
regulars Bill Lawrence, a 6-foot-S-
inch-tall youngster up from Seattle. and
Joyner White, fleet rookie from Beau
mont, are practically certain to be
carried along. Gerald Walker. farmed
out to Toronto in 1881, and Kenneth
Strong, also up from the International
League team, are other outf1eld can
didates.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
FRIEBERG OF PHILS SIGNS.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, March 9 LP)-
Alabarney Frieberg utility inflelder
and last of the Phillies holdouts, has
signed
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Barry Makes Friends.

D ING fans were given a fine
N run for their money in
Jack Tulloch's weekly
show last night, and the wind
up, although it failed to pro-
duce anything resembling a
knockout, otherwise proved just
as torrid as predicted.
Barry. youngster that he is,
entered the ring somewhat
ashamed about that enormous
pull in the weight he had over
Goodwin, but he didn't feel so
conscience stricken at the fin
ish.
The 190-pound redhead took
a sound lacing from the Dixie
battler, who, scaling 164, Is little
more than middleweight, but
he added to his host of friends
by trying hard all the way, and
gave what probably was the
best exhibition of his short
career.
The Mohawk clubman is a
courageous lad and a willing
mixer, and If he can learn to
get heft into his punches may
travel far.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
ARM INJURED |N'31
SEEMS RECOVERED
Detroit Will Be Surprise
Team if KeyStoner Is
Right, Says Harris.

fFote-This is the third OF series Of
hrst-hGnd Associated Press stories on
MAJOR league base ball prospects,
Evening star., 1932-03-09
Yields Ro,v Salary Tiger Hopes Are Cenred Cerge
On the
SiideLines
With the SPORTS Editor.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

T IITT1NG at his normal
- clip, which is some 40
L L points above the pace
he maintained last year,
Manush would grace any ball
club, but the Heinie of 1881,
with his .3O7 average, was just
another ball player.
MaruSh has been very good,
as we'll as just plain mediocre,
as a hitter since his 1874 first
year with Detroit back in 1923.
He followed that with seasons
of .289 and 1903 before arriving
in '26 with a BIT, that gave him
the league batting champion
ship and developed his latent
talent for contract debating.
Skids Under 800 Mark.
His subsequent slump below
the 800 mark, which was fac
tor in his trade to st. Louis,
was followed by another bid for
the title that lacked one point
Of equaling Goose GoSlin's .379,
and then came campaigns that
netted him 1855 and $50.
Figures such as those for
three years in a row are i'm
pressive, but the skid he expert
enced last season takes the edge
off them and renders his dis
tinction of being the highest
paid man on the club unjusti-
fled.
1t is no secret that Manush
dislikes the rigors of a training
camp and his recent attitude
probably was as much a means
of trying to duck them as it was
a protest against a pay cut that
was coming to him.
Manush didn't get much SYM
pathy from the fans in his hold
out role, but they will be all
pulling for the good -natured
outfielder to stage a rousing
comeback this year.
Evening star., 1932-03-09
BY TOM DOERER.

DJLOXI, Miss, March g.
X There was a feeling in
. Washington among the fans
Evening star., 1932-07-14

the impression at times that he was
Sparing his foe.
K o. Phil Raymond. Reeds opponent
next Wednesday in the 10-rounder, is
one of the hardest punching welters to
show here and, if for no other reason
than the possibility of his landing
haymaker, should prove Reed an inter-
esting evening.
Supplementaries booked SO far have
Henry Irving meeting Big Boy Smith
and Don Whitlock opposing Ace Dundee
in siX-rounders and Doug Swetman and
Jackie Simpson meeting in four.
COLDIE AHEARN and his match
" maker, Bert Bertolini, will stage
some sort of wrestling-fan endur-
ance contest next Tuesday. Seven
matches will be on the card.
The two features bring together Doc
Wilson and Frank Speers and Herbie
Freeman and Glenn Mum. One of the
30-minute matches will have Billy Bar
tuSh and George Mcleod as principals.
Just what Is the idea of having seven
matches is not exactly clear, unless
Tootsie Roll Mondt has SO many
wrestlers that he has to put them to
work so they'll arouse appetites and
maintain those elephantine figures.
But a seven-bout card may present
its problems. Interest will have to
be maintained
Evening star., 1932-07-14
FORMER TANK KING
SEES THRONE WAR
WeismuIIer Watches Olympic
Aspirants Assault His
Numerous Records.
By the Associated Press.

By tho Associated Press.
)INCINNATI. Ohio, July IA
Johnny Weissmuller stood on
4 the sidelines, an outsider, to-
day, while the boys who would
be king lashed out in the waters of
Coney Island pool in efforts to eclipse
at least one of the many marks held
by the retired sovereign of amateur
swimming.
More Immediately at stake were
coveted places on the United States
Olympic swimming team.
The Hawaiian Kalili brothers, Maiola
and Manuella, were among the heirs
apparent. With them were Al Schwartz
of the Illinois Athletic Club, 1881 A.
A. U. champion In the 100 meters and
200 meters; Johnny Schmieler of Mich
igan and host of others.
Another monarch, Clarence Crabbe
of Los Angeles, eased to leadership in
the 1,500-meter preliminaries yester-
day in 20:29 As The Kalili brothers
ran away with their heats in the 100
meters free style, but all faced stern
competition in sem-final and final
rounds today.
Finalists with Crabbe were Ralph
Flanagan, Coral Gables, Fla; James
Christy, University of Michigan; Ray
Ruddy, New York A. c.; Carl Leedy Of
Yale and Jack Medica of Seattle.
Semi-finals contestants in the 100
meters, besides the Kalilis. Schwartz and
Schmieler, were Herbert Barthels of
San Francisco; Curtis Cummings Of
Los Angeles, Ray Thompson of the
Naval Academy, George Ffssler, New
York A. c.; Arthur Highland. North
western University; Ogden Dalrymple,
University of Michigan; Johnny Wood
of Honolulu and John Rowland Of
Yale.