Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
COMMENT ON
SPORT WORLD
BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Jan. 81. - Putting
the sports shot here and there:
Jimmy McLarnin weighed but 7C
pounds for his first fight and
knowing Pop Foster. Jimmy's man.
ager, as we 90, We'll bet Jimmy's
opponent didn't weigh an ounce
over So Charley Hollocher, who
quit baseball at the height of a
brilliant career as shortstop of the
Chicago Cubs, is baseball's forgot
/ ten man. At SO he lives on a
small farm where he is slowly re-
( gaining his health, which failed n
mid-season of 1924 Jim Levey,
/ eX-marine shortstop of the st. Louis
I Browns. manages and plays on a
( basketball team during the Off
/ season The team is known as
| the Levies
/ Les Hables. Stanford sprinter, Of
I ferS a lesson in grit j. During his
/ college Gays Les had appendicitis,
double pneumonia, arthritiS, flu, and
suffered a paSsel of broken ribs in
a motorcycle smashup . Yet Les
kept right on running Dink
/ Templeton. Stanfords famed track
+ coach. thinks Les might have been
the greatest of all SprinterS had
Lady Luck been a trifle more So
ciable Sad Sam Jones, about
to begin his goth season as a big
league pitcher, tell the boys around
the general store at WoodSfield, O.,
H. 81
that talk of his replacing Lew Fon-
SEGA as head man of the White SoX
is all the old malarkey
In England a soccer referee auto
matically loses his license if he Is
forced to wear glasses To hear
some of the players tell it, baseball
umpires over here don't get a IL
cense until they have the aid of a
police dog in crossing the street
T.. F. D. Amur Bey, British squash
rackets champion. is rated by ex-
perts the greatest player the game
ever saw The Milwaukee base
ball club IS unhappy because home
run cost them $3.50 last year 8.
The ball, it seems struck a specta-
tor on the nose and he sued . =.
Milwaukee should complain - the
Yankees have been paying the Babe
$3.50 plus for each homer a long
time Charles Hackett. grand
opera tenor. developed those big
hands playing football around Bos-
ton The Somerville high school
of Boston claims some sort of rec
ord for producing big league play
! ers Shanty Hogan, Danny Mac
Fayden. Pie Traynor and Horace
Ford are among its graduates :.
Wood Makes Money
Although Gar Woods name is al
ways associated with boats and boat
building, he makes little money
! from them most of Cars do-re-
mi comes fro mhis patents on
hoists. pumps and lifting devices
Eddie Tolan's greatest ambition
when he went to Michigan was to
be Quarterback on the football team
position he held down at North
western High, Detroit -.
The coaches wouldn't permit him
to risk his legs in the rough and
! tumble game, however Jim
Crowley was plenty smart in grab
bing off a big-time coaching job
| for this year while his successes
/ at Michigan State were still fresh,
/ for the mainstays of the 1882 Mich
] igan State eleven will be missing g.
Stanley Poreda, one Of our bet
ter heavyweights, sings tenor in a
church choir in Gammontown, Jer-
sey City's toughest suburb . Be-
fore turning to the ring Poreda de-
veloped footWork by chasing delln-
/ uuent customers for piano firm
Speaking of footwork, Jake
Kilrain, the old heavyweight boxer
who lost a 75-pound bout to John
L. Sullivan in 1889, has to quit his
/ lob as night Watchman at the Fore
River shipyards in Quincy, Mass,
recently because of foot trouble
Jack Sharkey is confirmed jig
saw puzzle fan He and Mrs.
/ Sharkey often sit up until 3 or 4
/ in the morning to solve one Of the
] gcofy things The best marathon
runners, according to Lawson Rob
ertson, head coach of more than
one U. S. olympic team, are small
men who "scuttle" along without
apparent technique or form IS.
Gov. Guy 3. Park, Missoni's new
chief executive. was pleased when
! he discovered a billiard table in the
executive mansion, but became an
moved when he couldn't locate am
billiard balls He was about TO
call for a special session of the leg
islature to solve the problem when
he found the balls in the ice box
where his predecessor had placed
them so they ouldn't lose their SYM
metry >.