Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-06-03
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SPORT MIRROR
BY RUSSELL J. C0WANS

ham swung a long left hook to
the body that landed far below
the belt.
The referee, who had warned
Graham on four previous occas--
ions about low blows halted the
bout and awarded the decision to
Chocolate, thus keeping his rec
ord of lIl fights clean.
X X X x y
Saturday and Monday were
days Of upSets in the sport world.
Saturday, at Cambridge. Mass.
the strong Stanford track and
field team which seemed invinci-
bic and selected as an odds on
favorite to annex Is fourth con
secutive intercollegiate "A title.
went down to defeat before the
smooth clicking forces Of the Uni
yersity Of Southern California.
Ben Eastman, the long striding
Stanford captain and one Of the
greatest half milcrs Of all time;
Les Hables, the hashy Stanford
Splinter, and other Indians who
were favored to win first places.
stumbled and finished in the rut.
Another upset was the defeat
Of Joe McCluskey, Fordham's
great runner who was forced to
trail Jackie Ryan, Of Manhattan.
in the S000-meter run. It was
McCluskey's first defeat during
his college career.
Monday night Baby Face Jim
my McLarnin scored a spectacu-
lar upset by stopping Young Cor
bett in the first round. Of schcd-
uled ten round championship
bout at Wrigfey Field. in Los An
geles. Corbett was knocked col,
two minutes and 81 seconds afte
the first round opened.
Thus Jimmy McLarning adds HI
name to the rapid changing Ii
of welterweight champions. Jacl
ic Fields started the BAN rclAi,
= when ne defeated Joe Dund
here in Detroit i'm 1880. Your
Jack Thompson came TO the Nc
tor City and trounced Fields. an
later lost his crown TO Tomm,
| Freeman. Thompson regained i
from Freeman. but lost il Il
Brouillard. Fields staged come
back by beating Brouillard. Cor
bett defeated Fields for the
crown.
Several of the good welter-
weights have defeated McLarnin.
and the odds are that he will not
hold the crown long-if he will
make weight.
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Oscar G. Rhodes and Harry
l.. papa Dee) Johnson. two fight
managers who have recently re-
urned to the Motor City from the
west coast, were discussing the
old Dunbar Athletic club, the
other evening.
The Dunbar club. of which
Rhodes was matchmaker. staged
its fights at the Circle Theatre in
the winter months and at Mack
Park in the summer. The first
show was held Oct. 30, 1920. with
Sunny Rumpky and Darby Grif-
fin in the main event.
Charles Rodgers, Detroit well
terweight who was a budding star
back in those days, made his first
Detroit appearance under au-
spices Of the Dunbar Athletic
Club, at the Circle Theatre
against Kid Gibbons of Cleve-
land. Gibbons had Rodgers in
bad way in the early part Of the
fight, flooring him in the third
round. Rodgers rallied and won
the 10-round verdict.
In his third appearance Rod
gers met Billy Armstead. the
Pittsburgh weltcr in the sixth.
decision over Armstead. Whipped
to all intents and purposes in the
early part of the fight, Rodgers
came back to win with savage
attack in the closing rounds.
Armstead put Rodgers down and
almost out in the sixth. and was
on the floor himself in the first
and ninth rounds.
The next time Rodgers met
Armstead was at the auditorium
in Flint and Rodgers stopped the
Pitsburg weller in the sixth.