Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-03
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Sports PARADE.
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BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 3.-Puttinl
the sports shot here and there:
The national" womens indoor
singles tennis championships il
Boston last week had "a entries, OF
whom 81 were Massachusetts, gals
The tournament is scheduled
to shift to New York next year tc
see if it can acquire more ma
tional aspect. Charles Tray
nor, kid brother of Pie of the Pi-
rates, has Just about clinched the
third basing job of the Northeast
ern university nine this season =.
Mrs. Jim Bottomley plans to sell
the beauty parlor she has been op-
Grating in st. Louis so she'll be able
to devote her full time to taking
care of Sunny Jim. ...
The Davis cup, blue riband OF
lawn tennis, is going to England
this year, even if the British team
does not win it. The Fedora
ton FraicaiS de Lawn Tennis has
promised to lend it to an exhibition
Of national sporting trophies in
London, where it will lie next to
such trophies as the old brass urn
containing "the ashes which Eng
land recently won in tile cricket
test with Australia And while
we're in England we might as well
tell you that Maurice Byron, 38,
of Kent, claims to be the champion
all-around athlete of the world
and is willing TO prove his claim to
Ehe extent of $500 against any
conner Byron claims to excel
in 40 athletic pursuits, including
wrestling, boxing, swimming, run
ming, cycling, walking, jumping,
club-swinging, roller-skating
and he'll wrestle you catch-as-
catch-can, Greco-Roman, Cumber-
land all-in. =.
Eddie Flynn, Olympic welter-
weight champion who has held
eight major titles and won 144
amateur and three professional
fights without a loss, was whipped
to a frazzle in New Orleans last
week by one Curtis Mullens, erst-
while bouncer for a New Iberia, Ia,
gambling house. MullenS said
he trained four days for the bout.
A blind man was captain OF
the oxford university chess team
which recently beat Cambridge five
points to two. He is Rupert Cross,
who plays on a specially construc-
ted Braille board. Duquesne
university. Pittsburgh city basket
ball champions, defeated both Pitt
and Carnegie Tech two games each,
but failed to land a place on Pitts
all-opponent team. -.
The Hollywood club of the Pa
Cific Coast league could get in the
neighborhood of $4,000 for Pitcher
Frank Shellenback if Judge Lands
would lift the ban on the spitball.
=. Charlie Paddock, once the
worlds fastest human, has been
appointed business manager OF the
Long Beach Press Telegram.
Bill Doak, once one of the better
National League pitchers, is now a
golf professional at Braidentown
Florida. Tom Laird, San Fran
cisco news sports columnist, is OF
the opinion that Ty Cobb could hit
better than 800 in the coast league
right now.
Umpire Dolly Stark looks for
baseball to have its greatest season
in history this year. THE de-
preston will make the boys get out
and hustle" Dolly says. George
HackenSchmidt, one-time wrestling
great, now acts as gymnasium in
structor to members of the house
of commons q. Bill Terry doesn't
think much Of Dazzy Vances abil-
ity He offered the Cards but
$4,000 for the famed right handler