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Evening star., 1934-12-18

"A YEW YORK, December 18.-
M How aud why does wrestler
v do what he does? give you
the witness for the defense,
Mr.. Rudy Dusek, who has been in
the trade for about Is years and
sometimes pays income tax on as
much as $4,000 per annum.
IT Just had a busy week." Mr..
Dusek is saying as the curtain rises.
Monday was booked in New York.
Tuesday I was on Long Island and
Wednesday was in Baltimore.
Thursday-where the deuce was /
Thursday? Oh, yes, was in Brook
lyn. And Friday I was in Boston.
I keep busy"
Mr.. Dusek Is typical OF the
higher-bracket American wrest-
Ter.
He wrestles mostly in main bouts,
now and then in a semi-wind-up
He works about Is times a month and
his earnings for that period aver
age a trifle less than $4,000 Qt USED
to be more). He knows the public
taste in every sizable American town
and he produces all the grunts, slaps,
dives, contortions and high comedy
grimaces that go with the new or
post-Sonnenburg style of wrestling.
Signs for Old Days.
EOR all that, Mr. Dusek really is
good wrestler. He was schooled
in his art by Farmer Burns and
he sighs now and then for the old
days of straight, or CLEVER" wres-
ting. He sighs, but he doesn't cry.
After all, Mr.. Dusek is getting
minimum of $4,000 a year for CIV
ing the public what it wants. He
has 10 more years OF profitaole
pachydermy in his system, and he'd
be a sucker to kick them away.
USEK used to earn IS cents an
hour as q machinist in Nebraska.
He didn't take up professional
wrestling until he was sure he could
make more than that. Today he is
a solid business man Of 80 with a
wife and family, a caulihower ear.
a 1914 inch neck and q large bank
account. That last item is very
useful.
"I was Just figuring the other day"
said MIR. Dusek, that support six
women besides my wife. I mean my
mother, my sister, my niece, my two
daughters, my wife's maid and my
daughters governess."
Dusek has seven brothers,
three Of them now active In
wrestling. The best known Of
these Is Ernie.
'T had a tough time persuading
Ernie to wrestle for a living" said
Rudy. "I knew he was good and I
knew wrestling was the best thing for
him in financial way, but he wanted
to waste his time on something else"
Most Profitable Of Sports.
4 CCORDING to the elder Dusek,
~ wrestling is the most sensible
and profitable of all profess
IL 1r&
Evening star., 1934-12-18
|FRAy|NG FURR AIM
| OF SPURNED PILOT
Groves Points Boxers With
Hope They Will ToppIe.
District WeIter.

~ ENT upon developing a boxer
x capable Of ousting Phil Furr
from the heights of local
pugilism attained while box
ing under his management, Harry
Groves, local handler of fighters, will
send two of his most promising vel
terweight entries to the post Thurs
day at the Washington Auditorium.
Groves, who split with Furr after
Phil defeated Ray Bowen for what
has been called the Districts welter-
weight title, will shoot Roddy Davis
against Frankie Lift and Bob Lowry
against Mike Scipio in six-round
supporting bouts to the Furr-Jay
MeCadon feature.
Shortly before Furr defeated Bowen
Groves was reported to have received
$1,000 offer for Phifs contract.
This he spurned, but he lost heavily
a short while later when Furr re-
fused to fight under his management
and finally succeeded in buying his
own contract for 500. The split has
ranked in Groves memory and, with
Davis and Lowry as his best bets, he
is cunning for crack at Furr.
Davis, according to Groves. always
had Furr's number when they trained
and spared together as members
of the Groves stable. At that time
Roddy was a lightweight, but since
he has branched out as a welter. In
his first fight In that class Davis held
Sid Silas to a draw. Lowry,
youngster more rugged than Davis,
has been campaigning as Welter-
weight for a couple of years here
and has enjoyed quite some success.
In other preliminary bouts on
Thursdays card K. o. Riley OF the
Mohawk Club will box Mickey Flan-
nigan of Pittsburgh in scheduled
six-rounder and LIE Roy Dougan OF
Washington will engage Joe Rivers OF
California in a four-rounder.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Lou Amber, 1885,
Herkimer, N. Y, knocked out Mickey
Paul, 142, Pittsburgh %.
CHICAGO.-Jack Gibbons, 159, st.
Paul, outpointed Tony Zale, 100, Gary.
Ind. (10). Jimmy Christy, 1913, Chi
cago, outpointed Dave Barry, 1864,
Springfield, Ill. GO. Paul Lee, 125.
indianapolis, stopped frankie Mirabel,
1851, Argo, Ill. (6). Rudy Sterbenz,
200, Peoria, Ill, stopped Nelson Ber-
nard, 1861 Chicago ca. Bobby Null
Inns, 141, Vincennes, Ind, outpointed
Joey Esposito, 140, Chicago (5). Sammy
Adams, las, Bridgeport, Conn, out
pointed Frankie Keevil, 140, Chicago
90.
HOLYOKE, Mass.-Elmer Bezenah,
146%, Cincinnati, outpointed Nap
Napolitano, 145A, Brooklyn (8).
Johnny Bang, 1875, Holyoke, outpointed
Jimmy Martin, 1231a, New York (8).
Tony Cell, 1691a, Leominster, Mass,
stopped Frank La Bianco, 173%,
Brooklyn %.
LOUISVILLE, Ky-Kingfish Filing,
100 a, FlGCSuuISilJ ooOPPC0 ooC oAiAcA, /,
1851, Louisville co.. AL Hamilton.
1881, Cincinnati, outpointed Wishy
Jones, 1873, Louisville Q0).
GENOA, Italy.-Vittorio Venture,
1471a of Italy, won from Cuban Pete
Martin, 145 Q0).
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Mike (Kid)
Frattini, 151A of Italy, defeated
Frankie Britt, 1853, Fall River, Mass.
Q0. Lou Poster, 18TH, Pottstown,
Pa, beat Eddie Winston, 1876, Hart
ford, Conn. Q0D. Sailor Williams, 165,
Of California, won from Joe Arnold,
164, Of waterbury, Conn. (5).
NEWARK, N. J-Al Boris, 191,
Bridgeport, Conn, won from Norman
Barnett, 203, Irvington, M j. Q0).
Mickey Bottone, 161. Of Newark, beat
Salvatore Afinito, l57, New York Q0).
ALBANY, N. Y.-Sammy Bruce, Isl,
Albany, and "Hooky' jackson, 157A
of Boston, drew OO.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
BY TOM HENRY.

BY TOM HENRY.
-HE dawn of the nineteenth CEN
tury found all sorts OF queer
fights and other contests, ac-
i companied by heavy bets and
arousing great popular inter-
est, under way in England.
They were all reported by the Sport
ing Magazine, as well as the divorce
scandals and the courts martial OF
the time. It recorded the contest be-
tween the famous prize fighter butch
er, Joe Bourke, and a man named
Grindlay, who first fought three
rounds, then ran 100 yards and then
had a leaping contest, all for 20
guineas. Bourke punched Grindlay
almost senseless, but lost the money
when he was beaten at running and
jumping.
The magazine tried to promote a
contest of wide interest between the
redoubtable Jem Belcher and kanga-
roo, but probably the prize fighter, If
he could read, had no stomach for
the fight when he read the descrip-
ton of his proposed antagonist.
"A gentleman just arrived from
Botany Bay" said the magazine, has
just brought over kangaroo six feet
high and SO tame that he worked on
shipboard as dextrouSly as any of the
crew. He spars and fights with as
much science as any bruiser. His
arms are short, but if once he grapples
his antagonist he kicks him to death.
The owner offers to fight him against
Belcher for 200 pounds"
Belcher's friends replied to the chal-
lenge that their man would not de
mean himself by fighting with gen.
tleman of the woods"
Evening star., 1934-12-18
RUBINTON HIGH ROLLER
Bowls 555 Block to Lead Writers
in Collins Memorial Match.

Rolling f1ve-game total of SIS, Sam
Rubinton, Herald bowling writer, yes
terday won the first annual duckpin
tourney for the Len Collins Memorial
Trophy at the Lucky Strike. Rubin
ton finished five pins ahead of Abe
Povich, Post bowling scribe and the
only other scratch competitor.
Bob Considine, also of the Herald,
aided by a handicap of IS, finished
third with SIG.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
Diets on Raw Meat.

TN 1900 "Mr. Barclay, a gentleman
of 1000 pounds per anrum in
Scotland, made match for 5000
pounds side with Mr.. Fletcher, a
North Country gentleman, that he
would go on foot 80 miles in 211a
hours" Great crowds gathered in the
Scotch villages to cheer the intrepid
MIR. Barclay as he strode along.
The Scotchman, favored by perfect
weather, won with 80 minutes to spare.
1t was a revenge match. A year earlier
he had lost f2,5O0 to Fletcher on a
bet that the Englishman could not
walk so miles in IA hours. Fletcher
had prepared for the feat by going
into training for a month with Jem
Ward, the prize fighter, who had pre-
scribed him diet of raw meat.
The same year, for heavy stakes,
Marshall, a butcher, walked So miles
in six hours and q Mr.. G. Pugh of the
New Pale at Chester went Sc yards in
20 hops. And another item in the
racy sporting intelligence column
records that two noble lords, well
known on the turf, have agreed to run
against each other the first windy day
on Hampstead Heath. The one is to
wear jackboots and run backward
against the other, who Is to carry a
large umbrella over his head and run
forward, both against the wind"
Such freak bets were popular among
army officers. In 1901 IAN officer of
the 18th Light Dragons won easily
bet to draw a gig from the barracks
at Brighton to Lewes, distance of
more than six miles, in three hours" "
And a gentleman of Christ Church,
Cambridge, walked 10 miles in an
hour and 40 minutes, covering the
first five miles in As minutes.
Eating bets, some of them rather
incredible, were common among the
lower classes. Thus, a corn porter
won a bet Of 5 shillings by eating
two worsted stockings fried in train
oil. together with a half pound Of
yellow soap. Another corn porter bet
he could eat as much tripe In 20
minutes as would make him a suit of
clothes, and he was measured by a
tailor to determine the exact yardage.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
Leap Frog Has . Vogue.

VYYHILE 1t was reporting these
w events, the Sporting Magazine
was turning its attention to
the new sport of ballooning-espe-
cially to the suggestion of q German
professor that eagles be trained and
harnessed to pull the great gas bags
through the air. One bright Sunday
In April, 1902, great crowds assembled
to watch a MIR. H. attempt to win q
bet by crossing the Thames at high
water In Q washtub. He was more
Evening star., 1934-12-18
BLAIR SOCCERISTS WIN.

Blair soccerists surprised by trim
ming the Burroughs eleven, ST., yes
terday in the eastern semi-final OF
the Municipal Playground Depart
ment's tourney for elementary
schools. Blair is the Sherwood divi-
sion champ. Burroughs was a city
f1nalist last year.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
Mat Matches

By the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del. Don
George, 218, Of North Java, N. Y.
won from Vic Christy, 208, of Los
Angeles, in 1858 and "a; Tom Alley
208, Spokane, Wash, threw Henry
Graber, 2l0, Of Germany, in 21:23;
Harry Fields, 242, of Philadelphia
won over Little Beaver, 242, Of North
Carolina, in 80 minutes, and Frank
Brunowicz, 214, Of Poland, tossed
Jack Rodgers. 234, of Texas, in 1854
Evening star., 1934-12-18
BEER KEG GRID PRIZE.

The Universities Of Kentucky and
Tennessee battle each year on Thanks
giving day for possession of a worth
less beer keg. 1t has been in Knox
vile since 1926.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
Community Center League.
MONTGOMERY GIRLS WIN
Beat Poolesville at Basket Ball
for Second Time.


for Second Time.
Montgomery County High School
girl basketers defeated the Poolesville
lassies, PILL, in Montgomery
County championship match. 1t was
the second time this season the Mont
gomery sextet has downed the Pooles-
vile team by the same score.
Making up the Montgomery team
are M. Sudduth, U. Sudduth, Cleve-
land and Durbin, forwards; carp,
center; Moulden, side center, and
Gray and Merry. guards. Poolesville
players are G. Day and D. Day, for
wards; Grey, center; Jones, side
center, and Perkins and Hughes,
guards.
Evening star., 1934-12-18

Hamas After Baer.
TTARvEY insisted all along he had
been promised crack at Baer
If Hamas beat Lasky. Steve
had soundly drubbed Schmeling at
Philadelphia about a year ago.
Why should We do it all over
again?" he demanded. I'VE beat
Schmeling once and then came up
here and won from Lasky. Now we
want Baer delivered as per our agree
ment."
So the war was on. Harvey began
dickering with the Hamburg promoter,
and yesterday he delivered what he
believes will be sleep producer for
the Gardens Winter plans.
Whether New York or Miami lands
a heavyweight match this Winter
seems to hinge on whether the Gar
denis legal battery can show that
the contract with Hamas applies
around the world.
Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's manager,
enjoyed the battle from the sidelines.
Its o. <. with me-" he said
We're after Baer. If we've got to
beat Hamas to get Baer. all right. 1t
makes no difference whether they
stage 1t here or in Germany"
Evening star., 1934-12-18
v. M. |. COUNCIL GROWS

Thirteen Now on Athletic Body
at Lexington School.
LEXINGTON, Va, December 49,
A reorganization of the v. M. I.
Athletic Council recently has been
approved by Maj. Gen. John A.
Lejeune, superintendent.
The voting strength of the council
has been increased from 8 to IS, with
seven faculty members, three cadets
and three alumni having votes.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
BIG DEER SHOOT.

Shasta, Calf, national forest off,
cials issued bulletin saying 1905 deer
were killed within the preserve during
the 1894 season.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
LEAGUE BASKETERS'
SCHEDULE SPARKLES
Departmental, Community Center
Teams Fill Floors With Big
Games Tonight.

NTUCH attractive basket ball Is
lV listed tonight in league play
here.
In the Departmental loop at the
Central Y. M. C. A. Patent Once is
to meet the Veterans Administration
at 8, Division of Investigation engages
Federal Housing at and Reconstruc-
ton Finance takes on Internal Rev.
enue at 10.
Peoples Drug Stores team battles
the Young Mems Club in Com
munity Center minor league game
at Roosevelt High at $50.
In other Community Center League
encounters Standards will meet Corr's
at 7:30 and Sholl's Cafe tackles
Calvary brakes at $50 at Central
High and Grace Church faces Rem
rocs at tbs and Trinity and KatZ-
man Tailors clash at BIS at Eastern
High.
Olmsted Grill and Renrocs face to-
night at 9:15 on the Eastern High
court. The Grillmen, managed by
SoX Harrington, are after games with
fast, unlimited quints. Call North
2622-J between 6 and pm.
Results:
Community Center League.
Mount Vernon, Al: Pepco, IA.
National Guard, IS; Loew's, %.
Pepco, %: Loew's. 26.
Investigation, 40; National Guard 7.
Olympian, %; Clark, 81,
Tremonts, 81; Flying Eagles, 28.
Delaware & Hudson Coal, 20; Ri
naldi Tailors, IT.
Mount Pleasant, 80; Sigma Tau, %.
Mount Rainier, 81; Thomas Mar
ket, 81.
Heurich Flashes, 40; Boiling Field, 8.
Evening star., 1934-12-18

Here is another OF series OF
articles depicting the great fights
and fighters of the days tplen pugi-
lism pGs young.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
Johnston to Ask Lawyers.

y
" YEP, we're all set to box Schmel-
ing in Germany" Harvey
glibly announced. walter
Rothenberg will be the promoter and
he'll put up a stadium seating $4,000
Well get s25, 900 for our end with the
privilege Of percentage"
Johnston, who had been assuring
newspaper men that Hamas-Schmel-
ing meeting was all but in the bag for
Miami, fumed and sputtered when told
Of Harvey's coup.
"They can't do that" he stormed.
I'VE have Hamas under contract for
his next fight and the contract spec
ifies he can't enter the ring without
our permission. Why, Ill call up my
lawyers"
The Hamas- Harvey combination
has been piqued at Johnston ever
since Hamas won a synthetic dect-
sion over Art Lasky back in october.
After this Johnston blandly an
nounced that Hamas must give Lasky
a return bout, with the winner to
meet Schmeling.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
BOUT IN GERMANY
Prize FOR HARVEY
MuddIes Johnston's Winter
Plans for New York and
Miami Fights.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, December 18.-
nj Charlie Harvey, cagey old fight
Y manager, chuckled behind his
fierce moustachios today. He
had his old foeman, Jimmy Johnston,
Madison Square Garden maestro,
squarely behind the eight ball.
BY signing his boy, Steve Hamas,
the collegiate heavyweight, to meet
Max Schmeling at Hamburg, Ger
many, March 10, Harvey not only
plucked the match right out of John
ston's lap. but thoroughly gummed up
the Gardens well-laid plans for a
heavyweight elimination tournament.
1t had been pretty generally ac-
cepted along Broadway that a Hamas-
Schmeling joust was the plum with
which Johnston and his colleagues
hoped to attract d $150,000 gate to
Miami next February.
Now, with Der Make and the ex-
Penn State star out Of the picture and
with Primo Camera transforming in
South America, it is doubtful If the
Winter season will produce a first
class heavyweight scrap for the Gar
den, let alone take the blanket of a
real contender for Max Baers heavy
weight title.
Evening star., 1934-12-18

Most Profitable Of Sports.
4 CCORDING to the elder Dusek,
~ wrestling is the most sensible
and profitable Of all profess
sional sport careers.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-22

Madrid is boosting taxes on rents.
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ment are ornamental stones, with spec
linens Of all kids of ore and different
kinds of petrified wood and animals.
There also are Indian relics. The stones,
ore and other contributions have been
placed in honor Of dead and living
pioneers. Several have given marble,
granite and other stones inscribed with
names of early settlers in the vicinity
Of old TIBET.
Among the inscribed stones is one
honoring A. r. Barrows, founder of
Ubet in 1881. Another recalls to men,
DRY William Gordon, who came to Mon
tana in 1868 and was the first settler
in Musselshell valley at Martinsdale in
1870. Frank Gaugler, early pioneer, who
founded G~auglersville and was in the
mercantile business at Ubet and Straw,
also are honored.
Other stones r placed in honor of
@. A. Evans, pioneer of 1867 who was
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-22

"A cyclone is a natural phenomenon"
Bill writes further, enjoying the most
robust health. It may be a pleasure
for a man with great will-power and
an iron constitution to study more care
fully into the habits of the cyclone, but
as far as I am concerned, Individually,
I could worry along some way if We
didn't have a phenomenon in the
house from one years end to the other"
At the time the engagement was
made between the Miles City publishers
of the Weekly Yellowstone journal and
Nye, the latter's health was poor. A
close friend of Nye's was living in Miles
City at the time. He was afflicted with
the same complaint of physical illness,
a pulmonary disease, the same, with
which Nye was afflicted. Nye's friend
had found great relief at Miles City
and wrote urging him to come.
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and I am really no SLOUGH of a sougher
either when I get started" The horse
he was riding was hanging by the
breeding from the Dough of a large
butternut tree, waiting for some one
to come and pick him. His brother
disengaged himself from a rail fence.
He approached Bill where he was
hanging wrong end up and his personal
effects were splitting from his pockets.
Bill instructed his brother that when
the wind softened down he wished he
would go and pick the horse. At mid
night a party of friends carried Bill in
to town on a stretcher.
1T was quite an ovation. To think of
a torchlight procession coming way out
there into the woods at midnight, and
carrying me into town on their should
ers in triumph! And yet I was once a
poor boy.
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especially known for his musical talent
and who contributed to music with the
dedication orchestra of Sandy Baker,
another pioneer; Charles Westworth of
Lewistown, B. E. Stack, who settled in
Montana in 1859 and now is a financier
OF Long Beach, Calf, and Thomas
Gregory, who settled on Buffalo creek
near Ubet in 1880.
Stones also honor w. T. Neil, a men,
Der Of the board of Fergus county COM
missioners who built the courthouse
at Lewistown and after whom Garneill
was named; Bridget Logan. first white
woman on the Custer battlefield; B. G..
White, who gave the dedication speech,
and David Lake, deputy supervisor with
the forest service, who took appreciable
interest in the monument. There has
been cemented in the base a plate for
the Shells, who took more interest In
the monument than many others, says
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-22

It has been said of Gordon by those
who knew him intimately in life that
he was able to make ar accurate ap-
praiSal OF a mans ability and character.
He was exacting in his writings and
demanded careful diction from his en-
ployes on the Journal staff. Gordon
had met Nye, but knew of him
through his writings. He felt that if he
was able to keep Nye on the staff"
the Yellowstone Journal would rise to
istic field because of Nye's membership
on the editorial staff. The fact that
Miles City then was comparatively un-
known did not deter Gordon and his
associate from looking with favor upon
the proposition that he come. The only
obstacle was that of wages.
Gordon was public spirited. He ex-
ercised an intense interest in public at
fairs. Possessed of a strong and exact
ing personality, his influence oon be-
gan to be felt in the little frontier vii
lage. In the first municipal election
held in Miles City, on Oct. 81, 1887, be-
fore statehood, Gordon was elected to
the office of city clerk. He continued
that office for many years, and by
some of the ~early-day residents was
considered az the strength and bull
wark" of the municipality as a political
unit.
Looking ahead, as Gordon must have
done at the time the Nye incident arose,
he probably visualized the future trend
of affairs and the part he was to play
in them. A competent man, a good
writer and a capable editor as a men,
Der of the Journal staff would make it
possible for him to devote more time
to civic affairs. It was a good deal
any way a person would look at it.
There was another angle. If Bill
Nye came to Miles City he would bring
along the fame he already had acquir-
ed. Being in ill health, the climatic
conditions would restore his physical
being, a it had his friend who was loud
in his praise of the benefits gained
The community would become recog-
nized as a remarkable health resort
Hundreds of men and women would be
attracted and influenced to establish
their domiciles. Real estate values
would rise. The city would expand. It
would become the mecca for.the liter
airy lights of the country. There was
everything to gain if Bill Nye came tc
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A monument dedicated to pioneers Of
the old town of Ubet and central Mon
tana in general was dedicated at Gar
neill recently by the Ubet and Central
Montana Pioneer society. Erection Of
the monument is the result of con-
tinued effort over a long period by B. F.
Gordon, chairman, and members Of his
committee.
The monument is placed on a cement
foundation six feet wide by 16 feet long.
It consists Of a large granite boulder
Weighing more than two and a half
tons, which was brought from Boulder
by the Great Northern railway.
On each side Of the boulder is q "sen-
tinel" Of sandstone, these specimens
coming from Blood creek in Petroleum
county. Each Of the "sentinels' weighs
nearly 800 pounds and they r relics
Of Q prehistoric age. . ....
Surrounding the base Of the monu-