The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-06
HARRY


Mickey Cochrane visions an
American league race SO close that
the winner will have to take no
more than SO games. His De-
troit Tigers copied with 101 in
1884. Tony Canzoneri is
sharpening up at his Marlboro.
N. Y, farm for his contest with
Lou Ambers on May 10. =. Am
bers is at Orangeburg. -. Barney
Ross, who takes a third whack at
Jimmy McLarnin on May %, again
will prepare at Ferndale, in Sulli-
van county, N. Y. James J..
Braddock, who tackles Max Baer
on June IS, is toiling at Loeb Shell
drake, not far away. ). >. Baer is
back at Asbury Park, with the
nearby P. Hal Sims Estate as his
residence. Primo Camera and
Joe Louis, who collide on June rs,
have not yet selected training camp
sites. Neither has McLarnin.
Vernon Gomez and Carl Hub
bell, the games foremost left-hand-
ers, would rather pitch to right
hand hitters. Until they squared
off, Jack Dempsey regarded Gene
Tunney as the least troublesome of
all his challengers. =. When the
knee injury that kept him out of
Columbia's closing football games
last fall required in a baseball
game, AL Barabas, captain-elect of
the 1885 team and star back, sub
mitted to an operation.
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Burke Wagers That No One
VIII Break 800 i'm q. s. Open
T. Although he has never seen the
Oakmont course in Pittsburg, scene
of this years u. s. Open champion
ship on June 6, z, and 8, Billy
Burke, who bagged the title in
1881, has made two bets that no
Cleveland professional has heard
convinces him. :. Tommy Armour
defeated Harry Cooper in a play
Off for the crown at Oakmont in
1927 after they had tied with 301's.
-. A benefit track meet arranged
by Michigan track athletes will de-
fray the expenses of the current
semester for Neree Alix, the two
miller who broke his leg running
against California. Charley Toll,
a 212-poufder from Exeter who
starred with the freshmen, is ex-
pected to prove another Charley
Ceppi at tackle before he closes
his career at Princeton. !.
Major league players say that the
ball is 1ivelier than it was dur
ing. the latter weeks of 1894. =. :.
It seemed to them that it was
deadened toward the flag end of
last season. Gus Mancuso,
the Giant catcher,( stole his first
base in four years during the
course of that one-hit perform
ance by Hal Schumacher against
the Phillies.
Force Drivers to Prepare
For Worst at indianapolis
Crash helmets must be worn by
participants in the 500-mi1e Memo
rial day automobile race at Indian
apolis this year. Carl B. (Rube)
Hoy is the new athletic director at
the University of South Dakota....
Dolph Camilli's young son never
will be a boxer If the Phillies' first
baseman has anything to say about
lie II dAAAO &dAAPDShp AAAAASN
in a. battle with Max Baer, was
CamilIi's brother. Drinking Is
to be under a special ban at Min
nesota's home football games next
autumn. Wade Allen, the Mich
igan State college sophomore who
did 6 feet inches to beat the best
high jumpers in the middle west
in the Butler Relays in March,
turned his ankle in performing for
a newspaper photographer two
days before the Penn Relays. -.
Leon Petit, a southpaw, is prov
ing an excellent relief worker for
Washington in his first major
league trial after IL years in the
minors. Lou Gehrig and Bill
Terry. the best first basemen in
baseball and renowned hitters, are
Off to poor batting starts, this
spring. !. Both insist that the
pitchers are pitching right through
the middle, too.
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