The Washington times., 1936-02-03
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By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

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Calling a few shots:
Goose Goslin spent a whole
day in Washington looking for
someone to drive with him to
Florida.
Clark Griffith had to pony
up about $4,000 in taxes Of
the $250,000 he pulled down
from Boston for Joe Cronin.
Thomas L. Farley, brother of
the Postmaster General, has
been named a deputy boxing
commissioner for New York State.
There are three sets of riding
brothers at Hialeah-the Ira and
Carl Hanfords, Joe and Sammy
Renicks and George and Bobby
'WatSonS.
Returning the Compliment
Umpire Bill MCGOWAN declares
the three greatest sets of eyes he
: has known in baseball belonged
to Iris Speaker, Joe Sewell and
Max Bishop, and he hopes they
can say the same for him.
Tony Lazzeri and Ben Chap
man, of the Yankees, can't take
it. Each has snubbed the con-
tract submitted him. Chapman
just naturally had a bad year in
1885, but injury befell Lazzeri.
Since the Braves changed their
name to the Bees" the only In
tuns left in all of Boston town
are George Marshall's Red Skins.
Commissioner George Allen,
Senator Pat Harrison and Joe Tu-
multy satin on the Warm
Springs charity wrestling matches
Thursday at the Arena and
three times had wheStler
dumped out of the ring at their
feet.
Tow Back to Ring
Bobby Tow comes out Of tenn
porary retirement following an
operation on his right shoulder,
to fight a 5-rounder with Ed
Slake in Chicago next Friday
night. The latter k.o'd Joe Daley
in the first round during a heavy
weirht tourney in Chi last Tues
day.
In Tom Yawkey's New York Of
flee is a autographed photo
graph of Joe Cronin, inscribed:
ITO the best boss in the world"
Wonder what he would call the
man who gave him all his big
chances, Clark C. Griffith.
The rumor in Baltimore that
z Joe Louis would fight at the
r Municipal Stadium there May 80
hardly comedies with his re-
ported reason for Side-stepping
Braddock in September-not
wishing his 1886 income to soar
SO high he'd have to kick back
half of it to the Government.
Training Camp Change
The Washington Griffmen will
not live at the hotel in Orlando
originally planned as their hos
pice, but across the street where
the dining facilities are more to
the liking Of Owner Clark Grit
fifth.
Kessler Johnston, jr., one Of the
winners of a season ticket to the
local ball park in The washington
Times-Baseball Hall Of Fame con.
/; test, is only a 14-year-old boy.
Sports minded folks are having
to take their choice between at
tending the Catholic University
Orange Bowl banquet at the Will
lard tonight or seeing AL Delaney
and Joe LippS step it off at the
Arena.
"Chick" Kenney, publicity coun-
sci to Catholic University's ath-
letic department who did such a
~ swell job throughout the football
season. is now Wincheling for The
Bulletin, local one-Sheet. Happy
sailing, Chick"
Miami Gets Its Stadium
Uncle Sam has loaned the city
Of Miami $25O,00O with which to
build a municipal stadium on the
site which is now Moore Field and
where future Orange Bowl games
will be played.
After IA years in the major
leagues where he made the en-.
Viable reputation Of having struck
out but lis times, Joe Sewen is
back in his old home town Of
Tuscaloosa, Ala.-in the hardware
business.
A month before the major
league teams begin to converge
on their Southern training
quarters, the order of the finishes
next fall is predicted as follows:
AMERICAN Detroit,
New York, Cleveland, Boston, Chi
cago, Washington. st. Louis.
Philadelphia.
NATIONAL LEAGUES.
Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, Chi
cago, Brooklyn, Cincinnati. Bos.
ton, Philadelphia.
Beermen Score