The Washington times., 1936-08-10
SPORTS Notes
BY FRANK 'BUCK" O'NEILL

NEW YORK CITY. Aug. 10.
Meandering over the sports trail
1t looks as if the American
Olympic committee and affiliated
parties are intent upon seeing
Nellie home to the old ladies'
home, far from the maddening
thrOngs strife so dear to the heart
of our little Nell 1t has al
ways been the policy of this writer
to let stuffed shirts glisten on the
dummies in the window, but there
is always the breaking point.
From the days when this agent
played summer ball under the
good old Irish name of Fred Mel
son to preserve an amateur stand
ing that Melted passing glory, a
record or two and a few medals
long since lOSt-this amateur
business has also been a laugh .
a somewhat hollow laugh, but
laugh just the same &c. Eleanor
Holm is writing her own stuff, it
seems, and doing right well -.
she is not competing and, if the
writer remembers some of the
yammering of the amateur Off
Gals, you could write if you didn't
compete in the sports of which
you wrote -. there was Bill Til
den, who told the United States
Lawn Tennis Association where
it headed in he was a gate at
traction E. Jim Thorpe, the great
Indian athlete drank his fire
water en- route to Stockholm and
all through the 1912 games >. he
was a gate attraction -. other
cases might be cited 4. maybe
Eleanor Holm Jarrett wasn't a
gate attraction maybe she
broke a few rules that have been
broken before but I'll be
switched if those boys are doing
their little selves proud or other
wise in trying to see our little
Nellie home.
Sid Mercer. that ageleSs Broad
way parsonage, sees Sharkey as a
possible winner over Joe Louis
when the boys meet pretty soon
E. Louis is inviting righthand
shots to the chin by sticking his
head up when he loads a left. .
That's one way to get SOcked out
Jack Doyle is asking, in COM
mon with many others, "What hap
pened to Washington" Not so
long ago Jack quoted the GriffS at
4 to to finish third Doyle will
mop up if the Boston Red SOx
finish fourth or worse. The bet
tors from out of town laid in the
dough in heavy chunks on the Gro
niniteS.
frankie Frisch can't get off a
Canadian three-cent piece if you
believe the chatter passed about
by National League fans. The re-
cent squirt of the Giants has routed
all thoughts of selling the club
from the mind of Horace StOneham
There is a syndicate with
coolies of dough waiting for the
Junior StOneham to decide to sell.
The Broadway spaghetti eaters
convened at Gene LeOne'S on West
48th Street last night Sid Mer-
Ger, the sports cOmmentar. .
Marty Forkins, theatrical manager
and fiStic promoter. Willie
Lewis, former welterweight cham
piOn of the world, Mickey Walker,
former middleweight champion of
the world, and one of the all-time
greats. Kittie RindquiSt, a FOllieS
beauty in the days of the great
Ziegfeld. They sat around and
greeted their fans at the board of
their host.
Red KresS playing first. second,
short or third; Bluege does the
same thing. Pretty valuable birds
to have around on any ball club
But Father Time marches on
the double. They can't last for
ever and day. {. Personal nOmina-
ton for aIl-Star ranking as center
fielder. Earl Averill of Cleveland
Next to him. of course, Ben
Chapman.