The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-05-29
Big League Sun Glasses
Cost Sixteen Buckaroos

Chicago is pulling all wires to per-
suade Make Jacobs to bring heavy
weight boxing show there in August
-. The sun glasses used by major
league outfielders cost 16 buckeroos.
A man in Boston makes them out of a
special blue lens :. One of the most
excited persons in the Churchill Downs
clubhouse was a blonde whose friend
had given her a G note to bet for him
on Brevity. She slapped $40 on Bold
Ventures nose and held out the other
80 smackers The Giants call Adolf
TO Luque Charley" Joe Alverez,
who tangled with Champion Dick
Shikat in the law courts, is the best
wrestling teacher connected with the
trust.
The boys about the barns have a
new explanation of what happened to
Granville in the Kentucky Derby. Sew
eraI days before the race the son Of
Gallant Fox posed for an advertising
picture. The ad then appeared on the
back of the program. allow could you
expect a boss that was put In such a
spot to do any bettern'n last!" they
argue. at was a jnx" Max
SchmeIing Is an excellent mimic, and
even though he cannot carry his art
to such an extreme that he looks like
a guy who can belt over Joe Louis,
his imitation of Mike Jacobs is enough
t. wow all beholders :. Although he
is being doomed for mayor, Alderman
Eddie Sullivan, one Of Flew York's
more celebrated sportsmen, probably
would settle for a state senator's
berth Lou Gehrig has become a
collector of first editions. He is par
ticularIy proud of swell buy he made
of a set of chaucer while in PhiIadeI-
phia with the Yankees this spring.
Did the papers carry all the details
about why Mickey Haslin held out on
the Bees? The truth seems to be that
the Phillies promised to give him a big
salary boost if he made good by May l.
So they traded him for Pinkey Whit
ney and cash on April 30, and the Bees
offered him considerably less than the
promised pay raise Jockeys swear
that one of their number who did very
we'll rode the first half-mile OF the
Derby with his eyes closed The
real name of Freddie Miller, N. B. A.
featherweignt champion, is Friedrich
Mueller -. Jeff Dickson says that the
animal show is the best attraction Of
fered at Frances Palais de Sports.
Everything is for sale, and customers
depart with lion cubs, snakes and
such things under their arms d.
Lou Comiskey, owner Of the White
Sox, lost 43 pounds recently by going
on a 19-day milk diet.
Could It be true that pooIroom book
makers are being assessed by eollec-
tors for a fund to fight the Dunngan
pari-mutuel bill? The gossip is that
they are threatened with competition
If they don't come across Mike
vetrano, who played football at Mount
Vernon and Dean academy AMI was
a promising amateur heavyweight box
er, now wres.les on the curley cir
cult Nomination for the country's
best track managerial. Matt Daig-
er of Pimlico The Yankees still
remember with awe the strcng-arm
stunts of WalIy Schang, who now
coaches the Indians. Especially the
niqht on the train when Schang reared
"I'm not to be trifled with" and then
tossed Babe Ruth into an upper berth.
Teddy Catalina, one Of the most eel
ebrated of soccer groundkeepers, has
two brothers playing for the Flatbush
Wanderers. Joe Is right half and VIII
lie at left half.