The Washington times., 1937-01-23


Bob Pastor? Several boxing au-
thoritieS who chatted with the
Brown Bomber on his arrival in
New York to tighten up" for his
bout this coming Friday night,
were not all impressed with his
attitude" They senSed let-doWn
in his spiritual condition. To them
he seemed to be approaching his
Madison Square Garden engage
ment with the young and eager
Pastor as if it were simply another
chore. Perhaps it will prove to
be just that, but Joe's well wishers
outside of his own camp profess
to see him facing, in Pastor, a
dangerous foe.
Detroit's young Jim Norris Is
high on his and his dads hockey
team, the motor capitals Red
Wings, to repeat last years Stanley
Cup triumph. Best tip I've had
for the Santa Anita Handicap is
Stand Pat.
Bookmaker Jim Mclean, from
Glasgow and London. knocked
Jimmy Durante off his Red-Hot-
and-Blue pins the other night by
recounting tales of golf matches
he's played for a thousand pounds
a HOLE! my goodness!" moaned
'Schnozzola,' with five thousand
dollars bet on a hole I'd be sure
thing to tea off in the wrong di-
rection."
Jack Dempsey has hotel at
Miami Beach :. Tom Heeney has
bar on the Beach {. Paul Ber-
lenbach has a golf-driving range
near the Beach . and Joe Ben
jamin is planning" to go from
N. Y. to the Beach!
Times sand people-change.
When philadelphia Jack" O'Brien
was in his light-heavyweight fight.
ing prime, he registered one morn
ing at what was then New York's
snootiest hotel, under his right
moniker of Joseph j. Hagan.
Looking as dapper as any of the
hotels most dapper dressers' and
handing the clerk checks for IL
trunks, Jack and his valet were
shown to an expensive suite and
the boxer settled back to enjoy
himself.
But some fight promoter had
seen him enter the hotel, rubbed
his eyes to be sure he was awake,
and then apprised every sports
editor in town of the phenomena.
But the monocled "clerk" denied
there was any such person as
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien regis
tered there.
Unhappily, one alert-minded re-
porter recalled Jacks regular
name-and when the Mortified
management discovered that Jo-
seph j. Hagan was really the guy
who had just knocked OUT Bob
Fitzsimmons, poor Jack had to
order the valet to repack the
trunks and move on.
Today, that same snooty hotel
would be glad to have as guest a
boxer with one-quarter the Ches.
terfieldian manners and sartorial
elegance of philadelphia Jack"
O'Brien.
Freddie Hume, of the old New
York World, has whispered the
Kentucky Derby winner in James
A. Farley's ear. They said Bobby
Clark would never be the same
without his lifelong stage partner
the late Paul Mccullough, but Chi
cagoans will tell you they've never
seen Bobby as funny as he is with
Fanny Brice-nor Fanny as
screamingly ludicrous as she is
with Bobby.
Kansas City's Frank Wilson
(he's TWA treasurer never
misses an ice hockey match wher
airplane affairs take him to Chi
cago or Nev: York.
Harry Richman knows that
Babe Ruth spoke a bookful Of
truth when he growled (and dur
ing the height of his career. al
that, This sports life is great
Today you're a hero, tomorrow
just a big bum"
For no logical reason. Rich
mans popularity collapsed like a
pin-pricked toy balloon following
that Inflated London-and-returr
hop with Dick Merrill. Sorely
puzzled, the crooner suffered tr
silence.
In recent weeks in the Miam
sector he has been piecing to
gether fragments of his broker
prestige and is definitely on the
way back to his high spot in the
limelight.
Overheard in the paddockS
Whoever was the track manage
possibly H. D. Brown-who trie'