The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1937-08-21
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(By RUSS CowANs)
(By RUSS J CowANs)

would be just as well if wrote off the story of
the Detroit stars OF the current as nightmare
something to forget about Well probably never Gee
team woefuy weak the current editionat least
. hope a''
And to think that the Detroit Stars. once the oustand
ing team in the middlewes have sunk to position har
from the class rooms Horrible proceedings e''
No club, with the possible exception Of 81 ro,;s haa
looked as bad as the Detroit Stars The fielding has
strocious the pitching terrible and the hitting has re-
minded you OF good comic strip.
Since the arly part of the season the Detroit c,t
been riding the toboggan Up until the massacre th
past weekend the club had won two and lost 10 with lea
que clubs very poor record for town which i co
nzed the best baseball city in the countrv not e
ing New York and Chicago.
Bat the local fans want good ball club. and that's
Just 1ha Owner Jim Titus does not have
He has taken bunch of sandotters and tried ~ con
vert hem INTO league players. Cheap labor never paws
in the long run. r'
The nfield reminds one of seive with its ragged
play he outfield, with the exception of MANAGER
Searnes ambles about though they are in maze The
pitchers with the exception of Dimp Miller have as much
on the ball as the average fourteen-year-od kid
Actually the team is so rotten that wouldn't spend
the price OF admission to them in action
But let's forget about the Stars and think about foot
ball Joe LOUIS Henry Armstrong, Flora Lomax Clarence
Hunter and others of topnotch cabre in the field of
sports
lere's no doubt that you have heard about the re-
cent Donnybrook between George Godfrey Black Shadow
eiperNille, and Hank Hankson Los Angeles heavy
"'h anu you We prODSDly ncaru OF the DOttlet throw
ing 'sode which If accounts to be believed, caused
ee tion of hostes, (f they could have been called
hoSieS between the two behemoths by Max Baer for
mer heavyweight champion, in a Los Angeles ring.
Y seems, from press accounts from the West Coast,
mat one OF the FANS Disguised with the slohful actions
The two woudbe fighters plus the comic carryng-ons of
&eheaved vhiskey bottle from the recesses of
me balcony said bottle striking of the posts of the
mig me shattered fragments scattering among the ring
safe specators including number of prominent cinema
SITS Referee Baer halted the bout during the scramble
and awarded the verdict to Hankson technical knock
out
nedore Watts pointed out by occupants of the
bale seats the cuprt who tossed the whiskey gren-
AIDE lie arrested, marched off to Jail and held
charge of assault with deadly weapon Otis Flenney,
VINO was arrested with Watts absoyed of blame but
held as a material witness against his compariot.
George Godfrey is the international Boxing Fedora
awarded this somewhat and bedraggled after
ne rad disposed of the ancient and decrept Pierre
Charles He has been alternating for the past couple of
years but has out of his extended sumbers now
mat he members of the Caufower craft have suddenly
been tossed into field of clover. And Big Gawge al
ways did like to rock in the fields of clover even when
ne was travelling the tank circuit
And speaking about George recalls to mind the Bar
on Leperve, manager of the former resident OF Mo-
bile The good Baron could talk long and loud about the
efficiency of his protege in the ring and at the same time
sell George down the river to the gangsers This was
definitely illustrated in the shindg between George and
Primo Camera the Ambng Alp, four or five years ago
IN Philadelphia ring And the Baron caustic in his
remarks about anyone who limited that he had
bought tank for George to dive in Why, would not
tolerate such actions the part of Godfrey the good
Baron would shout
The that Scotty Montieth, matchmaker for the