The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-05-21

weight; Joe CLICK,
famed Brooklyn buttOnhole maker;
Bing COnley, middleweight, George
Levine, Brownsville welterweight;
Frank Moran, Old-time heavyweight,
and too many more to be mentioned.
Ken Sanbach will not play pro
football. The Princeton quarterback
will join a Chicago business firm
this summer. Eleven of the
twenty-five soccer players who COM
peted for the English cup at Wem-
bley stadium, are Scotchmen, four
performing for Sunderland and Sew
en- for Preston North End The
boyhood ambition of Jimmy John
ston, the Garden boxing gent who so
often is tossed to the lions, was to
be a lion tanner John Finn,
whose dad has been a cop on Brook
lyn's hard-bitten Sand street for
thirty-one years, has signed to play
first base for Altoona. The best
tip as to whether Lou Chiozza will
do for the Giants may be had by
watching him protect his foul line.
Third basemen who can go to
the right the way he does have
little else to worry about Pitch
er Lancaster; who was drafted by
the Phillies could have been had
by Brooklyn last summer. Casey
Stengel pleaded with the directors
to buy him for five G's less than
the $4,000 Casey now gets for not
managing second-division outfit.
One of Hank Marines Rrst bowling
pupils was Fritz Crisler. That was
when the Princeton football coach
was crack end on ChicagO's power
house outfit of 1921 Roland
Hulshart, a bit of a kid from Bel
Air, Md. (yOur correspondents own
home gr0unds), may startle sprint
ing champions within q season or
two. frankie TerranOva, New
York scrapper knee high TO a grass
hopper, clicked with Chicago fight
fans and will return there Reg
ers HOrnsby's early season batting
was no surprise TO the Browns man
ager. Last summer he conflded that
American League pitching was so
bad that he could hit 800 standing
on one leg with one eye shut.
Now that they have local fans In
terested in their Jersey City and
Newark farms the Yankees and
Giants ought TO put international
League scores on the Polo grounds.
Additions to the Like father like
son" hall of fame-Eddie Collins Jr.,
blasting Ivy league pitchers to all
corners for Yale; Coach Tuss Nc
Laughry's boy, John, looking like
the best prospect on his old mans
Brown team; Ted Meredith's young
ster running for Mercersburg; Law
son Robertson's kid doing the same
for Lower Marion High Even
though he'd make as good a man as
any for the job, Jack Dempsey
should quit yelling that the nation
needs a boxing car. The truth Is
cars ruin sports just as they do
everything else. One way or another
they're always protecting special In
terests and-as any student Of COM
mission or one man sports control
very well knows-the eventual suf-
ferer is that age-old burden bearer,
the average citizen.
Barney Ain, the basketball author
ity, refereed game at Sing Sing last
winter. One fan, in particular, did
not like Mr.. Aims style of officiating.
Every time foul was called on q
member of the Lawes university
quintet this ardent r0oter would yell
'sRobber!"
Later MIR. Ain, who delights In pro-
viding Woodworking reporters with
rare items, investigated the Sing Sing
undergrad's status. Found he was
in as a fourth offender. burglary.