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Evening star., 1937-07-11
Kilran Fighting Last Battle Arcel Master Handler of
Catching Whoppers on Thin
Line Becoming Popular Game
Among Florida Tarpon Fans

fiimsy stun for one Of those big boys.
Why you can't even drive the hook
through a tarpon's mouth with that
stun. Your flsh has to swallow the
hook before you've got him on, and
you've got TO catch him still-fishinR.
You couldn't troll with stuff like that"
Nevertheless It's true. Dunham did
land 56-pounder on 2-thread line
In case you aren't familiar, 2-thread
line has a breaking test OF pounds
per thread, which makes that line g.
pound test It's quite a stunt to
catch tarpon on that. OF course the
only thing you can do with a big tarp
on that kind Of tackle is to lead HIM
ever 50 gently. One straight pull and
he's gone. And you can't use any drag
on your reel. It must be on free
spool all the time.
Bell Is Captivated.
A BIG snook Of 20 pounds or more
will bust 12-thread line like pack
thread, and a fair-sized tarpon Of IS
pounds tthey're the active kind,
doesn't think anything of cracking
a rod in half and walking off with 200
yards OF 18-thread line. All of which
makes Dunham's record the more I'M
pressive. 1t figures out at % pounds
to the thread, that catch OF q S.
FOUNDER on 2-thread line, but it's
purely stunt fishing. Any man not
as expert as Jack Dunham or John
Mahoney never would, in so years of
fishing, land a fair -sized tarpon on
2-thread stuff. Mahoney landed 106-
pound tarp last Winter on 6-thread
line.
Commissioner OF Fisheries Frank r.
Bell doesn't see how they do it. After
his initial experience with tarpon in
Ten Thousand Islands waters Che was
a guest OF Eastern Air Lines, he
doesn't see how they are landed on
any tackle
They're the gamest babies I've ever
run up against" he said. And the
scrappiest fighters OF 'em all. I've
caught plenty OF big trout and SAL
mon. but that tarp is the boss Of EN-
all"
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WHITES MEN.

White to Play and Mate In Three.
A HDRADE'S three-mover, problem
= No. "a. is solved by the correct
key: B-QR3. Some combinations are
:. R-QR2, Kt-B7; l . B-Kt4
2 Kt-B6; R-QKt2, 2 BxR, etc.
Problem No. ~. a ger by Brian Harley,
ssurrenders to the correct key: Kt-Kt3
Whites move Kt-K4 is defeated by r.
Solutions to problem No. S. by cristof-
beth. n J.: SET, Alton coppage. JACK
md: and. 81 sinGs &c. w W Allen failed to get his
the correct key will be given next Sunday.
Chesspourri.
CAMUEL RESHEVSKY, United
States Of America champion lost
his final Game to E. Book of Finland
in the interna tional masters tourna-
ment at Kemeri, Latvia. thus tieing
for first prize with Salo Flohr of
Czechoslovakia and v. Petrow OF
Latvia, each scoring 1875.
The international aces leave
Kemeri to battle anew at the
Paris World Fair, official play
to start on July IA and continue
fortnight.
Norval Wigginton extends an invi-
tation to the public to engage in
casual matches Wednesday, 8 pm.
at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside
Hotel.
Walter F. James, secretary and edi-
tor for the Correspondence Chess
League Of America. 2l9 East Main
street, Cherokee, Iowa, announces q
grand national c. c. l.. A. champion
ship tourney, beginning September !
This column ,oelcon,es chess
neDs. hnmor, and pie,Os, and
prints chess neus e1clusipely.
A selt-dddressed, stamped en-
celope brings q reply to queries.
(eBnDPish% Suiy II iA84. ~ Yanl Miller !
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Fails II Times.

WE LEARNED about this ultra
W light tackle stun on a flying trip
to Florida made via Eastern Airlines'
luxurious 2l-passenger ships which
will land you at Miami airport six
and three-quarter hours after you
leave Washington. Over at Everglades.
Fla, 80 miles west Of Miami, one of
the hot fishing spots of the west coast,
Mrs. Claus Senghaas, wife OF the boss
Of the Everglades Inn, took scale of
the big board that covers the wall.
"Fifty-six pounds, he weighed" she
said, "and he was caught on two
thread line. Look here (and she took
out book crammed with autographs),
here 1t is" That line appeared like
the f1imsy cotton thread your wife
uses to sew a button on your shirt
cum as you gulp a cup Of coffee.
But it took a little conversation with
Carlton Smith, one of the Everglades
guides, TO get he real lowdown an such
fishing. Durham lost u fish before
he landed that 56-pounder,' said
"Smitty."
Those tarp busted his tackle all
over the place before he could get one
up," he laughed. You can't land tar
pom consistently on anything lighter
than l2-thread line and that's pretty
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Officials to See It.


THIS contest will be witnessed not
only by the coaches OF the South
eastern group but by all the oficials
who work for this body. What they see
Will be supplemented by slow-motion
moves. AS a matter Of fact, the Off
clals themselves will put on a show
under direction of Arthur Hutchens.
regarded as about the ablest Official in
Deep Dixie. These arbters, for ex-
ample, will stand in the wrong posi-
ton on one play. And on the next
play OF similar character the oficials
will be where they should be.
There will be demonstrations of
legal and illegal interference with
forward-pass receipt, and in general
all flaws, shortcomings, ignorances
and oversights which have marked and
marred the offlciating Of a foot ball
game will be illumined in actual
play with. of course, moving pic
lures later to be studied.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Bought Out Of Jail.

MO SOONER had he reached that
4 city when Sullivan, misled by the
reports of his Smith battle, agreed to
meet him. Jake trained at a road
house outside of the city until the
Summer and then headed for New
Orleans. where he and Sullivan finally
came to terms.
Police tried vainly to halt their
bout and they were forced to 60 to
Rlchburg. After the battle, police set
after them again and Kilrain lodged
back to New Orleans.
They really were after Sullivan,
Kilrain said. because he always car
r1ed a big roll of bills and they could
get much more out of him than me.
But they couldn't catch up with John
and they had no trouble catching
me.
Il was taken back to Mississippi,
fined 5000 and sentenced to two
months in Jail for breaking the law
by fighting. In those days prisoners
were farmed out and before / even
reached the Jail, my friends bought
me from the county for about 80 cents
a day and back l went to New Or
leans. l still was prisoner when
I fought in New Orleans for $1,000
and licked some one whom can't
recall"
Since Kilrain fought for small
purses and often, because of draws,
for nothing, he made but little money
in the ring. AS result, he had to
keep fighting until he was 81, but he
retired after he lost a six-round de-
cision to Jim Corbett and was knocked
out by Frank Slavin, whom he pre-
viously had defeated, in a bout at
Coney Island.
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Matulewicz, Baker Box.

HIGH POINT, N. c.. July 10 LP.-
Ray Matulewicz, twice national in
tercollegiate champion while at Duke.
will square of against Russell tSlug-
geD Baker Of Baltimore In a light
heavyweight fight here next Friday
night.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
ANOTHER "JESS OWENS"
Ewell, Pennsylvania Schoolboy,
Star Sprinter. Jumner.

LANCASTER. Pa. (P). - Norwood
Barney Ewell. hailed as the Jesse
Owens OF Lancaster High School,"
won every track and field event he
entered in the 1887 season-the 100
and 220 yard dashes and the broad
Jump-and set records in many. He
was beaten only once in 1885 and
once last year.
Lancasters flying ebony" has
clocked in 96 for the 100, 2l.4 in the
220 and 264 in the 220 low hurdles.
He will be graduated from high
school next February.
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Claims He Beat Sullivan.

Il
Kilrain. as he became known
when he reached manhood, in a IS
round bout fought under London
prize ring rules and 100-degree July
sun at Richburg, Miss, in 1889. Kill
rain always has denied that.
Until l became old and lenient,"
he explained, Il always was very bit
ter about the outcome of my Sullivan
fight. I resented the fact that the
world remembered me as the man
who was licked by John L. and forgot
that l won most Of my $50 matches.
L always have, and always will,
insist that I licked Sullivan that
frlghtfully hot day When We reached
the seventy-ffth round both of us
we're exhausted, but he was by far the
weaker. l was determined to end
matters in that round and I hastened
out to do so. John l.. was slow COM
ing out from his corner and just as
was getting set for my final blow
some one in my corner tossed in
sponge. That ended the s.lJ and
that unauthorized act disqualified me
! never learned whether the second
who did the tossing was overeXcitable
or in Sullivan's pay.
For years after I pestered. in
eulted and tried to shame Sullivan
into accepting another match, but he
never would. He knew I licked him
that day and would do it again. Six
years after Richberg almost had
him.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
TEACHES GR|DMEN
TO VIOLATE RULES
Georgia Tech Coach Plans
Novel Contest to Set o.
ficiaIs Right.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

~ ETROSPECTIVELY vie " n z
l. the glaring errors and lack Of
n consistency in the work Of
L y Southeastern Conference foot
ball officials last year. Bill Alexander,
dean Of coaches of this organiza ton,
decided something ought to be done
about it. Thus minded he hit upon
an idea which herewith is commend
ed to the foot ball coaches OF the
Nation.
What Bill decided to do-with the
hearty approval of his fellow coaches
in the conference-was to assemble
his Georgia Tech squad on August 20
and teach his first and second elevens
all the illegal and slightly off-color
plays he knows. Incidentally, there
are many coaches who are equipped to
do this more effectively than Honest
Bill. At any rate, the Yellowjackets
Will 60 Summing through the foot
ball rules for several days under
Alexis direction, and then, when they
are as thoroughly versed in all known
infractions, evasions, errors Of omis-
sion and commission that can be
thought up, an Illegal foot ball game
will be played.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Keres at MarEate,

PAUL KERES, champion OF Estonia,
was dark horse in the 1887 in
ternational masters tournament at
Margate, England
T. H, Tylor Of Oxford was a more
renowned star, but the youthful Esto-
mans genius as chess wizard Of the
Morphy class probably awed the
Oxonion, as the following game should
have been a draw.
1ylor resigned on the twenty-fifth
move.
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LONG SHOT IN FRONT.

DEL MAR. Calf, July 10 (P.-The
first long shot of the Del Mar track
meeting romped home today when
Miss Kathleen Hoffman's Crystal
Speed won the second raca to pay
e64.40.
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BRADDOCK IN BUSINESS.

NEWARK, N. j., July 10 (P).-For-
mer Heavyweight Champion James j.
Braddock is going into the real estate
business. Papers Of incorporation for
the Braddock Holding Co. have been
filed with the Essex County clerk.
Evening star., 1937-07-11

BY PAUL ]. MILLER, JR.,
Americas Authority on Social Chess,
A. c. F. Battle at Chicago.
EAD1NG experts of the science

ol CHeS Will convene at Cni-
caeo on or about August "a to
compete in the thirty-eighth
consecutive annual tournament OF the
American Chess Federation, the most
traditional national organization of
its kind.
For II days the stars will vie for
the national open title in what has
been designated as the Paul Morphy
Memorial Tournament in honor of
the Tooth birthday anniversary of the
youthful American who vanquished
the Old World masters when he was
scarcely 81 years Of age, thus proving
that the New World could produce
talent to excel that of Europes cham
pions. endowed with the glorious heri-
tage Of a thousand years of chess play.
A minimum purse Of $1,000
has been assured. The prize
money will be apportioned 50
per cent to the masters section,
30 per cent to the consolati lion
section and 20 per cent TO the
class A section.
The officers of the federation and
the local Chicago committee are
working diligently to achieve the
greatest open tournament America
has fostered.
This is the tenth A. c. F. tourna-
ment to be held In Chicago, and any
patrons Of national chess may con-
writing Lewis j. Isaacs, 724 West
Roosevelt drive, Chicago.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
To Chances Memory.

THEY had been gathered to rekindle
the memory OF Chance. to whom
plaque will be put up at Wrigley
Field. The affection in which they
held Husk. as they used to call him,
Is as marked today as it was in his
lifetime.
Chance. Of course. was one of the
great managers of all time. He
wasn't a builder of teams, as Con-
ME Mack is, and John McGraw and
Miller Higgins were. The Cubs he
led to the heights had been lined
up for him by Frank Seeley, his pred
ecessor But Chance fired them with
his own blazing spirit AS a manager,
he was Of type that has all but
vanished from base ball.
He bossed a hard bitten crew be-
cause, among other things, he was
just a little rougher than they could
be on any given occasion. He could
lick any man on the team-there were
those who thought he could have
licked any man in the world, includ-
ing the prize ring champions OF his
time If he had put his mind to it
and none of his players ever took any
liberties with him, on or of the field.
Always Ready TO Fight.
RASE BALL was a rougher game in
those days than it is today. The
modern game has nothing to offer
that parallels trip around the cir
cult of a team like the Cubs of the
old era when they were pennant-
bound and had to combat not only
the enemy teams, but hostile crowds
as we'll Maybe the crowds of those
days weren't any more interested in
base ball than the crowds are today.
But they took their base ball
with \ deadly intensity that is
missing in the stands today.
Even the progress of team from
its hotel to the ball park likely was
to be fraught with action especially
In towns like Cincinnati and St.
Louis and Pittsburgh.
The players dressed at the hotel
and rode to the park in horse drawn
buses, and they we're considered fair
targets for abuse. overripe fruit and
brickbats along the way. They had
to be ready for fight at any time
and they were.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Not Without Friends.

RUT, as sometimes developed, they
weren't without friends in hos
tile towns. Evers told me the other
day of an amusing angle of the Cubs
visit to New York in 1908 for the
play-off game with the Giants. As
q result of Fred Merkle's failure to
touch second in a game between the
teams there on September % of that
year-plus an amazing drive by the
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Protected by GangSters.

was theirs-but they still had to
negotiate the distance from the dia-
mond to the club house in center field
The mob, sullen now, swirled about
them
Right around us was a ring Of the
hardest looking characters ever saw"
Evers said. Il was walking with
Chance and I remarked to him that II
looked as though We would have to
night out way into the clubhouse, and
he just nodded and stuck out his chin
and knew he was ready. So were all
the rest of us.
They might get US down and
kick the daylights out Of rs but
they were going to know they
were in a fight.
But nothing happened. Beyond
the ring of hard looking guys the
crowd hooted and called us names at
every step, but no punches where
thrown. Finally We reached the club
house steps and one of these fellows
smiled at me and said:
"All right, John. Go right ahead
and we'll hold this mob OIL. We
didn't want to Sc you beat the Giants,
but we admire you for the way YOU
did it and we wanted to be sure
nothing happened to you"
L took close look at him-and
recognized him. A cop? No. I can't
recall his name, but he was one of
the outstanding gang leaders of the
time-and he and his boys had ap-
pointed themselves as our body-
guards"
Copyright, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Was Sculling Champion.

LIE INVESTED his savings in
- small hotel in Baltimore and all
was lost when it was destroyed by
IRE several years later. He then
coached the Ariel Boat Club in Bal
timore for six years. for he was the
Junior national sculling champion be-
fore he entered the prize ring, and
when he lost that position, he re-
turned to his old home in Somerville,
Mass, where he became custodian of
q playground. About II years ago,
he moved to Quincy. to live with his
daughter Mary and her husband, Dr.
John Reynolds, both now dead. Jake
became a watchman at the Fore River
Shipyard, but retired two years ago.
at the age of rs. About four months
aao, it was discovered that he had
an incurable ailment, but it was kept
under control until few weeks ago,
when he was removed to hospital
Despite his ailment, old Jake is rs
straight today as he was in his prime
He stands 5 feet 101a inches and
weighs about 200, just bit more
than he did for the great John L.
Time he's whitened his crisp hair and
his handlebar mustache, but the only
Evening star., 1937-07-11

marks Of his ancient profession are
his knobby ears and his hard, gnarled
fists.
He has but little respect for modern
boxers, and when you ask him to
compare himself with Joe Louis, his
answer is the same as the ones he
gave for Tunney. Dempsey and Jack
johnson: Hes nothing but a man,
amt he? OF course, I could have
licked him when I was in my prime.
They're different breed of cats, much
too weak for the bare-knuckle boys
of my day
Evening star., 1937-07-11

HURLER FOR MILWAUKEE,.
MILWAUKEE,. July 10 [P.-Oficials
Of the Milwaukee club have announced
the signing Of Carl Danny Boone,
veteran Toledo Mudhen pitcher.
Evening star., 1937-07-11

~ HERE gathered in Chicago the
other day four members Of the
old Cubs whom Frank Chance
4 led to fame that will last as
long as the game of base ball itself:
Johnny Evers. Joe Tinker, Mordecai
Brown and Jimmy Archer. And as
one who saw them at their peak,
drew terrific bang out Of seeing
them again. These men were OF the
iron breed-rugged of body and
spirit-and still are. Tinker, for
instance, was pretty close to death
not so very long ago. But, seeing him
now, you'd never suspect it.
I've got to go little SLOW" the
doctors tell me-" Joe said, but I'm
long way from the wind-up."
And by way Of proving 1t, he
put on \ uniform and worked
out with his old sidekick, Evers,
before = Giant-Cub ball xame.
1t was great to see them together
again-to hear them talk about the
old days. Evers and Tinker telling
about the feud between them that
lasted for couple Of years. yet never
interfered with the smoothneSs of
their play around second base
Archer still shaking his head in
admiration over the pitching feats of
Brown-and Brown saying that
Archer had the greatest throwing arm
OF any catcher he ever saw.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
ny w. n. McCALLUM.

THEY'RE going in for stunt fish,
ing in = bigger way than ever
before around Florida this
4 year. Down where the tarpon
roll through all the passes tsummer
Ia the time for those big babies), Jack
Durham. crack angler from the Miami
Rod and Reel Club has set what must
be fairly near a world record with the
capture Of 56-pound tarpon on
2-thread line He also has landed a
50-pound sailfish on 3-thread line,
and he's still trying. It's getting so
that the poor fish won't have much
chance against cotton thread If expert
fishermen like Dunham and John Ma
honey keep on rolling up records on
light tackle.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Holds Corbett in C0ntempt.

THE veteran has respect, however,
for all Of his contemporaries ex-
cept the late Jim Corbett. He dis
misses the Dancing Master" the
father of the present style of fisti-
cutting, as "a jabbing runner who
wouldn't stand up and fight like
men"
kllraln is remembered as the first
to throw hooks and bring up upper
cuts, style that often was ridiculed
by the veterans Of his day All of his
school used straight punches and few
OF them could stand up under the
solid right-hand hooks he loved to
aim over their hearts or the back of
their necks.
The race is getting weaker" he
claims. L can see that especially
IN the way the present-day fights are
conducted. We had no pity in my
day, but now. it seems. they make the
rules OF the ring to protect the weaker
man.
In the days of the bare-knuckle
f1ghtlng under London prize rules. we
believed that no quarter should be
given or accepted, that a fight was
contest to determine which was the
better man. 1t may be that today's
nehts are as good as the older ones
as far as science is concerned, but
the fighters stamina seems to be
missing.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Europe's Legion of Honor.

EurOpe'S Legion OF Honor.
R1RTHED under Southern skies at
Mississippi State College, the
honorary chess fraternity OF Chi Eta
Sigma numbers among its membership
the truly great players, writers, authors
and patrons Of the royal game"
honor No Bic BIDS Dte' to the % OMEGA ne Alpha National
s4o1n esnssF tnsHn esi Eta hs w.ssr
SfsTy in 0Fhs'a e.. World ID ri ss!t ehfis
~ CHESS KssoGistl9n and sdtS5 Gf th.
tired United States champion; J; G. Thomp-
son: q former editor OF The Texas Chess hes.
n: .s FRANK .nd y Ghsss
Alekhin, ex-world champion. and Philip
Merphy Ps:r na
illustrate the character OF the personnel
Of the "chess legion Of honor"
Honor bids to Chi Eta Sigma in
1897 as approved by the candidature
Committee for European knights Of
the chessboard include:
Austria--:Prof, Albert Becker. z, Ellis
Belsium~Edmond Lancel; .Czechoslovakia
-Salo Flohr: Estonia-Paul Keres; France
H. Delaire and 1. LIE Lionnais; Ger
many-Max Blumich and Kurt Richter;
Holiand-G. G. A. oskam and Dr. Max
Euwe; Hunsary-Istvan Abonyi and Lazola
10th; Italy-Marchese s. Rosselli del
S. 6. Tartakover; Russia-s Wainstein;
Spain-Dr. r. Rey Ardid; sweden-K.
Berndtsson. and G. Stahlberg. and in
Joiner.
Membership in Chi Eta Sigma is
the most distinctive honor award in
chessdom. Honor bids are extended
solely on the basis Of merit independ.
ent Of - ee nationality.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
DYING, STILL BELIEVES
HE WHIPPED SULLIVAN
Winner of Nearly $50 Fights Resents Being Re-
membered as Man Who Was Beaten by
John L-Disdains Moderns.
BY BILL KING.

~ U1NCY, Mass, July 10.-The
most frustrated Roman Of
them all. the gladiator your
granddaddies knew as Jake
Kilrain. today is battling an incurable
silment that physicians say soon will
dash his last earthly hope, his desire
to live until he is go
He has only two years to go, but his
opponent is far more deadly than
any of the $50 pugilists he faced dur
Ing his is years In the rings OF the
pre- -Queensbury days
Born in Greenport. N. Y. in 1859,
as John Joseph Killion. he has enter
tained many hopes during his long
life and realized few of them His
last one appears to be as fleeting as
his first, his overwhelming ambition
to defeat the great John L. Sullivan.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Length of Rounds Varied.

ALWAYS have wondered what
your modern boxer would do If
ne was forced to stand the punish
ment we took as a matter OF course.
We decided championships on the
turf and the contestants wore only
lolncloths, socks and spiked shoes,
Anything was permitted, BOXING.
wrestling and kicking, stamping and
eye-goueing, too, if the referee didn't
see 1t, the theory being that a man
who claimed to be champion should
be able to protect himself under any
circumstances with the weapons ma
ture gave him, his bare fists.
Rounds were decided by a knock
down or throw and the average
round lasted three or four minutes.
although I saw many that lasted only
few seconds, when some one landed
lucky punch, or as long as a half.
hour, when the battlers were stalline.
Very few Of the gloved boys ever
have been really angry with his op-
ponent. In my day we hated each
other when we fought, for we were
whipped into a frenzy by the taunts
and jeers of the spectators, many of
whom paid as high as $500 to see a
championship fight, and we went at
each other like wounded gamecocks.
Everything was offense in those days.
Seldom did a bare-knuckler try to
defend himself and, as a result, there
were many openings that the careful
fighters of today would guard against"