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eagerly by flock of money-minded
managers on graduation day. A mere
280-pounder, Tiny carried only raw
courage and a surplus of beef into
the game, but cute plotting carried
him through several minor tiffs.
Then came his collision with
lanky Art DeKuh, a ho-hum
New York fighter at that time,
and Art flattened the Haskell
tackle hastily.
Roebuck, as you know, turned to
the rassling racket and found it con-
Slderably softer. He Immediately
bought one of those vest-pocket auto
mobiles and proved a sensation. The
graphing game Is saturated with guys
who found professional boxing a bit
more discerning
Add Warren, Mutt Womer, Norment
Quarles and Ray Matulewicz, among
others, were Southern college boxers
who took the big step. Quarles now
Is regarded as rather pleasing light
weight, but he never has given title
holders headaches.
MatuleWicz, a product OF Duke and
former intercollegiate light-heavy-
weight champion, currently is COM
pillng a record that threatens to
eclipse Gene Tunney's. But the oppo-
sltlon thus far has been hand-picked
and Ray is expected to get his dose
when the caliber of his foes improve.
Warren and Woner sputtered and
passed into hstic oblivion.
Hamas Erased by Max.
Steve Hamas perhaps has climbed
higher than any of the collegiate
cutters. The former Penn State better
slammed Max Schmeling around
rather easily shortly after the Teuton
had been relieved of his title, but
Steve made the fatal mistake of Jour-
neying to Germany for return bout.
Hailed as coming cham
pion, Ha1nas absorbed one of
the most brutal beatings in ring
history.
With that nine-round knockout,
Hamas disappeared from the boxing
scene and even now Bob Pastor seems
to be following his trail. Pastor,
N. Y. U. gridder several seasons ago,
gained some dubious measure Of fame
by sticking ten rounds with Joe Louis
by sprinting In the other direction.
Only recently he was trounced by
Nathan Mann and that may have
been a prelude to his exit from top
flight heavyweight ranks.
You know the story of Jack Tor
rance, the huge l.. S. U. shotputter.
He never got started, was beaten to
a pitiful pulp on several occasions
and now is pounding a beat as a
member Of Baton Rouge's police force.
And he may consider himself lucky.
Nedomatsky may survive, but pic
ture Of those who have fioundered,
faltered and failed before him hardly
1ustifies predicting that. At present
he Is just another welterweight, but
at Maryland he was Ivan the Terrible.
He'll have to prove that terrible"
shouldn't be spelled in small letters.
Those pro pugs don't read clippings.
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BIC RACE WEIGHTS
ARE BEING PANIED
Seabiscuit's 130, AdmiraI's
1923, Approved for Santa
Anita-0thers Argued.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
T OS ANGELES, Dec. l6.-Specu-
lation and the usual array of
arguments followed today the
- announcement of weights for
the 100000 added Santa Anita Hand
leap, March S.
Webb Everett, racing secretary of
the Los Angeles Turf Club, emerged
from weeks bf form chart pondering
and posted the list with its SO pros
pective candidates.
Top weight of 1870 pounds was as
signed Charles S. Howard's 1886
handicap champion, Seabiscuit.
Next came Samuel Riddles War
Admiral, undefeated champion s.
year-old, at 129 pounds.
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southern Conference championships
and that is rare feat. StreWn in
his trail were string of knockouts
that were amazing His physique,
hands, brainy conduct, undeniable
punch, color and stamina apparently
were fashioned for professional ranks.
He even had professional DISPOSE
ton in college.
Now the story is that Ivan's
contract was sold because Pete
Reilly, his original manager,
felt he wasn't so hot after all.
At any rate. Max Waxman, who is
not in the habit of purchasing fistic
buns, now has Ivan's contract. In
six fights Nedomatsky has been held
to a draw in one and lost another.
And all of these arguments were with
very mediocre welterweights. A great
collegiate fighter, the former Terp
torpedo still is attempting to make
the grade against feeble professional
opposition
It's a trif1e early, however. to per-
form post mortems on Ivan's career.
The guy still is in hstiana's embryonic
stage and may develop into a smooth,
finished performer, but the odds strict
ly are against it. That is, If you Judge
by the performances of other COL
legiate ring greats who attempted to
dent professional ringdom's cast iron
fender and failed.
Few Fought in College.
IVAN, however, is unique in one re-
spect. He is one of the few college
boys who actually fought in college.
Most Of those who preceded him and
Topped were football players. raw ring
recruits with only a well chiseled
physique and, in most cases, over
Jealous managers.
One of these was Monte Mum, a
powerful tackle on one of Nebraska's
Cornhusker elevens who lowered
feet 3 inches, with 210 pounds draped
over his frame. He appeared headed
somewhere until the night jovial
George Godfrey pulverized him. Eng
lands Phil Scott completed the Job
by chilling him and Mum gave 1t up
Tiny Roebuck, an Oklahoma Indian
who was somewhat of gridiron SEN
sation at Haskell. was pounced upon
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RECAPTURES RULE
AFTER TWO YEARS
GuIdah| and Louis Trail
Yankee HurIer in Poll
of Sports Writers.

This is the fourth of a series
analyzing the annual Associated
Press sports poll. 1t coDers re-
plies to the query on the years
leading individual conaebdcks.J
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Three points: Myril Hoag, Yankees
outfielder; Chick Hafey, Cincinnati
outf1elder; Burleigh Grimes, BROOKLYN
manager; Max Schmeling, German
heavyweight; Nels Stewart, New York
Americans hockey player; Lou Fette,
Boston Bees pitcher; Glenna Collett
Ware, golfer.
Two points: Vincent Richards. pro
tennis player; Tony Galento, heavy
weight boxer; Bitsy Grant and
Frankie Parker, Davis Cup tennis
players; Lou Ambers, lightweight
champion; Jim Londos, wrestler: Kid
Chocolate. boxer; Joe Cronin, Boston
Red Sox shortstop; Helen Wills Moody
One point: John Montague. Holly
wood golfer; Casey Stengel, new Bos-
ton Bees manager; Gabby Hartnett,
Chicago catcher; Willis Hudlin. Cleye-
land pitcher; Estelle Lawson Page.
national golf champion; Patty Berg,
golfer; Jimmy Phelan, Washington
football coach; Archie Chadd, Ander-
son Ind) High School basket ball
coach.
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Pitcher Gomez Is Croned Champ Comeback Specialists of
No Mats Among IS S,oatters
Driving across 100 or More
Scores in american League

Trosky, who won in 1886 with 1862
runs socked across, finished in fifth
place this year with 1913 runs batted in.
Others who batted in 100 or more
runs were: Jimmy Foxx, Boston, 1877;
Harlond Cliff, st. Louis, 11s; Beau
Bell, st. Louis, lit; Gerald Walker,
Detroit, 1888; Joe Cronin, Boston, 110;
julius Solters, Cleveland, 10s; Bob
johnson, Philadelphia, 1903; Pinky
Higgins. Boston, 106: Rudy York, De-
troit, l03. and Zeke Bonura, Chicago,
100.
The leading Washington hitter in
this art was Outfielder Johnny Stone,
who drove across SO runs in l39
games. Second to Long John" was AL
Simmons, who only played in 1O3
games. Simmons had "a. Buddy
Lewis, the second-place hitter, was
next with 10 runs driven over the
plate. That is a tip-of on why the
Grif1s didn't get out of sixth place.
That Gehrig's in Again.
IEHR1G set new record by max
ing the 100-or-better club for the
twelfth season, breaking a tie between
Simmons and Goose Goslin, Detroit.
The Yankees again led in mass driv-
Ing In OF runs with 922. For the sake
OF comparison, the Mats drove across
only 69l.
Another new league mark was es-
tablished by Rog Cramer OF Boston,
who drove across six runs In one in
ming against the White Sox on August
20. He singled across two runs on his
first time at bat and then hit homer
with the bases loaded on a second trip
to the plate. The former record of five
was held jointly by AL Simmons,
Philadelphia; Chick Gandil, Chicago;
Ray Bates, Philadelphia, and Ty Cobb
OF Detroit.
frankie Crosetti relieved Jimmy
Foxx of the strike-out title, after
James Double-X had prevailed for six
straight years. The Yank shortstop
whitfield los times and also was the
most hit-by- -pitched-ball man with u
"pinks."
Gehrig got the most walks, l27. It
was the tenth season in which Lou
drew 100 or more bases on balls.
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BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports editor

Associated Press Sports editor
"A yEW YORK. Dec. 16.-Hero of
n the years outstanding indi-
vidual comeback in any sport,
4 by expert vote, is Vernon Co
mez, slender southpaw of the world
champion Yankees, who took a big
salary cut last winter and then pro-
ceeded to recapture No. l rank for
effectiveness among American League
pitchers.
Gomez, who climaXed the end of a
two-year slump by standing the Giants
on their ears twice in the World
Series, gained a decisive margin over
all rivals in the seventh annual poll
of leading sports writer's by the Asso-
ciated Press.
Guldahl Shades Louis.
THE tally today showed 10 first
place votes for Gomez and a point
total of 50, calculated on 3-2-l basis
TOR the trio of comeback choices post
ed by each contributing expert. A
total of SO writer's balloted
Ralph Guldahl, who topped off a
wonderful golfing comeback by cap
turing the United States Open cham
2ionship, beat Heavyweight Cham
pion Joe Louis 70. runner-up honors.
Guldahl collected nine f1rst-place votes
and outpointed Louis, &C to "a. Louis
got support for his rise to title heights
after being knocked out the year be-
fore by Max Schmeling, the 1895
winner of the comeback poll.
The poll covered an extraordinarily
vide range Of opinion, every headline
sport. and listed no less than 40 in
aividuals, including John Montague
and Mike Jacobs. Only four FEM
inine figures were mentioned, one be-
ing Helen Wills Moody, who has been
mostly in retirement for two years.
Kurtsinger Bounds Back.
JOCKEY CHARLEY KURTSINGER
was recognized as the hero of the
years greatest riding comeback Kurt
singer rode War Admiral, the 3-year-
old champion, and led the 1887 money
winners.
Tabulation of the poll on come
PACKS, with nrst places and points
Vernon Gomez, top ranking lst Pts.
American League pitcher-19 SO
Ralph Guldahl, u S. Open
golf champion 40
Joe Louis. world heavyweight
champion -6 "a
Johnny Goodman, U. S. Am
ateur golf champion 8 26
Hank Greenberg, Detroit
Tigers first baseman- 13
Tony Lazzeri, New York
Yankees second baseman 2 10
Bob Feller, Cleveland Indi-
ans pitcher -2 10
Charley Kurtsinger, jockey l
Johnny Allen, Cleveland In
dians' pitcher g
Johnny Risko, Cleveland
heavyweight boxer 2 6
Ralph Greenleaf, pro pocket
billiard champion --o 5
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DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSSROADS"

One reason why congress should draft its own
bill is that its duty is to do There would be
objection to it's accepting bills handed down to it
by the Roosevelt administration even if these
straightforward. AS we said in an editorial a week
ago. they are often tricky and confusing, with jok
ers and treSpasses lurking somewhere in them.
Proof came the next day with the submission by
Congressman Mansfield of bill, drafted by I'M
known persons in the administration to carry out
the far-seeming detectives of the presidents mes
sage for the establishment Of seven regional sys-
TENS to control floods, etc The bill requires that
every person appointed member of adminiStra-
tive boards to operate these systems shall practical
ly take an oath of faith in "the wisdom and feast
bilty" of the proposed law. In all American his
tory, that rever happened before, but there is
more and worse.
The bill provides that nobody can sue under the
act unless he furnishes bond to pay all damages,
such as loss of time through delay which might
be suffered by the government anybody else
under an injunction issued by the courts-the
money to be collected if he loses the suit In effect
this means filing bond for millions of dollars,
and as that would be impossible it means that
every act performed under the proposed law by
every functonary appointed to administer it would
become irrevocable, matter how stupid or OPP
preSsive it might be. There would then be no fur
Their need of court-packing so far as this measure
is concerned, for no challenge of the measure of
its enforcement would ever reach judge. Exit
the citizens day in court"
We assume that congress will make short work
of this nsolent measure. Because there is much
dirty work at the crossroads" we renew our rec
concentration that congress ignore these bills and
do its own legislating. Cincinnati Times-Star.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
EXPLOITING THE WORKER


Another cogent argument for the adoption OF
governmental policies that will impose definite legal
responsibilities upon labor organizations is made
by George E. Sokolsky in an article in the Amer-
Magazine
As have others who have discussed this situation
Mr.. Sokolsky points out that while on the COM
pany side of this labor struggle there has been
fixed legal responsibility unions, by and large, are
irresponsible organizations under no legal obllga-
TONS headed by men who legally not respon-
sible for their public actions And because of this
lack of responsibility and its resulting disturbance
to industry and the public at large, the consumer
is faced with steadily rising prices" The officer
of union this writer observes, need not account
to any public body regarding the collection OF ex-
pendture of funds. AS rule he need not even
report TO the members of his own union. Many OF
the political and strike funds of unions secretly
held and spent. AS a result racketeers outside the
labor movement-men like Dutch Schultz-have at
times seized weaker unions and used them for
criminal purposes. In some instances, union OFF,
Gals entrenched that union members are
without voice in the selection of officers. In some
instances annual conventions are postponed year
after year. The C. |. o. appointed itself without
consulting any body of workers. In recent months
great strikes have been called without consulting
or taking vote of the vast body of workers"
Mr.. Sokolsky suggests a code under which every
labor organization would be required like cor
poration, to receive state charter, setting forth
it's rights obligations and responsibilities 1t would
be required to file annually with public authority
statement of accounts, so broken down that men,
bers of the union and the public may know how
the funds are spent. No labor union should be
permitted, he urges, to spend funds for political
purposes without the personally confirmed consent
of the membership and all such expenditures
should be made public. The "check-off," under
which union dues are deducted from pay envelopes,
should be forbidden by law. Workers representa-
tives should be elected annually, with the right of
recall, at a secret democratic election held for
each plant.
There is great merit in these proposals. Indus
trial workers of the country as well the citizen
ship generally, entitled to protection against
exploitation of the American worker by sef-ap-
pointed labor leaders who have axes of their own
to grind. And there is much evidence in the exist
ing labor situation to suggest that such explota-
tion is taking place on an unprecedented SCALE
Greenville S. c., News.
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THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By IKE WALTON

As hone TO start I'M again, il
NAV he well to give nv alibi for
recent silence. 1t was this way:
Sailie has an old school-mate who
has become q great writer. like
Maggie Mitchell and Olive Nor
can and that Virginia lady with
the bluc-blood name, and the au-
thorcss came to sec Sallie last
August. Well. after she palavered
over old times, | escorted her to
her Cadillac at the gate. She
looked round and then fixed a
glittcring eye on me.
Colonel Walton she says, "is
all this fine farm yourS-and
those splendid cows, and that or
chard, and"
Eyes, ma'am," | said, swell
chcsting up.
"Now, Colonel" she says, 81
happen to know something about
you, and | must tell you that you
ought to do more, for Sarah
Miriam than you are doing. You
ought to give her Il town house
and Il life appropriate to the So
cial position to which she was
born"
| began to feel faint: sort of
like a tomato plant set out in the
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MASS PIckETING

Strikers have clearly defined right to picket a
plant building, shop Just how far that
right goes was set forth years ago by Samuel Com
pers, most sagacious of American labor leaders:
two men at every entrance to the establishment
against which strike has been declared. Mass
picketing is Illegal and so the courts have uniform
ly found.
Mass pieketing is the major of the strike
troubles that now cloud the American horizon. 1t
means the forcible restraint of men whose right
to work is just valid as the right of other men
to refuse to work 1t means the invasion of the
strike area by idle men from other occupations, by
troublemakers, by communists eager to reap har-
vest from riot 1t means the use of clubs and fire.
arms to halt trains, trucks and arplanes which are
delivering materials food to the establishment
against which strike has been declared. Often it
means the terrorizing of majorties by organized
and reckless rninorities.
On a small scale this is Instruction. 1t is going
on because local peace officials are afraid to use
their powers and execute their oahs to enforce law
and, order, and because-to put it too mildly-they
get neither encouragement nor example from the
highest peace officer in the land.-The Cincinnati
Times-Star
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ing the status quo with a prlVlleg-
ed group in control of the local
government, the nominating ma
chinery, the election machinery,
the patronage, the SpoilS, the
luncheon clubs, the chamber Of
commerce, the outstanding Soci-
city sets, and in many instances
the courts, the churches, and the
local newspapers.
And all that control is vested
in the hands of few leaders con-
shutting a board of strategy
which decides secretly all moves
Of Importance to be made by dunn
my public officials. Clever in ma
neuver, shrewd in propaganda,
the local political ring accom-
plishes by vile, guile and trickery
what Mussolini, Hitler and Stain
achieve by arrogant command
backed by limitlcss power.
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VTASHINGTON.-Thc Supreme
w Court plan is way up in the air
and so arc the Supreme Court as
pirations of Senator Joe Robinson
The question is whether they
will come back down and, If SO,
how.
One of these days Robinson will
20 back 20 the White House with
.hc results of his effort to see what
Kind of a compromise on the
Roosevelt plan can be worked out
in the Senate.
Perhaps he will 60 bearing a big
red rosy apple with only a few
soft spots. Or maybe just a couple
of little apples, rather greenish
and somewhat tart. Or perhaps the
skeleton of very dead fish on the
end of a string.
The nature Of the Robinson re-
port will determine RooseveltS
future course. The senator went
to the White House one night and
said he wanted to be sure the
President was going through with
the court fight. Roosevelt said
he was. Robinson then asked if
he could check through the Sen
ate and figure out how he could
best get Roosevelt what he want
ed, after which he could come
back with the proposal for APP
prevail. The President told him
to go ahead.
If the President can't see
enough nourishmcnt in what Rob-
inson brings back he may give up
his intention of forcing the issue
to vote at, this session. Or he
might accept q poor compromise
in the Senate in the hope of get
ting a much better bill from the
House.
At any rate, the word has gone
around that "old Joe" is on the
spot and working pretty hard.
One administration insider ex-
plains that there's no chance of
Joe being a bride unless he gets
some bridesmaids to stand up
with him." Meaning that if Joe
can't wangle some appointments
to the, court for Roosevelt, he can
hardly hope TO land on the court
himself. as
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T II E. N EW d. AL
IN WASHINGTON
RODNEY DuTcHER-
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WISE politician Roosevelt IS
" wondering what his big issue
will be for the 1888 congressional
elections.
The President is not of the shy,
retiring type so he hopes to shape
the 1888 issue, even though he
isn't running.
The issue, he hopes, will be one
which will help defeat various
anti-New Deal members of Con-
gress in next springs primaries.
That means he will turn to the
left for a liberal, progressive or
radical issue.
Thus far Roosevelt hasn't been
able to think of a more attractive
campaign issue than that OF the
Supreme Court and its powers
over legislation. And unless he
can win something from the pres
cnt court fight he now plans to
carry the battle over into 1888.
T UKEWARM or antipathetic adj
II ministration leadership, with
plenty of vigor and hard work on
the other side, has figured impor-
family in the court plan deadlock.
House Majority Leader Sam
Rayburn persuaded Roosevelt to
launch the struggle in the Senate
after House Judiciary Chairman
Hatton Summers went cold on the
plan. ST. :-.L.s
that he was "ill" during the cru
cial period, but the ailment hasn't
been diagnosed. None OF the ad-
ministration's real fighters were
on the judiciary committee.
Chairman Henry Ash drst' who
had declared vehemently against
the court-packing plan and then
flip-fiopped, spent the time MAX.
ING Jokes about himself and
everybody else. When the White
House tried to cut the hearings
short. it failed. The publicity
was too pleasant. Senator George
Norris supported the bill in com,
mittee, but didn't ike IL WEI
enough 10 fight for 1t. ,oo ,no,
1887, NEA Service. incl
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HERE BUT. HIDDEN
By WLCKES WAMBOLDT

Under the American local po-
litical Fascist the people are vir-
tually helpless. The nominations
of candidates are rugged; the
elections are rugged; everything
is rugged.
eve need a hundred and fifty
more votes over here to carry our
ticket" a ring precinct election
official telephones ring headquar-
tcrs.
They'll be right over" is the
cheerful answer; and they do
come right ovcr-perhaps in the
form of forged ballots, or faxed
absentces, or few truck loads
Of Floating" voters.
But why do the people sub
nit to such condition." an At
rican Hottentot might ask an
American missionary who was in
the dark continent to bring spir-
itual enlightenment to the be-
nighted..
Through local revolution is the
only way the people can escape
the grip of local ring. Every
now and then some community
which has been plundered to the
verge of extinction, does revolt,
and with mighty effort takes con-
troll of its local government. Then
the leaders of the local Fascist
merely smile and remain quiet,
knowing that it will not be long
before the people cool down and
cease resisting.
at is easier to pay them than
to fight Them" say men and wom-
en- whose moral strength should
be constantly eXerted in behalf of
decency in government. And it is
easier to pay them than to fight
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YACHT SUNK

HONOLULU. (UP)-Thc Ari-
adne, once the palatial yacht Of
Clifford Pinchot, but more re-
Gently a prosaic live bait boat for
the fishing fleet, has come TO its
final end. 1t was sunk near the
same spot where the L. $. navy
recently scuttlcd two dccommis-
stoned submarines.
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TOCTORS TOO HEALTHY

TORONTO, Ont. (UP)-lf doc
tors got sick a bit more often
with certain diseases, treatment
to bring about cures might more
readily be found, DR.. G.. f. Rich
ards, professor of radiology, Uni
versity of Toronto, told meet
ing here recently.