The Washington times., 1938-01-22

mlCCeQ In ChoSe. intelligence
quotient tests, I have completed
my solution.
But let me give you the pic.
ture panels, so that perhaps you,
too, might work out an answer.
Cd In the first clue picture,
we find Bantamweight LaPorte
seated in Baltimore restaurant
about a week before he is sched-
uled to fight in the feature bout
for a newly-opened Baltimore
boxing club. He is minding his
own business, or perhaps it was
his Soup-but anyway stranger
sits down beside him and slips
$3.50 meath his plate.
(2) IaPorte, in this sketch, is
seated in the honey living room
OF his sister Tin Flint, Mich.),
warming his nose in front of
one Of those big coal burners
they use up there in the north
country, a couple of days before
the scheduled fight. He seems
to be counting crisp greenbackS
and the wall telephone is ting
ling outlandishly.
The BLOw OFF
go In this view we have an
elevated boxing ring with our
hero and a foe named Lawrence
Gum stripped to the loin
cloths, Gum seated on his stool
cat the fifth-round intermis-
sion) and our hero climbing out
Of the ropes, leaving the fight
flat. A sinister-looking charac-
ter is seated in the front row,
seeming to be putting "the eye"
on the fleeing fighter.
The two popular theories are:
(A) That the stranger" had
placed the $3.50 meath the plate
as a bribe for LaPorte to beat
town and thereby embarrass the
newly launched boxing club.
(B) That the money was
brazenly placed there as a fix
for LaPorte to not bear down
On Ills antagonist.
Which is correct?
Answer: Neither" l.
What happened, according to
my deductions, is that for $50
LaPorte was plowed under by
the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, like hogs and
cotton. Then he ups and double
crosses the AAA. Hoping to
also collect his purse, he returns
to plant his crop Of lefts and
rights in the burrows of Gums
features, eventually being scared
off the 24foot plot by "the eye"
Sports SiIhOuettes
They must either be. blind or
very broad-minded in Pennsyl.
vallia, for LaPorte's Baltimore
predicament didn't keep him
from meeting and defeating AL
Brown at the Cambria Club in
Philadelphia, last night.
incidentally, when LaPorte
did return to Baltimore for his
fight with Gum, he was so
frightened by the sinister stu.
alton he flew from Flint to
Washington and languiShed here
until weighing.in time.
Herb Kopf, former assistant
football coach at Georgetown
and Columbia, is the first lay
man to become director Of ath-
letics at Manhattan College, N.
Y, the added responsibility fol
lowing Herbs coaching appoint
.ment three weeks ago. His pred
eceSSorS have always been Chris
tian 3rothers.
I heard Edgar RIP" Miller,
Navy line coach, make a foot
ball talk in Baltimore this week
and decided that the former
Notre Dame mule was a "chip
off the old Rock"
Freddy Buchholz, vice pres
ident Of the corporation propos-
ing an ice skating arena for
Washington by next fall, h a
been resting at Hot Springs,
Ark, ever since the day of the
announcement. He's going to
take three weeks of the baths.
Last of Old Line
Grover Cleveland Alexander
the Great becomes sainted, a.
halo replacing that odd-fitting
cap that used to perch SO
Whimsically on his tousled head.
Future generations, gazing at
the figures in the Hall of Fame
will study in wonderment the
curious, twisted countenance Of
the final of baseball's Peck's bad
boys.
"Old Pete" indeed was the
last of the rough and ready
type of ball players, the con-
cluding link between the old
devilmay-care school and the
new.
The early history Of the game
was builded about his eccentric
sort-the Bugs RaymondS, Nick
Altrocks and Pube Waddells.
Pete'S beer tabs kept pace
with his pitching records and
vice versa. He was the John L.
Sullivan of his day-ready to
pitch at the drop Of a hat, re-
gardless of where he had spent
the night before.
It's a white-collar game now,
compared to Pete's prime, but