The Omaha guide., 1939-09-23
By Buster Miller
Spinning the Wheel

has appointed three Negro ply
sicians to its examining staff,
making the score read: California,
3, New York Joe Louis set
such a hot pace in his Michigan
training camp last week the place
caught afire. =. Jesse Owens an
nounces that he expects to return
to Ohio state soon to attend to
that unfinished business of getting
a degree. Negro American Lea
que pennant race being decided
between St. Louis Stars and Kan
aas City Monarchs Eddie Dug
ger, Tufts College track ace, may
go out for football. Promoter
Irving Schoenwald Is. offering
Henry Armstrong a $4,000 qua
rantee to defend his welterweight
title against Milt Aron in Chr
cago.
Boston track fans hailing 20
year-o1d Bill Maze a. the next
tsfastest human. Buddy Moore
spotted riding around wearing sun
glasses. a la Hollywood. DIR.
Teddy Gable, Harvard track star
of a generation ago, seen repre-
senting Indiana at the Worlds
Fair. Ed Stone, popular out
fielder of the Newark Eagles,
may honeymoon in VENEZUELA
Arc.,e Willisms, Olympic 400
yneter champion, now shooting
golf in the low eighties. Ehio-
plan Clowns finished 3 three-way
tie for third place in that Den
yer baseball tourney Now that
Grand Rapids has made Joe Louis
an honorary police lieutenant,
maybe his first arrest will be a
vuy named Bob Pastor. -. Allen
Matthews. st. Louis slugger, sign
ed for a title shot at middleweight
champ AL Hostak.
Rim Robinson will play the part
of Eddie Meade in the all sepia
movie. Keep Punching" starring
Henry Armstrong. Radio an
pomcer Bin Stern gave Horace
Bell q swell send-off over the air
during the Chicago Ali-Star game
Don't believe the rrmor that
Sixto Escobar may give UP his
bantamweight championship TO
avoid meeting George Pace, No.
1 challenger. =. .Yancey Henryp
heavyweight title hopes received a
setback when he dropped a ten
round decision to Tommy Tucker
IN Los Angeles recently. =. The
Same thing happened to the mid
dleweight dreams of Al Wardiow
when he lost to Ken Overiin IN
Pittsburg last Monday night.
Charley Burley got his revenge
for a previous defeat by defeating
Jimmy Leto in their return en-
gagement.
Johnny Taylor, pitching 'fof
Cordoba in the Mexican League
has won 6 and lost 1. Barney
Brown, Vera Cruz, won Is anu
lost 3. Chef Brewer, Tamplco won
3 and lost S. Brewer also pitched
p no-hit, no-run game two EEK
ago. Cool Papa Bell still leads
batters with an average OF .39S
Martin Dihigo, fourth, WITH
1922.
Palsy-walsy attitude displayed
hetween Eddie Meade and Al
WE'LL at the recent hearing where
thew both received Suspensions,
indicates that perhaps the result
of the recent fight didn't make
them as mad at each other as they
tried to act. Bill Yancey, n OF
the better %shortstops is back
from Panama and signed by the
PhilIv Stars. Tom Johnson, af-
ter a summer of pitching for the
Camden Giants, will return to his
post in the Springfield College
backfield this Fall. Lincoln u.
will have twenty-four veterans
from last years grid squad re-
turning to school. Bob Bolden,
football and basketball star at
Lincoln, will switch to Rhode Is
land State.
Promoters of National Negro
League games at Yankee Stadium
are overlooking a good bet by not
obtaining a sponsor for radio
broadcasts of their games. Virgin
ia State Trojans who have lost
only grid game in three years,
viii have 20 lettc-nen returning.
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