The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-20
On the Lam
Elicit Metcale

cTADTUM may the city basketball title. but you
can't count those Tigers out until the hope has died
They hare that old "morey' under their ribs -.
Scribes Going to Work =.
THERE appears definite tendency in sections Of the
country To cleanse the major boxing racket
The upright sports scribes going to work, slow
They realize the nefarous hands Of the ehiseers and
manipulators, working with politicians have brought dis
trust upon the game sent It to low ebb -.
The destroying elements have small regard for the pub
hes intelligence which viii prove their downfall in the long
The ring game enjoyed by many but fans want
their sport clean They want shooting Matches mat u.s.
bouts Of full effort void of any fakery manpula
That is what they pay for but for which the connivers
give small regard What the underhanded chiseers want
are quick profits the future be dummed :.
These manipulators could be to earth in short time
action Actually, much Of the blame falls upon the fight
writer's Without the aid Of the newspapers the frauds
would disappear ...
Why Include AL?
THE penalty for being prominent. George Hostak
arrested last week for fighting In Seattle &c. what!
mddeweight fighting champion. that relation was empha-
sized in dispatches out Of Seattle Why should Al be
kas always been clean. eIlbshaved younssisr -.
Oldsters Can Learn, Too
LJANES SCHNEIDER the great master Of skis says any
learn to ski but adds that youths daring keeps
older persons inactive USA He's right The older guys
and gals read of sprsined and broken limbs and bones
and fall upon caution remaining off the slekfaced Stats
Pretty Sure, Podner
DEAR MET Are you Joe Louis married after the
hattie with Max Baer7 | still say \ couple Of hours
before Also didn't Jock McOmber come from Auburn
Dear l. s.: As far as can determine, Louis was married
after the Rser fight and before the first fight with seh%e
came from Auburn :. 3. M.
No. cl~... IT.. A.
COACH EVERETT DEAN took basketball in his hands at
He was giving lessons to his captain Dick Williams. in
the Art Of shooting baskets nal. u. IA y.
made two in Then three in When he finally
missed he had made p straight baskets from IS feet out
Not even the great Luseth could match that record
Maybe Stanford had better put Coach Everett Dean in
playing suit and use that skill -.
CTUBBY HARTMAN, the little Tiger man. looks In top
flight trim right though he could hop into his
s%t and cover that aiieu snorpen n %sn gear Man
should have been born without whiskers The gals were
smart when they whacked off their locks at the neck
Pardon I'll get right back to sports -.
Royal Brougham. the Of Chautauqua guy, says voey-
han Is heman SPORT void Of sissnes But takes guys
vious line against Us runts Al Davis the coming young
weIte being goed the east because Of his association
with boyhood pals Of notorious hoodun and gangster dis
Several years ago Henry Woods Yakima Negro boxer,
was suspended In Washington state Conduct unbecoming
IN the state soon That 3sN pound King salmon caught
BY Doey Duncan several years snagged within Gig
Harbors fiat water No more than 20 feet deep That's
unusual A. NJ Akin boe Of the Point Defiance boathouse
sent your chroncler three Tyee trout freshly caught Never
ate more delsctable fish meat -.
Baxter VS.. Katan,
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