The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19
The Sports Mirror
By Russ J. Cowans

Chick Meehan, former football coach at Manhattan
University is out to break the monopolistic grip Michael
rsuss Jacobs has on the boxing game. Meehan is pro-
kang boxing in BROOKLYN and had his first show last
Meehan, who won fame as player and later as q
h At the University of Syracuse will discover that no
confronted with hard fight and that it will take more
expressed desire to strange the hold Jacobs has on
fAng game. He will know that control of the pugs-
activities of the heavy weight champion of the world is
sOr proportions and Jacobs has that control The men
H. has control of the heavyweight champion has control
4 boxing and practically dictate the course of the
Benny Leonard former lightweight champion rat
a one of the greatest in the history of the fight game
elected an AlStar boxing team during his stay here
/ his week The team was made up of men who earned
heir living with the padded mtsc during the years
Leonard has been able to peek at ring action. They
are as follows;
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight; Tommy Loughran,
| rshtheavyweight; Harry Creb, middeweight; Mick
| sy Walker welterweight; Henry Armstrong, light
weight; Johnny Kilbane featherweight; Johnny Cou-
lon bantamweight, and Pancho Villa, flyweight
Having seen every member of Leonards team in ring
|on I'm taking exception to two of his selections, Demp
\ and Loughran.
Joe Louis rates selection the best of the heavy
gh champions His record since attaining that exalted
the BERTH The fact that Louis has de-
Inded his eighteen times is sufficient of itself to
use his selection Of course Leonard will say that Louis
ks waged campaign against crop of stumble buns
Nell how about those he fought Jack Brennan, Carpen
Her. Firpo and Mike Gibbons Surely their ring accomp
IhmentS did not make them any better than Billy Conn
fuddy Bear, Max Schmeling Tony Galento, Arturo Co
Ks or John Henry Lewis.
Tommy Loughran should never be cassed among
a fighters The Philadelphia boxer drew the color line
md would not put his title the line against any of the
oed boxers. He just champion of the white fighters
might go further, Leonard failed to mention
Tiger Flowers, the man who Harry Grebs master.
md Brown probably the best bantamweight to en-
rthe ring in the past twenty years.
Thu ousting of DR.. Ormond Walker as president of
Abeorce university two weeks ago paved the way for
return of James McCrary chief assistant to Country
vk, head football mentor at the Ohio institution Dr.
alker, who developed dislike for McCrary while the
INNER Michigan State college grid star was head coach
hen McCrary in the midst of developing of his
|es teams.
But the choleric Walker had his political wings clip
by the board of trustees and Jim is back in the sad
Iewith Lewis.
McCrary is stated to start his duties the first of next
nth getting the early he and Lewis pre-
are for the coming fall campaign The players will report
Pc second week in September
Wherefore lost large number of varsity players
Trough graduation this year and Lewis will have to build
the ground up he gets ready for another stiff cam
hn. However, there is large number of promising
Dung prospects from the freshman class and hopes are
night for another great team to carry the Green and Gold
aopng to victory the striped gridrion in l94l
The recent death of Bruce Buddy Petway means
pc passing of the fourth of those Detroit Stars who
uihed the ST. Louis Browns in holly contested three
ame series back in 1923. The others Jack Combs,
rover (Buck) Alexander, and Andrew Louis Cooper.
Petway had just taken the regns as manager the
ear before and Combs Cooper and Alexander were the
nef pillars of his pitching stat The Stars beat the
uwnies two out of three games played.