The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-07
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The Sports Mirror
BY Russ }. Cowans


The following letter IS from Roscoe Toes, Michigan
.rueigh champion VINO mas been In Buenos Aires,
~ntipe since last Fall.
Friend: .
la NJ trouble with right hand and very bad cut
~ eve Things look little better for me now owing
heating Alberto Lowell here for the South American
oonship | have made quite hit here amongst the
c',;ne people. Every one here would have bet their
- on Lowell beating Joe Louis for the title In fact
- was some kind of movement foot about making
offer to come here and fight Lowell in Buenos Aires
have little luck may still have chance at the title
. and besides, make money The natives are fine
d are treating swell None of that feeling that still
at am sorry to say in many places at home. Every
!, for me Notwithstanding my color. have had
Measure of meeting the hnest gentlemen in this
1 and they all fine to me. only wish you here
meet these fine people. Now shall try and tell YOU
Ne about Buenos Aires.
hi Il not unusual to $4,000 people at a game, and
International games they have still larger crowds One
b stadium 1907 600 people. Around the track is
xer pool that prevents the people from rushing onto
football field when they get excited. You have to go
these games in a waterproof coat hremen guard
n their hose the public when the crowd becomes too
mdsy and certainly exciting 1t pity that they
introduce this fast game in the United States
same scale that they have here To my mind it beats
kdbal all to pieces.
w have couple of tracks here that surpass any
mr. we have in the United States They still have the
rtng element left in horse racing and breeding They
look toward grabbing every dollar out of the pub
pockets the track Everything is comfortable and
pleasure to 60 to the here for afternoon.
pleasure to to the bookmakers Their
|ng sales is big and the prizes compare very favor
|hy with those at Saratoga sales, maybe little higher
the average II is real pleasure to watch them
bling yearlng. None of that rush and hustle like
lave at home trying get the money quick and waste no
|m. 1t sort of holiday for people here to watch
bic Of yearlings To my mind and also to MIR. Lawrence,
|hO here with and handling my business, the yearl
br the whole, little larger than at Saratoga
Boxing draws the third largest crowds, and may tell
u that the boxing commission fine lot of gentlemen.
he boxers well looked after by the Commission
adng their health. When boxer becomes a profess
na the Commission gives the boxer thorough exami-
alton from his head to his feet record is made of his
'ght, length of arms, lung capacity, and many other
sms and everything put chart Pictures taken
his bodies and the record is made before his first
rofessonal fight and kept. After his first fight the
cord of his future fights also kept. When the doc
examines boxer for the next fight he always COM
ares the examinations and in this way they tell
usky boxer is deteriorating in health, and in this
y is often that the Commission will refuse to let
boxer fight.
Boxing does not start before 10 pm. and before the
outs all is long after midnight. But that is the
y the natives want it, their homes they do not have
inner before pm II took some time to become
Omed to the eight o'clock dinner is long time be-
seen meals but | guess you have to do the Romans
hen Rome I'm used to now, but il pretty tough
rst start training at two o'clock and eat at eight
long time for strong fellow.
Now regarding what the dirty and treacherous Japs
Every here Is working to help in anyway they are
BE- Americans here have formed Red Gross Unit. We
now making arrangements for to box several times
re tor the Red Cross and Relief Fund would like to
Up very much and do my part as much as can, only
Time getting short will have to report to draft
d unless able to get little time on my ex-
nnon Trinidad, West Indies, also wants me badly for
mt to help the War Fund there. Also in Jamaica for re-
= have been advised by people here to write my draft
ad for little time help raise money for relief.
! spent very quiet Christmas. The people here do
keep Christmas like we do at home but do keep New
ears in big way II did not look to like Christmas
all being so hot and Christmas trees
The wrestling game is going very good here, wresti-
three times each week at the Stadium Luna Park This
0um seats around $4,000 people Built different from
'oson Square Gardens There is open all round
stadium of about six feet This Is done to get air
rough the place when il gets hot Not bad idea When
warm outside it is lovely and cool inside The people
re like the rough stuff in wrestling No commission to
pervise and the wrestlers get away with anything.