The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-24
This Sporting
 World
Monday Sports Wash
By JOHN 4. CIUNEY

For the 1lrSc tune Qnce ne Scalpe0 . ticket, Mike Jacobs is believed to have . belly full" of the fight racket, which he seems to control lock, stock, barrel and Eddie Eagan to the contrary notwithstanding. So watch for Mike to announce that, at 6 years of age, he is pulling out of the 2Oth Century Club as promo ter, and will probably turn over the job to little Nat Rogers, who pairs the prelim fighters for all Jacobs showS You see, Mike is Mats Sven- gall, SO Rogers would be in hand at ell times, though by remote control -Eagan, by the way, Yale man and Rhodes scholar is still taking a terrific verbal going lover for let- ting Jacobs "get away" with that $lOO hold-up for one ticket to box ing show; not that Eagan's commis- sion can set the prices for any N. Y. boxing show; but Eddie, a suppos- edly high-class person who knows something about the boxing business, did not utter so much as a mild protest. The continual banning" is beginning to "get him down" so don't be too surprised if he pulls out of the $7,500 job as chairman of the commission; on which there is already one vacancy since the death of the late General John J. Phelan What a spot for Waterbury's Dan Parker, if he would take it, which, of course, he wouldn't; hav- ing already politely but firmly turn ed down Governor Dewey's request to take place on the commission. In truly ParkereSque fashion, Dan said: Thanks, governor, but I must decline. If I took the job, I wouldn't have anyone to PICK ON".
 Gene Tunney, the gentleman
 from Greenwich and retired un-
 defeated worlds heavyweight
 champion, must have very bad
 memory. After saying that the re-
 cent Louis Conn fight would be
 "joke" if Conn won, which
 brought a threat from the Pitts
 burgh playboy to punch Tunney
 in the nose" and knock Louis in-
 to his lap; Tunney was quoted
 as saying, when asked his opinion
 of the Louis-Conn bout: 'it was
 the worst I have known. At that
 point, we hesitatingly arise to in-
 quire; "how about Tunney's hand
 picked title bout with hulking Tom Heeney, the Hard Rock from
 Down Under, whom generous Gene
 knocked out in Il rounds on July
 %, l928?" At least Conn had 8
 chance with Louis off the record
 of his last fight with the champ;
 but Heeney, personally selected by
 Tunney before the latter retired
 undefeated, had no chance at all
 against the man who beat Jack
 Dempsey twice. To use we'll
 known pugilistic axiom, Heeney
 couldn't hold his hands up"
 which Tunney very well knew
 when he picked the human
 punching bag to defend" his title; grab one more big piece of
 money, and then retire, "unde- feated heavyweight champion of
 the world" LOOK WHO'S TALK IN NOW!
 o-O-o
 By the way, Conn must have for gotten to look for Tunney at the ringside, to punch his nose" be- cause Tunney said 1t would be a "joke" if Conn beat Louis. In the eighth round; Billy must have been wondering if his own nose was where it should be; after stopping a half dozen Louis left jabs that must have felt like TELEPHONE POLES Proving once more their weekly slogan "Wednesday is Kiwanis Day" members of the local K" club se- lected last Wednesday to defeat the Rotary Club golfers at Country Club of Waterblry-Two interesting copies of Irish newspapers are at hand, sent by my huge and happy friend, Dennis DeValera McCleary of Watertown, now enjoying himself on the Ould Sod-Harry Grayson, one of the five best sportswriters in the LISA. for my money, wrote a fight story for a magazine; review ing the various heavyweight cham pions and finishing up with the Louis- Conn rematch of last week, of which he wrote: Louis rematch with Billy Conn, the first major boxing event since the war, SHOULD live up to the FINEST TRADITIONS of the game" It turned out to be the sports flop" of the goth century, as well as the 20th Century Sporting Club, it's sponsors, and at $1O0 per ringside person. By the way, what was the name of that guy who picked Conn to KNOCK OUT Louis? It wasn't Mert Connor and 1t wasn't Lippy Mo- Grath or Mike Rayel but who was H&g