Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-15
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAW By FRANCIS s1ANN
When the Hurricane Blew Out

ON THE TELECAsT from San Francisco you couldn't
honestly say that Tommy Hurricane, Jackson looked
better reduced to inches and lines SCREEN than when
last in If anything jackson looked worse
This column suggested last July that Hurricane be retired
and permitted to take up less violent trade.
There almost has to be violence when Jackson gets
into ring He can't fight worth lick can't punch
box but he makes the other guy fight Floyd Pat
terson nearly took all 200 pounds of Jackson apart
in New York last July 20.
And so did Eddie Machen in San Francisco on Wednes-
day night. There is middle ground when Jackson
fights He either exhausts his opponent with his windmill
style or gets clobbered The good cobber him,
much that may be in poor taste to allow the durable
young from St Adams ~ " to fight in fast company
Or fight period
THOSE WERE 20 BRUTAL rounds-10 with Patterson
and 10 more with Machen. 1t might have been more
mercifu if Machen who caught Hurricane in sotened-
up state could hit harder He might have stopped Jackson
early and the anky gamester lot of punishment
1t evident that Hurricane whose reputation for
stamina had become widely known was hurting in nearly
every round at San Francisco Hurricane was wincing
and bending almost double from body blows which he
always had ignored. He is not easy man to floor with
a punch to the head But Machen decked him in the
opening round with right to the chops.
If those the two best fighters in their class next
to Champion Patterson, the heavyweight situation is
indeed, bleak. Jackson now can be forgotten Can
Machen?
This is guy who is superbly built sort of Calypso
singer type in the face In "a fights he's never lost Yet
while he to have everything, physically he just
doesn't quite off in the ring
MACHEN REALLY HASN'T beaten anybody who hasn't
been licked He picking obvious cripple in the
Hurricane His manager Sid Flaherty has been real coy
about meeting between Machen and Patterson for the
title.
F1aherty may be acting smartly too. Machen, while
has the youth and that good record doesn't stack up
the stop Patterson He doesn't destroy guys
he hurts Patterson does to some mild extent Rocky
Marciano who champion before Patterson, hardly
missed when he had an opponent in bad shape
This is not to say that Marciano was one-puncn
artist He was a clubber than hitter But when
he had his man reeling Machen did so many times In
San Francisco Rocky upended him.
LOU BOUDREAU, EX-MANAGER of the Kansas City
he used to manage has been turned down by Frank
Lane new general manager of the Indians.
Lane is a quick to buy trade, sell or otherwise
get ball player. But he must have set record
when he fired" Boudreau before the guy had been
hired.
Hank Greenberg deposed general manager while
remaining stakeholder of the Indians, had promised
Boudreau a Job aide to Bobby Bragan. Greenbergs
manager Stars to stars perhaps Greenberg was
a bright and certainly Boudreau belonged in Hank
class.
Bragan, however, never much of ball player.
But he is the appointed manager of the Cleveland club
and he before Lane. Disagreeing with Walter
OMaey of the Dodgers Lane reason TO hire an
other former successful to look over the shoulder
of lesser big league light
OMalley did. you know, when he employed Chuck
Dresser as aide to Walt Aston.