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THAT WARM RACE IN NATIONAL

AND OL’ DIZ IS CARRYING HOD

HAT National League race is so hot it's hazardous to print it on paper. . . . Bring on the asbestos. . . . The overworked Dizzy Dean seems to be the key man of the three-club battle. . . . Looking at the Cardinals, especially their pitching, you get the idea that Manager Frisch must do it with mirrors. . . . Naturally, Dizzy carries the hod. The Great One made his task harder this season by prevailing upon Brother Paul to hold ‘out with him last spring. . . . Paul bore down too soon after too little spring © training, and has been a washout since the early weeks

“of the compaign.

! Apparently there is no substitute for Jesse Owens. . .. "Atleast in the box office of the A. A. U.... Post-Olympic "© meets are an impos™ion on the athletes, unless they desire

"to travel.

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1 Boston Red Sox, backed by Tom Yawkey’s millions, are doing : no better than in the days when old Bob Quinn directed them with a waiver list, telegraph blanks and a book of mileage tickets. The Philadelphia Phillies are so far down in the standing that the * fans over there see only one way out. . .. If the club gets any lower

~ it may strike oil.

Philadelphia’s spring threat to boycott Shibe Park, home of the AthJetics, because of the sale of Foxx, Cramer, McNair and Marcum, has been

forgotten. . . . The paid gate there Mack is keeping his boys hustling. son as an outing.

Don Budge, the tennis ace, lost "13 pounds while winning the re“gent. Eastern turf courts cham- ‘* pionship. . . And there is no pay "for that sweating. . . . However, his dad bought him a big new car to wheel around. . . . What a life! v « + » Air-cooled courts will be the ' mext innovation for the lads who five all summer on money from

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HE Grand American Handicap, the trapshoot classic, is to be held at Vandalia, O., on the last day of the national tournament, Aug. 24-28. . . . J. B. Royall of . Tallahassee, Fla. won last year. ... And it was his first national tourney. . . , Being a handicap event, _.* the classic draws from all ages.

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Handicaps in trapshooting are based on scores in registered . shoots, and the lower the handicap, .. the farther from the target the .. marksman has to perform.

; TE youngest ever to win the ” Grand American was Rufus King, a 14-year-old Texan, who an- ' mexed honors in-1925 from 16 yards, a spot svhere it has been won five * times. One of the oldest was Charles Young of Springfield, who won in 1926 at 63, registering the «first perfect score in the classic.

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WO former Indianapolis A. B. ¢) C. ball players, Oscar Charles- = ton and Bingo De Moss, will lead 2'the opposing teams in the fourth ‘annual Negro all-star game at Comiskey Park, Chicago, next Sunday. ** .. De Moss will direct the Western nine and Charleston the East. . .. The former pilots the Chicago “"American Giants and the latter is chief of the Pittsburgh Crawfords. _4¢_ . . Jim Taylor, manager of the Washington Elites, another former Indianapolis A. B. OC, star, was run-ner-up to Charleston in the East’s poll of votes by Negro fans.

iJesse Owens on - Way to America

last Sunday was 28,500. . . . Connie . . Last year’s team spent the sea-

What Next for Louis?

Ring Critics Speculate on Future Plans of Dark Angel.

BY WALTER STEWART Times Special Writer EW YORK, Aug. 19.—The Dark Angel spread his wings across the horizons today—shut out many an impudent little sun and threw a finger-like shadow, which lapped the worn steps of the heavyweight throne with sinister blackness. The wise men of the printed word watched them carry Jack Sharkey between the ropes of Yankee Stadium last night and the backwash of the pack’s last blood cry was still finding an echo across the Harlem as the wise men planned half a dozen fates for Joe Louis. They sent him questing along a score of trails, but they all converged at a vague ringside where the champion waits with ready knuckles. Al Ettore in Philadelphia —Max Schmeling sometime this September — a European tour extending through October and a November showing in the Garden. John Roxborough and Julian Black, co-managers of the young Negro, admitted frankly that they didn’t know. They'd like to see what Schmeling and Braddock are going to do about their September meeting. There’ll be a conference with Mike Jacobs today, but nothing very definite is expected until the final Schmeling-Braddock decision, which is scheduled for Friday. 2 tJ 2 HERE was a sharp divergence of opinion following Sharkey's third-round exit. Many of the experts felt Joe was just a big strong boy punching a heavy bag which didn’t punch back. Others said the old killer had returned with added cruelty and a dash of dangerous caution. 7 One thing is certain—the Dark

B By United Press & SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. Aug. 19. {'—Jesse Owens, America’s Negro * winner of three Olympic champion- # ships, sailed for home today aboard wthe S. 8. Queen Mary “to see my wife” and to consider becoming a

J professional. Officers of the Amateur Athletic Union had announced that if he “sailed he would automatically suspend himself from the A. A. U. The . A. U. had scheduled Owens to lappear in a track meet opening tofday in Stockholm. & Jesse said he had not contracted Sto enter the meet and he chose to {igo home immediately to investigate Lt offers running up to $40,000 for 10 weeks for professional appearances. 33 Owens’ status as an amateur athJete at Ohio State University re*“mains unchanged. The Big Ten - Conference, which is not affiliated with the A. A. U,, said that Owens’ 2 actions abroad would not affect his E status as a college athlete. If Jesse t does not accept any offers to turn professional he can have another i year in college competition.

Fight "Cast Is Sweet Music to Negro Choir

y United Press RALEIGH, N. C, Aug. 19.—As between the music of angels and ‘Joe Louis, the heavenly choir picks oe Louis—unanimously. £ The heavenly choir of the allNegro play, “Heaven Bound,” had heduled a rehearsal for 9 o'clock night, but visitors hoping to the singing of spirituals were

lisappointed. “Sorry, folks,” a spokesman for the choir explained, “this Joe Louis fight broadcast is the only heavenly ausic we are going to hear tonight.”

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Angel cut Sharkey down with the cold mastery of a top-hand in the slaughter house. It was the old rhyme again—hum and shuffle, shuffle and hum. Hit him in the belly and hit him on the chin. Louis spent two rounds and 1:02 of a third answering questions. He showed paralyzing power in each hand, a desperate eagerness to come to grips and a smoothly cohesive punch pattern. But if there is glass still lingering in the Dark Angel's chin, Sharkey did nothing to make il apparent. Louis walked out with the first bell and poked Sharkey’s head with a stiff left jab—loosed a right that twisted the ancient mariner’s neck and brought a slow trickle from his nose.

UT he finally slipped through the converging lines of leather and turned with two left jabs of his own. Joe -out-stabbed him— weaved lithely and blasted a left hook to the body. For a moment, the Sharkey man was a curve of tense agony and then the bell came brazenly. ' The old sailor opened the second round with an overtone of aggression. He jolted Joe at close range, jabbed him twice and then the Dark Angel dropped his left shoulder in a cunning feint. As Sharkey moved to meet it, Louis fired his right hand in a sheaf of sparks. It was his old trick of war and played with artistry. The glove smashed against his cheek like the bolt from a crossbow and Jack collapsed in a slow spiral fall.

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EFEREE ARTIE DONOVAN reached nine before the trembling legs would straighten and Joe dashed across the ring in haste which was weirdly evil. He ripped a left hook deep into Sharkey’s body and crashed the same hand against the sagging jaw. Jack

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WEDNESDAY,

AUGUST 19, 1936

Add to

the list of foreign ring importations ‘the

names of Maurice Strickland and Pat Marrinan, heavy weights, and Joe Connolly, lightweight. They are under the wing of Bill Daly, former New Jersey promoter.

Old Tom Is Strict Boss

Veteran Fisticuffer Makes Boys Mind in Mat Tussle Here.

BY HARRISON MILLER Wrestling fans seem to like their matmen rough and their referees blind. To that end, Old Tom Sharkey, the pride of the Navy shortly after -the turn of the century, was a joy-killer last night in his appearance as an arbiter at the rap pling show at the Sports Arena. The man who fought Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries and other ring immortals, couldn’t have passed a catechism test of modern scuffling rules, but had his own conceptions of right and wrong. The

detected all the subterranean maneuvers of Dorve Roche, 218, Chattanooga, Tenn. and Whitey Hewitt, 230, Louisville, in the semiwindup match. Flaunting the broad right bludgeon which rocked the jaws of the ring greats in past history, Old Tom held the grapplers in check when hair-pulling, eyegouging and other questionable tactics were used. Roche Awarded Fall The ex-heavyweight fighter forgot to count when the grapplers were out of the ring or on their backs, but realized that Hewitt had been resting his shoéulders on the mat too long to be a winner after 14 minutes of the match, and gave the fall to Roche. . Buck Buchanan took over the duties in the main event and was greeted with tumultous derision. Dick (Texas' Tornado) Raines triumphed over Paul Harper, also of Texas in a rough round of grappling and mauling that lasted 28 minutes. Raines gained the first fall with a series of body slams and backbreakers. Harper was unable to respond for further action when the state athletic commission’s physician announced that he had suffered a broken rib. § Roughhouse Rudy Laditzi/ - of Poughkeepsie won t preliminary event from Jim Morris of Memphis, Tenn., with a head lock and backbreaker after stretching Morris over the top rope to injure his back. The match lasted 28 minutes and Buchanan was the third man in the ring. .

Shirley Ann Takes Connersville Event

Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind. Aug. 19.— Shirley Ann won the 3-year-old pace in straight heats here yesterday at the annual Fayette county fair. Summary: 2:28 Trot (purse $200)—Won by Edith McKylo; Eleanor, second; Johnny Azoff, third. Best time, 2:12. Three-year-old Pace (purse $200) --Won by Shirley Ann; Mitzi, secSud; Tnaiana Lady, third. Best time,

TWO LOCAL PLAYERS WIN IN NEGRO MEET

Times Special WILBERFORCE, O., Aug. 19—

in the men's division. G Graves eliminated N. Sewell ¢. Roanoke, Va., 6-0, 6-2, for her second

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- Just before the storm broke. Cool, calculating Joe Louis is shown backing Jack Sharkey into the ropes a few moments before the Brown Blaster sent the ex-champ down for the first time in the second round of their schedued 10-rounder at Yankee Stadium, New York, last niglgt. Sharkey fought a defensive fight practically all the way and is seen here

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“going into a shell” in an attempt to ward off his rival's pulverizing blows. The veteran Boston sailor went down twice in the second stanza and twice in the third, staying down for the 10-count on the fourth drop. He was battered and through for the night.

Ex-Champion Retreats Under Fire

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pion of the world, is pictured above as he struggled to his feet and backed away like a wounded animal after going down under Joe Louis’ crushing right fist in

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Radio Fans Enjoy Thrills Actual Ringsiders Miss

Indianapolis fistic fans who attended the Louis-Sharkey fight by radio last night were not only “at the ringside” but also “on the inside.” In addition to a vivid, accurate blow-by-blow description by Ace Announcers Charles Francis Coe and Ted Husing, they enjoyed a “hear-in” -on interesting sidelights before and after the two gladiators clashed which only a very few of the 30,000 persons actually on hand at Yankee Stadium were privileged to take in. The broadcast, made possible by The Times and other Scripps-How-ard newspapers, allowed radio listeners to hear Referee Arthur Donovan as he laid down the law to Louis, Sharkey and their handlers before the scrappers squared off. A “mike,” dropped right into the huddle in the center of the ring, picked up Donovan’s words.

Through the Ropes

No sooner had Referee Donovan tolled the 10 count .over the tired, beaten body of Jack Sharkey than radio fans were right up in the thick of the tense activity of the ring with Announcer Ted Husing. First it was to the conquering Louis’ corner, where the happy Brown Bomber announced “I suah am glad to win.” is Then over to Sharkey’s .corner where it was found the battered Boston ex-sailor was in no condition to broadcast. More post-battle observations by Messrs. Coe and Husing at the ringside, then Scripps-Howard radio fans were whirled back into the hubbub of

young Louis’ dressing room. There the powerful Negro youth again went on the air and said he was back to the “Joe Louis of old” once more. He added a few remarks about another chance at the Schmeling feller. Walter Stewart, the New York World-Telegram’s ace boxing critic, was a busy member of the dressing room news corps but stopped long enough ‘to remind listeners he had picked Louis to win inside of five rounds.

Contrast in Sharkey’s Room

The sharp contrast of dejected quiet in the loser’s quarters could be sensed as the radio wire was switched to Sharkey’s dressing room. Jack sounded like a worn business man announcing a retirement as he gave a little speech in which the main theme was: “Youth must be served.” He is 12 years older than

have made a mistake,” the beaten veteran concluded. Local fans were commenting today on the radio concentration given the fight by the broadcast

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the second round. Referee Artie Donovan watches Louis come charging out of his neutral corner after tolling a nine-count over the Boston heavyweight. .

FIGHT FIGURES

By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 19— Figures on the Joe Louis-Jack Sharkey bout last night: Attendance—29,331. Paid Attendance—27,380. Gross Receipts—$159,982.26. Net Receipts—$136,345.82. Fighter's Share—Louis $40,903.74, Sharkey $34,086.45.

Four-Round Bouts Top Wallace Card

Two four-round bouts are to feature the amateur fistic program -at the Illinois Street Arena tomorrow

‘night. The first main go is to send Mil-

ton (Young) Bess, son of the retired Negro ringman, One Round Bess, against Les Douglass, Lafayette scrapper. They are junior lightweights. Walter Johnson, Oliver A. C.,, and Ray Brown, Lafayette, popular bantamweights, are fo clash in the other four-rounder. ‘Matchmaker Roy Wallace intends to fill out the card with five threeround bouts. Three of this number which aready have been set are: Bob Wallace, Lafayette, vs. Johnny Masters, Oliver A. C., wellers; Puritan Bed Springs,

today, . Louis, swiftly smashed down

10-round bout. Louis weighed 199% Carnera and Max Baer on his list of K. O’d ex-champions, Louis headed back up the comeback trail while, oddly enough, his conqueror of two months ago, Max Schmeling, was stalemated in his campaign to regain the titleholder’s toga. 1 Champion James J. Braddock, complaining of a mysterious injury to his left hand, won't fight Schmeling in September if he can get out of it.

Louis-Schmeling for Title

Louis is ready to fight anybody, but most of all the man who blasted him into the only defeat of a skyrocket career—Schmeling.

The next turn of the wheel of fistic destiny will be in the chambers of the New York State Athletic Commission Friday. The three commissioners will decide whether Braddock must fight Schmeling in September, will be allowed to wait until next year to meet the German, or will have his title vacated if he refuses to fight. The last possibility is remote but could happen. In that case, Schmeling and Louis might be named to fight for the title. With the title at stake, Schmeling says he would be willing to battle Louis again, but on that condition only. Sharkey was one of Louis’ easiest victims. The Detroit Negro hammered the garrulous gob ceaselessly in the first round, and cornered him ag if he were a novice instead of a one-time champion. Louis parried Sharkey’s blows, brushed aside his long left, and smashed his way in fearlessly in answer to the critics cry that he was gun-shy as & result of his drubbing by Schmeling.

Jack Doesn’t Even See ‘Em

In the next four minutes and two seconds Louis raked Sharkey’s body and head with a steady fusillade of punches, some of which Sharkey could see and couldn't get away from or block, but most of which were delivered with such blinding swiftness that he never knew what hit him. The first knockdown came way in the second round after the ‘| Brown Bomber had ripped open two old cuts over Sharkey’s left eye with left hooks. Sharkey, bleeding from his nose and eye, was gamely trying to reach the Negro with a damaging blow. But his leads were short or wild. Louis met him coming in with a short right chop to the chin, and Sharkey toppled to the floor. He got up at 9, his head awhirl. Hardly was he on his feet when Louis smothered him with gloves and Sharkey crumpled on the canvas again. He was bleary-eyed and wobbly when he arose at a count of 8, but lasted out the round.

Nearly Plunges Out of Ring

In the first exchange of punches in the third round, Louis smashed Sharkey to the floor again. He hit him with a vicious right as he was falling, almost knocking the exsailor out of the ring. Sharkey crashed face forward along the lower strand of rope and as he struggled on drunken legs to arise it seemed that he might fall off the ring’s edge into the laps of reporters. He finally scrambled back to his feet at the count of 8 to meet the merciless attack again. Moving stealthily, in inexorable, shuffling fa%hion which characterized his 27 straight victories—24 .by K. O—before he lost to Schmeling, the Brown Bomber came out af a neutral corner. He let go another volley of dynamite fists. Sharkey slumped to the floor in a heap. Sharkey, bleeding from the nose and eyes, sat there in abject defeat. He put his hand to his mouth and fumbled with his mouthpiece. As the count reached seven he tried to crawl, like a man who had lost the use of his limbs, toward his corner. He finally pulled one leg up, and was wavering on one hand and one leg as the referee tolled 10. They led him to his corner, and he muttered through thick lips. Someliing must have hit someWw Sg

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JOE LOUIS READY TO MEET ALL COMERS Youthful Mauler Moves in for the Kill’

| Brown Bomber Knocks Out Sharkey in Third, Returns to Select Fighting Circle

Young Negro Only Top-Flight Heavy in Position to Enter Ring as Schmeling, Braddock Mark Time; Makes Big Comeback in Victory Over Ex-Champ.

BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Another turn of boxing’s wheel of fortune whirled Joe Louis back into the select circle of heavyweight challengers the only man in his division ready to meet all comers. the stigma of his Schmeling defeat only a hazy memory, Jack Sharkey, a hollow shell of the once magnificent boxer, in Yankee Stadium last night before a crowd of 29,331, The Brown Bomber’s fisis, landing with pre-Schmeling force, sent Sharkey to the canvas four times and left him a bloody, beaten wreck after one minute five seconds of the third round

of their scheduled , Sharkey 197%.

Morgan Gains Close Victory

Seeded Players Advance in . City Court Tourney at Hawthorne.

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Favorites - advanced in second round encounters of the city tennis tournament at the Hawthorne Club courts yesterday with Dan Morgan, seeded No. 4, being exe tended to three sets to win over Bill Wright Jr., 6-3, 4-6, 8-6. Bill McMurdo also captured an extra-set match when he battled 46

games with Charles Bridge before winning, 3-6, 15-13, 6-3. Hank Campbell, defending champion, eliminated Toy Wood, 6-1, 6-2. Re= sults of other matches follow: Meyers Whitaker defeated Chick Ertel, 6-0, 6-2; Floyd Poore won over D. Etter, 6-1, 6-2; Bill MCcElvain defeated K. Hickman, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Don Wagoner defeated Stanley Malless, 6-3, 6-1; George Horst defeated Bob Bernd, 6-1, 6-2; Jerry Hart defeated William Fortune, 6-3, 6-1; Frederick W. Hunt defeated Bill Spell, 6-2, 6-4; Egbert Driscoll defeated P. Hedrick, 6-3, 6-1; Dave McKibben won from Jil Willson by default; Vincent Meunier defeated N. Whitney, 6-1, 6-1. Women’s singles matches and men’s doubles competition were to get under way today. Muriel Adams, defending champion, is seeded first in the women’s group. Fritz Bastian and C. Se top-ranking doubles players. Louise Karle won by default from Rosalind Campbell in the only match scheduled this morning. The afternoon pairings follow:

2 P. M.—Helen Fechtman vs. Peggy Kendall, Dorothy Duckwall vs. Dorothy Wilke, Alta Place vs. Josephine Doup. 4:30 P. M.—Muriel Adams vs. Helen Elliott, Ruth Ross vs. Mrs. Russell Fore

5:30 P. M.—Bertha Mueller vs. Marietta Miller, Elaine Milholland vs. Nina Brown. MEN’S DOUBLES 4 P. M.—Hilliker-Webb vs. Whitaker. 4:30 P. M.—Roth-Hickman vs. McElvain, Poore-Schneider vs.

Davey. ’ 5:30 P. M. — Dulberger-LaFollette vs. Goldman-Fletcher, Hunt-Horst vs. Hollo= way-Elliott, Bernd-Phillips vs. VedderMcKibben Malless-Crab vs. Morganpartner.

SAINTS BUY KLAERNER The St. Paul Saints have pure chased Hugo Klaerner, righthanded pitcher, from Oklahoma City of the Texas League. He is not ‘to report to the. Saints until next spring. At the time of his purchase, Klaerner had won 11 and lost 8.

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