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EDWARD LEE WINS
BILLIARD CROWN
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(Buzz) Bartling, one of the best
baseball players ever to perform
for Michigan State College, is said
to have interested Mickey Cochrane
of the Detroit Tigers, and Bill Ter-
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12— An-
other Jewish ball player is out to
make the big leagues—and he’s an-
other Cohen.
Sydney Cohen Is his name, and
he is a brother of Andy Cohen, who
played a couple of seasons with
John McGraw, strugggling in the
Giants’ infield.
Syd is a forkhanded El Paso
hurler who will get a trial with
Washington this spring. He joined
the Senators at the tail end of last
year, and pitched two games, win-
ning one.
Cohen has played with 11 clubs
in nine different leagues during his
career as a pro. He signed his
first contract with the San Fran-
cisco Seals of the Pacific Coast
League, trying out as a first base-
man. His inability to hit made
him change to pitching.
His record last year with Min-
neapolis in the American Associa-
tion, Chattanooga in the Southern,
and Washington was 14 victories
and 11 defeats.
The rookie is 25, weighs 185 and
Is 5 feet Hi Inches tall. He’s said
to have a steaming delivery.
OLD RIVALS
LAST MEET!
OF 1934 SEAS
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ATLANTA, *Ga. (UP)—Amer-
ica’s leading golfing professionals
and amateurs will compete here
April 12-14 in the second annual
$2,000 open golf tournament.
This follows immediately after
the second annual Masters’ tour-
nament at the Augusta National
Golf Club in which Bobby Jones
again will match himself against
the professional field.
Ky Laffoon, the Denver won-
der, took the Atlanta open last
spring. Horton Smith won the
Masters’ tournament at Augusta.
Leading Golf Pro*
To Play in Atlanta
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parents—a coyote, a bobcat, and a rabbit.
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Coger Is Son of Count
, NEW YORK—The College of the
City of New York has a player on
its basketball equad who ia the son
of a Russian count. He ia Sol Ko-
pitko, who is in line to inherit Ma
father’s title.
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The Hunt and Humble ba
ball teams meet tonight at CM
gymnasium for the last tlmt
season. Two rivals of long ■
ing, these two outfits have M
four times this season and M
those games were. Three 1
Hunt walked off the court;
the decision but only after 1
rifle clash and the Humbio
the other tilt decisively. ,
At Gaston tonight they VTl
douht put up a stubborn fig
this last meeting of 193*. 3
has announced that this garni
probably close their season as
are now having trouble fll
favorable opponents that
draw crowds. Whether or
Humble will play again afte
night has not been announce
• The lineups for the game
night will probably boast the
familiar faces that have pal
for the two teams moot of
season. They are: Hunt—Fr
Tompkins and Jim Gorsky,
vmrds; Moody Johns, center;
njc Tompkins and Oliver 8t
’tfr, gdaras. Humble—Flash 1
er and Koonce, forwards; Joe
ka, renter; Horace Harrll
and Charley Beard, guards.
As this la the last meetlnj
year fol* the Hunt and Hu
doe of the largest crowds *
season is expected to find it'i
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RURAL CAGERS PL
AT FAIR PARK I
' The weekly Rural cage m
set for tomorrow night at
£ark auditorium with throe
fast games to be reeled off.
nouncement has been mads
school students are to be aM
for five cents for the game,
nesday night. The adults
will remain the same, fifteen
to all. • ‘
The schedule tomorrow'
pits Crim’s Chapel against <
ton at 8:80 o'clock, with La*
■nd Minden to play an hour
The final game will be plaj
8:30 o’clock between ChS
and Church Hill.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (UP) —
Edward Lee, 29-year-old New
Yorker who divides his time be-
tween winning swimming mara-
thons and billiard tournaments,
announced today that he will at-
tempt to add the world amateur
got three-cushion championship to five
national titles.
The strapping, four-time win-
ner of the American long distance
swim scored his fifth straight vic-
tory in national three-cushion bil-
liards last night.
He and Gene Deardorff of St.
Louis came through the round
robin deadlocked with six victories
and one defeat each, and met in a
playoff which Lee won, 50-35 in
61 innings.
Lee won the bank, clicked off
two opening points and breezed
through to victory, with high runs
of five in the 23rd and 45th in-
nings. Deardorff’s best runs were
3 in six frames.
Deardorff, secretary to the vice
president of a mid-western rail-
road and competing in his first
national tournament, swaggered
through the match, but it was ob-
vious that Lee, a cool, deliberate
shot-maker, would be the win-
ner.
He will pack the suitcase which
was presented as first prize and
leave within a few weeks for
Paris in quest of the world title,
to be decided in April. Meanwhile
■he will take a swim a day to keep
in shape for billiards and possibly
for another defense of the Amer-
ican swim title which he retained
at Fall River, Mass., last August.
Moguls to Cut' Down
On “Annie Oakleys”
DURHAM, N. C. flip)—Don’t
expect a pass to professional
baseball games unless you arc
"legitimately entitled” to it this
year.
W. G. Bramham, president of
the National Association of Pro-
fessional Baseball Leagues,
nounced passes will be sent only
“to those directly connected i.
baseball and such persons as i----
be designated by the executive
commiittee.”
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Chicago . . . Sam and Georgia are th*
. . . Despite the fact that he ho lonSH
coaches the University of Chicago Ml “’
A. A. Stagg, now mentor of little Coll
the Pacific, still wears nothing but mardM
neckties.
By HENRY McLEMORE
ORLAXbO, Fla., Feb. 12 (UP)
• They don’t trot the Hambletonl-
an until August, and August is a
long way off, but I can tell you
positively right now, that that
$35,000 harness horse classic will
be won by Jim Haines.
Jim Haines is a big bay 3-year-
old belonging to Dick Reynolds,
of Winston-Salem, N. C. He was
fathered by Athlone Guy, mother-
ed by losola the Great, has big
brown eyes, a soft muzzle, a long
gushy tail that switches like a
cypress in a blow, and four of the
trotting-est legs that ever sank a
hoof into clay.
I met Jim Haines very intimate-
ly today. It was at the Seminole
Driving Club, 12 miles out of Or-
lando, where many of the top trot-
ting owners, trainers and drivers,
prepare their charges for the
grand circuit grind. A group of
us, including W. N. Reynolds, the
tobacco man; Ben White, who won
the Hambletonian in 1933; Tom
Berry, who got it in 1930; Will
Dickerson, Fred Strang, and oth-
ers whose names arc known to the
harness horse world, were gather-
ed near the track. It was not long
after dawn, and the day’s training
had just begun. It was Mr. Rey-
nolds (they said he was a kindly
man) who first suggested that I
work one of the trotters.
“You write about the races,” he
said, "So why don't you ride a
sulky and really learn something
about them?”
"I know plenty,” I said. "Learn
too much about a sport and you
get technical and dull. But I’ll
try it some day, just for the fun."
“Track's mighty fine today," he
ea!<’. "You’ll love it.”
’ ’on surely will,” said Mr,
White, in a tone that I didn't fully
appreciate until later.
; s scle and easy as driv-
ing a pair of :’;t. Bernards,” vol-
unteered Mr. Epan.
"All right," I said, ‘‘I’ll drive
one, but make it a nice gentle
one, 'bout a 15-year-old. And say,
do those buggies have brakes?"
So they brought out Jim Haines.
I didn’t say anything, but even in
the half dawn, and with all the
fog, he didn't look like a 15-year-
old to me. His ears were twitch-
ing.
While two grooms held Jim. I
climbed in. I never knew a racing
sulky was so entirely inadequate.
There’S not any more to 'em than
a roast chicken after a family of
seven has finished Sunday dinner.
Just two big wheels, a little seat
about the size of a woman’s hand-
kerchief, and two steel hoops to
stick your feet in.
All the time I was getting set,
they were telling me what a gentle
thing old Jim was.
"You'll have to whip him
ably,” Mr. Reynolds said,
he'll stop and eat grass,
ful old and lazy.”
"Slowest horse I ever saw,” said
Mr. White. "If he sits down to
rest, don’t let it bother you.”
Finally I got my goggles ad-
justed, my gloves on, my whip
set.
The grooms stepped
Somebody clucked.
That cluck set Jim Haines on
fire. His mother must have been
frightened by a hen, for when he
heard that cluck he literally picked
me and sulky up, and lit out.
ed the right way. If they hadn't
we'd have been in Pensacola by
Fortunately, they had him head-
now. Five strides out and he had
swung to the rail and settled down
to racing. I forgot all the advice
about driving that had been given
me, and devotod my entire atten-
tion to staying in that flying
sulky. Looping the reins about
my neck, I wrapped myself about
that buggy like spaghetti on a
fork. Mud hit me in the chest and
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Amos Alonzo Stagg, Jr., son
of the former U. ot Chicago
grid mentor, who l« preBent
coach nt College of tho Pacino,
niny follow in hln dad's foot*
steps. Young Stagg planned to
confer with official* of Kent , d
State College, Kent, O„ on the 7
position- as’ head coach there. <
However, an attack of append!* 1
cltis put him In a Chicago hos- (
pltal. where ho is ahown above.
His father, on the way east,
stopped off at Kent and hpoke ;
for him. His appointment la ex> , ,
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AUGUSTA, Ga.—Bol
will stage hia aecond nu
tournament here April 4
five proa have been eent
to take part in the claa
Henderaon’a lineup ag
*_2 ^->ni*ht will pr<
eorga Altenberg and ■
la, forward*; Jam**
diter; and Robert Di
'ataon, guards.
The Henderson High Lion*
hope to chalk up their aecond vic-
tory in a* many rtarta against tho
Marshall Maverick* tonight when
they invade that city for a hoop-
looping tilt. Several week* ago
the local quint bumped the Mava
in fine style at the local pavillion
but it i* expected that tho going
will be some tougher in tonight’*
meeting.
Henderson will not play another
game the latter part of the week
as they usually do, account of the
Rusk county Interscholastic Lea-
gue tournament that ia to be in
session. The Lion* will enter tho
Class A. division of th* county
meet with Gaaton, London, Over-
ton, Carlisle, Leverett'* Chapel,
Tatum and Laneville. About
twelve Class B team* will also be
entered in the tourney, the aite
of which hae not been announced
aa yet. It was first scheduled to ______
be held at Fair Park gym here thall toni;
but was called off and a decision
will probably be made a* to where
Hm meet will be held In a day or
two. , •M-nlRlffillHfrKy__________
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.. If Connie Mack signs up
three more good singers, he
can have a quartet to produce
sweet harmony in spring train-
ing camp this year. Joe Cas-
carella. pitcher, would make the
fourth member, as he is a pret-
ty well-known crooner around
Philadelphia. Here is the Mack
flinger in the middle ot a
scorching torch song.
AmI ,.
Win, lose or draw, Marvin
Westenberg intends to deal Pat
Riley plenty of misery on the
main event of Promoter T. D.
Griffin’s wrestling show at Fair
Park auditorium Thursday night.
In other words he is going to
make the scrapping little Irishman
pay dearly for the rough treat-
ment he used in their first match
here last week.
The trouble started last Thurs-
day night when Riley roughed the
big, trim Westenberg with all the
dirty tactics known to the profes-
sion, the match resulting in the
disqualification of the the Tacoma
Irishman. He immediately start-
ed howling to Promoter Griffin
that he got a lousy decision from
Referee Harry Caddell but that is
as far as it went. He then asked
for a return match but flatly re-
fused to come back with Caddell
any where in the building. Grif-
fin agreed to the return match
provided another referee was
available and Westenberg would
accept terms.
The husky Westenberg agreed
to a match with Riley under any
conditions, with or without a ref-
eree, and confidentially told the
local promoter that he would per-
sonally guarantee to wind Riley
up like a clock. Cliff Chambers,
a scrappy little fellow, has been
selected as the third man in the
ring. He is a welterweight wrest-
ler and one of the best known
referees in the Southwest. He
weighs only 165 but handles the
big bruising heavyweight grap-
plers wi$i comparative ease.
Another indication that this
week’s wrestling program will be
one of the beat offered here in
many a day lie* in the fact that
LaVeme Baxter, popular Canad-
ian, is back on the card. The 220-
pound Canadian is probably tho
most popular matman ever to
grace the squared circle here. Hia
opponent for thia week is Bruce
Nolan. They meet on the semi-
final, the beat two out of three
falls with one hour time limit.
The preliminary pits Chambers,
who will referee the main event,
against George Jone* .wrestling
promoter of Tyler. Chambers was
for three year* amateur champion
of the mid-west in the middle-
weight division and runner-up in
the 1928 Olympics. Until he turn-
ed pro several months ago, he was
wrestling instructor at the Y. M.
C. A. in Austin.
Pie Traynor is optimistic about
a Pittsburgh club’s pitching for
the first time in seven years, and
has a sneaking suspicion that he
may become a miracle man like
Mickey Cochrane in his first full
season as a manager.
“At least I sincerely believe
that the Pirates will be trouble-
makers,’’ says Traynor, who is in
California completing training
camp arrangements at San Ber-
nardino and adjusting salary dif-
ferences with the recalcitrants,
Arky Vaughan, Gussie Suhr, and
Babe Herman, who this season
switches his allegiance to Pitts-
burgh, and without a headguafd.
“For the last two years, our
pitchers have been strong in the
spring and fall, but have faded
in the hot months.”
Because Pittsburgh landed Guy
Bush, baseball men generally
credit Traynor with having obtain-
ed the best of the transaction
that brought the outstanding
right-hander, the giant Jim Weav-
er, and Herman from the Chiacgo
Cubs in exchange for Larry
French and Freddie Lindstrom.
Traynor points to the fact that
Bush and Weaver won 29 games
for the Bruins, or 17 more than
French was able to account for
in Bucco Livery. Pittsburgh also
has the veteran Waite Hoyt, who
grabbed 15 decisions after being
given his initial starting assign-
ment in late June; Ralph Birk-
ofer, a southpaw, who showed un-
mistakable signs of developing;
and other holdovers of established
worth in Bill Swift, Hal Smith,
Heinie Meine, and Red Lucas.
Traynor’s introductory remarks
do not have to do with Bush and
Weaver or the holdovers, howev-
er. They are devoted to three
right-handed recruits who led as
many minor leagues in strikeouts
in 1934.
They are Mace Brown, who
turned in 19 victories as against
14 reverses for Tulsa while estab-
lishing himself as the strikeout
king of the Texas League; Cy
Blanton, who won the same dis-
tinction in the International; and
Steamboat Clarence StVuss, who
showed the way in blowing down
batsman in the Southern. Struss
brings another fireball into the
National League.
“In the ordinary course of
events, a manager could expect at
least one of three such expert
handcuffers to be ready for the
majors,” comments the affable
Traynor.
Pittsburgh also has acquired
Jack Salveson from the Giants
and Lloyd Johnson and Wayne
Osborne, a four-fingered flinger,
from the Mission club of the Pa-
cific Coast League.
Of this groyp of 14, Traynor
feels certain that he will be able
to find a balanced staff of five
starters and five relief workers.
Traynor knows that four out-
fielders who hit left, the Waners,
Herman, and Forrest Jensen, isn’t
an. Ideal situation, but confesses
that there is nothing he can do
about it, so will go along and do
the best he can. The Pirates of-
fered the Boston Braves a pitch-
er, catcher, and an infielder for
Hal Lee, but Bill McKechnie said
no.
Pilot Pie visions Herman giving
the Buccos a needed long-distance
punch, and considers the tall res-
ident of Glendale gn excellent
baserunner.
Traynor is not satisfied with
his catching, either. Tom Padden,
Hal Finney, and Earl Grace are
back, with Aubrey Epps, from
Birmingham, and Walter Van
Grofski, from Little Rock, at-
tempting to edge in.
Pittsburgh sought Alfred Ches-
ter Todd, the large Trojan who
hit .318 in dividing the Phillies’
backstopping with Jimmy Wilson,
in a three cornered deal that also
would have lassoed Lee,
Braves’ right-hand hitting
fielder.
Hearing that Todd might be on
the market, Bill Terry, of the
Giants, made the Phildelphia out-
fit a proposition and received a
counter one in the way of a price
that knocked him right back into
the idea of stringing aldng with
Harry the Horae Danning and Gua
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And Traynor departed off for
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GLENDALE, Calif., Feb. 12—
(UP)—MacDonald Smith today
headed a new section in the an-
nals of tournament golf after he
cooly executed a 60-foot putt to
win the Nassau half of the $6500
Oakmont open.
The historic shot came as the
veteran Scot approached the 18th
green. Spectators mentally had
put him into a tie with Henry Pi-
card and Ky Laffoon as he lay
60 feet from the cup.
Picard, the Hershey, Pa., pro
who won the Agua Caliente open
Sunday, and Laffoon of Denver
tied at 29 match points to win
$325 each.
Smith, winner of the medal half
of the tournament, increased his
winnings yesterday to $1,150
when he took the Nassau sweep-
stakes.
Picard’s tie for second place to-
day placed him among the leading
money winners of the winter sea- |
son.
Other winners in the Nassau
play were Horton Smith, Oak
Park, Ill., $225; Bunny Torpey, _____
Kansas City, $175; Johnny Re-
volta, Milwaukee, $150; Ray Man-
grum, Los Angeles, $150; Harry
Cooper, Chicago, $125; Jimmy
Hines, Timber Point, L. L, $125.
Twenty of the leading pros
and amateurs of the winter sea-
son today started play in the
$2000 Palm Springs invitational
open, last of the winter money
events on the coast. Play con-
tinues through tomorrow.
on the face. The track,
when I had been sitting
fence, had seemed so smooth,
rough as cobblestones,
didn’t miss a bump.
One time around and I
enough courage to open an eye
and look at Jim. It was a reas-
suring sight, and a thrilling one,
for Jim didn't look like a runaway.
He was, from my view, poetry of
motion, with his legs working as
surely and swiftly as the pistons
of a great machine. As we start-
ed the second mile I was sitting
upright, and liking it.
I spoke to Jim. “Whoa, there
boy, whoa there!” and he minded
Even as I spoke Jim eased
A gentle pull on the reins
and he slowed to a gentle trot, and
held it until we pulled alongside
the gentlemen on the rail.
"How’d you lik^ it?” asked
Egan. “Pretty good trotter at 15
years, Isn't he?”
“Fifteen, hell," I said. "He’ll
carry my dough at Goshen in Au-
gust. What’s we do the first mile
in? A minute flat?”
But they had forgotten to clock
me, which Is just as well, for they
don’t make clocks that fast.
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