The White Falcon - 25.03.1944, Qupperneq 6

Otto Graham Proves Players
Make Ball Club; Pot Shots
These pointers
paid off! Pvt.
Andy Riccardi,
left, shown get-
ting a few tips
from T/5 Lucky
Lucchese, used
his ring know- „
ledge to good
advantage when
the IBC mitt
team made its
first showing in
London. Riccar-
di turned in one
of the big up-
sets of the show
as he decisioned
a former Golden
Gloves champ
from Oklahoma.
-Our Men Win in London
Otto Graham is going a long
way in proving the old sports
statement that players, not the
system, make the ball club. On
his transfer from Northwestern
to Colgate, Otto went out the
next night to play for the Raid-
ers against NYU. He had to be
introduced to his teammates; but
even though they played a style
strange to him, he led them to
victory with 19 points. A few
nights later, after he had been
able to practice With them only
once, he again took the floor
against Sampson Naval, a strong
middy team, and furnished the
spark as he led his underdog
mates to a crushing victory. The
Colgate coaching staff is going
around talking to itself, crossing
fingers and doing everything else
to influence the gods to let Otto
stay for Raider football.
•
Right after the Army turned
him down, Bronko Nagurski was
offered six grand by Paul Bow-
ser, wrestling promoter, for six
wrestling matches in the East.
The Bronk couldn’t find anyone
to feed his stock while he was
away, so he had to turn the bid
down and stay on his farm ....
Navy Lt. Harry March, former
Carolina track star, now a mem-
ber of the Skull and Crossbones
Squadron in the South Pacific,
recently added his fifth Zero,
giving him ace rating. March won
the 1940 Penn Relays, 400-meter
hurdles and the National Pent-
athlon championship the same
year .... Newark has signed a
new shortstop, Alton Biggs, a full-
blooded Indian from Grunbrier,
Ark. Bigg’s chief claim to fame
is that he is not known as
“Chief.” They call him “Arky.”
•
First thing Rogers Hornsby did
after taking over the Vera Cruz
club in the Mexican League was
to hire Chico Hernandez, Cuban
third baseman, who played for
Syracuse last year. The Syracuse
office immediately set up a howl
about the Rajah stealing players
.... A gathering of Naval officers
at Fort Pierce, Fla., probably left
some pro football scouts drooling
Four of the boys in attendance
were Lou Midler, All-American
tackle at Minnesota and later
with the Green Bay Packers, War-
ran Plunket of the Gophers and
later with the Cleveland Rams,
Johnny Tripson of Mississippi
State and Detroit Lions, and Jack
Boone of the Cleveland Rams.
•
When the final listings of the
Madison Square Garden basket-
ball tournament were made, St.
Johns of Brooklyn was the only
New York club chosen .... Bad
ammunition isn’t affecting only
the Army. Bob Ufer of Michigan
set a new world’s record in the
600-yard run at the Garden the
other night, but it wasn’t recog-
nized because he jumped the gun.
In trying to fire another shot to
recall the runners, starter Jack
Lavelle jerked the trigger four
times before one of the shells
went off and by that time the
boys were to far along to stop.
•
Jack Sharkey has returned
from his' overseas tour booming
French, sailor-welterweight Mar-
cel Gordan as a coming champion
if he can get to this country....
The word around Albany, N.Y.,
is that Gov. Dewey will give Ge-
neral Phelan the old heave-ho as
head of the boxing commission
.. .Frank Leahy, the Notre Dame
coach, is all set for his over-
seas tour and is now sweating
out an Army okay.
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was a clean cut decision.
The IBC’s Bill Romano gave
his team a good start when he
outpointed Pvt. Johnny Pecoraro,
a New York 125-pounde,r in a
sizzling opener. Romano, who
weighed 125, finished fast to gain
the verdict.
Cpl. Billy MacDonald, Brook-
lyn 134-pounder, brought home
another win for our side, edging
Pvt. Herb Brining, 137-pound En-
gineer, who fought under the
Iceland banner before reaching
Britain.
Pvt. Jimmy Karjanis, Iceland’s
164-pounder frQm New Haven,
Conn., left-jabbed Pvt. Vance
James, 170-pound Negro Engineer
from Raleigh, N.C., into submis-
Beau jack Easily
Beats Bum my Davis
In a one-sided ten round bout
at Madison Square Garden this
week, slugging Beau Jack out-
punched A1 “Bummy” Davis of
Brooklyn before 19,963 fans and
thereby earned a return match
with Bob Montgomery, to whom
he lost his New York-Pennsyl-
vania lightweight title recently.
Davis opened the contest with
a rush that seemed a repetition
of his 63-second kayo of Mont-
gomery five weeks ago, but Jack
weathered the storm and went
on to give his opponent an artis-
tic pasting. One judge gave Jack
all ten rounds.
Dartmouth, Tulane
On Irish Schedule
The fighting Irish of Notre
Dame have booked a rugged sche-
dule of ten grid encounters in
as many weeks for 1944. The list
includes two new teams, Tulane
and Dartmouth, whom the Irish
are going to, meet for the first
time in their football history.
The schedule starts on the 30th
of September and ends on the
2nd of December, with the green
warriors meeting Carnegie Tech
at Pittsburgh; Tulane at Notre
Dame; Dartmouth at Boston;
Wisconsin at Notre Dame; Illi-
nois at Champaigri; Navy at Bal-
timore; Army at New York;
Northwestern at Notre Dame;
Georgia Tech at Atlanta, and
Great Lakes at Notre Dame.
sion in the next bout, and Sgt.
Bill Roach of Charlotte, N.C., 137,
followed this victory up by de-
cisioning Pvt. Clement Marrone,
Cleveland 141-pounder, after
dumping him to the canvas for
a nine count with a solid right
to the jaw in the first.
S/Sgt. Frankie Albano, IBC
heavyweight champ from Flush-
ing, N.Y., made the evening 100%
successful by whipping Sgt. Wil-
lis Cornelius of Atlantic City, N.
J., in a slow contest. Albano
weighed 183, his opponent 185.
Dundee Predicts
Big Things For
Tommy Bell
Chris Dundee, who became a
fighterless manager after the
Navy took his two boxing boys,
Ken Overlin and Georgie Abr-
ams, has^come back to the game
with a new find.
One day last June, Chris pick-
ed a letter from his mail box
postmarked Youngstown, Ohio.
The writer was a Negro boy
named Tommy Tell who wanted
Chris to become his manager.
He explained that his brother-
manager had gone into the Army
and left him without a pilot.
Chris became manager of sen-1
sational Tommy Bell. His new
protege stopped three opponents
in three different towns in one
week to make his Record read 34
straight wins with 25 kayos.
Some of the experts have tagg-
ed Tommy as “the black McLar-
nin” because his combination of
poise, ring style, boxing expert-
ness and bone-crushing right
hand are reminiscent of Jimmy
McLarnin, one-time king of the
welterweights’.
Bell has been seeing New York
recently with Dundee, trying to
line up a welterweight shot at
“Tippy” Larkin, A1 Davis or
some other well known puncher.
Tommy’s only comment is, “Ah
jess ain’t a hit choosey.”
Final Hockey Standings
W. L. T. P.
Montreal . 38 5 7 83
Detroit . 26 18 6 58
Toronto . 23 23 4 50
Chicago . j. ... . 22 23 5 49
Boston . 19 26 5 43
New York ... . 6 39 5 17
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Yank, British
Bouts Top Card
At Fieldhouse
British and American mixed
bouts will headline tonight’s box-
ing card at the Andrews’ Field-
house. In addition to the Anglo-
American scuffles, GuSmundur
Arason, boxing coach and refe-
ree of the Icelandic Armann
Sports Club, will present two
bouts featuring his popular
paperweights.
The complete card shapes up
as follows: AC1 W. A. Koch, 142,
RAF vs. Pvt. Sal Mercurio, 140,
Boston, Mass.; AC1 J. Murphy,
147, RAF vs. Pvt. Manuel Santi-
ago, 141, Dover, N.J.; LAC Evans,
160, RAF vs. Sgt. Jimmy South,
170, Sulphur Springs, Tex.; LAC
Kid Warwick, 134, RAF vs. Sgt-
Arthur Currie, 128, Rahway, N.J-J
AC1 George Ades, 174, RAF vs.
Pvt. John Robish, 188, Phila., Pad
AC2 P. Edwards, 161, RAF vs.
Pfc. Woodrow Ferguson, 162,
Joplin, Mo.; Marteinn Bjorgvins-
son, 100, Iceland, vs. Bjorn Jbn-
asson, 102, Iceland; and Kristinn
Gunnarsson, 103, Iceland, vs.
FriSrik GuSnason, 95, Iceland.
Cards Get ’Em Young
The St. Louis Cardinals are
looking far into the future. This
week, Terry Morton Beazley,
four-week-old son of Lt. Johnny
Beazley, former Card pitching
ace, received a St.* Louis con-
tract calling for $400 monthly
for the season of 1962.
Lt. Beazley, who named bis
son after Terry Moore, Cardinal
outfielder, and Morton Cooper,
the club’s star catcher, said:
“What’s good enough for me is
good enough for Terry. Hes
gonna sign with the Cardinals
now, but I guess he’ll have to
write with a safety pin.”
Catcher Ray Hayworth, ■$’
former catcher of the Detroit
Tigers and out of baseball roost
of last year, has been signed by
the Dodgers, the team he start-
ed with last season. Hayworth
makes the 30th member of the
Dodger roster.