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'OLD PETE REMEMBERED A month ago sick, pennilesa and In need of medical rare, rover Cleveland Alexander arrived in SpringfieW. I1L Today, "Old Pete befan to look about him with more optimistic eye. Recovered In health, he discovered that the fans have not forgotten him br a long tboU They threw him a dinner last night on the occasion of his 50th birthday. "Alex the Great" itiU wanU to pitch, he revealed. MARIBEL VINSON TO FORE Miss Maribel Vinson of New York and Montgomery Wilson of Toronto were in the lead as the North American figure skating championships entered its second day of competition in Boston.

Miss Vinson was seen in one of her finest performances as she took an edge over three Canadian rivals, but Wilson In torn forced in front of his American competitors, tach excelled in the compulsory figures numbers. DAILY SPOMTS 8 NEW YORK CITY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937 Ml 3 Montanez Moves Up to No. 1 Position Among Title Challengers Not Wishing to Confuse You By Ed Hughes U. Hughes' COLUMN Dodgers Left-Handed Batters to Face Plenty Of Portside Pitching By JAMES J. MURPHY Sports Editor "Many a practical joke has involved a left-handed monkey wrench.

But they are nothing in comparison to all the left-handed pitching the Brooklyn Dodgers are going to look at in training this Spring at Clearwater, Fla. Manager Burleigh Grimes has an obsession, complex or whatever you want to call it, on the subject. He can't understand the fallacy or theory of the average portside hitter being unable to cope with any degree of success against southpaw twirling. The aggressive field chieftain has a squad that is well stocked with fork hand mace wielders and he is going to make it his business to see that they are just as apt at clubbing "cock- SUPPOSE JoE fo6 oVEA Pedro Looked Like a Million Dollars PEDRO MONTANEZ stands lorth today as the foremost challenger for Lou Ambers' lightweight title. The cop-per-hued Puerto Rican youngster couldn't have left much doubt about that in Enrico Venturi's mind after their combat in Madison Square Garden last night.

Montanez unleashed one of the steadiest and most thorough scourg-ings a lightweight has suffered in the Eighth Avenue battle pit in a long while. In return, the lantern-jawed, expressionless Italian youth gave an equally robust exhibition of durability. His brain punch-addled, his knees buckling and arms moving feebly, Venturi just did manage to survive the limit of 15 rounds. There wasn't any trouble for the officials to arrive at Montanez as the winner. Venturi's display of durability and persistent fighting spirit matched the grim punishing power of his conqueror.

He had taken an ungodly hammering most of the way, and although floored twice Venturi scarcely changed expression from the walloping. His resistance to a regular cyclone of heavy blows in the final round will not quickly be forgotten by ringsiders who sat in on the cruel scene. Display of Ganieness rpHE ITALIAN had been severely bumped in the preceding sessions, yet when the gong rang for the 15th Venturi came out with astonishing gusto. This was a case of the spirit being willing but the flesh protesting the business. Venturi, weakened" fjom the long thumping, nevertheless forced a slugging bee with his muscular, comparatively fresh opponent.

Montanez cheerfully obliged and for a half-minute it was give and take. Venturi, drawing from the roots of his nerve force, held his own. But he was swinging at random, with his inviting chin In the breeze. Montanez, who had been uncorking scorching right shots to this target throughout, let another go. It parked on Venturi's sagging lower maxillary.

Venturi pitched to the floor In a neutral corner. It looked like a knockout. But scarcely had that impression formed In your mind when Venturi bobbed up, disdaining a count. Oddly enough he came up dancing a giddy jig and waving his arms in faint battle gestures. Montanez merciless, measured him.

He slammed another bone-cracking right, then another and another. Eight in all, sandwiched in amongst tigerish body ripping at his stricken, reeling foe. Venturi careened about the ring, wavering under the smites, but somehow he managed to hang on or flounder away. At one point it seemed that referee Donovan might halt the slaughter, but he didn't. And in the last half-minute Venturi was actually feebly trying to carry the battle Awes The NtY QmamssioA has CkEc.LAR.us the.

TiUe VACAot Vfa ScHMeUe Mo I OtAU-ewft. Awt Brooklyn Poly Chalks Up 12tl Court Triumpl Forge to Front in 2d Half to Defeat Cooper Uni ion, to 2 3 The Brooklyn Polytechnic bas-keteers defeated Cooper Union, 35 to 25, last night at Odd Fellows Hall. The victory marked the 12th win in 17 starts for the Engineers. Poly Tech got off to a slow start and the lead jumped back and forth in the first half, neither team leading by more than five points at any time. The halftime period found the Livingston St.

players ahead, 16 to 15. Long shots from mid-court by Hank Johnson, Poly forward, and a series of lay-up shots fired by Ed Denzer gave Poly the lead of 28 to 24 late in the second half. With three minutes of play remaining, the Cooper Union hoop-sters peppered the basket with long shots from ail parts of the court. A goal from underneath the basket by Johnson and a looping shot by Bill Waller netted, the Poly team a 32 to 24 lead. Joe Mahoney of Cooped Union converted a foul shot and Don Pitman of Poly retaliated.

A final lay-up shot by Ed Denzer Continued an Following Page 3 A i I 4 i i I i i -4 4 I i 1 THfXfcS Mo TrntAi A Chicai Mow Pratt Quintet Finds Range to Beat Delaware Local Team Scores Easy 54 to 40 Triumph After Trailing at Half After trailing nntire first half, the Pratt Institute's basketball team came out on top of a 54 to 40 score against the University of Delaware quintet, last night, on the winner's Ryerson St. court. The Delaware collegians started out in the first half at a terrific pace, running up a lead of 7 to 3 before the Pratt team could barely handle the ball. The visitors dropped baskets in an unorthodox manner and shot the ball every time they handled it. Pratt had different designs on the theory of the game playing to a blue print offense.

This method worked successfully after the first five minutes of play and enabled the engineers to keep pace with the Diamond State invaders. The half ended with the black and gold on the short end of a 2625 count. In the second period the designers mixed a bit of technical science with experience and the result showed a marked improvement in quick time. Jack Mangani, probably one of the smallest players in college ball, he stands five feet five inches, scored three two-pointers on follow-up and cut plays to put the art students in the lead. From this point on, the entire squad of Brooklyn scientists combined their skill and ran away with the game.

Nick Continued on Fallowing Page start. He was an outfielder at Monroe, La, in 1932, turned to catchiiiR at Nashville the following year. But he still occasionally fills in at some other position, and, in the course of his career, has played everywhere on the diamond except at short-top. His batting record follows: Y-r Cub HI1 1 Mnnr'i 11 Nnshvlllf I'l 13 Nhvlllr 1ITI4 WUiinmsport la Jb AB HR Av 'No record It. I Mi 27 9 .313 IM 21 41 a ,.113 3S0 41 01 0 .174 .131 4ti0 88 1M 4 .335 .1 17 317 57 95 7 .106 3J5 54 DH 0 TOMMY HOLMES, Schumacher Finds Panacea in Bowling Prince Hal Takes to Pin Came to Straighten Out Ailing ArmAll Traces of Soreness Missing in Workout at Giants' Havana Training Camp By HAROLD PARROTT Staff Correspondent of The L'agle Havana, Feb.

27 Prince Hal's arm is right again. The Schumacher whip is the big news in the Giant camp, although Terry's team is to clash today with a tougher outfit than tne Cuban army nine which beat them Wednesday, 7 to 4. The Habana-Almendares, a professional team in the local league, will toss either Lefty i Tiant or Bee Rosell against the New I -rr eyes" as right-handers. Long drills up at the plate are in store for all those who swing from the portside and it will be done almost exclu sively against lefties. They'll get so much of it to bring about effi ciency that the rival clubs will be afraid to start a southpaw against the Dodgers, a hoodoo that annoyed them no little in 1936.

WILL FACE RIGHT-HANDED PITCHING, TOO This does not mean that the bat ters will face no right-handers. They will get plenty of opportunity to paste the offerings of the orthodox heavers, too. It is a hard-hitting, aggressive and fast-moving outfit on the paths that Grimes is determined to develop or know the reason why. No fewer than six southpaws will concentrate on eliminating what weaknesses the left-handed batters have against their assortment of twisters. They include Ralph Bir-kofer, Watson Clark, Harry Eisen- stat and Roy Henshaw, and Bob Duffy and Jake Houtekamer, the latter two farm-hands of Allentown, who will be afforded another oppor tunity to demonstrate whether they have acquired the necessary experience to stick with the parent body.

uuny, a product of Boston Col lege, who lives in Waltham, was in the first squad to leave New York today for the training camp. Two war correspondents made up the remainder of the entouraee. Duffy was out with Dayton last season where he won 18 and lost 11 of the 35 games in which he appeared. In the 241 innings he worked he allowed 258 hits and fanned 146. It earned him promotion to Allentown.

Bob was Manager Ducky Holmes' ace. Of the outfielders fighting it out for regular beats, six are left- handed hitters Heinle Manush. Randy Moore, Eddie Morgan, Nick Tremark, Eddie Wilson and Jack Wtnsett. johnny Cooney. who throws left-handed, and Gil Brack are the only right-handed batting gardeners.

HASSETT ANDPHELPS OTHER LEFTY HITTERS Two of the others who figure to be in the regular lineup, First Baseman Buddy Hassett and Catcher Gordon Phelps, also swing irom the portside. The additional athletes, save Jimmy Bucher, are all right-handed swingers. John Gorman, business manaccr of the club, who was expected to move for Florida today but because of the pressure of work had to postpone his leaving untU Monday, relieved all the concern about there being a dearth of catchers at the camp to warm up the pitchers. He pointed out that Otto Denning, who was with Davenport last season and who was advanced to Elmira, and two other receivers from the club, Walter Van Grofski and Elmer Klumpp, will be on hand to help out, as will Francis Donnellan, ft graduate of the school conducted at Ebbbets Field last season. Donnellan Is making th: trip at his own expense, but he may earn his way if he proves valuable enough around the camp.

Morgan and Bedford Defeated on Links Palm Beach, Feb. 27 G. K. Morgan of Bellport, L. I and his partner, H.

A. Bedford of New York were defeated in the title consolation class final round in the annual two-ball invitation foursome coif tournament at the Palm Beach Golf Club yesterday. The succumbed to G. Horton Glover and J. Whalen, both of New York City, by 2 up and 1 to play.

Hugh L. Willoughby 3d of Phila delphia and his partner, George Rasmussen of Chicago, won the tournament. They overwhelmed Jo seph Schenck Jr. of New York and Allan K. Wylie of Winnetka, 111., bv 8 up and 7 to play in the 36-hole final round.

Donovan Follows Jn Dad's Footsteps Johnny Donovan, Dartmouth's crack hurdler and a brilliant first baseman on the baseball nine, is a son of Patsy Donovan, former manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He has been spotted as a future prospect for the majors by Jeff Tesreau, ex-Giant pitcher, who coaches the Green nine. Donovan, who resides in Lawrence, prefers baseball to any other sport, but he is frequently pulled off the baseball diamond to skip over the barriers to compile valuable points. Thus, he is not as advanced as far as he should be, but Tesreau insists that he has the makings of a big leaguer. JAMES M.

MURPHY. Lion Cubs Click In Preview for 1938 Campaign Coach Mooney's Dress Rehearsal Successful Against Dartmouth By RALPH TROST The Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League title is undoubtedly Penn's. So Paul Mooney, Columbia's basketball coach, took the chance last night that the five who will probably be Columbia's regulars next season, could hold their own against Dartmouth. The young Lions made the grade. But the squeeze was tight, Columbia ekeing out a 44 43 victory over the team which last week beat the Light Blue in Hanover.

Mooney took quite a gamble for a coach. Columbia, with three more home games to play, can still finish second. It would look bad for the Lions if they, second last year, runner-ups in a playoff the year before and champions the season before that, finished worse than second. Though trailing by 16 points at the end of the half of the game in Hanover, Columbia came back strongly, pulled up within a basket of a tie. Last night the young Lions almost reversed the procedure.

They got a sizable lead early in the first half, but then almost drowned in an avalanche of Dartmouth goals, the Indian set shot artists, Thomas and Cottone, popping in six "quickies" and a foul. Only Ganzen-mullcr's odd basket out of the shuffle beneath the basket helped the Lion's to a skinny one-point lead at the half. The second half was largely a repitition of the first. But Coach Mooney kept the young 'uns in, Casey and Ganzenmuller not entering the fray until the closing minutes of the ball game. O'Brien Guides Team Columbia's 1938 squad didn't look bad except for some loose passing.

John O'Brien, the former St. John's Prep youngster, steered the team, set up the plays. Those passes he gave Anderson on his last two tal lies were faultless. Particularly that last which came with only 90 seconds to go. Columbia used Stanton Leggitt at center in place of the veteran Jim Casey.

Leggitt, a former crewman, showed the height, the stamina and the willingness. But he also evi denced a lack of assurance, his ball handling being about the weakest on the team. As a scorer he man aged to come up with three baskets and three fouls which helped out a lot. What Columbia attempted last night against Dartmouth, L. I.

will probably try against Brooklyn College when they meet in half of the Hippodrome double-header to night. Brooklyn College, beaten this week by Seth Low, hasn't come up to Kingsmen's standard. But Wednesday night L. I. regulars, Continued on Following Page Sid Franklin, and Ernest Hem Semple McPherson's recent tion authorities have forbidden them from appearing in the U.

S. Down in Havana at the Giants camp, Horace Stoneham, prexy, and Joe Haggerty, his personal friend, have a constant bodyguard of two nottily-dressed soldiers, right-hand men of ruigcncio Batista, army chieftain, and the No. 1 man on the Island I You can't identify Honey Russell with anything else but basketball he coaches the Seton Hall College players, plays with the Jewels, owns and manages the Utica Pros and is a booking agent for local clubs also he sells basketball equipment! You can always count on an "Abe Brom berg" cheering section at the L. I U. court tilts there is always a section of at least 20 rooters who think the game ls a waste of time unless Abe is playing! LEW ZEIDLER.

to Montanez. He pushed gloves blindly, crazily. His leaden arms were even working after the final bell had clanged, and they didn't want to stop. Venturi did a drunken dance to his corner, as if to assure any and all that nothing had happened to him. Knockdown Mistake DUT SOMETHING was happening to Venturi during most of those 15 rounds.

He started well, and working in his windmill fashion, bad the better of the first two rounds. Venturi employed his old trick ef skipping about and then suddenly darting in with a long left sweep for the ribs. This stunt had Montanez troubled for a spell. He couldn't figure when it was coming and his uptake in the close mixing was slow. However, once Montanez figured the stunt out, it was just too bad for Venturi.

Barring a light left jab while on the move, Venturi didn't have much else to offer save his oaken fighting heart and his durability. Along about the fourth round, Pedro had the thing solved. He began catching the Venturi left on his right elbow and forearm. And he woke up to the infighting, too. Pedro was a terror here.

Spiteful lefts and rights crashed on Venturi's ribs, sometimes a half dozen or more, rapid-fire, before Enrico could break away. The tide turned definitely in the seventh. Montanez, who sometimes waited a full minute for the Venturi rush, timed a terrific right to the chin that capsized the Italian to his hands and knees. Venturi was badly stunned. He should have taken a good count.

But his stubborn fighting pride bounced him up before Donovan could begin his arithmetic. That was a sad mistake, for he collected a hard beating for the remainder of the round. And he absorbed a fearful hammering in the ninth, too. He bled from the nose, and his body showed red scratches and blotches from the Puerto Rican's cruel punching. TTAD VENTDRI taken a count in the seventh he might have made a strong finish.

He revived sufficiently to get an even break in the tenth and to have even a bit better of the 11th and 12th. In the 13th, nature put a heavy hand on him. So did Montanez. Pedro slammed five eizzling right shots to Venturi's chin, almost toppling him several times. After that it was simply a question of whether Montanez would score by a knockout or on points.

13,895 of the faithful were on hand, shelling out a gross gate of $31,110.04. Montanez at was a pound and a quarter heavier than his foe. Measured in punches and damage, though, he outweighed Venturi by a ton. A close decision sent Carl (Red) Guggino, 134M-, in ahead of Wesley Ramey, one-time conqueror of Tony Canzoneri, in the six-round temi-flnal. Few of the customers liked this one.

The majority of them thought Ramey won and weren't backward in booing so. Ramey, pushed and punched into the rug, in the opening canto, gave a creditable account of himself in every round thereafter. Sportpourri Franklin and Hemingway Team Up as Ambulance Drivers for Spain i ield Keeps Steady Habits In Squash Play Wins All Class Match- es at the Crescent Cluh hy Straight Sets By CLARENCE CREENBAUM. Ed Field, possessor of the enviable record of having captured all his Class squash tennis singles matches in straight games this season, strengthened his habit yesterday. The Princeton Club specialist required no more than the minimum number of games to turn back John S.

Davidson of the Yale Club, in the second round of the National Class tournament at the Crescent Club. Field, top-seeded, experienced little difficulty in defeating Davidson, who, baffled by his rival's southpaw style, broke through the victor's service only 12 times in the two games. Don Noble, Crescent A. and Tom Flynn, Princeton Club, also turned in impressive second-round victories in the only other matches played. A trio of encounters went by the boards due to defaults.

I'pscts U'eidlich Noble, unranked. upset many predictions and became a serious threat for the main laurels by stopping Clifton F. Weidllch, Yale Club. After a stormy first game, in which he outsmarted Weidllch to win, 15-10, the New Mooner ran up a 13-0 lead in the second chukker, which he eventually won. 15-2.

Two Bayside residents came to grips in the match taken by Flynn. The ex-captain of the Princeton tennis team, and their seeded player in the tourney, vanquished Charles Svcrcel, representing the Mayslde T. by 15-10, 15-2. Meanwhile, squash racquets play took a holiday at the Heights Casino, where the semi-final round of the Metropolitan doubles championships was to blown off. William E.

Coyle and Conway Hoffman, the defending champions, appeared ready for Continued on Following Pagt Yorkers today, and both are good pitchers. Clydell Castleman will start for the Giants, with Cliff Melton, the tall stringbean from Baltimore, and Bill Benne, the Brooklyn-born boy, each working a stint. Schumacher pitched a long spell in batting practice yesterday and felt no trace of the soreness which recurrently made him miserable last year and held him to 11 wins and 13 defeats. Rest was what the doctors prescribed, and all Winter long Hal did nothing with his salary whip but bowl, an exercise the experts recommended as excellent for "straightening out." Water on Elbow "When I went home from Cincinnati ahead of the team last July 18, the doctors told me I had a bursitis sac on my elbow," said Hal. "That means water on the elbow.

They said rest was the only thing. As you know, I rested a lot after that, and finished up pretty well." "Pretty well," was a modest statement Indeed for the hollow-cheeked sinker-baller. He clinched the pennant in Boston Sept. 24 with a 2-to-l seven-hitter in 10 innings, and the game he pitched in the World Series made baseball history. He fanned 10 Yankees, including Dl Maggio twice and Gehrig once, to win again in 10 innings.

With a Winter's rest behind him, Hal feels he should be definitely cured. "I'm heavier than I have been at any time since 1933," he said. "I weigh 188 right now, and hoie to hold most of that heft. I finished last year weighing 165." Base Running Drill A base running drill and lessons for the pitchers on how to throw bunts to all bases kept the Giants busy, along with a long hitting drill under a bright sun yesterday. Terry decided that he would not name any captain to succeed Travis Jackson, as he was loath to make a choice between Mel Ott and Gus Mancuso.

Bill said he would act as captain himself. The Colonel also gave Catcher Roy Spencer his lust chance to re port here, wiring him a spicy note SPEED SKATING MEET Skaters from New York. New Jer sey and Connecticut will compete in the Trl-State Indoor championship speed skating meet at the Playland rink, Rye, H. tomorrow. Brooklyn's only toreador, Pen Shots at Rookies Bill Baker Will Try to Crasli Yankee Catchers' Closed Corporation ingway, the author, have become quite chummy both have booked passage for Spain, there to drive amublances in the current revolution! Man Mountain Dean played For several seasons now, the Yankee catching corps has been pretty much of a closed corporation with Bill Dickey doing the bulk of the work, Arndt Jorgens spelling him once in a while and Joe Glenn occupying space in the bullpen perhaps playing tick-tack-toe.

Bill Baker, first-string catcher oft Strafaci and Crum In Golf Semi-Final Special to The Eagle Coral Gables, Feb. 27 Frank Strafaci, ol Brooklyn, N. national public links champion in 1935, and his southpaw partner, Frank Crum, of Williamson, W. are favored to win their semi-final round match In the annual Miaml-Biltmore invitation four-ball amateur golf tournament here today. They are opposing T.

E. Price, of Miami, and Sam Anderson, of Chicago. In the other penultimate contest, Tony Kozen of Bridgeport, and Leon Pettlgrew of Pendleton, independent, the medalist, are meeting the Miami policemen earn of Earl Christiansen and Harvey Draughn. Strafaci, by dropping an eight-foot putt on the concluding hole for a birdie 4, brought his team victory over William Meany, of New York, nd Frank Harmon, of Boston, by two up yesterday, the role of Goliath in Aimee tabernacle spectacle and after the show, Aimee described the burly burner as "a good Paul Schissler, deposed coach of the Brooklyn football pro club, has sold his nine-hole golf course in Nebraska to Hastings College Milt Klinger, ex-Madison H. and Rutgers grid star, is back in town he returned from Hollywood where he built up quite a "rep" as a physical training Instructor among the stars he handled were Jack Oakie, Clark Gable, Joan Bennett and Marie Prevost He'll direct a IocrI health ed.

program that will go over the networks soon Canadian amateur boxers must remain in Canada until they, obtain a ruling on ttij new labor law trouble started when Geo. Bird, heavy champ, quit his manager the deposed manager blew the whistle on Canada's amateur pugs and since then lmmigrac- the Newark Bears for the past two seasons, will try to crash the com bination for the secon time at St. Petcrsberg this year. He Ls a six-footer, a 200-poundcr, a right-handed hitter with an impressive minor league background. Baker as born on Washington's Birthday, 1913, at Paw Creek, N.

the home town of Jimmy Jordan, former Brooklyn infieldcr. He both pitched and taught in high school and didn't know what his position was when he reported to Greensboro, N. lor his minor league ulna in. imy..