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Jimmy. an<l h*»pe to aee ymt get as popular as your friend and mine, Henry <Hammerin' Hankl A rm strong Howard's A u to .................... 5 Colored M erchants............. 4 GOLF CLUB FOBMED JIMMY IIDOCU ■ «I m . C*JIf"iv*to. w h rio he Intend* to remain f«ir e m ir lim e Have you eve* eeen this IHUe fe l low in action? He ia ae p m » aa they pome Although he loot In hta laat a|*fMwran<e her«- to J o e y Dolan he atlll looked k < mm | and a h o a H hta gameneaa by atlll trying to go on With the hotit, which the referee ■topped Jimmy la a fam iliar figure around theae |>arta, everybody knowa him, and we have never heard a word againat thta great little battler I f there la a »porting event o f any kind, there you will find Jimmy. Jimmy waa the loudeat rooter and the moat rabid fan at tha Lac 'the Lion i bout. Shouting aujrgeationa, screaming for Leo to “ kill him," he could hardly alt atlll In hta ringside neat, and waa guing through moat of the motions erf the ftghtera In the ring. A great little guy himself, he did not want to aee his fellow teammate take even a chance on losing A real sportsman Jimmy has had lota of experience In hta young life. Though juat In hla twenties he haa seen action “ Over There ’, real action, and he ia the holder of two decorations, the Pur ple Heart and the Distinguished Service Cross, the emblems of heroes. He was wounded in action three times and has seen action at Guadalcanal, Rendova, Munda, and the Salamaua Islands. All this in two years of army life, the most of which was spent overseas. In his four Portland bouts Jimmy has come out victor in three and lost only one. H# fought Eddie Weller and won the decision although he was outweighed by several pounds (This was true o f all his Portland bouts.) He knocked out Billy Mc Cann in eight rourds and finished o ff Jimmy Hogan in the fifth. He lost his last fight to Joey Dolan. But Jimmy has fought some top-rank ing fighters, among them are Lew Feldman, who decisioned, Cleo Shans, K.O. 2nd round. Ray Camps (Mexican champ), K O , Retchie Shinn (Chinese lightweight champ) decision. Chick Delaney and others. In fact, Jimmy was rated the con tender for the lightweight crown in pre-war days. He has been feather weight champ of the New England states and also California, 1939- 1941. A great little guy. Jimmy is due to leave Wednes- ! day -of this week. His chances for bigger and better bouts in Los An- gales are a lot greater than they are j here. There are more people there, and of course a large number of fight fans, which in turn will mean more money for the battlers. There are many more fight fans here than really come to the Friday night bouts, but by not coming out they cause the "gate" to be smaller, thereby giving the boys smaller purses and the result is that we lose some of our best boxers to other ! parts of the country that will sup port them. Less than two v/eeks ago another fighter left this area, a heavyweight, Leroy McQueen. Le roy left for California for practi cally the same reason as Jimmy is Wrmbrr->hlp trprs T o anyone who can play gulf or who wants to play golf, an an nouncement haa been made that there haa been a club formed among tha Nagroea o f Portland and mam berahlp ia open to all At present there ta no scheduled meetings of thia club, but you can get your name on the roster by contacting any of these men Mr Vernon Gas- nvaes the White Sox always have klna. President Mr Stephen W right, been a formidable team in the aee Secretary, Mr W alter Rieka. T reas and half of the season. Kememher urer; H arry Hardy. Charles Hollins that they started badly Iasi year, but were finishing so strongly at the and Mr Hayworvl Kaecomb end of the season that had the cam The members o f the yet to be paign had two more weeks to go. named club have been playing at they probably would have finished two g o lf couraea here, they are second. Broadmoor, located at N E. 33rd Dykes was forced to devote a Ave. and Columbia Boulevard, and large part of the first six weeks of Eadtmoreland Municipal G olf Link*, this season to experimentation In normal time* these experiments located at 7000 S. E. 27th Ave. For further Information contact would have been msde during epring training. one o f the officer* or members. Tor a long time the Indians have been known as a team well up to ward the front until midseason. Then they fell apart. This season they did their falling apart earlier than usual. The In dians should be a better ball club in the second half of the campaign, particularly if Ken Keltner and Allie Reynolds are able to stay around. The pitching staff Is working Itself into shape and pitching is likely to be the determining factor in the Rele.ised by Western Newspaper Union. race. We grant that It Is doubtful if OMKHOW the world seemed com either team has enough all-around pletely wrong one recent morn strength to take the Hag — but ing when a quick glance at the league standings on the sports pages neither of them are as bad as early showed the New York Yankees tied showings indicate. PEAKING s for seventh place in the American league How the mighty had fallen! That was the first thought. Rut the Initial blow was softened by the fact that only 4)4 games separated the flrst- place St. Louis Browns and the eighth-place Philadelphia Athletics. It wasn’ t long ago that Jimmy Dykes and Lou Boudreau were feud ing over whether the White Sox or the Indians should win the pennant. Boud reau. Cleveland In di an manager, m a d e a forcible statement predict ing the eventual tri umph of the Sox. Dykes, manager of the latter team, dis agreed. It was his stated belief that Jimmy Dykes the Indians were the league’ s fair-haired boys. Following that exchange of com pliments, the two teams went into an early-season death struggle to see who would gain occupancy of last place. Except for a week or so in which the Indians took the honor, the Sox clung to the cellar spot with a bulldog tenacity. However, they didn’t stay there. The more de pendable A’s took over. 24-Hour Positions As this is being written Cleveland is in fourth place, Chicago in fifth. Those positions are not guaranteed for more than 24 hours. The Ameri can league is delightfully unpre dictable. Almost unstable. While we think the Yankees still will be the team to beat for the pen nant—despite St. Louis—we can't ig nore the Indians and White Sox. They have too many possibilities. The records show that under be tha ■ate Veteran Hurlers The Yankees get the nod because they started with three excellent veteran pitchers — Hank Borowy, Ernie Bonham and Atloy Donald. They also unveiled two fine new comers—Walt Dubiel and Joe Page. The present American league race is something new under the sun. There is not an outstandingly good team and there is not an over whelmingly weak team. There is likely to be no team in the circuit capable of far outdistancing the field. All this makes the National league race look like a walkaway. At the same time the Yankees were tied for seventh in the junior circuit, St. Louis was leading the National by a comfortable margin. The Chicago Cubs were 14% games out. The usual situation had been reversed with a vengeance. Almost any team in the Ameri can is capable of a winning streak —and equally capable of a slump. Most of them have undergone the latter. It seems quite possible that the team which really gets warmed up in September will be the one to take the flag. SPORTS SHORTS C. Buck Shaw’s coaching contract at Santa Clara, a school that has aban doned football for the duration, runs until 1947. fi Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder hitting approximately .300 for Memphis, is more than a duration player. He worked his w aj into the high minors long before Pearl Har bor and stayed oq his merits. C. The Norfolk naval base is play ing 130 baseball fam es this season. C Michigan baseball teams, coached by Ray Fiaher, have an all-time average of §94 against Big ten com petition. Battenee Searcy and Wharton W e did not get the other battery. 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