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Leading Independents Twilight Game FridayFineis Oil Colored4Giants Booked as Stellar Attractionifor Local FandomWhafc promises to be the outstanding baseball attraction of the season will be staged here Friday afternoon when the Lud-ington Mariners take on the Fineis Oil Colored Giants of Grand Rapids in a twilight game at Culver park.The Fineis Oils, scarcely need introduction to local fans who have watched the activities of this stellar colored club through news reports for the past few years. They are adequately billed as “Michigan’s greatest independent baseball team.”In booking this brilliant aggregation the Mariner management is serving a treat to local fandom,’and the local followers of the national pastime ought to acknowledge their appreciation by turning out in goodly numbers for the game.' Is* First Class StarJuan Padron, the Giants’ Cuban pitcher, is a star of the first magnitude. He has conquered the* world’s champion Athlettcs and Cardinals by . outstanding hurling, the games being played as exhibitipn affairs at Grand Rapids. Padron is described as having a “world of stuff” on the ball and is not considered a fastball pitcher.Other stars on the Fineis Oils' roster are “Midget” Bond who is rated as one of the greatest shortlstops in western Michigan; “Big Boy” Parks who is considered by some without peer in this section of the state as a backstop; “Ginger” Shackleford, peppy third sacker, who manages the team; “Big Six” Coe, a member of the Grand Rapids detective force and the speedy Robinson brothers in the outfield.Make Special TripThe Oils are- making a special trip to Ludington for the game and, it is understood, return to Grand Rapids for scheduled engagements over the week-end.J, B. Smith has booked the game for 5 o’clock Friday afternoon, which makes it possible for almost every one to attend if he wishes to see the Giants in action.Sunday the Mariners are at home to Manistee, which will invade Culver park intent oji vengeance for the defeat received from the locals at the Salt city early this season.Decision Is Disputed by Many of 70,000 Fans Who Witnessed the FightBy EDWARD J. NEIL(Associated Press Sports Writer) NEW YORK, June 22.—(/P)— The seven long lean years ended officially today for Jack Sharkey, heavyweight champion of the world at la^st, after the strangest, most paradoxical career in all modern ring history.He stood forth as champion, absolved of all past failures, yet In the minds of a great many of the 70,000 faithful who saw him climb the throne there will always linger sofne question untilhe again battles Max Schmeling, the German.Battle Is StrenuousFor fifteen long and oftenlack-luster rounds, they battled last night in the. great bowl Madison Square garden has built on Long Island—a Sharkey taming his traitorous temperament as he fought, and the stolid Teuton who owed his crown to one of £he Sailor’s own moments of wildness when he fouled in the Yankee stadium two years ago.At the end, through the loud speakers that sent his voice out to one of the greatest-, throngs that ever saw a prize fight, Bel-lerin’s Joe Humphries hesitated a bit ils he shouted:“The winner, and new champion, Jack Sharkey.”Roar Goes UpThat 'hesitancy in old Joe’s voice seemed to Us echoed in theroeix that went up from the crow’di, in the split verdict of the two iudges and Referee “Gunboat” Smith, the critics about the ringside, and even the warriors .themselves.For a moment Sharkey, his shoulders drooping as he stood in hisjcorner, paused before he made his wild dash across the ring to -embrace the former king. Schmeling- turned and stared] as though he cou!ld not believe his ears, and the experts promptly Launched into arguments.mi----m ~i.n l i_________t_____
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Wed, Jun 22, 1932
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