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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1928
Page
5
Edward J. Neil reports Tony Biddle, Philadelphia financier, pays 20000 for the managerial contract of Rene De Nos, a Belgian middleweight challenger. Biddle, aided by Jimmy Bronson, aims to land the Belgian on the throne held by Mickey Walker. He plans to fund top fighters and possibly build a training camp outside the city for boys, trainers, and promoters.
Mae to meet nominal portion of the expenses. A glorified boxing em porium Tony calls it. Although Rene probably doesn't know it and it isn't in the contract, the boxer has acquired a potential sparring partner in his new owner. Tony is a crack amateur heavyweight. Fre whipped the pugilistic barber for the amateur championship of Bulgaria in Gene Tunney's last training camp. Every Gay finds him in sane gymnasium swapping leather with the best available, revelling in the finest, gleanest sport in the world. If a family, the people, can be said to have a National Sport, a pair of crossed boxing gloves would have some place in the Biddle coat of arms. Tony's father, Major Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Sr., is still a crack boxer at 54, ready and willing to match fists for sport with anyone Tony perforce learned to box almost as soon as he could hold his hands up. Down on the Biddle estate in Philadelphia there was an old barn that once housed the splendid thoroughbred horses and carriages that pre ceding the gasoline era, When Tony was 10 the floor was term up, a ring pitched and seats accommodating 300 of Philadelphia's most fashionable society, were erected there. The three years that followed were great in Tony's life. To that rebuilt barn, before an always:capacity gathering, Major Biddle brought the ring masters of the time. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, Young Griffo, Frank Erne, Kid Williams, Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Corbett, all displayed their prowess to the fashionable crowd. And always Major Biddle was the opponent. After the boxing there were buffet suppers and the celebrities of gallery met the celebrities of the ring on equal social footing.
The Sunday School League Presbyterian bowlers won two of three games against Washington Square last night at the M C A alleys. They finished with a total pinfall of 1713 to 1797. Shaw led with 437, Ellinger had the high single game at 157, and Shaw added a high single of 156. Downey attended Johns Hopkins football games on Thursday.
The Hagerstown High School basketball program opened with a large turnout. Coach Eddie Semler reported seventy-one boys reporting for the first call, with a reader to precede each game, and no captain elected yet. For girls, forty-two candidates answered, coached by Miss Sue Condon, aiming for another C. V. A. Li title as practice runs continue through the holidays.
In a postponed Sunday School League match, the Baptists won two of three against Washington Square, totaling 1647 to 1822. H Mowen led with 413, and Lillard hit 182 in a single game. They also defeated St Pauls 1927 to 1682 as Lillard posted a 228 high single and led the match with 50 cents.
George Burns former New York Giants outfielder and last season's pilot of the Hanover Raiders was signed to manage the Springfield club of the Eastern League. The announcement came at yesterday's session of baseball leaders in Toronto.
Harrisburg beat the M. G. A. quint 41 to 28 on the local court. Harrisburg led from the start, widening a 24 to 18 halftime edge as the Pennsylvanians executed a careful second half. Next Wednesday the Y team hosts Waynestorq, game at 8 15 p.m. Attendance was light for the featured Harrisburg visit.
Bob Garcia the Mexican wildcat meets Andy Kelly in the Armory ring next Tuesday night in Baltimore. Garcia, a known scrapper, faces a rising Kelly who has won five straight, defeating Red Roush Sailor Joe McKenzie Joe Joyce Frankie Nelson and Johnny DeMarco. Promoters pay top dollar as the two draw big crowds for thirty two rounds of redhot action with ringside seats at 2 dollars and general admission 1.50.
Williamsport High School posted one of its best soccer seasons, winning eleven, drawing two, and losing four. They fell 3 to 0 to Bruce High in the county elimination tourney on Hancock field, with two losses coming against the semi pro Wildcats. The season included wins over Clearspring, Smithsburg, Boonsboro, Hagerstown, Frederick, Middletown, Poolesville, and Bruce High. The note also mentions the fountain pen patent date in 1819.
At a national baseball meeting in Toronto the majors minors and umpires debated player drafting rules. Southern and Eastern leagues push for full unrestricted draft while Western and some AA groups support a restricted draft allowing only players sent to the minors with a potential return. Branham pushes for votes on amendments. Conway Toole counters to block changes.
Billy Evans writes that Rogers Hornsby joining the Chicago Cubs from Boston could make them a pennant contender. He argues Hornsby’s temperament is strong but loyal, and predicts harmon y with manager Joe McCarthy. Evans believes Hornsby will relish leadership and lift the Cubs’s fight for the title.
Gowers Station reports Thanksgiving Day events as Sanford Gossard and family hosted a large dinner for numerous relatives and neighbors including the Gossards, Bru bakers, Davis, Crawford, Betts, Cunningham, Tabler, Kidwell, and others from Hagerstown to Martinsburg. Also notes that the pneumatic tire was known but unwanted as early as 1845.
Saturday afternoon features two games at Willow Lane Park. Bruce High of Westernport faces Catonsville High for Western Shore honors in the P A L tournament at 2 PM. At 8:30 PM Baltimore Poly meets Hagerstown High. Poly recently defeated Catonsville 4 to 2 and is viewed as a top state squad.
The article notes a unique three behind the line sequence and a cutback end run as a new play seen by Aubrey Devine, a Notre Dame game spectator for Southern California, and by a New York University scout. Tech also unveiled a rapid forward pass for a late touchdown, executed with deception that impressed observers.
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