Joe Ers Mendino Pro Grid Team

Joe Ers Mendino Pro Grid Team

He is Ben Agajanian, 35-year-old Etar of the New York Giants pro grid team.

Ben wears a ize 10 ithoc on his left foot and a size 7 on his right, the licking foot.

A dozen years go Bon lost all the toes from that right foot in an elevator accident.

So far this year Ben has booted five field goals and 32 extra points.

Last year his mark was 36 extra points and 30 field goals.

International) SPORT PARADE Ity OSCAK 1 KALKV NKW YORK (LT) Kid Gavilan, the old professor of the prize ring, attempts another defense piontship at Philadelphia Wednesday night and if he is successful the critics finally will have to Gavilan, who goes out this time against young and eager Johnny Saxton, long has been scorned by the fight world.

They anecr at him as a frustrated rhumba dancer who couldnt knock off your hat with a baseball bat.

But this would be his eighth successful defense of the cham pionship and in the modern era of boxing nobody has given the welterweight title that kind of action except hammering Henry Armstrong.

Actually it is the middleweight championship, the renter of boxings seven divisions And at 147 pounds a man can be a tremendous puncher as well as a great boxer..

Mickey Walker, Joe Dundee, Jimmy McLarnin, Tlarney Ross, Armstrong and Ray Robinson.

None of them with the exception ff Armstrong held it as long as the Cuban Keed or if they did they didnt put it on the counter for grabs as often as he has.

Walker, the Toy Bulldog who moved up finally to the middle-weights, made only two title defenses in the three years he wore the tiara.

Armstrong, the human windmill, must stand out as the greatest of all the welterweight champions from the point of laying it on the line.

The little buzz-saw wore the crown only two years and five months but In that time he risked it 13 times.

IV UXTKK years. FriUie Zivic managed only one successful defense; Freddie Red Cochrane dropped it the first time out.

Thats when Cavilan.

Cuba, stepped in and became boss.

And for three years and five months he has held it clamped firmly on hi head.

There will be those who claim that he hasnt had stiff competition.

But competition Is relative and you ran debate all night as to whether Jack Dempsey would have licked Joe Iuis.

Like Louis, the Keed has whipped everybody who rame along-destroying the Chuck Davey, Gil Turner myths and completely annihilating Johnny Brat-ton a man he supposedly had been -dodging.

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Joe Caraiola Leaving Ha ball for Katlio, TV NEW YORK (UP)-Catcher Joe Garagiola of the New York Giants, only 28 years old.

The catcher informed Giant officials when he reported that he intended to retire at the end of the season, and Commissioner Ford Frick ruled that the Cubs would have to return the 10,000 if he did so.

Garagiola thus wound up a nine-year major league career with a lifetime batting mark of.257.

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SPSS. lUr Illegal Bookies 30 Men on List Barred By Tracks CHICAGO (AP) A campaign by two major Chicago race tracks to rid themselves of hoodlums who make book on the premises has netted a blacklist of more than 30 men now barred from the race tracks.

The Chicago Tribune said In a story today the individuals have been barred from Arlington and Washington Park tracks where they were reported to have been doing: a business at the rate of 100,000 a day.

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