k Ohe 9 f Russia’s great women athletes is Nina Otkalenko, Seana here winning a half-mile run in Moscow’s Dynamo *eeong, » M which she chopped six seconds off the world’s —— FAMOUS FIGHTS Joh Sto Bh. Sullivan, the Boston and finally got him in perfect n he 8°y, was the last of ®knuckle champions. ig vt the title by knock- ong, dy Ryan in nine Ning Mississippi City ‘nenies 7, 1882. Ryan, an "Own had taken . the Mang ee Joe Goss of Py. 2 brawl that last- To unds (1 hour, 24 min- 1 1880, an : oY had four fights in Mai, reer. He proved Ve hi for Sullivan, who ie Duitin terrific hiding be- Sunt § him down for "et to», ith a smashing © jaw. Ud]; h Iva. ’ ‘ttle Y's last bare-knuckle ae * tle carge Pe haPs the finest ae _ ie against Jake 8 heay 89. The champ an Y drinker in those Sy 5 Was not in shape Dy ae were signed. as Under the direc- 8m Muldoon, the : asa former tes @ hap “Se gave Sul- hie, ee ime; he cut off Su OSS of a Pply, made him do aS Work every day, condition for the fight. Sullivan needed his best to whip Kilrain. The contest last- ed 75 rounds, with first one and then the other contestant hav- ‘ing an advantage. In those days a round ended when a fighter was knocked or thrown to the ground. Mul- doon’s wrestling tips helped the champ, who often managed to throw Kilrain heavily to the turf. - Finally, in the 75th round, condition told and Kilrain was unable to come up to scratch. Sullivan never lost a match under London Ring rules and carried the bare-knuckle title to his grave. : On September 7, 1892, Sul- livan met Jim Corbett in a title match under Marquis of, Queensbury rules, and was knocked out in the 21st round. The men fought with gloves for a $25,000 purse and a $10,- 000 side bet. Sullivan’s last battle with gloves was at a benefit with Tom Sharkey in 1896. ‘ ‘Began training after Helsinki’ By YURI VANIAT Haye Soviet sportsmen started preparing for, Mel- bourne ? The answer is that they started the day after the Helsinki Olympics finished. By that I mean that im- mediately after the 15th Olympics, the successes and, par- ticularly, the failures of the USSR team at the Games were studied, carefully analyzed and thoroughly discussed throughout the sperting world — at council meetings of coaches, at meetings of clubs, at gatherings of the leading participants in the various sports on the Olympic program. At Helsinki our sportsmen captured the first places in free-style and Greco-Roman wrestling, gymnastics, shoot- ing, weight-lifting, second place in basketball, track and field sports and rowing, and fifth place in the modern pen- tathlon. But in riding, fencing, swimming, cycling, and sailing, the Soviet teams made a poor showing. So did the Soviet soccer team. And more might have been expected from our water polo players, boxers and divers. By relying on the widespread popularity of sports in the USSR and the large numbers of sports researchers and coaches which the country has, and by drawing on the advanc- ed experience of sports abroad, Soviet physical culture organ- izations have accomplished a great deal in the past four years to improve the prowess of Soviet sportsmen. The re- sult is that in the past three years Soviet sportsmen have captured first places at 60 of the 80 world and European championships in which they took part. The USSR now holds -71 of the officially reg- istered world records and achievements. Naturally, this fact together with the improved playing of the Soviet soccer and water polo teams, and the definite growth in skill among our fencers, trackmen and road- men, boxers. and, particularly, among our track and field men, all better the chances of the Soviet Olympic team. Coaching of Olympic candi- dates has been going on for several years now in the clubs and societies to which those sportsmen belong. Competi- tion is the best test of the prowess of individual sports- men and teams, European and world championships, inter- national youth and Student games, USSR championships and: international meetings, are some of the tests to which the Soviet Olympic team “has been subjected. This test period covers the time between August 1952 and November 1956. The Soviet team’s dress re- hearsal for the Olympics was the Sports Festival of the Peoples of the USSR, to be held in Moscow in August. Some 10,000 men and women took part in this summer games review. There is no doubt that the Festival will be followed by changes in the composition of the Soviet teams to go to the Olympics. According to plans. the Soviet Olympic™team will not go abroad to train but will, in accordance with amateur standing, hold an Olympic gathering, which the rules allow, and then leave for Aus- tralia in time to become ac- climatized and get used”to the place and conditions of the competition. It is still too early to speak of the composition of the Soviet teams. They will undoubted- ly include Vladimir Kuts, Nina Otkalenko, Alexandra Chudina, Leonid Shcherbakov, Ardalion Ignatiev, Vasili Kuz- netshov, Otto Grigalka, Mik- hail Krivonosov, Galina Vino- fradova, Galina Zybina, Nina Ponomaryova, Igor Koshkarev, Yuri Lituev, and_ several others of our best men and women in track and field. Nor can there be any doubt that our team of gymnasts will include Victor Chukarin, Val- entin Muratov, Albert Azary- an, and Boris Shakhlin; that we will send our modern pen- tathlon man Konstantin Sal- nikov, our diver Roman Bre- ner, and our weight lifters Arkadi Vorobyov, ‘Trofim Lomakin, Nikolai Kostylev, and Vladimir Stogov. The Melbourne games. will undoubtedly be on a_ very high level. The USSR team will do its best to extend the spirit of comradeship, friend- ship and mutual respect that makes _real, -honest _sports rivalry so attractive. Crack middle distance runner is Vladimir Kuts, one of Russia’s hopes in the coming Olympics. He will — face strong competition from British and Hungarian stars. Glossary aids patrons of turf Wes Gaffer of the New York Sunday News has come up with a turf glossary designed to help this year’s new crop of two-buck punters. He pre- sents it as follows: What is meant by a “sure thing ?” A horse that usually can do everything but cross the finish line ahead of the other horses in the race. What is meant by an odds- on horses ? Odds-on horses are~ the reason for the race _ track adage: “All horse players die broke.” - Why does a losing jockey always. say, “We had no excuse,’’ ? What the jockey means is this: “If I had more sense, I’d never have let ’em talk me into riding this pig.” What is a tout ? A tout is a down at the heels expert who lacks the money to bet on sure things that usually are odds-on in the betting. What is meant by win, place and show ? Win is the spot you bet a horse when he finishes second; place when he finishes show and show when he is beaten by a nose for third. What is meant by a cinch ? Cinch is a strap that secures the’ saddle to the horse. It is the ONLY thing that is close enough to the horse to be sure of anything and even cinches loosen up and cause trouble. How do I make a million dollars playing horses ? Don’t play: buy a race track. OCTOBER 5, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 15